On the afternoon of April 4, Reveille decorated the cafeteria with an array of paper lanterns and multicolored balloons for the fourth annual Creative Arts Festival.
A variety of clubs, including National Art Club, the Gay-Straight Alliance and the Harry Potter Club, participated. Afterwards, those in attendance were directed towards the auditorium for student performances.
Junior Ashley Sova, as the festival chair, a member of Reveille and a student performer, had a large role in the final result. The festival was Sova’s yearlong project; she started planning it during the summer.
“It was kind of rough because it was my first year doing it and I didn’t know what to expect or what to do,” Sova said, noting lapses of communication between clubs and performers, as well as several unexpected delays.
“Every time I would schedule a meeting, it would be canceled by snow days,” Sova said. “We had this happen with the big club meetings, the audition meetings—everything was being canceled by snow days.”
The event also coincided with the last day of third quarter. While some spent their afternoons either outside celebrating or taking a long, well-deserved power nap, the festival team went straight to work.
“That whole week I’d been completely and totally stressed out about it,” said Sova, who stayed at school from her early morning classes until the late night performances.
Senior and president of Reveille Lily Zamanali also noted difficulties, but adds that “we managed to get a great deal of profit from the festival [this year].”
Despite the road bumps and obstacles leading up to the festival, it was an overall success, according to Sova.
“It ended up going really well when everyone pulled together in the last few days to really make it happen,” Sova said.
Zamanali, who will be graduating next year, will miss “leading a club that I feel like lives on my blood, sweat and tears … [it] really helped me see how I work as a person.”