Soph Kingi off to International Hip Hop Championships in Arizona, Ruby McCallum’s artwork selected for The Creators’ Room and musicians triumph at the NZ Secondary Schools’ Symphony Orchestra concert.

Hip Hop
We congratulate Soph Kingi from Year 11, who will be travelling to Phoenix, Arizona in August to take part in the Hip Hop International World Championships. Soph has been dancing up in Auckland with Identity Dance Company since the beginning of the year in two crews, Masque and Yung ID. Both crews placed second in their divisions at the Hip Hop Nationals (HHI) in April. 

The Creators’ Room Art Exhibition
The Creator’s Room is a new organisation which launched in Christchurch in July 2018. The initiative aims to provide Christchurch Secondary School’s Senior Visual Artist students (Year 11-13) with a platform to sell their works and be recognised for their talents. A total of 1,282 artworks across 16 Christchurch secondary schools were submitted to The Creators’ Room selection panel in September 2018 and 15 top artists were identified including SMC’s Ruby McCallum (now Year 13.)

The Creators’ Room is holding their inaugural art exhibition in the iconic Deloitte Building (Level 1, 151 Cambridge Terrace) from 23-26 May. Please see ticket information on the poster below (no door sales.)

NZ Secondary Schools’ Symphony Orchestra
Amy Chung, Sujean In, Meg Shatford, Jasmine Ward and Hellen Wang rehearsed during the holidays with students from all over New Zealand selected for this prestigious national orchestra. The orchestra performed superbly in the public concert April 27th in the Charles Luney Auditorium, tackling a very ambitious repertoire with mastery.

I Am: Year 12 Drama-Music collaboration
On Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th of May at 7pm in the Ngaio Marsh Theatre, our Year 12 Drama and Music classes will present work they have been working on over the last term. The evening will be a celebration of the girls’ talents and efforts in Music and Drama exploring the topic of "identity" working with published texts and music but also including original devised work and musical compositions. We have two Level Two NCEA Drama classes, a Level Two Music class and a Year 12 IB Theatre Arts class performing. Please book your tickets through our Arts Facilitator Mary Davison: mary.da@stmargarets.school.nz

Twilight Concert
We thank our community for record numbers making a warm and appreciative audience at last term’s Twilight Concert, which raised over $500 to go towards the terror victims’ relief fund. 
Special thanks to Sujean In for her welcome,  Mrs Patchett for her closing words and to Mimi Dyer, Billie Leiataua and Soph Kingi who each composed/choreographed moving pieces especially for the occasion.
If you would like photos from the concert follow this link https://petramingneau.smugmug.com/TWILIGHT-CONCERT-04042019/n-8fCpk2/ it will take you straight to the folder where you can browse the images. The photos are watermarked in the folder but this watermark will disappear when downloaded after purchase. $15 each and you can add as many to the shopping trolley as you like. 

Debating Regionals new date
The Canterbury Debating Regionals scheduled for March 16-17 were postponed following the terror attacks and will now take place at Canterbury University May 18-19. 

Arts Mentoring
The Arts Council team continue with their Arts Mentoring programme where Year 12 or 13 girls guide Middle School girls interested in learning something new or improving their skills in any arts area. The aim of this programme is for our Year 7-10 girls to make connections with girls involved in the arts in the senior school and for them to provide support, advice or even work towards a project (i.e. a performance or an artwork) This is a really great experience for our girls as part of our Tuakana-Teina (big sister-little sister) philosophy. At the moment the Council need mainly mentors for Music/Singing, Drama, Dance and Visual Art and those who have skills in more than one area are gold. Also open to staff!
If you are interested in being a mentor, please send Kaitlin Burden an email with:
- Your name and year group
- What area(s) of the arts you would like to mentor
- Why you want to be a mentor/why you think you would be a good mentor.
If you are in Year 7-10 and would like to find a mentor, you will need to fill out this survey to be paired up: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PBSJWLF

Rockquest registrations 2019
If you are keen to register for Rockquest 2019, we encourage you to do so asap. The entry process is as follows:
* Students need to fill out an entry form online at www.sftb.nz
* Print, after entering online the student will be emailed forms for Ms Woods to sign
* Scan and email the signed forms back, or post them to Rockquest Promotions,(Entry Form), PO Box 568, Nelson, 7010.
ENTRIES are DUE by MAY 7th - but already the entries are filling up fast so please get organised as soon as you can. Heats will be held Saturday, May 18th.
Any questions please just pop in to the Music office to see Ms Woods.

Ara Songwriting Competition
The Ara Music Arts Songwriting Competition, in association with Music Works, encourages young people to write songs and demonstrates that it’s possible to include songwriting in a music career. Last year’s event attracted a good mix of styles and sounds, with 10 finalists performing solo and in bands at the prize-giving show. This year's concert will be held at Ara Music Arts 6pm Sunday 2nd as part of the 2019 Christchurch International Jazz and Blues Festival. Entry is free and open to all Year 11, 12 and 13 students attending high school in Canterbury, and Music Arts students. The prizes for 2019 are: First overall - $300 plus... Entries close 5 May 2019 http://www.ara.ac.nz/study-options/our-study-interest-areas/music-arts/Ara-Music-Arts-Songwriting-Competition

Grimm Tales
There’s a buzzing and a humming in the school this term! Hedgehogs, wolves, evil stepsisters, grotesque creatures and dancers are exploding from the woods as we rehearse for Grimm Tales. Watch out for ticket sales to begin for our senior production in the Charles Luney Auditorium July 1-3.