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Please call the pharmacy for details Sat 10 am - 2 pm and to book your appointment. Sun & Holidays Closed Page 2 Senior Scope • 204-467-9000 • [email protected] V10 N9 • Feb 14 - Mar 6 SPOTLIGHT: Leslee Silverman, cont’d from front page At age ten, she went on to Manitoba Manitoba Theatre Company directed by model. We do professional work, only in ipation when kids run in the building, Theatre School (famous in the country John Hirsch. There would be people like this case we do it for kids. We teach chil- whether four years old or teenagers. It for being the theatre school that a whole Martha Henry and Cedric Smith, and we dren to experience writing and creating really is empty space...they run into this generation of people who developed what students, by the time we were teenagers, their own material while they get to watch empty space where they’ll just be getting was called ‘Canadian theatre’ came from) were working backstage and helping the professionals. So it’s that two thrust plat- to know themselves for two hours...and on the corner of Portage and Main (then actresses and actors, and writing and form which I was introduced to by British how to empathize with other people with called East Portage), where she attended performing our own material. So when educators like John Hirsch and David and joy, and that’s pretty fantastic!” classes two to four times per week. they say that Winnipeg is a cultural hot Gloria Latham. So for me, I wasn’t sur- Fantastic indeed! Now, whenever I “What happened was, at Dominion bed, it’s a BIG legacy! That would have prised after leaving Winnipeg at age would hear the word ‘theatre’, I would East Street Theatre (on the very corner of been in the 60’s, and there was no place twenty and returning to Winnipeg, that I think of a fantasy world, an escape from Portage and Main) there would be pro- like that in Canada! And our place here found myself working and building (from everyday issues...but what Leslee has fessional productions. It was the former (MTYP), is a direct descendant of that the ground up!) a theatre for young peo- helped do here is use theatre to bring ple- doing exactly what I often say saved that fantasy world together with real life my life! It took me through Junior High and issues as a problem solving outlet, for High School and allowed me to be pas- children in particular. sionate; to be with a group of people that “Theatre is an inch of real life, but a lot enjoyed saying “what if?”...and being goes on in that inch of real life!” imaginative as opposed to being cool She strongly believes that in order to and popular. It allowed me a way to feel work in an art form, you need to be in it, excited and confident! And I don’t think right now, in the present; and to be able much has changed, from what I see in the to be where kids are right now. 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Leslee Silverman V10 N9 • Feb 14 - Mar 6 Senior Scope • 204-467-9000 • [email protected] Page 3 Leslee Silverman, cont’d 2012 Manitoba Lotteries 55 Plus Games Announced The Manitoba Lotteries 55 Plus age-friendly games to encourage all Games were announced by Healthy Manitobans, who are 55 years of age or Living, Seniors and Consumer Affairs older to participate, have fun, make Minister Jim Rondeau on February 2nd friends and inspire others to live actively," at the Wellness Institute at Seven Oaks added Evanchuk. Evanchuk emphasizes General Hospital. that the 55 Plus Games are for those of The 55 Plus Games are scheduled every age, ability and experience. for June 12-14, 2012 and will take place Maureen Sigurgeirson and Kris in Arborg, Manitoba, 100 kms north of Gudmundson are Co-chairs of the Winnipeg, just north of Gimli. This will be Arborg Host Committee of the 55 Plus the 29th year for the Games which first Games. They are very excited to be host- started in 1983. ing the Games again and showcasing The purpose of the 55 Plus Games is the town of Arborg and the surround- Leslee Silverman to provide a sport and recreation outlet ing area. Arborg is not new to this as Arborg’s Heritage Village sign. “To be able to create from the very for friendly competition, to promote cul- they hosted the 55 Plus Games in large pool of adult material is one thing..