September is quickly approaching. Browse exciting shopping, program ideas and savings, to ensure that your family is prepared for back-to-school time.
Raspberry Kids Sponsored Listing Back to School is in the bag at Raspberry Kids! We have hundreds of items to choose from including backpacks, lunch bags, reusables and a heap of litterless lunch gear for the entire family. We’ve got some of the best brands in the business including Beatrix NY, Lunchskins, Lunchbots, Fluf, Dabbawalla, Itzy Ritzy, Goodbyn, So Young Mother and many, many more!
KinderBounce Gymnastics Fall 2011 Session Sponsored Listing Register with a friend before September 5th and SAVE 25% off your fall registration (Quote promo code: GYMFIT2). KinderBounce offers gymnastics/trampoline and interactive parent & tot classes for 1.5 - 6 years old. Our gym has downsized equipment, trampolines, large parent viewing area, 6:1 student:teacher ratios. Major Intersection: Steeles & Dufferin
Canadian National Exhibition Sponsored Listing LET’S GO TO THE EX, where there is tons to do and see for 1 low price! Aug 19 to Sept 5. Visit TheEX.com for details.
CREATIVE MOVEMENT AND ART AND/OR BALLET CLASSES Sponsored Listing: Specializing in toddlers, preschoolers and the young child, 2 ½ to 9 years old. Teaching the concepts of Dance and Ballet through age appropriate activities. Groups are small, allowing for more personal attention. Runner-up in the Best of Richmond 2011. “Quality Training in a Caring Environment”
Sportball Multi-Sport Programs Sponsored Listing: Sportball programs provide kids with fundamental skills through both individual and team instruction which builds self-esteem while improving gross motor development. Our Multi-Sport program focuses on the eight core Sportball sports in a fun, supportive environment. At Sportball we Play with Passion and Play for FUN!
Take 15% off Your Order at Stuck on You - Two Days Only Sponsored Listing Head back to school in style with Stuck on You and their gorgeous range of name and clothing labels, backpacks, pencil cases, lunchboxes, drink bottles and more! Use promo code KIDSCAN11 to receive 15% off your order, ends 14th August 2011. Not valid on value packs.
Catering to Your Cooking Lifestyle Sponsored Listing With Back to School time comes a more hectic schedule and meal times are usually the most frantic! As the owner of The Cook’s Companion, caterer, award winning author and mother of 2 young children, Nadine Hughes understands the demands on your time. Contact her today to see how she can help you cater to your cooking lifestyle!
Back to School {Mini} Photo Session Event - By Thornhill Photographer Ricki Horowitz Sponsored Listing Bring those new hair cuts, backpacks & lunch boxes and join me in September to create “back to school” photos both you and your child will be proud of!! We will be visiting a Thornhill Woods Park for beautiful “natural” images. Preschool to high school only
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The World’s Premiere Children’s Entertainers will Celebrate Their 20th Birthday In The United States And Canada This Summer
A Portion Of All Ticket Sales Will Be Donated To Reach Out And Read
(New York, NY) – The Fab Four from down under are back with this year’s most anticipated family event. It’s time for a party…The Wiggles Big Birthday party! Come along and “Sound Your Funky Horn,” “Clap Your Hands With Dorothy,” and do the “Hot Potato.” Join The Wiggles, Captain Feathersword, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus, Wags the Dog and all the Wiggly Dancers as they celebrate their Big Birthday in your hometown!
The tour will visit 31 cities across North America including: Dallas, TX; Long Island, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; Toronto, ON; Vancouver, BC and Edmonton, AB. The Wiggles are also proud to announce that they will visit Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, FL on July 3rd for a special performance following The Tampa Bay Rays vs. The St. Louis Cardinals game!
Come and wiggle in the aisles for the Big Birthday Tour. The Wiggles are excited to bring their highly interactive, fun and educational message throughout North America. Audience participation features include:
• Start the fun at home by creating a giant wiggly birthday card or sign!
• Having fun with your favorite wiggly pal as they sing and dance through the audience.
• Dress up as your favorite character.
• Yelling “Wake up, Jeff!” whenever the loveable Purple Wiggle falls asleep onstage.
Children can have even more wiggly fun while they wait for the Big Birthday celebration online with www.WiggleTime.com, The Wiggles’ very own virtual world created specifically for preschoolers and their parents. Parents can monitor their child’s progress and have access to premium promotional offers, contests, merchandise discounts and presale Wiggles tickets! You can also follow the gang on Twitter via Twitter.com/ItsWiggleTime or become a fan of the group’s official Facebook page Facebook.com/TheWiggles.
The Wiggles are proud to announce that the U.S. school readiness initiative Reach Out and Read will be the official charity partner of their 2011 American tour. Reach Out and Read prepares America’s youngest children to succeed in school by partnering with doctors to “prescribe” books and encourage families to read together. Together, Reach Out and Read and The Wiggles will work to raise awareness about the importance of parental involvement and reading aloud to young children. This year, Reach Out and Read will serve 4 million children and families nationwide through 4,600 hospitals, clinics, and medical practices. Parents who participate in the research-proven program read to their children more often, and their children enter kindergarten with larger vocabularies and a six-month developmental edge. A portion of the proceeds from all ticket sales will be used to support Reach Out and Read Programs across the United States.
