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International Speech & Evaluation Contest - Area 29
20 April 2009
Franco Vaccaro won again! He will go on to the Division B contest on Wednesday 29 April 2009. All of Riverside will have their fingers crossed for yet another success.
WEDNESDAY 1ST April 2009
International Speech and Evaluation Contests
Riverside Communicators competed with one another to win first prize in each contest, and go on to the Area, Division and District contests, and who knows, even to the grand finals!
Winners:
International Speech Contest:
1st Place: Franco Vaccaro
2nd Place: John Craddock
3rd Place: Jim McCluskey
Evaluation Contest:
1st Place: John Craddock
2nd Place: Franco Vaccaro
Franco and John will go forward to the Area 29 contest on Monday 20th April at The Haven pub, (upstairs function room), 1A Haven Green, Ealing Broadway W5 2UU (directly across from the tube station).
WEDNESDAY 4TH MARCH 2009
Evaluation Workshop
At Riverside we learn by doing and we improve by evaluation. Every speech and every meeting role is evaluated. The formula we use is Commend, Recommend, Commend, a sort of praise sandwich with a constructive criticism filling. The workshop is aimed at helping us all to improve our evaluations. It will be led by Andrew Klimaytys and other advanced members. Some of us will put all this learning to good use in the Evaluation Contest on Wednesday 1st April.
WEDNESDAY 10TH DECEMBER 2008
Riverside Christmas Cracker Party & Sale of Promises!
If you like parties and you'd like to bid for members' services and talents, such as tea, with cakes & Spanish conversation; paintings and prints; two hours of ironing; an NLP session; etc., don't miss this evening of fun and games! The Terrace Room, York House. £5 gives you entry, a free first drink, an auction programme and a chance at winning the prize draw of dinner for two at a famous London restaurant.
6th October 2008
Riverside Communicators Humorous Speech and Table Topics Winners Compete in Area 29 Competition at Trojans
Humorous Speech Contestants - that's Jim McCluskey with the dark shades
Table Topics Contestants - Celia Jones bang in the middle
Both did a fantastic job representing our club at area level. Unfortunately, we didn't win, but Jim did place 2nd, with his funny 'mobile phone on the bus story'.
24th September 2008
Riverside Communicators Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contest
Humorous Speech Contestants
Table Topics Contestants
And the winners are...Celia Jones for Table Topics and Jim McCluskey for the Humorous Speech Contests
8th September 2008
Riverside Communicators Humour Workshop
International comedian Rainer Hersch [left] and humorous
speaker / broadcaster Jeremy Nicholas perform together
A full house learned many useful tips and techniques from this hilarious comedy duo on how to make your audience laugh long enough so you can stick some food for thought in its mouth - useful that, for humourous speech contests!
25th June 2008
Riverside Communicators 10th Birthday Party
Riverside Communicators' 10th Birthday Cake
Andrew Klimaytys club founder looks resplendent in his toastmaster outfit
Another club founder Jean Cooper also celebrates her 80th Birthday
Bertie Ekperigin dazzles her audience with a speech on the laws of attraction
Riverside Communicators members enjoy a memorable celebration
14th April 2008
Zahid Bashir gives a test speech at Area 6 Evaluation Contest
Riverside Communicator's Zahid Bashir accepted the challenge of giving the test speech for the Area 6 Contest Night, hosted at London Cardinals in Victoria. Zahid greatly appreciated the quality of speech evaluations that he received from the highly experienced contestants.
Zahid receives his certificate of appreciation from Area 6 Governor, Dave Sellman
31st March 2008
The 2008 Area 29 International Speech Contest and Speech Evaluation Contests were hosted by West London Speakers in Hammersmith on Monday 31st March. Chaired by Darren Mothersele (Vice President Education, London Athenians) and Dorothea Stuart (Area 29 Governor) the contests were well received by an enthusiastic audience.
The five clubs from Area 29 were represented in both contests and we are proud to announce that the winners were:
Area 29 Toastmasters Contests
International Speech Contest
First Place: Jean Cooper, Riverside Communicators
Second Place: Alistair Schreiber, London Athenians
Third Place: Jai Jayaraman, Trojan Speakers
Speech Evaluation Contest
First Place: John Craddock, Riverside Communicators
Second Place: Kate McNeilly, London Athenians
Third Place: Kimra Argus, West London Speakers
2008 Area 29 Toastmasters contests participants
26th March 2008
Riverside Communicators hold 10th Anniversary Speech Contests
With seven contestants in each of two contests, Riverside Communicators held a truly exceptional Contest Night.
The audience and contestants settle in
2008 Club International Speech Contest
The final results were:
First place: Jean Cooper
Second Place: John Craddock
Third Place: Zahid Bashir
2008 Club Speech Evaluation Contest
The final results were:
First Place: John Craddock
Second Place: Bertie Ekperigin
Third Place: Jenny Betts
John Craddock with Bertie Ekperigin
The first place winners Jean Cooper and John Craddock will go on to compete in the next round - the Area 29 Contests on Monday 31st March 2008. We wish them both good fortune.
The overall standard of both contests was excellent. Our appreciation and thanks go to everyone who participated.
2nd December 2007
Anna Hemmings wins BBC London Sports Personality of the Year 2007
Congratulations to Anna Hemmings, world champion marathon canoeist who won the BBC London Sports Personality of the Year Award with a huge percentage of the votes. Anna was formerly a member of Riverside Communicators and we pride ourselves in having helped her as she developed her skills as a motivational speaker.
4th November 2007
Speakers' Corner Event
Riverside Communicators together with London Corinthians hosted an event at the world famous Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, during the afternoon of Sunday 4th November 2007. Organised by Kim Horner, President London Corinthians and Dorothea Stuart, Area 29 Governor, it gave our London Contest winners Andrew Klimaytys and Jonathon Palmer an opportunity to practice for the UK and Ireland Table Topics (impromptu speaking) and Humorous Speech Contest finals to be held 9-11 November 2007 in Harrogate. They both performed extremely well in a testing situation and handled the hecklers with great aplomb. We wish them both good fortune
The event was also an opportunity for a number of club members to speak for the first time at Speakers' Corner. Riverside speakers included Sue Kennedy and Trevor Stokes who gave great performances from the soapbox. Well done to everyone!.
17th October 2007
The Div B (All London) Humorous Speech Contest and Table Topics Contest were held in Victoria, hosted by London Corinthians. We are very proud to tell you that the Winner of the Div B Table Topics Contest was our very own Andrew Klimaytys.
The competition was formidable, however Andrew gave a virtuoso performance answering the question as to whether recycling was worthwhile. His impact, fluency and creativity were phenomenal and he was acknowledged a worthy winner by the packed audience.
Andrew Klimaytys 2007 Winner of Division B Table Topics Contest
Jonathon Palmer from London Corinthians also gave a great performance with his speech 'Trav-Hell' to win the Div B Humorous Speech Contest. Both Andrew and Jonathon go through to the District 71, All UK & Ireland Contests in Harrogate in November 2007.
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