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25 May 2012

Council rescues Shakespeare festival

7/06/2006 12:00:00 a.m.

WELLINGTON City Council has found $20,000 to keep the Shakespeare Festival in Wellington.

At the National Sheilah Winn Festival of Shakespeare in Schools on the weekend, Deputy Mayor Alick Shaw announced the one-off grant that will keep the festival running in 2007.

But the festival still needs to find sponsors if it is to ensure its survival says, Chief Executive Dawn Sanders. A $30,000 shortfall remains.

"We are not all the way there. It is the barest minimum we can work with," Sanders says. She is confident other sponsors can be found.

"When there is a base of funding, others feel confident and it can build up. I can’t thank the council enough."

Wellington High School was the bolter at this year’s festival. The college won the Bernina Award for Outstanding Costume/Design, and the NZADIE Award for Imagination and Commitment to the Text, while students Max Hardy (Peter Vere Jones Award for Outstanding Performer) and Jack Buchanan (Sam Wanamaker Award for Most Promising Actor) won performance awards.

The other Wellington winners were: Bernina/SGCNZ Shakespeare Costume Design Supreme Winner – Eloise Jack, Queen Margaret’s College; Dick Smith Electronics Music Competition Award Supreme Winner – Isaac Stone, Tawa College; Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School Award for Most Effective Design – Tawa College; Organisers’ Award for Most Cooperative School – Wellington east Girls’ College; and SGCNZ/Sheilah Winn Award for the Most Thought Provoking Performance – Tawa College.

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