Works 2017 Guide V7 05-30-2017-web
The Works Art & Design Festival 2017 - Interplay
The Works Art & Design Festival 2017 - Interplay
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Celebrate Canada 150<br />
July 1st at City Hall and Churchill Square<br />
City Hall: 11am – 6pm<br />
Formal ceremony at 11:40 am in City Hall<br />
Multicultural and family-friendly<br />
performances and activities<br />
Indoor stage featuring:<br />
Stratton Pipe Band, O’Canada/Asani in English,<br />
French, Cree, KoRock Drumming & Jeon’s<br />
Taekwondo, Aytahn Ross, Wajjo African Drumming<br />
& Matterin School of Irish Dance, Donovan Shirt,<br />
Magician Brent Cairns, Zephyr Dance and more.<br />
Indoors and outside on City Hall Plaza!<br />
• Unveiling of the Canadian Mosaic Mural<br />
• Children's performers and roving<br />
historic characters<br />
• Pool activities and games<br />
• DJs and Live Band - The Tsunami Brothers<br />
• Peter & Mary<br />
• Crafts and exhibits by The <strong>Works</strong> Arts &<br />
Design Festival<br />
• Photobooth with the Canada 150 backdrop<br />
River Valley Fireworks: 11 pm<br />
When the festivities wrap up at 10 pm, head<br />
south to the River Valley to catch fireworks<br />
choreographed with the High Level Bridge Light<br />
Show. Prime viewing is from the Legislature -<br />
take the LRT from Churchill to Grandin for an<br />
unobstructed view.<br />
Churchill Square:<br />
11am - 9:<strong>30</strong>pm<br />
Outdoor Street Stage 12 noon – 9:<strong>30</strong> pm<br />
Featuring The Gateway Big Band, Miss Rae and<br />
the Midnight Ramblers, Funkafeelya, Kelly Alanna,<br />
Heather Blush and the Uppercuts, Nuela Charles, and<br />
closing with musical innovator, slide guitarist, and<br />
unparalleled singer, Ellen MacIlwaine<br />
Art activities free for the whole family:<br />
Sun print workshops, poetry workshops, slide making,<br />
portrait projects, and mural painting, and graffiti<br />
workshops and fibre art!<br />
Roaming artists-in-residence:<br />
Watch for our troupes of artists, poets, musicians, and<br />
others capturing the spirit of the day’s celebrations.<br />
You can check it out online during and after! Links<br />
available at theworks.ab.ca<br />
Historical Re-enactments<br />
"First meeting" between Indigenous peoples and first<br />
voyageurs/explorers in the Edmonton River Valley<br />
based on oral histories with Indigenous elders and<br />
historians. Enactments at 2:00 and 3:15 pm<br />
Art Performances:<br />
See something strange and new! Performances by<br />
Stacey Cann, Kasie Campbell, Riley Skworoda, Alysse<br />
Bowd, and Grant MacEwan Fine Arts students.
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