Children's Art Festival
The 2012 Kamloops Children's Art Festival was fabulous - thanks to all the sponsors, community partners and volunteers who made it happen! View photos
The 2013 Children's Art Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 14th. Want to get involved? This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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2012 Festival Information
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September 15th, 2012
11am to 4pm
Riverside Park (weather permitting)
Organized by the Kamloops Arts Council for the past 12 years, the annual Children's Art Festival is a fun-filled, creative day of artistic, musical and theatrical activities for local children. The entire day is FREE for children and their parents. This year's creative workshops include mask-making, henna art, clayworks, theatre games, rock school, artist trading cards, zentangles, wire jewellery-making, printmaking, hula hooping, hula dancing, balloon animals, bellydancing and much more!
2012 Performance Schedule
11:30am - Stage One Theatre School's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
The play brings to life the favourite story of young Charlie Bucket and fellow prize winning children’s adventurous tour of Willy Wonka’s fanciful chocolate and candy factory. Surrounded by temptation, the good and the brave are quickly sifted from the greedy and ghastly.
12:40pm - Master Viani's Tiger Team Martial Arts
Ka-pow! Catch the Vianis Tiger Team’s high energy martial arts demonstration.
1:00pm - Claire Carlson-Mitton (Kamloops Idol People's Choice)
Kamloops Idol People’s Choice winner Claire Carlson-Mitton is sure to be a crowd-pleaser with her beautiful voice and guitar-playing. http://www.youtube.com/user/ClaireOfficialMusic?feature=CAwQwRs%3D
1:20pm - Hooping with Daryl
Watch Daryl as she impresses the crowd with her amazing hoola-hooping skills!
1:30pm - FOOLED!
The fun for the whole family show! “FOOLED!” is the mouth-dropping, eye-popping, gut-busting experience that blends magic, music, and mayhem into a high-energy, interactive comedy show! Unbelievable illusion plus hysterical comedy and audience participation combine to create world class family entertainment. http://thefestivalmagician.com
2:30pm - Bishop Dance Productions
Kristina Mah, age 10, performs the Jazz Solo “Tell Me,” followed by Katie Mah, age 8, performing “Tik Tok”. Choreography by Laura Bishop. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bishop-Dance-Productions/106031736113800
2:40pm - Hooping with Daryl
Watch Daryl as she impresses the crowd with her amazing hoola-hooping skills!
2:50pm - Bishop Dance Productions
Simone' Kruger, age 9, performs a Tap Solo titled “Choo Choo Ch’Boogie,” followed by Caitlyn Neufeld, age 9, with “Swing On A Star.”
3:00pm - Heritage Railway & Echo Newspapers' 'Be a Train Conductor for a Day' contest draw
3:05pm - Uncle Chris the Clown
Join Uncle Chris for a fun and interactive show full of magic, balloon animals and much more! Everyone’s favourite local clown. http://www.unclechristheclown.com/_index.php
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Wanted: Children who Love the Arts
Multi-year film project to feature local children at Children’s Art Festival
Is your child between the ages of 5 and 9? Do they love creating art in any medium (visual, theatre, dance, music)? The Kamloops Arts Council would like to hear from you!
The Kamloops Arts Council will be producing a short documentary film, shot over the course of four years, that tracks the growth of a group of young artists who attend the annual Children’s Art Festival in September.
Kora Vanderlip, 15, is a young filmmaker who has already won many awards with her humorous and thoughtful short films. Kora will follow the chosen group of young artists over the next four years discussing what art means to them and to observe the changes in their artistic expression over time.
Filming will commence September 2012. The completed film will premiere at the Kamloops Arts Council’s Children’s Art Festival in 2016.
Interested? Download the application form (http://www.kamloopsarts.com/images/CAF_Film_Project_application_form.pdf), and bring it to the Kamloops Arts Council booth at the Children's Art Festival on Sept. 15, 2012.
For more information, please contact the Kamloops Arts Council at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
The Kamloops Arts Council gratefully acknowledges the support of Teck Resources and the City of Kamloops for this film project.
Thanks to all our sponsors:
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Community Investment Program: Arts & Culture – Children’s Art Festival, Kamloops, BC
Teck Highland Valley Copper announces a sponsorship of $25,000
In 2011, Teck Highland Valley Copper made a donation of $25,000 to the Kamloops Arts Council to support the next five Children’s Art Festivals!
Kamloops is home to over 600 employees of Teck Highland Valley Copper, and support for the Children’s Arts Festival will continue to enhance the mine’s reputation in the community while supporting an interest in the arts. Highland Valley Copper had been a minor sponsor of the event for the previous two years but generously offered $25,000 to help create an even more spectacular festival.
The Kamloops Arts Council thanks Teck Highland Valley Copper for its continued support and the incredibly generous gift. Support of the arts is not only healthy for artists, it is healthy for the community as a whole. Thank you!