FREE PIZZA, games, live entertainment at McIntyre Library After Dark on Sept. 6

After Dark, which takes place on Tuesday, September 6 from 6-10 pm, is everything that you didn’t think would happen in a library - like FREE PIZZA - but does. Featuring a mini golf course that starts on the second floor and ends on the first (yes, you get to go down a stairwell!), After Dark also includes a variety of board, card, and video games…we even have a life size version of Clue in which you are the characters (complete with costumes) that walk around the board trying to find out who killed Mr. Boddy.

If you think you’re good at Mario Kart you’ll want to enter the Mario Kart Tournament with a very nice prize going to the overall champion. If you’ve always thought a library would be a good place to play laser tag, you’re in luck. Challenge your friends or make new ones on our course.

Did we mention pizza? Who doesn’t like free Toppers pizza?! Lots of it too! The fun doesn’t stop there though. We have a variety of student groups on campus who will provide live entertainment - practice your dance skills, be mesmerized by a magician, or bust a gut with an improv comedy team and standup comedians. Best of all, you can win prizes throughout the night just for attending.

You really have no reason not to and if you do, you can call your parents up and tell them you’re in the library on the first night of class!

Find the event on Facebook and be sure to invite your friends!

Still not convinced? The video below will give you an overview of the event!

Free pizza, mini golf in library - big success.

On Wed. Sept 5 from 7-11 pm just over 800 students came to the library to experience After Dark.  This improves on last year's record of 621 during the same four hour period.

Thank you to all of the student groups who helped make this event so successful: UWEC Players for the living statues, Backwards Thinkers Society for their improv comedy, and the Irish Dancing Club for their lively dance routines.

 

McIntyre Library will host the third annual After Dark back-to-school party on the UW-Eau Claire campus.  The free event will be from 7 to 11 p.m. Wednesday, September 5, on the first two floors of the library.  All UW-Eau Claire students, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend.

The party will feature free Toppers pizza, games,  and live entertainment.  Library staff have designed a multi-floor, 9-hole miniature golf course that has water hazards and utilizes one of the stairwells.  Students can also play a variety of board & video games and participate in Family Feud, Pictionary, Bingo, and life-size Clue.  Prizes will be awarded throughout the night.

UW-Eau Claire student groups will provide live entertainment.  Theater troupe the UWEC Players will pose as living statues.  The Irish Dancing Club will perform for students at 7:30 pm and student improv team the Backwards Thinkers Society will perform comedy sketches starting at 8 pm.

After Dark encourages students to get acquainted with the library and each other.  About 600 students attended the 2011 event.

Support for After Dark has been provided by McIntyre Library, Toppers Pizza, Coca Cola, PepsiCo, Action City, the Center for Alcohol Studies and Education, and the Center for International Education.

To learn more, contact Eric Jennings (jenninge@uwec.edu, 715-836-4076), sign up to attend on Facebook, or view the video above for a taste of last year's After Dark.