UBS will host its 8th annual Finance Academy from 5 – 9 July 2010, continuing its initiative of providing insight into the world of finance to public secondary school students.

Vipul Mahajan and Abhimanyu Chopra from Narrabundah College will join 48 other year 11 students, chosen from a broad cross section of public schools in NSW, ACT and Victoria, for a week long, fully subsidized residential program at Macquarie University. The program aims to give the students a practical understanding of global financial markets and highlight the wide range of finance related career opportunities available to them.

The Secondary School Principals Council in each state welcomed the initiative and assisted in the selection process of students notably demonstrating a flair for business, economics and other finance related subjects but who may not otherwise have thought to pursue a career in financial services.

Michael Battenally of the ACT Principal Association said “We are extremely pleased that UBS is hosting its 8th annual Finance Academy. The Finance Academy allows students to gain an insight into the world of investment banking, opening up unknown career opportunities, while forging new relationships with talented mentors and fellow peers.”

Over the five days participants will get a change to listen to and interact with key players from the industry as well as gain a practical and working knowledge of financial markets through workshops, ‘day in the life’ presentations, and field visits to a live trading floor and the CNBC Television studios.

Mathew Grounds, UBS Chief Executive Officer said, “We are delighted with the interest shown once again in our Finance Academy by students and their respective communities, our UBS employees, as well as from the industry.

“The last 24 months have been a turbulent period for financial markets and we feel that this is an excellent backdrop and learning experience for students to gain a better understanding into the rewards and challenges of working in financial services, and understanding how markets operate.”

“The UBS Finance Academy is in its 8th year of operation and it continues to be one of the major pillars of UBS’ community program in Australia. In holding the event we continue our commitment to developing the future talent in the Australia’s finance sector and believe that the 50 students gathered this year represent the most outstanding secondary students across the country. We hope that the program educates and enlightens the students as well as helping them to develop the necessary skills needed to be well-rounded individuals.” Mr Grounds concluded.

The 2010 Brigadoon Street parade was led by the Chieftain of the day Susan Cooke, High Commissioner for Clan Lindsay, in Australia, President of Clan Lindsay.
Susan lives in Canberra with her daughter Kathleen who is a journalism and international studies student at the University of Canberra.
The parade consisted of 23 Pipe bands and various Children’s floats accompanied by marching Clan societies and other performing groups.
The parade is watched by several thousand spectators as ir makes its way from the Village to the main oval where it performs the opening ceremony

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Places in workshops are limited

so avoid disappointment and enrol today!

Enrol now by contacting CYT on 6248 5057

[email protected] www.cytc.net

Kerfuffle!

Age: 7-9 years

Tutor: Catherine Roach           

What:

A fun workshop for little actors to take a storybook and transform it from the Page to the Stage!

Participants will develop their performance skills through playing drama games and exercises.They will focus on creating great Aussie characters and exploring the art of storytelling as they bring to life Muldoon & Rudd’s Jasper & Abbey and the Great Australia Day Kerfuffle*. 

This workshopwill conclude with a short performance for family & friends.

* published by Allen & Unwin

Where: C Block Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon

When: Mondays 4.30pm-6pm

Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership(sibling / friend discount available)

Make It Up!

Age: 7-9 years

Tutor: Catherine Jean-Krista

What:

Participants will play drama games and engage their imaginations by improvising characters and stories.  Favourite children’s characters and stories will be explored as participants develop their acting, voice and movement skills, using their personal favourites as inspiration forthe creation of their own fantastic characters and exciting tales.

This workshop will conclude with a short performance for family & friends.

Where: C Block Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon

When: Wednesdays 4.30pm-6.00pm

Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership (sibling/ friend discount available)

Follow Your Nose!

Age: 10-12 years

Tutor: K-M Gronow

What:

Participants will gain in-depth insight into character development, voice, movement and interactive performance as they explore the world of red-nose and contemporary clowning.  Using their red noses as their guides, participants will explore relationships between people, places and objects, and improvise their way to a group-devised original clowning performance. Laughs are guaranteed as exaggerated characters and wondrous discoveries collide in a world where anything is possible.

This workshopwill conclude with a short performance for family & friends.

Where: C-Block Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon

When: Tuesdays 4.30pm-6.30pm

Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership (sibling / friend discount available)

Mystery & Mayhem

Age: 10-12 years

Tutor: Hadley

What:

Meet the Poncenbys: the world’s most dysfunctional and unlikeable family. Trouble is brewing as they plot and plan for their long-awaited family reunion.  People are disappearing! Strange events are taking place! Alarming odours are permeating the floorboards! Participants will develop their performance skills as they create an original theatre performance filled with mystery, mayhem, and all round tomfoolery.

