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Article: The art of childhood: Vancouver's Arts Umbrella hosts a citywide Expressions festival of youth arts: 'Inspiring kids for life'.(ARTS)
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- Western Standard
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- May 7, 2007
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Remember the buzz and excitement that expanded with each passing moment as you waited for the curtain to rise on a school play? How the kids' growing anticipation spread out from the backstage to the audience's back row? Take all that emotion, pack it into professional performance and exhibition venues across the city of Vancouver, then imagine preschool Picassos to high-school prima ballerinas strutting their best stuff from April 26 to June 17, and you'll have a picture of what the annual Expressions youth arts festival is all about.
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"The festival completes the circle for the children in our arts ...