HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2008-10-02, Page 26Lights, camera, action!
More than 100 people lined The
Square’s western block between
West and Colborne Streets on
Sunday eagerly awaiting the arrival
of nearly 15 talented and budding
thespians before heading inside to
take in a first-run movie premier at
the Park Theatre.
At the premier of Rolling Out The
Red Carpet the audience was among
the very first to view some of the
best movie and television
reenactments that 13 of the area’s
most dedicated young actors have to
offer.
The Sept. 28 showing was the
result of months of hard work by the
Serious Fun! Theatre Company’s
Going Pro program. The debut was
designed to be a fun way to
introduce the community to the
talents of the program’s students.
“The show went amazingly well,
I’m so proud of these girls,” said
Serious Fun! founder and instructor,
Shannon Scott.
The Going Pro program, aimed at
young girls aged eight to 16, spent
part of their summer training with a
nearby film company to shoot a slew
of scenes from popular movies and
television shows.
They experienced life on a
professional film set, as they filmed
over 50 scenes with Film Directors
Joshua Ferguson and Florian
Halbedl of Juicy Fusion Films, a
London-based film production
company that focuses on
independent film projects in Canada.
As the result of their filming and
in addition to the Rolling Out The
Red Carpet skits, the Serious Fun!
actors produced two short films, one
of which, titled Unspoken Words
Don’t Lie, was accepted into the
London Fringe Film Festival in
2007. The Going Pro program is
currently working on a feature-
length documentary.
Going Pro is a program developed
and designed by Scott through the
Serious Fun! Theatre Co. It has been
designed to train youth and provides
the skills necessary for becoming
professional actors.
Scott said that students are taught
how to break out of “over-acting”
and instead “live truthfully in the
moment” while onstage.
The Going Pro program consists
of a 40-day summer training session,
combined with weekly privates and
monthly group sessions, and features
guest teachers from the professional
acting world.
PAGE 26. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2008.
Serious Fun! rolls
out the red carpet
Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh
council members decided at their
recent meeting to have information
looked into to create a bylaw that
takes the current Ontario list of
noxious weeds and add two organic
offenders, giant hogweed and
velvetleaf.
The current list is as follows:
common barberry, European
buckthorn, bull thistle, Canada
thistle, wild carrot, colt’s foot,
dodder, goat’s beard, Johnson grass,
knapweed, qilkweed, nodding
thistle, poison hemlock, poison ivy,
proso millet, ragweed, yellow rocket,
Russian thistle, Scotch thistle, tow
thistle, cypress spurge, leafy spurge
and tuberous betchling.
Giant Hogweed, which ACW
council has dealt with in the recent
past, is a tall plant with a large white
flower and a wide, hollow stalk. The
plant produces a poisonous
substance that, when mixed with UV
light, can cause skin to have boil-like
growths that will burst and can result
in scars that last five to seven years.
Velvetleaf is a highly competitive
plant that can take resources away
from other plants, such as crops. It
produces many seeds and can spread
quickly.Councillor Carl Sloetjes said,“Wecould set a precedence for Huron-
Kinloss; they could do the same
thing. (Giant hogweed) is really bad
in Lucknow, and it is coming
downstream. By doing it one at a
time, maybe we can stop it further
upstream. I’m surprised it’s not more
predominant (here).”
Reeve Ben Van Diepenbeek said
it’s important to deal with the issue,
but noted it may be difficult because
of the population of the weeds.
“(Velvetleaf) is everywhere. Many
farmers have it. It’s just one of
those weeds that keeps coming
back.”
In the end, council decided to act
now, versus waiting for the plants to
possibly make it on to the province’s
list.
“We’re willing to prepare to pass a
bylaw, to have our own weed list and
have those two added to our list. It
will be complaint driven, or if we
feel there’s a need to have it done,
we’ll authorize the right ministry, if
the land owner doesn’t do it first,”
Van Diepenbeek explained.
A-C-W councillorstackle thorny issue
Serious FUN!
The Serious FUN Film Fest was on in Goderich Sunday. The theatre group was “Rolling Out
the Red Carpet” for the day with the troupe arriving at the theatre in a limo bus and stopping
to pose in glamour wear outside the theatre. Among them were, from left: Lexi Aitken, Kelsy
King, Kathryn Peach, Mackenzie Chalmers, Sadie Chalmers and Katherine Dwyer. The group
is directed by Londesborough-area native, Shannon Scott. (Signal Star photo)
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