Hello all you COmmunication Arts STudents & Creative types in general!

We're starting to get things rolling for a new year of COAST, and we want to make it a great one. Full of events pertinent to you, and truly involving all of the communicative art departments this year...that includes you, Music/Broadcast/Communication students!

Please be on the lookout here and on campus bulletin boards for posts & posters with more info as more events roll along. For now we already have our first event ready for you to utilize your talents to give back to the local community. But it's coming up quick, tomorrow! Read further for more details:

"Chalk-It-Up," is happening this Saturday, September 18th, from 10am to Noon.
The city of Siloam Springs puts on this event every year. Local kids come for face painting, sidewalk chalk, Pla-Doh, jewelry making and other art activities.

COAST students have helped out 2 years running, and this year we've volunteered again to bring students to help run the different booths, and we would love your help! This is your opportunity to get involved! Anybody (COAST member or not) is welcome to come help.

We will meet at the Flagpoles, Saturday morning before 9:30a. We will leave at 9:30 to travel to the La-Z-Boy Softball Complex in town. Drivers are needed as well, if you have a car and can help shuttle people to the event, please come prepared to drive.

There will be FREE pizza for the volunteers after the event! Check out photos and some of the perks of the event from last year's blog post about it: http://jbucoast.blogspot.com/2009/10/coast-was-there-chalk-it-up.html

Thanks for your help!
-KWA :)

Script Competition

It is time for the second annual COAST short film production! First things first is the script competition!

RULES
- Only COAST members may participate (COAST membership is $15. Pay Jeannie Abbott in the art offices if you are not yet a member. T-shirt included)
- Script must be 15 pages or less
...- Include printed hard copy plus 1 page synopsis and 14 word TV guide description
- Due Thursday evening, September 30th
- E-mail confirmation of your participation in the contest due Monday, September 20th (or Friday at the latest)
- Prepare a 2 minute pitch to sell your script to the judges

- $50 cash prize plus your script will be made into a film, submitted to film festivals, and will appear on IMDb

Contact Jesse Daniel (danielja@jbu.edu) for more information and rules.

The winning script will be COAST property. If your script is picked you will still be the writer (if you choose), your name will appear in the credits as writer, and you will be working with the director to revise the script for the production.

Any COAST member (including the writer) may apply for the position of director. The winner of the script writing competition will not automatically be the director. More about this later.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE SCRIPT WRITING CONTEST!!!