SPAF happens around the summer solstice, rain or shine, in and around Kingston’s McBurney “Skeleton” Park. The 2019 festival took place on June 19th – 23rd.
2019 Festival Schedule
Sunday June 16
The SKELETON PRESS Launch Party, feat. Beverly Glenn Copeland
Next Church (89 Colborne St.) at 3:00pm
Wednesday June 19
Skeleton Park Arts Festival Opening Night, feat. “Who Is Bruce Kauffman?” film screening
Providence Manor (#275 Sydenham St.) at 6:00pm (RSVP only)
Thursday June 20
Live Music Aqua Fitness, feat. Spencer Evans’ Goat Steppers
Artillery Park Aquatic Centre (382 Bagot St.) at 10:00am and 6:00pm (Advance registration recommended)
Friday June 21
Yoga by Jeb Thorley with Music by Members of The Kingston Symphony
Skeleton Park at 7:30am
National Indigenous Peoples Day, feat. Wolf Saga
Confederation Park (216 Ontario St.) at 2:00pm
Saturday June 22 in Skeleton Park
Yoga by Jeb Thorley with music by Dave Barton
7:30am
Artisan Fair, Local Food Vendors and Community Booths
10:00am – 5:00pm
King’s DON Taiko
10:00am
Njacko Backo Co-presented by Le Centre Culturel Frontenac
11:00am
Barefoot Players Theatre
11:00am – Side Stage #1
Movement Market Dance Choreography
11:30am – Side Stage #2
Square Dance with Teilhard Frost
12:00pm
Poetry at Hillside Stage Featuring Jason Heroux, Sarah Tsiang, Olivia Ows and Live Music by Members of The Kingston Symphony
1:00pm – Hillside Stage
Floral Craft Workshop
1:30pm – Side Stage #2
Writing Workshop with Poet Laureate Jason Heroux
2:00pm – Hillside Stage
Kaia Kater
2:00pm
Solstice Games
2:00pm – Side Stage #3
The Orontes Quartet Co-presented by KEYS Immigrant & Refugee Services
3:00pm
Movement Market Dance Choreography
3:00pm – Side Stage #2
Deux Trois
4:00pm
Old Time Music Workshop with Teilhard Frost & Friends
4:00pm – Hillside Stage
The Wilderness Co-presented by Kingston Punk Productions
5:00pm
Witch Prophet Co-presented by Something Else Records
6:00pm
The Souljazz Orchestra
7:00pm
Festival After Party Featuring Wolf Saga, Piner and Dead Root Revival
The Toucan (73 Princess St.) at 10:00pm
Sunday June 23 in Skeleton Park
Yoga by Jeb Thorley with Music by Dave Barton
7:30am
Artisan Fair, Local Food Vendors and Community Booths
10:00am – 5:00pm
Movement Market Dance Choreography
9:30am – 11:00am – Side Stage #2
Kingston Indigenous Languages Nest
10:00am
Porch Jazz Parade Featuring:
Spencer Evans’ Goat Steppers, Chantal Thompson (123 Patrick St),
The Brockville Steel Drum Band (63 Patrick St),
Peshtones (32 Patrick St),
and Jonathan Stewart (6 Patrick St)
10:00am – 12:00pm
Barefoot Players Theatre
11:00am – Side Stage #1
Floral Craft Workshop
12:00pm – Side Stage #2
Relatively Minor
1:00pm
Wolf Saga
2:00pm
Poetry Workshop with Kingston Poet Laureate Jason Heroux
2:30pm – Hillside Stage
Rueben deGroot and Rocket Surgery
3:00pm
Basia Bulat – Co-presented by the Wolfe Island Music Festival
4:00pm
This year’s stage art installations are provided by Artful Waste.
The Skeleton Park Arts Festival is a non-profit annual summer solstice celebration held in and around Kingston’s historic McBurney Park, popularly known as ’Skeleton Park’ due to its 19th century history as a cemetery. The multidisciplinary festival showcases artists from Kingston and around the world, in addition to a variety of family and heritage activities.
Join us June 19th to 23rd to see Witch Prophet, The Wilderness, The Soul Jazz Orchestra, Kaia Kater, Wolf Saga, Deux Trois, Piner, The Orontes Quartet, Porch Jazz Parade, Movement Market, Artisan Fair, Local Food Vendors, Solstice Games and so much more!
Artisan Fair & Local Food Vendors
We are a low-waste festival and encourage you to bring your own re-useable waterbottle, and dishes and utensils!
2019 Food Vendors
Festival Waste Diversion
In partnership with Sustainable Kingston, festival volunteers strive for an annual “waste-free” festival. Please bring your own cups/water bottles, plates, utensils, etc in order to help support this initiative alongside our local food vendors who also try to use minimal packaging.
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