| Hunt for talented MC to host awards underway | |||
The search for a dynamic young presenter who will emcee the 7th ACT | DALRO |
Nedbank Scholarships finale is underway.
The countrywide series of auditions will kick off in June. This will be done alongside
the search for the top six young performers who will be eligible to win one of three
scholarships, with a combined value of R315 000, to go towards their tuition fees
for a performing arts qualification at any accredited South African tertiary institution.
The seventh edition of Magic in the Making awards – set to take place at the
Market Theatre in Johannesburg’s Newtown Precinct on 12 October 2015 –
will have a showcase by the six finalists to a live audience and an independent
panel of judges. The production’s variety show format will not only allow the participants
to deliver enchanting pieces in dance, singing and acting but also have the
charismatic presenter bring all the acts together into a seamless performance for
the audience and judges to enjoy.
MC search auditions will take place on the same dates as the auditions for the
Scholarships themselves. There is no registration fee, and participants can register
online at:
Closing date for the MC registrations is 19 June 2015 and all
registered individuals will be
supplied with audition material and necessary details.
Auditions will take place in the following regions:
The deadline for registrations for the Performing Arts Scholarships Programme
have been extended to this Friday, 5 June 2015.
Click here for more information on previous winners, finalists, guidelines and
registration;
email scholarships@act.org.za or contact the ACT office on 011 712 8403.
ACT acknowledges support from the following organisations as regional
partners: University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Port Elizabeth Opera House (PEOH),
The Market Theatre Foundation, Mayibuye Arts Centre, University of the Free State’s Scaena Theatre,
Witbank Civic Theatre, Artéma Instituut vir Kunstebestuur en Ontwikkeling,
Limpopo Youth Orchestra and Tshwane University of Technology (TUT).
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Friday, June 5, 2015
Opportunity for a Young MC
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
News from AFDA, Auditions for MC's, Theatre News and News for Writer's
News from AFDA
AFDA (The South African school of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance) is hosts an Experimental Film,TV and Music Festival around the country
AFDA (The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance) will host Experimental Film, TV and Music Festivals at their three campuses throughout South Africa over the June long weekend: Durban on Friday, June 14 and Johannesburg and Cape Town on Friday and Saturday, June 14 and 15.
The festival is an annual event that focuses on the third year students Experimental Module that they do in the first semester of the year. With Durban campus being so young, it will be screening their current first years’ short films made this semester and include the top third year experimental short films from the Johannesburg and Cape Town campuses. A selection of the best theatre and musical pieces from their current students will also be performed.
‘This mini festival concept is great for students as they get an opportunity to gauge audience reaction to their work.” says Garth Holmes, Chairman of AFDA. “From here they are able to refine their work further as they head for the final six months of their degrees.”
In Durban there will be food and beverages on sale and music in the outdoor entertainment area. Once off entry is R20 per person, which allows one to attend any of the screenings and theatre productions in the programme. Tickets for Johannesburg are R15 per movie and in R10 in Cape Town.
For further details on the Durban programme email dbncampus@afda.co.zaor call 079 833 1682. For Cape Towncontactrushaan@afda.co.za or call 021- 448 7600 and Johannesburg contact kirsten@afda.co.za or call 011 482 8345.
(Source - AFDA)
Want to be an MC?
Auditions for Aspiring MCs
Aspiring presenters are invited to audition to MC the Finals of the ACT | DALRO | Nedbank 2013 Scholarship Awards.
After a series of countrywide auditions due to take place in July, the fifth annual ACT | DALRO | Nedbank Performing Arts Scholarships will culminate in a final performance, hosted by UJ Arts & Culture at the University of Johannesburg, on 30 September 2013. Six finalists will have the opportunity to showcase their acting, dancing and singing abilities to a live audience and an independent panel of judges as they compete to win one of three performing arts scholarships, with a combined value of R315 000. Performed in the format of a variety show, the showcase of their talents needs to be brought together by a charismatic presenter into a seamless performance for the audience and judges to enjoy.
