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If you've never sung in a choir before or don't read music,that's okay! Simply bring your enthusiasm, and your laughter. We'll take care of the rest.

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Deadline for application to the Directing Program:
31 janvier 2019

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Matjash Mrozewski - Associate director of the Directing program | National Theatre School of Canada

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National Theatre School of Canada5030 St. Denis Street, Montreal Quebec Canada H2J 2L8 Tel. 514 842-7954 or 1 866 547-7328 (Canada & United States) Fax 514 842-5661 info@ent-nts.ca Monument-NationalOwned by the National Theatre School of Canada 1182, St-Laurent Bld, Montreal, Quebec Canada H2X 2S5 Tel. 514 871-9883 info@monumentnational.com monumentnational.com

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→ Si vous aviez une chance de vous inventer une autre vie, le temps d'une soirée, avec un public pour témoin, oseriez-vous le faire? 

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How Oprah Learned the Power of Changing Your Perspective

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My favorite part of any conversation, on air or off, is when someone has a revelatory moment and utters these words: "I never thought of it that way before."

Case in point: Jo Ann Compton, whose daughter Laurie Ann was murdered in 1988. For the next ten years, this grieving mother didn't change a single thing in her daughter's room; a decade later, she was mourning her death as though she'd just passed away. Her plan was to share Laurie Ann's story on the Oprah show-and then go home and kill herself.

But when Jo Ann came on, Dr. Phil, in one awe-inspiring instant, changed everything. He said to her, "Your daughter lived 18 vibrant and wonderful years, yet you're focusing on the day of her death rather than celebrating the event of her life."

I could see Jo Ann process that thought, and then the lightbulb moment: "I never thought of it that way before!" she cried.

Getting people to be open to seeing things differently has been my life's work.

I love when it happens to me, too.

I once interviewed a group of women who were in prison for killing their children. When we finished, one of the inmates said, "You're the first person that's come in here and talked to us like we were normal women, not just murderers. How could you do that?"

My response: "I could feel your pain. And I recognized that all pain is the same; we just choose different ways to release it. This is what you chose to do with yours. You killed your children."

Unspeakable, the depths of that crime. The horror. The shame. But my ability to set aside my preconceived notions and see those women as hurting human beings gone wrong-not "monsters of evil," as some had been labeled in the press-changed the way I viewed everyone.

I started to see that everybody's just doing the best they know how at any given time, and that even when they know better but can't do better, they often wish they could.

What if you were willing to see your whole life differently-from the 35,000-foot view? What if you could see everything you've been through, everything you've stood up to, every time you've fallen and rebounded, every curve ball you were thrown and caught? Every time you were disappointed and didn't stoop to despair. Every victory, every chance. And appreciate the fact that you're still here, still standing, still striving for a better life.

I hope you give yourself a round of applause for making it this far. And then see yourself as a part of the whole of this planet.

What gifts have you to offer? What was your reason for coming? What I know for sure: The answers keep unfolding as your life expands, if you're willing to see things for what they are- and what they can be.
This story originally appeared in the September 2018 issue of O.

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How Oprah Learned the Power of Changing Your Perspective

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My favorite part of any conversation, on air or off, is when someone has a revelatory moment and utters these words: "I never thought of it that way before." Case in point: Jo Ann Compton, whose daughter Laurie Ann was murdered in 1988.

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Robin Pacific photographed 70 people, each in a special place that has meaning for them, and then asked them a series of questions about their own death. Visual artist and editor Dennis Day made a video of all 70 people, their thoughts about their demise, their images, the music they would like played at their funeral, and their world without them in it.

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