2020 VIRTUAL EVENTS PRESENTED BY: 2020 SUMMER EVENTS GUIDE | A EXPLORE SUMMER! With Children & Youth Programming Programs will be running from July 13th-August The City of Thunder Bay offers 28th in various sites with limited capacity. All programs for Summer 2020 will be a variety of safe and inclusive registered for a weekly basis. programs for children and youth Please call 625-8463 to register. aged 5-18. NOTE: Due to COVID-19, program dates, times and Each program offers themed locations will be announced at a later date. Please check website (www.thunderbay.ca/kids) activities, sports, games and crafts. or our Facebook Page (@ChildrenYouthThunderBay) for confirmed programming. You can find our programs in several locations throughout the City. Our programs are a place where children WE ALSO OFFER THE FOLLOWING: Trained Staff - Staff are trained in Standard First and youth can make friendships, Aid /Level C CPR and the HIGH FIVE Principles of Healthy Childhood Development, as well as learn something new, and most of all program specific training. – have fun! Nut Safe Program - Our programs are nut safe. Check out our website for Summer Junior Inclusion Services - Junior Inclusion Services facilitates the inclusion of children and 2020 Program updates at youth with disabilities in our programs. If you are interested in accessing JIS, please contact www.thunderbay.ca/kids. 625-3220. 2020 SUMMER EVENTS GUIDE VIRTUAL EVENTS DATES JUNE JUNE JULY Virtual Page 4 29 30 1 Canada Day JULY JULY 8 15 JULY JULY 22 29 Pages Virtual Live 12-29 AUGUST AUGUST 5 12 AUGUST AUGUST 19 26 PRESENTED BY: Visit: thunderbay.ca/events 2020 SUMMER EVENTS GUIDE | 1 GROCERY, FASHION, HOME DECOR & MORE! 349 Main Street, Thunder Bay GIANT TIGER, TIGRE GÉANT, TIGER HEAD DESIGNS AND OTHER TRADEMARKS IN THIS AD ARE REGISTERED AND UNREGISTERED CANADIAN TRADEMARKS OF GIANT TIGER STORES LIMITED AND ARE LICENSED TO ITS FRANCHISEES. 2 | 2020 SUMMER EVENTS GUIDE 2020 WELCOME AS WE ADJUST TO THE NEW NORMAL, SUMMER 2020 WILL LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR. IN RESPONSE TO PROVINCIAL ORDERS WITH RESTRICTIONS ON SOCIAL GATHERING AND PHYSICAL DISTANCING MANDATES, THE CITY'S EVENTS TEAM WILL DELIVER OUR SUMMER PROGRAM VIRTUALLY THIS YEAR. With the public's safety being the top priority, event staff are planning innovative ways of delivering events without encouraging the large gatherings that typically occur with events of this scale. Programming is free and family-friendly, for residents and visitors of all ages to enjoy online! The Recreation and Culture Division is proud to host its first year of virtual events and celebrate our City's 50th anniversary! This year we are excited to present the best of our local talent and feature talent for Canada Day and Live, with engaging entertainment and fun, hands-on activities. Mark your calendars as you will want to make sure to include these events in your summer plans. View this guide for essential virtual event information, including entertainment and programming. The City of Thunder Bay’s Events and Event Services has been recognized as some of the best in Ontario. Festivals & Events Ontario (FEO) has presented the City with two awards based on activities undertaken in 2019: • Top 100 Festival & Event awards for Live on the Waterfront and SnowDay on the Waterfront Visit us at www.thunderbay/events and keep up to date on what’s happening! THANK YOU to our amazing volunteers for making our community a better place to live and play! 2020 SUMMER EVENTS GUIDE | 3 MONDAY, JUNE 29 11AM – SCIENCE SHOW Join Science North as they take you through exciting science demonstrations that are sure to put a spark in your Canada Day! Learn why fireworks get all their beautiful colours, watch some bubbly chemical reactions, and enjoy engaging physics demonstrations! The science of Canada has never been so AWESOME! 2PM – ART PROJECTS WITH THE COMMUNITY ARTS & HERITAGE EDUCATION PROJECT (CAHEP) 1) Make a comic character with Merk! 3) Using fimo clay (which needs to be Draw, colour, cut and play using a baked at home afterwards), Abhi base figure design. You create the rest! will help you to create your own 2) Judy will lead a step-by-step class in sculpture of the Sleeping Giant! the style of Group of Seven. You will be 4) Light up the sky from your living guided through colour-mixing, painting room! Create a dazzling firework techniques and paint application, and display with acrylics on canvas. by the end each participant will create We will use local landmarks to an original acrylic oil painting. Lur celebrate 50 years of Thunder Bay! inspiration is the beautiful summer 5) Using acrylics, create a painting of skies in Thunder Bay. Thunder Bay trees! TUESDAY, JUNE 30 11AM – COAST TO CANVAS WITH PARKS CANADA Celebrate Canada Day with Parks Canada team members from Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area! Join