“MCing the Performing Arts Scholarship Awards was the best thing that has happened to me!” says Bongani Nomcweya, host of the 2013 Scholarship Awards Finals. He went on to say “MCing the competition opened another door in the Nedbank house – as a result, I also MCed the Nedbank Community Builder's Awards Ceremony and it was also a great success - I was told I did an ‘Outstanding Job’!” His advice to those auditioning: “They must remember to be their best and to 'ar-ticu-late' - one of the things I kept on forgetting to do - and to the one who is going to get it, they must work to keeping the audience’s stomachs painful throughout, but most of all they should have FUN!”
Auditions for the person to fulfill this role of ‘dynamic host’ will take place around the country on the same dates as the auditions for the Scholarships themselves. There is no registration fee, and interested candidates can apply in writing, to Rahiem at rahiem@act.org.za.
Auditions will take place:
22 June: Durban, Hosted by the Stable Theatre
24 and 25 June: Cape Town, hosted by the Theatre Arts Admin Collective
27 June: Port Elizabeth, hosted by the PE Opera House
8 and 9 July: Johannesburg, hosted by UJ Arts & Culture
13 July: Bloemfontein, hosted by the Mangaung Drama and Dance Group
For more information or to register for participation in the scholarships programme, please visit www.act.org.za
(Source - Pansa)
Theatre News
On 6 June, for one night only, Clover Aardklop National Arts Festival and the Catalina Theatre brings you the award winning production, Sunday Morning. A delightful play performed by James Cunningham and written by Nick Warren. Tickets for Sunday Morning are available from Computicket at R80 a ticket. To book visit http://online.
(Source - Pansa)
Can You Feel It?
The 2013 Young Performers project staged by PANSA in Durban between 29 June and 14 July is written and directed by Peter Court and Charon Williams-Ros.
The Performing Arts Network of South Africa KZN (PANSA) is pleased to announce that the 13th annual Rainbow Young Performers Project for 2013 is going to be the original production, Can You Feel It?, written and directed by Peter Court and Charon Williams-Ros, which will be at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre from 29 June until 14 July.
Bookings through Computicket.
(Source - Pansa )
News For Writers
WGSA Knowledge Sharing Session Tonight for all Writers.
Venue: Ike's Bookshop, 48a Florida Road, Durban
Time: 6pm
Entrance is free but all bookings must be done through admin@writersguildsa.org. Limited space available– so BOOK YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!
(Source - WGSA)
Monday, October 15, 2012
Give your audience a serious wedgie by @DouglasKruger
This week professional speaker, author and trainer Douglas Kruger writes for us.
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| Douglas Kruger |
GIVE YOUR AUDIENCE A SERIOUS WEDGIE!
Douglas Kruger
Scores of corporate presentations today still suffer from the scourge of the dreaded Document-Speak. Document-Speak is a sort of social virus. One person does it in public and the whole company catches it.
Diagnosing Document-Speak:
It happens when an otherwise friendly, warm-blooded human being ceases to sound human and starts sounding like a legal brief. They stand up before an audience and their sentences become longer. They hide behind formality and distance. They go to great pains to appear as emotionally deceased as language can help them to achieve. For a coup de grace, they generally back it all up with a mind-numbing litany of PowerPoint slides. The end result is predictable: mass air-gulping among the audience. When the speaker leaves the room, their points become mist rather than memories.
There is a better way:
Experienced speakers know that public speaking is a thrillingly powerful medium. The human mind sits up and takes notice when another human speaks with passion and conviction. We’re wired that way. But passion and conviction are choices, and their design is largely informed by language.
What sort of language?
Good speakers don’t do Document-Speak. They practice the alternative: High-Impact speak. High-Impact speak is emotive, creative and vivid. It gets you noticed and it keeps your messages front of mind, long after you’ve left.
Looking for a little electricity in your own presentations? Use the following six devices to add sizzle to your sentences:
1. Start by sounding human
When you chat with your friends, would you use a sentence like, “It is has come to my notice, in terms of our internal policies, that wasteful expenditure is causing a detrimental effect upon our bottom-line profits”? Doubtful. A human being would say, “We’re wasting too much and it’s hurting us.”
