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Ongoing & Upcoming Events
During this period of social distancing, please check out our SPAF! AT HOME online programming
Art Exhibitions at The Elm Café
On December 7th, 2020 The Elm Café (303 Montreal Street) opened it’s doors to allow it’s patrons to wait inside while they order tasty treats and delicious coffee. This also gives SPAF the opportunity to showcase a local artists creations on the cafés walls. This season we are featuring local printmaker Vince Perez of Everlovon’ Press. Come check out the letterpress prints that make up his collection called The Canadianist – a series of collectible prints designed by top Canadian illustrators. greetingsfrom.ca / everlovinpress.com
To apply for the opportunity to exhibit your work, please use our online form:
Elm Café Art Exhibiting Application Form
Past Events
Poetry Installation: Hockey Rink at Skeleton Park
Featured Poem: Hockey Players by Al Purdy (1918-2000) (December 2019 – April 2020)
Doula Support Foundation Benefit Concert
w/ Lemon Bucket Orchestra, Weather Station, The Gertrudes
Saturday November 23
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Skeleton Press Launch Party
Thursday November 21
Fall Square Dance
Sunday October 20
Halloween Parade in Skeleton Park
Thursday October 31
Mary Poppins Sing-Along Movie Screening
Friday September 20
BAD IDEAS FOREVER feat Jon Claytor Art and Charlotte Cornfield Music
Wednesday September 18
Live Music Aqua Fitness, feat. Spencer Evans’ Goat Steppers
Thursday June 20
Skeleton Park Arts Festival Opening Night, feat. “Who Is Bruce Kauffman?” film screening
Wednesday June 19
The SKELETON PRESS Launch Party, feat. Beverly Glenn Copeland
Sunday June 16
Click here to view the full 2019 festival schedule.
The Things We Do…
Seasonal Events
Halloween Parade
Woooooo! It’s the (almost) legendary Skeleton Park Halloween Parade which takes place in McBurney Park every October 31st. All witches, werewolves, goblins and ghouls are invited to congregate in the park where there will be a 5 pm parade around the park.
The Annual Skeleton Park Neighbourhood Easter Egg Hunt
BYOBasket! Rain or Shine! $2-5 per child towards the cost of goodies, coffee & muffins.
Movie Screenings
Once the sun goes down and the stars come out, come to Skeleton Park for an outdoor film screening. Bring blankets, lawn chairs, snacks & drinks, and pocket change ($2) for buying fresh popped popcorn!
Skeleton Park Quarterly Square Dances
Swing your partner to the music of local bands and callers. No experience necessary. No partners needed. Bring the whole family!
Art Installations
View ‘Art Exhibitions at The Elm Café’ Facebook Page
To apply for the opportunity to exhibit your work, please use our online form:
Elm Café Art Exhibiting Application Form
Past Exhibits
March 2020-May 2020: Julie Davidson Smith
September-December 2019: Claire Grady-Smith
June-September 2017: Morris Blanchard at The Elm Cafe
2016-2017: Benjamin Nelson: Decade of Distraction at The Elm Cafe
Early 2018: Night Skaters, Skeleton Park installation on the boards of the outdoor rink in Skeleton Park
The Skeleton Press
The Skeleton Park Arts Festival is proud to introduce The Skeleton Press – a community newspaper serving the Skeleton Park neighbourhood and surrounding area.
What started as an informal chat about the politics of a neighbourhood in transition led us to found this newspaper that we hope will become a free, biannual publication.
Film Productions
Who Is Bruce Kauffman?
Who Is Bruce Kauffman? is an anthology film that explores and celebrates Kingston, Ontario’s vibrant poetic community through the eyes of a poet impresario who manages to be both ubiquitous and elusive.
Kauffman’s influence is broad and longstanding – if one proceeds from any given place on an imagined map of Kingston’s poetry scene, then Bruce will show up somewhere along the trail, humbly and unassumingly encouraging all local writers.
In this film, the city’s most accomplished film makers and other artists collaborate with some of Kingston’s finest poets to interpret their poems in short cinematic pieces. They join Kauffman in giving us a snapshot of the city and its poetry.
Live in Kingston, 2016
Community Activism
The Skeleton Park Arts Festival participates in important community issues that relate to our neighbourhood.
North King’s Town Secondary Plan
Past Programming
Community Concerts
The Skeleton Park Arts Festival hosted quarterly Community Concerts throughout the Skeleton Park Neighbourhood.
Live Music Aqua Fitness
Our popular Live Music Aqua Fitness program was now be offered year round!
Community Songbook
The Skeleton Park Community Songbook was a community arts project which involved collaborations featuring professional musicians and various community organizations, to encourage Kingstonians to share music together and learn to sing each other’s songs.
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