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6 Tuesday <strong>December</strong> 4 <strong>2018</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
News<br />
SOUTHERN VIEW<br />
Theatre for babies<br />
BABIES AND theatre are not<br />
usually two things that are put<br />
together.<br />
In fact, any parent who has<br />
taken a baby to a performance<br />
knows it can be challenging at<br />
best and a disaster at worst.<br />
Turning that whole idea on<br />
its head is Burwood’s Melanie<br />
Luckman, Sumner’s Hannah<br />
Wheeler and Strowan’s Amy<br />
Straker.<br />
The trio will perform their<br />
show Up And Away, designed<br />
especially for pre-walking<br />
babies, in New Brighton and<br />
Phillipstown.<br />
The show will be staged<br />
through the newly-launched<br />
Cubbin Theatre Company.<br />
The company aims to develop<br />
genuine theatre for children<br />
under the age of five.<br />
Each performance will last<br />
about 30-40min with an opportunity<br />
for families to stay and<br />
play at the end.<br />
The show will also take place<br />
in a carefully crafted tent.<br />
“Our vision is of a world where<br />
high-quality art is as integral to<br />
early childhood as the<br />
playground, and as accessible,”<br />
Luckman said.<br />
She said it has been great<br />
working with the city council’s<br />
enliven places project fund for<br />
MAGICAL: Hannah Wheeler and Amy Straker performing their<br />
show Up and Away, which is designed especially for<br />
pre-walking babies. <br />
this tour.<br />
Luckman said with the funding’s<br />
help it can offer the show<br />
for $5 for a baby and adult<br />
together.<br />
The show is informed by<br />
neuroscientific research and has<br />
been developed in consultation<br />
with a speech and a language<br />
therapist through a series of<br />
rehearsal workshops with babies.<br />
Wheeler was working at LATT<br />
Children’s Theatre and living in<br />
South Korea when she saw her<br />
first baby theatre performance.<br />
“It was five years ago and what<br />
I experienced has stuck with me<br />
ever since. I am really excited<br />
about bringing high quality,<br />
respectful and intelligent theatre<br />
to children in Christchurch,” she<br />
said.<br />
•Up and Away is on<br />
Thursday and Friday at<br />
the Phillipstown Hub, 39<br />
Nursery Rd. Bookings can<br />
be made at eventbrite.co.nz.<br />
For more information go to<br />
cubbin.co.nz<br />
95th birthday party for<br />
Sydenham resident<br />
A SPECIAL celebration was<br />
held at the Wainoni Avonside<br />
Community Services Trust to<br />
mark its oldest member turning<br />
95.<br />
The trust celebrated Bob Kirk’s<br />
birthday recently. The Sydenham<br />
resident’s friend, well-known<br />
singer Janice Gray from the jazz<br />
band Janice Gray and The Boys,<br />
performed as part of the celebration.<br />
SPECIAL<br />
OCCASION:<br />
Singer<br />
Janice Gray<br />
performed<br />
at Bob Kirk’s<br />
birthday.<br />
PARTY:<br />
Bob Kirk<br />
attempts<br />
to crack<br />
open<br />
the lolly<br />
pinata at<br />
his 95th<br />
birthday<br />
party.<br />
She first met Mr Kirk when<br />
she was a barmaid at The Black<br />
Horse Hotel 40 years ago.<br />
In those days, staff wore butchers<br />
aprons, which Gray had on<br />
at the celebration. Trust patron<br />
Margaret Austin also attended,<br />
along with Mr Kirk’s sister<br />
Peggy. Co-ordinator Betty Chapman<br />
said it was a fabulous day<br />
and Mr Kirk made a great effort<br />
attacking the lolly pinata.<br />
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