The City of Orange Eisteddfod will officially open on Friday morning at the Orange Function Centre to celebrate some of the most talented young performers the region has to offer.
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The competition has been in full swing since Tuesday when public speaking competitors stepped up for a battle of words in the speech and drama section.
On Friday, about 15 school choir groups will join the fray when they take part in the spoken verse competition.
Speech and drama committee member Meredie Wright said each of the schools taking part in the group performances have competed at the eisteddfod before.
“They are verse speaking choirs and they recite a poem they have to do two contrasting poems,” she said.
However, from Saturday, part of competition will shift to the the Orange Civic Theatre when dancers from across the Central West take to the stage.
The dancing will take place until August 27 with some of the region’s best young performers set to wow audiences with their talent.
About 54 school dance groups will also take part in a schools competition at the Orange Function Centre on August 18.
It is the only part of the dance competition held at the centre and it will include participants ranging from year 2 and under right up to experienced year 12 students.
Among with school performers will be three dance groups from Glenroi Heights Public School.
The school’s eisteddfod coordinator Katie Connell said she taught one dance group while two other teachers have also entered their year 1 and 2 classes in the competition.
“This is the third year I’ve had a group entered into the dancing.” Miss Connell said.
“It’s a jazz dancing sort of style and the students have been working really hard to perfect the dances and I think [the audience] should be entertained by the dance.
“A lot of the children don’t dance outside of this.”
Miss Connell said because most students don’t have opportunities to dance outside of school, she lets them choose to take part in the eisteddfod rather than her selecting participants.
Tanya Marschke
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
