Find a dynamic, compelling expression of ideas, edit it if necessary to ensure it fits within the time limit, then present it with enthusiasm.
Note: Famous Speech is a male only category at conventions using the International Student Convention Guidelines.
BUT WHERE DO I FIND A SCRIPT?
Radio or TV broadcast, book or article, interview or seminar, the world is full of preachers, politicians, educationalists, missionaries, and motivators who have had something worthwhile to say. Here are some suggestions for locating them.
Online bookstores such as http://www.christianbooksdistributors.com give biographical details of authors who are also speakers. Many authors write a book then travel around sharing what’s in it. So get the book, or go to a Christian bookstore, survey the back covers for writer-speakers, then look them up on the Internet (many authors have their own website). There may be published scripts or audio files of their speeches.
Joshua Harris (I Kissed Dating Goodbye; Not Even a Hint)
Eric and Leslie Ludy (When Dreams Come True; When God Writes Your Life Story)
Dannah Gresh
Elisabeth Elliot
Angela Thomas (Do You Think I’m Beautiful?)
Ben Carson (Gifted Hands; Think Big)
Liz Curtis Higgs
Barbara Johnson – known for her humour
Patsy Clairmont – known for her humour
Stormie Omartian
Brigitte Gabriel – public speaker and university lecturer on the Middle East Conflict – her Duke University counter-terrorism speech is posted on this siteMax Lucado
David Wilkerson
Ray Comfort – Kiwi evangelist known for his humour – http://www.wayofthemaster.com/ or http://www.livingwatersnewzealand.com/ (see section below on Christian Book Distributors for more details)
Kirk Cameron – actor and speaker – www.WayoftheMaster.com
Josh McDowell
Philip Yancey
Lee Strobel
Bill Hybels
Ken Ham – http://www.answersingenesis.org
Kent Hovind – Creation Science Evangelism at http://www.drdino.com
Dr. S. M. Lockridge
Buy second-hand books about missionaries and evangelists, abolitionists (British and American) and educators, government leaders, soldiers, and sports heroes, or look them up on the internet. Many new biographies about these people are readily available at Christian bookstores.
Amy Carmichael – missionary
Mary Slessor – missionary
C. T. Studd – missionary
Hudson Taylor – missionary
John and Betty Stam – missionary
Rosalie Harvey – missionary
Generals William and Bramwell Booth – Salvation Army founders
Catherine Booth, Evangeline Booth – Salvation Army founders
Jonathan Edwards – preacher
George Whitefield – preacher
George Mueller
D. L. Moody – evangelist
Oswald J. Smith
Smith Wigglesworth
Billy Sunday – evangelist
Charles Spurgeon – preacher
Reuben A. Torrey – evangelist
Corrie ten Boom – author of “The Hiding Place”
Merlin Carothers – author of “Prison to Praise”
Jean A. Rees
Abraham Lincoln – president
Ulysses S. Grant – soldier and president
Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson – soldier
Brother Andrew – Open Doors, Bible smuggler
Eric Liddell – Olympic athlete and missionary
Michael Jones – All Black rugby hero
CHRISTIAN SECOND-HAND BOOKSTORES
New Zealand
Christian Books (Second Hand)
9 Ellis Avenue, Mt. Roskill, Auckland 1041
Phone 09 626 2256
Fax 09 626 3467
Email: cbooks@xtra.co.nz
Web: www.cbooks.co.nz
Christian Value Books
Unit 6, 14 Acheron Drive
Riccarton, Christchurch
Phone/Fax: 03 343 5929
A/H: 03 343 4969
Email: christianvalue@maxnet.co.nz
Web: http://www.christianvaluebooks.co.nz
If you have other stores to recommend, whether in New Zealand, Australia, or elsewhere, please email the details to kyriellepublishing@xtra.co.nz
CHRISTIAN BOOK DISTRIBUTORS
New Zealand
Christian Books (Online)
Web: www.christian-books.co
Email: patrick@christian-books.co
Facebook: ChristianBooksCo
Based in Albany, Auckland
Christian Resource Centre
Web: www.christianresources.co.nz
Email: shop@christianresources.co.nz
323 Queen Street, Auckland City
Oasis Christian Stores
Freephone: 0800 262 747
Main store located in Palmerston North
Fax: 06 357 0281
Email: service@gph.co.nz
Web: http://www.oasis.net.nz/
Manna Christian Stores
Freephone: 0508 4 MANNA (0508 4 62662)
Email: orders@manna.co.nz
Web: http://www.manna.co.nz
If you have other stores to recommend, whether in New Zealand, Australia, or elsewhere, please email the details to kyriellepublishing@xtra.co.nz
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Famous Speech - Brigitte Gabriel
Note: Famous Speech is a male only category at conventions using the International Student Convention Guidelines.
