The hospitality control software is searching out U of A students skilled in arts and entertainment to paintings its SMASH occasion on Saturday, April nine. SMASH (Students Mastering the Art of Southern Hospitality) is a dining and networking fundraiser for this system. Students are web hosting Boardwalk Bash, offering the meals, sights and sounds of a traditional entertainment district, inside the Arkansas Union’s Verizon Ballroom from 6-nine p.M.

Instructor Dede Hamm is seeking out students who can offer “boardwalk” talent to entertain guests in alternate for a price tag to the event ($75 price).

Students with competencies as caricature artists, balloon artists, tarot card readers, palm readers, mimes, magicians and solo instrumentalists are encouraged to touch Hamm (corahamm@uark.Edu) and provide either a video or social media posts of their talent. 

Preference is for students to be aged 21 or older, but if now not, applicants can nevertheless follow. Entertainers need to be at their event stations from 5:30-7:30 p.M. Leading up to the meal.

Two hospitality classes inside the School of Human Environmental Sciences, which is a part of the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, are using the semester to coordinate and execute the occasion.

A SMASH magnificence, underneath Hamm, is managing the making plans and company. A cooking lab magnificence, Cultures and Cuisines of the World, is in price of the meal, beneath the path of teacher Lobat Bayyari.

Tickets to SMASH are to be had for $75 every and can be purchased right here. Tickets for HESC college and group of workers are $60, for hospitality alumni $50, a student own family package deal for 2 is $one hundred twenty and a SMASH couples package deal is $a hundred thirty. 

Sponsorships for seat and desk options include severa VIP programs: Bronze (two visitors, $250), Silver (four guests, $500), Golden (six site visitors, $1,000), Platinum (eight site visitors, $2,500) and Diamond Pineapple Packages (10 guests, $five,000) with organization reputation and marketing. All programs encompass the reception, dinner, beer and wine.

Proceeds advantage the hospitality management application thru scholarships, sources, equipment and finances for educational travel.