Amite, LA

This Friday, April 9, 2010, the Amite's Got Talent 2 Showcase will be held at 7pm at Amite High School's theater. Since last year was such a great success, the Amite Arts Council decided they would put another showcase on this year. Included in this year's showcase will be singers, dancers, musicians and comedians. The show is expected to last for about two hours. All proceeds from ticket sales will go to Relay for Life, the American Cancer Society program. Tickets are $5 for regular admission and $3 for children under 12 years old.

Scheduled participants of the 2010 Amite's Got Talent 2 Showcase are:

Andy Anderson
David Bryant
Butler AME Zion Gospel Church Choir
Cookie Coxwell
Kathy Dale Forrest
Caryn Fulda
Clyda Fulda
John Fulda
Laken Goldsby
Reggie Goldsby
Gregy Hayden
Bob Irwin
Richard Kilpatrick
Benji McNabb
Charles Palmer III
Ronda Powell, Robert Reynolds, Mittie Rohner, Jana Fulda Russell, Marcie Thames, Ruby Thompson, Charley Vance, Beth Fulda Van Mullem, Derreck Vernon, Gregory Vernon, Jenny Vernon, Katie Wallace, Jerome Wayne, Clay Wilson

Come out to Amite on Friday, April 9, 2010 to watch the contestants duke it out to win Amite's Got Talent 2. It's a fun time for the entire family. And the money raised goes to a great cause.

Yvonne Martin, the Martin Team for Hammond real estate

You are invited to attend the world premier of three movies on January 29^th at 7:00 pm in the Tangipahoa Parish School System building located in Amite City.

For the ninth consecutive year the Talented Theatre group has received a grant from the Louisiana Division of Arts for the production of movies which explore social challenges facing America 's high school students. The project has been recognized nationally and has received two national awards.

The movies were created by the Talented Theatre students of Amite and Sumner High Schools . Movies to be premiered are: Piano Lesson, Pranks, and Blackmail. Each feature is twenty minutes in length. The students not only created the movies but star in them as well.

An original score was written for each movie by Will Vance, Bobbie Levie and James Bass. Editing, sound and light technicians were Kirk and Butch Lee of Vivid Video shoot.

Charley Vance, instructor was also the screenwriter, director and producer of the films.

Piano Lesson was created by the Amite High students. Music becomes the refugee of a misunderstood high school student suffering from Asperger's Syndrome.

Pranks was created by the students of Sumner High (9th - 12th grades). The story line concerns practical jokes which soon become more than just jokes.

Blackmail was also created by Sumner students (10th - 11th grades). In this movie a student tells too much during an online chat and becomes the target of a cyberstalker.

Funding provided by:
Louisiana State Arts Council

Louisiana Division of the Arts

Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge

First Guaranty Bank

Bank of Greensburg

Peoples Bank