Georgia Tech Creatives (GTC) hosted their semester kickoff last Thursday, Sept. 7 in the DramaTech Theater, showcasing a new wave of Tech talent.
The third event of its kind saw dance numbers from hip hop group TEKSTYLES and Bollywood-fusion group, GT JADOO and musical performances from R&B artist, MARI, self described “one-man-band” Prat. and rapper Oksurf.
Despite GTC only being in its third semester on campus and second as a registered student organization, the theater was packed.
Doors locked once the theater was at capacity which was shortly after the event began.
The Technique sat down with Lekha Gowda, 4th-year BA, president and co-founder and Akbar Khan, 4th-year ARCH, co-founder and vice president to understand how the organization has continually adapted under such rapid growth.
According to Gowda, initial plans for the organization began as a conversation between herself and Akbar to plan a lone event.
“We talked about the fact that there was not really a space for anyone to really show themselves off creatively or really hone into their passions relating to art on campus … And then as we started brainstorming this event that we wanted to create, we were like, this sounds more of a community than an event. It sounds more like something where it’s a lot bigger than the both of us,” Gowda said.
To date the organization has amassed over 2,000 followers on Instagram (@gtcreatives) and reported a turnout of over 200 attendees at the most recent kickoff.
Throughout the interview, Gouda and Khan pointed to fluidity as a vantage point for the organization, allowing them to respond to opportunities as they appear, often at the last minute.
“As an exec team, we meet weekly, sometimes one or two times more. It just depends how close we are to a certain event,” Khan said.
Khan went on to explain that although the executive board for GTC was initially comprised of four positions, it went through several expansions and rearrangements to arrive at…
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