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JRMA Youth Competition Part 2
I went to the Fourth Annual Jack Richardson Music Awards Youth Competition last month. Yesterday I brought you the first part of this interview series. I hope you have the chance to check out some of those bands. I was really blown away by the talent that these London high school kids had to offer.…
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JRMA Youth Competition
I went to the Fourth Annual Jack Richardson Music Awards Youth Competition last month. I was completely blown away by all of the talent that London has to offer. All of these bands are still in high school and many of the members are involved in the formal music program at their respective schools. I…
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D-Sisive and Saukrates Live
I’ve been busily transcribing the interview I did with Saukrates this past weekend at the Toronto Freedom Festival. You’ll be able to hear it on the radio show Saturday night and it’ll be up on the blog next week. Until then, I wanted to share this clip with you. Saukrates performed the festival with a…
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Teaching Tip – Transform Reader’s Theatre
I’ve tried doing Reader’s Theatre with my class several times and it has always been a disaster. Some students don’t follow along with the script well enough so we have awkward pauses, breaks, or cues. Some students are so worried about saying their lines properly that they focus only on their own part and don’t…
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Free Comic Book Day (Tomorrow)
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/ Free Comic Book Day is a cool event that happens every year on the first Saturday of May. Pretty much all comic book stores in North America will be giving away comic books for free. There are often other freebies that will vary by store. http://www.freecomicbookday.com/signings.asp You can also meet some comic book creators…
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The Lovely Ladies of Silent Cacophony
Here are some of the lovely ladies that are welcome here at Silent Cacophony any time. Claire Danes I have loved Claire Danes ever since I first saw her on the excellent TV series “My So-Called Life” Lauren Graham She’s just awesome. What more can I say? Evangeline LillyI could get “lost’ in her beauty.…
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Remember The Gummi Bears?
The Gummi Bears is an animated television program that I used to watch when I was a kid. I believe that it started back in the mid 1980s. I used to love this show. I remember that of all the cartoons I used to watch, this was one that my dad would actually go out…
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Teaching Tip – You Have 3 Choices, Always
I’ve been extremely busy this month with work, Script Frenzy, an AQ course that I have been taking online, and other personal obligations. So today, I reworked an earlier post from a few years back. It’s a really good one that you can use to help your students make good choices in life. I hope…
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Script Frenzy – Mission Completed
I did it! I completed my screenplay “Bled Dry”100 pages in 26 Days! I’m a Script Frenzy Winner and it feels pretty good! It just typed “Fade to Black: Roll Credits” a few minutes ago. I logged onto the Script Frenzy site, validated my page count and got this certificate and badge as an award.…
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Script Frenzy Week 3
I’ve been taking part in Script Frenzy this month. The challenge is to write a 100 page screenplay in the 30 days we have in April. My first week was pretty successful. I hit the ground running and wrote 31 pages in all. I liked the story idea, the main characters, and had a rough idea of where they were going…