Victoria Arts Connection
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Subject: For Immediate Release - 3rd Annual Passport to the Arts Youth Festival
Event: Passport to the Arts Youth Festival
Dates: Nov 30-Dec 1, 2007
Hours: Fri Nov 30 7-9pm; Sat Dec 1st 12pm-4pm.
Cost: $5
Location: Victoria Arts Connection
110-2750 Quadra Street (northwest of Hillside), Victoria, BC V8T 4E8
t. 250-477-9089
e. info@victoriaartsconnection.com
w. http://www.victoriaartsconnection.com/html/pp07splash.html
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Victoria Arts Connection is pleased to present the 3rd Annual Passport to the Arts Youth Festival, a highly accessible and unique festival that celebrates diversity in the Arts for youth. It offers youth from toddlers to late teens the opportunity to showcase their work, perform, experience hands on art stations where they can create their own art, and participate as audience members to see quality live main stage performances. This festival celebrates and showcases all the major arts disciplines including crafts, dance, drama, literature, visual arts, music, and media arts.
This year's festival program has expanded to include an exciting evening of film and media arts on Friday November 30th featuring premiers of films by youth from The Gulf Islands Film and Television School (GIFTS http://giftsfilms.com) as well as Media Net's Youth Film Makers group.
On Saturday, December 1st guests receive a passport with a map to help them navigate through the stations, where they are greeted by Passport Officials who stamp their passports. Stations include workshops, the VAC gallery, main stage and interactive media stations. Workshops include movement classes, creative dance for the young folks as well as improvisation and hip-hop, theatre classes, theatre improvisation, and puppetry. Specialists in their field lead all workshops.
Interactive media and education stations include Vancouver Island Storytellers Guild www.victoriastorytellers.org, The Victoria Symphony Orchestra Petting Zoo www.victoriasymphony.ca, Media Net www.media-net.bc.ca interactive video station (the video is published on the VAC and Media Net web sites), hands-on visual art station and a 2 month gallery exhibition of work by children and youth in the CRD area. Mosaic the City's www.mosaicthecity.com collaborative peace tile project as well as a station featuring the Stephen Lewis Foundation are dedicated to raising awareness around global peace issues and AIDS in Africa. In addition VAC sponsors Amna a child in Sudan through Foster Parents Plan. Each year our guests share in the creation of a tapestry with well wishes and images created on canvas that is sent to Amna as well as a cash donation for her family.
Main stage includes performances by Kaleidoscope Theatre www.kaleidoscope.bc.ca including an excerpt from Aladdin Jr. dance performances by the Victoria Dance Connection Youth Company www.victoriadanceconnection.com , Magicians Christopher Menu and Paul Kilshaw, actor Roderick Glanville, Tickles the clown, and a number of vocal guests. Roving entertainment includes tall puppets, clowns, face painters, stilt walkers and more.
The two month long art exhibition will feature visual arts in all media including painting, drawing, sculpture, film and photography.
For more information about this festival please visit our website: http://victoriaartsconnection.com/html/pp07splash.html
About the Victoria Arts Connection:
VAC is a registered BC non profit society dedicated to supporting multidiscipline arts in the city of Victoria, BC. Founding companies include Victoria Dance Connection, MediaNet, Out of the Box Productions, and Company Constance Cooke Dance. These arts organizations have a permanent home in the building. Other affiliated members include a number of independent artists and arts organizations including Kivitt Ballroom Dance, Red Hot Swing, The Dance for Camera Interest Group, Tripod and Suddenly Dance Theatre among others. VAC supports many ongoing events and annual events including monthly visual art exhibitions, The Pacific Festival of the Book, Media Net's International Dance for the Camera Summer Intensive Workshop.
Please click here for the call for youth art poster.
Connie Cooke
Youth Festival Director
Victoria Arts Connection
where the arts come together
#110-2750 Quadra Street
Victoria, BC V8T 4E8
T. 250-477-9089
www.victoriaartsconnection.com
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