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The Juvenis Festival, Kingston’s multidisciplinary youth festival and one of only two in Canada, begins next week and is returning to in-person events (as well as some online) for the first time since 2019.
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This year’s festival, which runs from April 27 to May 7 in conjunction with national youth week, offers eight events and 20 workshops and will see more than 100 people 30 years of age and younger take part.
Dance, writing, visual art, music and film will be among the disciplines featured in festival events.
Among this year’s events are two stage plays and a few other theatre-related works.
First up is “13: The Musical,” which opens Thursday night at the Rotunda Theatre tucked inside Theological Hall, 85 Stuart St., and runs until Sunday, May 1. The curtain rises at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $20.
At the Baby Grand theatre, it will be “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” which opens Wednesday, May 4, and closes Saturday, May 7. Performances begin at 7 o’clock each evening and also at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Tickets for this show are also $20.
“Life of August,” meanwhile, is a “virtual musical theatre work that calls on youth conscience,” a news release reads, being shown at the Grad Club on May 1. It will also be available online after that date.
“Young Storytellers: Literary Heroes” (May 6) sees young people perform their favourite songs and scenes from musicals based on children’s books, while “Viva Voce: Away” (May 2) features youth presenting “thematically connected stories (told) through song, dance, dramatization and other creative ways,” the release reads.
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The visual arts will be showcased from April 27 to May 7 in the Storefront Art Gallery, found in what used to be Bluenotes store near Indigo books, and at the Kingston School of Art’s Window Art Gallery at the corner of Victoria and Princess streets.
Music will be featured in the Battle of the Bands, which takes place May 5 at 6:30 p.m. in the Spire, and in “Saudade,” a rhythm and blues music video “that journeys through the bittersweet times of change in our lives.” It will be shown May 1 at the Grad Club along with “Life with August.”
Among the 20 workshops taught by professionals and aimed at those between 13 and 30 years of age are the “skillbuilder” and “arts career” series. They both run the duration of the festival, from April 27 to May 7.
For further details about the festival or to buy tickets for events or to register for workshops, go to www.juvenisfestival.ca.
