Community Notices
Entertainment ideas for the school holidays.
School Holiday Ideas from Christchurch City Council.
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Upper Riccarton Library FREE School Holiday Activities July 2018
Learn to Knit Tuesday, 10 July, 1pm- 3pm
Needles, wool and pattern pack provided. Friendly grandmothers (and their helpers) will teach your child this timeless skill.
Craft a Creature Workshop Friday, 13 July, 2pm-4pm
Design and create your own Dr Seuss character. Enter your creature in the Dr Seuss Creation Family Challenge competition. Be in to win tickets to The Cat in the Hat live show. Craft materials provided.
Musical Maker Space Monday, 16 July, 11am-12pm
Come and see what musical instruments we have in our new Maker Space box. Can you make a tune?
Chinese/Korean language stories and craft for children Wednesday, 18 July, 2pm- 3pm
Come and listen to stories in Korean and Chinese followed by a craft activity. Bring your grandma or grandpa. Craft materials provided.
Create your own Mini World Friday, 20 July, 10am-12pm
Imagine, design and create your own world in a shoebox. What would your perfect or wacky world look like? Craft materials provided.
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KidsFest - "Volleyball - give it a go"
It's our first time taking part in KidsFest. Designed for beginners, no prior experience is needed, just a keen attitude and loads of enthusiasm! We are really excited to be delivering fun kiwivolley skills and games to this age group.
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Riccarton Players Playbox Theatre presents:
i thought i saw a Pussy Cat!
Directed by: Callun Lewis
Performance dates: Saturday & Sunday 14th, 15th and 21st, 22nd July 2018 - 11am, 2pm and 4pm
Venue: The Drama Theatre, Rangi Ruru School, Merivale Lane, Christchurch
Admission prices: All tickets $8.00
Bookings: Online: https://www.riccartonplayers.co.nz/current-productionor by phone on 03 338 4699
Pussy Cats are taking over The Drama Theatre, Rangi Ruru School, as part of Kidsfest 2018.
i thought i saw a Pussy Cat! is an interactive theatrical family experience that invites the audience to explore a playful world of feline friends,
which makes for some ‘puss-some’ July School holiday entertainment!
Join Buster, Gus, Sally, Slinky and Tom in a 70 minute stage presentation, where the talented and energetic cast will delight and entertain both
children and adults alike. The production includes a wide ranging selection of familiar and enjoyable Cat-centric stories, songs, and poems,
while encouraging the audience to dance, play games, and even help create a Cat Band!
From start to finish, i thought i saw a Pussy Cat! has been assembled with a love and respect for all animals; and the promotion of their care and wellbeing.
To encourage this during the season, The Riccarton Players Theatre Group will be accepting donations of pet foods, toys, and accessories
at each performance, which will be committed to aiding urban animal fostering programs within the Canterbury Region.
For more information about Riccarton Players, the production, the pet food collections, or to enter our Naming of the Cat or Colouring competition,
please visit: www.riccartonplayers.co.nz
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The Holidays are fast approaching and we have some fantastic activities for your kids to do!
For more information please visit our website
www.kidactive.co.nz
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Virtuoso Strings Charitable Trust -
Transforming lives through music
Months of hard work and practise will come to fruition for members of the Virtuoso Strings Orchestra (VSO), who are touring the South Island in July.
Forty-two talented school students will entertain audiences with a fun mix of classical, popular and traditional tunes, in what is the highlight of the year for the young musicians.
The students, ranging in age from 8 years to 17 years, form a tightly knit group who practise incredibly hard together to perfect their ensemble skills, VSO Co-founder Dr Elizabeth (Liz) Sneyd says.
“Their love of music is infectious and their performances shatter every stereotype of classical music that is out there.”
In 2012, Liz along with Craig Utting formed VSO and today the popular youth orchestra is based in Cannons Creek, Porirua, and run by the Virtuoso Strings Charitable Trust.
Liz and Craig were initially driven to form VSO by a desire to create equal opportunities in music and to make New Zealand’s classical music landscape more diverse.
They were in awe of the natural talent in the community, especially among Maori and Pasifika students, but felt disheartened by the fact that orchestras around New Zealand were so lacking in cultural diversity.
They also couldn't help but notice that children from wealthy families had much greater access to quality music education than those with more meagre financial resources.
It started as a low-key effort to provide free instruments, lessons and transport to a small group of students, but transformed quickly into the flourishing music scheme it is today.
The Virtuoso Strings Charitable Trust mission is to transform lives through music, Liz says.
“The Trust is committed to maintaining an accessible and inclusive music programme which provide equal opportunities for all youth.
“Every aspect of their comprehensive and far-reaching programme is free for students from the East Porirua community,” she adds.
The Trust members believe music education has far reaching impacts, and should be accessible for all and it aims to ensure that every student is catered to, no matter how diverse their needs.
Well over 200 students from Porirua East come through the Trust’s music programmes each year; it runs music classes out of 10 partnering decile one and two schools during the school day; it holds classes after school, and evening orchestra rehearsals several times each week.
It also offers tuition to selected students on an individual basis and during each school holiday period, the Trust holds high intensity Holiday Programmes.
The links between learning a musical instrument, personal growth, mental and physical wellbeing, and academic success have been well established, Liz says.
“Through providing music tuition and opportunities to engage cooperatively as an orchestra, we equip our students with real skills for life.
“We witness a tremendous boost to participants' confidence and self-belief and together we delight in watching younger members of the orchestra grow into dependable, determined, forward-looking, community-minded, self-assured and hard-working teenagers with bright futures.”
The VSO South Island Tour kicks off on July 13 in Christchurch, and wraps up in Mosgiel on July 19. All concerts are free and all are welcome.
Visit HERE for more information.