THURSDAY JUNE 5th, 2008

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Friends of the Environment Super Stage-Show by Junkyard Symphony, Ontario Grades K + up www.junkyardsymphony.com Performance: Thursday June 5th @ 10 am & 1 pm Venue: Wolf Performance Hall Central Library - 251 Dundas Street

Through the seamless fusion of recycled objects, Junkyard Symphony demonstrates how reused items can create exciting and remarkable soundscapes, dimensions and rhythms. Using mini-trampolines, juggling, tricks and gags, the performers involve the audience and explore the wonders of recycled materials.

Curriculum Connections: Environmental Awareness, Inventive Musical Instruments, Circus Arts, Music

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Youth Leadership Program by Wildfire Dance Theatre, Ontario Grades 6 - 8 www.wildfiredt.com Performance: Wednesday June 4th @ 10 am Thursday June 5th @ 10 am Venue: The Arts Project 203 Dundas Street

Wildfire Dance Theatre, a group of international young adults ages 17-23, use art to explore the inescapable challenges facing youth today: extremes in wealth and poverty, peer pressure, inequalities among race and ethnicities, and bullying. Wildfire and London International Children’s Festival present the Youth Leadership Program, consisting of a main-stage production, a workshop of discussion and activities, and community service project at the Festival. Through youth teaching youth, children are motivated to change the world and inspire action for positive change.

Curriculum Connections: Interpretive Dance, Music, Social Issue Awareness, Cultural Diversity, Leadership, Healthy Development.

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The Ugly Duckling by Little Red Theatre, Ontario Grades K - 4 www.littleredtheatre.on.ca Performance: Wednesday June 4th @ 1 pm Thursday June 5th @ 1 pm Venue: The Arts Project 203 Dundas Street

Once upon a time, there was a dejected misfit who grew into the most glorious creature of them all. Never has such a fairy tale transformation touched more hearts than the one in The Ugly Duckling, one of Hans Christian Andersen's most familiar and cherished stories. Little Red Theatre retells the fable through seasons and film media touching on themes of acceptance, loneliness and self-discovery.

Curriculum Connections: Dance, Drama, Puppetry, Media Art, Storytelling, Music, Life Skills. Suitable ESL students

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En Vacance Par Petite Jacinthe, Quebec Niveau scolaire: Maternelle plus Grades K - 2 Performance: Thursday June 5th @ 1 pm Friday June 6th @ 10 am & 1 pm Venue: Museum London 421 Ridout St North

Quebec
Niveau scolaire: Maternelle plus
Avec En Vacances, Petite Jacinthe a concocté un spectacle aussi enlevant que son premier spectacle En Pyjama. Accompagné par son fidèle compagnon Victor, elle lui en fera voir de toutes les couleurs! Que ce soit à la plage, à la foire, au cirque, ou au zoo… ils s’amusent follement pour le plaisir des petits et des grands. Musicalement les chansons sont majoritairement très rythmées (latin, rock, country, jazz) et composées majoritairement de pièces de l’album En Vacances. Au plaisir de se retrouver sur le chemin de nos prochaines Vacances chez-vous.

Programmes d'études: La voix sous toute ses coutures, l'amitié, la perséverance, Musique, Instruments, Chansons

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A Promise is a Promise Adapted by Barbara Poggemiller From a book by Robert Munsch and Michael Kusugak Music by Holly Harris Directed by Dean Patrick Fleming Grades K - 4 www.geordie.ca Performance: Wednesday June 4th @ 10 am & 1 pm Thursday June 5th @ 10 am & 1 pm Venue: Spriet Theatre

Based on an Inuit Folktale, A Promise is a Promise tells the adventure of Allashua, a young girl who promised her parents she would not go fishing by the sea because deep under the Arctic Ocean lives the Quallupilluit, a monster who steals children into her underwater world. But Allashua breaks her promise to her parents, and now must make another promise to the Quallupilluit. Using masks, music and dance – and a few willing kids out of the audience – Geordie brings back its best loved production of all time so that a new generation can share the magic of Robert Munsch's story.

Curriculum Connections: Oral Storytelling, Masks, Mechanics of Inuktitut Language, Nunavut Geography, Social Studies, Dance, Drumming, Family Relationships

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