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Samantha Savard, playing Betty, centre, convinces her friend Sophie Fowler, who plays Donna, to ask out Mike, played by Matt Girard, at Belmont’s first Sadie Hawkins Dance in 1950. Justin Lavoie and Allie Macilroy, left, are just some of music students performing in a cabaret showcasing the work of more than 200 drama, music and art students at Belmont secondary school, Feb. 27, 28 and March 1.
Cabaret explores 60 years of history Charla Huber News staff
Belmont students are gearing up for the final cabaret to ever be performed at the secondary school on Jacklin Road. The next time a cabaret is performed it will be at one of the new high schools being built at Glen Lake or in Royal Bay. The theme for the 2014 cabaret is Changing Times: If These Walls Could Talk. “We are essentially looking at the history of Belmont,” said Mandart Chan, one of the music directors. “It’s music driven but also has dance and drama and with visual arts.”
The cabaret is a collaboration from about 200 music, theatre, dance and art students. Many of the characters in the cabaret performance have been inspired from photos in the year books. “What we’ve done is spend a lot of time going through the annuals (yearbooks),” said Melissa Young, Belmont theatre director. The students and teachers have also spoken to former teachers and administrators and read old newspaper articles on the school. “People should come to hear the history of Belmont and the history of this whole area,” said Grade 11 student Justin Lavoie. In the production Lavoie is a singer in various groups
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including Vox and the choir. “There is just a bunch of great history.” The story starts with a scene of a teacher packing up yearbooks as they are gearing up to move to the new Belmont. The story is then told through historic events of the school including a 1950s Sadie Hawkins Dance, a 1980s pep rally for the senior boys basketball team and the first 10,000 Tonight fundraiser in 2003. PLEASE SEE: Students put on first performance of its kind in three years, Page A15
Marine biologist Ramona de Graaf will be making a presentation at the Metchosin municipal hall, March 5 at 7 p.m. The presentation will focus on the shoreline ecosystems in Metchosin. The discussion will cover the values, risks and stewardship practices available. “(de Graaf) will give an information session about the vital role of marine shorelines as critical fish habitat. Topics that will be discussed include the linkages between land-based habitats and marine ecosystem function of our local waters,” Coun. Moralea Milne said. “The presentation will also provide information on how we can best protect these habitats.” The presentation is open to all Metchosin residents but is intended for residents living on the shoreline. “Metchosin residents have always shown themselves to be concerned stewards of both our land and water environments,” Milne said. “The presentation ... will open the discussion on how Metchosin residents can best preserve the values we cherish while still enjoying our beaches and shoreline”. charla@goldstream gazette.com
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