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SDA
and SMFA Spoken Word E-Festival
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The Saskatchewan Drama Association (SDA) and the Saskatchewan
Music Festival Association (SMFA) collaborated to present the
first Spoken Word e-Festival for Saskatchewan students,
ages 5 to 19 years of age and any level.
Spoken
Word Festival (pdf)
Preparing
Your Selection (pdf)
Objectives
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- to
develop awareness of other forms of stage and poetic
arts;
- to
enhance acting and speaking skills;
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develop confidence through stage performance;
- to
encourage crativity and help students become more critical
thinkers; and
- to
meet curricula goals of the Saskatchewan K-12 English
Arts, Arts Education and Theatre Arts
https://www.edonline.sk.ca/webapps/moe-curriculum-BBLEARN/
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January
2021 Spoken Word E-Festival
Performances were judged by video recordings submitted
by the competitors.
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Thank
you to all participants for your entries!
And the winners are:
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17
years & under Megan Kiffiak ($250)
Megan is a 17-year-old student at CCHS in Prince Albert.
Shes been involved in the drama program there
for three years, and has appreciated the opportunity
not only to act but also to improve her public speaking
and make lifelong friendships. When not studying,
Megan enjoys reading murder mysteries and creating
visual art. She and her family and the family
dogs! love spending time outdoors together
at Candle Lake. |
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14
years & under Eleanor Grant ($200)
Eleanor is a 14-year-old girl from Eastend, Saskatchewan.
She enjoys being creative in her spare time and is
often found drawing, playing the piano, singing, and
dancing. Eleanor also enjoys quilting, baking and
writing poetry in fact; she performed one of
her own works at this festival. Shes a big fan
of alternative rock music, horror movies, and musicals. |
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12
years & under Ella Gross ($150)
Ella is 12 years old and lives on a grain farm outside
of Hazenmore, Saskatchewan. When not in school or
practicing speech arts, Ella loves playing the piano,
skating, dancing, and going for airplane flights with
her dad. |
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June 2020 Spoken Word E-Festival
Performances were judged by video recordings submitted
by the competitors.
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Entries
were adjudicated by Bradley Hawyward |
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Bradley
Hayward has been involved with the Saskatchewan Drama Association
for over
25 years, first as a student and now as an adult. He grew
up in Oxbow and acted in his very first SDA Drama Festival
way back in 1993. From that moment forward, he was hooked
on the theatre. He continued to participate in drama festivals
as an actor,
director, playwright and stage manager, winning many awards
for multiple disciplines,
including the Mary Ellen Burgess Award two years in a row.
He performed at the 1997
Provincial Festival in The Flattering Word. He graduated
from high school in 1998 and
went on to get a degree in screenwriting; however, he never
lost his passion for high
school theatre and eventually turned his attention to writing
plays for students.
Currently, he has written more than 62 published plays that
have been produced all
around the world, including dozens of productions at various
regional festivals across Saskatchewan. His plays I Dont
Want to Talk About It, Selfie, Laughing Stock, Epic Fail,
Drama Geeks, Vamp Ire, and The Last Fill have all advanced
to SDAs Provincial Festival. The Last Fill won the
Best Overall Production at SDAs 2019 Provincial Festival.
In addition to writing, Bradley has worked for the SDA as
a front-of-house adjudicator at many regional festivals,
twice been the front-of-house clinician at the Middle Years
Festival, and recently, Front of House for SDAs Provincial
Festival, and has facilitated many acting and writing workshops.
He is profoundly inspired by the high level of talent and
enthusiasm of the students he encounters each year, and
hopes to continue for many more years to come. He is thrilled
to adjudicator SDA and SMFAs first Spoken Word Festival! |
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And
the winners are:
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19
years & under Ashton Bourgeois ($250)
Ashton Bourgeois is a current Grade 12 student at MUCC in Melfort.
He has been involved in the arts program at MUCC for many years,
partaking in both music and drama. In both disciplines, he has
performed at festivals at both regional and provincial levels
via the MUCC band program and MUCC Team Drama, as a percussionist
and actor, respectively. Outside of school, Ashton partakes
in alpine ski racing, and races both within the province as
well as at national level events. Ashton performed a scene from
Two Gentlemen of Verona (II, iii, 5-28) using modern
characterization to bring this Shakespearean scene into the
modern era. |
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14
years & under Dexter Candillo ($200)
Dexter Candillo is 13 years old and lives in Yorkton. He loves
drama and all art and says this is a very cool opportunity.
This was Dexters first monologue, and he performed Lost
in an Airport by Carrie Pengilly. |
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11
years & under Georgia Robertson ($150)
Georgia Robertson is 12 years old and lives in Yorkton. She
plays the violin, loves to read, bake, and play with her little
sister and her two guinea pigs names Arol and Juniper. Georgia
has been a part of Free My Muse Company since she was 8 years
old and has been in 8 play productions along with performing
several monologues. For this competition, Georgia
performed Why I Left My Home Town by Carrie Pengilly. |
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8
years & under Alexander Ubongen ($100)
Alexander Ubongen is 8 years old and will be in Grade 3 in the
next school year at St. Michael School in Yorkton. He has a
sister who is 6 years younger and a pet dog named Buster who
he loves to play with. Alexander chose to perform The Sleepover
by Natalia Santos because he loves hanging out with
his best friend and sees his teenage sister go on sleepovers.
Aside from drama, Alexander plays a lot of piano, hockey, Tae
Kwon Do, basketball and figure skating, before the coronavirus
happened. |
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