High School Students “Busking” for SOFA

High School Students “Busking” for SOFA – Saturday

by SOFA Fan on Nov.13, 2009, under Meetings, Updates

Talk about passion!

Six High School Students in the band and drama programs from Lord Beaverbrook and Central Memorial High Schools have decided to take their “Call to Action” to the streets. Between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM on Saturday, they will be ‘busking’ on Stephen’s Avenue Mall in Calgary.

Apparently, each of them are legal buskers (with licenses) and they will be playing musical instruments to raise awareness for our ‘Save Our Fine Arts’ campaign. In addition, they will be handing out information and asking the public to consider registering on our SOFA website.

They have supplied their cellular phone so anyone interested in finding out where they are on Stephen’s Avenue Mall can text them. If you want to reach them, please send a text to 403 461 9349 and type “WHERE IS SOFA?” They will reply with their location.

Great job Ella, Travis, Jessica, Camille, Trey, and Holly!

5 Comments for this entry

Lauren
November 13th, 2009 on 6:24 pm
aw man, wish i could be there!! I have to work If I could, I’d be there in a heartbeat!
Travis
November 13th, 2009 on 7:32 pm
Well, we definitely weren’t expecting that we would get a front page mention :O

It should be said that we probably won’t be there until closer to 10:00, as we need to do a little bit of coordinating before we can start. Also, we’ll probably be moving around a bit, since there’s a maximum perfomance time limit of one hour per venue, but we’ll definitely try to keep it close to Stephen’s Avenue.

Hope to see some of you there!
Maher
November 14th, 2009 on 4:54 pm
Hey, if anybody has a video clip of the buskers, i’d be glad to post it on our youtube account. Send it to saveourfinearts@live.ca.

Also, keep sending in your own submissions and you’ll see it online!
Debra
November 14th, 2009 on 7:39 pm
Great job out there guys. It was a little chilly, but at least we handed out some leaflets and cards with our website.

I had fun! Hope you all thawed out quickly.
Ella
November 15th, 2009 on 3:39 pm
Hey guys!
We got a mention on CTV Calgary news at 6 last night. I didn’t catch it myself but it’s all on their website: http://www.calgary.ctv.ca . Go to the video player, find Saturday Nov. 14 news at 6:00, and our mention is at about the 9:00 minute mark.
There it is if you want to see. Thanks for all of the support guys!