Teacher's Report all teachers have been sent an email with instructions on paying all of their entries on once through PayPal. If you didn't get an email the festival office and your email address will be corrected and you will be sent instructions.We have an excellent choice of Adjudicators for 2015, check out the Festival Page and click on adjudicators . New adjudicators and information will be added as it becomes available.Dance We look forward to using the Cleland Theatre again this year. Thank You to the City of Penticton for the Generous Donation that allows us to use this excellent venue.
Both the rider and the bucking horse are judged in this event. It is a single-handhold, eight-second ride which starts with the cowboy's feet held in a position over the break of the horse's shoulders until the horse's front feet touch the ground first jump out of the chute. The rider earns points maintaining upper body control while moving his feet in a toes-turned-out rhythmic motion in time with the horse's bucking action.
The theme, The Mystery of Migration, explored many different aspects of migration including the migration of waterfowl and songbirds and the seasonal movement of ungulates, carnivores, butterflies, bats, fish and even humans. A full week of more than 90 field trips, presentations and workshops culminated with a Gala banquet and an exciting and enthusiastic presentation by Brian Keating, world-renowned naturalist who has explored nearly 50 countries on all seven continents. Brian Keating spent three full days at the Festival giving school presentations and leading field trips, communicating and teaching about the world's astonishing and fragile biodiversity.A recent exceptional find of a fossil bed of significant importance in the Kootenay National Park has inspired our theme for the festival in 2015, Fossils and Feathers.