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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Hamilton ... StarJam is HERE!

A brilliant Saturday in Hamilton saw about 200 people turn out to support StarJam in the Waikato. Deputy Mayor Pippa Mahood was very kind in her introduction and welcome and a little birdy tells me she will be checking in on some of the workshops as the term progresses. Thank you for your support Pippa!

Doug Arcus & Gay Shirley from the DV Bryant Trust, MP Tim MacIndoe, Sandra Larsen from Trust Waikato, Denise Harding from the WEL Energy Trust and representatives from many of the organisations that have been so welcoming to us came along to watch our Auckland Jammers welcome the Hamilton crew to the StarJam family in true StarJam style.

The Velvets, the Magic Movers and Ben Matthews entertained the crowd and then everyone got up on their feet for a Dance Jam that almost brought the house down!

A big thank you to everyone who made the day possible and good luck to our brand new Waikato Jammers for the start of your workshops this week.

xx Team StarJam

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April Happenings

A bit of a chill in the air in the morning signals that Winter is just around the corner folks. Seems like just yesterday it was bikinis and barbeques!

Here at the StarJam office we are counting the days until our Hamilton launch on Saturday April 24th.

We have a joyful display up at the Hamilton Library,

our new Waikato Co-ordinator, Karen, is in place and we have a bunch of young people enrolled in new work

shops which begin April 26th.

At StarJam we try to make sure we thank all the fabulous people that help us every day with a host of different things.

So we were delighted to receive our own little 'thank you' card from Jammer Katrina, thanking the team for something we recently helped her out with. Thanks K!

But wait, there's more ... back in December, our CEO & Founder Julie Bartlett was nominated as a 'Local Hero'

in the 2010 NZer of the Year Awards. While Julz didn't quite make it to the finals in the face of some pretty tough competition, just last week she and a handful of other Aucklanders were presented with medals in recognition of their achieve-ments in the community. Way to go Julz!

So ...... roll on the end of the month when we are looking forward to more of the awesome hospitality that the Hamilton community has already shown us!

xx Team StarJam

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March Get-Together

It was Egg Extravaganza time at the March monthly get-together on Saturday with a treasure hunt and egg & spoon races. About 65 people turned up to get their Jam on and support the StarJam community.

To avoid things getting too messy, the races were run with orange ping pong balls instead of eggs which did prove quite a challenge on a windy day. Contestants showed some "creativeness" with the rules which kept "head official" (Roy!) on his toes. Slow and steady was how to win this one!!

The treasure hunt was a big success with Cadbury supplying the chocolatey marshmallow goodness.

The afternoon ended with a FreeJam and some lovely performances that had the crown joining in.

Another great get-together!!

xxTeam StarJam

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Gigs and Launches

Thank you to the Taiwanese in NZ Association for their performance invite at the weekend. A handful of the Velvets sang at the Association's Auckland AGM after a member was blown away by our gig at the 2010 NZer of the Year performance.

The Velvets stayed for a lovely lunch as well!

Thanks to Yutong & Roy for all their organising.

xx Team StarJam

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