Dear Toastmasters members and friends,

You are invited to a fun and exciting evening at the Area 62 International Speech and Evaluation Contests.

St. Lawrence Toastmasters Club is organizing this wonderful evening and we hope to see all of you.

Here is the relevant information.

Date:  Tuesday February 19, 2016

Time:  Starts at 7 pm sharp (We should be finished by 10 pm.)

(All contestants and organizers are to present themselves no later than 6:15 pm.)

Location:

St. Lawrence Toastmasters Club
Restaurant L’Ambroisie (conference room)
4030 St-Ambroise, suite 140
(in the west wing of the building)
Montreal, Quebec, H4C 2C7
(Link for detailed directions to the club)

Entrance Fee:  $10

NOTE: The cost is $10. Vegetables & dip will be available before the contest, and the entrance fee also includes one free non-alcoholic drink. We recommend that everyone arrives early, (i.e. by 6:30 PM or earlier).

We look forward to seeing you!

You may also download the Toastmasters Area 62 Contests Agenda.

La semaine dernière à notre club Toastmasters, nous avons eu les concours de discours et d’évaluation. Félicitations à tous les participants !  Et un grand remerciement aussi à tous les membres qui ont aidé à organiser le concours.

Les résultats sont disponibles dans notre programme pour la réunion Toastmasters du 29 janvier 2019.

Last week we held our Toastmasters club’s International Speech and Table Topics contests. Congratulations to everyone who participated! And a big thanks as well to all the club members who were involved in organizing the contest.

For the results, feel free to consult the programme for the St-Lawrence Toastmasters meeting of January 29, 2019.

The meeting of January 22, 2019 will be a special meeting, since we will be holding a club contest (i.e. English and French humorous speech contests, as well as English and French evaluation contests).

Although it won’t be in the standard weekly meeting format, it’s still quite interesting to check out. For example, this is how an Evaluation Contest usually unfolds:

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Congratulations to our members who participated in the Toastmasters Area Contests.  Such contests help members to break out of their comfort zone as they get more and more comfortable speaking in public.

Would you like to know more about how Toastmasters can help you step out of your comfort zone and be more at ease speaking in public? Come visit us!

Here is the programme for the Toastmasters meeting of February 27, 2018.

Last week we held our Toastmasters club’s International Speech and Table Topics contests. Congratulations to everyone who participated!

For the results, feel free to consult the programme for the St-Lawrence Toastmasters meeting of February 6, 2018.

Nous avons eu les concours de discours et d’improvisation à notre club Toastmasters la semaine dernière. Félicitations à tous les participants !

Les résultats sont disponibles dans notre programme pour la réunion Toastmasters du 6 février 2018.

Ce mardi 30 janvier, nous aurons une réunion spéciale à notre club Toastmasters à Montréal. En effet, nous organiserons un concours de club (c.-à-d. un concours de discours préparé et un concours d’improvisation).

La soirée aura un format différent de nos réunions hebdomadaires, mais c’est toujours très intéressant d’y assister. Par exemple, voici comment se déroule habituellement la partie du concours d’improvisation :

Au début du concours, tous les concurrents sont invités à quitter la salle.  À tour de rôle, chaque concurrent est escorté à nouveau dans la salle, et devra donner un discours non-préparé pour répondre à une question qu’ils entendront pour la première fois.  La question (le sujet d’improvisation) sera lue par le président du concours, et tous les concurrents auront la même question.

La durée de chaque discours sera de 2 minutes. (Les discours moins de 1 minute et plus de 2 minutes 30 secondes seront éliminés.)

Les juges évalueront les discours en se basant sur plusieurs objectifs, notamment: le contenu (développement du discours, efficacité), le rendu du discours (présentation physique, voix), et le langage (justesse, exactitude).  Si vous voulez en savoir plus, veuillez consulter le Guide et bulletin de vote des juges pour le Concours d’improvisation).

Enfin, ce qui peut surtout intéresser les membres de l’auditoire, c’est de voir les styles différents d’improvisation qu’il peut y avoir. Cela nous permet aussi de noter les points forts de chaque concurrent, et de comparer mentalement à comment nous aurions répondu à la question si nous aussi avions été sommés à y répondre.

Voici le programme pour la soirée Toastmasters du 30 janvier 2018.

Bonne chance à tous les participants!

A big congratulations to our member Nadine, for having won first place at the English Humorous Speech Contest that was held at the Toastmasters District 61 Fall Conference.  This is the highest distinction given for this category within Toastmasters. 

As our club president put it:

“So glad for you!!

You were so great yesterday! Extremely well earned!”

Indeed, all of us at the Saint-Lawrence Toastmasters Club in Montreal are extremely proud of your accomplishment Nadine!

We are proud to cheer on our member Nadine Champagne, who will be representing the Saint-Lawrence Toastmasters Club in Montreal as she takes part in the English Humorous Speech Contest this weekend at the District 61 Fall Conference.

Would you like to cheer Nadine on in person?  Here are the conference details:

District 61 Fall Conference 2017
November 10-12, 2017
Sheraton Laval Hotel
Laval, Québec
http://www.toastmastersconference.com/fall/2017/

According to the conference schedule, the contest will take place from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM on Saturday November 11.

We’ll all be thinking of you.  Go Nadine Go!

We’d like to congratulate Nadine Champagne, proud member of St. Lawrence Toastmasters Club in Montreal, for having won the first place in the Toastmasters Division F English Humorous Speech Contest.

Nadine (standing second from the right) at the Humorous Speech Contest.

Congratulations as well to Martina for having participated in the French Evaluation Contest. (From what we hear, she have an excellent evaluation but may have slightly exceeded the maximum time limit. Better luck next time!)

Martina (shown standing in the middle) at the Evaluation Contest.

The St-Lawrence Toastmasters Club in Montreal would like to congratulate everyone who participated in the Toastmasters Area 54 Evaluation and Humorous Speech Contests.

A big thanks to the contest organisers, all the contestants, and everyone who came to cheer them on.

Here are the contest results:

English Evaluation Contest

1st place: Gregory Fine (Westmount Toastmasters)

2nd place: Alex Chan (St-Lawrence Toastmasters)

Concours d’évaluation en français

1ère place: Martina Kugler (St-Lawrence Toastmasters)

2e place: Alex Chan (St-Lawrence Toastmasters)

English Humorous Speech Contest

1st place: Nadine Champagne (St-Lawrence Toastmasters)

2nd place: Jinghui Ding (NDG Leader Toastmasters)

The first-place winners will go on to represent our Area during the Toastmasters Division F contests, which will take place on October 14, 2017.

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If  you’d like to see photos with the other contestants, please feel free to consult our weekly programme.  Here is the programme for the Toastmasters meeting of Tuesday October 10, 2017.