SAB Flyer from The Den Student Activities Board
On March 20, the Student Activities Board (SAB) hosted its first annual tea party to honor Women’s History Month.
Paris Brown, Director of Live Entertainment, stated that the goal behind this event was to have a place for women on campus to “have time to hangout with one another and to enjoy themselves.” However, other students interested were welcome to attend.
She noted that if the event has a great turnout, SAB would intend to make it an annual event for women to feel included and appreciated on campus. Student involvement was later reflected to be strong and Brown shared how happy she was to see so many women all come together to support each other.
Brown further explained that SAB has an all women’s board which motivated them to host more female oriented events throughout the month of March.
Brown explained the event stood out because “it’s specific for women and who doesn’t love a cute tea party? It’s time to celebrate the women in our lives and appreciate how far we’ve all come.”
Upon entering the event, students were welcomed with decorated tables covered with pink table cloth, flowers, tea cup sets, and candle lights.
The set up was intended to look and feel like a tea party, and offered various arts and crafts and other fun activities scattered around.
Within the span of two hours, SAB offered various food trays, activities ranging from board games, crafts to make charms and bookmarks, and a music playlist that also took song requests.
The tea party also prompted women to dress up if they so chose as there would be various photography opportunities throughout the event for students to look back on.
Though this is the first time SAB hosted the tea party, the intent was to make it annual from now on for various reasons; it occurs during Women’s History Month to commemorate women’s contributions in history and higher education and to promote inclusion for women to all feel as if they have a safe space to express themselves freely and to build connections with another that, Brown emphasized.
As student participation can be a problem with events as stressed by SAB, it’s anticipated that events such as these can contribute to more motivation to get involved on campus knowing that there are places students can connect with personally.
SAB intends to continue to promote the inclusion of women and overall students on campus as they also offered a DIY Junk Case event on Tuesday, March 18 and Women’s History Jeopardy on Wednesday, March 19.
SAB hopes to make the tea party return for Women’s History Month next March and they are always open for new ideas to present next year.
For more information pertaining to SAB visit the SXU Den or contact, sab@mymail.edu.edu.