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2007.12.21. Kensington Market Festival of Lights
Kensington Market Festival of Lights
Date: December 21 2007
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Augusta and Oxford Streets
Our daylight hours have been mysteriously shrinking. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!
DEC 21 - JOIN us on what some predict may be the shortest day yet this year!
to beckon the return of the sun with a fire-fuelled, samba soaked march through the narrow streets of Toronto's beloved Kensington Market.
Gather at Augusta and Oxford - just south of College for 6:00pm - and go with the flow.
FESTIVAL PARADE
DISCOVER celebratory scenarios at storefronts and rooftops presented by inspired Toronto artists including:
Shadowland, Clay and Paper, and Jumblies Theatre, students from the Centre for Indigenous Theater, Gaa Dibaatjimat Ngaashi, CircleSing featuring JennieLea and the Riverdale Choir, the Befana Choir, the Kensington Coon, Cat and Rat Coalition, Darbazi Choir, The Fearless Fishers and more.
DANCE to the soul stirring rhythms of the Samba Squad, Maracatu Nunca Antes, Rich Underhill and the Kensington Community Orchestra, the Island ARhythmics, EagleHeart Drummers and Singers, Spirit Wind, Isaiah Cada, and the perennial SolSticks.
HANDMADE and COMMERCIAL-FREE for 19 years, The Festival of Lights is participatory. Wear a costume, bang a drum, carry a lantern.
IGNITE THE NIGHT Friday, December 21st in Kensington Market.
LANTERN MAKING WORKSHOPS
CREATE a your own lantern to carry in the parade and to decorate your home.
Saturday Dec. 15, 12-5pm at St. Stephen's Community House - 260 Augusta just south of College
Sunday Dec. 16, 12-5pm at the Kapisanan Filipino Centre for Arts and Culture - 167 Augusta - just north of Dundas
NEW this year, join artists Melisa and Melecio Clemente for a special workshop in traditional Filipino Parol lantern making on Tuesday Dec. 18 at 6pm at Kapisanan.
For More Information
Call 416-598-3729, email [email protected] or visit our developing website at www.redpepperspectaclearts.org
Red Pepper Spectacle Arts is a not-for-profit Community Arts organization working from a Kensington Market storefront studio. We partner with social services, communities, reserves and other arts organizations to create arts access opportunities across Toronto and into the far north.
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