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Archived News
We have a K-Otic year ahead of us! Don't forget to check out the 'events' section for the things we are getting up to!
Following a grant of £10,000 from Awards for All, we have now started our first evening class in East Kilbride as of 1st November!! Read all about it in the East Kilbride news here! Meanwhile, our other classes are working towards their Christmas performances!
It's been a busy year for K-Otic! Most of our updates are now posted on our Facebook page (see'contact us' for the link!) In exciting news, we had a placement student from the University of Stirling, Janelle, with us in the Spring. With her help, we have compiled our first annual report! Click here to read it!
Phew! All of our Christmas performances are over! For details of the shows, please click the 'shows' link above! We held these performances in our community halls as fundraisers for our next Arts Centre Performance and I'm pleased to say we raised £847 which goes straight back in to our charity!
K-Otic have had a very busy week! On Wednesday 23rd November it was VASLan's Third Sector Awards and I'm pleased to say that K-Otic won the category of Arts, Culture and Heritage! It was a fantastic evening and it was amazing to hear about all the other great organisations that are out there! Also this week, our staff have had a fun training day and all of our staff have now had training in autism, Down's syndrome, epilepsy and learning difficulties! On Tuesday, some of our staff will be attending first aid training too.
Wow, what an amazing few months! On the 14th October we had a Hallowe'en disco which helped us raise £307! We also had a Stars In Your Eyes fundraiser on the 12th November which raised an amazing £1511! Finally, we held a pub quiz in the Tennents Training Academy which helped us raise a fantastic £845! Thank you to everyone who helped with these in any way, it really means a lot to us! All of our classes are currently working towards their Christmas performances, details in the 'events' link above!
We have had lots of good news recently! We have been lucky enough to recieve a grant of £2000 from The Act Foundation and a grant of £3448 from The Morrisons Foundation! After a tough year with grants and fundraising, this will be amazing help for the next year of our charity. We have also been organising some fundraising activities, more details on the 'events' section above!
After a fantastic weekend of shows, we have raised £486.79 for our charity! Thank you to everyone for your continued support! We will also be having a Hallowe'en Disco on the 14th of October - more information to be revealed soon!
All of our classes are working hard on their next performaces! Click 'events' at the top to find out more!
Well done to all of our groups who performed in the Arts Centre recently! DVDs of the performances will be available in classes in the next few weeks for £3 each. One of our Monday EK class members, Kirsten, is organising a sponsored walk on Monday 30th May! Please come along and join us, or sponsor those who are taking part! Every little helps!
All of our groups are looking forward to their performances this weekend! Click on the 'events' link above for more information!
The EK classes presented Jackie and the Beanstalk and Cinderella at the end of January! Well done to everyone involved! We're now looking forward to our fundaising evening on Friday 12th February! Details in the 'events' section above!
It's been a busy winter at K-Otic! Before we finished up for Christmas, the Coatbridge class presented their version of the Nativity, as did the Hamilton classes. The East Kilbride classes put on sneak preview performances of their pantomimes, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella! Both of which will be performed in the Arts Centre in January - see the 'events' link above for more information! All classes start back as of Friday 8th January - looking forward to another great year with K-Otic! We also raised almost £450 bag packing at B&M in East Kilbride! Sandra helped organise a donation for the Rutherglen and Cambuslang food bank! We've also had the fantastic news that the Robertson Trust have awarded us a grant to help towards the costs of keeping the Hamilton classes running for 3 years!
Some of our members from our East Kilbride Monday and Friday classes will be performing at the Lanarkshire AGM on Thursday (18th September). Unfortunatley family and friends cannot attend, however they will be repeating the performance at the Friday afternoon class at 1:30pm in Calderwood Community hall in East Kilbride! £2 entry at the door!
The East Kilbride Classes both performed Annie at the weekend - the shows went really well! Thank you to all of the people who help make this possible for our guys! And thank you to Linda Fabiani for her continued support! We raised a total of £425.32 for our charity in the process! The Friday classes also said goodbye to Megan this week as she had her last day before starting college! Good luck, Megan! She will still be teaching the Monday Hamilton classes :)
It's been a busy summer for everyone at K-Otic! The Monday and Friday EK classes are busy preparing their next performance of Annie! Our Hamilton and Coatbridge groups are preparing Jack and the Beanstalk. Click on the 'events' button at the top to find out when performances are! Our fun day in July helped us raise almost £200! Also - our kids summer club has now finished - thank you to everyone who came along!
