Time to “Raise Your Voice!”
Campus radio station CFRU 93.3FM is inviting students to rise to the challenge of helping them raise $10,000 for this year’s campaign, Raise Your Voice!. The theme chosen this year is “Dreaming In Digital,” and during the next week – Oct. 26 to Nov. 2 – CFRU will be broadcast from four different locations: the Guelph Farmer’s Market, Branion Plaza, the Bookshelf, and Planet Bean.
CFRU is the University of Guelph’s campus radio station, located on the second-floor in the University Centre. The non-profit organization actively works to support diverse voices and local music on their airwaves. CRFU depends heavily on volunteers and funding from a variety of sources, including community support through fundraising. The Raise Your Voice! goal of $10,000 will go towards developing CFRU’s digital platforms. Improvements will include; purchasing mastering software that enables better quality recording, acquiring new technical equipment and software to create videos to allow the station to expand on training, outreach and media engagement online, and beginning the process of digitizing their music library and cataloguing thousands of CDs and records.
There are four main ways to help raise funds for this year’s campaign. Students can help the station by collection pre-pledges and face-to-face donations at the station and in the community at large. Students are also encouraged to get involved further by soliciting pledges on the air during Raise Your Voice! week, ‘telethon’ style. There will also be a CFRU online silent auction of goodies and several events run by CFRU, such as their Ghost Walk and Halloween Party.
CFRU is also offering some great incentives for students who get involved, with everything from key chains, to T-shirts, to magnetic poetry – up for grabs. In addition, the CRFU programmers will be giving away various hand-selected albums throughout the week.
The next week is full of many exciting events from CFRU, including the Ghost Walk of Guelph on Oct. 28 and a special 75th anniversary broadcast of Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” on Oct. 30. On Halloween night, CFRU’s Halloween Night Under Black Light – an all-ages licensed event featuring costumes, art, performances, DJ’s and more – will run from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. This is a fundraising event co-hosted by the Central Student Association and Campus Safewalk.
Raise Your Voice! will be “Dreaming In Digital” out in the Guelph community throughout the week, both in-person and on-line. So, get your costumes ready, because this year’s Halloween dance party is going to be an illuminating experience!