{"id":1009,"date":"2024-08-11T16:13:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T16:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.courtenaylittletheatre.com\/?page_id=1009"},"modified":"2024-08-11T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T16:14:48","slug":"newsletter-august-edition-north-island-zone-festival","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.courtenaylittletheatre.com\/index.php\/newsletter-august-edition-north-island-zone-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter – August Edition – 2024 – North Island Zone Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Held at The Portal Players Theatre in Port Alberni, BC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 20-24, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article Written by Kirstin Humpherys – AUTF \u2013 Co-producer-NIZ contact<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a bit of info on how all this works.\u00a0 THEATRE BC is the mother organization that facilitates 7 Zones that cover the whole of BC.\u00a0 Each Zone is provided with a professional adjudicator that ultimately announces the Best Production Award to the Club that will represent their Zone in the Provincial Festival called Mainstage.\u00a0 Yes it is a competition, but more importantly, it is an opportunity to learn, connect with fellow thespians, share ideas and see some great theatre.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each Zone has a number of Community Clubs that actively provide theatre in their Zone.\u00a0 Every year each Club decides if they will be entering their Zone Festival.\u00a0 In order to hold a Zone Festival there must be at least 3 entries and a willing host Club.\u00a0 This year 6 Zones will be entering Theatre BC\u2019s Mainstage.\u00a0 This is very exciting as it indicates that Community Theatre is alive and well in the whole Province.\u00a0 So how does a Zone Club get to participate in TBC\u2019s Mainstage Festival?\u00a0 Read on….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So our NIZ had 5 Clubs entering the Zone Festival including the Host Club of Portal Players in Port Alberni.\u00a0 All Zone Festivals are adjudicated by a professional.\u00a0 A Zone Festival performs one night in the Festival and has a feedback session the next morning called a Coffee Critique.\u00a0 This is the heart of the experience as the adjudicator\u2019s job is to encourage and recognize what went well in the show and give some suggestions on how to make it better.\u00a0 Each adjudicator has their own style and in my experience of many years of Zone Festivals I have always come away with nuggets of wisdom for all included in a production, including being in an audience.\u00a0 At the end of the Festival Awards are given out at a Celebration Luncheon.\u00a0 And then the curtain is drawn and we leave wanting more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year in Port Alberni we where hosted by Portal Players and it was expertly done.\u00a0 Having been involved in hosting a Festival I know how much work it takes and how many volunteers it takes to hold together a revolving door of one night plays, their technical help, their lunches and their adjudications.\u00a0 Kudos to Portal Players. They made it seem easy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a Club it means packing up, driving the set, costumes, etc to the venue. Unpacking, setting up the set, set dressing, setting lights and sound cues (always on a different instrument than we use at the Sid), running a cue to cue and getting out of the theatre in 6 hours for a one hour dinner break.\u00a0 Then packing up after the show and being out by a designated time. \u00a0 This is Theatre Performing in Road Houses….I have gained a lot of respect for those Companies on the road.\u00a0 So much learning to be had!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And speaking of learning…..our Adjudicator this year was Robinson Wilson, (proudly I say, one of our own).\u00a0 I pause here: as I want to list all the wonderful things he has accomplished over the last 24 years, but will ask you to google him.\u00a0 What I will say as an adjudicator he is incredibly at ease, knowledgeable, respectful, funny, and a good teacher.\u00a0 Thank you Robinson.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0And now kudos to the cast a crew of CLT\u2019s entry in the festival of And Up They Flew\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                                      by Martha Ross, directed by Annie Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We were honored with two Certificates of Excellence for:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   –Specialty Prop Design for Marianne Harris\u2019 Dream Machine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   –Graphics Design – Janet Walker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  – Donna Lamb Award Recipient- Shari Jakubiec from Courtenay Little Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of our own!<\/strong>\u00a0 The 2025 NIZ Festival <\/strong>will be Hosted By Echo Players in Qualicum<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They will be celebrating their 50th<\/sup> Anniversary! \u00a0CLT will host in 2027<\/strong>.\u00a0 My how time flys!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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