L.M. Montgomery Festival Days
(Weekdays; July and August)
Mondays
L.M.Montgomery’s Birthplace,
New London
View Montgomery’s original scrapbooks on site
and talk with a Montgomery expert. Special Guest historians and
storytellers will share their passion for Montgomery’s works.
902-886-2099/ 836-5502
Tuesdays
Site of L.M.Montgomery’s
Cavendish Home - National Historic Site, Cavendish
Beautiful
fields,gardens and trees fill the site where Montgomery was raised
by her MacNeil grandparents. It was here that she wrote Anne of
Green Gables. Talk with great-grandson John MacNeil and his wife
Jennie who love this land as much as Montgomery did. You will be
enchanted. www.peisland.com
Wednesdays
Anne of Green Gables
Museum, Park Corner
Join Montgomery’s
relatives, the Campbell Family at their homestead that still houses
many of Montgomery’s personal items. Picnic by the Lake of
Shining Waters that inspired Montgomery and write a short story
of your own! Enjoy a Horse and Carriage ride through this beautiful
site. www.annesociety.org
Thursdays
Green Gables Heritage
Place, Cavendish
Experience the place that inspired L.M. Montgomery
for the setting of her novel, Anne of Green Gables. Heritage
presenters will help you take a step back in time and catch a
glimpse into L.M.Montgomery’s imagination. Put your imagination
and creativity to good use by participating in our scrapbooking
event. Join us for stories, music, and a cup of hot chocolate
at our animated campfire program. www.pc.gc.ca
Fridays
Avonlea Village of
Anne of Green Gables, Cavendish
Immerse yourself in Montgomery’s
most famous novel, Anne of Green Gables. The characters of Avonlea
jump out of the pages and create an experience you won’t
forget. Enjoy an old-fashioned kitchen party. Every Friday join
the villagers of Avonlea for a kitchen party with special guests.
Learn to play the spoons! www.avonlea.ca
Anne of
Green Gables – The
Musical
Selected Dates: June 12 – September 27
Confederation
Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown
Freckled-faced Anne with her
fiery temper, passion for melodrama and penchant for misadventures,
brings laughter, love and more than a little consternation to the
village of Avonlea. Canada's longest running musical---returning
for its 44th season! www.confederationcentre.com
Anne & Gilbert – The
Musical
Selected Dates: June 24 to September 28
Harbourfront Jubilee
Theatre, Summerside
Hit musical about Anne Shirley's experiences
in young adulthood and her tumultuous romance with Gilbert Blythe.
Award winning songs. Based on Anne of the Island and Anne of Avonlea
by L.M. Montgomery. www.jubileetheatre.com
Ice Cream & Pigtails
- The Shipyard, Summerside
12 am to 8 pm, June 30 to September
26
Tourism Summerside is planning several activities
in the city this summer to celebrate Anne 2008. Centering around
The Shipyard on Summerside’s waterfront, Tourism Summerside will construct
a Train Station where Anne and Marilla will greet visitors and
locals alike. Ice cream cones, sundaes, cool treats and soft drinks
will be for sale to the many people who frequent the boardwalk.
The Anne series of books, and the Special Edition songs of Anne
CD will also be available.
Visitors can have their picture taken
with Anne and Marilla beside the Railway Crossing sign, under the
Summerside Train Station sign, or beside displays inside the building.
Enter your picture into our ‘Anne Look-a-like Contest’.
The prize will be a basket of Anne gifts, including a limited edition
porcelain doll, and ‘Guest of Honor Tickets’ to the
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert Reunion, August 17.
The Train Station
Carriage Tours – July 7 to September 14
The tour will include Matthew
and a new custom made horse-drawn carriage that will leave from
The Shipyard.
Saturday and Sunday (weather permitting) at 1
pm. They will conduct half hour tours of the heritage areas of
the city until 5 pm. A special edition newspaper will give passengers
a description of the buildings and homes along the route, in particular
the ones associated with Lucy Maud Montgomery or places in her
books.
Looking for Anne
Tracing Visual Culture in L.M.
Montgomery's Creative Imagination
A Cross-Canada Exhibition Celebrating
the Novel's Centenary year 2008
Green Gables Heritage Site / Cavendish,
PEI
May 15, 2008 – November 30, 2008
Cavendish Official Opening:
June 18, 2008
This exhibition of panel images from portraits,
photographs, manuscripts magazine ads, cover art and posters reveals
the genesis of the novel Anne of Green Gables and its rise to international
celebrity status. www.annecentenary.com
Imagining Anne Exhibition
June 14 – September 28
Confederation Centre Art Gallery
Montgomery
was an ardent lover of beauty and also a careful and creative observer
of everyday life. To celebrate the anniversary of the publication
of Anne of Green Gables, the exhibit will showcase shapes, colours,
and images that inspired Montgomery; it will feature original photographs,
manuscripts, and scrapbooks where she recreated the worlds she
saw and imagined. www.confederationcentre.com
Anne 2008 Textile Showcase - "Kindred Spaces"
September 12 to October 12
Kier Gallery, Victoria Row, Downtown Charlottetown
What
can tie generations together more than a beloved quilt? As a way
of fostering the love of Anne of Green Gables and Prince Edward
Island in Japan, an Anne Textile Showcase was organized. This event
will celebrate a "Kindred Spaces" theme in partnership
with Patchwork Quilt Tsushin Magazine from Japan and provide a "hands-on" way
of joining the two countries that will last for years to come.
Quilting is very popular in Japan and a strong
motivator for travel, and upcoming exposure in the popular, Patchwork
Quilt Tsushin Magazine will further increase awareness of Prince
Edward Island and 100th Anniversary of the publication of the novel
Anne of Green Gables in Japan. The projected was developed in conjunction
with the Yokohama International Quilt Exhibition, which saw 70,000
visitors in 2007, towards the exchange of quilts (30 coming from
Japan) to celebrate the 100th anniversary and promote Prince Edward
Island and Anne of Green Gables. Tourism PEI is inviting quilts
and other two dimensional textile works to participate in the fall
show and accepting work in the themes of:
- Kindred Spaces - maximum
perimeter 120 inches; work must be an interpretation based on
a line, chapter, or paragraph of a Lucy Maud Montgomery writing;
or,
- 100 Years of Anne - maximum perimeter 120 inches; work must
be a reflection of Anne of Green Gables.
Entry packages deadline
is June 21, 2008 and further information can be obtained by email
megaudet@gov.pe.ca or by
phone 902-368-4056.
The quilt showcase will be held on the Island
from September 12 to October 12 and a tour group from Patchwork
Quilt Tsushin in Japan will travel to PEI to see the exhibition
here September 13 - 17, 2008. The winners' quilts from this show
will be exhibited in Yokohama in November 2008 and Japan's winners'
quilts will be exhibited in PEI in 2009.
To download the application, click
here.
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