The International Youth Summer Camp is a yearly event organized by the International Institute of Music, Speech and Drama (IIMSD).The International Youth Summer Camp is an important event in the calendar for Music, Speech and Dance enthusiasts catering to all three disciplines.
The camp will be held from the April 15-20, 2011. This camp is designed for teachers and students interested in Dance and Speech.
Participants are trained by International Directors, who fly to Sri Lanka for this programme from UK and Ireland and participants at the camp are awarded certificates of participation.
The directors of the 10th Annual Youth Summer Camp are Timothy McCarthy of Ireland and Hanna Wheeler of UK. Participants are trained for a public performance which will be held on April 21, 2011 at the Bishop’s College Auditorium.
This year the camp has introduced a segment titled - ‘Victorian Presentation’ which is a first of its kind in Sri Lanka. This event is opened for students of all ages who are interested in Music, Speech & Drama, and Dance to perform items of that era. This unique event will be held at the Russian Center on May 22, 2011.
Winner and Runner-up will be awarded trophies and certificates by the British and International Federation of Festivals. Those interested in participating at the ‘International Youth Summer Camp’ or ‘Victorian Presentation’, should visit No. 357 1/1, R.A De Mel Mawatha, Colombo 3.
Cracking show
Great news for dance and theatre lovers! Tickets for Jehan Aloysius’s re-imagining of Tchaikovsky’s fantasy ballet ‘Nutcracker’ are now available at the Lionel Wendt Theatre.
This visually-stunning fantasy ballet presented by CentreStage Productions and partnered by One Trust Sri Lanka will come alive at the Wendt from April 1- 4, 2011 at 7.30 p.m.
This new ballet by the creators of the groundbreaking production of ‘An Inspired Swan Lake’ will once more feature an inspiring cast of hearing-impaired participants and injured soldiers from Ranaviru Sevana who will perform together with performer/trainers from Jehan’s StageHands Team.
Jehan has reworked the original plot and changed the sequence of events, creating new characters and a modern context in which the broken toys and the Nutcracker, played by injured war-hero, Thusitha Wimalasooriya, are in conflict with the King of Rats, played by Indika Bandara – a hearing-impaired participant.
Jehan has been training the physically challenged members of the cast in intensive workshops over the last few weeks in order to transform them into dancers first, and then into performers who could handle the narrative of the ballet. The styles of dance Jehan has used in this production are as diverse as contemporary, hip hop, tribal, Kandyan and classical ballet. Jehan calls his system of teaching and performing movement in productions ‘Body Narratives’ – a form of movement that is intuitive, innovative and often unique.
So head over to the Lionel Wendt Theatre and get your tickets early for this exciting piece of theatre. Call 2695794 for ticket inquiries.
Book corner Some interesting reads for the weekend
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of
a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton (Non-fiction)
Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty fierce, hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Above all she sought family, particularly the thrill and the magnificence of the one from her childhood that, in her adult years, eluded her.
Hamilton’s ease and comfort in a kitchen were instilled in her at an early age when her parents hosted grand parties, often for more than one hundred friends and neighbours. The smells of spit-roasted lamb, apple wood smoke, and rosemary garlic marinade became as necessary to her as her own skin.
Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six-burner with an oily wooden spoon in hand; the kitchens of France, Greece, and Turkey, where she was often fed by complete strangers and learned the essence of hospitality; the soulless catering factories that helped pay the rent; Hamilton’s own kitchen at Prune, with its many unexpected challenges; and the kitchen of her Italian mother-in-law, who serves as the link between Hamilton’s idyllic past and her own future family—the result of a difficult and prickly marriage that nonetheless yields rich and lasting dividends.
The book is an unflinching and lyrical work. Gabrielle Hamilton’s story is told with uncommon honesty, grit, humour, and passion. By turns epic and intimate, it marks the debut of a tremendous literary talent.
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (fiction)
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer, and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they’ve never lost touch with each other, or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik.
Dining together one night at Sevcik’s apartment—the two Jewish widowers and the unmarried Gentile, Treslove—the men share a sweetly painful evening, reminiscing on a time before they had loved and lost, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. But as Treslove makes his way home, he is attacked and mugged outside a violin dealer’s window.
Treslove is convinced the crime was a misdirected act of anti-Semitism, and in its aftermath, his whole sense of self will ineluctably change. Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Finkler Question is a funny, furious, unflinching novel of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and the wisdom and humanity of maturity.
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (fiction)
Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn’t recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. But what he should have been on the watch for was evil. Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defence attorney who operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, travelling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers — they’re all on Mickey Haller’s client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence — it’s about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it’s even about justice.
A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. It is a defence attorney’s dream, what they call a franchise case. And as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career.
Then someone close to him is murdered and Haller discovers that his search for innocence has brought him face-to-face with evil as pure as a flame. To escape without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his arsenal — this time to save his own life.
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