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.

Featured Artist - Angela Werstine

I see life as a journey not a destination. My journey started at a young age, when I decided that I wanted to be an artist. Since then I have found passion within art, I have experimented with many different types of techniques, and always end up doing what I love best; abstract.
Abstract to me is powerful, graceful, serene and different every time you look at it. It constantly changes, develops and grows, as we all do. For the audience, they see something different than you as the artist did not see, it is seeing the expression and power in the simple things, or they may see what you were intending. Abstract to me is an emotion, it reflects my moods, feelings, beliefs, and the way I see things.

I have created two major bodies of work entitled "Christianity, One Belief" and "Truth and Honor". Both bodies of work represent my passion, philosophy and my vision of two different worlds with the same conclusion, to love the earth, to live for freedom and without judgment, to love one another and to make a difference. Even the smallest person can make the biggest impact.

I wish to enlighten people with my view on history, culture, religion and seeing between the lines of simplicity. I find that simplicity can make a piece all the more powerful, I use my own form of line movement to create figures with the least amount of detail, it is very smooth and flowing, so that your eyes can wander across the page and to help you recognize the emotion, I pick out the most important piece of detail and create an image around it. I express my history and Christian beliefs through my drawings by putting stories behind my pieces that help to explain the meaning behind the figure.

I was born in Yarmouth Nova Scotia, to a Mi'qmaq father, and a Scottish- heritage mother. I never knew growing up about my Native ancestry; my Grandparents were ashamed of their roots and the conditions that their people endured on the East Coast. My family researched our background and discovered our deep roots and I joined the Eastern Woodland Métis Nation in 2005. I have strived to learn as much as I can about my Mi'qmaq history, but I have been faced with much difficulty having to adapt to being a Métis, being accepted fully in neither culture. I use my Mi'qmaq heritage and my Christian background to create art by using Ink. Learning about my own Mi'qmaq/Algonquin heritage is difficult in Ontario. I feel the more that I do learn about the Mi'qmaq people, history and culture the more I can bring the knowledge of the Mi'qmaq people here.

My future may hold many things, but the one constant is my passion for drawing. I will continue my spiritual journey with hopes that it could make a difference even in the smallest way.

My medium is ink on paper and said to be "new and refreshing". I have created many pieces of art that depict history, including my Native American history (Mi'qmaq) and Christianity. My love for history and desire to show the community my style is represented in my artwork. I am devoted to creating artwork that glorifies Native history and Christianity. The reason for this devotion, apart from my background, is that an artist needs an epic subject to create epic art. I have been honoured to have done many exhibits for Galleries, Parishes, Festivals and Museums throughout Ontario, Canada.

Featured Artist - Fire Spinners

Fire spinners Leah Simmons and Jessi Knight spin and breath fire!

See the Fire Spinners perform with Taperecorder in front of our main Music Stage after dark.







* video from CAF 2009 submitted by Sharon Kools, photos by Heidi Meyer

Performance Stage Schedule

The Performance Stage Schedule is now available on the schedules page of website and is as follows:

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM		U of Waterloo Ballroom Dancers
11:05 AM - 11:20 AM		Diamond Martial Arts
11:25 AM - 11:55 AM		Patrick McCauley
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM		U of Waterloo Ballroom Dancers
12:20 PM - 12:50 PM		Cambridge Theatre School
12:55 PM - 1:25 PM		Patrick McCauley Songwriting Workshop
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM		Pandora's Sox
2:05 PM - 2:35 PM		Mandi Lee
2:40 PM - 3:10 PM		Tippy Toes School of Dance (TTSD)
3:20 PM - 4:05 PM		TTSD Dance Workshop
4:10 PM - 4:25 PM		Motus O
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM		Cinnamon Tree
BREAK
5:50 PM - 6:00 PM		Jannah Dancer
6:05 PM - 6:50 PM		Belly Dance Workshop with Jannah
6:55 PM - 7:10 PM		Motus O
7:15 PM - 8:00 PM		Dead Hour
8:05 PM - 8:20 PM		Down Hips Dance Studio (DHDS)
8:25 PM - 9:00 PM		DHDS Belly Dance Workshop

Featured Artist - The Grand Bakery

The Grand Bakery specializes in cupcakes and special occasion desserts. With a custom menu of over 100 cupcake flavours, there is something for everyone--including those with sensitivities to gluten and dairy/casein/animal products. Virtually every flavor on their menu is also available gluten-free and/or vegan.

We use fresh, natural ingredients in all of our products. Everything is made from scratch and there are no trans fats or preservatives in anything we make.

The overall experience of a light, fluffy cake paired with pretty frosting has been both a personal challenge and a triumph for customers. Business owner Krista Arndt believes that everyone deserves a great cupcake and she looks forward to satisfying your cupcake craving!

Click here to listen to an interview with Krista on the Feb 8 570 News Food Show

In our culinary area, Krista will be available to not only sell her cupcakes, but also to teach about them.

To preview Krista's work, see her website thegrandbakery.com or visit her at The Cambridge Farmers Market (40 Dickson St.) Saturdays 7am-1pm and The Burford Family Market (18 Rutherford Dr.) Sundays from 10am-5pm.

Featured Artist - Deborah Sandilands

Deborah Sandilands is an award-winning carver who carves both "in-the-round" and relief carving. She has been commissioned to carve birds, plaques, signs, statues, furniture, garden art and walking sticks. While she enjoys working with other media, creating in wood is closest to her heart. It can take at least 100 hours to create some of the more detailed work!

Deborah takes requests. If you have one, contact her at the Festival or through this website.

Featured Artist - Joshua Rozad

Josh Rozad is a grade 11 student at Monsignor Doyle Catholic Secondary School in Cambridge. He first picked up a camera at the age of 14, after being inspired by the work of a friend who is, himself, an amateur photographer.

Since then Josh has worked hard to develop, both his technical and his creative skills. He has won numerous awards, including a first place in the “Youth - Nature” category in the 2010 Kitchener Public Library Amateur Photography Contest and a third place in the “Youth – Architecture” category in the 2009 Hespeler Neighbourhood Association Photography Contest; he was the youngest person ever to win “Best Photograph in Amateur Competition” at the 2008 Rockton World’s Fair.

In 2009 Josh was honoured to have been selected as one of a handful of teenagers, worldwide, who were asked to contribute their photographs to the 2009 Random House publication Click – The Ultimate Photography Guide for Generation Now.