enews #6 2007
jingle bells... jingle bells...
OK so perhaps we are getting a little bit ahead of ourselves... but we are one week down into term four already and before we know it... it'll be time for some festive cheer!
Firstly... a very big welcome to Elaine Lyons who has come on board until the beginning of November to work alongside Fiona on the all new artsamazing semester 1 08! we've got the low down on a whole bunch of amazing events and activities coming up next year... and while we are currently in the cone of silence - come the 26th November they'll be in schools and being booked out fast! Elaine joins us on her travels around Australia (she's from Ireland and a sensational singer and dancer!) and is plowing through the heaps of entries that you'll have to choose from. Hooray for Elaine and hooray for our arts organisations!
Secondly - 'tis the season to be LAUNCHING! After a side splitting launch from Barking Gecko Theatre Company featuring Improvilicious on Thursday 20th September, the Perth International Arts Festival launched its extensive new education program on Wednesday 17th October. Coming up soon we have 2008 Education Program Launches from Black Swan Theatre Company and Buzz Dance Theatre amongst others... for more details call the companies directly!
While there's lots more breaking news to follow, The Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training & Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) has endorsed and released their National Statement on Education and the Arts which has been jointly authorised and published by the Cultural Ministers Council.
The Statement is underpinned by three key principles:
- All children and young people should have a high quality arts education in every phase of learning
- Creating partnerships strengthens community identity and local culture
- Connecting schools with the arts and cultural sector enriches learning outcomes
with all of these being fantastic recognition of what is happening for, with and by our arts, cultural and education sectors throughout Western Australia.
Ready... set... let's go!!!
ArtsEdge HQ.
breaking news!
Nerdstock!
2 - 3 November @ Scitech
It’s official! Nerds are cool and Geek is chic.
To celebrate, Scitech is hosting Nerdstock, a festival that embraces the wonderful things about science and technology, while blending it with elements of art; in an unlikely but fitting combination.
This unique event will see every area of Scitech on 2 and 3 November support an abundance of contemporary dance and music performances, demonstrations, talks, hilarious comedy, and unusual technology based art projects.
There will be terrific hands on activities and workshops to take part in, and plenty of ways for you to express your scientific and creative sides at once. Make your own nerd costume, learn about animation or create artwork using robots.
It's showtime!
AWESOME unveils 2007 Festival program!
AWESOME Arts Australia has officially launched its 2007 AWESOME Festival program, showcasing diverse, whimsical and thought-provoking acts from France, Taiwan, New Zealand and Melbourne.
The 2007 AWESOME International Arts Festival for Bright Young Things is on from 16 – 25 November.
“We don’t aim to ‘theme’ the festival from year to year, however some commonalities have emerged from the 2007 festival,” said Jenny Simpson, AWESOME General Manager.
“There is a distinctive entwining of art and technology, interweaving social issues, aesthetic concerns and collaborative production.”
Baby Love (Taiwan) is reminiscent of childhood fairground rides which gently spin and bounce off other teacups. It harnesses wi-fi technology to shuffle, exchange and remix love songs with the bump to the beat of the installation's soundtrack.
Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear (Melbourne) is a bio-ethical fable which playfully explores the ethical dilemmas society faces as new developments are made in the field of genetics and cloning.
Glow by Melbourne’s Chunky Move delivers another cutting-edge performance, using the motion of the human body to trigger and control music, lighting and animation.
2007 marks the 12th AWESOME Festival, with BHP Billiton Nickel West stepping into the role of principal partner.
Check out information on the full festival program and workshops online!
WA Youth Music Auditions
WA Youth Music will be holding auditions for the 2008 Concert Season. Ensembles include the WA Youth Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra, WA Youth Chorale, WA Youth Symphonic Band and WA Youth Flute Choir.
To request a Prospectus and Audition Handbook (contains application form), please contact WA Youth Music on (08) 9328 9859 or is available online.
Perth Jazz Society Workshops 2008
Perth Jazz Society are currently seeking expressions of interest from schools interested in hosting one of the EIGHT WORKSHOPS available as part of the 2008 SMARTER THAN SMOKING HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ SERIES presented by Healthway and the National Heart Foundation.
