0-Week

Almost time for session to go back – O-Week starts next Monday, the 22nd. Don’t forget, everyone, last year’s membership is only good for last year – you’ll need to sign up again if you want to be a member again. For those who have graduated, we’re still happy to have you as members.

In any case, we’ll be running a stall all through O-Week on the Quad lawn, so feel free to drop in for a visit and to reapply – otherwise you can come to any of our screenings. Expect a tentative screening schedule to be posted on the website sometime this week, with screening location to be posted next week.

SpockSoc won’t be having an O-Week Friday night screening, but instead we’ll be showing not one but two movies as part of the O-Week festivities. On Wednesday the 24th we’ll be showing Labyrinth, starring David Bowie, and on Friday the 26th we’ll be showing the new Star Trek, with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto. Both movies start at Noon in the Red Centre theatre – there should be signs up around the place – and entry is free for anyone.

We’d really love to have lots of people both at the movies and signing up to the club, so if you’ve got any friends in first year (or not, it doesn’t matter) who you think might be interested, then feel free to drop in and drag them along, even if it’s just to a movie screening.

Membership for SpockSoc is still $5 for the whole year – Arc membership (which is not required to be a SpockSoc member) is $69 for the year. We’d like people to also be Arc members, as we get more funding the more Arc members we have, but it’s by no means required.

Hope to see you there,
-Joel
el presidente

Mid-Session: Doctor Who & Torchwood

Yep, it’s mid-session break. Well, slightly-before-mid-session break, really. But you didn’t think SpockSoc took a break too, did you? Nooo.

This week, we’ll be showing the Easter Doctor Who special, Planet of the Dead, followed by the second half of Torchwood season two. We’ll be picking up from where we left off at the last screening, but I don’t think you’ve missed too much by way of important plot points if you want to come anyway.

We start at 5pm in Goldstein G06, as ever. Since Doctor Who is slightly longer than normal, we might get a bit squished for time, so we’ll be starting as close to five as possible, so don’t be late. $5 per half pizza, with a free can of drink.

Hope to see you there,
-Joel
el presidente

P.S. Keep sending me those Star Trek expressions of interest, and whether you think you can do a midnight screening. There’s only three weeks left until opening day. I’ll decide which screening we’ll be attending next week, and start collecting firm ticket numbers then.