What's happening at this year's Festival?

Lee Kools Promotions Coordinator

The Cambridge Arts Festival on June 5, 2010 is bigger, better and more exciting and interactive than ever! Held at Cambridge City Hall Civic Square and surrounding areas and we have endeavoured to build a festival that everyone will enjoy. Members of the Preston Scout House Band will be on hand to give us a rousing start to our day from 9:45 am to 10 am with the first Main Stage band beginning at 10 am. The best part of all of this is that it is absolutely FREE! There is Free Parking,

Free Admission to the Festival and, thanks to our sponsor World of Water - Free Water when you bring your own reusable travel cup or buy one of ours for your use during the day.

Visual artists will line the areas displaying and selling their works - jewelry, fiber art, acrylics, oils, sculptures and so much more will be found at this festival.

Culinary artists that provide everything from organic foods to decadent chocolate and cupcakes will be there and free workshops will be available.

Wordsmiths, as well as folks who enjoy poetry and the spoken word, can take in the readings (and writings) of local writers in the Word Up! alley next to the Golden Kiwi.

If live performance is what you enjoy then we can fill that need too! Belly dancers, contemporary dancers, ballroom dancers, martial artists and puppetry should fill that bill.

MOTUS O dance company's three founders met at the Cambridge School for the Arts and that is where they first began the process of establishing their amazing dance company.

After 3 pm you can watch graffiti artists create one-of-a-kind works as they paint very special canvases in the Cambridge Farmers' Market parking lot. The U R New York artists group give their work an urban industrial feel by combining mediums such as photography, silk-screening, graphic design, and graffiti. To commemorate the occasion, avone, a New York aerosol artist from the "Destroy and Rebuild" has created a piece combining the New York sky line with the Cambridge sky line.

The headliner for the Main Stage is Two Crown King - a six piece collective fusing elements of Soul and Funk, while maintaining a focus on the fundamental story telling techniques of early Hip Hop. After Two Crown King, the Fire Spinners are back to give us a blazing end to what we trust will be a very enjoyable day of arts and entertainment for the people of Cambridge and outlying cities.

We’re excited and pleased to invite everyone done for a day to celebrate the arts in all its forms in our community!

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Originally from Galt, Lee Kools has worked in the arts for more than 30 years. When her teenaged daughter (Stacey) entered high school and became involved in their internationally-reknowned theatre group "The Company", Lee decided to lend a hand. Since then she has acted, directed, produced, catered, stage managed, blocked, done book, sewn costumes, chaperoned, run lines, done promotion and just about anything else that needed to be done in theatre. Recently Lee curated an extremely successful art exhibit that was very close to her heart at the WKP Kennedy Gallery located in the Capitol Centre in North Bay. It was called KOOLS2 and featured the artwork of her nephew Ean Kools and the photography and photomanipulation art of her son, Tom.