{"id":98721,"date":"2025-01-22T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=98721"},"modified":"2025-01-23T11:27:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:27:39","slug":"brock-talent-in-the-limelight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/01\/brock-talent-in-the-limelight\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock talent in the limelight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From singing to standup comedy, students are showing off their skills this week as they compete for a spot in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockbusu.ca\/whats-on\/brocksgottalent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brock\u2019s Got Talent<\/a> competition finale on Thursday, Jan. 30.<\/p>\n<p>The competition, hosted by the Brock University Students\u2019 Union (BUSU), kicked off with live heats on Tuesday, Jan. 21 and Wednesday, Jan. 22 in Union Station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had an overwhelming amount of talent audition for a spot in the heats this year,\u201d said BUSU Vice-President, Student Services Shinaya Peiris. \u201cI had the pleasure of hosting this event last year, and seeing how it has grown over the years, makes it that much more exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Six finalists, voted on by their fellow students during the heats, will move forward to the finale, where they will perform in front of a live audience and panel of guest judges, including David Vivian, Associate Professor and Scenographer in the Department of Dramatic Arts; Paige Rutledge, a Canadian country singer; and Sierra Vallescura, a dance teacher at M Dance Studio in Mississauga, Ont.<\/p>\n<p>The Brock\u2019s Got Talent Finale is open to students, family and friends. Spot are limited and tickets are available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockbusu.ca\/ents\/event\/590\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BUSU website.<\/a> BrockTV will also stream the event live on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@BrockTVMedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From singing to standup comedy, students are showing off their skills this week as they compete for a spot in the Brock\u2019s Got Talent competition finale on Thursday, Jan. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":98728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[2203,9500],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98721"}],"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\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98721"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98731,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98721\/revisions\/98731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}