The Harrison Festival will be
celebrating the “most colourful beats
under the sun” July 4-12 in Harrison Hot
Springs.

The festival will feature music and
dance on three stages, art exhibits, a
juried art market, and a small market
featuring crafts made by artists in
developing countries.

Featured performers include the

- Usafire Dance & Drum ensemble, an
exciting Toronto-based group who
perform original works with a traditional
African flavour. Mother Tongue, also
from Toronto, is currently one of the
hottest world beat bands in Canada, and
will be providing the music for the
festival dance on July 11.

A cappella music will be a strong
component of this year’s program with

_ the women’s group Four the Moment
from Halifax singing about the black
history of Nova Scotia, Aya from
Vancouver, who cover the spectrum of
contemporary issues, the Fuba Voices,
an eighteen-member youth choir from
South Africa, and the ever popular
Washington State Mass Choir, who
deliver the jubilant sounds of traditional
gospel music.

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Harrison Festival bringing exciting arts events to Valley

International artists include Jackson
Kaujeua from Namibia, one of the finest
voices of contemporary Africa, and
percussion and dance group Roots Punta
Rock, from Belize, who preserve the
unique and fascinating culture of the
Garifuna, descendants of the mix of
escaped slaves and Carib Indians.

A diversified blues program will
feature singer and slide guitarist Laurette
Langille from Bellingham, country blues
artists Triple Threat from Calgary,
Barnum and Matthews from Vancouver,
and Barry Hall, who has jammed with
John Hurt, Lightning Hopkins and Big
Bill Broonzy. Melanie Demore, a
powerful singer songwriter from
California, will add her soulful ballads,
blues, gospel numbers and spirituals to
the program.

The theme for the festival’s art exhibit
is Women in the Visual Arts. It will
feature the work of women from a
variety of cultural backgrounds.

The Writers Evening on July 9 will
feature UCFV English instructor
Laverne Adams, whose play Medicine
won the 1991 CBC Playwriting Prize
and was recently presented as a staged
reading at the Toti:lthet Centre. Adams

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recently won a Canada Council grant to
help with her research for a book of
poems on World War II.

Also featured at the Writers Evening
will be Ahdri Zhina Mandiela, a dub
poet from Toronto, and Djanet Sears, the
only black playwright published in
Canada.

For information on all events call the
Festival office at 796-3664.

Harrison Festival
of the Arts

July 4 - 12, 1992

Harrison Hot Springs, BC

Celebrate the rich cultures
of Africa

Many people at the Abbotsford campus are
returning to the classroom —not to study, but
to work.

With office renovations going on, staff and
administrators have been moved to empty
classrooms.

Taking a breather on moving day are Personnel
people Jackie Hogan, Linda Dix, and Nancy
Scarrow.