This workshopwill conclude with a short performance for family & friends.

Where: Bogong Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon

When: Wednesdays 4.30pm-6.30pm

Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership (sibling / friend discount available)

CYT Drama @ Belconnen Arts Centre

Canberra Youth Theatre is now conducting fun drama workshops at the Belconnen Arts Centre for ages 7-12.

Little Actors

Ages: 7-9 years

Tutor: Catherine Jean-Krista

This is a fun workshop for little actors who want to explore the magic of drama. Participants will actively engage their imaginations through playing drama games and exercises. Over fifteen weeks participants will learn about focus, given circumstances, space, time, voice, movement and improvisation as they create characters and explore the art of storytelling.

Please Note: There is no performance outcome for this workshop; the focus is on building skills and confidence.

Where: Belconnen Arts Centre, Belconnen

When: Thursdays 4.30pm-6.00pm

Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership (sibling / friend discount available)

Storm in a Teacup!

Ages: 10-12 years           

Tutor: Cathy Petocz

What:

Participants will develop their acting and stagecraft knowledge through drama games and exercises that focus on building fundamental theatrical skills. This fun workshop will include brainstorming and story creation as each week the participants join forces to devise an original performance that takes a quirky look at the world and our place in it.

This workshopwill conclude with a short performance for family & friends.

Where: Belconnen Arts Centre, Belconnen

When: Wednesdays 4.30pm-6.30pm

Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership (sibling / friend discount available)

Impro Militia!

Age: 13-16 years

Tutors: Cathy Hagarty

What:

Your country needs you! Join the Impro Militia – an improvised army of rag tag comic soldiers who are drawn together to save the environment! The Impro Militia will develop their acting skills and draw on a broad selection of dynamic improvisation exercises to devise an improvised show for public performance. Utilizing only found objects which are readily available, the Impro Militia will go on aperilous journey to solve the world’s environmental crisis and rescue the planet with the help of suggestions and objects from the audience!

This workshop will conclude with an evening public performance in C-Block on Tuesday 9^th November @7:30pm – all welcome!

Where: Bogong Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon

When: Tuesdays 4.30pm-6.30pm

Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership(sibling / friend discount available)

ShakespeareShowdown

Age: 13-16 years

Tutors: Jodhi Doyle

What:

Participants will explore Shakespeare’s characters and the language, relationships and interplay that make them memorable. Heroes and villains will face off in a showdown as the fools cause chaos from the sidelines. This workshop will break through the language barrier as the rhythm, purpose and longevity of Shakespeare’s language is analysed using First Folio texts. Participants will improve their acting skills through in-depth exploration of voice and character development.

This workshopwill conclude with a short performance for family & friends.

Where: Bogong Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon

When: Mondays 4.30pm-6.30pm

Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership (sibling / friend discount available)

 

Acting For Camera

Age: 14-25

Tutor: Andrea Close

What:

Lights! Camera! Action! Acting for the Camera requires a very special skill set, different to the needs of the stage actor.In this practical workshop, the participants will develop specific techniques for working in film and television – from hitting your mark to camera techniques and etiquette of the film set. Participants will also gain exposure to TV Presenting and will create a short show reel of scenes and presenting work.

This workshop will conclude with a gala screening of film / television scenes shot throughout the duration of the course.

Where: C-Block Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon

When: Thursdays 4:30 – 7:30pm (3 hour classes)**

Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership(sibling / friend discount available)

** Acting forCamera commences on Thurs 9^th September

Back StageMadness: (Lighting, Sound, Stage Management)

Age: 14-25

Tutor: CYT’s Production Manager

What:

Are you fascinated with Theatre but not so keen to bein the spotlight? Back Stage Madness is a practical workshop exploring what makes a production actually tick. Through an exploration of Lighting, Sound and Stage Management, participants will learn how to run a theatrical production, design, rig and focus lights, set-up and run sound equipment, create digitalsound scapes and stage management – creating the prompt book and calling the cues for a show.

Participants will learn these skills and apply them to the Major CYT Production – RETRIEVAL. You will become a member of theBackstage Team and run the show at the National Library of Australia in November

Where: C Block Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon

When: Saturdays 9am-11am **

& Sundays10am-5pm on 25 July, 22August, 19 September, 24 October

** Back StageMadness commences on Saturday 24 July  

Tech &Dress Rehearsals 11 – 14 November (5 – 9pm)
Performances 19-21 November, 26- 28 November & 3-5 December

Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership (sibling / friend discount available)

SPECIALPROJECT: Writers Unite!
Age: 14-25
Tutors: K-M Gronow & Karla Conway

SpecialGuest Tutors:Jane Bodie (Head of Playwriting, NIDA), Angela Betzien (Playwright – Hoods, Children of the Black Skirt) & Peter Matheson (Australia’sDramaturg)

What:

Write your own short play and then have it performed in 2011!

