Please feel free to join your family and friends at Eastwoodfest 2010! Enjoy a free pancake Breakfast, live music, Art, Artisans, Kids activities, horse-pulled carriage rides, a HUGE Snakes and Ladders game, and much much more.
The board of Arts on the Ave would like to send a resounding thank-you to volunteers, sponsors, artists and everyone who attended the recent Kaleido festival on 118 ave, Edmonton’s largest block party. The event was a raging success — even that wicked northerly wind couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm.
From the dancing to the music to Shakespeare being performed in the playground, Kaleido was a testament to community spirit, and to the power of art to inspire us, unite us and delight us.
Want to give back to the community? Interested in being apart of a fantastic arts festival?
The Kaleido Festival is on September 25-27 2009 and the festival needs your help. We require volunteers to take on a variety of roles from manning the information booth to stage managing one of the various venues at the festival. The variety of artists and performers lined up for this year is truly spectacular and make sure you dont miss out by volunteering for the Kaleido Festival.
If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Nathan at kaleido2009@gmail.com
Phase One of the 118th Avenue Initiative Streetscape Improvements are pretty much complete! All the hard work has paid off…the Avenue looks fantastic. We are celebrating the new Streetscape with a big party on the Avenue!
I have attached a copy of the Eastwoodfest Street dance Celebration handbill with schedule. At 1pm there will be speeches from Councillor Gibbons and Councillor Caterina. At the same time the Streetscape Working Group will be recognized. I hope that you will be able to attend!
EASTWOODFEST AND STREET DANCE CELEBRATION.
On Saturday, August 15, the Avenue will come alive with entertainment, music, festivities, and great food, including a free pancake breakfast. 118th Avenue from 82 – 87 Street will be closed to traffic while we celebrate the beautiful new Streetscape Improvements. There will be live music, street performers, an antique car show, and an arts market. Enjoy local renowned artists, including Edmonton’s own Captain Tractor, the Wambats, and more! A full schedule of events can be found at www.avenueinitiative.ca or on our website here.
Date: Saturday, August 15, 2009 Time: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Location: 118 Ave, 82 St. to 87 St.
Eastwood Park, 86 St. and 118 Ave. (Children’s entertainment and carnival) 118 Avenue, from 82 Street to 87 Street, will be open to pedestrian traffic only during the event.
Eastwoodfest is fast approaching and we need volunteers!
This event is shaping up to be BIG, EXCITING and has an amazing line up of entertainment and activities. Eastwoodfest this year is partnering with the Avenue Initiative and Arts On The Ave to celebrate the completion of Phase 1 of the Streetscape Improvements. The Avenue from 82nd – 87th will be closed. There will be an Arts Market and Main stage on the Avenue and activities in the Park. The day starts off with a free Pancake Brunch. Its going to be a great day, if you are able to help out please email Judy Allan at Judy.allan@edmonton.ca with your availability.
Details of the Event are:
Saturday August 15th
8 am Set Up
11 – 7 pm Event
7 – 9 Strike
Volunteers will receive a free t shirt and a voucher to enjoy one of the many specials in the restaurants along the Avenue.
Shifts include:
Set Up 8 – 11 am
Afternoon 11 – 3 pm
Evening 3 – 7 pm
Strike 7 – 9 pm
Jobs include:
Sidewalk Chalking
Performers – greet & help
Info Booth
50-50 raffle
Moving picnic tables (set up and tear down)
Supervise bouncy things
Roving on street & in park
Food & Beverages
Clean up crew
Help with pancakes – make batter, serve and clean-up.
Title: Avenue Goes to The Dogs Festival Location: Alberta Avenue Community Centre, 9210 118 Avenue Link out: Click here Description: June 13th
10:00-4:00pm
Alberta Ave Community League
Come out with your dog for a real “dog day afternoon”! Start Time: 10:00 Date: 2009-06-13 End Time: 16:00
We have put together a short slideshow of images from last year’s Deep Freeze. Please spread the word and share this video with your friends and family to help us get the good news out that DEEP FREEZE IS COMING THIS WEEKEND!.
Feel free to embed the video on your own blog, your Facebook profile, wherever.
And speaking of Facebook, if you haven’t RSVP’d to our Facebook event yet, please take a moment to join us there. You can find the Facebook event for Deep Freeze at …
There may have been a fall chill in the air this weekend (especially Saturday), but that chill disappeared the moment one walked into The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse. Certainly, one could say it was the warmth of good music that took it away. And the music WAS great. I was able to hear it all day Saturday as I hosted The Carrot stage. Lynette McKell and The Low Flying Planes were an incredible ensemble with guitars, 3 vocalists, bass, banjo, piano and accordian (not all at the same time, mind you). The energy continued throughout the day with the smooth Jazz of Karen Porkka and Mo LeFebvre, the infectious beats of Pre-Post and the folk stylings of Leckie Olsen and Cora McLachlan. Yes, such music would warm any cold soul, but it’s not the music I’m talking about.
One could also say it was the excellent coffee, cinnamon buns and treats served by our hardworking volunteer baristas that brought relief from the chill, but I’m talking about something more literal than all of that.
Body count!
Yes, that’s right. The sheer amount of people packed into the Carrot like art-loving sardines on Saturday and Sunday was enough to warm even the coldest winter day. And this particular weekend NOT being winter, it was VERY hot in there!
If you were able to stop in and helps us celebrate Kaleido this weekend, thank you for your support. And thank you for raising the temperature of the Carrot!
Here are some photos I shot throughout the day at the Festival. If you have some photos you’d like to add to this collection, please email them to info@artsontheave.org. See you at our next festival, Byzantine Winter Festival 2009!
The Arts on the Ave organizers are asking all you milk drinkers out there (and you know who you are) to donate empty plastic two- and four–litre containers to be made into lanterns for the Kaleido Family Arts festival Parade of Light.
Alternatively, the creative among you could make your own lantern for the Sept 27 evening.
