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SUMBA’s 2020 Exec Team is Pretty Much the Best!

Yes, you read that right, and no, that isn’t just blatant arrogance from someone who was on that exec team… Rather, SUMBA’s executive team for 2020 actually were awarded Sydney University’s C&S prize for ‘Best Executive Team’ (go have a looky-look at the members, April, Neave, Gus, Neha, Angus, and Read more…

By April Guest, 2 weeks2 weeks ago
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SUMBA MARCHES IN THE MARDI GRAS PARADE

Last Saturday, SUMBA and friends were privileged to join the ‘Pride in Protest’ contingent to march in the 2020 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. Dressed in red and black, SUMBA might not have been the most flamboyantly dressed of all the parade-goers, but we had our instruments (and Read more…

By April Guest, 12 months12 months ago
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SUMBA 2020 Rehearsal 1; What a start!

Despite the maze that is the Holme Building, 15 whole people managed to rock up to Meeting Room 1 without getting too lost on Thursday of Week 1 for SUMBA’s 1st rehearsal of 2020! After a few quick introductions, the music began with very ambitious Director of Music, Gus, getting Read more…

By April Guest, 12 months12 months ago
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HOLY TRINITY OF SUMBA APPRECIATION; AGM, C&S Awards Night, and USU Annual Dinner

Over the last few weeks, SUMBA has cemented the fact that we are certainly one of Sydney University’s greatest clubs, a non-biased (really!) statement which will be explored in greater depth right now: Holding our Annual General Meeting on October 31st only made Halloween more spooky; we all were on Read more…

By April Guest, 1 year1 year ago
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FORGET GREENHOUSE GASES; SUMBA KEEPS IT HOT HOT HOT AT THE SYDNEY CLIMATE MARCH

SUMBA members skipped their classes. SUMBA members skipped their jobs. SUMBA members even skipped lying in bed procrastinating all day. That’s right, amidst countless signs and slogans reflecting the peak of human creativity SUMBA added our instruments (and a few signs and slogans of our own) to the sea of Read more…

By Benjamin Mead, 1 year1 year ago
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STOP PRESS: ZUMBA WITH SUMBA TAKES POPFEST BY STORM

Since the inception of SUMBA in late 2016, the same question has echoed across the rehearsal room many times: When are we going to do Zumba with SUMBA? I need that in my life! – every SUMBA member, every rehearsal. At first, the executive laughed it off… a marching band Read more…

By Benjamin Mead, 1 year1 year ago
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THE SACRED TABLE OF REHEARSAL PIZZA

At the start of 2019, mere days before the start of Welcome Week, the USU released radical funding changes which reduced the viability of rehearsal pizza to ashes. The SUMBA executive, led by Treasurer April Guest, fought tooth-and-nail to keep the pizza coming and keep our members happy. A review Read more…

By Benjamin Mead, 1 year1 year ago
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SUMBA WELCOMES HOME TEAM AUSTRALIA FROM WORLD GAMES!

After waking in the dark, early hours of Saturday morning, SUMBA journeyed to Sydney International Airport to welcome home 101 athletes and 35 support staff returning from the 2019 Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi. By all measures it was a successful Games for Team Australia, returning with 141 Read more…

By Benjamin Mead, 1 year1 year ago
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2019 STARTS WITH A BANG: SUMBA RECORDS RECORD ATTENDANCE AT FIRST REHEARSAL!

The five executive of SUMBA waited nervously, pacing up and down the Common Room at 4:55 pm on Thursday of Week 1. But their fear was unwarranted, for a sign from God was received! SUMBA’s first rehearsal of 2019 was a huge success. We had 20 (!) new members, eager Read more…

By Benjamin Mead, 1 year1 year ago
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MEET THE 2019 SUMBA TEAM AT WELCOME WEEK!

The best new club of 2017 (under 150 members) is no longer new, and back again in 2019. The Sydney University Marching Band Association (SUMBA) is preparing for an even bigger and even better year than ever before! To get involved (or renew your membership), come along to our stall Read more…

By Benjamin Mead, 1 year1 year ago

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