July 12th & 13th 2008 - Black Creek Pioneer Village - Toronto - Canada
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Friday July 11th 2008 - Kids Day (10:00 am - 5:00pm)

Kids' Day kicks off the festival on Friday, July 11, 2008 at Black Creek Pioneer Village in the north-west area of Toronto. Families, day camps, recreation programs and daycares are all welcome.

Kids will have the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of Métis-focused activities, including crafts, storytelling, music, sing-alongs, sports, games, dancing, history and even a puppet show for the little ones! The admission fee covers all activities.

Kids can choose from the following activities:

  1. making beaded bracelets to take home
  2. singing English, French and Ojibwa songs
  3. playing field hockey, with skills instruction by the Toronto Firebirds Aboriginal Hockey Team
  4. enjoying story-telling and talks about making snowshoes and life as a fur-trader
  5. playing traditional Métis games like double ball, voyageur wrestling, and hoop and spear
  6. sashweaving
  7. watching a puppet-show about voyageur life
  8. learning Métis dances such as jigging and square-dancing
  9. listening to a concert by Métis musicians

 

This action-packed day runs from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Friday, July 11, 2008. To inquire about a group discount, please contact Jeanette Porter at 416-736-1733 ext. 5256 or jporter@trca.on.ca. Black Creek Pioneer Village has a large parking lot for buses, but please make arrangements in advance.

Admission fees are as follows:
$13 for adults
$12 for students
$12 for seniors
$9 for children
Please inquire about a group discount, and please note that all activities are included within the admission fee.

 

CLICK HERE for KIDS DAY SCHEDULE

 

 

Saturday & Sunday, July 12th & 13th, 2008
11:00 am - 5:00 pm Each Day
The MÉTIS ARTS FESTIVAL

Fiddle Stories
Native Village Encampment
Traditional Storytelling
Flint Knapping Demonstration
The Fur Trade - with Bob Stevenson
Making Snowshoes - with Rejean Boisvert
Metis Jigging
Public Open Jam (open to all - bring your favourite instrument and jam with our mucisians)
Metis Kitchen Party
Dramatic Presentations
First Nation Drumming
Demonstrations by MAC Artisans
Art Workshops (Painting/Sketching)
Kids Workshops (Traditional Games, Sashweaving, Beaded Bracelets, and Making Dreamcatchers)
Craft Vendors
& Traditional Foods.

CLICK HERE for FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

ART GALLERY, ARTIFACT EXHIBIT & MULTI-MEDIA PRESENTATIONS (all day)
Visitors Centre - Main Theatre

TRADITIONAL FOOD & CRAFTS Market Place - Town Hall Green
PERFORMERS:

Fiddle Stories

Sponsored by the Métis Artists Collective in Ontario, Fiddle Stories is both a mentorship project and an exciting performance of old and uniquely Aboriginal forms of fiddle music.

Born of the early days of contact between Europeans and First Nations, the music is a true hybrid of the New and Old World. Through Fiddle Stories the oldest surviving traditions are being passed on from Aboriginal Elders to a new generation of musicians, so that these young people can, in turn, one day pass them on.  In the 2008, this exciting cross-generational group of Aboriginal Elders and Youth drawn from across Canada is performing together in concert. 

André Giroux

From Sturgeon Falls Ontario, André and his partner Julie Lapointe enjoy
performing high-energy bluegrass, flat-picking and traditional country
music. They play their guitars and sing with their heart and soul which
explains the emotions they bring out in their audience. The speed and the
clean sound of André’s guitar amaze everyone who sees his performances.
He surely is a natural entertainer with quite the sense of humour. André
surely knows how to leave his audience with a smile.

Morning Star River
A Toronto based group, Morning Star River perform traditional Pow Wow dances with singing and drumming.  Members Eddy and Will Robinson, Theo McGregor, Jonah Robinson, Gabe Gaudet, DJ McGregor, Ian Akiwenzie, and Ryan McMahon bring a passion to their performances and workshops born of their inspiring personal journeys and their achievements as Aboriginal performers. The group has been dancing and giving workshops for nearly 16 years and received a 2004 Canadian Aboriginal Music Award nomination.

www.morningstarriver.com
 

 
 

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