The lead singer for the group The Daddy Sisters, Chick Falcon, performs at the Bowling green pride festival on Saturday. (Photo by Eli Randolph)

Gallery: PCAL Land Festival, tailgate, BG Pride and more

As fall weather rolled onto campus, a number of events took place to keep students calm, cool and relaxed as exam season approaches. From the PCAL Land Festival to the Battle of the DJs, your Talisman photographers captured it all. See campus from their eyes.

Senior Zoe Halstead, a psychology major from Brandenburg (center), assists sculpture art and design professor David Marquez (right) in pouring melted aluminum into a mold made by students during the PCAL Land festival on Thursday. “We are heating the aluminum right now at around 1300-1400 degrees,” Marquez said. All members of the sculpture class dressed in Halloween costumes for the event to create a fun atmosphere. (Photo by Adin Parks)
Sophomore Grace Stafford, an English for secondary teachers major from Gleason, Tennessee, is guided to play the cello by Louisville juniorGeorge Payocong during the PCAL Land Fall Festival held at the Colonnades on Thursday. The festival hosted many booths from different majors within Potter College of Arts and Letters, all showcasing various forms of activities related to the majors represented. (Photo by Adin Parks)
Junior Chase Winemiller, a music education major from Louisville (left), and George Payocong (right) play in unison at the American String Teacher Association booth at the PCAL Land Fall Festival on Thursday. Both Winemiller and Payocong are members of the American String Teacher Association, an organization focused on teaching students about music and playing different instruments. (Photo by Adin Parks)
Junior Tayla Wright, an art education major from Bowling Green, shapes the clay to make her desired pottery piece at the Ceramics Club booth at the PCAL Land Festival on Thursday. The Ceramics Club comes together to shape art of out clay in any form. Pottery and hand-built items are just two ways that the Ceramics Club makes its art. (Photo by Adin Parks)
Sigma Nu member Jackson Smith throws a football with friends at the Student Activities away game tailgate. Many fraternities gathered at South Lawn on Tuesday, Oct. 17. (Photo by Caden Rich)
DJs used a mixture of software and hardware devices to create beats during the “Battle of the DJs” on South Lawn on Tuesday. (Photo by Caden Rich)
Students gather as Sigma Phi Epsilon members and Louisville seniors Colin Weaver and Jason Higdon DJ at the away game tailgate hosted by the Student Government Association at South Lawn on Tuesday, Oct. 17. Weaver and Higdon were competitors in the SGA DJ competition, which was postponed last year and rescheduled to take place ahead of the tailgate. (Photo by Caden Rich)
Senior Cade Holcombe (right)from Gallatin, Tennessee sings a country song during halftime of the WKU vs. Jacksonville State game on South Lawn on Tuesday, Oct. 17. His performance took place during the away game tailgate held by the Student Government Association, the Interfraternity Council and Red Wave. (Photo by Preston Jenkins)
A pack of beer is illuminated in the night light as the crowd watches senior Cade Holcombe from Gallatin, Tennessee perform during the halftime of the WKU vs. Jacksonville State game at South Lawn on Tuesday, Oct. 17. (Photo by Preston Jenkins)
Tanya Holcombe (left) and Randy Holcombe (Right) watch their son, senior Cade Holcombe from Gallatin, Tennessee, perform live for the first time during halftime of the WKU vs. Jacksonville State game on South Lawn on Tuesday, Oct. 17. (Photo by Preston Jenkins)
A young girl dressed up as Mirabel from “Encanto” gets her hand stamped by a participant in the Hooves and Harvest Festival at the WKU Agriculture Center on Saturday, Oct. 14. (Photo by Eli Randolph)
Two children make the decision of which candy to pick at the Hooves and Harvest Festival at the WKU Agriculture Center on Saturday, Oct. 14. The boys ended up picking a chocolate eye and some pop rocks. (Photo by Eli Randolph)
A regular at New Beginnings Therapeutic Horse Riding demonstrates what the company does to help those with disabilities at the Hooves and Harvest Festival at the WKU Agriculture Center on Saturday, Oct. 14. The activities are geared towards helping the participants be more confident while also exercising motor functions. (Photo by Eli Randolph)
A volunteer with New Beginnings Therapeutic Horse Riding kisses one of the horses during the pony ride at the Hooves and Harvest Festival at the WKU Agriculture Center on Saturday, Oct. 14. (Photo by Eli Randolph)
A young girl is helped onto her horse for a pony ride by a worker for New Beginnings Therapeutic Horse Riding at the Hooves and Harvest Festival at the WKU Agriculture Center on Saturday, Oct. 14. (Photo by Eli Randolph)
Queen Venus Knight performs at the Bowling Green Pride Festival on Saturday. (Photo by Eli Randolph)
The lead singer for the group “The Daddy Sisters,” Chick Falcon, performs at the Bowling Green Pride Festival on Saturday. (Photo by Eli Randolph)
A drag queen accepts a tip from an audience member at the Bowling Green Pride Festival on Saturday. (Photo by Eli Randolph)
Drag queens and festivalgoers protest for the Fairness Ordinance in Bowling Green after the Bowling Green Pride Festival on Saturday. (Photo by Eli Randolph)