Bring-a-grownup Day!

This week we invited parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, to come along and join in class with us all.  The grown-ups learned first hand how our programme develops communication skills and improves self-confidence!

Mommies dressed for fun!

The class is doubled in size when we have a "Bring-a-grownup" Day!

 

All getting in to the swing of things.



Friday studio having a great time with the grown-ups

Wednesday studio and a scene with Mom

Friday Upper Primary parents fully involved!

The rest of the pictures are up on Picasaweb
https://picasaweb.google.com/sonja.krohn50/HelenOGradyBringAGrownupDay2011?feat=directlink

Hope you all enjoyed the week!

First Dress-up 2011

 We LOVE dress-up days!  Here some of the classes dressed as Gypsy's for a movement to music piece.  Look at the amazing costumes made up of stuff we already have at home...no costs involved!

These girsl are picking and collecting fruit and berries.

Doing the laundry and hanging it up.

In case you were wondering...they are milking cows!!  :)

Fantastic costumes!

Year-end plays...2010 - a Great Year!

This year our choice of year-end plays was wonderfully diverse! A fabulous local play about how the lion got his roar; some tourists had some horrifying travel experiences; a starship thwarted a mutiny attempt; a long-time park worker retired, but not before his friends played a prank on him; and the Vampire world was in trouble!

Some pictures: -

Lebone in their fantastic animal t-shirts - How the Lion got its Roar

Space Shenanigans - Tuesday studio

"Make it so, Number One!"

Vampire Drudgeries

More of the cast of Vampire Drudgeries

Jetlag Tours

Friday Studio - Space Shennanigans

Monday Studio - How the Lion got its Roar

A Slice of LIfe

Where did 2010 go? 2011 is already up and running!

Classes have started up!  New enrolments coming in, and old friends back to enjoy classes!
Studios as follows:

MONDAY – Brebner Primary (for Brebner Primary school goers only)

1:30pm Lower Primary

MONDAY - Heuwelkruin NG Kerk. Lucas Steyn St. Heuwelsig
3:30pm Lower Primary
4:30pm Upper Primary

TUESDAY - Universitas-Wes NG Kerk. De Bruin St. Universitas-Wes
3:30pm Combined class(Upper and Lower combined)
5:00pm Youth Theatre

WEDNESDAY - Fichardtkruin NG Kerk. McCabe St. Fichardpark
2:30pm Combined class (Upper and Lower combined)

THURSDAY
Brebner Primary
1:45 – 2:45 (For Brebner schoolgoers only)
Lebone Land 3:00 to 4:00pm (For Lebone Village children only)
FRIDAY - Kuierhoekie, Cnr Kelner/ Melville St. Brandwag
2:30pm Lower Primary
3:30pm Upper Primary
4:30pm Youth Theatre

Next post:  --Year end plays 2010!

Visit to New York Drama Kids

I was privileged to have been able to visit a class run by Drama Kids International, during a recent trip to New York. I had a great time with this class of 5 year olds!  Jonathan, their teacher, was enthusiastic and made me feel most welcome.  I told the class the story of how the lion got his roar, took a vuvuzela along, and they enjoyed learning to shout "Ayoba!"

Helen O'Grady Youth Theater Teens support the fight agains Breast Cancer!

This past Saturday saw almost 2000 people out on the streets of Bloemfontein for the annual Cancer Association Breast Cancer Awareness Walk.  Our Teenagers, both boys and girls, feel strongly about this cause, and we were out en force to show our support!

What can I say!  Fun was had by all!  :)

Lebone Village - Bringing Light!

Last night Reg and I attended a beautiful candle-light dinner at Lebone Land (Now called Lebone Village!) to celebrate their 10th birthday, and the launch of their new logo and 'look'.  It was also an opportunity for the children and staff to express their thanks to all the sponsors and people who have given their time and money to the care, nurturing, and education of these children affected by HIV/AIDS.

My Lebone drama group performed "How the Lion got its Roar" to the great delight of the dinner guests, especially when, in the song 'The Lion is a Frightful Beast', while snaking around between the beautifully decorated tables, the cast suddenly leaned over and screamed in guests ears!

I was too occupied to take any photos, but there was a photographer there, and I shall get hold of some photos for the blog.  Watch this space!

Lebone Village have a new-look website now, and I have edited the URL in my links, so do go and visit it.

Term three is over...now the play's the thing!

