#bw!event

[blackwood-rp]

#TeamTrees. It is a movement that is spreading across the Internet with a wave of support from people of all walks of life. A Call to Action for all, to finally give back to the planet that we have called home for so long. The goal is simple: to plant twenty million trees by the end of the year, through donations made to the Arbor Day Foundation. 

There have been posters placed around campus, and links provided in the school’s weekly newsletter as part of the activities section. Blackwood University has shown an open support to the cause, as have the city officials. Working together, the city of Blackwood has pledged to not only donate a large sum of money to the charity, but to also plant more trees around the city in the coming months. With Blackwood’s Cleaner Living initiative, the movement is something most residents in the city show support for. 

Blackwood University is calling for anyone looking to spend time doing something good for the environment. In honour of the #TeamTrees movement, the school has decided to plant more trees around campus and have also made plans to build an apple orchard on an empty plot of land nearby the school, with the city’s permission. Blackwood has put out a call to arms to all students and faculty, as well as volunteers around town, to help plant enough trees to complete their own personal goals of making a difference. 

This mini event will last until December 1st! Characters can participate in a multitude of ways with this event, which we will give some general suggestions to below. We ask that everyone use the tag #bw!teamtrees so that we’ll be able to track the participation for this event. If anyone has any questions, please let us know!

While this is absolutely not mandatory, we are strong believers in a cleaner future for all. If you are interested in the real life movement of #TeamTrees, please visit this site and consider donating! For every dollar, they will plant a tree. For more information, we also found this video to be quite informative! We are, in no way, affiliated with Team Trees, but we feel it is important to share and spread the word. Please feel free to do so with your friends and family, so that we can plan for a brighter tomorrow!

Plot ideas below the cut!

Some ideas to consider with this event:

Help plant trees! You can assist Blackwood by reporting to the University Greenhouse where they will have trees to be picked up and a map of where they are to be planted. You can also report to the outlined section of land where the orchard is being planted to help out there!

Act as a supervisor. Someone has to check that these trees are being properly planted!

Post a Drabble about your muse engaging on social media about this. If you have a ton of followers, why not urge them to help donate to the charity? Live-streaming some of the tree planting might go a long way, too!

Drink some Grindhouse beverages and watch everyone else work. Hey, not everyone has to work hard, right? 

The Gardening club and Sustainability club have been partnered during this event and have been helping out with all the planning. If your character is involved with these clubs, feel free to write about that!

Alternatively, this movement could be that push for your character to learn more about the environment or about the greener clubs on campus. Perhaps have a recruitment thread with a member of one of the clubs! 

We hope that this helps everyone! Again, if you have any questions please contact us through our inbox. Let’s make Blackwood a cleaner, more sustainable place! 

[pendulumlight-blog]

-- @preynot outside for the #teamtrees event

it was a nice and thoughtful way of giving back to the community and learning a lesson in nature. Will loved the outdoors, and much preferred to be out in the middle of the woods rather than living in the city. thankfully this place had a lovely park.

though he volunteered as a supervisor to the tree planting event he also wanted to plant a few of his own. he liked getting his hands dirty. the outside environment gave him an excuse to bring along his dog Winston as well, provided he wasn’t too much of a distraction.

“i hope you’re ready to get a little dirty.” Will advises as he takes a very brief glance up to the first to arrive in the section he was supervising. Will himself looked farmer ready, eager to dig into the dirt. somehow he already had dirt and soil on the knees of his jeans. Winstons leash was around left wrist with enough slack for the dog not to get tugged as he held out a gardening shovel. “i’m Will Graham, no need to call me mister anything. Have you done anything like this before?”

[blackwood-rp]

ATTENTION! 

Are you ready to cut loose after finals? Are you ready to get your groove on while enjoying unlimited games and photos? Well then do we have news for YOU! New Years is right around the corner, and you guessed it-

We’re going to get crazy.

See the details below the cut!

NYE BASH!