Brigitte Gabriel Speaks the Truth
Author: Brigitte Gabriel, Lebanese Christian, former news anchor of World News for Middle East Television and the founder and president of American Congress for Truth
Source: http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=144
Remarks by Brigitte Gabriel
Delivered at the Duke University, North Carolina, USA
Counter Terrorism Speak Out
October 14, 2004
I'm proud and honored to stand here today as a Lebanese speaking for Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. As someone who was raised in an Arabic country, I want to give you a glimpse into the heart of the Arabic world.
I was raised in Lebanon where I was taught that the Jews were evil, Israel was the devil, and the only time we will have peace in the Middle East is when we kill all the Jews and drive them into the sea.
When the Moslems and Palestinians declared Jihad on the Christians in1975, they started massacring the Christians city after city. I ended up living in a bomb shelter underground from age 10 to 17 without electricity, eating grass to live and crawling under sniper bullets to a spring to get water.
It was Israel who came to help the Christians in Lebanon. My mother was wounded by a Moslem shell and was taken into an Israeli hospital for treatment. When we entered the emergency room, I was shocked at what I saw. There were hundreds of people wounded, Moslems, Palestinians, Christian Lebanese and Israeli soldiers lying on the floor. The doctors treated everyone according to their injuries. They treated my mother before they treated the Israeli soldier lying next to her. They didn't see religion, they didn't see political affiliation, they saw people in need, and they helped.
For the first time in my life, I experienced a human quality that I know my culture would not have shown to their enemy. I experienced the values of the Israelis who were able to love their enemy in their most trying moments. I spent 22 days at that hospital; those days changed my life and the way I believe information, the way I listen to the radio or to television. I realized I was sold a fabricated lie by my government about the Jews and Israel that was so far from reality. I knew for fact that if I was a Jew standing in an Arab hospital, I would be lynched and thrown over to the grounds as shouts of joy of Allahu Akbar (God is great) would echo through the hospital and the surrounding streets.
I became friends with the families of the Israeli wounded soldiers; one in particular Rina, her only child was wounded in his eyes.
One day I was visiting with her, and the Israeli army band came to play national songs to lift the spirits of the wounded soldiers. As they surrounded his bed playing a song about Jerusalem, Rina and I started crying. I felt out of place and started waking out of the room, and this mother holds my hand and pulls me back in without even looking at me. She holds me crying and says: "it is not your fault". We just stood there crying and holding each other's hands.
What a contrast between her, a mother looking at her deformed 19-year- old only child, and still able to love me, the enemy, and between a Moslem mother who sends her son to blow himself up to smithereens just to kill a few Jews or Christians.
The difference between the Arabic world and Israel is a difference in values and character. It's barbarism versus civilization. It's democracy versus dictatorship. It's goodness versus evil.
Once upon a time, there was a special place in the lowest depths of hell for anyone who would intentionally murder a child. Now, the intentional murder of Israeli children is legitimized as Palestinian "armed struggle." However, once such behavior is legitimized against Israel, it is legitimized everywhere in the world, constrained by nothing more than the subjective belief of people who would wrap themselves in dynamite and nails for the purpose of killing children in the name of God.
