INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / JUNE 19, 1990

 

 

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They’ll be laughing and singing at
Open House 790

any of us have learned to
juggle careers, families,
and outside interests.

How would you like to learn to
just...juggle?

That's right. Planning for
Douglas College’s Open House ’90
is steaming along, and the
College’s Community Programs
and Services is going to hold a
series of condensed versions of the
many workshops that they offer to
the community each year.

"We've decided to do mini-
conferences," says Community
Programmer Geraldine Murphy,
who is the C.P. & S. Open House
Department Representative.
"We’re just going to take out little
chunks that people can attend."

One of them will be a juggling
workshop, but you'll be able to try
everything from chemistry, to first
aid and CPR, to learning how to
overcome shyness, how to buy a
personal computer, and how to
prepare for a job interview. And

it’s all for free!

Some of the more curious
workshops are called Laugh For
The Health Of It, I’d Like To Teach
The World To Sing, and Boning Up

 

On Osteoporosis.

The mini-conferences will give
not only the public, but also facul-
ty, staff, and students a chance to
see what Community Programs &
Services has to offer. And as Mur-
phy points out, people can learn
while having fun, and hopefully
become aware of the many
workshops and seminars that they

could pursue further with C.P. & S.
"There’s the entertainment fac-
tor, there’s education, and we'll try
to follow them up, so as to attract
more people from the community
to take courses in January, after
the Open House is finished," she
says.

Although plans are still tenta-
tive, Murphy is looking forward to
Open House ’90. "I’ve had good
response from our faculty group,
and we'll be able to show what a
variety of programs that we pro-
vide. It’s going to be fun." &

 

 

Say WHAT?!

“Anybody can act. Most of us do nothing else.”
— Richard J. Needham, author

 

Career on stage likely for once-terrified actor

r The night Patrick Gallagher performed in front of an audience for

 

 

 

 

 

Patrick Gallagher

the first time, he was so scared he nearly bolted from the theatre

just before the curtain rose.

But that was nearly two years ago. He cut his teeth in the Douglas
College Theatre Program, and now Gallagher has been accepted into the
acting program at the prestigious National Theatre School of Canada.

"It’s reputed to be the best theatre school in North America," he says.
"They hold auditions across the country, but they only accept twelve

people each year."

Gallagher, who was born in New Westminster and grew up in the
lower mainland, is unassuming when he speculates as to why he was
chosen above other budding young actors and actresses. "I got really
lucky," he says. "Luck has a lot to do with it. They have criteria, and I’m
sure there were a lot of people who deserved to get in, but I fit the
criteria. There are students from this College who are really talented

who applied and did not make it."

 

please see GALLAGHER on page 8

 

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