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Drama brings life into a community that lacks variety in entertainment, and it is a means of getting across messages that are not so readily listened to through regular channels. This year's programme followed an environmental theme. We worked on a skit which began with some vagrants at a garbage bin, searching and pulling things out of the bin. Gradually other individuals pass by and carelessly toss items in the area, until one person comes along and slips on a banana peel and injures herself. Along comes the Environmental Health Officer and gives them a "lecture" on the importance of keeping the environment clean. They all (except the vagrants) decide to clean up the place. The vagrants are unhappy, claiming that the place is boring and move out of the area.

This skit, plus other items including a dance in which each person represents an item of trash, and a trash fashion show, will be put on at the "Inauguration of the Bins" ceremony towards the ending of Sept/early October.

See photos from workshop:

http://picasaweb.google.com/cleangreensvg/DramaWorkshopEnvironmentalTheme#


R.I.P.P.L.E.S. loves the environment.
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On our beautiful 7-square mile island one can find hundreds of them on the beach or outside the bars after the crowds have had their good time and gone home.

An elderly gentleman invented a magnetic fishing rod (made from discarded pieces of magnet which he attached to sticks) that the kids used to pick up the bottle caps.

Please go to the following links to see the progression and outcome of our project:

http://picasaweb.google.com/cleangreensvg/BottleCapMuralAntiLitterArtProjectPhase1

http://picasaweb.google.com/cleangreensvg/BottleCapMuralAntiLitterArtProjectPhase2



We combined the garbage bin project with the bottle cap project. See the end result:

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