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Ted’s Excellent Adventure ON FRIDAY 18th September, 2015, a horrible accident occurred! A poor defenceless teddy-bear was cast back in time, back to the 1920s, away from the protection of his beloved scientist.
Thus began the latest dance extravaganza staged by Keely-Anna’s Dance Fitness Fusion. Luckily, Ted proved very resourceful at making his way back through the decades, propelled by his trusty jet-pack. He even managed to invent Pacman, the World Wide Web and Minecraft along the way back, before being reunited with his faithful friend! Featuring 48 individually choreographed dances, along with multimedia interludes, ‘Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ was one of KeelyAnna’s most ambitious shows yet. The 75 children involved all performed brilliantly, keeping their smiles right through to the end of the second performance. The show was given great support by the parents, who volunteered their time to help back-stage, and who sold home-made cakes and drinks at the interval. There was also fantastic support given by local Markfield businesses, who provided excellent raffle prizes. With the money raised going to new equipment for the kids, it’s great to see the community supporting its local dance school. At the end of the show, there were performance awards for Violet Spiby-Bree, Lauran Perkins, India Hall, Amy Pearson, Ella Rushin, Theodore McEachran, Euan Lukjanenko and Jade Stacey, whose efforts had particularly caught the eyes of the audience. But all the students should feel incredibly proud of their achievement and their hard work… which should now carry on to ensure an even better performance of Beauty and the Beast in the new year, with more than 100 children looking to take part! Keely-Anna would like to thank The Coach and Horses, Markfield Fish Bar, Markfield Village Store and Post Office, Ivanhoe Hair Studios and all our generous donators for providing raffle prizes, and Alison Creese, Ewan McEachran, Melissa Geary, Donna Gibson, Nikki Geary, Cathy Williams and all our extremely helpful Mums for their fantastic support behind the scenes.
Sign up and take your business ‘From Idea to Enterprise’ A FREE business programme for budding businesswomen has just been launched by Leicestershire County Council’s Superfast Leicestershire project. The free programme, which will run until March 2016, offers business coaching, digital training days and advice on turning a business idea into reality. The Idea to Enterprise programme is designed to support Leicestershire’s female entrepreneurs who are looking for advice and support on growing their business ideas. Councillor Blake Pain, cabinet member for rural broadband, said: “With the Superfast Leicestershire project working to provide more than 72,000 homes and businesses with high-speed fibre broadband by the end of 2018, this free programme is aimed to support the many budding businesswomen of the county to achieve their ambitions. “This programme is a great way for us to support female entrepreneurs to develop, support women in the workplace and benefit the county’s economy too.” There are 150 spaces on the Idea to Enterprise programme, which will also kick-start informal business networks for women across the county to ensure work to support businesswomen continues after March 2016. The programme is fully-funded by a £66,700 grant from the Government Equalities Office. Superfast Leicestershire is a £28 million partnership between the county council and BT to connect more than 72,000 premises across Leicestershire to fibre broadband by 2018. To register interest in Idea to Enterprise email . More information on the project is available at www. superfastleicestershire.org.uk
Loogabarooga Festival THE PROGRAMME for the first-ever Loogabarooga Festival of children’s illustrated literature includes appearances from some of the nation’s favourite children’s authors and illustrators. Events at the Loogabarooga Festival will include workshops with children’s favourites including Korky Paul, illustrator of Winnie the Witch; Caroline Holden-Hotopf, illustrator of the Adrian Mole books; Nick Butterworth, author/illustrator of Percy the Park Keeper and The Whisperer; Knife and Packer, illustrators of Fleabag Monkeyface; and Steven Butler, author of Diary of Dennis the Menace. Loogabarooga Festival will take place in Loughborough from 22-26 October 2015 and is based on the theme of ‘incredible illustrations and brilliant books’. The Loogabarooga Festival programme will be available from libraries, museums and venues across Loughborough and Leicestershire. All of the events are available to view and book (where charges apply) in advance at www.loogabarooga.com
How is it that I always seem to buy the plants without the will to live?