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Charlotteville Folk Performers top the rest at SHAC sports day

Under the watchful eyes of Active Hype stewards Lorris Roberts, centre, and Keisha Charles-Thomas, Charlotteville Folk Performers is a picture of deep concentration in Family Chop Sticks. The large PVC pipes are their chop sticks as they try to move seven balls of varying sizes on top of those “sticks” from one end of the line up to the other. Each time they dropped a ball, they had to start over. -
Under the watchful eyes of Active Hype stewards Lorris Roberts, centre, and Keisha Charles-Thomas, Charlotteville Folk Performers is a picture of deep concentration in Family Chop Sticks. The large PVC pipes are their chop sticks as they try to move seven balls of varying sizes on top of those “sticks” from one end of the line up to the other. Each time they dropped a ball, they had to start over. -

The Signal Hill Alumni Choir’s (SHAC) 40th-anniversary celebrations continued on May 31, with its Sports and Family Day. The Buccoo Integrated Facility, home of the signature Tobago goat race, was the venue for the games, which got off the mark at 4 pm.

After two days of rain on the island, the sun shone gloriously, matching the joy and energy that filled the air as participants filtered into the venue, a media release said.

Turbo Turtle was a slow grind as this SHAC team member moved tentatively towards the orange cone. Competitors had to carry the cone on their backs as their shell. Once the shell fell off you had to return to the starting position and begin again. After completing the first leg, the competitor must then return the cone to the starting line crawling backwards. -

The invitational evening featured diverse groups/communities from Tobago participating for prizes and bragging rights in novelty events against host team SHAC. Competitors incuded Charlotteville Folk Performers, RBC Redemption Sound Setters, Signal Hill Alumni Association, Signal Hill Senior Comprehensive School Class of '98 and SHAC offspring, led by SHAC’s Kenesha Dennis and expertly facilitated by Active Hype, a subsidiary of DosFit Studios, of Sherwood Park.

Charlotteville, seen here in pink, won this event called Kriss Kross. In this game, everyone jumps together and someone at the front pulls the cloth. No one must be off the cloth at any time as the team tries to advance to the finish line. -

Teams were asked to send out participants before being told what event was on the card and that itself caused laughter, as often people were not necessarily the best fit for the event. For example, when game master Jevan Carrington called for teams to send out their “sexiest man,” no one could tell that event would be Hot Pants, which required competitors to put on a pair of shorts without using their hands, the release said.

Game master Javon Carrington, front, third from left, with whistle, and the active hype game stewards who hosted the novelty events for SHAC’s 40th anniversary sports and family day, at Buccoo Integrated Facility on May 31. -

Then there were Drunken Waiters, Family Chop Sticks, Twinzees, Nailed it, Sugar Stick, Blind Banana, and Tug-o-War with a twist. For the younger ones there were events like musical hoops and head-shoulder-knees-toes-bottle.

This was a first-of-its-kind event for SHAC as hosts. Members came set on winning. But despite valiant efforts and an unbeaten run, including eventual victory in the tug-o-war competition, SHAC had to settle for second place overall. The very impressive Charlotteville Folk Performers copped first place, coming with determination to win from the first whistle.

Wriggling and looking like they were being bitten by ants, the “sexiest men” took part in Hot Pants, the first event of the day. The pants were placed on the ground, and they had five minutes to put them on without using their hands. Jai Duncan of SHAC Offspring’s, far left in orange, was the winner. -

MC Kasel Campbell, the self-proclaimed director for the day, was the perfect pairing for the afternoon, which celebrated community, unity and teamwork symbolic of SHAC’s work and contributions of the past 40 years.

Next on the choir’s commemorative agenda will be the multimedia exhibition of SHAC’s 40 years, in Tobago later this month. Among other activities will be four concerts in the south at Naparima Bowl (September 21), in the north at the Central Bank Auditorium (September 28 and 29) and at Shaw Park Complex, Tobago (October 6).

Kenesha Dennis, from team SHAC does the Sugar Stick. A candy is tied at the end of the string hook facing down and another candy is placed in a cup a few metres off with the hook facing up. The string is attached to your waist. Without using hands, the first person runs down, collects the candy by hooking the one hanging from the waist to the one in the cup, then returns and passes the waist attachment to the next teammate. Teams comprised four members.
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The year’s celebration is under the theme 2064: A Musical Odyssey, as SHAC projects into the next 40 years and its future as a leading choral movement.

For more info: 751-5027

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