The highlight of the Creative Arts calendar during the Spring Term was undoubtedly the Creative Arts Competition held on Friday the 3rd of March, 2000.
Each of the Houses were given the following brief:
Theme : The Four Seasons
Each House will “draw” a theme and must present a 15-20 minute programme.
There will be 4 categories to be judged :
Music : A minimum of 4 participants and can be a choir, a group or musical ensemble.
Poetry/Prose : An example of each, one in French and one in English.
Drama : May be a scene from a play, a sketch, a dance etc. Students may write their own sketch.
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Programme :
This should be imaginative and
informative.
Minerva was allotted the theme
“Spring” from the draw, Diana “Winter” and Atalanta “Summer”.
Each house set about arranging its own production without any help from
the staff.
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The Diana Production Team: Iyabode, Kaoruko, Lucia and Liz with their Programme based on the season “Winter”. |
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The Minerva Production Team: Portia, Virginia, Sassan and Nicole with their Programme based on the season “Spring”. |
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The Atalanta Production Team: Robert, Elizabeth, Katie and Dean with their Programme based on the season “Summer”. |
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The evening of the performance proved to be very enjoyable. Diana based their performance on Greek Mythology and on how, according to Greek Mythology, Winter started. Persephone, daughter of Demeter (Goddess of Earth) agrees to marry Hades (God of the underworld). Demeter fails to stop Hades from taking Persephone to the underworld and vents his anger in the form of Winter.
Minerva’s Spring adaptation was highly entertaining and focused on how in Spring a young man’s fancy turns to love. We were treated to a performance from Minola, a band, featuring Chris Reilly, Amy Hellier, Georgina Harty, Chloe Harty and Edward Harty. Minerva also brought across that in choosing a mate, the girl may not always choose the loudest, “coolest”, trendiest boy but, may go for the shy, sensitive but devoted type!!! This gave us all food for thought.
Atalanta’s Summer adaptation was loosely based on Grease and also focused on love . The Atalanta group all performed in their house t-shirts which proved to be a novel approach and entertained us with lively singing and dancing.
As always, there can only be one winner, and this year the honours went to Diana for their excellent interpretation of Winter. Congratulations and well done to the directors, producers and cast members of Diana and indeed of all the Houses for an entertaining and exciting evening.
Photo Call from the Creative Arts Competition
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Just who is Miguel trying to impress? |
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Linus must have a reason for being on his knees …. |
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Ah ha … it all becomes clear. Sorry Miguel … Linus gets the girl. |
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| What is Chloe doing with her drumsticks? Georgina seems to be wearing them as a fashion accessory. |
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The all singing, all dancing, all acting Atalanta. … Summer Love. |
| Atalanta’s “Pink Ladies” Ria, Selina, Serena, Katrina, Denise, Nidhi and Whitney. |
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Atalanta’s T-Birds … Robert, Andrew, Dean, Adil and Thomas. |
| Beauty meets the underworld … Aina, Elitsa, Lucia and Iyabode. |
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Diana cast members preparing to go on stage … Chantelle, Serena, Elitsa, Surraya, Lucia, Iyabode, Maryam and Serena. |
| The Diana House look … unusual at first but deadly. Winners of the Creative Arts Competition 2000. |
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