Especially for students with a passion for photography, fashion, role-play, drama and literature, Romeo In A Sequined Glove: A Metamorphosis gives students from Secondary 1 to 5, the chance to take part in their very own ‘reality’ production.

Over five days, students will work in teams to create an original performance based on a selected scene from a recognised play. Students will explore the text, characters and plot to create their own interpretation, relevant to a young contemporary Singaporean audience.

As no performance is complete without costumes, the programme includes a group excursion to Arab Street*, where students will be given a limited time and budget to source and purchase  material to design and create their costumes. To help  publicise their production,  each team will  also develop promotional  material as well as coordinate a photography shoot outside the studio.

At the end of the week, students will perform to an invited audience and take home a journal  of their experiences.

*Venue  subejct to change

Dates:                           Time:

31 May – 4 June           2.00pm – 5.00pm

7 – 11 June                     9.00am –  12.00pm

14 – 18 June                  9.00am – 12.00pm

C0st: S$440.00+GST for one week (three hour sessions, Monday to Friday)

Romeo In A Sequined Glove: A Metamorphosis is held at Julia Gabriel Centre for Learning, #04-00 Forum, 583 Orchard Road, Singapore 238884. For registration and more information, call 6733 4322 or download a registration form from www.juliagabriel.com.

Little Eggshell’s Big Adventure – Nursery 1 and 2

Get ready for a big adventure with the lonely little Eggshell as he goes in search of a housemate. Over five days, children will learn vocabulary and master simple sentence patterns as they are immersed in a fun, relaxed and highly creative Standard Mandarin environment. Through drama, word games, art and craft activities, simple songs, colourful stories and moving and speaking rhymes, children will enjoy the process of learning and build greater confidence in communicating in Mandarin.

Week 1 (31 May – 4 June)     2.30pm – 4.30pm

Week 2 (7 – 11 June)              9.00am – 11.00am, 2.30pm – 4.30pm

Week 3 (14 – 18 June)           9.00am – 11.00am, 2.30pm – 4.30pm

Cost: S$285+GST per week (two-hour sessions, Monday to Friday)

A Journey with Dinosaurs – Primary 1 to 3

Professors from the Chinese Paleontology Department at JGCL have just uncovered an enormous fossil while digging at the beach. Set off on a quest of adventure and travel back in time millions of years with the Professors to discover more about this unknown creature.

The five-day adventure will stimulate students’ interest in learning Standard Mandarin and help them cultivate a deeper understanding of Chinese culture. Using stories, drama activities, tongue twisters, fun word games and art and craft to inspire students’ imaginations and creativity, they will develop the confidence to use language expressively and with enjoyment. Students will not only master standard sentence patterns, pronunciation and widen their knowledge of vocabulary, they will also get to present their dinosaur discoveries with an original drama on the final day of their adventure.

Week 1 (31 May – 4 June)    9.00am – 11.30am, 11.45am – 2.15pm

Week 2 (7 – 11 June)              2.30pm – 5.00pm

Week 3 (14 – 18 June)           2.30pm – 5.00pm

Cost: S$350+GST per week (two-and-a-half-hour sessions, Monday to Friday)

All Mandarin EduDrama school holiday programmes are held at Julia Gabriel Centre for Learning, #04-00 Forum, 583 Orchard Road, Singapore 238884. For registration and more information, call 6733 4332, download a registration form from www.juliagabriel.com or register online.

Message in a Bottle – Primary 1 and 2

A castaway stranded on a desert island has thrown a message in a bottle into the open sea, hoping that someone, somewhere will find his desperate call for help. Join the JGCL Coastguard School and embark on a perilous rescue mission on the high seas to uncover the mystery of the message. Through literature, role-play and drama, students increase their ability to increase themselves confidently, while extending their imaginations and creativity into writing.

Week 1 (31 May – 4 June)      11.30am – 2.00pm, 2.30pm – 5.00pm

Week 2 (7 – 11 June)               9.00am – 11.30am, 2.30pm – 5.00pm

Week 3 (14 – 18 June              9.00am – 11.30am, 2.30pm – 5.00pm

Cost: S$385+GST per week (two-and-a-half hour sessions, Monday to Friday)

Making Soundwaves – Primary 3 and 4

Discover the excitement of radio  in this five-day workshop where students will observe a radio DJ at work and even record their very own drama. With hands-on experience in scripting scenes for radio, crafting dramatic dialogue, and creative use of sound and music, students will breathe life into their own work and dramatise it for performance at a professional recording studio.

Week 1 (31 May – 4 June)      9.00am – 12.00pm

Week 2 (7 – 11 June)               2.00pm – 5.00pm

Week 3 (14 – 18 June              9.00am – 12.00pm, 2.00pm – 5.00pm

Cost: S$440+GST per week (three-hour sessions, Monday to Friday)

Shahrazad’s Stories – Primary 5 and 6

Step into the exotic and captivating world of The Arabian Nights and be intrigued by the story of King Sharayar and his new wife, Shahrazad. A fascinating literacy and performance journey, students will work as an ensemble from a published script and learn to construct story circles, while investigating the use of music, props and puppetry for performance. At the end of the five-day workshop, students will also get the chance to showcase their original work in front of an invited audience.

Week 1 (31 May – 4 June)      9.00am – 12.00pm, 2.00pm – 5.00pm

Week 2 (7 – 11 June)               9.00am – 12.00pm

Week 3 (14 – 18 June              2.00pm – 5.00pm

Cost: S$420+GST per week (three-hour sessions, Monday to Friday)

All English EduDrama school holiday programmes are held at Julia Gabriel Centre for Learning, #04-00 Forum, 583 Orchard Road, Singapore 238884. For registration and more information, call 6733 4332, download a registration form from www.juliagabriel.com or register online.

2 pm – 4 pm

Visitors’ Briefing Room, Level 1

National Library Building

100 Victoria Street

Join us for a sharing session with leading Australian poet, Chris Wallace-Crabbe as we discuss poetry over afternoon tea with selected readings by the poet.

Latest among the poet’s eighteen poetry books are the postmodern epic, The Universe Looks Down (Brandl & Schlesinger), which is now being made into an opera and Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw (Carcanet Oxford Poets) published recently in 2008. Read It Again (Salt) is his latest critical volume.

Chris Wallace-Crabbe is also Chair of the Australian Poetry Centre, Melbourne. He is a critic of the Visual Arts and produces artists’ books with Melbourne painter, Bruno Leti.

This session will be chaired by Professor Edwin Thumboo who is an award-winning Singaporean poet himself. He is an Emeritus Professor from National University of Singapore and is one of the pioneers of English Literature in Singapore.

To register for this session, please log on to http://golibrary.nlb.gov.sg and surf on to “scene”!