It's been a busy few months at K-Otic! All of the classes presented Grease in April and May and the shows went fantastically! Some of the members from the Friday East Kilbride class also performed a few dances at the Arts Centre's 21st Birthday Party! There is a view of this in the 'videos' section above. Our EK Classes have also auditioned for their next show, which they will be starting work on in the coming weeks. Finally, June began on a sad note, as we said goodbye to the mum of one of our members. We'd like to thank the family for their kind collection for K-Otic at the funeral, where we raised £671.61 in Sadie's memory.
The East Kilbride classes performed Grease at the weekend and it went fantastically! Thank you to everyone who came along to support us! We made £283 in total from ticket sales and the raffle! The Hamilton and Coatbridge classes will be presenting their versions of Grease next week! Check the events link above for more details!
Happy Valentines day! Rehearsals for Grease are going well! Check out our facebook for some photos from rehearsals! Dates and times for the shows will be announced soon, but they will be in April!
Happy new year! Our classes are all back this week, so everyone can get back into their routines! Our East Kilbride class had fun with some games today, and then we were all put through their paces by Emma with a great new dance! Before Christmas, however, a few K-Otic elves went bag-packing on Christmas eve in Morrissons in Wishaw - and we made £891.82! Thank you to everyone who helped out, especially head-elf Mairi, for all her help on that day, and always! Looking forward to great things for K-Otic in 2015!
Our fundraising evening on Saturday night (6th December) was a huge success! We raise almost £800 for the charity! Combined with the fundraising day on the 22nd of November, we have raised over £1000 which is fantastic! The Coatbridge class also presented their first ever performance last week, Freezin' was performed on Friday and went fantastically! We now have an additional class on Monday afternoons in Hamilton with Sandra and Megan, and we have welcomed back Emma as our choreographer for Monday afternoons in East Kilbride. Emma was our dance teacher for the very first K-Otic show and we're glad to have her back! The East Kilbride classes will be performing their panto Jack Frost vs Santa Claus on Thursday for the pupils at Greenburn primary. Our last classes before Christmas will be the week of the 15th December!
Lots happening at K-Otic just now! Currently we're getting ready for all of our Christmas events and shows! Check out the 'events' link above for more information on the upcoming performances from each group, and all of the festive fundraising activities we have! It's going to be a K-Otic Christmas!
We've been busy over at K-Otic, organising lots of events in the run up to Christmas! Firstly, a huge well done to the cast who performed the Lion King in Ferniegair Hall yesterday! It was a fantastic show! Also, this is Hallowe'en week so all of our classes will be taking breaks from their rehearsals to have Hallowe'en parties! The Monday afternoon group had theirs yesterday - lots of fabulous costumes! We will be having another Christmas Fair on Saturday 22nd November! Come along and watch our pantomime - Santa Claus vs Jack Frost, and have a browse at our stalls from local crafty people to pick up some last minute Christmas shopping! We also have our big fundraising evening on Saturday 6th December! Our Coatbridge group will be presenting their very first performance on Friday 5th December at 10am, and our East Kilbride group will be performing their pantomime in Greenburn Primary for the children there. It's going to be a busy few months!
Lots of exciting news this week at Camp K-Otic! We are having a fundraising evening on Saturday 6th December in Greenhills Bar, East Kilbride. There will be entertainment, a buffet, DJ and an exciting raffle (I am not kidding - we have Hilton hotel vouchers!) Tickets are £10 and are available at rehearsals or from contacting Helen: 07988768015. We will also be presenting a panto, written by one of our members, Sean. This will be presented to the lucky children of Greenburn Primary in December! December will also see the return of our Christmas Fair, with stalls for some last minute gift shopping and a chance to see the panto! More information on all of these things to follow. This week also saw the last session of K-Otic Fun Fitness! Thank you to everyone who came along and got fit over the summer! Our fitness chorographer, Lucy, will now be joining us on Fridays as a volunteer in the drama workshops! Our new class in Coatbridge is also going well! If anyone is interested, check out the Workshops page from the link above for more information! Finally, the newest version of our website went live today! Phew!
