Read on for exciting details and pics from over the years! AND mark your calendar for The Fairy and Dragon Festival 2020 … again at Isabel Morris Park in Lakefield on Saturday, June 13, 2020 from 10 am to 4 pm. Right below this fairy photo are the rules for our 2020 SCULPTURE CONTEST!!! WIN 1ST PRIZE $500 CASH!
Again in 2020, we are hosting a Fairy and Dragon Sculpture Contest! Make a sculpture of a fairy or a dragon, 42″ minimum to 6 foot maximum and bring it on festival day (Saturday, June 13, 2002) before 8:15 am and you will be registered to WIN $500 CASH at the noon hour judging! Here are the rules on how your sculpture will be judged:
AND HERE IS VENDOR 2020 INFORMATION SHEET:
Reminding you to get your costumes out! Also to tell you more about what to expect:
Saturday, June 8, 2019 … Blades of Glory sword challenges with the gorgeous knights in armour in their 40 x 40 foot arena! AND dancing!!! New for 2019 are Unicorn Rides AND a Fairy & Dragon Trolley whisking you about the Village from park to park and stopping at selected stores and eateries along the way! Have your photo taken with beautiful Fairy Princesses and some surprise dragon friends this year!! As well as Sparky The Dragon and Sparky the Firedog are coming, too!!! We shall feature the collecting game and dozens of vendors and have a trail map for you to walkabout the Village of Lakefield and see Jodi Hendricks’ gorgeous fairy doors on the front of businesses and Murray Lincoln’s too!, oh, and Penny from The Cozy Home made the dragon door at Celtic Connection and her own AMAZING fairy door at her store; please support everyone who makes it possible for us to enjoy a day of joy with all ages for the free festival being held at Isabel Morris Park behind the Lakefield Arena every year!
And the absolutest favourite clown ever invented … the best ever… RAZBERRY THE CLOWN!!! International award winning balloon maker!
And on Saturday, June 8th around 1 pm, we will have the return of the Kawartha Music Co. Fairies!
Steven Kenzora onsite carving demonstration! He’s the DragonMaster! VikingMaster! CastleMaster! And lucky to have his Jodi Hendricks with him to sell her gorgeous artisan fairy and dragon doors!
A new favourite! The Peterborough Academy for Circus Arts will present their Fairy & Dragon show at the 2019 Fairy and Dragon Festival! YAY founder Thomas Vaccaro!
John Foreman of Broad-Axe fame!
John built the outdoor Bancroft Bandshell and is known for creating beautiful wooden benches. Mr. Foreman demonstrated his broad-axe skills at our 2018 event AND it will be a bench that someone will be painting with fairies and dragons and installing in the Village! Yippee Yi Yay! His youtube demonstration tells the story: https://youtu.be/wELL2_qC2Xw
And also a note to thank our volunteers and sponsors !!! We are SO grateful!!! Couldn’t do the festival without them; and please thank the volunteers when you see them AND honour our sponsors!
A pic from last year shows how many sponsors help out with inkind donations (YAY, need all of the costume prizes and other necessities!!!) and our main festival sponsors for 2019 include Nexicom, Lakefield BodyTalk, GE Power, Savage Arms and Lakefield Foodland. Thanks to all festival goers for bringing your joy to the charming Village of Lakefield.
And our very own Fairy and Dragon Trail, 2019 style, in all it’s glory; including title sponsors Nexicom & Lakefield BodyTalk… THANK YOU!
The 2019 version is right here, but it is a draft and any new sponsors MOST WELCOME! Thank YOU!
