All Posts Tagged With: "Feb Fest"
Flying Canucks
Come to Market Square and be amazed! The aptly-names Flying Canucks are a group featuring past, present and future Olympians in the sports of freestyle skiing, snowboarding and trampoline. They will be performing their tricks on a trampoline, which will be set up for each show. This year’s show will feature 3-time Olympian and 2-time [...]
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Toast to Tapas!
This year for the first time ever, Feb Fest will include a winter local food event. Running from February 1st-7th stop into one of thirteen participating Downtown Kingston! restaurants between 3pm and 6pm daily to enjoy locally sourced tapas masterfully paired with local wine or beer for the delicious price of $7.95. Winter is a [...]
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Friday Foto
Last Friday I marvelled at how amazing, albeit unseasonal, the weather was. What a difference a week makes. Today the city awoke to bone chilling temperatures that were estimated to reach minus 30 thanks to the wind chill. Is it too much to ask for some snow to go along with this helping of frost [...]
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Tom Cochrane and Red Rider
For the first time ever, FebFest will include an indoor concert at the K-Rock Centre. The show will feature Canadian rock icon Tom Cochrane and his band Red Rider and will open with up and coming Canadian acts Jesse Labelle and Andrew Cole. Tickets are on sale now at the K-Rock Centre box office and [...]
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For the Love of Craft!
Made 4 You is hosting “For The Love of Craft!” at The Wellington Street Theatre Gallery (126 Wellington Street). The show will feature 30 local and out-of-town artisans. There will be crafty activities for kids, local food, a DJ and a high quality jury show. “For The Love of Craft!’ is being held in conjunction [...]
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What if Kingston…
Wawa is home to the largest Canada Goose, while Vulcan has the U.S.S. Enterprise, Ottawa has a spider, and Beardmore has the world’s largest snowman. And the list goes on. Save for the modest-sized misshaped hockey puck at Kingston’s International Hockey Hall of Fame, the Limestone City is noticeably missing from the list of destinations [...]
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The Limestone Classic
Despite the intermitent showers, Feb Fest 09′s Limestone Classic attracted droves of energetic spectators to Market Square yesterday. Famous cowboy referee Jim Dorey officiated games all day long featuring ex-NHL’ers including Doug Gilmour (in goal), Bob Probert, Rick Middleton, Tim Taylor, and many more who were sprinkled into the lineup of 10 corporate-sponsored teams. The [...]
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24 Hour Snow Sculpture Competition
As you may know, Feb Fest is now well underway. This evening we strolled on down to Market Square to take in the late performance by the Flying Canucks, but sadly the show did not last long, and it was over before we arrived. We decided to salvage the trip by walking around to survey [...]
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Feb Fest 2009!
Downtown Kingston! is gearing up for the fifth annual Feb Fest celebration. Festivities begin today, a day earlier than usual, and they’re going to start with a bang. None other then many-time National and International figure skating champion Kurt Browning will be on hand to help kick off the fun. Browning will joining local skaters [...]
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Friday Foto
After taking a stroll downtown this afternoon, we couldn’t help but notice workers replacing lights, knocking down deadly icicles, and generally sprucing things up in preparation for Feb Fest, which goes down next weekend – more on that early next week. Wow, is February here already? It’s hard to believe that the first month of [...]
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