Complete Tour Schedule:
07/03 St. Petersburg, FL Tropicana Field
07/08 Dallas, TX The Allen Event Center
07/09 Houston, TX Verizon Wireless Theater
07/10 New Orleans, LA Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the Performing Arts
07/12 Atlanta, GA Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center
07/13 Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Arena
07/14 Harrisburg, PA Hershey Theatre
07/15 Long Island, NY Theatre At Westbury
07/16 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre
07/17 East Rutherford, NJ IZOD Center
07/19 Hartford, CT Chevrolet Theatre
07/20 Cape Cod Cape Cod Melody Tent
07/21 Boston, MA South Shore Music Circus
07/23 & 07/24 Toronto, ON Ricoh Coliseum
07/26 Ottawa, ON Scotia Bank Place
07/27 Oshawa, ON General Motors Centre
07/28 Windsor, ON WFCU Centre
07/29 Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills
07/30 Chicago, IL Rosemont Theatre
07/31 Wisconsin Dells, WI Crystal Grand Music Theatre
08/02 Minneapolis, MN The State Theatre
08/03 Grand Fork, ND Ralph Engelstad Arena
08/04 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
08/05 Saskatoon, SK Credit Union Centre
08/06 Calgary, AB Calgary Stampede Corral
08/07 Edmonton, AB Edmonton Expo Centre
08/09 Vancouver, BC Queen Elizabeth Theatre
08/10 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre
8/12 Oakland-San Francisco Paramount Theatre
8/13 San Jose, CA San Jose Civic Auditorium
8/14 Los Angeles Gibson Amphitheatre
*** For complete ticket pricing and on-sale dates please visit www.thewiggles.com
About The Wiggles The Wiggles, the world’s #1 preschool entertainers, performed over 350 shows to more than 1.5 million fans since 2005 in the United States alone. The Wiggles perform over 200 shows annually across four continents. The Wiggles are seen on TV in over 120 countries worldwide. Fans can catch The Wiggles on television exclusively in the U.S. on 24-hour preschool network Sprout as hosts of Sprout’s Wiggly Waffle, which airs every weekday morning from 6:00 – 9:00 a.m. ET. The Wiggles have sold more than 23 million DVDS and videos, 7 million CDs and 8 million books in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. You can also follow the gang on Twitter via www.Twitter.com/ItsWiggleTime or become a fan of their official Facebook page www.Facebook.com/TheWiggles.
About Reach Out and Read Reach Out and Read is an evidence-based, national nonprofit organization that prepares America’s youngest children to succeed in school by partnering with doctors to prescribe books and encourage families to read together. Reach Out and Read currently serves one-third of the most impoverished children in the U.S. The Reach Out and Read model is endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the program has one of the strongest records of research support of any primary care intervention. This year, Reach Out and Read’s 27,000 volunteer doctors and nurse practitioners will provide 6.4 million new books to 3.9 million children at 4,654 healthcare locations in all 50 states. For further information, please visit Reach Out and Read’s website at www.reachoutandread.org or become a fan at facebook.com/reachoutandread.
Vancouver, BC – Fun for the whole family is brought to the Orpheum with the VSO’s 5- concert Spectra Energy Kids’ Koncerts, starting on Sunday, October 10th, at 2 pm. The first concert of the series will feature the world premiere of An Ocean Called Owen by the VSO’s composer in residence Scott Good and composer and writer Dwight Schenk. Scott Good will play trombone and narrate during this exciting premiere, with Inspector Tovey (bearing a striking resemblance to Maestro Bramwell Tovey…) conducting and playing the piano.
The VSO’s Spectra Energy Kids’ Koncerts are fun and educational musical presentations for children aged four to eleven, featuring the full orchestra and popular children’s entertainers. Going beyond just the concert experience, the Instrument Fair in the Orpheum lobby allows children to try out musical instruments, try their hand at composition, and even meet VSO musicians. The fair runs for one hour before each concert, and gives children an up-close and personal look at the VSO. Suitable for the whole family, Kids’ Koncerts take place at the Orpheum on Sundays at 2pm.
The series also includes visits from renowned children’s entertainers. Magic Circle Mime will bring the life of Mozart to the stage in The Mozart Experience; Classical Kids will be showcasing the life and times of Beethoven in a hugely popular children’s production, Beethoven Lives Upstairs; and Dandi productions will present Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood. Past VSO Assistant Conductors, Evan Mitchell and Tania Miller, will both return to the VSO to conduct a concert in the series; Maestra Miller will conduct a concert she developed for the Victoria Symphony, where she is Music Director, entitled The Mischevious Adventures of the Rascally Rhythm!
