Disney light displays being taken down
I took this picture on Monday when workers were dismantling the Disney light displays in Queen Victoria Park.
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CAA Winter Festival of Lights in Winter 2011/2012
On December 30, my family headed down to Niagara Falls to view the lights in Queen Victoria Park. The CAA Winter Festival of Lights doesn’t seem to change much year to year, but it still a nice sight. Almost anything looks good lit up at night.
I took some pictures as we walked around. Not all of them are of the CAA Winter Festival of Lights, but they were all taken on the same night so I’ve put them in the same gallery. You can see a few thumbnails below, or you can see the entire gallery (15 images) in the CAA Winter Festival of Lights in Winter 2011/2012 image gallery.
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Cleaning up after the New Year’s Eve concert/broadcast
It takes a lot to setup for the New Year’s Eve concert in Queen Victoria Park, and it also takes a lot to take everything down.
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Getting ready to party on New Year’s Eve
From the Niagara Falls Review:
When something works, the Niagara Parks Police like to stick with it.
Even though Ontario’s liquor laws were loosened up a bit this past summer, those wishing to have a few drinks at the New Year’s Eve party in Queen Victoria Park will have to remain inside a designated area where alcohol is served.
“The last two years we’ve had a licensed area and that discourages people from bringing in their own alcohol into the park and we don’t have to worry about people tripping over empty bottles or bottles being thrown,” said Niagara Parks Police Chief Doug Kane. “We are able to secure the area so that it’s remains a safe family event.”
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DJs descend on convention centre New Year’s Eve
From the Niagara Falls Review:
It’ll be a loud gathering of techno and electronic music going until nearly dawn. Just don’t call it a rave.
For two decades, the free televised concert down at Queen Victoria Park has been synonymous with New Year’s Eve in Niagara Falls. But there’s a new party in town this year, and it doesn’t end at midnight. It’ll just be warming up.
Golden New Year’s Eve 2012 will be an eight-hour, indoor dance party at the Scotiabank Convention Centre Niagara featuring renowned DJs Avicii and Steve Aoki, along with Toronto’s Manzone & Strong and Niagara’s Christina Cruise. The music starts at 8 p.m. and goes until 4 a.m.
Unlike the typical rave, the event will have tight security, a dress code and admission starting at $75.
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New Year’s concert will always have its critics
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Later this month, for the 20th time, there will be a big, free New Year’s Eve concert down at Queen Victoria Park.
Also happening for the 20th time? Griping about the New Year’s Eve concert.
Like Auld Lang Syne and jacked-up hotel rates, it’s a New Year’s tradition in Niagara Falls. The second the lineup is announced, the complaints begin. It doesn’t matter that the show doesn’t cost a cent, it doesn’t matter there are endless other things to do (including a rave at the convention centre this year) … the New Year’s show is our nationally televised badge of honour, and we take it serious.
The problem organizers face with this show is trying to please two very different camps – the rock show crowd, and the family concert crowd. The two don’t mix well, and I’m not sure they should. Pleasing one means shortchanging the other.
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Setting up for New Year’s Eve 2012
Yesterday, in the rain, the stage was being setup in Queen Victoria Park for the New Year’s Eve party. If the rain doesn’t stop, it could be a really muddy night!
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Mickey and Minnie light up winter festival
From the Niagara Falls Review (includes video):
With the push of a button by Mickey and Minnie, the CAA Winter Festival of Lights kicked off its 29th year Saturday night. The festival got under way in familiar fashion with a pair of free shows at Queen Victoria Park featuring magician Greg Frewin, the cast of the Oh Canada Eh? dinner show and local dancers and singers.
There were back-to-back Ontario Power Generation Opening Ceremony shows, but the first one ended with the illumination of the festival’s three million lights along a 6 km stretch of the Niagara Parkway.
The park was packed with thousands of people for the opening night events thanks to temperatures that were less frigid than normal. “It’s like an early gift. It’s a nice way to start off the season,” said Winter Festival of Lights general manager Dino Fazio.
The nice weather made the kick-off more appealing this year, said one of the many parents who brought their kids to see the Disney characters perform. “The kids love it because they get to see action – the characters, the Christmas music. It’s good for the community,” said Lorraine Bradshaw, who brought her nine-year-old daughter Kaitelyn to the event for the first time.
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Festival of Lights sets opening ceremonies
We had originally planned on going again this year (we went last year), but after reading about it, decided it would be the same as last year so we didn’t bother going.
From the Buffalo News:
Mickey and Minnie Mouse mascots will flip the switch Saturday evening to mark the official start of the 29th annual CAA Winter Festival of Lights at the Ontario Power Generation Opening Ceremonies at 5:45 in Queen Victoria Park.
In addition to the debut of the lights, a one-hour stage show will feature performances by up-and-coming Canadian singers Brooklyn Roebuck and Stephanie McIlroy, the cast of the “Oh Canada Eh?” dinner show, the Wendy Leard School of Dance, the Festival Choir and champion magician Greg Frewin. The first holiday fireworks show will follow. A second show, complete with fireworks, will start at 7. Both shows are free.
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Setting up for Winter Festival of Lights 2011/2012
Over the last couple of days the workers have been out in Queen Victoria Park setting up some of the displays for the Niagara Falls CAA Winter Festival of Lights. On the one hand, it seems a bit early. On the other hand, it is much better for the workers to be out in this weather, then cold/bitter weather in November/December. The festival opens on November 7th, so they have just over a month to setup.
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