On Sunday 17th August, we performed Shrek as our summer show! This was the best one yet! A huge thank you to everyone who came along to support us, and everyone who helped us out in one way or another! We will be having a repeat on Friday 22nd August at Calderwood Community Hall for day centres/anyone who missed it on Sunday. We also are looking in to starting a class in the Coatbridge area. If this would interest you, please get in touch with Helen: 07988768015!
Lots of things happening for K-Otic this week! The photo section has been updated for the main website and the K-Otic 4 Kids website! Also - we will be beginning our new FITNESS CLASSES on Tuesday 8th June. These classes are fun, dance-based fitness classes with some games and sports thrown in too! Each session is £2 and there are classes for adults and children. See our fitness website for more information! (go to www.koticproductions.co.uk and click on the 'Fun Fitness' button!
Thank you to everyone who came along to the Ferniegair group's production of 'Joseph' last week! The highlights video is now on facebook :) Big changes coming to the website over the summer, watch this space!
Our production of Shugsy Malone in the EK Arts Centre on Sunday went fantastically! Thank you to all who came and showed their support! The cast had a great time! We'll be performing it again on Friday (9th) at Calderwood Community Hall. £3.50/32 concession for those who missed out! 1:30pm!
Rehearsals are going well for our next productions! Our EK adults classes will be presenting 'Shugsy Malone' in EK Arts Centre on 4th May! Ticket information will come soon! Information on the performances for the kids class and the Hamilton adults class will follow shortly!
More exciting news for K-Otic this morning! We have been chosen to be one of Asda Blantyre's chosen charities for the next two months! What this means is, when you shop in Asda Blantyre, just ask the person at the checkout for green tokens, and put them in the box with 'K-Otic Productions' on it, which should be near the front of the shop! Thank you to the Asda Foundation!
Hello! Exciting plans behind the scenes of K-Otic! I (Alex) will be starting a fitness/games class as an extention of K-Otic! More information to follow, make sure you have us on Facebook for updates!
Well done to everyone who came along to the show yesterday! 'Rotten' was a huge success! Thank you to all who came along/helped in any way with the production, your help is invaluable! We raised £325 for the charity!
We hope you've all had a great Christmas and New Year! We are delighted to announce a new class! These will be held on Mondays from 10am-12pm in Ferniegair Community hall in Hamilton! See the workshops page for more information!
A huge thank you to everyone who came to our Christmas Fundraiser yesterday! We made £157 for K-Otic, and every penny always helps! Hope everyone has a great Christmas and New year!
Rehearsals for 'Rotten' are going well! Our next event will be our Christmas Fundraiser on Friday 13th December, 1pm-3pm in Calderwood Community Hall. Come and do some Christmas shopping at our stalls, selling a selection of home made crafts, whilst being serenaded with Christmas songs performed by the talented K-Otic Performers! Tickets are £5 and include tea/coffee and home baking!
Rehearsals are underway for our next show! We will be presenting 'Rotten' (which is loosly based on Wicked!) in January! Remember we are having a cocktail and cupcake night on the 8th December (click here for more info) and alongside that we have a brand new text donation service from JustGiving.com. To donate to K-Otic, simply text the phrase 'CAKE10 £2' (or any amount you can spare!) to 70070.
So the talent show was a huge success! On the Friday show, we raised about £160 for K-Otic which was fantastic! Well done to all of our cast, and thank you to everyone who helped out and donated items for the raffle.
The last rehearsal for the talent show went really well today! Doors open at 1pm on Friday - tickets are £3.50/£2 and we will be holding another raffle! In other news, we now have a spin-off branch called 'K-Otic 4 Kids'! More info to be posted very soon! Also want to say a huge thank you to Mairi, who donated a huge bundle of costumes for K-Otic 4 Kids!
Exciting news for K-Otic! We are going to be starting up a K-Otic Kids! We are busy creating links with Reach Autism, who are looking for a couple of after school workshops for children with Autism aged between 3 and 15. Go K-Otic!
It's nice to be able to say that our Monday class is now FULL! We still have spaces on a Friday, and are thinking about expanding to another day, so, as usual, get in touch if interested! Our next event will be talent show fundraisers, which will be held on Friday 20th September in Calderwood Community Hall and on Monday 23rd September in Kirktonholme Hall. Both shows will be from 1:30pm until 2:30pm. Doors will open at 1 for sale of juice, cakes, DVDs and raffle.
