Students Show Off Their Talent

Many gathered last week to witness students’ many performances at the Humber’s Got Talent competition. 

“We’ve done things like Humber Idol, but we’ve never done a wide open kind of Humber’s Got Talent,” says Arron Miller, Director of Programming at the Humber Students’ Federation. “I think it’s really cool, because everybody who has any kind of talent can participate rather than just singing.” 

Miller says the show, which featured acts from juggling to skill with numbers, was inspired by the need to get more students coming to HSF events. 

“It’s just a matter of trying to get as many students involved obviously on campus,” Miller said. “There’s so many talented students out there, and a lot of times, we don’t get to see their talents. They don’t have opportunities to participate in events like this, so this will be one of those times where they can get out and actually strut their stuff a little bit.”

Guelph-Humber Student Life Coordinator Liana Acri spoke about the benefits of having both the Lakeshore and North campuses participate in the competition. 

“It’s nice to find a way to tie the two campuses together. It might also create a little inter-campus competition, which can also be fun and healthy.” 

The Humber’s Got Talent preliminaries had a big audience. Students crammed themselves into the cafeteria and Student Centre to watch the performers. 

“Not every day you have a performance going on at the school. It’s also more personal, more relative, because it’s students at the school. People want to see what they have to offer. You get a chance to see people sing and dance and whatever else,” said Tanya Tulloch. 

Students had the opportunity to display a variety of different talents. However, fourth year Guelph-Humber business student Peter Howe says there could have been more diversity in terms of performance. 

“Too many went for the singing thing and I’m wondering why,” Howe says of the performers. “I wish there had been more variety. I was hoping for at least one crazy flipping ninja or something. I had jokingly said before, ‘this isn’t the MuchMusic countdown.'”

Howe’s act for the competition was demonstrating his ability to figure out what day of the week a specific date lies on. He did not make it to the finals. 

Those who did will be performing on Nov. 25th at the Humber Student Centre where they will have a chance to win a cash prize of up to $1,000.