Further details available here or by contacting Eve Arnold at PJS on (08) 9284 2578.
West Australian Opera joins OZ OPERA for Carmen!
Unrequited love, passion, jealousy – the foundations of opera have never been so magnificently portrayed as they have in Bizet's Carmen.
After 5 weeks of traveling all over Western Australia with Carmen, West Australian Opera artists Jennifer Barrington, James Clayton and Tommaso Pollioare pleased to be back home and are already busy rehearsing for the upcoming season of La Boheme.
Audiences in Western Australia had the opportunity to experience Oz Opera's specially-adapted touring version of Carmen in their communities throughout August and September 2007 with the production visiting Kununurra, Derby, Port Hedland, Newman, Karratha, Carnarvon, Geraldton, Moora, Mandurah, Margaret River, Bunbury, Borden (in a HAYSHED to an audience of over 600 people!), Esperance, Kalgoorlie and Perth!
During the tour the crew performed for many primary schools with the West Australian Opera artists performing as part of the off stage chorus. This venture has been a first for West Australian Opera, contributing not only financially but also by sharing the talent of these wonderful artists. It’s back to the drawing board now to see where we can take this wonderful new initiative.
Oz Opera is the touring arm of Opera Australia. Oz Opera performs in communities both large and small across Australia, and gives many people of all ages their first experience of opera, and aims to inspire and engage with adult and student audiences in Australia, beyond the mainstage programs in Melbourne and Sydney.
Children and the Arts Seminar Series
Hands On!
Do your remember being told... You can look - but DON'T TOUCH!
Hands On is the fourth in the Children and the Arts Seminar Series, and is a fabulous opportunity for arts practitioners, educators and parents.
Join Harriet Curnow (Curator of Schools Outreach Projects at Tate Britain), Julie Walsh, (Program Officer - Education and Children’s Art Centre at Queensland Art Gallery) and Rachael Wilsher-Saa (Regional Manager of the Western Australian Museum Albany) as they shed new light on contemporary gallery and museum practice. Be inspired by arts administrators and educators who combine the static collections of museums and art galleries with innovative programs for young children and family audiences to engage with works of art.
Introduced by Alan Dodge, Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and chaired by Elizabeth Spencer, Acting Senior Policy Officer, Young People and Education, Department of Culture and the Arts.
Hands On is presented Wednesday 24th October from 1.30 - 5.00pm at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. While attendance is FREE bookings are essential - simply RSVP to admin@artgallery.wa.gov.au (with RSVP-CATAS4 in the subject line).
The Children and the Arts Seminar Series is an initiative of the Department of Culture and the Arts Championing Creativity: an arts development framework for Western Australia and complements Creative Connections, the Department's arts in education partnership framework with the Department of Education and Training. Click here to find out more about the series, and download the program.
UNIMA 2008 and Million Puppets Project News!
The Million Puppet Project is growing at a rapid rate, every week a new parcel comes through the doors of the Spare Parts Puppet Theatre.
They have puppets from Spain, France, Canada, even South Africa and many many more being made by all egional friends throughout WA.
Be sure to represent your school too, and dont forget to check out the UNIMA 2008 schools program - it's PUPPET MADNESS! (If you are sneaky you can even check out some of the schools program on the ArtsEdge website at "What's on" for April 2008!)
Young Artists + Good Idea = $3000!
Are you interested in art? Are you learning or teaching an artform, or are you a art lover? Or maybe you know of an artist who you would like to bring to your community to help create a performance, some street art or even a film. Country Arts WA is working to involve youth in arts in regional Western Australia.
No matter what sort of artform you are into, YCulture Regional can support arts in your community! Apply now for up to $3000 to make your project happen.
YCulture Regional is a development and funding program for youth arts and culture. It is unique because it enables young people to actively create, plan, manage and deliver their own arts projects. As a young person, you can feel safe and confident in taking the first steps in making your creative dreams a reality!