So our summer term is officially over, and Good God in Govan was a huge success! K-Otic doesn't take breaks though, and we are resuming as normal with our Monday and Friday sessions in the usual places! Some exciting things planned for the next term, look out for updates!
The show was BRILLIANT! Well done to all of our actors, and a big thank you to all parents/carers, everyone at the Arts Centre for being so welcoming and everyone who helped out on the day! Photos from the show are now up! Remember we have a second showing of 'Good God in Govan' on Friday 9th August at Calderwood Community Hall! Tickets on the door - £3.50/£2!
The summer term has been going fantastically! It's nice to see the classes so busy! Everyone has worked really hard and I think it will show on Sunday! Just as a reminder - Friday 2nd August is our dress rehearsal and we have asked as many Monday members as possible to come along so we can see how the show is looking! Then it's the big day! Sunday 4th August, 2pm, EK Arts Centre. We are also doing a second show on Friday 9th August in Calderwood Community Hall for anyone who can't make it on Sunday! All tickets are £3.50/£2 concession.
Wow, what a fantastic start to the summer school! Thank you to everyone who came! We spent the day doing auditions - and have our cast for 'Good God in Govan'! It's going to be a great summer, let the fun begin! To those of you coming on Fridays, we'll see you there, at Calderwood Community Hall in Blackbraes Road. For the Monday people, we'll see you back at Kirktonholme next week!
First day of the Summer school tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing you all there to start the fun!
Bit of a different session today, as we read through the first draft of the script for the summer show! It's always helpful to get input and see what our members like! Helen will now go away and incorporate the ideas from today's session in to the final script, so that we can hand these out on the 1st of July when the Summer club starts! We also had fun playing some drama games - it's nice to have sessions like this between shows to relax and have a bit of a giggle! See you all next week :)
We had load of fun at our aftershow party on Monday! We even had a spontaneous dance competition! Photos are now in the gallery. See you all on Monday!
Hope you all had a nice bank holiday! K-Otic will be back on Monday 13th :)
The show was brilliant today!! Thank you to everyone who helped, and thank you to the wonderful staff at the Arts Centre for all their hard work. Too many people to name individually, but we have a lot of lovely helpers who we appreciate a lot! Pictures are coming up just now! We had a few technical difficulties (my fancy camera stopped working and the video cut out halfway through!) but we still got some great photos! REMINDER: We are off next Monday (6th) as it is a BANK HOLIDAY! So cast - enjoy the break and we'll see you on the 13th!
Last rehearsal went really well! The show is looking amazing - well done to everyone for all their hard work! The show is on Monday - 29th April at 1:30pm! Tickets for Wee Hoodie are availiable from us or from East Kilbride Arts Centre (01355 261000). Hopefully see lots of people there for our best show yet!
Really good rehearsal in the new hall on Monday! We now have tickets for sale for our next production - Wee Hoodie, which will be performed on 29th April at 1:30pm in East Kilbride Arts Centre. Tickets are £2 and are availiable from us or from the Arts Centre (01355 261000)!
First day in the new hall was a success! Not long now until the show :)
We hope everyone had a good easter! Monday will be our first day in the new hall (Kirktonholme Community Hall) - not long now until the show!
Wow - the show is really looking amazing now! Today was the last day in the Alison Lea community centre! We are off next Monday for Easter, and after that we will be in Kirktonholme Community Hall! There are pictures on the facebook with directions if you're stuck :)
We had some website problems this week, but things appear to be back to normal now :) Monday's rehearsal went really well - the show is really beginning to look good! We're also moving to a new building after easter (Kirktonholme Hall, 110 Kirktonholme Road, Westmains, East Kilbride, G74 1BD). If anyone has any problems finding their way for the first time - please call Helen for advice! The 31 bus goes past the hall. We are off on Monday 1st April for easter, and Monday 8th April will be the first day in the new hall. Please don't go back to the Alison Lea after easter as the council are knocking it down so it might not be there!
We had a quieter class today, due to the unexpected blizzards! But we still had a lot of fun playing games and practicing some of the new dances for the show!
Another fun rehearsal! This is shaping up to be a good show!
Monday's rehearsal was fun! We read through the script for our next show, "Wee Hoody" and held auditions. We now have the cast to perform at the end of April in EK Arts centre!
Today we raised £603.38 bag packing for Sainsburies! Thanks to Joe, Peter, Emma, Kirsten, Sharon, Michael and Jordan for helping! And thanks to Craig Wilson and all of the helpful Sainsburies staff too!
