Hamilton Festival Theatre Company presents Frost Bites, Hamilton’s biggest winter theatre festival, in partnership with Theatre Aquarius and The Staircase Theatre + Lounge. Frost Bites has six packed days of indoor and outdoor programming over two weekends at Theatre Aquarius, Bernie Morelli Recreation Centre, and The Staircase Theatre + Lounge.
Frost Bites will also include two performances of The Three Little Pigs: A Musical for the Whole Family! by Enchantment Theatre on February 28 and March 1 at Theatre Aquarius Studio. The Three Little Pigs: A Musical for the Whole Family! is a farmstead adventure where young sow sisters navigate their unique strengths and problem solving styles to build a house together. Suitable for kids ages 2-8 but fun for all ages, the show features original and classic folk songs, puppets, dances, and audience participation.
Back by popular demand, Frost Bites will be bumping inside and out at Bernie Morelli Recreation Centre February 28-March 1 with FREE workshops, art, gathering spaces, the Procession of Light, and the wildly popular activities on the Serafini Family Ice Pad. This year’s ice skating presentations on February 28 include: Learn To Skate with “Coach Aleef” Mehdi, with engaging, instructional games for beginner skaters looking to sharpen their skills; Matrix Synchronized Skaters with teams from West Lincoln Skating Club in three short presentations to inspire skaters of all ages to find their own moves on and off the ice; and the DJ Family Skate Party hosted by local queer social organizers Fruit Salad, an on-ice dance party with fierce and frosty hits from DJ Savage Good.
The interactive art workshops will include: two days of Lantern-Making workshops by Shadowland Theatre, with participants creating oiled paper lanterns, with an invitation to join the illuminated Procession of Light through the community on March 1 at 6pm; Interactive Drum Circle by Tammy Lacas and Mika Woolley, with singing and drumming traditional songs and Medicine Wheel teachings; and Take A Poem Leave A Poem by gritLIT Next Chapter Committee, where participants can take a poem, leave a poem, or learn how to bind poems into a signature mini-booklet.
