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Gang Show 2009 Auditions
Yes it's that time again!.. hold on to your loose bits, cos here comes!!!....
GANG SHOW 2009
Please remember these dates for the auditions!
Sunday 14th September 2008
Saturday 20th September 2008
District HQ,
Balls Road,
Birkenhead
Between 10.00am and 4pm
This year we are only holding these two auditions, there will be no first rehearsal auditions, so if you can't make either of these dates phone Paul on 07974797069. Also you must be a registered member of Scouting in Birkenhead or Bebington to audition!
A slight change to the auditions this year, we will be giving you your chance to impress us! Please bring along a song, a dance, a joke, in fact anything which you have practiced to do for us! This will be more X Factor or Britain's Got Talent style than our usual auditions, but we need to find out the hidden talent in our cast. Don't worry if you haven't got a piece, we will find something for you to do!
Come along and give it a go, ask around, anyone in your group who has been in a Gang Show will tell you what great fun it is!
See you all at the auditions......
Graham and Paul
Gangshow Auditions | Beaver Fun/Activity Celebration Day | Cub Fun/Activity Celebration Day | Scout Fun/Activity Celebration Day | Memories of 1929
Beaver Fun/Activity Centenary Celebration Day:
28th September 2008
Venue : Hadlow Fields, Camp site & Activity Centre, Willaston
Times :-
(Activities)10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.
(BBQ/Bonfire) 4.00p.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Cost : £8.00 per participant
Please get numbers and money to Karen Milnes 2 weeks before your section's activity day date (cash would be preferable at that time to enable her to have the money to buy supplies for the BBQ etc)
Activities :-
Circus skills including Juggling, Diabolo and Devil Sticks, Unicycle, Stilts and Balancing, Plate Spinning
Competitions :-
Welly-Wanging, Tug-of-War, Best Guy (The theme for the guy is something from history 100 years ago)
Please Note :-
Please Wear Uniforms and bring - Waterproofs and a packed lunch
Gangshow Auditions | Beaver Fun/Activity Celebration Day | Cub Fun/Activity Celebration Day | Scout Fun/Activity Celebration Day | Memories of 1929
Cub Fun/Activity Centenary Celebration Day:
18th September 2008
Venue : Hadlow Fields, Camp site & Activity Centre, Willaston
Times :-
(Activities)10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.
(BBQ/Camfire) 4.00p.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Cost : £8.00 per participant
Please get numbers and money to Karen Milnes 2 weeks before your section's activity day date (cash would be preferable at that time to enable her to have the money to buy supplies for the BBQ etc)
Activities :-
Circus skills including Juggling, Diabolo and Devil Sticks, Unicycle, Stilts and Balancing, Plate Spinning
Additional activities :-
Ropework, Lanyard Making
Please Note :-
Please Wear Uniforms and bring - Waterproofs and a packed lunch
Gangshow Auditions | Beaver Fun/Activity Celebration Day | Cub Fun/Activity Celebration Day | Scout Fun/Activity Celebration Day | Memories of 1929
Scout Fun/Activity Centenary Celebration Day:
4th October 2008
Venue : Hadlow Fields, Camp site & Activity Centre, Willaston
Times :-
(Activities)10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.
(BBQ/Campfire) 4.00p.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Cost : £10.00 per participant
Please get numbers and money to Karen Milnes 2 weeks before your section's activity day date (cash would be preferable at that time to enable her to have the money to buy supplies for the BBQ etc)
Activities :-
Ropework, Lanyard Making, Laser Clay Pidgeon Shooting, Laser Target Shooting, Climbing Wall, Archery
Please Note :-
Please Wear Uniforms and bring - Waterproofs and a packed lunch
Gangshow Auditions | Beaver Fun/Activity Celebration Day | Cub Fun/Activity Celebration Day | Scout Fun/Activity Celebration Day | Memories of 1929
Memories of 1929
Some memories from the 1929 Jamboree sent to us by Norman Brindley
Norman writes ----
This year is the centenary of the Scout Movement, but I remember very well celebrating the Coming of Age of the Scout Movement – on the 21st Anniversary of its foundation, when the 3rd World Jamboree was held in August 1929 in Arrowe Park, Birkenhead. It was held in Birkenhead because when, in 1908, after the experimental camp on Brownsea Island, Baden-Powell visited many places to lecture on his new idea for training boys, Birkenhead was the first place to respond, and the 1st Birkenhead YMCA Boy Scout Troop was started – the first Scout Troop in the world
I was born in Birkenhead on 12th January 1919, so when the 21st Anniversary Jamboree was held in Arrowe Park I was ten years old, living at 46 Everest Road. I was then in the Wolf Cub Pack of the 3rd Birkenhead (British Red Cross Society’s Own) Scout Group, when Bill Sigley was Akela and John Pennington was Baloo. My uncle, Frank Brindley, was the Scoutmaster, and Archie Lenney was the Group Scoutmaster
Anyone in Scout or Cub uniform was admitted free to the Jamboree, and I was there almost every day. There had been heavy rain just before the opening, and the outstanding feature of this Jamboree was mud, coupled with the happy cheerfulness of the campers
Cubs had a special day, when all the local Associations put on displays. Birkenhead Cubs told the story of Mowgli and Shere Khan, and I was sent by my pack to some auditions (if you can have an audition of mime), and I was chosen from all the cubs in Birkenhead for the part of Mowgli. In a marquee in Arrowe Park, I stripped down to a loin cloth, and was rubbed all over with a brown liquid, then ran into the middle of the arena. The other cubs were on the other side of the arena and I couldn’t see them clearly against the large crowd of spectators, so I ran zigzag towards them till I was close enough to see where I was to go. (Afterwards, a Scouter congratulated me on my depiction of Mowgli hunting!)
While I acted out the story in mime (it had to be in mime, because the arena was huge, and there were then, of course, no cordless microphones), the cubs sang, to the tune of Frere Jacques : -
Mowgli's hunting, Mowgli's hunting,
Kill Shere Khan, Kill Shere Khan
Skin the cattle-eater, skin the cattle-eater,
Rah rah rah, Rah rah rah
It was only long afterwards that I realised that I had played an important rôle on a unique occasion
Unfortunately, I have no record of this - there were newspaper reports, but no mention of individual names, and no photographs.
Thanks to Norman ( who now resides in Bedfordshire ) for this report, and the District send their best wishes to him and his family
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