Springfest 2023
Springfest 2023: A celebration of the Arts at Victoria School! Family and friends are invited to share in the showcasing of student works of art, May 29 - June 2, 2023! Please refer to the schedule below as we invite you to share in as many experiences within our school as you can. Parents are encouraged to sign up for events to ensure that we have seating capacity for all those that wish to attend.
We will not be selling tickets. Instead, we are encouraging families to “Pay What You Can” to support Arts programming. Donations collected will be put towards such items as a new kiln for ceramics, elementary instrument stands for music, a stagepass amplification system for secondary choral and music, or tripod legs/camera bodies to be used in our media program. Thank you in advance for your support!
Parking during Springfest:
During regular school hours, parking is limited around Victoria School. Please adhere to parking restrictions in the area that limit parking to 2 hour time slots. Feel free to street park in safe zones around the school, but please leave yourself ample time to find parking as these spaces are limited. There is some visitor parking in the southeast parking lot, near the front entrance of the school. The northeast theatre and west parking lots are reserved for teachers during regular school hours, but is open and available to patrons for afterschool and evening performances. As a last resort, patrons can pay for parking at the Royal Alex Hospital parkade, across the street from the Kingsway entrance.
How to reserve a spot for a performance:
Please use the link below to reserve a spot for the performances. You will need to submit ONE form PER PERSON (If four family members wish to attend, submit four forms). You can request multiple performances on each form (If a family member wishes to attend four performances, you can indicate that on one form). There are no tickets, and no reserved seating. You will NOT get an email confirmation, so please write down the dates and times of the performances when you submit a form.
Visual and Media Arts
These self-directed experiences may be enjoyed throughout Winterfest and will run throughout the week.
Urban Soul: Black Tile Gallery
The exhibition Urban Soul invites viewers to contemplate the living creativity that pumps vibrancy and culture into the veins of a city, a park, or anywhere that humans share space. Six artists contribute their voices and make their mark in this exhibition through various mediums. Whether their art is on a skateboard, a T-shirt, a road sign, or a large mural-like panel, they are using a visual language to express their individual identities and contribute to a continually evolving cultural conversation.
Mural Painting by Grades 10 - 12 in the Media Hallway, Basement near to Fitness room and The Fishbowl:
Bringing Art to the school community, these murals-in-action provide us all with a golden opportunity to watch large scale artworks evolve. Featuring a host of different themes and styles, each piece creates a reflective space where the artist can talk about their artwork with visitors.
Art 7-9 and Art 10 Displays: Colour and value explorations
Various locations around the school.
MOSAIC Display - Grades 9 - 12: Located Outside the Canvas Cafe
Students from grade 9-12 ceramics have been exploring math in art! A tessellation tile is a geometric shape that interlocks with one another without overlapping to cover an area of a wall in an astonishing way! Our tessellation installation consists of a stylized leaf form and a parallelogram that intertwines with one another.
Ceramics Wheel Demonstration: Located in First Square
Ever wonder how it's made? Watch ceramics students create artworks on the pottery wheel. Learn about the different methods and vocabulary associated with this cool process. Students can ask questions, feel the clay, and try to spin a pot!
Mural Created by Mekayla Nicolai and Grade 6: Located outside the Theatre Doors
Kenojuak Ashevak is a famously known artist for being the first female Inuit artist to have artwork featured on a Canada Post Stamp and the first woman to become involved with the newly established printmaking shop at Cape Dorset. Guest artist, Mekayla Nicolai worked with grade 6 students to recreate some of the most iconic artworks from Kenojuak.
Ceramic Art Show: Located in the Ceramic Nook
Enjoy the variety of artworks created by Ceramic 9-12 classes. Many of these artworks are created using various hand-built methods, throwing on the pottery wheel, and sculpting. Students have decorated their creations using a variety of decoration methods with colored slips, brush on glazes, and dip glazes. All ceramic artwork at Victoria School is fired in an electric kiln utilizing our electricity from solar panels installed on the exterior building. Ceramic art is an important medium because it provides a way for students to express themselves, be creative, and creativity and add beauty in the form of decoration
Film and Media Showcase:
We are excited to share in our screening space (Room 1211) some of the various Film and Media 7-12 video projects students have planned, filmed and edited. In the senior level of our program, students have had the opportunity to create stop motion, 2D animation, cinematic shorts, short-documentaries, and other styles of filmwork they are interested in exploring. Classes attending this viewing will have the opportunity to choose the content in which they will view, based on the age of the students viewing. (Warning: some of the videos showcased will have content meant for a more mature audience than elementary. Students will include content warnings in front of films that this applies to.)
