2019 Programming Schedule
The Juvenis Festival 2019: May 1st-May 11th
Festival Overview
Juvenis Opening Event || Youth Choir
The official kick-off of the 2019 Juvenis Festival featuring a performance by the Juvenis Youth Choir and special guests.
Juvenis Youth Choir Project Leader: Myriam Bouti
Location: The Rotunda Theatre, Theological Hall, Queen's University
Date: April 28th at 7:30pm
Price: Free
Storefront Art Gallery: Memory
This year's theme is Memory. As we grow up, our memories inform and shape our future. Our memories are unique to us, providing a truly individual perspective of life. Memory can be a way to relive the past. Memory can be a mosaic that informs our present. Or memory can be a way to envision our future. Art allows us to take memory and make it real. It creates connections between our internal lives and the world around us. Memory is art.
Project Leader: Dylyn Reid
Location: HARS
Date: May 1st-10th
Price: Free
Viva Voce: Languages
A youth-led storytelling coffeehouse centring around the theme of 'languages.'
Project Leader: Gabrielle Pulver
Location: Kingston Frontenac Public Library Central Branch
Date: May 1st at 7:00pm
Price: Free
Animals Are People Too
An immersive multimedia art experience that contradicts the story of our western society’s relationship with animal products and the ways in which we consume them.
Project Leader: David Cash
Location: Theological Hall rm 102
Date: May 2nd-4th 6:00pm-10:00pm (drop-in)
Price: $5 youth | $10 general
Fame Jr. The Musical
A Blue Canoe produced musical made up of a cast of youth ages 13-18.
Project Leader: Ally Pajak
Location: The Rotunda Theatre, Theological Hall, Queen's University
Date: May 2nd-5th | 7:30pm (Thursday-Saturday) | 2:00pm (Saturday & Sunday)
Price: $17 for Youth | $20 for General
Transmogrification
Transmogrification is a dance-based, multidisciplinary performance series, that authentically tells the non-fictional, transformative stories of its teenage cast, from this past year.
Project Leader: Aria Lara Wilton
Location: The H'art Centre
Date: May 3rd-5th at 7:00pm | Additional shows at 2:00pm on Saturday and Sunday
Price: $4 for Youth | $8 for General
Battle of the Bands
Another Juvenis favorite returns! An evening of music with local youth bands, judged by the crowd and a panel of celebrity judges!
Project Leaders: Reid Cunningham & Michael Broadhead
Location: Ale House
Date: May 5th at 6:00pm
Price: $10
LGBTheatre
A musical theatre showcase for queer-identified singers, performing pieces originally intended for straight characters of another gender.
Project Leaders: Danny McLaren
Location: 99 York Street
Date: May 5th, 8th and 9th at 8:00pm
Price: Free
Juvy's Movies
Another Juvenis favourite returns! Juvy's Movies features KFPL Youth Shorts, Rapid Reel 48 Hour film contest.
Partnered with: Kingston Frontenac Public Library, Reelout and Kingston Canadian Film Festival
Location: The Screening Room
Date: May 6th at 8:00pm
Price: Free
Communion
Communion is an experiential installation aimed at creating a living memory space that viewers can explore, located in the Juvenis Storefront Gallery. Space is charged, it is the stage for memory to be crafted into stories we tell about ourselves. As memory fades, we become the audience for our own stories, and for trans and non-binary people this act is seemingly unavoidable. How do we turn messy internal spaces of memory into consumable narratives? And for who? The installation provides view into this process, creating a cluttered surreal bedroom space in between memory and reality.
Project Leader: Dylyn Reid
Location: HARS
Date: May 7th-9th at 4:00pm
Price: Free
Verity
Verity is a dance based show made by artists and students united in the push for an inclusive education system. Through art, Verity participants hope to explore the issues that come with the repeal of the 2015 sex-ed curriculum in Ontario and encourage acceptance and transparency within our education system.
Project Leaders: Bianca Campbell, Jo Monea and Alex McChesney
Location: The Tett Centre
Date: May 8th-10th at 6:00pm
Price: $10
Question Mark, Period
A series of one act plays by Joey Shapiro, Kezi Jacob and Bridget Overvelde
Project Leaders: Joey Shapiro, Kezi Jacob, Bridget Overvelde
Location: The Tett Centre
Date: May 8th-10th at 8:00pm
Price: $10
Green Day's American Idiot
American Idiot is a show about the land of the free, the home of the brave and the very identity of the idiot. If you like early 2000s punk music, if you like fingerless gloves, if you like spiky hair, if you like giving the middle finger to the man, then this show is for you. Tell us, can you hear the sound of hysteria? Come along and sing along to the age of paranoia!
Project Leader: Alisha Grech
Location: The Baby Grand Theatre
Date: May 8th-11th at 7:30pm | Additional show at 2:30pm on Saturday
Price: $12 for Youth | $15 for General
***Mature content warning***