Star Power - Cancelled
Tue, 19 June 2007, 05:13 pmwho cares70 posts in thread
Star Power - Cancelled
Tue, 19 June 2007, 05:13 pmHello everyone
I am very disappointed to have to inform everyone that Star Power has been cancelled.
This is due to the lack of entrants in the competition for this year. We are so very disappointed as we had the support of such amazing groups that would have offered training and workshops and opportunities for the youth of WA.
I must say that when I kept receiving emails asking how people could get the auditions without having to do the training, I started to wonder at the youth of WA.
I want to stress to everyone now that all entrants will be receiving their entry money back in the next week.
( For those narrow minded and petty people who thought that Star Power was trying to rip people off and went to the amazing lengths of having us investigated, well, the investigation found nothing, and you simply made us realise how many people out there don't understand that there really are people who are prepared to work for no financial reward at all in order to help others. The cancellation of the competition has cost us money.)
It seems that the youth of WA are not interested in training and workshops and opportunities . It seems that the youth of WA want to have the rewards without the work. That is a very sad generalisation I know and I am very sorry for the people who did enter. We simply couldn't make it work on those numbers.
I thank everyone at the ITA for their support , I thank the people who were helping us, I thank the entrants and I thank the people who saw this competition for what it was and wanted to do all they could to help. I am sorry that we couldn't make it happen.
Kerri
Change age range
Sun, 1 July 2007, 10:49 pmWalter Plinge
How about we give an opportunity to a younger age range of people. 10-16 yr olds. There is never enough opportunity for them to be on the stage or film. These kids have just as much desire and drive to act as older students and yet they dont have the homework and life commitments to hold them back. How about we empower our young people by allowing them to have the opportunity to go to workshops and soapie auditions, this will help them to be better actors and to get to know the industry so that we can have some awesome actors out there in ten years from WA.
I am very disappointed that star power has been cancelled but how about we let the next generation of actors have a go.
My son is 12 and would have loved the opportunity to learn from mentors.
There is a bible verse "Train a child the way he should go and he will not depart from it"
Lets invest time and money into our kids so they in turn can be great teenagers, adults and in turn mentors themselves.
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