Embark on a long distance scriptwriting journey with the young writers from other youth theatres across the country. Young playwrights will write short plays based on a chosen theme and in 2011 the youth theatre companies will perform their own and each others work. If your play is chosen by another youth theatre you may have the chance to travel to see your play performed!
Here at CYT you will be guided through the process of writing a short play fromidea to final draft.  You will also have the opportunity to work with the Head of Playwriting at NIDA, Jane Bodie, for an intensive workshop on your play idea, with Peter Matheson on structure and form of your writing and finally, share an amazing weekend intensive with award winning playwright Angela Betzien on working with actors and working through the re-writes! An amazing opportunity to work with some of Australia’sbest!

This workshop will conclude with a script reading of completed works.
Where: CYT Resource Room, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon
When:Wednesdays 5pm – 7pm

Cost:$270 /participant plus CYT membership (sibling and friend discount available)

SPECIALPROJECT: The Quilt @ National Museum of Australia
Age: 16-25
Tutors: Peter Wilkins and Camilla Blunden

What:

In 1946, Ukrainian woman, Olga Basylewycz created a handmade quilt featuring Little Red Riding Hood, whilst living in a displaced persons camp in southern Germany postworld war II. This quilt, which can be interpreted as a vivid allegory of Nazism, became an innocent wall decoration at a Melbourne kindergarten, before being donated to the National Museum through the Museum’s migrant heritage program.

Participants will view this historical artefact and devise a Museum Theatre piece inspired by the detailed depictions of Red Riding Hood and the wolf as an allegory for Nazi Germany. The performance will be included as a part of the Museum Theatre Festival from 3 – 6 November.

This workshop will conclude with a performance at the National Museum of Australia.
  
Where: C-Block Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon
When: Mondays 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Cost:$270 /participant plus CYT membership (sibling and friend discount available)

 

PLEASE NOTE: If you have participated in a Semester 1 workshop, then the membership does not need to be paid again. If you have not participated in a Semester 1 workshop, membership is $20 / participant.

Places in workshops are limited

so avoid disappointment and enrol today!

Enrol now by contacting CYT on 6248 5057

[email protected] www.cytc.net

Madman Entertainment to release National Geogrphic content
By Rama Gaind

From August this year, Madman will add National Geographic content on DVD and Blu-Ray to its home entertainment release schedule.

Launch titles will include Journey to Shark Eden, Egyptian Secrets of the Afterlife, Churchill’s German Army and Britain’s Greatest Machines.

Madman Entertainment has spent the last few months dusting down and taking samples from the immense National Geographic catalogue, searching for the sort of content that has made National Geographic one of the most respected and prominent documentary producers in the world. What we uncovered was a chest of entertaining riches.

Now they have the pleasant task of taking these amazing stories and presenting them to the public through fresh eyes.

In the future, Madman will endeavour to produce the highest quality titles and most compelling subjects; exactly the kind of material you’ve come to expect from an institution like National Geographic.

The best in engaging, entertaining and inspiring programming will be available from leading retailers from 18 August 2010.

Variety in entertainment
By Rama Gaind
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang: Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson returns to the role of the magical nanny who appears when she’s needed the most to the needy Green family.
In the latest instalment, Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. Nanny McPhee discovers that Mrs. Green’s children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins.
Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and statues that come to life to  dancing piglets and a baby elephant who turns up in the oddest places, Nanny McPhee uses her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons.  
And in the process provides some heart-warming entertainment.
Emma Thompson, in the title role, is also joined by Ralph Fiennes, Maggie Smith, Rhys Ifans.
Director Susannah Wise has produced a energetic sequel.
Beneath Hill 60: Directed by Jeremy Sims knowledgeably recreates the backdrop for the extraordinary true story of Oliver Woodward, in 1916, deep beneath the German lines.
Woodward and his secret platoon of Australian tunnelers fight to defend a leaking, labyrinthine tunnel system packed with enough high explosives to change the course of the war
A fine salute to our diggers.
Date Night
The onscreen pairing of Steve Carell and Tina Fey offers enjoyable adult escapism.
This couple is pursued by gunmen in a case of mistaken identity.
Just watching them extricate themselves out of their predicament is lots of fun. 

