Vancouver International Children's Festival announces return to in-person events on Granville Island, May 31 to June 5
Tickets on sale Wednesday for a lineup that spans African circus, Indigenous dance, and Fred Penner
Won-Ma Africa.
Parents Are Still a Drag
Fred Penner
THE VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL Children’s Festival has announced it will hold in-person shows again on Granville Island from May 31 to June 5.
Favourite children’s singer-songwriter Fred Penner, Indigenous dance artists Dancers of Damelahamid, and African circus stars Kalabanté are on the roster as 14 professional performing artists from as far away as Denmark, Ireland, and the U.K. are scheduled to perform 65 shows. (More performing artists to be added to the lineup in the coming months.)
The fest, which has not held live offerings for two pandemic summers, will also feature online theatre, music, dance, circus, puppetry and storytelling from May 31 to June 12.
Online where world-class theatre, music, dance, circus, puppetry and storytelling performers come to entertain Vancouver children and families. This year, fourteen professional performing artists from as far-reaching as Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom are scheduled to perform 65 shows with more performing artists to be added to the lineup in the coming months.
Tickets are on sale to the general public on March 7 at ChildrensFestival.ca, or during the fest at its on-site box office, located between Festival House and the Waterfront Theatre.
Among the live highlights, Quebec’s Guinean circus Kalabanté rolls out its mix of acrobatics and African music in Won-Ma Africa; Zee Zee Theatre’s drag artists Peach Cobblah & Isolde N. Barron host the drag dress-up spectacular Parents Are Still a Drag; Denmark’s Teatret Gruppe 38 uses puppets, masks, and music to bring the show A Story of a House That Turned into a Dot alive; and B.C.’s Monster Theatre tells a tale of a climate crisis on a fictional planet in the fun but educational Crisis on Planet Z!.
Audiences can take in Gitxsan/Cree troupe Dancers of Damelahamid’s Spirit and Tradition either online or in person. And the online-only lineup spans the U.K.’s Anansi The Spider Respun, Ireland’s whimsical, prop-crazy The Girl Who Forgot to Sing Badly, and a B.C. student-based retelling of a Norwegian folk tale in Project Element.
Watch for more artists yet to be announced and find more info here.
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