CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD
I am delighted to
offer you our 2012 Festival Syllabus. Following our very successful 2011
Festival Season, our team has worked very hard to put together a syllabus that
reflects all those many popular classes across the Music, Speech & Drama, and
Dance categories, with some exciting new ones for your consideration and
enjoyment.
You will notice from the overview of dates on the back page that the Dance
Section takes place a week earlier than last year. This is entirely due to our
need to fit around the availability of Shanklin Theatre. We are delighted to be
part of the Theatre's new born success and thank the theatre team making us so
welcome in 2011. In addition to Dance, our Pop and Musical Theatre Classes and
our Band Day will again take place at Shanklin Theatre.
Our highly successful Bursary Scheme is back by popular demand for 2012! We will
be offering Bursaries in Dance, Speech & Drama, and Music.
As a finale to the Dance Section of the Festival we will be staging a Song and
Dance Extravaganza at Shanklin Theatre on Sunday March 18th at 2:30pm. Tickets
will be available in the New Year from the Theatre Box Office.
On behalf of the Festival Trustees, I would like to thank Janet Coates for
stepping in as Syllabus and Programme Secretary, after our previous secretary
felt unable to carry on in the post. Thanks a million Janet! May I also convey
heartfelt thanks to our team of enthusiastic volunteers, without whom our
Festival would simply not be possible.
It will be a pleasure to meet friends old and new at our Competitions next
March. Don't forget that the closing date for entries is DECEMBER 1st. Entry
forms can be found in this syllabus and may also be downloaded from our website:
www.iwmcf.co.uk
Here's to 2012 and our 82nd Musical Competition Festival.
