LINK Picnic Festival

Saturday August 21 -
Sunday August 22, 2010
@
Victoria Park, Downtown Kitchener

Experience African and Caribbean culture

Joy and magic for the whole family!

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SATURDAY AUGUST 21; 5 - 8PM

Open Invitation Drum & Dance Circle
Facilitated by Jason Cave & Gerima

Bring your drums and percussion instruments; all ages; no experience required.  Prepare with FREE drumming, dancing and percussion making workshops

See Preparation Workshops here

Registration is requested so we can prepare for you.
Register here.
 

SUNDAY AUGUST 22; 12 NOON - 9pm

THE DAY INCLUDES:

Mainstage Music -- Reggae, Sudanese infused jazz, Traditional African, Calypso, Soca, Jazz, Drumming, Hip Hop, R&B, Gospel, Folk, Dance

Drumming Tent -- Bring your drum and percussion instruments.  Join the jam.  Facilitated by Jason Cave

Steelpan Yard-- with Panwaves, Starlite, and WCI Steelbands. Learn about pan, play a bit and dance a bit.

Visit The History of Steelpan display by Clyde Dookie of Panwaves Steelband.

Children’s Carnival Parade -- Come join the costume parade! Bring your own or borrow one of ours. Visit our mas camp and prepare for the parade in the park.

Races for children -- 3-Legged, Lime & spoon, potato, sack race

Storytelling -- Author Florence Juma

Limbo Contest -- how low can you go?

Workshops

Drumming Workshop by Jason Cave in collaboration with Gerima Harvey Fletcher
Jason Cave brings over 19 years of drumming experience. (Time TBA)

Drum and play along with Waleed Abdulhamid Kush as he plays the drum and Balimbo.  Visit the artists page for more about Waleed.
Waleed will teach about master rhythms from the Normad, the Sahara, the Ancient Nubia and the Nile. Come enjoy rhythms and songs from the Nile to Timbuktu and the Sahara to the red sea.(Time TBA)

East African Coffee Cermony -- by M & T East African Cuisine (Time TBA)

Great linking opportunities!

Bring things that aid your comfort in the park (picnic basket, lawn chairs, blankets, screen tent, and so on)

A day of joy and magic for the whole family!

Photographers & Videographers:

Alicia Wynter  -- Wynter Photography
Bob Okot
Jeremy Fletcher
Lee Evans
Mehari  Ahferm
Natasha Ahad

Vendors information and Application form

Vendors -- Food, Merchandise, Services & Information -- Learn more about your community.

Food --

Nigerian: Moi-Moi, Pounded Yam (FuFu) with soup & Meat, Jellof Rice, Meat pies, Fish Roll, Nigerian Style Egg Rolls, Pekere

Eritrean/Ethiopian: Habesha: Beef stew, Lentil stew curry, salad served with Ingera, Gluten free Ingera available. Foul Madamas : Fava beans and Chickpeas, Garnished with Vegetables. served with Pita bread (Whole wheat), Samosa (Veggie), Drinks: Hibiscus Ice Tea, Lemonade, Pop, Water, Hot Drinks:- Ethiopian coffee brewed and roasted on site, Eritrean spicy tea.

Caribbean:  Jerk, bbq & fried chicken, Oxtail, curry chicken roti, fried dumpling, or Boiled Green Banana with Ackee & saltfish or Callaloo, spinach in coconut sauce, macaroni & cheese rice & peas, white rice, garden salad, toto, sweet potato pudding, Drops, Gizada, Almond Squares, patties, hotdogs, pastries, watermelon, corn

Ice cream

Information --

ACCKWA
Atunike Bankole
Bracelet of Hope
Canadian Diabetes Association - Clothesline
Congress of Black Women
Environmental Defence
Family Life Foundation
Historica-Dominion Institute Passages to Canada
Islamic Information Center of the University of Waterloo
Lymphoma Foundation Canada - Waterloo Chapter
Non Violence Festival
Sahaja Yoga
Words of Peace
YMCA -CCIS

Merchandise --

Tutoring services, vacations, flip-flops,T- shirts, Pants, Skirts and shorts, African clothes, jewelery, purses, Necklaces set, earrings, bracelets, rings, Subscription Sales, photos.

 

Directions:

To Victoria Park (Courtland & David Street Entrance)

From Highway 401 (east or west)

• Take Exit #278 at Highway 8 West towards Kitchener-Waterloo
• Follow Highway 8 for five minutes until it becomes (in the far left lane) King Street
• Take King Street to Downtown Kitchener
• Turn left at Benton St . (Delta Hotel on corner. Frederick St. on right)
• Turn right at Courtland Avenue W
• Cross Queen St. S. and pProceed to Victoria Park entrance at the corner of Courtland and David St.

See map here

Email Us
519-721-5746