This is the Celebrate Diversity. It's the first time we're doing it at Eastman Kodak Theater so
we're busing the entire Freshman class, all
thirteen hundred are hopping on these yellow school buses behind me and getting over to Eastman to see some
awesome cultural performing groups between Eastman and the River Campus. We're really excited. We're super excited to go to Eastman and check out everything that's offered to us there. Oh we
decided that there's so much diversity over at Eastman and that our River Campus students don't really ever get a chance
to see what their undergraduate college compatriots are doing over
there so we figured, why not combine the two events and make a one giant event.
It was the first time that we were in a position to bring together the two campuses, bring together
our Eastman Freshman and bring the Freshman from the College of Arts,
Science and Engineering over to Eastman and really sort of bridge the gap
between the campuses, show them how much diversity we have in terms of music and
culture and performance and talent and really help them to start, kick off the year
and understand that we are one University and then that so much to offer
on both campuses and really set the tone, for, you know get off campus, visit
Eastman, visit the College and really integrate within the University.
We are here as a jazz group that we formed only recently, to celebrate diversity and we
get to be one of the diversified acts here which we're really looking forward to. Um, I'm
part of Indulgence Dance Crew. We're doing, ah, um, combined performance with Bhangra so we're feeding off of each other
giving a lot of energy. It's going to be fun. I don't want to say amazing too much but
it's wonderful to see all these really eclectic groups here. I mean, belly
dancing, Celtic,
I mean it just blows my mind to see how much they're actually is that we didn't know about.
So, what makes tonight so special is that we've got both incoming classes, the freshmen from Eastman and the freshmen from the College of the Arts, Sciences and
Engineering school right here together
under one awesome, magnificent roof.
And for the first time, exceptionally talented performers from Eastman are joining extraordinary rare Campus performers in a program that truly celebrates our diversity.
[music and singing]
I thought it was spectacular. I've never a group of more talented people in my entire life.
It was really cool. Like everything-like all the shows, it didn't feel like two hours. Like I thought it went by so fast.
I haven't seen anything from the Eastman students before. Um, this is definitely setting the bar very high and I'm really excited to come back for more concerts.
I thought it was amazing. I actually just saw Kevin Wang,
a few minutes ago and I thanked him for opening my mind. It was a crazy show. I'm
I'm going be living off the excitement from this performance for probably the next
couple weeks.
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