ExpressionWorks Update

Dear Expression Works Families & Leaders,

We trust everyone had a good week off and is ready for the Music Creation Lab. This is perfect as the week before we went on break we enjoyed our very first Music Creation Lab. The group learned about beats, rhythm and creating music with sounds, actions and symbols. It was very interesting for every member of the group created an action and a corresponding sound with parts of their body as well as a symbol to represent the beat. The group was divided into three smaller groups and created their own song arranging the different symbols, actions and sounds in order as per their choice. At the end of the class each group performed their songs in front of their friends. The other groups that were not performing learned to create a rhythm and used that to help the groups perform to it. Once everyone had performed their musical pieces, the group came together and for the last time played all the sounds and actions using the symbols to create one big piece of music.

It seemed like everyone enjoyed creating music in Acapella style. Hope the enjoyment continues this week too.

Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow

Motionball Marathon of Sport Event

The Motionball Marathon of Sport event will be held at The Hangar at Downsview.

They apparently have 84 teams of 10 competing in this day long sporting event where each team competes in 7 different sport stations throughout the day and each time is required to raise a minimum of $3k.

The beauty of the event is that they add 1 Special Olympic athlete per team.

The band Superfire are playing at 4 pm during their closing ceremonies for 15 minutes. They have invited all those who competed during this years Motionball Idol to come up on stage to perform the last few songs with them! This means we will have up to 6 DramaWay Performers potentially performing that day along with Jessica Rotolo who will be joining as well as the Winner of the Motionball Idol.

It is not a ticketed event, but you are welcome to swing by and check it out as the event has a great atmosphere with fun activations eveywhere; Djs spinning music and over 100 Special Olympic athletes in attendance. If you need further information it’s best you contact Paul Etherington at the number below as it’s not a DramaWay event, but we love to share info about wonderful events such as this.

Paul Etherington, M.S.M.
p – (416) 481-5630 x231

You are invited to The National Ballet of Canada’s YOU dance Performance on April 21st.

This is to advise you all that we have once again been invited to attend The National Ballet of Canada’s YOU dance performance on Saturday, April 21^st for individuals with autism and special needs, and their families.

We were delighted to be asked to attend once National Ballet YOU dance Performance Invitation – April 21, 2018again as we very much enjoyed the Fall performance!

 We have been allotted up to 15 Tickets, so we will need to hear from those interested ASAP before April 7th ideally. Please note we are encouraging those who DID NOT attend the Fall Performance to attend, as it is the same performance repertoire from the Fall. However, for those who don’t mind and would like to return, send us your name and if we do not have enough interest, we can allow you to attend if the numbers permit. But we will not know until April 8th once we have received the numbers.

Performance Details

• Date: Saturday, April 21^st
• Time: 5:30pm – 6:30pm (doors open 30 minutes prior to the performance)
• Location: Betty Oliphant Theatre (404 Jarvis Street, Toronto, ON)

 Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Deanna Galati directly.  Thank you and we look forward to hearing back from you soon.

Deanna Galati
Education and Outreach Intern
The National Ballet of Canada
Phone: 416 345 9686 x 394
http://national.ballet.ca

To find out more about The National Ballet of Canada’s Education Programs visit
http://national.ballet.ca/education/

MultiArts Open Class June 2, 2018

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