Beetlejuice and cookies

English club hosts movie screening and costume contest

ALEXIS CANELO Reporter @alexiscanelo_

The Pierce College English Club hosted an All Hallows Eve event open to all students. The event featured a costume contest, snacks, and a movie screening Wednesday in the Great Hall.

picked up their instruments and finished the song.

“We are going to change where we are in history,” Elliot said as she began to explain how Mozart was one of the people help conceive the idea of a four string quartet.

The song they played next Diverimento No.3, K138 by W.A. Mozart, who wrote it when he was only 13 and it was in honor of him. Four string quartets have no composer, so the musicians use body language to communicate and stay composed, and in this song is a good example of that. Because throughout its intricacy, the band members all manage to stay together.

The next song played was The String Quartet Op. 11 by Samuel Barber, and it consisted of three different parts that were all composed at different points in time. The first part was light hearted and easy, which contrasted with the deep and powerful second. The final and third part which was composed in the middle of the second world war was best described by Elliot, as having a feeling of being “unsettled, as it was in the middle of a war that had not been settled yet.” Together when played as one whole song, it resonated some kind of tragic beauty to it.

Returning to the modern day for their next song, they played another currently popular song, which was Shape of You, by Ed Sheeran. by Leonard Bernstein. The songs intensity at its end was a great way to close the show.

The next concert will be held Thursday, November 1st, featuring from Pierce’s Amplified Music Program (AMP) at the PAB Mainstage at 1 p.m.

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Guests were also invited to write their favorite book quote onto a poster.

English Club voted on which movie to watch. Runner-ups included “Coraline” and “The Shining”.

Madison Carter, an English and architecture major, is the on-campus event coordinator for the English club. Carter has been a part of English Club since it formed last year.

“So tonight we're having a costume contest, mummy wrapping, musical chairs and a screening of ‘Beetlejuice’,” Carter said.

Everything at the event is free, except for cupcakes which were sold to fundraise.

“So we have free candy, pizza, and drinks. And then cupcakes will cost $2 to help fundraise for English club,” Carter said.

Jordan Hunter, a member of the English Club and an English major, said she felt the event brought her closer to the other first-year students.

“We all collaborated as a group, as a team and that was really fun. We all put in ideas, we all had like a huge debate about which movie to play, which was really fun and we all agreed on ‘Beetlejuice’,” Hunter said.

Hunter won first place in the

Preview: costume contest. She was dressed as Jade Harley from the webcomic “Homestuck”.

“She's a witch of space, but yeah, that's what she is and that's her god tier. She's one of the best characters in ‘Homestuck’,” Hunter said.

Maya Lev and Adrian Camp who are both music majors won second place in the costume contest. They were dressed as Jack and Sally from the film “The Nightmare Before Christmas”.

Neither of them are members of the English Club. Lev learned of the event through a friend and flyers.

“So I'd actually met Jacob of the English club and he had mentioned organizing this thing. And I went up in the music area and I had actually seen a poster about it. And so that had all the info and I sent it to Adrian,” Lev said. acanelo.roundupnews@gmail.com

Camp thought it would be a cute couples costume.

“It was mostly her’s [idea] but I agreed to it,” Camp said.

Clarissa Cuellar, a member of the English Club and an English major, helped decide what movie would be played.

“I mean I voted for ‘Beetlejuice’ because I'd never seen it before, but I also voted for ‘Coraline’ and ‘The Shining’,” Cueller said.

Cuellar won third place in the costume contest. She was dressed as Mabel from the television series “Gravity Falls”.

“I was going to be Dipper because I related to him more but also Mabel's a little bit more relatable to me and I just really liked her in general,” Cueller said. Winners received a themed gift bag full of goodies. Themes included science fiction and literature.

English Club meets every Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in faculty office 815.