On the Island
Family Programming | Cantos at the Festival | Song Contest winners | Bin 15 / BIOBOXES | Arusha InfoActive Tent | Slow Food Calgary | Yoga
Tim Horton's Family Area / Saturday & Sunday 11:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Unleash your creative spirit and engage your senses in the Little Folks' area. This is a place where whole families can play together, enjoy hands-on activities and see wonderful performers. Design and decorate your own puppet, add to our festival mural, get physical with the climbing wall and our inflatable Astro-Jump bouncers. Have fun with the large parachute game, having your face painted, playing with bubbles, foot fishing and engaging in games with other kids.
Family Area Programming
Geezer Gym
Col Cseke and Braden Griffiths have created an interactive show that tells the tale of a skinny 100-year-old man named Walter Scrawny and his ninety-year-old personal trainer friend. A crazy mix of found objects are transformed into exercise equipment in an entertaining show utilizing masks, puppets and physical comedy. Saturday & Sunday 11:15 - 11:45 pm / 3:00 - 3:30 pm
The Adventures of Don Marcos Sebastian Guevara Fantastico
Written by Mike Czuba and directed by Braden Griffiths. Presented by Wagonstage and the University of Calgary’s Drama Department
A talking squirrel and a shy girl join forces to defeat school bullies, which helps one deal with a family tragedy and another to find courage. With a shared love of adventure, these two outcasts discover that dreamers all speak the same language. Saturday & Sunday 12:30 - 1:30 pm / 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Cantos Music Foundation presents Stories in Sound and Song
www.cantos.ca
Drop in to experiment with sound on wild and wacky instruments and interactives from Cantos’s vast collection. Play an organ with flip flops. Bang away in the electric drum orchestra. It’s fun for all ages! Saturday & Sunday 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm / 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm
FadaDance
FadaDance is a trio of prairie girls whose unique contemporary dance is provoked from laughter, tears and actual choreography. They unleash imagination and freedom-filled spunky and inventive movements that range from light and comical to obscure and complex. They’ll lead kids of all ages in this rousing experience. Saturday & Sunday 11:45 am - 12:30 pm / 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm
Cantos Music Foundation
Ever wanted to play a hurdy-gurdy, ether-wave Moog Theremin, suitcase reed organ, or a dulcimer? Check out Cantos Music Foundation's amazing collection of instruments during scheduled demonstrations on Saturday and Sunday. For more information, visit www.cantos.ca or call (403) 543-5115.
Ship and Anchor/ Calgary Folk Music Festival Songwriting contest
The 8th Annual Contest victors perform their winning songs on the Ship and Anchor stage at Prince's Island on Sunday July 24.
Bin 15 / BIOBOXES
Bin 15: A modified grain bin at Prince’s Island Park is the home of multi-media artist Mark Lowe’s interactive installation and audio performance work. Observe Lowe and collaborators perform 40-minute audio work sets using the structure, farming implements and musical instruments, or create your own musique concrete.
BIOBOXES: Visit the tent at the Festival for Theatre Replacement’s short bilingual one-person shows for solo audiences in a very intimate theatre: a box worn on the actor's shoulders. Six artists of diverse backgrounds tell first generation Canadians’ stories, in both English and another language, including French, Japanese, Cantonese, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and German.
Community Area
Come to our re-imagined our community area with its curated engaging activity areas, where arts and community groups creatively show their organizations in action. Projects for 2011 include:
Slow Food Calgary
Visit the farm at the corner of concession row to meet local producers, enjoy some dishes and snap up some fruit and vegetables from the produce stand. Producers change daily.
Arusha InfoActive Tent
Got an idea? Bugged by issues? Have something to say? Stop in to the Arusha Info-Active Tent for a fun, participatory training session. Learn the creative skills you need to get your message out! Motivate the masses with interactive and creative activities.
Located north of Stage 4
Open Saturday July 23 and Sunday July 24, 10:30 am – 5:30 pm
Morning Yoga – back of mainstage field
Before the music begins, start your day with some energizing stretches. Saturday and Sunday, 9:45-10:30 am.