Monday, May 29 |
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9:30 - 10:15 |
Jazz Combos/Grade 4 |
Band Room |
Start your morning off right with our jazz combo concert featuring Victoria Velocity! Join us for a refreshing and energizing performance featuring students from grade 4,5 and the Instrumental Jazz Ensemble. Get lost in the smooth sounds of jazz music and let it kick start your day in the most delightful way. |
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10:45 - 11:45 |
Choral 8/9 Performance |
Theatre |
Our Choral 8 and 9 Students will provide a small insight into what a choral class in Junior High School looks and sounds like. After a short warm up, featuring some of the favourite warm ups from our choral classes, we will share a few songs in a variety of languages and styles. We may invite the audience to join us for some of our warm ups if you are brave, so practice your tongue twisters! |
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1:00 - 2:00 |
Concert Choir/Kokopelli #1 |
Theatre |
Our concert choir, made up of our Grade 10 - 12 Choral students, will combine with the highly acclaimed community youth choir “Kokopelli” (as featured on the Amazing Race Canada), to provide an hour of moving and inspiring choral songs. The combined energy of over 100 voices will be sure to inspire all who attend. |
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2:15 - 3:15 |
Concert Choir/Kokopelli #2 |
Theatre |
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7:00 - 8:15 |
Jazz Band/Jazz Choir |
Theatre |
Our Jazz Choir and Jazz Band students will join forces for an evening of Jazz standards, Pop, Rock, and Blues songs. Both groups will perform their own set of inspiring jazz songs, and will combine for a final selection you won’t want to miss. |
Tuesday, May 30 |
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10:45-11:45 |
Band 7/8/9 Performance |
Theatre |
Our Band 7,8 and 9 students will provide some insight into what it looks like to learn an instrument and be part of an ensemble in Junior High. They will introduce the instruments and demonstrate some skill building activities and repertoire. |
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1:10 - 1:50 |
Drenglish 10/20 |
Canvas Cafe |
Students have been participating in a combined Drama / English Language Arts class and are excited to showcase some of their cross curricular learning from this semester. The grade 10’s will showcase a combination of slam poetry as well as short excerpts from our novel study where students turned various vignettes from Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street, into scripted live theater. The 20 level students will showcase a combination of slam poetry and self-written monologues. |
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2:15 - 3:15 |
Band 9/10/20/30 |
Theatre |
Come and experience the magic of music! This musical event will showcase the talent and dedication of our senior high musicians. The audience will be taken on a journey through different styles and moods of music, from upbeat and lively marches to heartwarming ballads. This event is a celebration of music, talent, and hard work. |
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4:30 - 5:30 |
Improv Ensemble |
Theatre |
The Improv students will be sharing some work from their short form and long form improv. We will be competing in teams for theatresports, performing a murder mystery and the final episode of our soap opera that played at lunchtime in May. |
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7:00 - 8:15 |
Band 9/10/20/30 |
Theatre |
Come and experience the magic of music! This musical event will showcase the talent and dedication of our senior high musicians. The audience will be taken on a journey through different styles and moods of music, from upbeat and lively marches to heartwarming ballads. This event is a celebration of music, talent, and hard work. |
Wednesday, May 31 |
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Location |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
K and Moffat Performance |
Canvas Cafe |
Our youngest learners will inspire you to work together, help one another and look out for each other as they share that we all have “Lots In Common” despite the differences in our outward appearances. Along this same theme, the importance of being kind and caring and working together is part of both our work in music and dance. Please note: The AM Kindergarten students will perform in the morning with Ms. Moffat’s grade 1’s and special appearance form Mr. Penner’s grade 5’s. The PM Kindergarten students will perform in the afternoon with Ms. Shillington’s grade 1’s and Ms. Pollock’s grade 5’s. |
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2:30 - 3:00 |
K and Shillington Performance |
Canvas Cafe |
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2:15 - 3:15 |
Dance Showcase - Afternoon |
Theatre |
Our secondary dance classes have been learning about a variety of different dance genres and will be sharing their class learning through dance works created by students, teachers and guest choreographers. This sharing of dance also includes a special guest performance by our Grade 2 & 3 elementary dancers. Please note: The AM Kindergarten students will perform in the morning with Ms. Moffat’s grade 1’s and special appearance form Mr. Penner’s grade 5’s. The PM Kindergarten students will perform in the afternoon with Ms. Shillington’s grade 1’s and Ms. Pollock’s grade 5’s. |
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4:30 - 5:30 |
Firecracker Ensemble - Wednesday |
North Gym |