A busy term ahead! Not many weeks left before our plays are performed.  But in the meantime, here are a few fun pics from Term three.

This is dedication to drama!  Running a fever but won't miss class!!  :)









What SOME will do for Whacky Week!!!  

Keke got herslef all tied up! :)

(Oh, and all of them are viewable at picasaweb...follow the link below.)


http://picasaweb.google.com/sonja.krohn50/HOGTerm32010#

Year-end plays - what a choice this year!!!

Vampires (all the rage at the moment, didn't you know?), Crazy tourists, Star ships, and an African tale, make up some of our choices for plays to do at the end of this year! What a blast we are having!
Of course as a Sci-fi freak of yore, and Trekker of note, I have forced several of my classes to choose the Sci-fi option for their production (not that they took TOO much forcing!). Although our play takes place in a galaxy far, far away, I have naturally borrowed heavily from Star Trek...and since our younglings these days are more familiar with Star WARS than the Trek saga, I have even managed to put a few Jedi mind-tricks into the mix!



Live Long and Prosper.
And may the force be with you.

Term THREEEEEEEEeeeeeeee!

I've been a baaaad blogger lately, but am catching up with all things 'cyber' and here's first entry for the term - although we are pretty much half way through it already!  My bad!

We have just been having so much fun...I get so caught up in it all I forget to actually take some photos...and at the end of the class when we are all smiling and saying goodbye, it hits me that I didn't get ANY shots of the fantastic activities, costumes, or shapes we were so involved with! *sigh*

Anyway....here are a few where I DID remember to pick up the camera!

Here we were making weird aliens!

For the life of me....I can't remember WHAT we were doing here! :)

Oh..I remember THIS one...Da Vinci painting the Mona Liza 

One of our dress-ups was 'Going Skiing'!

We have started working out our Year-end plays...more on that next time.

World Cup Soccer is over.....NOW what???

Well its back to drama class, is what!
Classes start up again this week! So check the schedule below.

ALSO we'll hopefully be starting up some Kindy Drama classes in Bloemfontein!  So the 3 - 5 year olds can join in the fun!  Will keep you all posted.

Our Studios


MONDAY – Brebner Primary (for Brebner Primary school goers only)
1:30pm Lower Primary

MONDAY - Heuwelkruin NG Kerk. Lucas Steyn St. Heuwelsig
3:30pm Lower Primary
4:30pm Upper Primary

TUESDAY - Universitas-Wes NG Kerk. De Bruin St. Universitas-Wes
3:30pm Combined class(Upper and Lower combined)
5:00pm Youth Theatre

WEDNESDAY - Fichardtkruin NG Kerk. McCabe St. Fichardpark
2:30pm Combined class (Upper and Lower combined)

THURSDAY - Brebner Primary (for Brebner Primary school goers only)
1:45 – 2:45 - Upper Primary

FRIDAY - Kuierhoekie, Cnr Kelner/ Melville St. Brandwag
2:30pm Lower Primary
3:30pm Upper Primary
4:30pm Youth Theatre



See you all again soon!

Bloemfontein's Holiday Theater Club.

Our first Holiday Theater Club was an exciting and successful venture! Of course there was little choice but to go with a Soccer World Cup Theme! We limited the vuvuzela's to ONE, though - Our Course Director Hayley gave us a blast of her vuvu to denote beginning and ends of sessions, and for a little 'fun' during sessions! Thanks Hayley, I think your diaphragm and cheek muscles had a pretty good workout!

A well-known local dance teacher, Corne du Plessis, came on board to teach dance and movement skills. Within a week she had all the kids moving freely, dancing with flags and coke-cans, and doing the Disci Dance! Thanks Corne!

Elize Swart, music teacher at a local school, came and taught everyone about percussion and beats! Everyone had so much fun discovering how many different ways one can make percussion sounds.  The teenagers, under her guidance, wrote themselves an amazing rap song, while the Lower and Upper Primary made a percussion band out of their own bodies!

Lower Primary did a play about a soccer ball factory, and the Upper Primary were buying flags, vuvuzela's, and hot dogs outside the stadium, when rivalry between vendors got a bit tense!

ALL the photos are up on Picasaweb, just follow the link. You are welcome to copy them for yourselves, and if you have any problems with that, just let me know!
http://picasaweb.google.com/117840131257277649424/HolidayTheaterClub2010#

We had so much fun, we WILL be doing another Theater Club again!  Watch this space!