After months of preparation, RedShift launched their creative student work website, which can be accessed at redshiftpub.com. The launch happened last week at their general body meeting.
RedShift is a student media organization whose purpose is to “publish works submitted by the Stevens community and promote creativity at Stevens,” according to their constitution. Over the past few decades, the organization has gone through several iterations of club death and club revival. Previous RedShifts created a physical creative magazine, replete with short stories, poems, photography, and artwork. The current RedShift has taken a contemporary, digital approach to publishing creative works of students, foregoing a physical magazine for a website.
The event for the website launch was one of the most successful events that RedShift had so far this year, according to Julian Hernandez, Editor-in-Chief of RedShift.
“They had a countdown, and then we all got to go on the website. They also showed us how to submit work,” said Camille Simon-Al-Araji, a student who attended the launch party. “The website came out very good.”
The Executive Board of RedShift said it was “extremely fulfilling” to see their website finally launch. “It was an important milestone for us to finally have one of the main tenets of the club created and presentable to the Stevens community,” Hernandez said.
The website has different pages for visual art, literature, performance art, and music. The website already has a good number of submissions and a variety of content, as RedShift had collected pre-submissions over the past year. On the Visual Art page, color images and digital renderings fill up the grid on the page. Most of the literature is short stories submitted by Jasper Briggs, with one or two poems. The website also features Stevens musical artist Rose Image in a three-part video series.
“The submissions we’ve received thus far have been excellent,” said Hernandez. “We’ve seen a lot of high quality music submissions, stunning photographs, and captivating literature.”
Though the website has only four categories of creative works, RedShift will accept any form of creativity. “There is really no limit to what people can submit,” said Hernandez. “Our publication is meant to foster a healthy, positive, and creative community, and we are more than happy to publish all creativity that contributes to that goal.”
RedShift’s website “would not be possible without all of the creativity that comes out of Stevens,” said Hernandez. “Our club, as well as our website, thrives through those who choose to showcase their talents for the public, and we hope more people want to do just that. One of the best things about hosting this website is that it is a living format that is meant to grow. We think what we’ve seen so far is truly incredible and can’t wait to see what else Stevens students have to share with us.”
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