Because the Palestinians have been encouraged to believe that murdering innocent Israeli civilians is a legitimate tactic for advancing their cause, the whole world now suffers from a plague of terrorism, from Nairobi to New York, from Moscow to Madrid, from Bali to Beslan.
They blame suicide bombing on "desperation of occupation." Let me tell you the truth. The first major terror bombing committed by Arabs against the Jewish state occurred ten weeks before Israel even became independent. On Sunday morning, February 22, 1948, in anticipation of Israel 's independence, a triple truck bomb was detonated by Arab terrorists on Ben Yehuda Street in what was then the Jewish section of Jerusalem. Fifty-four people were killed, and hundreds were wounded. Thus, it is obvious that Arab terrorism is caused not by the "desperation" or "occupation," but by the VERY THOUGHT of a Jewish state.
So many times in history in the last 100 years, citizens have stood by and done nothing, allowing evil to prevail. As America stood up against and defeated communism, now it is time to stand up against the terror of religious bigotry and intolerance. It's time to all stand up and support and defend the state of Israel, which is the front line of the war against terrorism.
Thank you.
Brigitte Gabriel Speaks the Truth
Author: Brigitte Gabriel, Lebanese Christian, former news anchor of World News for Middle East Television and the founder and president of American Congress for Truth
Source: http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=144
Remarks by Brigitte Gabriel
Delivered at the Duke University, North Carolina, USA
Counter Terrorism Speak Out
October 14, 2004
I'm proud and honored to stand here today as a Lebanese speaking for Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. As someone who was raised in an Arabic country, I want to give you a glimpse into the heart of the Arabic world.
I was raised in Lebanon where I was taught that the Jews were evil, Israel was the devil, and the only time we will have peace in the Middle East is when we kill all the Jews and drive them into the sea.
When the Moslems and Palestinians declared Jihad on the Christians in1975, they started massacring the Christians city after city. I ended up living in a bomb shelter underground from age 10 to 17 without electricity, eating grass to live and crawling under sniper bullets to a spring to get water.
It was Israel who came to help the Christians in Lebanon. My mother was wounded by a Moslem shell and was taken into an Israeli hospital for treatment. When we entered the emergency room, I was shocked at what I saw. There were hundreds of people wounded, Moslems, Palestinians, Christian Lebanese and Israeli soldiers lying on the floor. The doctors treated everyone according to their injuries. They treated my mother before they treated the Israeli soldier lying next to her. They didn't see religion, they didn't see political affiliation, they saw people in need, and they helped.
For the first time in my life, I experienced a human quality that I know my culture would not have shown to their enemy. I experienced the values of the Israelis who were able to love their enemy in their most trying moments. I spent 22 days at that hospital; those days changed my life and the way I believe information, the way I listen to the radio or to television. I realized I was sold a fabricated lie by my government about the Jews and Israel that was so far from reality. I knew for fact that if I was a Jew standing in an Arab hospital, I would be lynched and thrown over to the grounds as shouts of joy of Allahu Akbar (God is great) would echo through the hospital and the surrounding streets.
I became friends with the families of the Israeli wounded soldiers; one in particular Rina, her only child was wounded in his eyes.
One day I was visiting with her, and the Israeli army band came to play national songs to lift the spirits of the wounded soldiers. As they surrounded his bed playing a song about Jerusalem, Rina and I started crying. I felt out of place and started waking out of the room, and this mother holds my hand and pulls me back in without even looking at me. She holds me crying and says: "it is not your fault". We just stood there crying and holding each other's hands.
What a contrast between her, a mother looking at her deformed 19-year- old only child, and still able to love me, the enemy, and between a Moslem mother who sends her son to blow himself up to smithereens just to kill a few Jews or Christians.
