Bunch, Yahoo! Canada and Warner Bros. present… Bunch Family Dance Party: Where the Wild Things Are Edition a wild rumpus Sunday, Oct. 4, 2-5 PM Revival, 783 College Street (at Shaw) $10 for grown-ups, $8 for kids in advance. $10 for grown-ups, $10 for kids at the door while supplies last.
In anticipation of the release of the Spike Jonze film and as a special tribute to everyone’s favourite book, Bunch, Yahoo! Canada and Warner Bros. invite you to a special “Where The Wild Things Are” Edition of Bunch Family Dance Party, on Oct. 4th.
Your kids will meet and cavort with a Wild Thing, who they will tame with a magic trick. They will also stomp their terrible feet in a wild rumpus hosted by MC Abdominal, with beats by DJ Fase. Read more...
This summer, MC Abdominal wrote this 4-year-old-son-of- a-DJ his own rap. As the kid of Bunch’s own DJ Fase, Pharaoh Nation Wendt has logged a considerable amount of time in his dad’s home based studio, accompanying his dad to gigs and generally just hanging around music making. On Friday nights, while his mom, Jerako, is helping out at church, Pharaoh and Fase are on-air at CIUT for Fase’s radio show. Summer at the cottage is about fishing, swimming and composing beats with Fase’s crew of deejays and MCs. As a result, pretend play for Pharaoh involves jimmying his own DJ rig together out of toys or getting on the mic at CIUT and playing at being a radio host. Read more...
5-year-old Denayden is the offspring of b-boy Corrie Daniel and b-girl Rana Lee, known to the dance world as Benzo and Skandalus. His dad is a member of the ground breaking crew, Bag of Trix and has thrown down in music videos alongside the likes of Missy Elliot, k-os and Glenn Lewis. His mom is a smoking hot dancer in her own right. Denayden has been accompanying his parents to shows since birth and frequently hangs out while his dad teaches breaking workshops or participates in dance battles. He’s grown up watching his parents, as well as the group of top breakers who he counts as his uncles and aunties, do some pretty spectacular things with their bodies, as though it was the norm. Not surprisingly, Denayden has picked up some moves and has been known to bust them out at shows, stealing centre stage from older dancers. Recently, videos of Denayden dancing have turned up on YouTube.
Every summer, married directors Melissa Kievman (theatre) and Brian Mertes (theatre and tv), invite 40 actors, designers and musicians to take over their home on the shores of Lake Lucille, NY. As written about in the NY Times, Melissa and Brian and their guests spend one week putting together the production of a play, chosen from the works of Anton Chekhov. It’s a kind of Burning Man for theatre artists, where sets are cobbled together from the Kievman-Mertes’ possessions, company members camp out in tents on the lawns of the Kievman-Mertes’ neighbours, the entire lake becomes the play’s setting and the couple’s daughter, Tria Leal, accompanies her parents as they oversee rehearsals, sleeping arrangements and communal meals. On day seven, hundreds of Lake Lucille neighbours and New York friends, descend on the Kievman-Mertes home. The play is performed for an audience of about 400 people.
At the final performance of Madonna’s Sticky and Sweet tour, her kids Lola and Rocco joined her on-stage to demonstrate some pretty decent dancing, deejaying and piano playing chops, while seeming to have a really good time. It got us curious about what it’s like to be Madonna’s kids or any kid who gets to regularly hang around in recording studios, or rehearsal halls.
Grown-ups who love their work tend to approach it with the same seriousness and delight that kids bring to play. Is there something about this kind of work that kids innately understand and want to get in on? We interviewed three set of parents whose children are Rehearsal Hall Kids (def: a kid who spends a lot of time in their parent’s recording studio, rehearsals, etc) to find out. Read more...
On August 30th, the streets of Montreal turned purple for Kids Pop’s Purple Kids Party, a special family music program presented by Yahoo! Québec. Kids and parents at the Mix’Arts Festival on St. Laurent were treated to violet hair dos, super hero mask-making and paper guitar decorating. Our purple photobooth was on site all 4 days and was free to all festival guests. You can check out pics of the beautiful people of Montreal here.
Despite some of the worst weather of the season, the music loving families of Montreal turned out en masse for the mainstage line-up of great bands playing family friendly tunes. Kara Keith with Girls Rock Camp kicked off the afternoon and kids rocked the day away with Katie Moore, Lederhosen Lucile and more. There was even a special magic show by local legend Socalled and guest stars (aka your kids) were pulled up from the audience. Read more...
