This past weekend, VIC Radio hosted its 35th annual 50 Hour Marathon in support of Southside Community Center in Ithaca. VIC DJ's Michael Memis '22, Trisha Curtin '22, Arlo Catanzaro '23 and Gus Genova '24 stayed awake and on the air fifty straight hours playing their favorite indie-alternative tracks. The Marathon started Friday, April 22nd at 4:00 PM and concluded Sunday, April 24th at 6:00 PM. It streamed live on VICRadio.org and was simulcast on WICB and ICTV.
UPDATE - In total, VIC has raised $5,104 for Southside Community Center. Click here for the list of sponsors who supported a full hour during the Marathon. VIC is thankful for everyone who donated, tuned in and supported the station's efforts. The Marathon was organized by Keenan Griebel '24, VIC's 50 Hour Marathon Coordinator.
The station's fundraising effort for Southside Community Center started with VIC's Virtual Fall Benefit Concert this past October. You can rewatch the concert here. The concert included performances from Vestments, Library of Egress, Samuel B. Lupowitz and Sam Harris (of the X Ambassadors).
The 50 Hour Marathon is a weekend-long fundraising effort that benefits a local non-profit organization. The annual event was first held in 1986. Click here for more information about the Marathon's history.
More information about Southside Community Center: Since its incorporation in 1934, the Southside Community Center, Inc., continues to affirm, empower, and foster the development of self-pride among the African-American citizens of greater Ithaca. Through forums and activities in education, recreation, political and social awareness, the Southside Community Center is a community resource center, whose focus is empowering and educating the BIPOC community, while tackling social justice issues. Southside serves as a vehicle to develop an appreciation for the contributions and presence of those peoples of African descent in the greater Ithaca community and in the larger world community.
Donations will go towards Southside Community Center's after-school programming for children in order to help them have as many educational games, toys, and books as possible. In the words of Executive Director Chavon Bunch, "their success begins with us."
