June 9 **** Shaw Garden Tour *** rain or shine! June 27 Guild Dress Rehearsal Come Back, Little Sheba Evening, Royal George.

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1 PRESIDENT S MESSAGE MAY 2012 Inside this issue: MARK YOUR CALENDARS! TEST YOURSELF! 2 SHAW GUILD EVENTS 2012 GARDEN TOUR 3 Peter Barwell Clearly I am no good at scotching rumours. I have said goodbye to many Guild members over the last few weeks, but I am going NO- WHERE. See you this year, next year, sometime Over the past few weeks we have enrolled all Guild members in the AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act) training (see p. 8). This had to be implemented very quickly and the Board decided that as most members come into contact with the patrons at sometime, we may as well try to include everyone. June 9 **** Shaw Garden Tour *** rain or shine! See page 3 for details or June 27 Guild Dress Rehearsal Come Back, Little Sheba Evening, Royal George HOSTING CAPTAINS CAVORT PHOTOS 4 5 Thank you to all those who have completed the on-line course or in-house training. While your Guild membership or hosting volunteer status does not depend on it, we wish to ensure we are in compliance with the Act. For those who found the on-line course trying or challenging, please do not worry as additional opportunities for training will be made available. Aug 13 Aug 27 Sep 20 Oct 27 BBQ Annual Shaw vs Stratford Cricket Match Set Changeover Court House Guild Members Day AODA TRAINING UPDATE 8 CRICKET MATCH 8 We are certainly back in business with the first set of openings behind us. Those who have seen any of these shows will have been Nov 25 Annual General Meeting Volunteers working to support and promote the Shaw Festival

2 (Answers: 4, 1) PRESIDENT S MESSAGE, CONT D impressed. To follow My Fair Lady with Ragtime is quite some achievement. Make sure that you see as many as possible as quickly as possible. And when you have seen them, tell all your friends to go. April saw us hosting the CAVORT conference for the first time. It was a great success. Our visitors were enthralled with everything they saw. My thanks to Charmian Entine and her committee, plus the volunteers for the event for their great work, for organizing such a wonderful event showcasing all that Niagara-on-the Lake has to offer. The conference took place on the wettest few days that Spring had to offer, which reminds me that we need better weather for our upcoming Garden Tour on Saturday 9th June. Please buy a ticket and come along as we have some wonderful gardens on show this year. This is now our main fundraiser. Let's make it the best yet! And June also ushers in the Guild Dress Rehearsal, Come Back, Little Sheba. This is at the Royal George on June 27th and with Corinne Koslo playing opposite Ric Reid, this will be a night of great drama. Jackie Maxwell is the director. Miss it at your peril. TEST YOURSELF! WHO AM I? 1. Steven Sutcliffe 2. Thom Allison 3. Benedict Campbell 4. Thom Marriott 5. Ben Sanders WHICH PLAY AM I SHOWN IN HERE? 1. Misalliance 2. French Without Tears 3. Ragtime 4. A Man and Some Women 5. Present Laughter Page 2 Shaw Guild Newsletter May 2012

3 SHAW GARDEN TOUR - SATURDAY, JUNE 9 - RAIN OR SHINE! This is our major fund raiser for the Shaw Festival. Please come out and enjoy it and don t forget to buy your raffle tickets for this year s great prizes! On-line brochure tickets for each play 2012 season at the Shaw Festival (value $1500) 2. 2 nights for 2 at Wellington House B & B (value $450) 3. Lunch for 4 at Stone Road Grille (value $150) 4. Wine Country Romance experience at Strewn Winery (value $100) 5. Gift certificate towards the treasure of your choice (value $50) at Pearls and Treasures Page 3 Shaw Guild Newsletter May 2012

