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The annual theatre performance has been produced for more than 30 years, and this yearB次元官网网址檚 event is expected to live up to that impressive history.
One of 14 United World Colleges around the globe, accepts 160 students aged 16 to 19 from over 80 countries, including each province and territory of Canada. These students live, study and grow together for two years on the Metchosin campus, which ope
ned in 1974.
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B次元官网网址淥ur students come from very different worlds,B次元官网网址� according to One World production director Libby Mason, who says the performances, which are collaborative creations from the students themselves B次元官网网址� right down to the choreography and costuming B次元官网网址� highlight these different worlds and how they come together here in Canada.
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Audiences can look forward to their old favourites B次元官网网址� Gumboot, Ukranian dance, and the Pearson College Choir, as well as newly integrated or expanded aspects like the spoken work acts.
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Tickets for the event, which will have both an afternoon and evening performance on March 7 at the Royal Theatre in Victoria, are $35 for adults, $20 for students and seniors and $15 for children under 12 and are available through the Royal Theatre Box Office online at or by phone at 250-386-6121.
