Woody's Hoedown

Woody’s Hoedown Benefit Dance and Toy Drive, held by the LiVE@NiGHT and LiVE Outreach committees was held on November 5th, 2010. The event was brainstormed, planned, and executed by the LiVE@NiGHT committee with event logistics assistance and financial aid from LiVE Outreach. The event was held in Tillman Hall and featured Josh Owens, an acoustic guitarist who won the crowd over. The event went well and the crowd of over 150 rose over $200 worth of diapers and three large boxes of toys for Oconee County Department of Social Services and Oconee United Way’s Family Friends Program. There was a lot of positive feedback about the event performer and t-shirt giveaway. Negative feedback included a poor location, crowded spaces, and a lack of PR about the actual “hoedown.” Much of this feedback was accompanied by the feeling that people came simply to get a shirt and could not dance to the music that was playing or felt too uncomfortable to do so. PR for the event consisted of fliers in all academic buildings and residence halls, the union, Hendrix, and public areas; toilet paper, golf cart PR with fliers taped to Frisbees and cups, mass e-mails, a Facebook event, twitter tweets, and table tents in Hendrix food court, Harcombe, Schletter, and the Canteen. The final cost for the event is around $1350 but will be split by two committees.