A COMPETITION has been launched to find inspirational ideas for next year's Henley Youth Festival.
Festival founder Alfie Hay will shape the third act of his cantanta on the best suggestions submitted under the festival theme of "imagine".
The composer said: "We are asking people to imagine how they want Henley to be. It can be a dream and doesn't have to be realistic.
"It can be anything - a drawing, a model, a sentence, a phrase. It can be as simple a suggesting saying 'hello' to people in the street." The cantata will be peformed by 400 children at the Hexagon in Reading during the annual festival in March.
To mark a decade since the new millennium, it will follow a similar structure to the performance in 2000.
It will feature a feud between the vying powers of the goddess Isis, who symbolizes the natural qualities of the river, and the River Thames, which represents commerce and business. The third act will see young people voicing their opinions against both institutions and performers will hold placards with some of the favourite competition entries on them.
The competition idea follows last month's youth conference held at Gillotts School in Henley and the resulting festival Burst the Bubble campaign, which focuses on the town's future and gives young people their say.
The Standard, a festival spsonor, is supporting the competition and entries can be dropped off or posted to our offices in Station Road, Henley, until December 12. The overall winner will receive £50 and the ideas will be published in the Standard as well as featured in the cantata.
For £50, businesses can sponsor T-shirts featuring their logos that will be worn by the cantata performers. If you are interested, email Mrs McClure at helenmc.hyf@googlemail.com
Published on 03 November 2009
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