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March 19, 2008
Live From Planet Earth
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Seattle
Times: Seattle International Children's Festival: A world of diversity in our backyard
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer: A festival of music, mayhem and mystery takes kids on a journey around the world
Seattle
Times: Performer Aurelia Thierree is a flexible pixie with a heavyweight pedigree
Seattle Times: Charlie Chaplin's limber legacy
(Aurelia's Oratorio)
Seattle
PI: Reality twisted in two shows this week (Aurelia's
Oratorio)
Seattle
Weekly: All Ages. No children? No problem
ColorsNW
Magazine: Preview
tu
Decides: Petrona Martinez (Spanish language)
Latino
Cultural Magazine: Petrona Martinez (Spanish
language)
New
York Times: Ethiopian Exodus, Told on a Human Scale (Nephesh
Theatre Co.)
Review:
Reem Kelani at the Global Divas Concert --Gary Bannister
5/16/08
ONLINE
Jungle
City: Jo Taira interview and review (Japanese
language)
Seattle
Weekly: Pity poor magic (Aurelia’s Oratorio)
Kris
Collingridge "lurves" the Festival on the
ParentMap blog:
"So many styles of entertainment, so many sensibilities,
so many great artists we’ve never heard of, so much
diversity and color and passion — all of it crammed into one
week at the Seattle Center. It’s not sanitized or cutified
for kids. It assumes that children can and will rise to the
occasion and honor what they’re seeing onstage. And they
do."
TV
2007 Opening Night Celebration: An International Variety Show
Watch
City a Go Go with Festival performer Thomas
Arthur
Watch Big Night Out! The Seattle Channel Variety Show
featuring Thomas Arthur
RADIO
Brian Faker on KUOW: How Do Different Cultures Promote
Creativity?
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Kids
review the Children's Festival: "Everyone was like,
'Whoa!'"
Seattle
Times
May 19, 2007
"When an internationally
acclaimed performance-art festival is in Seattle, it only
makes sense to ask Seattle-area children what they think of
it."
A
world of fusion-theater hijinks at Children's Festival
Seattle Times
May 17, 2007
"We'll say it again: If you think this is just
kid stuff, you're missing out. Here's a chance for
adults also to see what's hot in Brazilian, French-Canadian,
Italian and German theatrics, with no passport needed."
Seattle
International Children's Festival is focused on creating an
ageless appeal
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
May 11, 2007
"A child really learns better and get more out of an
experience when they're sharing it with the adults in their
lives. So what we try to do is program shows that the
adults are going to enjoy every bit as much as the
children."
Children's
Festival Looks Beyond Raffi and Rogers
Seattle Weekly
May 16, 2007
"The festival, which this year hits its 21st
anniversary, has somehow avoided the pitfalls of success."
This
global Children's Festival isn't just for kids
Seattle
Times
May 11, 2007
Going
global: What's new at Seattle
International Children's Festival
ParentMap - Out & About
May 2007
"Performers are often remarkable but little-known, and
you can see them in relatively small theaters. Getting day-of
tickets isn't that big of a deal. The crowds aren't
overwhelming."
Allen
Foundation Gives More Than $1.5 Million To Local Arts Groups
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
March 7, 2007
"Another major grant, for $225,000, went to the Seattle
International Children's Festival for the development of its
marketing, technology and educational programs."
Seattle
International Children's Festival lives up to global name
Seattle Times
November 17, 2006
"Two new works, commissioned by the festival from
Seattle artists, will be unveiled: a multimedia,
musical-animation piece by Spectratone International,
and a new show from the "lyrical juggler" Thomas
Arthur."
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“For two decades, the Seattle International Children’s Festival has made wide-eyed children out of attendees of all ages…consistently strong SICF rosters have peppered families of festival-goers with gold arrows of intense emotional stimulus.”
--Gary Bannister, Sound Magazine
“The only reason it’s a children’s festival is because only children have the imaginative bandwidth to take it all in.”
--The Stranger
“One of the largest and most far-reaching arts festivals for young people in the country.”
--The New York Times
Not Just For Kids Anymore -
"The Seattle International Children’s Festival needs a new name – it’s the “children” part that’s deceiving. Chances are, the same eclectic shows meant to entertain smaller
festival-goers will also entertain the chaperones.”
--Seattle Metropolitan Magazine
World Party -
"Every year, the Festival digs up mostly obscure and always fascinating performance troupes and musicians from around the globe and bring them to town for a weeklong children’s art blowout. Often, there’s so much good stuff going on that choosing just one performance (or three) seems like an impossible task.”
--Kris Collingridge, ParentMap
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TEACHER AND STUDENT QUOTES
“. . .I think that the can-can dance was very cool! I wonder how they kick their legs so high? The Nigerian singers, I could talk about them for another hour. They were great! Five dollars was an excellent deal for one ticket to watch these shows! I hope that we could come next year!”
--Aaron Sharma, student
“Thank you so much for sponsoring the performance of Lágbájá; it was great. I am currently a 7th grader at West Valley Middle School in Yakima, Washington. I enjoy all types of music so it as very cool to hear something completely different. It was really neat how Lágbájá used modern instruments and native African instruments, the bŕtá and the ŕkúbŕ drums. Lágbájá was a great experience that will stick with me for a long time.”
--Heath J. Braun, student
“I am from Africa too, Zimbabwe. I am in first grade. I liked the drumming and the spider with the big butt. The Kaleta was chasing and running the other way from Won-Ldy Paye. The show was funny!”
--Muhya, student
“Thank you for allowing us to go to the Children’s Festival this year. It was great fun, and we couldn’t have done it without the transportation and tickets you provided for us. It is great to know that there is still diversity in the world. Sometimes we don’t see enough of it here in Spanaway. . . .It was interesting to see dancers and people playing music from other cultures perform in our area. It is like every culture has its own style and rhythm. I hope we are privileged enough to go on another field trip like this again next year.”
--Cody Thompson, student
“Just don’t stop doing this yearly. . . .Very fun, refreshing day. I am reminded why I teach. Global awareness is more important than ever and unfortunately competing for class time with ‘testable’ subjects.”
--Lynn Fahselt, teacher
“There is a great deal one may teach through words and visual material, but somehow the level at which we connect with other human beings and other cultures may be in a dimension beyond words...the dimensions of color, pattern, rhythm, feeling and beauty. This is what the Seattle International Children’s Festival offers.”
--Dianne
Hamry, teacher
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