Blog, News and Announcements - Airdrie Children's Festival

2020 Festival Dates Announced

Airdrie, Alberta – The Airdrie Children’s Festival Society (ACFS) is excited to announce their dates for 2020. Happening May 30 & 31, the society is excited to host another two-day event. “For 2020, we will be growing from the successes from out first two years,” says Tara Levick, board member on the ACFS. “Watch for some changes and exciting new things coming for 2020.” The Airdrie Children’s Festival was created to enrich the lives of children and celebrate cultural difference. Each aspect of the festival…

Smoke Update: Airdrie Children’s Festival

We are continuing to monitor the Air Quality Health Index Canada to determine our course of action for Saturday. It is recommended that you cancel all outdoor activities when the index hits seven and not resume again to it hits six. It was looking really good up until two hours ago but they have now updated the forecast for tomorrow so it is touch and go. It is currently 10+ with an updated forecast of 6 for tomorrow. We will continue to monitor throughout the…

ACF to partner with Volunteer Airdrie

We love it when a plan comes together!! We are very excited to announce a new collaboration for the 2019 Airdrie Children’s Festival. To help us meet our volunteer requirements…which is big…Volunteer Airdrie will be helping us manage this area of the festival! It might surprise you, but we had a team of almost 80 volunteers onsite festival day last year and we expect we will top that this year. Thank you Volunteer Airdrie for helping us make this year’s festival an enormous success! Maybe…

Bobs and Lolo to Headline 2019 Festival

We are sooooooo excited to announce the performers coming to Airdrie in June for the festival!! Performing on the Shilo Storey with Re/max First – Airdrie, Calgary & Area Real Estate Entertainment Stage will be: Bobs & LoLo Smilin’ Rylan Peter Puffin’s Whale Tales Calgary Children’s Choir James Jordan Magician, Comedian, Vaudevillian Schedule: https://airdriechildrensfest.com/events/calendar/ More details to come: www.airdriechildrensfest.com

Comedy at the Bert

Comedy at the Bert – with Canadian Comic Headliner Tim Nutt Friday, March 1, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 pm) Bert Church LIVE Theatre Buy Tickets The Airdrie Children’s Festival Society (ACF) is excited to announce the first ever Comedy at the Bert fundraising evening. In partnership with the Airdrie Lion’s Club, ACF is can’t wait to share this evening with Airdrie. ‘One of our main principles of the Children’s Festival is inclusion. To achieve this we need to keep our festival…

Airdrie Children’s Festival Announces Presenting Sponsor

The Airdrie Children’s Festival Society is pleased to announce Rogers Communications Inc. has been added as a presenting sponsor of this year’s Airdrie Children’s Festival.

Animated Children’s Musical “Sing” Chosen for Outdoor Movie

The Airdrie Children’s Festival Society announced that the 2016 animated musical SING will be on the big screen for the 2018 Airdrie Children’s Festival on Saturday, May 26th, 2018.

JUNO Award Nominees Bobs & Lolo to Headline Children’s Festival

The Airdrie Children’s Festival Society announced their performers line-up for the inaugural Airdrie Children’s Festival and headlining on the BMO Entertainment stage will be five-time JUNO nominees Bobs and Lolo.

Children’s Festival Coming To Airdrie

New local non-profit organization to cater to children Airdrie, Alta., January 16, 2018–Airdrie Children’s Festival Society (ACFS), a new local organization, is planning an event to enrich the lives of children and celebrate cultural differences. The Society, which is made up of a group of local residents, will host its inaugural event on May 26 at Nose Creek Park. “We want to create a destination event that welcomes attendees from Airdrie and the surrounding area,” said Pete Lewis, chair of the ACFS. “Our goal is…

2018 TrailBlazer Winner: Airdrie Children’s Festival Society

We were so thrilled to be told that Switchback Creative had chosen us to be the 2018 Recipient of their TrailBlazer Award Fund. This $10,000 donation for graphic design, branding and website development is incredibly important for our growth as a society.