May
15th 2010 Chalk Art Festival.
The second annual 1000
Islands International Sidewalk Chalk Art
Festival is a fun-filled family event
showcasing art for all ages. Many types of
art will be on display, including sidewalk
chalk art, paintings, drawings, and fine
art. Make your own art, enjoy a good
old-fashioned BBQ, and get your face
painted. There will be special activities
just for children.
The
downtown shopping section of Gananoque
is closed to traffic and the chalk art
is done on the sidewalks.
Come and enjoy
News
Release
CWF and Chalk Art Festival Celebrate
Biodiversity
March 18, 2010
– The Canadian Wildlife Federation and the
1000 Islands International Sidewalk Chalk Art
Festival will celebrate biodiversity with
award winning children’s book creator Wallace
Edwards May 15 in downtown Gananoque, ON.
“Biodiversity plays a vital role in sustaining
life on Earth and is a natural theme for the
2010 Chalk the Walk festival in Gananoque,”
said Wade Luzny, Executive Vice President of
the Canadian Wildlife Federation. “This is a
wonderful opportunity to show our appreciation
for the great diversity of wildlife and
habitat in Canada.”
The 2010 Chalk
the Walk Festival is a fun-filled family event
featuring sidewalk chalk art, paintings,
drawings, and fine art. Admission is only $2
a person, and the chalk is provided for
participants to make their own nature-inspired
art at the 9 am – 3 pm festival. A barbeque
and face painting will also be included in the
festivities.
Acclaimed
author and illustrator Wallace Edwards will be
there to share his imagination and love of
drawing with children and adults. Edwards
won the Governor General’s Award for his book
Alphabeasts.
He has also published many other popular
pictures books including
Monkey Business,
Mixed Beasts,
The Extinct Files
and
The Painted Circus.
Edwards is well known for his creative and
colourful animal portraits, and in 2010, the
Canadian Wildlife Federation reproduced one of
his paintings on a conservation education
poster in celebration of the
International
Year of Biodiversity.
The
Chalk Art Festival Alliance
was drawn to CWF’s new Biodiversity poster and
developed a partnership with the non-profit
conservation organization to advance the
biodiversity theme at the 1000 Islands
International Sidewalk Chalk Art Festival. CWF
biodiversity posters will be on display
throughout the picturesque community of
Gananoque in May and Edwards will be working
with local school students to explore the
conservation theme through art.
2010 was declared the International Year of
Biodiversity by the United Nations to
celebrate life on earth and of the value of
biodiversity for our lives.
For more information about the 1000 Islands
International Sidewalk Chalk Art Festival,
please visit
www.chalkthewalk.ca
About the Canadian Wildlife Federation:
The Canadian
Wildlife Federation is a national non-profit
charitable organization dedicated to ensuring
an appreciation of our natural world and a
lasting legacy of healthy wildlife and
habitat. By spreading knowledge of human
impacts on the environment, developing and
delivering educational programs, sponsoring
research, promoting the sustainable use of
natural resources, recommending policy changes
and co-operating with like-minded partners,
CWF encourages a future in which Canadians can
live in harmony with nature. For more
information, visit
CanadianWildlifeFederation.ca.
Contact:
Heather Robison
Media Relations Officer
(306) 550-4155
heatherr@cwf-fcf.org
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