Shortis & Simpson’s latest musical offering Tin Pan Aussie traces the story of Australian popular music before rock ‘n’ roll, from the waltzes, polkas and marches of the 19th century to the introduction ragtime and syncopation. The due brings this era to life with songs, witty dialogue, and archival footage.
Tin Pan Aussie is the story of sheet music, the piano in the home, the Hawaiian music craze and the ukulele, Australian hillbilly music and the guitar, the introduction of film, radio, the gramophone, songs of two world wars and the depression and much more
Its characters range from the well-known like Tex Morton, Slim Dusty, Jack O’Hagan, George Wallace, Roy Rene and Jack Davey, to the lesser known, but equally important.
It’s a story of just over half a century, during which there were major changes in technology, like gramophone, radio, microphone, and film, opening up the doors to enormous markets of consumers of music.
And it’s a story about an emerging nation, whose popular music industry reflected the events, the social changes, fashion and attitudes, that underscore the showbiz tale- a story of following overseas trends, of changing allegiances from Britain to USA.
Tin Pan Aussie is based on research carried out over many years by John Shortis, especially during his time as Harold White Fellow at the National Library. It has never been presented as a live show before.
With accomplished local musicians including Ian Blake, Peter J Casey, Jon Jones and Dave O’Neill, Tin Pan Aussie is sure to be a quality production.
WHAT: Tin Pan Aussie with Shortis & Simpson
WHERE: The Q Performing Arts Centre
WHEN: 29 April, 30 April and 1 May at 8pm
TICKETS: $29 – $39
BOOKINGS: 6298 0290 or www.theq.net.au

King Lear
Bell Shakespeare Co. Canberra Playhouse
Review by Shanna Provost
Bell Shakespeare’s Saturday night production of King Lear ably showed why this theatre company dedicated to only performing Shakespearean plays has endured for 20 years.
A crisp and sparse set; intelligent use of minimal props (fur coats are strategically positioned to set mood, tone and scene); clever use of lighting and sound and a stellar cast brings what is said to herald the pinnacle of Shakespeare’s career to life.
‘Elder Statesman’ John Bell AO, the founding father of the Bell Shakespeare, stamps a ring of authenticity on this production. He is engaging, and at 70, brings a wealth of experience and wisdom to arguably one of Shakespeare’s most challenging characters.
The audience sat mesmerised as Bell took his King Lear through his journey from caustic, arrogant ruler to bemused, bewildered and betrayed father with ease. Keeping the audience engaged and wanting to care about the unravelling of this pseudo-historical British king’s psyche is no small task, yet one that Bell pull offs seemingly without effort.
The supporting cast is strong, with Leah Purcell (Regan) and Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Goneril) providing rock-solid performances. Other standouts included Peter Caroll as The Fool and young bucks Tim Walter (Edmund) and Josh McConville (Edgar). Their very real performances provided the bridge for the Y Gens in the audience to ‘get’ Shakespeare’s always wordy and sometimes unwieldy iambic pentameter.
The Bard has written a brilliant plot that explores human frailty and our sense of humanity (Shakespeare does love to add a few untimely deaths to his plots).
Purposely written in pre-Christian times, the characters have nowhere to turn for answers but to themselves. It’s powerful, and the company’s minimalist set means that there are few distractions.
Percussion is the 16th character of the play-a clever use of sound brings the audience easily to the plot crescendos and rests. The only negative about Saturday night’s production was that at some points the percussion swamped the vocals, making it difficult to hear that beautiful text.
The 2010 production of King Lear by Bell Shakespeare Company is a gift to Australians on so many levels-a juicy journey for avid lovers of The Bard; a modern take on 16^th Century plays for those dipping their toe into Shakespeare, and an accessible interpretation for young audiences who want to be introduced to the world’s most prolific playwright.

King Lear plays at Canberra Playhouse until 1 May 2010. For details go to www.canberratheatrecentre.com.au or phone (02) 6275 2700 

Keep Equine Influenza out of Australia.

The "Thoroughbred Breeders Australia" want to introduce voluntary vaccination as they think this will allow them to keep operating races and move stock during an EI outbreak.
The "Australian Horse Industry Council" is against the proposed voluntary vaccination. And with very good reason.
Vaccinations will not stop the spread of the disease or allow horse movement during an outbreak once it’s detected.

The vaccination make it impossible to detect the disease in it’s early contagious stages and so it will be spread a lot further before actually being detected.

This is a situation that would put thousands of horses and owners at risk. Private horse ownership for pleasure riding is a massive industry. The impact of EI being introduced into Australia as a permanent disease would be incredible. Financially and personally for the hundreds of thousands of horse owners. Pony Clubs, Community Events, Local and Royal Shows, Petting Farms, Riding School … the list goes on! All these, and the support net around them, would be effected if this disease is allowed to enter Australia.
Please follow the links below to learn more and voice your concerns:
http://www.eques.com.au/petition.htm
http://www.horseyard.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=164437&Itemid=145