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CONGRATULATIONS
To the students of JGDATA

The John Giller Drama and Theatre Academy were awared 2nd place for best dressed Carnival Parade group by the Mayor and Carnival Queen.

The theme this year was 'Take a Look, We're From a Book' and we dressed as pirates from the Seven Seas.

The Hunstanton Carnival Parade 2013 . . .

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On Sunday 30th June 2013, JGDATA were part of the procession fun.  We left the recreation ground at 1.00pm and walked in the parade in front of hundreds of cheering visitors, following through the High Street, past the arcades and along to Hunstanton Green where we all assembled for photos.  Take a look at us in the parade . . .
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The Hunstanton Carnival Perfomance 2013. . .

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JGDATA were asked to perfom at the 2013 Hunstanton Carnival and were very happy to be the Finale Act.  All the TWINKLING and SHOOTING Stars students, were fantastic true professionals, performing an outstanding show that was loved by the hundreds of visitors in the audience. 
Take a look at them in action . . .
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Commnets on the show . . .

Comment from Sarah Harris (Via facebook.)
A lovely afternoon, the children looked and sounded great. They have obviously been working really hard on this show!
Comment from Sarah Salmons (Via email.)
Hi John
I would like to leave a message for the everyone. 
It was an amazing performance and well worth the wait. Well done you little stars!! Thanks
Comment from Tony Bishopp (Via facebook.)
Hunstanton Carnival with the Excellent John Giller Drama and Theatre Academy well done all. The comments from the audience I spoke to were all very positive. xx
Comment from Joanne Owen (Via email.)
Dear John
The performance on Sunday was brilliant, you should be really proud of achieving such a high standard of performers they were amazing, and didn't they look like they were having fun doing it :)  although it was late it was well worth the wait.
Comment form John Wrigley (Via facebook.)
Well done fella , you and your kids should be very proud.  To see children happy and confident in what they are doing is so refreshing and what a pleasure it was to see JGDATA kids dancing and singing with great big smiles under such intense heat on Sunday......well done to you all, you're a credit to your academy but more impotantly yourselves...well done, can't wait to see what's next.
Comment from Nicola Stokes (Via facebook.)
Hi John. I just thought I'd pass on some comments made by a variety of my friends present and watching the arena events at the carnival. They all felt the group to be very well organised and presented, and remarked how surprised they were at how well they all kept time with each other and that they all knew exactly what to do. I think that's a great compliment to all your hard work as a director and the young people taking part . Nic
Comment from Rita Caldicott - Carnival Commitee (Via facebook.)
Fantastic as always x

And here's a motley bunch of Landlubbers . . .

Mums, dads and friends performing the Pirate's Hornpipe dance with the students as an encore . . .
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Thank you to Jo Giller for the photos - fantastic work.  Thank you to Sue Murkett for help with make-up and the parade and not forgetting a big thank you to Paul Barnett of Kings Oak Kitchens for his help with the parade too.
Click to go back to the Pirate's Picnic Page
Click to go to the Millbridge Care Home Pirate's Picnic show.
Click to go to the Hunstanton Drama Festival Pirate's Picnic show at the Princess Theatre