Under Every Blanket is a devised work made by the Firecrackers. Over the past two years students have been exploring themes of exploration and safety and how the two can work together or apart. In this latest workshop we have begun to script scenes from the play we plan to fully realize next year in which a mouse makes a home of a blanket fort, and a child finds comfort in a kingdom of his own making. |
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7:00 - 8:00 |
Dance Showcase - Evening |
Theatre |
Same as above |
Thursday, June 1 |
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9:30 - 10:15 |
Drama 7 (Group A) |
1209 |
Drama 7s will be presenting a variety of short scenes from an adaptation of Frankenstein. The students have just started to learn how to stage short scenes, and have been working on character development, finding the character voice, and creating cool stage pictures. |
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9:15 - 10:15 |
Acting 15/25 |
Theatre |
The Acting 15/25 class will be sharing scene work from: Sure Thing by David Ives, Fairy Tale by Tracey Wilson, Concord Floral by Jordan Tannahill and The Ties That Bind by Eric Coble. Content is appropriate for students grades 8 and up. |
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10:45 - 11:45 |
Drama 8 (Combined) |
Theatre |
The Drama 8 classes have been looking at the many ways humans tell stories. They will share scenes based on soundtracks where the stories are told entirely through gesture and physicalization. |
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10:45 - 11:45 |
Guitar 25/35 |
Canvas Cafe |
Guitar 25 and 35 students will take to the Canvas Cafe stage for an ensemble performance, followed by an open stage variety show. Instrumentals, cover songs, originals, duos, trios, and solo performers… there could be a little bit of everything! |
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1:00 - 2:00 |
Drama 10 |
Theatre |
Drama 10 students will be performing a devised creation inspired around the theme of, ‘relationships’. The students created and edited all the pieces created. Some relationships depict uncomfortable content so this would best be suited for grades 8 and up. |
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2:15 - 3:15 |
Drama 9 - Group A |
Canvas Cafe |
Drama 9 students will be presenting a variety of short scenes from She Kills Monsters by Qui Nyugen. Students are driving scene work with a detailed investigation of motivations, tactics, and embodiment. There is some strong language, stage combat, and mature themes. We invite classes from grade 7 and up to enjoy! |
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2:15 - 3:15 |
Drama 30 |
Theatre |
Drama 30 students will be performing a devised creation inspired by the theme of “Life in the Pandemic”. The students created and edited all the pieces created. Do you remember where you were at the beginning days of the pandemic? How has this affected relationships, connections, school, were there any positives? This piece is best suited for grade 9-12. |
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4:30 - 5:30 |
Firecracker Ensemble - Thursday |
North Gym |
Under Every Blanket is a devised work made by the Firecrackers. Over the past two years students have been exploring themes of exploration and safety and how the two can work together or apart. In this latest workshop we have begun to script scenes from the play we plan to fully realize next year in which a mouse makes a home of a blanket fort, and a child finds comfort in a kingdom of his own making. |
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4:00 - 5:00 |
Acting 35 |
Theatre |
The Acting 35 class will share a variety of work from their year including scenes, monologues,clown work and stage combat. Join us to celebrate our grade 12 actors in their final performance in the Eva O.Howard |
Friday, June 2 |
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11:00 - 11:45 |
Grade 3 and 4 Showcase |
Theatre |
Join us as we take you back in time to sing and play some classic jazz pieces and explore the world of theatre and dance through musicals and folk dance. There are sure to be some crowd favorites that will make you want to sing a long and get up and dance. Be ready for a featured performance, from members of the jazz ensemble, as we celebrate grade 3 singers and “What a Wonderful World” it is in Elementary Arts at Victoria School! |
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9:30 - 10:15 |
Drama 7 (Group B) |
1209 |
Drama 7s will be presenting a variety of short scenes from an adaptation of Frankenstein. The students have just started to learn how to stage short scenes, and have been working on character development, finding the character voice, and creating cool stage pictures. |
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2:30 - 3:15 |
Grade 2 and 5 Showcase |
Theatre |
Our grade 2 and 5 students are celebrating the beauty of music and dance from around the world. The grade 5’s will be providing musical accompaniment for our grade 2’s to help spread a timeless message around the importance of kindness and community. Our grade 5 classes will be our Festival finale in a show stopping performance from this year’s Night of Music: “Better When I’m Dancin!” |
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2:15 - 3:15 |
Drama 9 - Group B |
Canvas Cafe |
Drama 9 students will be presenting a variety of short scenes from She Kills Monsters by Qui Nyugen. Students are driving scene work with a detailed investigation of motivations, tactics, and embodiment. There is some strong language, stage combat, and mature themes. We invite classes from grade 7 and up to enjoy! |