STORIES on WHEELS is an original storytelling act for the whole family. The show is based on traditional travelling street-theatre show from Japan. Today’s “Middle Eastern Tales” feature folk tales from Syria, and are accompanied by Bero Saker playing the Oud, a Middle Eastern Fretless guitar.

Pangaea Arts is an award-winning intercultural, interdisciplinary world arts organization, formed to promote cultural interaction and the exchange of ideas between diverse communities and to introduce Canadian audiences to performance traditions from around world. As well as producing stunning world theatre collaborations, Pangaea Arts has brought a wide range of Theatre for Young Audiences to elementary schools, festivals and communities.

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Banana Bread is a Pop / R&B choral band comprised of 4 Vancouver residing Japanese multi-instruments with a touch of Ukulele sound. The beautiful three-part harmonies blend like all the ingredients of banana bread mixed and baked to perfection. The leader of the band is a local professional guitarist Yuji Nakajima, and the lead singer is a certified IVA Voice coach, Ko Nakamura.

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WINNER of 8 West Coast Family Magazine Readers Choice GOLD Awards for Best Performer, Best Music Classes, and Best Children’s Band most recently in 2017/18

Described as one of the ‘Best Performers of her generation’ by the Vancouver International Children’s Festival, Marnie Grey performs funky, educational and interactive tunes that puts ants in your pants! Each song tells a story and has an action, keeping children focused and physical. Instantly, children will be dancing, singing and signing along. Music with Marnie is Music that makes you MOVE! To find out more about this wildly entertaining children’s entertainer, her four award winning children’s albums, and to watch her videos, visit www.MusicwithMarnie.com
Ages 1 – 8 years.

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Reviews:

“One of the best children’s performers of her generation”
– Vancouver International Children’s Festival

“An Infectiously cheerful children’s performer with a million watt smile that doesn’t waver for a second”
– Cam Fuller, Star Phoenix Saskatoon

“One of the hottest entertainers around”
– Elizabeth Shaffer, BC Parent Magazine

“One of Canada’s most talked about Musician’s”
– West Coast Families Magazine

Réjean Bussières, originally from Québec City, is a Humanitarian Author-Composer-Interprete-Singer-Guitarist-Harmonicist with more than 700 Family friendly songs in his bilingual repertoire & 40 years professionnal experience… Réjean sings mostly in Care Homes for Elderly, Hospital Wings, Mental Health, Charities & Churches as well as Various Festivals, Fundraisers & Peace, Justice & Environment Events.

Yuki the Funky Yukalator is a professional circus artist based in Vancouver, Canada. As a performer, Yukalator has been invited to multiple circus and juggling festivals around the globe, a winner of East Japan Juggling Jam Session 2013 in Tokyo and awarded the CanSpin: Canadian Juggler of the Year Award in 2015 and in 2019. In 2016, he was invited to join the panel of judges at Rad Factor Juggling Festival in Japan for the freestyle juggling competition. His company, Cause & Effect Circus has produced multiple award winning show ‘The New Conformity’ and currently continuing to research new ideas for a new production.

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Viktor Barkar was born and raised in Minsk, Belarus. He became interested in puppetry at the age of nine when he attended the State Puppet Theatre of Belarus for the first time. Ever since he has been captivated by this art form. Viktor is constantly looking for a new forms in puppetry. He has designed and made over 35 puppets for his own puppet plays.

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The King Matt Theatre team is joined by our desire to create powerful stories for young people which empower, entertain and develop emotional and intellectual capacity. We realize that an entry point to understanding each other is through understanding ourselves; we focus on developing culturally driven work that reflects the diversity of our young audiences.

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Kanon Hewitt
Kanon Hewitt is a producer, stage manager, sound and projection designer, playwright, and performer from Tokyo, Japan. Kanon creates and performs for various international stages including Vancouver, Tokyo, and Los Angeles. Highlights include MTV Japan Flashback Int’l, Kusabira (Issey Miyake), ribbon (NAO-TA! Produce), kiseki (Kazunori Kumagai), Camera Obscura (Queer Arts Festival, frank theatre company), and Fragile Forms (PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, MACHiNENOiSY). Kanon creates sensorially engaging and immersive new media with Isadora software. Kanon is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, a certified actor-combatant with Fight Directors Canada, and playwright for the inaugural Killjoy Play Series.

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Julia Siedlanowska
Julia was born and is currently living as a theatre maker on unceded Coast Salish Territories. As a performer she has worked with companies such as Pacific Theatre, the Arts Club, the Firehall Arts Centre, the Cultch, Rumble Theatre (48-Hour Crockpot), Peninsula Productions and Classic Chic Productions (most recently in Three Winters, directed by Amiel Gladstone). She has directed/assistant directed for The Only Animal, Pacific Theatre, Peninsula Productions, Classic Chic Productions, The King Matt Theatre, and other independent productions. Julia is the volunteer coordinator for the Talking Stick Festival, was a Young Ambassador for the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, and community liaison for MACHiNENOISY Dance Society’s PROX:IMITY RE:MIX, a multi-media dance project for queer youth. In 2017, she participated in Talking Treaties with Jumblies Theatre in Toronto, deepening her passion for arts rooted in community building. She recently worked with Vancouver Moving Theatre on a BC Arts Council Early Career Development grant, assisting Rosemary Georgeson with community engagement on their Wearing Reconciliation: Our Way tour, and developing several of her own projects including Unsettled, for which she recently received a Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant and a Community Resilience Through the Arts grant from the province of BC. Julia has translated several works from her mother tongue Polish, to English. She often works with the Vancouver Polish Theatre as a translator, director, consultant, actor, and playwright. She is currently co-creating a show for young audiences with collaborator Kanon Hewitt, commissioned by Toronto Young People’s Theatre, Leaps and Bounds initiative. Julia will be travelling to Tkaronto this summer to take part in the Director’s Lab North.

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Harrison Lee is a professional yoyo competitor and performer (yes, there is such a thing). Harrison is a 3X Canadian National Freestyle Yoyo Champion, and he represents Canada at yoyo contests “all around the world.” He is a familiar face around town appearing at local festivals and charitable events as well as TV and radio. As a performer, Harrison combines a very unique blend of dance music, hip-hop, and mind boggling yoyo skills.

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Terrance is a 13 year old grade 7 student from Richmond. He is a very dedicated student with an amazing talent in yoyo. He has been yo-yoing since 7 years old. He is self taught by learning from videos in the internet. Terrance does 2 different types of yoyos, one being regular yoyo and the other being off-string yoyo.

Terrance has had many accomplishment throughout the years. He has earned the title of Canadian National Yoyo Champion for 2 years in a row, on top of being the youngest one. He was also 2 time Junior Champion in Pacific Northwest Regional Yoyo Championship in Seattle. He also earned 2nd place in BC Youth Talent Search All Star in 2017. Terrance competes internationally. He represented Canada in World Yoyo Championship last year in Shanghai China and he is going to compete again in 2019 World Yoyo Contest in Cleveland in August.

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