For further information, please contact Bec Cockram on free call 1800 881 883 or rcockram@countryartswa.asn.au
Professional Learning
Great opportunities for all - here is just a preview of some of the professional learning opportunities coming up soon! From workshops, to courses, and the all important networking events... check them out now!
Plus... if you are having trouble getting access to your school's copy of
artsamazing: the artsedge guide to arts and cultural education events
you can check it out online HERE with all the contact information HERE! and view even more at Professional Learning!
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20 Nov 2007 This workshop is an excellent opportunity to gain new ideas for using drama in the classroom. Whether you are looking for more exercises, games or help with creating a project to link in with the curriculum, this workshop will help you plan exciting and fun drama sessions whilst focusing on developing core curriculum objectives.
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27 Nov 2007 This workshop is designed to provide teachers with basic skills for tackling issues found in schools using drama. It will equip you with a number of useful exercises and give you ideas for developing work and creating performance projects all of which focus in on issues facing young people today
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23 Nov 2007 Participants step through the post-production process from capturing footage, editing process and technique, understanding colour, formats and rendering, visual effects, sound, multi-layer compositing and output for Web, CD, Tape and DVD.
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MEDIA
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23 Oct 2007 Kaleidoscope Demonstrate the effectiveness of using music in the classroom, and dispel misconceptions about poetry. An interactive 90 minute session guaranteed to stimulate your imagination and inspire creativity.
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2 Nov 2007 Discover the magic of the Zoo during this special teacher-only sleepover. Learn about programs to inspire and engage your students and how to integrate into the wildest classroom adventures ever!
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9 Nov 2007 This workshop is suited to those looking to create music on PC in the school environment. We cover recording audio and MIDI, using audio loops and burning the whole project to CD as a seamless process .
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9 Nov 2007 A meeting for all music teachers, students or music enthusiasts whether in the classroom or studio. Each meeting has a different theme and are presented by WAOSA members and special invited guests. We always allow time to chat, share ideas and problems. There is no charge to attend MMGG and refreshments are supplied, too. |
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19 Nov 2007 This full-day PD combines two of WAM’s technology-based workshops into one. Content and activities from Using Music Software in the Classroom (Acid Pro), and P.A. Set-up and Operation will be covered and we have allowed more time to explore each in greater detail!
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What's coming up for schools ?
We have started Term 4 in the schools but there is still a HUGE amount of fantastic arts and cultural activities on offer around WA! And we've even got some information through for 2008 - check it out!
You'll have seen many of these in artsamazing: the artsedge guide to arts and cultural education events which you'll find in all public schools and online - but there are a few new opportunities get get out and get arty!
Want to keep up to date with new offerings as they come online? Just click here!
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19 Sep 2007 A matinee performance of West Australian Ballet's Alice especially designed for primary and secondary students and teachers. Performed with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.
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1 - 17 Nov 2007 The place is Rome and the time is 1890. A young girl from a well to do family decides to take up medicine as a career rather than marriage. This decision was to have a tremendous impact on the lives of thousands of others. The girl was MARIA MONTESSORI physician, feminist, social reformer, educator.
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3 Nov 2007 Spend a few hours learning about the technical aspects of the theatre and get a look behind the scenes under the guidance of WA Opera Production Manager Mandy Farmer!
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20 Nov 2007 This workshop is an excellent opportunity to gain new ideas for using drama in the classroom. Whether you are looking for more exercises, games or help with creating a project to link in with the curriculum, this workshop will help you plan exciting and fun drama sessions whilst focusing on developing core curriculum objectives.
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2 Apr 2008 Dreamer is an adorable and curious half-child, half-animal, adventurer on a quest to rescue a leafy sea dragon held captive by a greedy scorpion fish in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
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9 Apr 2008 Discover a universe filled with bursts of energy, colour, animation, puppets and performers.
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20 Oct - 4 Nov 2007 Bitter sweet. Revered journalist Gus and ex-poet Honor have been married for thirty two years. They had a perfect understanding of each other and a perfect life...until now!
