THE HUMEROUS SPEECH AND TABLE TOPICS COMPETITION AREA CONTEST 4th OCTOBER
The Area contest for
the Humerous speech and Table Topics competition held at Citi Criers turned out
to be an electric evening. Such a great
turnout from guests and members coming from Area 59 and outside this Area too!
Flavia and Steve did
us proud. Steve taking first place in
the Table Topics, and Flavia taking 3rd in the Humerous Speech section. They were fantastic, well done to both of
them. The overall results were:-
Humerous Speech
Contest
1st
William (Speaker’s Corner)
2nd Adolfo
(Citi Criers)
3rd Flavia
(Lewisham Speakers) Yippee!!
Table Topics
1st Steve
Roberts (Lewisham Speakers) Yippee !!
2nd Adolf
(Citi Criers)
3rd Francis
(Speaker’s Corner)
LEWISHAM SPEAKERS MEETING 3RD OCTOBER
This was an altogether
different style to our usual evenings, which made for eventful fun evening.
The people really
made the evening, our guests many of whom took part in the table topics, and
visitors from other clubs as well as our existing members together made it a
warm friendly and bustling evening.
We were led
confidently and competently through the evening by Phillip.
Chris was clear and
concise with the Warm Up. He explained
how it worked, and also gave us some notice as to who was answering the
question first and how the order of response would progress, so there was no
confusion as to who was next. It was a
nice simple question too, which lent itself to short succinct answers.
Richard made us all
think how we all spend our time, and to invest in what counts in life. He was energetic in his delivery, and used
vocal variety and pauses at the correct intervals to reinforce his point.
Gayna was our
Educational Speaker of the evening, and didn’t she do well? Great interaction with the audience. She made us think and interact with her by
asking us what made speech preparation difficult for us, and then used a flip
chart to write all our thoughts down and then systematically went back and
answered all the questions! By doing so
she devised a way of having a real open conversation with us.
The following
speeches which Gayna gave were enlightening. The
importance of making a speech that is relevant to your audience is so
important, and the speech she gave emphasised the point perfectly. We must remember it is the audience we are
serving, not ourselves.
The use of Gayna’s personal experiences in
life that she shared with us really meant she was speaking to us, not at us,
and she was really "in the moment." Consequently we
were all engaged with her in the true sense of the word. A big thank you to Gayna.
The evening was
rounded up by our table topics, and it
was good to see our guests taking part in these.
CANAL CAFÉ: - 1ST
OCTOBER 2012
A great night out for
all those 13 people who attended. We
were entertained by 5 speakers all of whom told their personal stories. Well done to Julie, who at short notice was
drafted in to tell one of them. It was
nice to have the opportunity to meet people socially from other clubs. Such a fun night, and I can’t wait to get
back there to tell my own personal story in public at the end of the Story
Telling Workshops in March. We all came
away energised and inspired with the power of personal story telling.
27th
SEPTEMBER 1ST STORY TELLING WORKSHOP AT CITI CRIERS
Excellent, such fun
we all had. We all got the opportunity
to learn why story telling is so powerful, and we all got the opportunity to
tell a story in front of each other too.
It was superb having the opportunity to listen to each other’s stories. I can still remember everybody’s story they
told today even!! Just goes to show how
important and powerful stories can be at conveying a message. The next story telling workshop it at
LEWISHAM ON WEDNESDAY 10TH OCTOBER RECEPTION 7.15 PM FOR A 7.30PM
START. Looking forward to seeing you there!!
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