SATURDAY, Sept. 17

Laxson Auditorium, Taylor Hall, Sycamore Stage

• Abdou Mboup & Waakaw  (11am & 1pm) 
• Senegalese Percussion  
• Los Cenzontles (11:30am & 2pm)
• Mexican rural roots 
• Philip Hamilton Duo (noon & 2:30pm) 
• Jazz & pop  
• Melody of China  (12:30pm & 3pm) 
• Classical Chinese 
• Christine LaPado  (1:30pm) 
• Hot jazz 
• Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited  (3:30pm) 
•  Zimbabwe music & dance 

Kids Stage

• Mi Escuelita Maya (10:30-11am)
• The Soup Opera 
• Chapman Elementary School (noon - 12:30pm)
• World Drumming 
•  Playhouse Youth Theatre (1:30 - 2pm) 
• Broadway Musical Revue  
• Blue Room Jr. (3-3:30pm) 
• Into the Woods - Scenes & songs

SUNDAY, Sept. 18

Laxson Auditorium, Taylor Hall, Sycamore Stage

• The Railflowers (11am & 1:30pm) 
• Folk harmonies  
• Carmen Souza Quartet  (11:30am & 2pm) 
• World jazz 
• Tālavya  (noon & 2:30pm) 
• Tabla rhythms 
• Nigerian Brothers (12:30pm & 3pm) 
• West African highlife  
• Tom Rigney & Flambeau  (1pm & 3:30pm) 
• Electric violin  

Kids Stage

• Chico School of Rock (10:30-11am) 
• THEM / Hap Hathaway & Chico School of Rock DJ's
• Playhouse Youth Theatre Comedy Improv (noon-12:30pm) 
• Fill In The Blank 
• Blue Room Jr (1:30- 2pm) 
• Into the Woods -  Scenes & songs
• Chico School of Rock (3-3:30pm) 
• Aiden & Alexi Maximoff / Rancid Saturday's Revenge

Art Classes

Saturday, Sept. 17

Collage w/ Kari Zigan (11-1:15 pm)  

Use found objects to create a collage.  Materials include tissue, magazine clippings, paper, paint, yarn, glue, and whatever is in your pockets to create art!  

Fans w/ Debra Simpson (1:45-4pm)

Personalize and design your own fan using paints, crayons, feathers, jewels and pastels.

Sunday, Sept. 18

Pop-Up Cards w/ Gitta Brewster (11-1:15pm)

Learn how to make pop-up cards with a simple animal design.  The animal can be decorated just a bit or as wildly as you wish.

Paper Beads w/ Erin Wells (1:45-4pm)

Learn how to make paper beads.  You will be supplied with cut paper, glue sticks, extra decorative beads and hemp cording to make necklaces, anklets or bracelets.   

Hosted by the Chico Art Center. 

Climbing Wall 

Have the blast of a lifetime climbing Adventure Outings custom climbing wall.  At 24 feet high, this wall promises to be a challenge for young and old alike!  Let the trained Adventure Outings staff strap you in and start climbing - great fun for first timers or experienced climbers!

Hosted by CSU, Chico's Adventure Outings. 

Science of Sound

Hands-on activities for kids (of all ages!)

Explore the science of sound with activities that investigate:

• Why do instruments make the sounds they do? Discover how different ways of playing drums, flutes, pipes, and strings change the sounds the instruments make!
• Join the PVC pipe band, come ready with a song to conduct!
• Build a kazoo and impress your friends with homemade instruments that play any tune.

Hosted by the Gateway Science Museum.

Crafts & Games for Kids 

The following activities will rotate throughout the weekend and may not always be available.

Sustaining fun - Projects with low impact on our environment

• Endangered Animal Twister - A new twist on an old game
• Clay Explorations - Roll, pound, squeeze and create art from Mother Earth
• Ring Toss & Bean Bag Games - What's your best score?

Familiar fun - Old favorites back by popular demand

• Leaf & fossil rubbings
• Beading projects
• Masks
• ...and more art galore!

Hosted by the Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology.  

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