Vendors BEFORE the Main Event

** Please note these few booths are to give you an idea of what will be present. They will be available to you the entire week leading up to New Year's Eve. They will be located by the main entrance.**

Cocoa’s Cafe: The full menu will be available! Though the full staff won’t be there, please be patient!

Flour Girl Pizza: They will be providing pizza, breadsticks, and a variety of pasta.

Lunar Zone: Enjoy a variety of games, free to play! Winning certain games earn you raffle tickets for a prize after the main event!

Photo-Mania: There will be a few photo booths scattered around the event area where you can print out photos of you and your friends.

Fortune Teller: Do you want to know what is in store for the new year? Feel free to stop by and get a glimpse into the future.

Main Event

** This will take place in the Auditorium, the theatre department has asked us to not please stay away from any equipment, and props that may be found. **

This is a semi-formal dance! There will be performances all evening, and for the final show, one of Deviances’ most popular DJs!

Performance Sign-Ups Those who wish to sign up for performance slots will have to make a post on their blog, similar to the introduction post. Please tag it with #BWPerform, and what you will be performing. Note that anything inappropriate will not be tolerated, and you will be escorted out by security. 

At the stroke of midnight, get ready to ring in the new year with glitter and confetti! Confetti guns and noisemakers will be provided 30 minutes before the countdown.

Attire is semi-formal. Dresses, suits, or any party gear is acceptable, just no pajamas!

Clean-Up Crew

Though we wish all of our students have a chance to enjoy the festivities, there also lies an opportunity. Anyone wishing to join the cleanup crew will be compensated.

Raffle Prizes

$100 Gift card for the Grindhouse

$20 Froyolo Voucher

Free all-day admission to the Lunar Zone

2 Observatory tickets

$30 gift card to Luciole

Blackwood School Gear! (T-shirt, hoodie, backpack, towel, and a water bottle all in one!) x5

How it all works!

In order to give everyone the chance to enjoy the event, this takes place the week leading up to New Year's Eve. You will have two weeks to get out starters to be considered for the raffle. 

In order to qualify for the raffle, you will at least have to have 3 event themed threads. At the end of the two weeks, we will raffle off the prizes randomly. 

After the two weeks are over, we request that you do not make anymore event themed starters, but you are welcome to continue the ones that you have going. 

Please tag your starters with #bw!bash. 

Some Ideas

Event Coordinating: Someone has to help run this joint!

Set-Up Crew: Some vendors might be grateful for a good deed, will you and a friend lend a hand?

Dancing Lessons: Nervous about the upcoming dance? Take time to practice with the person of your choice!

Carnival Competition: You and a partner race through all of the games provided, and whoever reigns supreme, buys lunch

Post a drabble about your muses resolutions, or reflection of their year at Blackwood!

We hope that this helps everyone! Again, if you have any questions please contact us through our inbox. 

[bernadettavonv]

#teamtrees

With a pensive whimper, Bernadetta lets the curtain she had been peeking past drop in front of her dorm room window. Everyone outside seemed to be taking part of a university event. Planting trees, was it...?

Crawling her way through the piles of clothes, empty food packets, cans and many, many sketches and storyboards, Bernie makes it to her computer. It must be nice, being able to do something like that for the environment... That said...

“I-It’s okay, Bernie... You can help too. W-without going outside.”

With a few clicks, she finds her way to the teamtrees website. It was scary, having to type urls in after just using her shortcuts for so long. Almost as if she was a shut-in to her usual sites, too... Scrolling past the many messages and donations from people all over the world, Bernie gives a gulp.

“Come on, Bernie. Just do it under anonymous... Nobody will know...”

Speaking to herself (as she is wont to do), Bernie bites her lip and scrolls back to the top where the donate prompt lay. Initially, she hovers her mouse over the ‘20 trees’ option... before clicking on the ‘100′ one instead. While she was by all definitions a gremlin, Bernadetta Von Varley came from an affluent family. Besides, she felt guilty for not joining any group activities like her peers.

