President
Vice Presidents
Ladies
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Mrs. H. Hannan
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Mrs. M. Kelly - Cleveland Medal Finalist, Past Chairman Glenfaba Ladies Choir
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Mrs. G. Balakrishna - Member of Manx Festival Chorus, regular tutor at GaleForce
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Mrs S. Bowring
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Mrs Wendy Sutcliffe - Retired Examiner for ESB, Retired Head of English in Shropshire, Rotary Adjudicator throughout UK
Gentlemen
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Mr. J. Bethell - D.MUS (Hons), Founder / Director Erin Arts Centre and Mananan Festival, Chorus Master of Manx Music Festival Chorus
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Mr. I. Cannell - MBE, Past Town Clerk of Peel Commissioners
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Mr. E. Kelly - Past Member and Chairman of Peel Town Commissioners
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Mr. D. Lindsay - Former General Manager of the Isle of Man Bank and Ardent Supporter
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Mr. A. Williamson - High Bailiff of the Isle of Man and Cleveland Medal Winner 1985, 1987
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Graham Crowe - Cleveland Medallist (3 times), Farmer
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Mervin Stokes - MBE, Manager & Historian Gaiety Theatre
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Allan Wilcocks - MBE, Conductor Regal Singers, Cleveland Medallist (4 times)
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Charles Guard - Manx Radio Board & Manx Heritage Foundation Administrator
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Mr J. Riley
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Kenny Bawden - Vice Chairman of the Manx Music Festival and well known and well loved Baritone soloist.
Latest News
11/09/13
Summertime means showtime for Gale Force Read More
13/05/13
The Guild Results for 2013 are out and are available here Read More
29/10/12
Once again, in 2012, as in many other years Gale Force has achieved great success in their English Speaking Board Exams, with again as in 2011, two students gaining success in the ACLA (Advanced Certificate in Language Arts), the highest award possible and the equivalent of an ‘A’ level or International Baccalaureate exam in Spoken English/Speaking and Listening skills.
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29/10/12
Lots of things have been happening to our students since the beginning of term and here are some you may have missed!
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13/09/12
Harry Ashley and Francesca (‘Chess’) Warren are amongst a number of Galeforce students ‘moving on up’.
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24/08/12
Eve McGregor, Olivia Christian, Moira Pain, Torin Lakeman and Jessie Quigley have all been very successful this summer…
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24/08/12
‘Gale Force Theatre School and their Summer School was an unqualified success, again, in its fifth year, and with their theme of ‘THE SEA’ this year, water was certainly evident.
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17/07/12
All done and dusted on a three legged piano!!!!
Gale Force held their Annual Concert and Prize-Giving on a rare Summers Afternoon and whilst the event this year was planned on a very ‘low key’ note, as they make plans to celebrate their 25th Anniversary in 2013/2014, it was lovely to see so many of the students present and a packed Hall in St Johns on a very rare warm and sunny afternoon.
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10/07/12
Gale Force has become the first theatre school in the Isle of Man to be selected by New Era Academy for examination.
The west Sussex-based academy’s examinations director Miranda Jacobs recently spent a day with the school to conduct an introductory grade in musical theatre examination with 17 Gale Force students.
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02-04-12
The Guild Results for 2012 are out and are available here Read More
02-04-12
What a very busy month has been for Gale Force Members and how successful!! Read More
29-02-12
Galeforce strengthen their team Read More
29-02-12
Barbara Gale has been nominated for a Pride in Mann Award Read More
31-01-12
Galeforce has been busy in the New Year . . . Read More
02/11/2011
The ‘Tell Me’ project and website launched on the 17th October 2011, and Galeforce was at the launch event.
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11/10/2011
Gale Force Students have just spent 2 full days being examined by one of the very top Senior Examiners from the ESB (English Speaking Board) and ALL students passed with either a Distinction or a Merit Plus, which is 80-89%. Great celebrations are now in full swing!!!
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11/07/2011
From the many shots taken when Gale Force visited Tynwald Chambers as part of their tuition in Summer School 2011, please see here Richard Corlett, now 18 years old, pretending to be Speaker of the House of Keys much to the amusement of all the students.
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11/07/2011
Beth Colgan was awarded ‘girl footballer of the year’, and Francesca Warren was awarded ‘Best Chess player of the year’. Harry Ashley is to appear in a national tv campaign over the Summer for a well known child’s toy.
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28/03/2011
Two Galeforce students, Jessie Quiqley and Harry Ashley, have been awarded trophies. Jessie received her award for the Irish Dancing first examination and Harry won Best Speaker at the Annual Rotary Public Speaking Competition.
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20/01/2011
These are the two students, Moira Pain and Torin Lakeman who are about to embark on training for ESB's most difficult exam yet, Advanced Certificate in Language Arts, usually taken at 'A' level and yet these two young people are only 14 years of age but such is their standard of work and dedication, Mrs Gale has agreed to prepare and study with them for this exam to be taken in October 2011.
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5 Jan 2011
Gale Force Theatre School founder and former Tell Me interviewee Barbara Gale is to provide her voice coaching and drama services to assist with speech training, interview techniques, videos and voiceovers as part of current upgrades to the Tell Me Project website www.thetellmeproject.com.
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Serena Bennett - Juniors
Moira Pain - Seniors
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Mrs Wendy McDowell, Mrs Barbara Gale and many friends and colleagues are to hold a ‘Golden Celebration’ in music and words for the life of Cleveland medallist Mrs Dot Cannon who passed away in May and was a Vice-President of the Gale Force Theatre school.
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All the Gale Force Students have been invited to take part in a charitable Concert organised by John Riley for the Numaste Orphanage in India.
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A full week, 5 days, 9.30 till 4.30pm, in St Johns where students can enjoy drama/mime/music/movement with professional tuition and a great deal of fun! £200 (only £40 a day/£5 an hour!). Places are limited so do book now!
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The new term started with 42 students returning for the new term and registering their places and we were delighted to be able to welcome new Members:
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First prize: Eve McGregor, age 10. Third prize: Maebh Worthing, age 11. Most Promising: Andrew Halstein, age 10.
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Following on from his triumphant appearances in Lloyd Webber's Requiem and the Taylorian Productions' "The King and I" last year and his recent successes in ABRSM Examinations in Singing (Grade 6 Distinction), Piano (Grade 6 Merit) and Violin (Grade 5 Distinction), Caleb recently auditioned for a Music Award at the famous Eton College.
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Celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary in 2009 of one of the Island's leading performing arts groups began in stellar style when one of Britain's greatest living composers, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, made an impromptu visit to Gale Force Theatre School's concert at the Erin Arts Centre on Friday November 14.
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As Gale Force prepare to launch their new CD and begin 20 year celebrations the latest results from their exams have been received with shouts of joy!! All over the IOM!!
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Featuring Barbara Gale together with the newly formed 'Sheean Millish' choir and Emily Mylchreest, Lauren Whitfield, Merri Davenport and Caleb Bester. Also featuring accompanists Dave Holland, Clive Davenport and Fenella Bazin.
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