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Inspire School of Theatre Arts inWestland

is offering several newclasses this semester.

An Introduction to Theatre for Kids is

available at 11:45 a.m. on Saturdays. This

course teaches many basics of the stage with

hands on participation. Students will receive

instruction in stage directions, finding their

voice, confidence in public speaking, inter-

preting roles, characterization, projection

and improvisation.

This class will conclude with the students

participating the presentation of A Christmas

Carol planned for 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7 and 8 and

at 3 p.m. Dec. 9.

The school is also offering Theatre for the

AdvancedBeginner at 9:30 a.m. Saturdays.

This is a 10-week course for students who

have already taken introduction to theater

classed. This course will build on the skills to

which they have been introduced and focus

on building characters, tapping into emotion

and being real. The class project will also be

the performance of Dickens' A Christmas

Carol.

Auditions will take place the first week of

class and parts will be assigned the following

week.

Theatre of Homeschoolers will be offered

at 11 a.m. onMondays andTuesday.

This course will teach many of the basics

of the stage and cover the same topics at the

Introduction toTheatre classes.

The theater is housed in the Warren Road

Light & Life Church, where the group rents

space. Inspire Theatre began in 2005 and has

produced plays like the Wizard of Oz, Father

of the Bride, It's a Wonderful Life and multi-

ple original productions.

It was founded by Len Fisher who has

been involved in theatermost of his adult life,

He has acted, produced, written and directed

more than 50 productions and has directed

children and adults both professionally and

on the community level. Inspire School for

Theatre Arts began in the fall of 2010 as an

outreach fromInspireTheatre.

All courses are $20 per class or $150 if paid

at registration which takes place at 33445

Warren Road in Westland. Class size is limit-

ed. Information is available at (734) 751-7057

or inspire@inspirethe-

atre.com.

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Child star

Inkster girl featured in

new organ donation ads

A lot of 10-year-olds dream of

seeing themselves starring in a

video for YouTube or cable televi-

sion. They fantasize about their

performance going viral and seeing

their faces onposters around town.

Aiyanna Wesley of Inkster has

done just that. She appears in a

new video to be shown throughout

the area and a larger than life ver-

sion of her face appears on several

posters, but she doesn't share those

childhood dreams of becoming a

rock singer or reality star.

She simply hopes the effort will

help saveher life.

Aiyanna, 10, appears in a new

public service announcement,

telling viewers that her life

depends on a heart transplant for

which she's been waiting. Aiyanna

is one of more than 3,000 Michigan

residents waiting for organ trans-

plants, and more than 1,000 of

those live inWayneCounty.

Also featured on the video is a

Spanish-speaking

Canton

Township resident whose friends

call him “Chico”. Without a liver

transplant, he, too, is facing certain

death.

The video campaign will be

seen through November on

Comcast channels throughout

Wayne County. It was launched by

Gift of Life Michigan, a nonprofit

organization based in Ann Arbor, in

an attempt to close the gap

between the area of greatest need

for organ transplants and the low

percentage of residents signed up

as organdonors.

Wayne County and City of

Detroit officials have pledged to

help motivate residents to recog-

nize the need for organ donations

and sign up to donate tissue, eyes

and other organs. Currently, only 25

percent ofWayneCounty adults are

registereddonors.

The public service video will be

shown through November on BET,

ESPN, TBS and VH1. The goal is to

add 25,000 names to the donor reg-

istry by the end of the year.

“Saving a life is what the donor

registry is all about, and there isn't

anything more important than

that,” saidWayne County Executive

Robert Ficano. “We encourage

individuals, whether they live in

Wayne County or elsewhere, to sign

up on the registry and ask their

friends and family to do the same.”

Signing the reverse side of your

driver's license is no longer theway

to become a donor in Michigan. It

is now necessary to join the

Michigan Organ Donor Registry

and receive a red heart emblem for

the front of your driver's license.

The registry remains confidential.

To join, go to www.giftoflifemichi-

gan.org, call 800 482 4881 or visit

any secretary of state branchoffice.

Aiyanna Wesley, 10, of Inkster, is featured in the new Waiting to Live video.

Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano meets several Wayne County

individuals awaiting organ transplants featured in the Waiting to Live-

Wayne County video.

Theater group offers

youth acting classes

HalloWayne events

planned downtown

Halloween will take on a whole

new meaning this year with the

HalloWayne celebration planned

in the city.

The event will begin with trick

or treating from 3-6 p.m. on

Saturday, Oct. 27 when costumed

children can visit merchants along

Michigan Avenue West to

Elizabeth Street and back to the

Candy Cauldron drop, a huge bat

containing 10,000 pieces of candy

the kids can scramble to retrieve.

Brian Smith at the Department

of Public Works is currently build-

ing the huge cauldron for the

event, according to a spokesman.

Following the Candy Cauldron,

there will be a 45-minute laser

light show on Michigan Avenue

between Second Street and Wayne

Road. The light show should not

interfere with traffic in the area as

it will take place about 12 feet in

the air, the spokesperson said.

“The lights are all choreo-

graphed to music and it's really

something to see,” he said.

Following the light show, there

will be a free double-feature drive-

in stylemovie in the SavALot park-

ing lot at Michigan Avenue and

Second Street, next to St. Mary

church.

“We're showing the G rated

Halloween Town Disney movie

and then The Sixth Sense,” he

added.

All events are free but therewill

be an opportunity for a free-will

donation to help offset some of the

costs.

The HalloWayne events are all