Oklahoma Creativity Festival begins with variety

Despite the rain, the Indian Student Association members continue their performance. PHOTO: Miranda Sanchez

The Oklahoma Creativity Festival kicked off Thursday morning with a flash mob that set the stage for a diverse festival to come.

Out of the three quick dance routines taking place in a 10-minute timespan, the final dance stood out from the others. While the first two were set to American Top 40 songs, the third performance was set to the Indian song “Mourya Re, Mourya Re” from the Bollywood film “Don.”

Mechanical engineering graduate student Gnana Subramaniam and his two fellow members from the Indian Student Association performed the last dance to share the culture of India and to celebrate the 50 anniversary of ISA.

“[Our dance] symbolizes the Ganpati Festival, which is actually taking place in India right now,” Subramaniam said. “At the end of the procession [in the festival], people are dancing and singing and that’s what we did today.”

This is the first year the Campus Activities Council is hosting OCF, and aimed to showcase a variety of performances.

According to the OCF website, the idea for the festival came from submitted student ideas. CAC expanded the student ideas for a campus arts festival into a “statewide creativity extravaganza.”

By including other organizations, which added diversity to their flash mob performance, OCF grabbed the attention of students.

“Afterwards I went and checked out [the OCF] website to see what other activities they had going on,” Kelly Powers, a communications sophomore said. “The flash mob had such a different set of dances, it made me wonder what else they had to offer.”

The OCF concludes on Saturday, September 29 with the “OFC Rave: Glow Out With A Bang” in the Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center at 9 p.m..