The Lucknow Sentinel, 1993-02-17, Page 10ti
Page 10 - Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, February 17;1993
Lucknow teen involved
in producing high
school drama festival
For three days, Feb. 18-20, the
Blyth Festival will host a non-com-
petitive high school drama festival.
Ten high schools from near and far
will come together to celebrate the
process of creating theatre. The
results of their energies and talents
will `appear on the festival stage
each night at 7:30 p.m. Throughout
the day students will participate in
a variety of workshops to develop
skills and exchange ideas. These
workshops include: play readings,
improvisation, puppetry, set design,
clown, popular theatre, and play
writing. An open debate on artistic
censorship in high schools will be
held on Feb. 19 at 4:30 p.m. in the
Garage theatre.
For the first time ever, the Cross-
roads Festival is being produced by
three local students. Michelle Carter
(Clinton), Rachel Brophy
(Lucknow), and Renee Devereaux
(Seaforth) have been wording
together for the past five months to
plan and organize the Festival.
The Crossroads Festival is
designed to encourage young Cana-'
dian actors, directors, designers,
playwrights and technicians to come
together as one large community of
artists.
"Being in a theatre group means
being part of a unique community,"
says Michelle Carter, co -artistic
director of Crossroads. "It's a com-
munity that comes together for a
brief time to devote itself entirely to
the creation of a work of art. The
intense feelings generated during
this process are felt by everyone
involved. The Crossroads Festival
will be a time to meet other artists
to share' and celebrate your talents
together."
The Festival is non-competitive.
Adjudication of performances will
come from the audience and will be
facilitated' by professional directors
Jennifer Brewin and Elliot Smith.
Taking part in the 1993 Cross-
roads Festival are students from:
Goderich District Collegiate insti-
tute, Listowel District Secondary
School, F.E. Madill Secondary
School (Wingham). St. Mary's
District Collegiate and Vocational
Institute (St. Mary's), Northern
Secondary School .(Toronto),
Saugeen District Secondary School
(Port Elgin, Seaforth District High
School, South Huron District Sec-
ondary School (Exeter), and an
independent group of students
called The Paper Bag Players.
Share joy, laughter, tears at
Blyth Festival this summer
The Blyth Festival launched its
season last Friday at a reception in
the June Hill Room of the -Blyth
Centre for the Arts hosted by Artis-
tic Director Peter Smith. In what
Smith is calling a "new Blyth tradi-
tion" the artists, media, corporate
sponsors, the Blyth Board of Direc-
tors and staff joined in toasting the
'93 season. Playwrights, directors
and designers were in attendance to.
introduce the six plays for the
upcoming season.
As a prelude to the season's
announcement, Blyth's mandate of
New Canadian Play Development
was underscored by a brief reading
from Rosalind Goldsmith's play
Web, currently in development for
the Festival's new alternative
venue: The Garage Theatre on
Dinsley Street.
Blyth Festival pre -season
vouchers have been on sale since
last summer and a strong response
from the public over Christmas has
put ticket sales ahead of last year at
this time. Voucher packs are an
opportunity for the public to buy
four coupons to use in the summer ,
for $50.00, a savings of up to
$28.00 on regular 'ticket prices,
Voucher packs are only on .sale
until May 29.
With the theatrical spectacle of
Many Hands which tours its way
through the streets of the village,
the vibrant Dixie Land jazz of The
Old Man's Band, the moving per-
formance of Safe Haven, the politi-
cal tension of Web, the intrigue of
The Glorious 12th and the hilarity
of Colleen curran's Celli House,
Blyth has something for everyone
this summer.
"It's left, right, left, right," says Steve Tiffin, as he attempts to get his team In sync during the
Kinsmen's mushball tourney last Saturday. (Pat Livingston photo)
Marching band is enroute to Flor la
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Yesterday, a fleet of trumpets,
French horns, drums and flutes
boarded the bus to Florida.
These and a host of other
instruments are accompanying their
owners, members of the renowned
Seaforth and District High School
All Girls Marching Band, on a bus
trip to Fort Myers, Florida. The
girls left Tuesday, Feb. 16 to take
part in the Thomas Edisen Pageant
of Light Band Competition.
The band has been working
towards this goal for the past. two
years; says band director Charles
Kalbfleisch.
"Our band is in the entertainment
business and we have many dif-
ferent parts that you would not find
in an concert band. We have dan-
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cers, flag wavers, flag carriers, a
very large percussion section and
the regular band instruments you
would find in any brass and wood-
wind concert band," says
Kalbfleisch.
The band also uses an electric
piano in their marching drill or field
show.
The band members are judged in
a parade and field drill competition.
Usually, the U.S. competitions are
judged by 10 judges that present
each band with 10 audio tapes and
10 sheets of writtencomments and
criticisms.
The competition will take place
near the yacht basin and the parade
competition will be part of a giant
night parade that winds. through
downtown Fort Myers and ends' up
in the a stadium. This parade is
televised in South Florida and
draws spectators from hundreds of
miles. It is the second largest night
parade in the U.S. with many floats
coming from the Orange Bowl
Parade.
Kalbfleisch says comtition Will
be tough. High school bands in the
U.S. are the pride of the schools.
"In order to- be successful against
such large bands, you have to be
lucky and different in your presen-
tation," he says.
"Our band has a great deal cif
Spirit and we operate like a big
family with each section giving
advice to the others."
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