4 HOSTING THE HOSTING SEASON is in full swing and Hosting Captains are working their way down the Guild Hosting list from the letter M. It always takes a few months to get through the entire hosting list the first time as all theatres are not in full production until June. Hosting Captains for this year are: Mora Richmond (finished) Peggy Bell (finished) Al Martin Violi Whitmee Luba Fraser Kathie Hill Adria Ryan Helen Self VACANT Marie Gillespie Jennifer Gardiner Joanne Forsyth Ann Nelson Elizabeth Rothmel Bruce Townsend Bud Moulson Josie O Brien Host - noun A person who receives or entertains other people as guests As you will see, there is an opening for a Hosting Captain and if you are interested in filling this vacancy please me at: billandmoyra@aol.com or telephone for further details or just to have your name put on the list for next year. A knowledge of and access to Microsoft Excel is necessary. Enjoy the season and please remember to contact your captain should you have to cancel a booking because of an emergency. Moyra McEachern Hosting Chair Page 4 Shaw Guild Newsletter May 2012

5 CAVORT CONFERENCE APRIL PHOTOS BY TERRY BABIJ From April 22 nd to 24 th, 2012 some 75 delegates attended the first international meeting of CAVORT Conference About Volunteers of Regional Theatre. Charmian Entine, Chair, CAVORT conference 2012 organizing committee, welcomes the visitors at a reception at Navy Hall. The conference took place at the Queen s Landing Hotel and the Shaw Festival Theatre, and brought together theatre volunteers from across North America. Large delegations from The Pasadena Playhouse, Actors Studio of Louisville, The Seattle Repertory Theatre and, of course, The Shaw Festival s Shaw Guild, attended. Well done! You and all your partners did a fabulous job with the CAVORT conference. Thanks so much! Joanne Euster, Seattle Repertory Organization Page 5 Shaw Guild Newsletter May 2012

6 International Theatre Conference in Niagara-on-the-Lake a great success Fantastic! A perfect CAVORT conference with the right mix of theatre, networking, pertinent workshops, Shaw emphasis and energizing for the volunteer. Page 6 Shaw Guild Newsletter May 2012

7 The group putting this on was so gracious and bent over backwards to make our stay enjoyable!! Kudos for a wonderful conference to Chair Charmian Entine and the members of her dedicated organizing committee: Peter Barwell Suzanne and Dale Daniels Judy and Peter Gill Sally and Jack Harmer Suzanne Hebert Marguerite Luczay Carol Reid Richard Ventresca THANK YOU! Thanks also to all the wonderful volunteers from the Guild who helped out during the conference. Page 7 Shaw Guild Newsletter March 2012

8 AODA TRAINING - KATHY HEIT Guild members accessibility training on-line and on-site Thank you to all the Shaw Guild Members who have already completed the training for all persons having any interaction with the public under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)! Sixty four members attended the first onsite training held at the Shaw Festival Theatre Library on May 14 th. Two further sessions were scheduled by Rick Fokkens from the Shaw for May 28 th in the Festival Theatre Library. This brings the total number of Guild Members who have completed either the online or on-site training to over 50%. We are hopeful that all remaining members will have completed this before the end of June. We will advise you of further sessions to be scheduled. In the meantime, If you have any questions or concerns about the training, please me at heitkam@sympatico.ca or call me at Once again, thank you all for your participation! Kathy Heit Chair, Orientation and Education TO DATE, OVER 50% OF GUILD MEMBERS HAVE COMPLETED THE TRAINING ON-LINE OR THROUGH ON- SITE TRAINING A DATE T0 REMEMBER: ANNUAL SHAW VS STRATFORD CRICKET MATCH The Annual Shaw versus Stratford Cricket match will be played in Niagara on the Lake on Monday, August 27th - full details re the event and tickets will be the July Guild Newsletter - but please pencil in the date. For those who wish to learn more about this fascinating game suggested reading is: How I bowled a Maiden Over: by Cass A. Nova Life behind the Wicket: Silly Mid-Offs: Googlies and Google: by Conrad White by I.M. Fielding by Spin Bowler Here's to victory on August 27th. Sheila Hill Page 8 Shaw Guild Newsletter May 2012