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[email protected] Kaleido brings a multitude of arts fun for fourth year MARI SASANO We’ve enjoyed festivals on the Avenue all summer, from dogs to pupusas. But now it’s time for the big one: Kaleido, which runs September 25, 26 and 27. Now in its fourth year, festival organizer Christy Morin is finding that the festival is beginning to come together to represent the character of the Avenue. “This year I think we’ve kind of figured out what Kaleido’s personality is—now the name is Kaleido, it’s no longer Arts Alive. And then we decided to look at the locations: there are so many neat places on the avenue, let’s use them and use them as a backdrop or a landscape for the art,” she says. So this year, performances and installations are going to fill the unusual spaces in and out of the various buildings on 118th Avenue, putting huge lanterns on top of buildings and turning the back of the Alberta Cycle building into Theatre Alley. Dancer Nicole Tritter will turn walls into dance floors, Romeo will woo Juliet in the playground, and the Bedouin Beats dancers will Epic Photography sashay on the corner outside their studio. A CROWD GATHERS AROUND THE FIRE AT LAST yEAR’S KALEIDO FESTIVAL And there’s another theme that emerged accidentally, be a display of vintage cars.