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23 Oct - 4 Nov 2007 Honour tells the story of journalist Gus and his ex-poet wife Honor—married for over thirty-two years. They believed they had the perfect understanding of each other and the perfect life...until now!
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27 Nov 2007 This workshop is designed to provide teachers with basic skills for tackling issues found in schools using drama. It will equip you with a number of useful exercises and give you ideas for developing work and creating performance projects all of which focus in on issues facing young people today
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27 Nov - 15 Dec 2007 Gongi, Jean and Amelia Violet span three generations of women from the same family. As Amelia Violet dances into womanhood she reflects upon the incredible stories of women in her past for guidance and inspiration.
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8 Nov 2007 Learn how to create theatrical effects through make-up with Opera Make-up Artist Natalie Way in just 2 hours!
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8 Nov - 2 Dec 2007 Based on a true story about a nine year old wild girl found in the forest in France in 1731. Who is more "civilised"...Memmie or Robert the orangutan?
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2 Apr 2008 A special double bill featuring two enchanting family classics!
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15 Oct - 9 Nov 2007 Jayla wants to be the next Super Model, the new Australian Idol, the first Australian Princess – anything! She even considered going in for Survivor Downunder, but she was worried about breaking a finger nail. She is obsessed with her looks, her weight, her clothes and Paris Hilton. But is there more to life than fame for the sake of being famous?
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11 Apr - 11 Feb 2008 This is theatre and digital animation at its most exquisite.
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16 - 26 Oct 2007 Dive into THE DEEP…
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3 - 4 Apr 2008 Triangle – Four Seasons uses mime and object theatre to explore the changes in Japanese seasons. Triangles of all sizes and colours are playfully choreographed to transform into flowers, butterflies, landscapes and space rockets.
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20 - 25 Oct 2007 One of Australia's most awarded playwrights premiers his most cpmtroversial play, Unaustralia, a madcap farce and disturning meditation on the Australian psyche in the new Millenium. *Contains strong language and adult concepts. |
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3 - 4 Apr 2008 In the Age of Enlightenment, a young giraffe is captured in Africa and sent as a gift from the Pasha of Egypt to the King of France.
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19 Oct 2006 - 31 Dec 2007
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7 Sep 2007 - 21 Mar 2008 Imagine a million puppets all exhibited in one big space... sock, hand, rod, finger, junk, glove, shadow, marionettes and moveable creations never seen before! The Million Puppet Project invites people from around the world to make and send a puppet to Perth, Western Australia, for a new Guinness World Record - The World's Largest Puppet Display!
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2 - 3 Nov 2007 Nerdstock is an arts-science festival. There will be activities ranging from professional performances of music, comedy and dance, to demonstrations, hands on activities and workshops and special interest talks.
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16 - 25 Nov 2007 Unique locally, nationally and internationally for presenting the latest contemporary and inspiring creativity in young people by delivering arts projects that engage, inspire and encourage creative thinking.
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22 Nov 2007 Buzz is launching their 2008 education program in style! We would love to give you an update on what we’ve been up to and what we have on offer for you in 2008, with brekkie on us! |
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27 Oct - 10 Nov 2007 La Boheme is a perfect marriage of poetry and music that tells one of the greatest love stories. Set in an idealistic Bohemian world , the opera explores the evolving relationships between Rodolfo – a poet, Mimi – a seamstress, Marcello – a painter , and Musetta – a ‘good time‘ girl, to which their friends Colline , a philosopher , and Schaunard, a musician , provide a balancing interest.
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1 - 8 Nov 2007 School group bookings to La Bohème might like to stay behind after the show to take a look behind the curtain with our Production Manager Mandy Farmer! |
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17 Oct - 7 Nov 2007 Join in the fun of the KULCHA Kids Drumming Circle! Learn basic percussion skills and African djembe drumming at our after-school classes. Facilitated by Martin Phillips of Rhythmfix and popular world music bands Dunumba, Shangara Jive and Funkalleros. Drums provided and beginners welcome. Recommended for ages 6 years and up. |
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27 Oct 2007 WA Youth Music proudly presents ‘Flight of Destiny’, a concert by the Philharmonic Orchestra and the WA Youth Flute Choir. Program will include works by Stravinsky, Respighi and Verdi.
