Saturday, June 26th

Today is the final day of "ONSTAGE Weekend" and the final full day of the institute. There are performances all day today.

The day begins with the Institute Chorus performance, followed by a poetry reading, and our film screening. After all four of the films played, the students sat on stage and responded to questions from the audience, much like a screening at a film festival. Every student who spoke answered thoughtfully and professionally.

After dinner the Institute Orchestra played all seven movements from Holst's "The Planets." Each movement is a different planet. There were NASA images projected on the walls of the performance hall of each planet. And during the last movement you could hear the eerie and ethereal voices of the women's chorus. No one knew where the mysterious voices were coming from until the end of the performance, when the chorus walked down from above the stage. They had been singing in the rafters, as if from the planets above!

After the orchestra concert the students celebrated the end of OSAI at either the All Institute Dance or (for the tired) watching a movie.

(8:30am - 1:00am = 16.5 hrs) (TW = 87.5 hrs) (GT = 247 hrs)