Raising Youth Awareness
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Opening Night 2008
Short Cuts Youth Film Festival
Friday August 22nd - 9pm to 11pm
Selection of youth focused and youth driven films, videos and shorts
Bring your blankets, lawn chairs and snacks
@ Parkdale Public Library Parking Lot (Queen and Brock)
Festival Programming 2008
Parkdale Youth Festival Mural Project
Mural of traditional art forms mixed with spray art graffiti (Parkdale Library parking lot)
Official Unveiling - Saturday August 23rd - 2PM
@ Parkdale Public Library Parking Lot (Queen and Brock)
2008 Performance Stages - Saturday August 23rd
Masaryk-Cowan
Community Centre Indoor Stage
6pm to 10pm - "Urban Dance Party"
6:00 - 6:15 Soniks Band
6:25 - 6:40 Trish
6:50 - 7:05 E.O.S.
"Keep
Clappin"
7:15 - 7:30 Stolen From Africa "Bringing It Back"
7:40 - 7:55 905th Brigade
"The Greatest"
8:05 - 8:20 Admiral Crumple
"Dark World"
8:30 - 8:45 ReLZ "Outtatownaz Wayzofdaworld"
8:55 - 9:10 Royce Birth
"When The Music Stops"
9:20 - 9:35 Angerville
"Dear
Dad"
9:45 - 10:00 Blessed
"Reggae
Music"
Schedule Subject To Change
Cowan
Avenue Stage
2pm to 6pm - "Energizing Entertainment"
Host: Joel Douglas
Founder of the comedic group R.E.M.Y. (Realist Entertainment Media Youth), and also part of two music groups; Mind,Body & Soul and Beatknockerz. He is also the host of an upcoming Web show called 'LumLive', which focuses on young entrepreneurs and artists in Toronto, and he's in the process of filming and directing a comedic pilot project based on a number of sketches he has created for a show that will be due in 2009.
200PM – 300PM Breakout “Parkdale Reach For The Stars” featuring Little Rascals
300PM – 310PM Culture Link Youth Theatre - "The Love and
Pains of Immigration”
310PM – 320PM Scott Jackson – Beat Box
320PM – 330PM Cookie – R n B
330PM – 350PM Keys To The Studio – Band Jam
350PM – 410PM Allison – Caribbean Kid’s Songs
410PM – 430PM Jamie Wayne – Music for Kids
"When I Grow Up"
430PM – 450PM Louise Kent – Folk/Pop
"The Sense Of This"
450PM – 500PM Lady Noyz - Breakdancing
500PM – 600PM CIUT Masterplan Mix Tape Workshop
Schedule Subject To Change
Other Scheduled Activities - Saturday August 23rd
Smart Sckool Kidz Korner Pizza Pizza Kidz Kastle (2pm to 6pm)
Featuring: Face Painting, Sidewalk Chalk, Clay Sculpture, Kidz Interactive Art Zone
Woolfitt's Interactive Art Zone (2pm to 6pm @ Queen and Beaconsfield)
Featured Artist David Goldbergconducts Charcoal Portrait Workshop
Workshops at 2pm, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm
@ Woolfitt's Art Enterprises, 1153 Queen Street West
Parkdale Public Library Interactive Art Zone (2pm to 6pm @ Queen and Brock)
Featured Artist Adrianne Rubenstein conducts Abstract Expressionist Murals
Graffiti Workshops by The Faceless Few
@ Parkdale Library Parking Lot (Queen and Brock)
LIFT Interactive Art Zone (2pm to 6pm @ Queen and Cowan)
LIFT Cameraless Animation Workshop
@ Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre
Featured Flicks (2pm to 6pm @ Queen and Cowan)
2pm - "A Winter Tale" followed by Talk It Out Q&A with actor Ryan Ishmael
4pm - "9 Months, 6 Blocks" followed by Q&A with producer Leslie Thomas
5pm - "Peace, Life and Struggle" presented by Youth In Action
@ Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre