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Newsletter
March 2011

Contents
TheatreSkilled Pg1 TheatreSkilled
Connect Pg1
Getting on stage can be help them along.
Comedy Series Pg2 terrifying and exhilarating at But TheatreSkills isn't just
World Record the same time. It all depends for very inexperienced
on confidence in your ability performers.
Attempt Pg2
to perform well under We are looking for all skill
Supporters Pg3 pressure. levels and ages to take part.
Whats on at That's why SHYAC has a new Performers at all stages can
course available for young benefit from this program.
THSPA? Pg4 people who want to learn more The course runs until June 7
Mary Poppins Pg4 about theatre. on Tuesday afternoons at the
The 10 week TheatreSkills Highlands Youth Centre,
program, taught by Loseby Park. It starts at 4pm
experienced and qualified for an hour and is open to all
tutor Cindy Pryma, will guide school-aged children.
students through the basics TheatreSkills costs $65 to all
Connect to SHYAC of stagecraft, including simple existing and new SHYAC
There are now a lot of dances and songs, acting members. The fee covers
new ways to connect skills, improvisation course materials and tutor
with the rest of the techniques and more. fees.
SHYAC community and We experienced a really high For more information or pre-
stay up to date. level of demand for places in registration, please visit the
Try these: our productions in the last SHYAC website
couple of years, but many of (www.shyac.org.au) and look
facebook.com/shyac
the performers weren't quite for TheatreSkills in the
SCVNGR.com/shyac ready to take to the stage, so Events section.
twitter.com/shyacoz we developed this course to
youtube.com/shyacoz

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Bring Your Best Jokes
Learn the comedy craft
from a professional
comedian at SHYAC's
comedy workshop on March
19. It takes place between
2 and 4pm at Loseby Park
World Record Attempt
Mary Poppins – the world’s
most famous nanny and one
of fiction’s most loved
characters – will be
welcomed home by the
Southern Highlands to her
Bowral birthplace in world
record breaking style in
May 2011.
More than one thousand
people holding up umbrellas
will form a gigantic image
of the character that
SHYAC will use as the
focus of a local and
worldwide fundraising
campaign to build a life-size
bronze statue of Mary
Poppins. Expect to see that
broadcast around Australia
and the world!
You can be part of it -
REGISTER YOUR
INTEREST NOW - there
are only limited numbers
SHYAC – Art for Youth by Youth
Youth Centre, Bowral. Pre-
registration is preferred on
the SHYAC website by
following this link:
http://goo.gl/zkMDQ
being accepted. popular playground for
children in the early 1900s.
The record attempt will Biographical research on
take place between 2pm the life of PL Travers, who
and 4pm on Saturday 7 May was born Helen Lyndon
2011, the day before Goff in Maryborough
Mothers’ Day, at Bradman Queensland in 1899,
Oval in Bowral. There will strongly suggests that it
also be a mini festival at was during the decade she
the oval with an outdoor lived in Bowral as a child
cinema screening of and teenager from 1908-
Disney's classic 1964 movie 1917 that the Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins followed by character first took shape
fireworks (sponsored by in her mind while telling
Mittagong McDonalds and stories to her younger
Tourism Southern sisters.
Highlands).
The current record for the
The oval and the adjacent largest umbrella mosaic
Glebe Park, which has been consisted of 1,026 people
nominated as the location holding umbrellas in an
of the statue, is only a event organized by Mlekara
block from where PL (Serbia) in Subotica, Serbia
Travers and her young on Oct 9th 2009.
sisters lived and was a http://goo.gl/Thm4s
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Thanks to our Supporters
SHYAC needs to say a big thankyou to many • Berrima Buslines;
of our supporters and other people who help in
• BDCU;
various ways.
• International Film School Sydney;
You can help SHYAC by supporting them. So, a
big SHYAC thankyou to: • Vin Santo's Restaurant;

• Mittagong RSL; • SCVNGR;

• The Highlands School of Performing • Empire Cinema;

Arts (THSPA); • KazCare;
• The IMB; • Highlands Theatre Group;

WHAT'S on at THSPA?
GLEE CLUB - Musical Theatre Vocal with
Sarah Turkic a W.A.A.P.A.Graduate.
TIME: 6-7pm
AGE:Year 9 to Adults
This is a combined class with a focus on
song delivery, some vocal technique and
text analysis-getting the words from the
page to the stage. This class will focus on
repertoire from Musical Theatre. Great
fun for those with some singing
experience/talent and who want to take
it to the next stage.
DRAMA THURSDAY AFTERNOONS
Junior (45 minutes) from 4 -4.45pm
Primary (1 Hour) from 5 -6pm
Secondary(1 1/2 hours)from 5.30-7.00pm
BALLROOM THURSDAY AFTERNOON
BOYS NEEDED
For more details and prices please
contact THSPA on 4862 4444

Arrive In Style to...

Mary Poppins
As part of our ongoing program to offer new and exciting experiences to members,
we have arranged a limited number of tickets and a coach to take people from the
Southern Highlands to see Mary Poppins the Musical at the Capitol Theatre on
September 29, 2011. Tickets are priced at $135 for individuals, $130 each for
groups of 5 and just $120 each for groups of ten.
You can purchase your ticket online at SHYAC's website via the following address:
http://goo.gl/tyOWd

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