2008 Harvest Moon Festival
Click Here for This Year’s Festival Program (PDF)
Friday September 12 – Sunday September 14th, 2008
We’re back in our lucky seventh year with more local entertainment, local food, local educational workshops and local good times! See you in Clearwater Manitoba!
Tickets will be available after August 15th in Winnipeg at Mondragon, Organic Planet, Eat it.ca and in Clearwater at Wallis Grocery and Clearwater Restaurant and in Brandon at Two Farm Kids. We almost sold out last year so get your tickets early, only 1,000 available!
Weekend Pass (Includes Camping)
Adult 18+ $50
12-17 $25
Under 12 Free
Saturday only (Includes Camping)
Adult 18 + $30
12 – 17 $15
Under 12 Free
Click Here for This Year’s Festival Program (PDF)
2008 Music Line-Up
Friday Night
8:30pm – Tom Keenan
9:30pm – Armand Leverault
10:30pm - Mystery Performer
11: 30pm - Hot Dogg & Pip Skid
Midnight - DJ Kasm & DJ B.ZWAX
Saturday Stage #1
2pm – Childrens Entertainment
3pm – Workshop – Love Songs, Sad and Happy – Featuring Stew Clayton, Nathan, The Pines, & Ben & Mimi
4pm - Young Performers Workshop – Hosted by Mason Weselowski
5pm – Gavin Gardiner
6pm – Stew Clayton
7pm – Nathan
8pm – Ben & Mimi
9pm – The Pines
10pm – Sheena Grobb
11pm – Mayor Matt Allen
Saturday Stage #2:
1pm – Pepper Laing and the Lone Star Killers
2pm – Ron Leary
3pm – The Nettles
4pm – Grant Davidson
5pm – Patrick Keenan
6pm – The Crooked Brothers
7pm – Harms / Zacharias Family and guests
Saturday Late Night (in hall)
DJ Co-op
Bebe Dazzler
Sunday
11am - Gospel Jam with The Magnificent 7’s (in Hall)
Workshops
The Harvest Moon Festival isn’t only about celebration; one of the goals of Harvest Moon Society is to engage in educational projects that promote sustainable agriculture, the environment and healthy communities. At the festival a number of workshops are offered every year that contribute to this goal in a variety of ways. Workshops are tentatively scheduled and subject to change.
2008 Workshop Topics - Saturday
10AM - Flint Knapping Workshop
11AM - Guided Interpretive Trail Hike
11AM - Synchromysticism 101
11AM - Canning Workshop
12PM - Primitive Containers
1PM - Song Writing Workshop
1PM - Clearwater Architecture Studio & The MacGyver Challenge
1PM - Good and Sweet. Honey! Maple Syrup! and Dandelion Chocolate Cake!
2PM - Cattails, “Walmart of the Woods”
2:30PM - Inuit Culture
2:30PM - Forum Theatre
2:30PM - Cheese and Butter Making
3:30PM - Beyond the Wall of Green
THE BIO-BUS DEMONSTRATIONS (Saturday 2-4:30PM on School Grounds) - Hands on show and tell tours of the new Greenkids Inc. bus featuring: fossil fuel free veggy oil engine, solar panels, bamboo flooring, soya bean foam, recycled fabrics, toxic free glues and paints
Workshop Topics - Sunday
10AM - Pasture Paradise: McDonald Farm Tour
12PM - Environmental Health - What Does it All Mean
Kid’s Fun
The Harvest Moon Festival is a family event and as such tries to provide entertainment for those of all ages. In previous years we’ve had Al Simmons, Kanicosa, as well as play for the kids. This year, check out the second stage to see local youth performances and partake in the a number of workshops for youth on Saturday afternoon:
2:00 PM Science Creations: Make you very own kaleidoscope out of recyclable materials and design you very own bug pooter so you can collect and examine local bugs. Now that’s science!
3:00 PM Fun & Games with Green Kids: Come join us for some environmental fun. Build upon your eco friendly knowledge through hands on interactive games and exercises. A great way to learn and play in the great outdoors!Making
Food
The food at the festival is local, yummy and a great price!
