Your classes may offer opportunities to showcase your creativity, but NSU also offers opportunities to be creative outside of the classroom. Here are a few of those opportunities.
Submit work to Digressions. Digressions is the student-run literary magazine and calls all writers, artists and photographers to follow their artistic calling. Short fiction, poems, photographs and artwork are all accepted for review, but not all submissions are published. Though the deadline has passed for this semester, write, take pictures or draw during the summer and submit your work next year.
Be a singer in the Bossa Nova Chorale. If you love to sing, the Bossa Novale Chorale is the group for you. Whether you’re a tenor, baritone, soprano or mezzo-soprano — the Chorale can use your voice. The ensemble performs songs ranging from spirituals to vocal jazz. Membership is open each semester to undergraduates, graduates, faculty and staff. It won’t be as scary to audition for the Bossa Novale Chorale as it is for “American Idol,” but this experience may give you the confidence to try out for the show.
Learn how to play an instrument. If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to play the guitar or piano, NSU has classes just for you. You’ll be graded on how much you’ve learned, and maybe that desire to get an “A” will push you to find your love for playing instruments. Take a chance and register for a class next semester. You may just be the next local artist featured on Radio X.
Enter the Undergraduate Film Festival. If you’ve always wanted to try your hand at directing, editing or acting, this is your chance. Dive into your leadership skills, tap into your film editing knowledge or showcase your acting talents. The deadline for applying to the film festival is Feb. 25 and the deadline for submitting films is March 31. They will be screened on April 8 at the Undergraduate Student Symposium. If this deadline is too close, start working on something for next year. You could be the next Steven Spielberg.
Star in a play or dance concert. If you love to act or dance, then take advantage of the Performing and Visual Arts Division in Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences. The department holds auditions for plays and dance concerts throughout the year and are open to students of
any major.
Go beyond the classroom and find your creative niche. Tune into your creativity and “do what you want to do” with these opportunities.
