Dance4Love

How exciting - the
We Like to Move-It-Move-It Show created by Dance4Love at the Dorothy Winstone Centre, AGGS is very close now - on Sunday 22nd August 5 - 7pm - check out this link http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=112046235494882

It promises to be a great night. Event organiser Marrean has done an amazing job of organising this cool event and the great news is that StarJam receives all the funds raised. So if you haven't booked your seat, follow the link and grab a ticket. See you on Sunday

First "International" Summit

The crew from Hamilton arrived bright-eyed and bushy tailed On Sunday to join the Auckland tutors and volunteers for StarJam's first multi-StarPod Summit. Yes it's true we only have two at the moment but the north-south team spirit started within a few minutes. Starting with spontaneous CoolJam 'workshop' performances we saw Ali from North Shore (Auckland) Dazzling Dance singing a very entertaining version of "My favorite things." She teamed up with Kat and Charrissa from Hamilton's Sensational Singing workshop to give a fantastic performance. The words they created were something else.... all about Blue StarJam T shirts and sparkly sequins things, which they said were some of their favorite things. Each of the four group performances was stunning especially and they had only had 30 minutes to prepare. The spontaneous Dazzling Dance performance included Jessica (volunteer Central Hip Hop- Auckland), Carola, tutor West Dazzling Dance - Auckland, Loren and Laurelle, the two Dazzling Dance tutors from Hamilton workshops and Phil and Susan, volunteers from Auckland. There was more hilarity and some careful manoevering in the musical wheelchairs game. Amongst all the magical moments shared amongst the group were some really moving stories with tissues needed here and there. The group shot was taken at afternoon tea time when everyone down-tooled their drinks and scones to pose. Thanks to Patrick Bellett who took these great shots for coming to join in on the activities. Roll on next year's Summit.

Darryl Pascoe wins Volunteer Award

Our now-famous Darryl was announced the winner of the 2010 Intrepid Travel Volunteer Awards last night at a presentation ceremony held at St Matthews in the City church. He was chosen out of 21 finalists. Te Radar hosted the evening - very entertaining. The Honourable Tariana Turia, Minister for Community and Voluntary Sector presented the award to Darryl. What was really cool was that she referred to his humility in her speech, in the exciting lead up to the announcement.

Bonnie looked very proud of her dad, understandably so.

Predictably Darryl didn’t even cast a vote for himself however he had over 500 fans who voted for him.

He wins a $5000 travel prize with Intrepid Travel and we receive a cash and advertising package to the value of $10,000.

May Monthly Get-together

Another big bunch of Jammers rocked up for the monthly StarPod Jam In, although some may call it all sorts of other things. The truth is that the offical CoolJam ShowOff for this month was by the West Dazzling Dancers and they certainly showed off. Carola designed a 'circus' dance complete with lion taming, multi-coloured balls and flying trapeze.... well now I'm getting carried away, but there were clowns! The co-ordination of the ball handling was stunning. Then Hero Awards were presented to all the Jammers who travelled to Hamilton for the launch event last month. All the new Jammers from Hamilton certainly loved the big welcome from their brothers and sisters up the road from the big smoke, Auckland. So Hero Awards went to all the Velvet Vocals, all the Magic Movers and Ben Matthews. Patrick Bellett StarJam's photographer rode all the way to Hamilton on his motorbike to take photos at the Hamilton launch. A Hero Award for Patrick!! We'll catch up with you soon, Patrick. Another Hero for Hamilton was Charlotte, our trustee volunteer for the Velvet Vocals workshop who drove a carload of Velvets to the Tron. Daniel awarded Kristina Cullen a Hero Award for always helping set up at the monthly get-togethers. The FreeJam turned up some fantastic talent. We look forward to seeing more of it next month. Meantime stay cool all you Jammers

News from Auckland...

It's monthly get-together time again for Auckland Jammers, friends and families. We've got loads of performance opportunities at tomorrow's monthly get-together. It's on Sat, 29th May...for more details contact the StarJam office by phone - 09 523 3500.

SEE YA THERE!!

Whangarei Jazzy Jamming represent!

Whangarei Jazzy Jamming rock. While only two Jammers could make it, they both represented StarJam finely at the recent Youth Week in Whangarei. Check out their moves with tutor Annalise!

As May Closes ...

Cheery StarJam greetings to all. If you are anywhere near Auckland today you will realise that Winter has arrived!

What's the latest?

Waikato workshops are going strong after a great launch and Karen has well and truly settled in. Hamilton Deputy Mayor Pippa Mahood even dropped in to check us out! No pressure Loren!

Congratulations to our very own Darryl Pascoe who has made it to the finalist stage in the Arts & Culture category for the 2010 Intrepid Traveller Volunteer Awards. Thank you to the StarJam community who voted hard out. Category winners and an overall winner will be announced on June 8!

Head over to our facebook page for the latest pics from Waikato and much much more!

xxx The StarJam Team

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