A Year in the Life of Earle Page College
Page has a busy calendar with a full range of activities, both formal and informal, which can members enjoy. We have listed below just some of the major annual events.
Orientation Week
Many social activities, organised by the Junior Common Room Committee and Resident Fellows, help the first years settle into their new "home away from home". Activities include Aussie Night, Trivia Night, Toga Party, and Bush Dance. You'll also get academic tours, introductory lectures and study assistance. It is a really fun week designed to help you meet people and settle in.
Introductory Dinner
Academic awards and prizes are presented by the Vice-Chancellor and the College Master. New students are formally welcomed by the College community and it is the first time that new students get to wear an academic gown.
Ball and Cabaret Ball
Ball is a black tie event. A highlight of Ball each year is a fireworks display, which not only entertains the Ball participants, but also the other colleges and the City of Armidale as the sky lights up. Cabaret Ball is a themed dress-up Ball held in town.
Coast Run
Coast Run is one of Page's biggest annual events. Each year the students raise money for the Children's Medical Research Institute. The students hold an Auction, a Fashion Parade and then a relay-style run from Armidale to Dorrigo (Over 200kms). Each event usually raises around $10,000. It is an extremely rewarding experience for a great cause.
Formal Dinners
Many formal dinners are held to celebrete Earle Page College each year. These include awards nights for sports, academia, and cultural acheivements, Politics Dinner and Parents Dinner. Students wear their formal academic gowns and enjoy nibbles with champagne followed by a gourmet meal together. Many of the awards at these dinners have strong traditions. Not only is high acheivement rewarded at Earle Page College, but involvement is also held in high regard. You don't have to be the best at sports to win the biggest sporting awards.
Sports and Cultural Events
Page participates in a range of sporting competitions. Sports include netball, rugby league and union, hockey, soccer, tennis, touch football, waterpolo, athletics, swimming carnivals, lawn bowls, table tennis, basketball and more. Culturally, Page has the Annual Musical, a choir, and usually wins the intercollegiate trophy in the cultural competition. This competition includes Small Music Ensemble, debating, theatre sports, arts and crafts and performance. Page also arranged the inaugural intercollegiate quiz; a trivia night in which all of the colleges competed. It was a huge success!
Annual Musical
Earle Page College is the only UNE college to hold a musical. It is run by the students and helps raise money for Coast Run each year. Singers, dancers, musicians and stage designers all get their chance to shine.
Productions staged for the past 38 years:
2011 - Little Shop of Horrors
2010 - Beauty and the Beast
2009 – Rent
2008 - Something Happened on the way to the Forum
2007 - 'Bye 'Bye Birdie
2006 - How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
2005 - West Side Story
2004 - Hot Mikado
2003 - Calamity Jane
2002 - The Wiz
2001 - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
2000 - A Slice of Saturday Night
1999 - Return to the Forbidden Planet
1998 - Anything Goes
1997 - By Jupiter
1996 - Animal Farm
1995 - Pirates of Penzance
1994 - Barnum
1993 - L'il Abner
1992 - Guys and Dolls
1991 - Little Shop of Horrors
1990 - My Fair Lady
1989 -
1988 - 'Bye 'Bye Birdie
1987 - (3rd Performance) - Alas Poor Fred
1987 - (2nd Performance) - Companion Piece
1987 - Oliver!
1986 - The Wizard of Oz
1985 - Mixed Doubles
1983 - (2nd Performance) - Birdbath
1983 - Bannanas
1982 - Last Wake at She-Oak Creek
1981 - One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
1980 - We Bombed in New haven
1976 - Our Town
1975 - No names ... no pack drill
1974 - The Dream of Peter Mann
1973 - The Unknown soilder and his Wife