Shows
📍Canadian War Museum - 1 Vimy Place
Celebrate our 40th anniversary at the Ottawa Children’s Festival’s vibrant new main site at Lansdowne Park! Experience thrilling performances in the beautiful Horticulture Building and soak up the festival magic under a lively big-top tent on the Great Lawn. It’s a dynamic, family-friendly space bursting with energy, creativity, and unforgettable moments!
Luminarium
Cause & Effect Circus | Vancouver, British Colombia
Non-verbal | Ages 4+ | 60 minutes
About
Luminarium is a visually striking, wordless circus theatre experience blending juggling, physical comedy, and inventive stagecraft.
Set in a hopeful solarpunk future, two workers arrive to restore a forgotten facility—but their mission unravels into play, discovery, and unexpected transformation.
As systems fail, imagination takes over, leading to the discovery of a new kind of energy born from curiosity and connection. Playful, poetic, and accessible to all ages, Luminarium invites audiences into a luminous world where the future isn’t fixed—it’s something we can reimagine together.
Schedule
To be announced.
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By Trial and Error
Le Cirque Content Pour Peu | Saint-Thois, France
Non-verbal| Ages 4+ | 45 min
About
By Trial and Error is an acrobatic show brimming with humor borrowed from slapstick and silent film. It’s a creation for two disoriented artists, aimed at all audiences.
The two circus performers enter the ring, ready to perform their acrobatic lifts, but doubt creeps into their well-rehearsed routine, leading to a series of misunderstandings. The show then transforms into a farcical spectacle. Driven by the need to continue, the duo gets caught up in the game, inventing, drifting… sometimes lost, sometimes opportunistic, but always bouncing back.
A show for all audiences where the unexpected is valued and the spectator is constantly surprised!
Schedule
To be announced.
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To be announced.
Returns Department
The Kif Kif Sisters | Montreal, Quebec
English | Ages 4+ | 55 min
About
Twin sisters welcome you to the Returns Department, where merchandise returned to the store by disgruntled customers is inspected. They discover all sorts of dysfunctional objects and manufacturing defects on their conveyor belt. Little by little, the temptation to play with the merchandise takes hold, but the objects themselves play some tricks of their own!
Returns Department combines physical theater, circus, robotics and puppetry. With humor inspired by Chaplin and comic strips, the show takes a playful look behind the scenes of a production line.
Schedule
To be announced.
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While We Wait
Gale Force Theatre | Halifax, Nova Scotia
English | Ages 5+ | 50 minutes
About
While We Wait follows a young girl named Leo and her discovery of a magical garden shed. As the seasons pass, she struggles against the changes in her own life. This show is a celebration of inter-species kinship, explores the challenge of facing change, and revels in the power of noticing.
How do we face unwanted change? What can the natural world tell us about presence, control, and connection if we watch and listen? The piece features live music, puppetry and is an enchanting introduction to live performance for young audiences.
Schedule
To be announced.
Video Trailer
Tickets
To be announced.
2023 & 2024 Shows
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