BEHIND THE SCENES OF ELLIV Gabe Cherry ’24 opens the Elliv Board of Directors meeting with an announcement: “We hit our 300th to-do list task for Elliv this week!” The whole room cheers. Most clap, and one slaps his hands against the table. Two high-five. Cherry nods to the screen at the front of the conference room where he’s projecting the 2023 Elliv to-do list. Colorcoded tasks and deadlines fill the page: Open Talent Auditions — Nov. 29, Song List Approved — Jan. 16, Send Acceptance/ Rejection Emails — Jan. 20, Record Scratch Demos — Feb. 27, Send Backing Tracks to Productive Services —Mar. 6. By the end of the meeting, the number of tasks has risen to 314. “I’ll be looking through the system to check on everyone’s to-do’s this week, so make sure you update those,” Cherry adds. “Keep up the great work. The show is only six weeks away!” EARLY PREPARATIONS AND LIFE AS SGA EVENTS DIRECTOR Elliv is Cedarville’s annual live, student-run talent and awards show. With musical acts, student awards, costumes, jokes, and so much more, Elliv is not just any event on campus. It is THE event of the year. Not surprisingly, it requires such extensive planning that preparations for the next year’s show begin before the current year’s show debuts. Elliv is a byproduct of hours of hard work by the Student Government Association (SGA) Events Director. Early each spring semester, applications open for the following year’s SGA positions. The SGA Events Director, one such position, carries the responsibility of planning three major campus events: Mission Impossible, a high-energy campuswide scavenger hunt in the fall semester; Live@10, a Saturday BY HE ID I E (RAINE) SENSEMAN ’ 23 14 | Cedarville Magazine
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