The difference between the Arabic world and Israel is a difference in values and character. It's barbarism versus civilization. It's democracy versus dictatorship. It's goodness versus evil.
Once upon a time, there was a special place in the lowest depths of hell for anyone who would intentionally murder a child. Now, the intentional murder of Israeli children is legitimized as Palestinian "armed struggle." However, once such behavior is legitimized against Israel, it is legitimized everywhere in the world, constrained by nothing more than the subjective belief of people who would wrap themselves in dynamite and nails for the purpose of killing children in the name of God.
Because the Palestinians have been encouraged to believe that murdering innocent Israeli civilians is a legitimate tactic for advancing their cause, the whole world now suffers from a plague of terrorism, from Nairobi to New York, from Moscow to Madrid, from Bali to Beslan.
They blame suicide bombing on "desperation of occupation." Let me tell you the truth. The first major terror bombing committed by Arabs against the Jewish state occurred ten weeks before Israel even became independent. On Sunday morning, February 22, 1948, in anticipation of Israel 's independence, a triple truck bomb was detonated by Arab terrorists on Ben Yehuda Street in what was then the Jewish section of Jerusalem. Fifty-four people were killed, and hundreds were wounded. Thus, it is obvious that Arab terrorism is caused not by the "desperation" or "occupation," but by the VERY THOUGHT of a Jewish state.
So many times in history in the last 100 years, citizens have stood by and done nothing, allowing evil to prevail. As America stood up against and defeated communism, now it is time to stand up against the terror of religious bigotry and intolerance. It's time to all stand up and support and defend the state of Israel, which is the front line of the war against terrorism.
Thank you.
Friday, September 08, 2006
Recommendations for MUSIC in drama
The addition of a soundtrack to your drama will greatly increase its impact, but there are some things you must consider when choosing what music to use. Most music recordings are copyright and the artist's rights must be respected. Apply to your national or regional recording industry regulators (such as the Australasian Performing Rights Association, www.apra.com.au) for special clearance of publishing and recording rights.
"Perfume" is produced by ABC Classics: Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"Ladies in Lavendar" is produced by Sony Classical: Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
"Brassed Off" is produced by BMG Classics, a unit of BMG Entertainment.
ICM = In Classical Mood series, produced by International Masters Publishers Pty Ltd. The 1st digit is the album number, the 2nd digit is the track number.
SUBDUED or MELANCHOLIC
Ludvig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor: Moonlight Sonata
Peter Tchaikovsky: Chanson Triste
SAUCY or CHEERFUL
Perfume by Stephanie McCallum, intro to track 16: Camille Saint-Saëns: Six études, Opus 11, Toccata
JAUNTY or COOL
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack: Track 10: Zabawa Weselna (Polish Dance)
Perfume by Stephanie McCallum, Track 12: Joseph Guy Ropartz: Jeunes filles: L’Insouciante
ICM 24.1 Jean Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Opus 11, ‘Alla marcia’
ICM 24.4 Bernhard Henrik Crusell: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Third Movement
DOOM or DESOLATION
ICM 6.13 Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2, Second Movement
ICM 22.9 Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde, ‘Liebestod’
ICM 6.11 Johannes Brahms: Symphony no. 3 in F major, Opus 90, Third Movement
ICM 9.8 Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante Défunte
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack: Track 9: The Letter
Perfume by Stephanie McCallum, Track 15: Francis Poulenc: Novelette sur un thème de Manuel de Falla
Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, Overture
Frank Bridge: the opening of “The Sea (First Movement) Seascape”