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9 Nov 2007 A rare opportunity to see the orchestra in work mode from the choir stalls. Observe the interaction between conductor and orchestra in rehearsal. Discover how a concert evolves from score to stage.
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11 Nov 2007 Perth audiences will be treated to an evening of New Australian Chamber Music at Tura New Music’s Scale Variable 07.
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23 Nov 2007 A rare opportunity to see the orchestra in work mode from the choir stalls. Observe the interaction between conductor and orchestra in rehearsal. Discover how a concert evolves from score to stage.
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24 - 25 Nov 2007 WA Youth Music will be holding auditions for the 2008 Concert Season. |
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28 Nov 2007 Come join our Young Artists in this third concert of the inaugural series. 20th Century Masterpieces of the English Language will be performed under the guidance of our Head of Music, Francis Greep.
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6 Oct - 1 Dec 2007 Join Paul Osei Kofi from local group Akwaaba for an exciting eight week African drumming course! Learn the basic techniques of African hand drumming along with a variety of exciting rhythms from West Africa. Drums and other instruments are supplied. Bookings essential. |
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27 Oct 2007 The eccentric string quartet family and a host of colourful characters, played by Rob Evison, are off on a voyage in which nothing is predictable and everything is possible. Don’t miss the chance to see the launch of Kaleidoscope’s new show, which can be booked as a school incursion in 2008.
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1 - 30 Nov 2007 Students will learn how to express themselves through the ancient taditions of Indigenous art via individual class work or mural painting. Projects can be tailored to fit curriculum outcomes.
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1 Jan - 31 Dec 2007
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17 Oct - 12 Nov 2007 Nyoongar artist Laurel Nannup tells her story through woodcuts, etchings and photographs to illustrate her memories of place, particular events and people, contributing to an overview of her life as one of WA's Stolen Generation.
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18 Nov 2006 - 5 Feb 2007 This exhibition, curated by Kevin Robertson, features the work of nine mid-career Western Australian figurative painters, all of whom have worked at the renowned Gotham Studios in Northbridge. Artists include Thomas Hoareau, Jo Darbyshire, Garry Pumfrey, Richard Gunning. |
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28 Nov - 13 Dec 2007 the exhibition approaches the theme from two main angles concerning the interaction between personal and social space and the interface between social/cultural space and the natural environment.
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7 Oct - 18 Nov 2007 WA artist Paul Caporn satirically engages with ideas of masculinity and cultural identity, through installation artworks that comprise household objects such as a lawnmower, a 'Weber' barbeque and a tool box.
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5 Oct - 25 Nov 2007 Challenging, thought-provoking and awe inspiring; this selection of three guest-curated video exhibitions called Re-Planted, PROJEKT and Highjacked, provides a vast array of content to stimulate and engage a broad audience.
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heard on the grapevine!Congratulations and Celebrations!
Congratulations to two of our wonderful arts organisations who were recognised at the Western Australian Business and the Arts Partnerships Awards presented at the Art Gallery of Western Australia on Friday 12th October.
The Minister's Award for the Most Outstanding Partnership and Community Investment Award was presnted to Yirra Yaakin and the Insurance Commission of Western Australia in recognition of the partnership which delivered the play, ‘Muttacar Sorry Business’ (an Aboriginal phrase meaning “motor car grief”), which was written by an Aboriginal person, for Aboriginal people. It addresses key issues such as drink driving, risk-taking behaviours and overcrowding in motor vehicles and was an enormous success on the 2007 Yirra Yaakin South West tour during which it was performed at a number of schools throughout the region.
Congratulations also to the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and CBH Group of Companies being recognised for Outstanding Commitment to Regional Arts and Culture. The purpose of the partnership between the CBH Group of Companies (CBH) and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) is to take orchestral music to children living in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt region with the aim of overcoming the social, economic and geographical barriers that prevent children from these communities experiencing a live orchestra. |
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