Arts and Cultural Awards Evening 2013
Last Thursday night in the School Hall, we had the opportunity to honour those students with talents in the arts and judging by the extraordinary talent that was on show, HBHS has reason indeed to celebrate all of the cultural accomplishments of 2013. The "Gypsy Pickers" kicked the evening off in fine style, and were matched by the HBHS School Choir (pictured, right), solo performers Reid Benseman and Daniel Ng, actors Luke Brooker and Liam McGuire, HBHS Rockquest entry "The Shift" and to finish, the HBHS Jazz Band. It was a wonderful evening of music and acting and we congratulate all of the award winners and nominees listed below.
2013 Cultural and Performing Arts Awards Winners:
| Debating: | |
| MCW for Best All-Round Debater | Iain Miller |
| Norton Brown Cup for Most Promising Debater | Samuel McCabe |
| Trophy for Most Improved Senior Debater | Caleb Sampson |
| Kolah Cup for Most Promising Junior Debater | Richard Newell |
| Thomas Simpson Cup for Best Junior Debater | Matthew Handford |
| Writing: | |
| Writing Cup for Junior Creative Writing | Yifei Ma |
| Writing Cup for Senior Creative Writing | Iain Miller |
| Drama: | |
| Achievement Certificate for Greatest Contribution to School Production to Luke Brooker | |
| Tayor Cup for Outstanding Performance in the School Production to Liam McGuire | |
| TheatreSports: | |
| TheatreSports Cup for Outstanding Performance in TheatreSports to Morgan Hopkins | |
| Achievement Certificate for Outstanding Performance in Junior TheatreSports to Jacob Cheattey | |
| Music: | |
| Harbone and Arthur Cup for Servie to C0-Curricular Music | David Lloyd |
| Botting Cup for Best Performing Soloist | Sam Franicevic |
| One Fat Man Trophy for Outstanding Live Performance | Cullen Taylor |
| Skandera Cup for Best Performing Group | HBHS Choir |
| Nic Jeffs Memorial Cup for Excellence in Music | Oliver Wilding |
| Achievement Certificate for Most Improved Senior Musician | Mason Holloway |
| Achievement Certificate for Most Improved Junior Musician | Kelvin Oosten |
| Visual Arts: | |
| Achievement Certficate for Most Improved Junior | Ciaran Lannon |
| Achievement Certficate for Most Improved Middle School | Samuel Walker |
| Community Arts Award for Year 12 Visual Arts | Rishi Khattar |
| Community Arts Award for Year 13 Visual Arts | Wilbur Hsu |
| Visual Arts for Best Visual Arts in more than one Discipline | Jonathan Coronado |
| Photography: | |
| Achievement Certificate for Outstanding Senior Photographer | Justin Budgen |
| Audio Visual: | |
| Achievement Certificate for Service to Arts Award | Aaron Bennett |
Cultural Performer of the Year Nominees:
| Blake Wong | Direct Entry into National Shakespeare School Production, winning from Shelia Winn Festival | |||
| Spot in Top 24 for Young Shakespeare Company 2014 (National Festival) | ||||
| Best Actor Award at Shelia Winn Regional Festival | ||||
| Best Directed Piece at Shelia Winn Regional Festival | ||||
| Placement in PANZ (Playwright's Association of New Zealand) | ||||
| 3rd in Drama Super 8 | ||||
| Supporting cast of "Tom Sawyer" | ||||
| Iain Miller | Captain of Debating | |||
| Adjudication at Junior Level | ||||
| Training and Coaching at Junior Level | ||||
| Leader of Team that won Regional Contest | ||||
| Beat Auckland Grammar and St Paul's in school exchanges | ||||
| Winner of Senior Speech Competition 2013 | ||||
| National Model United Nations Assembly | ||||
| Member of New Zealand MUNA team to compete at The Hague in 2014 | ||||
| Sam Franicevic | 1st Super 8 Cultural Festival Solo | |||
| Leader of "Gypsy Pickers" | ||||
| Gold Award at Waikato and Bay of Plenty Bands Festival with "Gypsy Pickers" | ||||
| School Events Performances | ||||
| Blake Wong | Cultural Performer of the Year Winner | |||
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