2013 Speech Festival - UIMF

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Saturday, February 23rd, 2013
9am, 2pm, 7pm.

The Upper Island Musical Festival is again showcasing a thrilling season of talented speech, poetic, and dramatic monologue performances from Nanaimo and area youth and young adults. Nanaimo arts enthusiasts, poetry and literature lovers of all ages will be entertained by a variety of Shakespeare, humorist, improvisational, and theatrical performances.

For more than 80 years, the Upper Island Musical Festival has provided opportunities and venues for young dancers, pianists, singers, violinists, dramatic orators, and other musicians to perform in front of enthusiastic and supportive audiences. Most performers are between the ages of 8 and 18, although there are several recital categories for adults. Their performances are observed by qualified and highly respected adjudicators, who provide encouragement and advice for improvement. The most successful performers go on to represent Nanaimo and area in the Performing Arts BC festival each spring.

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The Speech section will be adjudicated this year by Alison Matthews.
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Alison Matthews is the voice and text coach for Vancouver�s Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. She has taught in the theatre department at Capilano University in North Vancouver, and public speaking at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, as well as adjudicating at competitive speech festivals across Western Canada for the past twelve years.

In her twenty years of professional acting, she has extensive film and television experience (selected credits include recurring roles on acclaimed series such as Battlestar Galactica and Beggars and Choosers, and featured roles in films such as Disney's Snowdogs), as well as stage roles with major regional theatre companies such as the Vancouver Playhouse and Victoria�s Belfry Theatre. A professional voice-over artist for seventeen years, Alison is heard regularly on TV & radio, in animation series, and in documentary narrations.

Alison holds a M.F.A. in theatre from the University of British Columbia as well as an Associateship in speech & drama from Trinity Guildhall London.