Stopping to recover from a mini heart attack after every click, Bernie manages to get through the first tab, making sure to remain anonymous. However, on the next page...

“Sh-share on Twitter...?”

Bernie gulps. Her Twitter was solely for lurking. While she had a few followers, mostly people who knew her irl, she had never made a tweet. Not once.

...But...

“Y-you can do this, Bernie...!”

~~

Followers of @BernieBear can now see a tweet from her dead profile.

‘Plz donate if u can. https://teamtrees.org/”

~~

[onetrueidolnico-blog]

“Alright, you lot!”

Nico stood outside of the university club building with her hands on her hips. She was dressed for the occasion; donned with the baggy rubber overalls people’d wear tending to rice fields tucked into oversized gum boots. A red visor reading “Prez” was ensuring her haughty stare was unmolested by the sun.

“I’m sure you’ve seen the posts about it aaall over social media! This is an opportunity to prove ourselves! Hope your thumbs are feeling green today!”

She didn’t bother putting on the cheerful facade. Everyone in the club probably would’ve seen through it at some point by now and was likely accustomed to her abrasive self. Scanning through the members that had made it to her very-last-minute summons... Well, there were some that were more physically able than others, but it was about what you’d expect from an anime club... She cleared her throat once more after no immediate response from the group was made.

“Listen, I know the club description didn’t specify anything extremely physical per se, but this is a chance to improve our image!” She barked. “If the brass see what good those anime club kids are doing, we’re viable for an increase in budget! And you all know what that means...!”

She’ll finally have enough for that dakimakura that no one is to know about.

“That’s right, shelves upon shelves! Besides, we’ll look like saints, too!” She puffs her chest out, nearly forgetting to add the last remark. “Now come on, double time! We can’t fall behind the other clubs!”

“Squadron, move out!”

[voleusenoir-blog]

gardening club - 11/10/19.

”okay, everyone, let’s get the meeting started! this one will be a bit brief.”

haru was excited that the gardening club had grown so much over the past year, especially with what the university had planned. they would need all the help they could get, after all, and there was strength in numbers. she smiled, holding a sheet of paper in her hand, mostly in printed ink but with some cursive notes provided by herself. she waited for the room to settle before she spoke.

”i’m very excited to announce that blackwood university has officially begun the initiative to participate in the viral campaign #TeamTrees. you probably have already heard of it if you watch YouTube or TikTok, but basically the plan is to plant 20 million trees before 2019 ends by donating a dollar for each tree. not only is the school donating to the cause, but they also want students to plant more trees around campus for blackwood’s cleaner living initiative, including a new apple orchard in the city. the gardening club as well as the sustainability club have officially partnered with the university to make it happen, so we have a lot of work to do, but i know we can do it!”

she allowed members to talk and digest the news before continuing, still with a smile. this was the biggest thing the gardening club would be involved with so far this year, and it was a proud moment for them and the university.

”now i know all of us are passionate enough to get the job done as is, but i decided to create a small contest for the event for fun. oh, and you can do this individually or in a small group. whoever plants the most amount of trees within the club before december 1st will get a $50 gift card to the grindhouse cafe! there will also be a winner for the same prize for the person or group who fund-raises the most money for #TeamTrees. you can fund-raise however you like, by going door-to-door or even a bake sale, as long as it’s fair and follows campus rules. if you have any questions, feel free to talk to me in person or send me an email.”

she knew they would all do an amazing job, but who could say no to free coffee?

”next week’s meeting will be outside, and i’ll demonstrate how to plant a tree safely and properly, and then we can all get started together! oh, and the sustainability club is also participating. if you have any questions for them, i can pass them along.”

she glanced at the clock. yes, a very brief meeting, but she wanted people to have time to prepare for the work, especially since finals were around the corner.

”that’s about it for right now, thank you all for coming every week! i’ll be heading to the greenhouse for some work if anyone wants to come with me, or has any questions. good luck!”