Friday, October 2, 2009

Reminder: Harvest Fair and Moon Festival October 3

assorted heirloom tomatoes
It’s getting very exciting around here! The costumes are all done (almost), new lanterns are finished and favourites from previous years are repaired and ready to go. Now it’s the last minute details of final rehearsals, shopping lists and excited calls from artists with last minute inspirations and questions. Great performers are coming! check it out!

4-7 pm Harvest Fair artists include:

Zeellia singing Slavic Soul Music
the Wheeling eights square dance club
A-Slam punjabi live hip hop music
BC Clettes, bicycles dancers

7:00 pm Lanterns, music and art by the stream in Renfrew Park.

Live music by
Twisted Strings – Random Acts of Violins
Aligator Joy Gamelan ensemble
Lisa Chase – singer songwriter
Jun Rong- erhu
Violin Chapeau – classical violin duo
Marimbamaphone interactive instrument

Performance Art
Mind of a Snail shadow puppet theatre
True North – Upaya, with an Evelyn Roth inflatable

Lantern Installations
By:
Nicole Dextra
Yoko Tomita
Carmen Rosen
Joey Mallett
Naomi Singer
and many many more

8:30pm finale spectacle on Renfrew Park field
Big band, original music, dance, fire spinning and fireworks
Original Music by Brad Muirhead and the Renfrew Community Performance Project band
Original dance, stilt dance and fire spinning by Isaac Rosen-Purcell, Odette Slater, Ariel
Anderson and 25 young performers from the community.

See you there!

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