Festival
With the entertainment line up for Canoe ‘09’s festival, it’s no wonder that 100,000 people are expected to attend from August 12 to 16. Prince Albert Road and several other streets will be closed to traffic to make way for a celebration of our sport. The festival is a non-gated and family fun event that will feature daily entertainment as well as several special events.
Events
Opening Ceremonies
Wednesday, August 12th at 8:00 p.m.
NSGC Support4Sport Stage on Prince Albert Road beside Mic Mac AAC
Concert on the Lake
Friday, August 14 at 8:00 p.m.
NSGC Support4Sport Stage on Prince Albert Road beside Mic Mac AAC
Closing Ceremonies
Sunday, August 16 at 4 p.m.
NSGC Support4Sport Stage on Prince Albert Road beside Mic Mac AAC
Festival Area
Thursday, August 13 to Sunday, August 16
Prince Albert Road
The festival will begin 30 minutes before the races start and end 30 minutes after the last race.
In addition to the vendors, exhibits and displays along Prince Albert Road, there will be a great deal of entertainment.
Several local performers including Buskers will be entertaining daily on Prince Albert Road. They will be juggling, performing comedy and magic tricks, and even eating fire.
Daniel Mahoney will defy gravity in his amazing pogo performances complete with bouncing, spinning, and flipping on a pogo stick.
There will be many activities for younger children including bouncy castles, slides, colouring contests, balloon art, clowns, and face painting.
Interactive Area
The Discovery Centre will present their ‘Slimy Science’ hands-on booth where you can get slimy exploring chemical and physical changes in some everyday substances.
Keeping with the international theme of Canoe ’09, Iceberg Exotics will have live animals from around the world. The audience will get to touch and hold everything from tarantulas and frogs to a 12-foot python.
Todd Labrador is a skilled builder of authentic Mi’kmaq birch bark canoes. He will be onsite demonstrating the process of building a birch bark canoe.
The Office of Boating Safety will be at the festival with a display trailer each day to talk about safe boating. The Lifesaving Society will do an on-water demonstration about water safety over the lunch break on Friday, August 14th.