Remember that you are the thought-leadership in the room. When your audience perceives that you have slipped into ‘formal speech delivery’ mode, they will subconsciously switch off. It’s as if you have given them the cue: ‘Here comes the speechy stuff; you may all go to sleep. I’ll wake you when I’m really communicating again.’ A conversational tone keeps them engaged.
2. Craft interesting titles
Yes, you can deliver an address titled ‘A Critical Look at the History and Production of Fireworks.’ But how much more engaging to have the MC say, ‘Help me to welcome Joe, with his speech titled ‘Bang! – Making the Fire Work!’
One of my keynote speeches is about the topic of personal initiative. I call it ‘The Rules of Hamster Thinking.’ Your title is an opportunity to create interest before you even stand to speak. Take the time to develop a hook.
3. Metaphors help you to sum up complex ideas quickly
Certainly, you can show a busy graph depicting the in’s and out’s of any idea. Or you could simply use a metaphor that captures the essence of the idea, and say, “It’s like…”
On the runaway success television show, Top Gear, British presenter Richard Hammond once described a Porsche’s rear-mounted engine as being, “A bit like building a pyramid with the pointy bit at the bottom.”
Metaphors sum up complex ideas quickly. Most of the detail in corporate presentations is superfluous, because there is a world of difference between mere information and actual message. Information requires graphs. Message can be done with metaphors.
Professional speakers and trained Toastmasters rarely use fussy PowerPoint graphs. They know that having information is only half of a speaker’s job. Communicating that information in impactful and memorable ways is the full obligation.
4. Repeat catch-phrases often and your point will be remembered
Simple. Memorable. Easy to repeat.
Advertisers know the value of a good catch-phrase, and top speakers understand it too. Remember the old war-time phrase ‘Loose lips sink ships’? That’s the kind of easy-to-repeat mnemonic slogan you should develop and use often in your presentations.
5. Alliteration adds impact
In one of my contest speeches, I spoke about the glib nature of self-help quick fixes. I packaged it in the following sentence: “The treadmill of self-improvement churns out Kellogg’s Rice Competitors, Kentucky Fried Performers, Supersized McMen and Women; egos bigger than buildings.” Alliteration adds musicality to your sentences. Its rapid-fire nature also helps you to create the impression of being ‘on a roll’ when you speak, which adds to the perception of passion.
6. Visual devices bring dry information to life
Don’t just give information. Create mental pictures. The human mind becomes more engaged when points are delivered in story form, with character, setting, emotion and the description of action. We do not ‘feel’ a PowerPoint graph the way that we feel a story.
Use language that creates the perception that you are ‘re-living’ the story as you tell it, and you will pin souls to seats and set fire to minds. Best of all, you will be remembered.
The next time you pen a presentation, challenge yourself to raise the bar on your use of language. Remember that Document-Speak kills speeches. High-Impact language gives your script mouth-to-mouth. The human mind sits up and takes notice when a person speaks with passion and conviction. Take the time and trouble to design language that captures the imagination – give them a linguistic wedgie! – and your audiences will thank you for it.
Douglas Kruger is a 5 x winner of the SA Championships for Public Speaking and author of '50 Ways to Become a Better Speaker.' Read about his topics or see him in action at www.douglaskruger.co.za. Connect with him on Linked In or Twitter: @douglaskruger. Email:kruger@compute.co.za
Monday, July 9, 2012
Great Special for Speakers & Voice Over Artists #southafrica
Just heard of this fantastic special for Speakers and Voice Over Artists.
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•Podcasting
•Corporate presentations
•Voice prompts
•Send as an email attachment
•Audio book narrations
•Adding voice overs to your website
•Upload to Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc
•Podcasting
•Corporate presentations
•Voice prompts
•Send as an email attachment
•Audio book narrations
•Adding voice overs to your website
•Upload to Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc
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