SCOTT GOOD/DWIGHT SCHENK An Ocean Called Owen (World Premiere)
Inspector Tovey returns, brining with him the world premiere of An Ocean Called Owen by Scott Good and Dwight Schenk.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2 PM, ORPHEUM THEATRE
The Mozart Experience
Evan Mitchell conductor
Magic Circle Mime
Aaron Durand tenor
Magic Circle Mime’s award-winning production about the life of history’s greatest composer.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 2 PM, ORPHEUM THEATRE Beethoven Lives Upstairs
Pierre Simard conductor
Classical Kids
Classical Kids presents their best-known show, focusing on the life and times of Ludwig van Beethoven.
SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2 PM, ORPHEUM THEATRE
Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood
Pierre Simard conductor
Dandi Productions
The story of Little Red Riding Hood presented larger-than-life on the Orpheum stage.
SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2 PM, ORPHEUM THEATRE
The Mischievous Adventures of the Rascally Rhythm
Tania Miller conductor
That rascally rhythm! Find out why this musical concept is so important, with Victoria Symphony Music Director Tania Miller leading the way.
Series Ticket Prices (all 5 concerts): Adult $150 Child $66
Single Tickets: Adult- $27.75 Child- $19 (senior, student and subscriber discounts available)
Tickets available online at www.vancouversymphony.ca or by calling VSO customer service at 604.876.3434
The VSO’s Kids’ Koncerts have been endowed by a generous gift from the William and Irene McEwen Fund
Series Sponsor: Spectra Energy
Premier Education Partner: TELUS
All Instrument Fair instruments are provided by Tom Lee Music
Koba Entertainment proudly welcomes the newest addition to its family of touring musicals –
Max & Ruby: Bunny Party!
It’s a big day for someone special. Bunny siblings Max and Ruby have a-million-and-one things to do before the very exciting event; they embark on a musical bus ride to find the greatest present in the world before coming home to undergo an unpredictable make-over just for this happy occasion.
When will the guest of honour arrive? Who will it be? Join Max & Ruby as their special guest is revealed at the Bunny Party of the year! That’s right, if your child has a birthday in the same month that Max & Ruby are in your city, he or she could become the Super Duper Special Birthday Guest! You can win the opportunity for your child to join the singing and dancing on stage as the bunny siblings’ guest of honour! Tune in to your local radio station for details on how to enter.
This fast-paced theatrical production will tour the nation and have the whole audience singing and hopping to original tunes. Western Canadian dates begin this fall and the Eastern tour dates will commence in Spring 2011.
Max & Ruby: Bunny Partyis a brand new live show by Koba Entertainment, the producers behind other memorable theatrical productions including The Backyardigans: Sea Deep in Adventure and Doodlebops: Together Forever Tour. Conceived and directed by award-winner, Patti Caplette, this 90-minute event is the creative collaboration of a dynamic team of artists including Juno Award winner, Norman Foote (music and lyrics), Beth Kates (scenic design) and Anne Armit (costume design).
Max & Ruby originated as an enchanting book series by Rosemary Wells, and has sold over 3 million books worldwide. Max & Ruby started on television in 2002. Max & Ruby’s playful high jinks are enjoyed by children around the world including Canada, U.S., Finland, France and Sweden.
Max & Ruby: Bunny Party
Western Canadian Tour Dates
Sept 7 – Victoria, BC – Royal Theatre – 3:30PM
Sept 9 – Nanaimo, BC – Port Theatre – 3:30PM
Sept 11 – Surrey, BC – Bell Centre – 1:00PM
Sept 12 – Vancouver, BC – The Centre – 1:00PM
Sept 14 – Kelowna, BC – Kelowna Community Theatre – 3:30PM
Sept 16 – Kamloops, BC – Sagebrush Theatre – 3:30PM
Sept 18 – Edmonton, AB – Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium – 1:00PM
Sept 19 – Calgary, AB – Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium – 1:00PM
Sept 20 – Lethbridge, AB – Yates Memorial Theatre – 3:30PM
Sept 22 – Medicine Hat, AB – Esplanade Theatre – 3:30PM
Sept 24 – Regina, SK – Conexus Arts Centre – 4:00PM
A prominentproducer of original family musicals, Koba Entertainment has been captivating audiences throughout the world with celebrated characters from literature, television, and pop culture.Koba Entertainment productions have enchanted people of all ages in more than 165 North American cities, 12 countries and 4 continents. Production credits for young audiences include: The Backyardigans, The Doodlebops, Franklin, Big Comfy Couch, Little Bear, and Caillou.
About Paquin Entertainment Group
A diversified entertainment company, Paquin Entertainment Group is comprised of four divisions: agency, management, special events, and film and television, catering to a local, national and international clientele. Paquin Entertainment represents acts including: Randy Bachman, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Corb Lund, Tegan & Sara, Jimmy Rankin, K’NAAN and Serena Ryder.
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