Edmonton Street performers Festival 2012

What a FABULOUS line-up at this years Street Performers Fest!!  

We went several times and had some LOVELY evenings down there - including watching the end of night 'Troupe De Jour'.  There is something wonderful about being downtown on hit summer nights as it gets dark - LOVE the atmosphere and the buildings, the heat, the scent of the wading pools...and much smaller crowds :)  

Susannah loved it and wanted to go every day :)  I'm sad that the weather was so bad today that we didn't get to go to the Finale!!  :(  

Bendy Em is a contortionist who can fold her body up into a 16" cube!!  

WITH a basketball in there too:

Amazing juggler from Ireland:

Yummy green onion cakes:

And fresh lemonade:

Juggling machetes over a guy filming him:

Just keep paddling:

Lords of Strut.  Soooo funny:

My gorgeous boy.  He LOVED the shows so much and would just go on in 

and sit in the front row!!

Over for another year but sooooo much fun :)  Glorious weather for it until today too.

Playing with Photosensitive paper!!!

We made the most of the hot sunshine last week, and used the photosensitive paper that santa gave Abby!!  I was surprised at how fast it worked - and it was a lot of fun trying different objects out!!  Then soaking it in water to 'develop' the negative!!

Very cool :)  

Summertime:

Starting to fill it up:

Taking a break from filling it to sit in it :)

Ice cubes:  

Edmonton Street Performers Festival

Scenes from our visits to the Street Performers Festival.  The second night we met up with Lorraine and Alora for one of the shows :)  

The Flying Dutchmen were FABULOUS:

Sam loved the pools:

The 'silent disco' was HILARIOUS to watch - the people were really dancing and singing away but we couldn't hear any of the music as they had headphones on - so it looks really funny:

Sam went back in the wading pool at 11pm after the final show.  It was still 30c !!

These two Irish guys/ brothers were very camp dance teachers/ baton twirlers/ dj's  etc etc

but they finished their show by one standing on the other guys HEAD:

Chair Man Jim was also fab!!  So funny at the beginning because he used a slingshot to fire mushrooms at people in Churchill Square who weren't bothering to watch his show.  Then he balanced all these chairs in his MOUTH!!!

This Queen was debating whether 1 + 1 = 2....or something or other lol!

Abby and Sam are avid jugglers so they enjoyed this show:

Sam sitting in the front row and entertaining himself until the show starts:

One happy boy in the pools:

Feelin' hot hot hot!!!

Temperature at around 6pm tonight on our way out of town:

Temperature STILL hot at 11:19pm last night as we left Edmonton 

after the Street Performers Festival:

Edmonton (yeg) Alberta.

Recent snapshots of downtown Edmonton in various light.  All taken with my iphone: