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Why this theme?
Every great story starts with a small question. Ours was this: what if the things we see every day — a splash of colour, a thread in a sleeve — had stories of their own?
Colour is the first thing a child notices and the last thing they forget. Cloth is something people everywhere, in every age, have made, worn, traded and treasured. Put the two together, add a stage and a few hundred bright imaginations, and you get LUMORA: an evening about how colour and thread have shaped the way we see, live, travel and tell stories.
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What the children have been exploring
Our youngest performers have been asking what colours might say if they could talk — and discovering that every colour has a mood, a personality and a secret or two.
Our middle and high school performers have gone time-travelling through textile history: how fibres became thread, how thread became cloth, and how cloth carried people, ideas and fashions across continents. They have learned lines and lyrics, practised steps and — somewhere between the first rehearsal and the last — learned how to tell a big story together.
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What this celebration means to us
At First Steps, a performance is never just a performance. It is the moment a quiet child finds a louder voice, a friend becomes a co-star, and a classroom turns into a company.
LUMORA is our way of celebrating all of that: every child on stage, every teacher in the wings, every family in the seats — all part of the same story.
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A message from the school
Dear families and friends,
Thank you for walking with us — from the very first steps to the stage lights. The children have worked with heart, patience and a great deal of laughter to bring these two productions to life. We are so proud of them, and we cannot wait to share the evening with you.
Come with open hearts and bright eyes. Cheer loudly. Let the colours and the threads carry you away.
With gratitude — the First Steps School family