Veg Heaven Menu (100 mile): Chick pea rotis, Bean Burritos, Borscht, Veggie Chili, Grilled Zucchini sticks and Harvest Moon Bars
Clearwater Junction Menu: Burgers, fries, sandwiches and more!
The Fair Trade Fair
The Harvest Moon Festival is a celebration of vibrant rural communities, healthy food and environment, and equitable and just societies. These inextricably linked components of life are important whether you live in the city, country or in the global south. There is much work that needs to be done to create lasting change in these areas. The Fair Trade Fair is one way of opening a forum for the awareness of these issues at a local and global level and gives Mooners an opportunity to cooperate on initiatives and/or participate in local trade as well as fair trade.
The Fair Trade Fair is an annual component of the Harvest Moon Festival that:
- showcases and sells locally made crafts and foods,
- educates Harvest Mooners on the importance of global fair trade to the lives of people in developing countries,
- and promotes organic agriculture as an alternative choice for healthy communities and environment here in Manitoba
Past Participants in the FTF have included: CUSO, Ten Thousand Villages, MCIC, Heifer Int’l, Marquis Project, No Sweat Manitoba, Mondragon Bookstore as well as many local artisans and craftspeople.
What is Fair Trade?
According to the Fair Trade Federation… (32kb pdf)
For more information visit www.transfaircanada.ca
About the Festival
The Harvest Moon Society and the community of Clearwater have hosted Manitoba’s perennial farm festival since 2002. The Harvest Moon Festival celebrates the harvest season and local food production, while providing an opportunity to link those from rural and urban communities. The festival offers music, a Fair Trade Fair, a guided nature walk, and a variety of educational workshops for all ages.
The Harvest Moon festival seeks to recognize that many of Canada’s farm communities are in crisis - the stewards of the land are leaving and a life once so rich is now full of despair. Low commodity prices, the BSE crisis, drought and flooding in Western Canada have meant that many farmers are leaving the land and pursuing other ventures. The Harvest Moon Festival and community of Clearwater are symbols of hope, counteracting the present trends in agriculture on the prairies.
The Harvest Moon festival is intended to increase awareness of agricultural issues such as, the role of farming in our lives, the importance of sustainable food production and the survival of rural communities. The festival aims to build relationships and create dialogue between urban and rural people and is completely organized and operated by a team of committed volunteers.
Surrounded by the beauty of the Pembina Valley the festival takes place each year in the fall, around the full moon. The festival runs from Friday night until noon on Sunday. It features both rural and urban acts from all over Manitoba and continues to grow each year. Food is a large part of the Harvest Moon Festival and as such the festival food committee tries to accommodate those all walks of life, whether vegan or vegetarian, with as much local/organic food as possible.
Getting to the Festival in Clearwater
We highly recommend that you consult a map but you can also check out MapQuest or Google Maps for some guidelines. Here is a map we created (789 kb pdf) for you! Once you hit Clearwater you can’t miss the Harvest Moon festival, the entire town will be decked out for it!
Contacting the Harvest Moon Society
Interested in playing at or sponsoring the Harvest Moon Festival? Or just have questions about the festival? Please contact us at the email address below and we will get back to you!
info@harvestmoonsociety.org
Accomodations
Camping is optional and festival goers are encouraged to camp on the festival site. For those who prefer a little more quiet, camping can also be arranged on the school grounds across the street from the school.
We also recognize that camping is not for everyone, so we have included some information for hotels and bed and breakfasts in the area:
Holiday Mountain
La Riviere MB is about a 15-20 minute drive away from Clearwater and is a good alternative for those wishing to stay off-site.
Tel: 204-242-2172
Email: info@holidaymountain.com
Web: www.holidaymountain.com
Hillshade Farm Bed and Breakfast
Box 244 Pilot Mound, Manitoba
R0G 1P0
Tel: (204) 825-2476
Email: (204) 825-2476
Poplar Land Bed & Breakfast
Box 443 Crystal City, Manitoba
Phone: 204.873.2194
Email: bedandbreakfast@poplarlane.ca
www.poplarlane.ca/hosts.php