{"id":27740,"date":"2014-04-25T12:47:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T17:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=27740"},"modified":"2014-04-25T12:51:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T17:51:13","slug":"brock-well-represented-at-in-the-soil-downtown-arts-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/04\/brock-well-represented-at-in-the-soil-downtown-arts-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock well represented at In The Soil downtown arts festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scenes from last year's In The Soil arts festival (photo by Lauren Garbutt Photography)<\/p><\/div>\n

Brock students, staff, alumni and volunteers will help bring downtown St. Catharines to life this weekend as the In The Soil festival<\/a> once again takes over the core for a weekend of creative arts, entertainment and more.<\/p>\n

The three-day multidisciplinary arts fest, now in its sixth year, kicks off tonight at 5 p.m. with a performance by the Woodshed Orchestra at the Festival Hub on St. Paul St.<\/a> between James and Carlisle Streets, which will be closed off to vehicle traffic.<\/p>\n

The annual showcase for Niagara’s budding creative arts scene expects to draw more than 400 artists and 5,000 attendees to the city for the three-day weekend festival.<\/p>\n

Check out the 2014 festival’s promo video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“With more than 140 acts, artisans and installations to check out, this is truly a festival that celebrates and highlights the arts in Niagara and beyond,” says Sara Palmieri, Committee Chair for In The Soil.<\/p>\n

This year’s festival will also include a 50-foot-high ferris wheel<\/a> right on St. Paul St. – a first for the City of St. Catharines.<\/p>\n

Don’t miss your chance to look high over downtown at the making of the new Academic and Cultural Arts Centre<\/a> and future home of Brock’s Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other festival highlights include musical performances by Canadian hip-hop artist Buck 65; Billy Martin, drummer with the New York City-based jazz-funk trio Medeski Martin & Wood; and St. Catharines-based group Creature Speak.<\/p>\n

There will also be live theatre and comedy such as Paper Song<\/em> by Concrete Theatre group; The Dirty Cabaret III<\/em> by St. Catharines theatre company Suitcase in Point; and The Al Borland Band or Tool Time Take Two <\/em>by local artist Danny Fast.<\/p>\n

Not to mention art and photography installations around downtown like Adam CK Vollick’s Frame of Reference<\/em> and a Vendor Bender marketplace, both at the Festival Hub. Just to name a few of the many things to see and do.<\/p>\n

Check out the full schedule at www.inthesoil.on.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

In The Soil is produced by Suitcase in Point Theatre Company<\/a> – whose artistic director Deanna Jones and general manager Annie Wilson are both alumnae of Brock’s dramatic arts program – with many community partners, sponsors and funders from all levels of government.<\/p>\n

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Scene from the play Paper Song by Alberta-based Concrete Theatre group.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Brock students, staff, alumni and volunteers will help bring downtown St. Catharines to life this weekend as the In The Soil festival once again takes over the core for a weekend of creative arts, entertainment and more. The three-day multidisciplinary arts fest, now in its sixth year, kicks off tonight at 5 p.m. with a performance by the Woodshed Orchestra at the Festival Hub on St. Paul St. between James and Carlisle Streets, which will be closed off to vehicle traffic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[472,703,1418,1284,656,109,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27740"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27763,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27740\/revisions\/27763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}