{"id":37139,"date":"2016-01-08T12:34:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T16:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=37139"},"modified":"2016-01-08T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T16:34:11","slug":"warming-up-for-frost-week-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/01\/warming-up-for-frost-week-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Warming up for Frost Week 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in nearly a decade, Bob Davis Gymnasium will be converted into a massive concert hall Wednesday night for the signature event of Frost Week 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian DJ duo Dzeko and Torres are headlining this year\u2019s Frost Week schedule, which includes Brock University Students\u2019 Union events from Jan. 11 to 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOutside of O-Week, Frost Week is one of the bigger things we do,\u201d BUSU General Manager Chris Green said. \u201cIt gets students acclimated back to campus and we use it a lot as a touch-point to get BUSU on the forefront of students minds because election nominations open Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frost Week kicks off Monday, Jan. 11 with a free breakfast from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Isaac\u2019s. There\u2019s also free hot chocolate at Union Station from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and then a night of music trivia at Isaac\u2019s starting at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, there\u2019s free David\u2019s Tea giveaways at the base of Schmon Tower, followed by a vendor fair inside Isaac\u2019s from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and then comedy night at Isaac\u2019s starting at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday will see a club\u2019s fair held at Isaac\u2019s from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., followed by the Dzeko and Torres concert starting at 7 p.m. at Bob Davis Gym. Tickets are $30 in advance or $35 at the door.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2008, the duo has performed their progressive house and electronic style at concerts and festivals around the world. Green said BUSU hopes between 800 and 1,000 students attend the concert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have a pretty good following, especially in Canada,\u201d he said. \u201cEverything we\u2019ve heard from other schools is that these guys put on one heck of a show.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"flexvideo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aItOEVYnpHA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Frost Week wraps up Thursday with a full day of events. There\u2019s an interactive games fair from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Isaac\u2019s with games such as sumo wrestling and giant snakes and ladders. Then on Thursday night, there\u2019s a caf\u00e9 crawl in downtown St. Catharines, as well as the usual Thirsty Thursday\u2019s activities at Isaac\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Also taking place Thursday, starting at 2 p.m., is the second annual General Brock Supermarket Sweep. Similar to the old television game show, three Brock students will have 45 seconds to grab as much as they can from the GB store. Whichever student collects the highest value of products will win everything they grabbed, plus the grand prize of a GoPro camera. The contestants will be picked from GB\u2019s social media followers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flexvideo\">Watch the video below for last year\u2019s contest.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tjk5pgNW0Vk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in nearly a decade, Bob Davis Gymnasium will be converted into a massive concert hall Wednesday night for the signature event of Frost Week 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":25874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,1],"tags":[2551,133,1757,1523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37140,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37139\/revisions\/37140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}