Midsummer Variety Concert Sign-ups on Library

Headmistress Sadi Powell

November 29, 2010 8:22 AM

Midsummer Variety Concert Sign-ups by Headmistress Sadi Powell

As Headmistress Powell had promised during her post-midterm address, sign-up sheets for the Midsummer concert had finally arrived. The commonroom noticeboards were absent of these sheets, merely holding a note to let the students know that the sign-ups were posted not in the commonrooms, but in the Cascade hall and the library. The reasoning behind this was simple – some students might wish to perform with someone from another House, and in order to sign up together the list would need to be accessible to both. The list in Cascade was the most accessible, just inside the main doors. It could be accessed by anybody, and read by anybody. The sign-up sheet in the library was smaller, and more discreet, being in the possession of the librarian and her assistant. This second sheet enabled sign-up without the rest of the school knowing, in case the act was to be a surprise, or the student performing it simply was shy about signing up in front of the whole school. Despite their differing locations, both sign-up sheets were identical:

SONORA’S MIDSUMMER VARIETY CONCERT
Do you have a skill you’d like to share with the school? Whether you can sing, dance, vanish furniture, predict the future, or possess any other talents and skills, we would like to see you perform at our Midsummer concert! Please read the rules and sign up below. Don’t want to perform? No problem! We need judges to vote on the performances and choose a winner. Any student who doesn’t perform is automatically on the voting panel. If you have any questions, please contact a member of staff. If you wish to sign-up to perform, please put your name(s) and a short description of your act below.

RULES

1 – All acts must be permitted to perform via the sign-up sheets. Acts considered to be dangerous or unsuitable for a student audience are unlikely to be granted permission to perform.
2 – Students may perform as an individual or as part of a group. There are no limitations on group size.
3 – Each student can perform in a maximum of TWO acts in total. Each student can perform in a maximum of ONE individual act.
4 – There will be three categories for voting: Best individual act, best group act, and best overall House involvement. The winners for individual and group categories will be decided by student votes, judged on talent, showmanship, and originality of performance. The House winner will be decided by staff vote.

Below this introduction followed a space where students could write the necessary details to sign up for the concert. Below this was a further note: Professor McKindy and Coach Pierce will be running a bake sale during the concert to raise funds for DISCUSS. If you wish to help out, please speak to these members of staff. Thank you.

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