us to learn art techniques used by famous Canadian artists who were inspired by the north shore of Lake Superior to create your own masterpiece at home. Make sure you have a pencil and paper. If you have a canvas, paint and paintbrushes, that will work great too! 7PM – TRIVIA NIGHT Test your family and friends' knowledge with some good ole’ Canadian and City of Thunder Bay history in celebration of our City’s 50th Anniversary! Register by emailing [email protected]! Tune in to the virtual Canada Day celebrations at www.thunderbay.ca/canadaday 4 | 2020 SUMMER EVENTS GUIDE WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 10AM MUNICIPAL NHL20 ONLINE TOURNAMENT We Got Game has teamed up with several REGISTER municipalities including the City of Thunder Bay, to host an online NHL20 EASHL HERE! 6v6 Tournament on the PS4 console. REGISTRATION IS FREE! 2PM DECORATE YOUR OWN CANADA DAY THEMED CAKE TUTORIAL Jennifer Riley of CAKE will show you how to decorate your own Canadian themed cupcakes. 4PM COOKING DEMONSTRATION: MAKE YOUR OWN CANADIAN PIZZA Judi of Willow Springs Creative Centre will demonstrate how you can cook your own Canadian pizza. 6PM OPENING CEREMONY 6:30PM THUNDER BAY WORLD DANCE COLLECTIVE 6:45PM MINI CAFÉ BY MARTIN BLANCHET JAZZ QUINTET 7PM JEAN-PAUL DE ROOVER 7:15PM ALMOST ABBA Tune in to the virtual Canada Day celebrations at www.thunderbay.ca/canadaday 2020 SUMMER EVENTS GUIDE | 5 THUNDER BAY WORLD DANCE COLLECTIVE Thunder Bay World Dance Collective is a not-for-profit intergenerational group of dancers from a variety of backgrounds who perform dances from around the world. The collective represents a variety of dance forms, including flamenco, Bollywood, bhangra, and skirt dances. MINI CAFÉ BY MARTIN BLANCHET JAZZ QUINTET Mini Café is a family show made up of some of Thunder Bay’s most diverse and talented musicians. This show is produced by Martin Blanchet Jazz Quintet (Café Paris, Sharp Ninth #9). Mini Café specializes in gypsy jazz kids songs sang in French. The group is made up of five musicians with a variety of musical backgrounds. VIRTUAL CANADA DAY FUNDED BY PRESENTED BY VOLUNTEER SPONSOR 6 | 2020 SUMMER EVENTS GUIDE PERFORMERS JEAN-PAUL DE ROOVER De Roover’s early career was defined by his innovative approach to music using live looping, where he used his voice and a wide range of musical instruments to construct his songs piece by piece in front of an audience. But his constantly evolving palate has seen him exploring his earnest acoustic singer- songwriter side on “Love” (2019) as well as his passion for emotionally and aurally heavy alternative and progressive rock on “Loss” (2020), the two of which are sister albums. De Roover continues to push his own musical limits both in form and substance, daring others to try and categorize him. Because of this, De Roover’s music retains a distinct identity whether he is playing solo, with a band or even a 30-piece orchestra. ALMOST ABBA Almost ABBA have performed for NBC, Universal, The Release of Mamma Mia, The US Military, crowds as large as 50,000 and were recently asked to open for Cher on her "Here We Go Again" tour of Australia. Lisa Ewing, who performs as Agnetha Faltskog in the show, is originally from Thunder Bay, and is proud to be a part of this year's special celebration! SURPRISE SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES! VOLUNTEER SPONSOR SIGNATURE SPONSORS FEATURE 2020 SUMMER EVENTS GUIDE | 7 CANADA 8 | 2020 SUMMER EVENTS GUIDE COLOURING PAGES CANADA 2020 SUMMER EVENTS GUIDE | 9 A-Z CITY SERVICES DIRECTORY DURING COVID-19 Get the latest information on City services, programs, facilities and amenities as they are operating, reduced or unavailable during the pandemic. www.thunderbay.ca/A-Z Inspire Grow Connect! Virtual Summer Reading Club How to Participate Sign up online at www.tdsummerreadingclub.ca There will be enhanced offerings through the TD Summer Reading Club website. More information on our calendar and special TBPL online programming. Visit the Library Online @ www.tbpl.ca CLICK ... Web site www.tbpl.ca CONNECT ... Email [email protected] Send us your email and we can get you connected. ● get a Library card ● renew your Library card ● sign up for our enewsletter FOLLOW ... Social Media @tbaypl WEDNESDAY, JULY 8 | 7 PM thunderbay.ca/live JOCELYN ALICE Jocelyn Alice is a platinum-selling Radio Music Awards and Canadian Music Canadian singer and songwriter with a Week Indie Awards for Solo Artist. Jocelyn fiercely powerful voice, heartfelt lyrics, co-wrote Mother Mother’s hit single ‘The and magnetic style. She rose to fame Drugs’, which spent two weeks at #1 on with her 2015 breakout summer song, the Media base Canada Alt Rock chart in “Jackpot.” Jocelyn received a 2016 SOCAN February 2017 and received a SOCAN #1 Pop/Rock Music Award for Jackpot and Song Award in November 2017.