Heart of Virginia Festival - 2001: The Children's Festival

Lawn of Jarman Auditorium, 10 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

The Children's Festival welcomes a wide variety of entertainment and lots of exciting educational activities on Jarman lawn. This year we are thrilled to bring you Theater IV of Virginia's performance "Journey the Stars" to delight the youngsters. Keep a sharp lookout for juggler and balloon sculptor David Bear Stuart as he wanders around town. Cody & BJ is a high energy, audience participating musical show; we may even get a visit from their friends Roxie and Cheyenne. We will also be featuring a non-stop FUN-FILLED show from magician Walter Glod. He provides magical entertainment with lots of giggles and amazement! The Science Museum Air Mobile is offering informal educational experiences including the Weather Station, Airfoils Wind Tunnel, Flight Simulator, and Aviators Hall of Fame. We will have the services of an interpreter for the deaf for the Theatre IV's "Journey to the Stars" performances and Magician Walter Glod.

On the stage in front of Jarman Auditorium
10:00     Theatre IV's "Journey to the Stars"
10:50     Cody & BJ
12:20     Theatre IV's "Journey to the Stars"
1:10      Cody & BJ
2:00      Theatre IV's "Journey to the Stars"

On the Jarman lawn
11:30 Magician Walter Glod

Also on the Jarman lawn find exhibits by:

National Association of Retired Federal Employees
Parents' Morning Out
Healthy Heart of Virginia, Farmville Methodist Church
PEATC-The Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center
Southside Virginia Family YMCA
Southside Community Hospital
Local Interagency Network for Children (LINC)
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Martha E. Forrester Council for Women
Hospice of Central Virginia
Community Chiropractic
Crossfire Youth Ministries
Prince Edward Department of Social Services
Back & Neck Center

New Life Christian Academy
Habitat for Humanity
United Way of Prince Edward
MOPS-Mothers of Preschoolers
Farmville Junior Woman's Club
Piedmont Healthy Families
Farmville Police Department
Virginia Department of Forestry
Tri-County Life Learners
Saylor's Creek Reenactment & Preservation Committee, Inc.
Girls' Ponytail & Belles PE/FYA
Meals on Wheels
PEPSE/Prince Edward County Schools
Friends of the Appomattox River
Southside School of Practical Nursing

Cody & BJ, a husband and wife musical team, combine their love for children, the environment, and animals into lively, audience-interactive performances. All music and activities are original creations, with Cody writing, and producting the songs.They have five children of their own as well as many animals, including their two beautiful macaw parrots that accompany them.

Magician Walter Glod, nationally known through appearances on TV and in National Geographic Magazine, will bringhis hilarious family entertainment to this year's Festival. He amazes audiences with live animal productions, silly gags, and even a suspension in mid-air of a child from the audience. Unique efects, one-of-a-kind apparatus, and audience involvement isthe hallmark of this magician/ventriloquist.

Test Your Flying Skills on the Virginia Aviation Museum's AirMobile

At the Farmville Shopping Center parking lot

Buckle up and put on your pilot headphones as you prepare to take off in the Flight Simulator on board the Virginia Aviation Museum's AirMobile. In a challenging computer simulation of a single engine aircraft, you can hear authentic ground-to-air communication as you imagine you're soaring above a small airport.

This wings-on-wheels traveling exhibition brings a fun-filled educational overview of aviation and the thrill of flight.

Discover how different wing designs behave as you watch changes in airflow in the AirMobile's Airfoils and Wind Tunnel exhibit. Examine the physical forces‹lift, thrust, drag and gravity‹experienced by aircraft during flight in Forces of Flight.

Learn more about Virginia's long history in the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame exhibition. It highlights six men and women and the significant contributions they have made to aviation. The Virginians depicted are Winchester's Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Roanoke's Louis Thaden, Richmond's Dick Merrill, Lynchburg's Chauncey Spencer, Roanoke's Martha W. Zillhardt, and Hampton's Christopher Kraft.

Visit the onboard working weather station that provides an up-to-the-minute accounting of wind speed and direction, air temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure. Pinpoint the AirMobile's exact location using a satellite-receiving system. Push a button and light up the extensive network of state airports marked on an aeronautical chart in the Virginia's Gateways to the World exhibit.

The AirMobile travels to school and special events across Virginia to improve science and technology literacy and to stimulate an interest in science careers.

For more information on the Virginia Aviation Museum's AirMobile, point your browser to www.smv.org to access the Science Museum's website.

The Children's Art Workshop

10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Lancaster Lawn

[Picture of two girls playing with the toys they made at the 1999 workshop]

Kids can make great impressions with this year's project at the Children's Art Tent in front of Lancaster Building. With tools and materials provided, children will be guided through the process of making relief prints in black and white. Using styrofoam plates as the basis for their own designs, they can print multiple images and variations on paper. This activity is free.