Ludwig van Beethoven: Pastoral Symphony, No. 6 in F major, Storm (Fourth Movement)
WILD or DISCORDANT or CRUEL
ICM 16.9 Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Dance of the Adolescents
LOVE or TENDERNESS or COMFORT
ICM 6.1 Franz Liszt: Liebestraum No. 3 in A flat
PIZZAZZ
ICM 24.5 Johan Helmich Roman: Sinfonia in G minor
ICM 24.11 Dag Wirén: Serenade for Strings, Opus 11, ‘Marcia’
QUIET or MELANCHOLIC or SAD or SUPPRESSED
ICM 22.6 Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Opus 74, ‘Pathetique’, Fourth Movement
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack: Track 2: Olga
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack: Track 3: Teaching Andrea
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack: Track 5: Thaïs
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack Track 7: On the Beach
SAD or HAUNTING or TRAGIC
Brassed Off soundtrack: Track 13: We’ll Find a Way
Brassed Off soundtrack: Track 18: Honest Decent Human Beings
ALARM or WARNING or PREMONITION OF DANGER
Brassed Off soundtrack: Track 13 finale: We’ll Find a Way
IN A RUSH or MOMENT OF DECISION or TRAGEDY
ICM 6.3 Gustav Holst: The Planets: the introduction to ‘Venus’
EXCITEMENT or HURRY or ANTICIPATION
Brassed Off soundtrack: Track 14: Clog Dance
William Tell Overture
EXCITEMENT
ICM 22.2 Frédéric Chopin: Étude in C minor, Opus 10 No. 12, ‘Revolutionary’
SATISFACTORY CONCLUSION
ICM 22.11 Ludvig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Opus 67, Fourth Movement
ICM 22.7 Max Bruch: Violin Concerto in G minor, Opus 26, Third Movement
Topical Music Index
Compiled by Narelle Worboys
non-copyrighted
Movie soundtracks are very thematic, so it's easy to find a mood piece to enhance your drama without the forte and pianissimo interruptions that classical music tends to include. Classical music is a fantastic support to dramatic interpretation, however, but it is a vast genre and if you don't have your own music library, it can be difficult to know where to start looking. I have created this index as a means to simplify this process for you. I am continually adding to the list as I find time to catalogue what I hear. Where possible, I have suggested a specific album."Perfume" is produced by ABC Classics: Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"Ladies in Lavendar" is produced by Sony Classical: Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
"Brassed Off" is produced by BMG Classics, a unit of BMG Entertainment.
ICM = In Classical Mood series, produced by International Masters Publishers Pty Ltd. The 1st digit is the album number, the 2nd digit is the track number.
SUBDUED or MELANCHOLIC
Ludvig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor: Moonlight Sonata
Peter Tchaikovsky: Chanson Triste
SAUCY or CHEERFUL
Perfume by Stephanie McCallum, intro to track 16: Camille Saint-Saëns: Six études, Opus 11, Toccata
JAUNTY or COOL
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack: Track 10: Zabawa Weselna (Polish Dance)
Perfume by Stephanie McCallum, Track 12: Joseph Guy Ropartz: Jeunes filles: L’Insouciante
ICM 24.1 Jean Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Opus 11, ‘Alla marcia’
ICM 24.4 Bernhard Henrik Crusell: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Third Movement
DOOM or DESOLATION
ICM 6.13 Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2, Second Movement
ICM 22.9 Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde, ‘Liebestod’
ICM 6.11 Johannes Brahms: Symphony no. 3 in F major, Opus 90, Third Movement
ICM 9.8 Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante Défunte
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack: Track 9: The Letter
Perfume by Stephanie McCallum, Track 15: Francis Poulenc: Novelette sur un thème de Manuel de Falla
Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, Overture
Frank Bridge: the opening of “The Sea (First Movement) Seascape”
Ludwig van Beethoven: Pastoral Symphony, No. 6 in F major, Storm (Fourth Movement)
WILD or DISCORDANT or CRUEL
ICM 16.9 Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Dance of the Adolescents
