Music Festival - International Day for People with Disabilities

Photography by Gary Radler

'The Holy Snail' photography by Gary Radler

Music Festival

Thursday the 3rd of December is International Day of People with Disability Day, and this year we'll be celebrating it at Macleay Park at a huge outdoor music festival. The day will feature heaps of music, films and activities in a great outdoor setting.

It will also be your first chance to catch the musical stylings of Sector 5 Extreme, the new band formed by the students of Interact's Interart & Bright Futures programs. The band have been producing some amazing sounds whilst in rehearsal at the Abbotsford Convent and are itching to take it to the masses.

More details click here. Entry is free. Come on down!

Convent Open Day

Friday

Toby and I started the day with a cup of tea with James at the Bakery. We headed to Rosina Theatre for Drama. The class began with quick run around room, stretches and vocal exercises. We rehearsed our performance, it was evident we had improved dramatically with remembering our lines. We also remembered the importance of staying in character while on stage.We can't wait to perform at the Convent Open Day!

by Greer Guest Marinis

You Are Invited!

You Are Invited!

Rainbow Butterfly

Greer rehearsing her lines and showing her strength on the stage.

Toby- always looking for that prefect photo opportunity.

Happy Birthday Michelle

We only had a small group in Music today, as our futures friends are enjoying a 2 week holiday. We mucked around for awhile, we then got serious and recorded sounds for our up and coming music performance. Toby and Michelle were busy writing lyrics for a new song, but they are keeping the theme under raps, however they do report the song to be humorous and fun.
At lunch we celebrated Michelle's Birthday with a fancy blueberry cake.
Happy Birthday Michelle!

Written by Toby and Michelle

Friday Is Our Lucky Day

During drama today we did our vocal warm up, volume projection exercises and our leg stretches. We then ran through the play to time the length. We were aiming for less than 1 hour, it ran for a total of 47 minutes! I guess Friday is our lucky day. We are looking forward to practicing with full costume, music, sets, props and media. Time to start counting down the weeks of rehearsal left.

Written By: Greer Guest Mannis, Toby Crook and Chiara Vanek

It's Time To Get Serious

Today James, Chiara, Toby and Greer worked on the "Holy Snail". We had a meeting and focused on making cuts and changes to the script. During the meeting we told funny jokes, sang songs and of coarse practiced our lines. After a busy morning we chatted over lunch and headed back to the studio to work on our blog.

Greer, Toby and Chiara

First Day Back.

Today was our first day back in drama, We enjoyed rehearsal , although it was tiring. It was great to talk with each other and reflect on whats working and what needs to be improved upon. After class it was great to chat with friends over a cup of tea. It's great to be back!!!

Greer Guest-Mannis

Sweet Banana Basketball!

Today we went for a walk to the Collingwood Children's Farm to film ideas for our new movie.

It was Sunny and Perfect - a gorgeous day!

Ryan, Renato and Toby were camera men for today, filming cool stuff.

Whilst the some of us decided to play 'kick to kick' with the football, the rest of us took photos of all the action and caught up on each others week.

Above is a photo of Ryan and Liam shooting for the new film.

After filming Liam interviewed each of us about the 'Big Red Bus' performance to add to the 'features' section of the DVD release.

"After all of the hard work, we came back and went for lunch (said in a French accent -Toby)"

By: Chiara, Michelle, and Toby

Rested up and ready to go!

Today was the first day of Term 3:

Coming back from two weeks holidays I thought "its going to be good to see everybody after the holidays - it's good to catch up" -Toby

"I was happy to come back because I miss my friends and the staff" - Chiara

"I was looking forward to seeing everyone, all the staff. I missed Art and missed working on Music" -Michelle

This Term:

"I'm excited that the play is almost here"-Toby

"I love my drama. Playing Whoopi is going to be amazing!" - Chiara

"I'm looking forward to being in the next play. I'm going to invite my Mum and Dad"-Michelle

Today:

"Today we had Michael and watched highlights of me. I was in the movie that we made (about the disability act) on the weekends"

"I liked watching it"-Chiara

" How do you reckon my performance was out of ten?" - Toby

" I'll go for twenty!" -Chiara,

" Nine out of Ten" - Michelle

After watching the short film:

"Renato was on the keyboard. Michael wanted him to record some sound over stuff for the short film he is making"-Toby

"People were talking about Trust and Funding in the short film" - Chiara

"We went to Lentil's and I had a nice hot chocolate" -Michelle

By: Toby, Michelle, and Chiara

The Holly Snail Creeps Closer

Today in drama, we had fun and are looking forward to performing our play on the Rosina theatre stage. Today we shared our ideas and enjoyed writing and rehearsing the play, although we were busy we managed to squeeze in a quick conga line massage. By the time the class was over, we were all ready for some timeout and a hot cup of tea or coffee.