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Children’s

a - party in

the park

THE 1998 Vancouver
International
Children’s Festival gets
under way Monday,
May 25 for a one-week
run at Vancouver’s

Vanier Park.

The festival plays host ro
performers from around the
world as well as a Village Site
featuring free activities and
exhibits.

This year there will also
be programming for young
people ages 14 to 19. The
X-Site brings top-notch per-
formers to the Vancouver
East Cultural Centre for The
dst Annual Vancouver Arts
Festival for Young Adults.

Festival gates ar Vanier
Park open at 9 a.m. cach day
May 25 ~ May 31. Program
guides listing showtimes are
available throughout the
Lower Mainland.

Below is a listing of the
scheduled mainstage per-
formers grouped into sug-
gested audience age levels.

I_ages:
— Exoopolis: Wluminarinm
IV (United Kingdom}. A vir-
tual sellout at last year’s festi-
val the environmental experi-
ence returns.
— Tinagine, a Tribute to the
Beatles (USA). One pertor-
mance only on Sunday, May
24 recreates memories of the
Fab Four.

3 and up:
— Fred Penner and the Car’s

Meow Band (Manitoba).
— Charlotte Diamond and
the Hug Bug Band (BC).

Sand up:

— Guffaw! (USA) A vaude-
ville-style circus comedy.
— Norman Foote (BC)

an H
— Sundusa (Zimbabwe).

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NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

ANNIE, Sophie, Madison and Marisa picnic in the park. Activities for toddlers to pre-teens open at 10 a.m. each day of the Children’s Festival.

A DAY AT THE OPERA

M The Music Master and His
Two Students by Giovanni
Paisiello. Performances by
the Modern Baroque Opera
Company at the Children’s
Festival in Terit 3 —
Monday, May 25, at 1:30
p.m.; Tuesday, May 26 and
Wednesday, May 27 at 10
and 11:30 a.m. each day.

Ben D'Andrea
Contributing Writer

pera is kids” stuf! The
high art of buffoon-
ery wiil conquer

opera’s stuffy image next
week when the Modern
Baroque Opera Company
presents The Musie Master
and His Two Students at the
Vancouver International
Children's Festival.

A hit at last year’s festival,
The Music Master is a 40-
minute operatic romp by
Giovanni Paisiello about a
pompous music teacher who

gets a proper drubbing from two irrepressibly clownish stu-

dents.

The Music Master appeals to young audiences in different
ways. “There’s a certain childish irreverence in it,” says Kate
Hutchinson, a founding director of the Modern Baroque
Opera Company.” It’s wo naughry children getting their own
back against an overblown teacher.” For children in the audi-
ence, it’s a chance to Jaugh ar a figure of authority who

Photo Kathy Stade

THE Modern Baroque Opera Company will perform Giovanni Paisiello's The
Music Master and His Two Students in Tent 3 at the Children's Festival.

behaves as childishly as his students. Last year's audiences were
enthusiastic. “Anybody who was over the age of five was really
mesmerized by it.” :
A lot of sight gags highlight the opera’s humor.
Hutchinson, who directs The Muste Master, believes that the
younger the audience, the more important physical humor

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50 years of
kids books

1947 Goodnight Moon by
Margaret Wise Brown,
illustrated bv Clement
Hurd (Harper & Row).
The original bedtime
book for boomers.

19-47 Misty of
Chincotcagque bv
Marguerite Henry, illus-
trated by Wesley Dennis
(Macmillan).

1947 Caps for Sale, writ-
ten and illustrated by
Esphvr Slobodkina
(Harper & Row).

1948 My Father's Dragon
by Ruth Stiles Gannett,
illustrated by Ruth

“Cheisman Gannett

(Random House).
1959 The Chronicles of
Narvia by C. 5, Lewis,
illustrated by Pauline
aynes (Macmillan).

a ppt. mgstocking
by Astrid Lindyicn, illus-
trated by Louis S.
Glanzman (Viking).
1951 Minn of the
Mississippi. Written and
illustrated by Holling C.
Holling (Houghton
Mifflin).

1952 Charlotte's Web by

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