LOVE or TENDERNESS or COMFORT
ICM 6.1 Franz Liszt: Liebestraum No. 3 in A flat
PIZZAZZ
ICM 24.5 Johan Helmich Roman: Sinfonia in G minor
ICM 24.11 Dag Wirén: Serenade for Strings, Opus 11, ‘Marcia’
QUIET or MELANCHOLIC or SAD or SUPPRESSED
ICM 22.6 Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Opus 74, ‘Pathetique’, Fourth Movement
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack: Track 2: Olga
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack: Track 3: Teaching Andrea
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack: Track 5: Thaïs
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack Track 7: On the Beach
SAD or HAUNTING or TRAGIC
Brassed Off soundtrack: Track 13: We’ll Find a Way
Brassed Off soundtrack: Track 18: Honest Decent Human Beings
ALARM or WARNING or PREMONITION OF DANGER
Brassed Off soundtrack: Track 13 finale: We’ll Find a Way
IN A RUSH or MOMENT OF DECISION or TRAGEDY
ICM 6.3 Gustav Holst: The Planets: the introduction to ‘Venus’
EXCITEMENT or HURRY or ANTICIPATION
Brassed Off soundtrack: Track 14: Clog Dance
William Tell Overture
EXCITEMENT
ICM 22.2 Frédéric Chopin: Étude in C minor, Opus 10 No. 12, ‘Revolutionary’
SATISFACTORY CONCLUSION
ICM 22.11 Ludvig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Opus 67, Fourth Movement
ICM 22.7 Max Bruch: Violin Concerto in G minor, Opus 26, Third Movement
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Initial drama distribution
Roy Savage, CEO of SCEE, took 5 of each of the first 7 scripts to the US and European ACE Student Conventions (May & July, 2006). Promotional opportunities were hard to appropriate in the US, but he did manage to sell one to a Canadian. In the UK, 30 scripts sold, and he gave 4 to Arthur Roderick (director of ACE Europe) so they can be reviewed by a staff member who has expertise in drama.
I will be conferencing with Roy in a week or so, reviewing format and pricing details, then I expect the charge will be toward South Pacific Student Convention in Christchurch, New Zealand, December 3rd-8th, continuing the compilation of miscellaneous scripts by Isabel Worboys and other homeschool mums and students, and maybe more dramas by yours truly.
I will be conferencing with Roy in a week or so, reviewing format and pricing details, then I expect the charge will be toward South Pacific Student Convention in Christchurch, New Zealand, December 3rd-8th, continuing the compilation of miscellaneous scripts by Isabel Worboys and other homeschool mums and students, and maybe more dramas by yours truly.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Aunty Dayz
Joshua, aged 10 months, with Aunty Narelle in Dannevirke, June 18, 2006.Timothy & Aunty Nelya in Dannevirke after Grandad Patterson's funeral, March 2006.
Misha, Vedmedik (Teddy), & Aunty Nelya return from the beach, Nelson, January 2006.
With Timothy in the favourite 'together' place, Grandpa's big rocking chair. Summer of 2005.
Monday, June 12, 2006
Family Ways
My family is an important part of my life.
I love them and am proud of them.
Narelle, Gareth, Katrina, Jonathan, & Sarah in January 2002.
Gareth & Vita Worboys @ www.geocities.com/gv1331
Jonathan Worboys (website under construction)
Sarah Worboys @ www.landgirl79.blogspot.com
Katrina & Jeremy Peake @ www.thepeakeys.blogspot.com
David & Isabel Worboys
Monday, March 27, 2006
What is Script Haven?
Script Haven
Library of Scripts and Tips
for students preparing for an A.C.E. Student Convention.
The libary features scripts by Narelle Worboys, a playwright with a Diploma in Creative Writing (Distinction) and 15+ years experience in Student Conventions as student, staff member, coach, and judge.
There are many entries offering a range of tips, including Composition Checklists for perfecting that Oratory or Dramatic Monologue, how to find your own Famous Speech, advice on how to practice productively, and links to downloadable Convention Guidelines.
New scripts and tips are appearing continuously, so keep a check on Script Haven at www.ScriptHaven.blogspot.com !
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