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
Yes, I mentioned earlier,
Wed, 20 June 2007, 02:59 pmYes, I mentioned earlier, that I agreed with the running of the workshop.
I find workshops an amazingly good tool, I love them when we go with school. For a few reasons.
You learn the 'good stuff', you learn more than just in the classroom, you get to work with actors of varying fields and talents (I worked recently at a workshop with one of the members of Skithouse and the Tic Tac guy...he was on a Tic Tac ad...anyway) it was great, because you know these people from say TV and they are helping share what they know with you. Then (one I love the most) is that you get to experience different performing spaces. The first workshop I attended was at Malthouse's Merlyn theatre (love it love it love it) and I thought it was great...then to return to the space and see how that theatre can be used by another production...and how different it looks to the blank canvas we workshopped in AMAZING.
Workshops are great! Big thumbs up for the workshop. I hope something can go ahead.
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Currently working on:
"Boy Banned" a fusion of live acting, video footage, corny songs, syncronised dancing boys and egos! JULY 2007, ticket information coming soon!!!
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