The show at Lifestyles in Fairhill went really well today! Thanks to Megan for standing in as Dorothy, and to the new members for joining in so quickly and opening the show with an Elvis song! Please remember we are bag packing at the Sainsburies at the Retail Park in East Kilbride next Saturday from 10am-5pm and any help would be appreciated even if only for an hour!
Remember tomorrow we are meeting at Lifestyles in Fairhill to take 'Ken and Deirdre - A Love Story' on tour!
The show today couldn't have went better! Well done to everyone involved and thank you to everyone who came to the show, and to everyone who supported us in one way or another! Cast, we will see you tomorrorw for the aftershow party!
Our last rehearsal went brilliantly today, guys! The show looks fab, so well done! Thanks to Kirsty and her team too for coming to watch, glad you had fun!
Some new photos from yesterday's rehearsal are now up in our gallery!
Another fab rehearsal today! Everyone worked extra hard and I think it has paid off! Photos from today should be up tomorrow! Not long to go now, keep practicing! We are also looking for people to help out with bag packing in Sainsburies on the 9th February. If anyone can lend a hand for even an hour or so, please get in touch with Helen!
It has just been announced that we will be bag packing on Saturday 9th February at Sainsburies at the Retail Park in East Kilbride! This will be a great opportunity to raise funds for K-Otic and spread the word! Hope you can make it along to help!
We had our first class of 2013 on Monday and it went really well - well done to everyone for all of your hard work, especially after a few weeks off for the holidays! Everything is coming together now, with the arrival of the new costumes too! Next week we'll be handing out discs with the songs and dances on them so you can practice at home for the last few weeks before the show! Tickets are available now through the Arts Centre or from Helen and are only £3 each!
Lots of things happening the past few weeks! As you will see we have had a complete makeover and re-design of the website! Hope you all like it! We also now have a 'donate' button on our Fundraising page! Rehearsals have now finished for Christmas but we all hope you have a happy Christmas and New Year and we will see you all in January!
Congratulations to Betty McEwan who won our raffle on 1st December!
Lots going on at K-Otic just now, so apoligies for being a bit quiet! As you may know, we are officially a registered charity now, which will make fundraising easier. There are big changes coming to the website over December so keep checking for updates, hopefully shouldn't have the website down for longer than a day. Today's class was run by Megan and was a huge success - everyone is doing really well with their lines so well done!
Thank you to everyone who sponsored us for our walk around the James Hamilton Heritage Loch! And to those who came by our stall in East Kilbride Town Centre last week - we managed to raise almost £800 from these two events alone which is just fantastic! There's photos from these events under the 'fundraising' link above. Also, click here to see the article in the East Kilbride news :)
Well, it certainly has been a great first few weeks back at K-Otic! There has been a few changes, but I would say we are having even more fun than ever! Just a small reminder to anyone who has not paid yet to speak to Helen at the next meeting! And everyone keep badgering your family and friends for sponsor money for our sponsored walk next Sunday!
Well, the show yesterday could not have gone better! Well done to everyone for doing such a good job! And our more relaxed performance this afternoon was even more fun with all the hiccups and dancing at the end. Thanks for making the summer classes so enjoyable - hopefully see you all again soon :)
Today is the day! Good luck, everyone!
The costumes look brilliant! Just over two weeks to go!
Well everyone should now have a script and a CD so get learning those lines and practicing those dances! And if anyone is interested in continuing drama after the summer, or knows someone who would be, get in contact with Helen! Also, here is the link for our article in the EK News!
Well done everyone for auditioning yesterday! Everyone did really well and I hope you're pleased with the casting! First read through of the script went quite well, so get learning lines everyone as there's just over 4 weeks until the show! We can do it! Also, look out for our article in the EK News, photographer did take a lot of photos....
Had a fantastic start on Monday! Unfortunatley, we were unable to obtain the liscence to present 'We Will Rock You" for our show in August. However, we will now be working on a script adapted from a story written by one of our members - 'Mermaid of the Sea' by Sean Keir. Looking forward to auditions on Thursday! Remember there are parts suitable for everyone, so come along with something prepared, or simply just tell us why you think you'd be good at the part you want!
Good news week at camp K-otic! Funding has been recieved from Awards for All, and the website should also be live from today. Only 39 days until we begin our Summer term, see you all soon!