Schedule

4:30pm - Doors Open, The Community Garden opens

5pm - Welcome from Festival Director Jessica Tomasin

5:15pm - Youth Art Presentation

7pm - Songwriter in the Round, featuring Mary Gauthier, Marisa Blake and Shana Tucker

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10am - The Community Garden opens

12pm - SPEAK - award winning film screening and Q&A with filmmakers Guy Mossman and cast member Sam Schaefer

7pm - To Be Announced

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12pm - From Concept to Creation: The Game Design Process. This interactive workshop explores how creative ideas evolve into fully realized games. Participants will collaborate in a live brainstorming session, contributing imaginative concepts that will be developed into a cohesive game framework. The session will walk through key stages of the design pipeline—including narrative development, gameplay mechanics, visual design, and production considerations. When time allows, participants will engage in hands-on prototyping, bringing their ideas to life through a playable paper version of the game.

2:30pm - StoryLab: Build the World You Want. What if you could write the headlines of the future? StoryLab is an immersive creative space where ideas turn into stories—and stories shape the future. Youth will explore multiple forms of media, from newspaper design to film storyboarding to social storytelling, all while imagining and expressing the world they want to see. Their work becomes part of a growing visual installation, blending individual voices into a collective vision.