So this week we have literally been putting the final touches to part one of The Readerthon Don and I have to say it's looking good! All the young people know their lines and the staging is looking impressive too!

Unfortunately that's all I can really reveal this week! I know I know Im such a spoil sport I just can't help it... Your just gonna have to wait and see...

Just a matter of counting down the days now! 5 days left.... Bring it on!

Hannah

We were busy busy busy this week.  When everyone came in we started rehearsals straight away, everyone settled in well into their groups and started recapping the still images we had made. After recapping the images we added lines to the mini scneces.  We then rehearsed this for the rest of the session and showed back our work to everyone.  All the groups had done really well.  A big well done to everyone. 

One more session before the performance on Saturday.  

See you all soon. 

Angie :)

So what happened at last weeks IAMs Oracle? Well, the young people begun the session playing an epic game of WAH to warm up and then the real fun began!  Only TWO WEEKS left until the first viewing of the readerthon don... The final script was in and the young people, with the parts they were given last week, began a read through of the show. It was great to hear the piece come to life!! Towards the end we began to block the first scene `The announcement`... but more on that later! (Its a secret)

It's going to be great, so to those at IAMs Oracle: keep up the good work!

Ta Ra for now!!

Hannah

We have now properly started rehearsals for the Readathon Don.  The show is only a few weeks away and we need to put our all into everything.  We practiced the song this week learning the verses and trying to make the song sound the best it could.  We sang the song with power and added a few clicks for the entrance.  

Hope everyone knows the song for our next session.  

See you soon.

Angie :)

They were then split up in to three groups to work on the first three scenes... now I know you would like me to reveal what happens but, for now, Im keeping it all hush hush. All I can say is it promises to be an exciting and magical piece of work :)

The script is done. The parts allocated. Three weeks till the first showing of 'The Readerthon Don'...

Till next time,

Hannah

Had a very fun session this week. Everyone came back from half term and ready to perform with high spirits.  The first thing we done was go through the steps of the tap dance.  Then...*drum roll* the girls were given their parts for one scene of the play.  Everyone was then split into their groups which represented the different parts of the scene and they created 3-4 still images.  These were then presented back to everyone.  Which I really enjoyed watching and could see that the girls enjoyed making their scenes.  They felt their ideas were being used to create the still images. Can't wait for next week when we'll get to polish the scenes. 

See y'all then 

Angie

Then, split in to three groups, the young people began to develop the scenes. One group had ‘The Announcement’ and another had ‘Making It Up’, the last had ‘Are You Telling Me?’ It was great to see all the young people working together to develop the material and all the scenes were very interesting. Having been at EGA Oracle on the Thursday, working on the ‘Readerthon Don’ song it was really great to see how all the different scenes would fit together.

Looking forward to our first showing at the end of March… not long to go now!!!

Hannah

We were joined by the lovely Hannah this week who taught us the beginning of the Readathon Don song.  Everyone showcased their singing techniques really well and worked hard to fit it together with the tap dance we learnt last week. We had also brought in a few instruments and as we danced and sang the song a few girls played the instruments.  In all it was a great session. 

See you all soon. 

We then sang ‘Ibrahim’s song’ (this is how it is known as it is a pretty tricky song to give a title to… though I’m sure there is one) and had a big game of zip, zap, zoom.

Then, it was time to begin our piece. The Readerthon Don has now, officially, begun!! We worked on the opening scene, and, as I don’t want to reveal too much all I will say is it contains many different languages, voice and best of all great acting.

The young people all seem very excited about it, fingers crossed it will be spectacular!

TTFN,

Hannah

This week we were exploring sound. As always whilst everyone came into the room some of the girls were writing on the time line recapping all that we had done last week. We were starting to explore the new play,  The Readathon Don.  Sticking to the theme of sound we played some warm up games where we counted from one to seven and then the numbers were replaced with an action and sound.

Following on from this Tina taught us a little tap dance which would be used in the Readathon Don. We then split into three groups and came up with five different powers that the Readathon Don would have, some included, flying,  being cool,  morphing,  eating poison.  All of these traits were very interesting. These powers were then given a clear action to represent them. Ola then went through with everyone the song for the Readathon Don,  and all three aspects were combined. 

The girls practiced the tap dance that Tina had taught, whilst singing the Readathon Don song and included their powers for the Readathon Don.  

Can't wait to do some more exploring on the Readathon Don.  See y'all next week.

Angie :)