Live music, food trucks, fireworks and more will be featured on campus this Friday as Student Engagement and Campus Life (SECL) hosts Javelina Fest at 7 p.m. at the Rec Sports Complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Javelina Fest is a welcome back block party, like the block party hosted during last year’s homecoming week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur students and Kingsville community really enjoyed the Homecoming Block Party back in October, so we decided to bring back that same energy and experience to kick off the new year and Spring Semester but this time with a firework show,\u201d First Year and Family Engagement Coordinator Julianne Gomez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The last time fireworks were seen on campus was during homecoming week in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe also asked a couple of students what they wanted to have in the Spring and fireworks were one of the most popular answers,\u201d Gomez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aside from fireworks, South 77, a local band, will play live music for students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are hosting two food trucks, El Colombiano and AAA BBQ, Tom’s Travelin’ Coffee Truck, S’mores sponsored by SGA, live music and a firework show,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The firework show will begin at 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cStaff Council also jumped in on our event once they heard about it and purchased food tickets for the first 75 staff members. I truly appreciate this kind gesture from Staff Council as our TAMUK Staff is always looking for ways to participate and engage with our students and events,\u201d Gomez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Students wanting to stay updated on campus events throughout the semester can follow @tamuksecl<\/em> on Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First firework show since 2018 Live music, food trucks, fireworks and more will be featured on campus this Friday as Student Engagement and Campus Life… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":8356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[195],"class_list":["post-8355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":195,"user_id":48,"is_guest":0,"slug":"ronni-reyna","display_name":"Ronni Reyna","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/16b00811e260d2068b61907787d9e60e.jpg?ver=1778633080","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8357,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions\/8357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8355"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=8355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}