What If/Imagination Celebration Guide

FREE FUN - ALL DAY - ALL AGES

2022

UAL 11th ANN

D O W NTOWN COLORAD O S P R I N G S The Festival Where Imaginations of All Ages Take Flight!

1 0 A M TO 4 P M

SATURDAY

10 B R IN G T H IS G U ID E !

Interactive Experiences…

T h e A r t s , E n g i n e e r i n g , S c i e n c e , H i g h Te c h & L o w Te c h F u n

4 Stages with Live Music & Performances F o o d C o u r t s B e e r, W i n e & S p i r i t s G a r d e n Roaming Experiences Chalk It Up Challenge Festival Producer

www.whatif-festival.org

S AT U R D AY, S E P T E M B E R 1 0 T H - W E L C O M E T O A D AY O F W O W S !

This celebration is undaunted and will occur rain or shine! By City Ordinance: No Pets Allowed at the Festival.

Schedules are subject to change.

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BRING FRIENDS !

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CC MOBILE ARTS STAGE

WHAT IF Festival T-Shirts Available at WEST INFO BOOTH

( S e c u r e B i k e Va l e t Av a i l a b l e )

Free or inexpensive parking in all directions.

(Meters in effect.)

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FOOD COURT

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Big Papas Catering Big Squeeze Lemonade Black Forest Chew-Chew Conrad’s Flava Fusion Creole Roots Catering Doki Doki Filipino Food Truck Go Fish Food Truck Josh & John’s Ice Cream Kabob Kaboose Kona Ice Pikes Peak Lucy I’m Home Miggy’s Meltdown Native Grill Roc and Ro Sushi On The Go Springs Cupcake Truck Wayward Onion Vegan Wheel Coffee LLC

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Roaming Experiences

KRCC STAGE

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CSU Fresh Water Trailer for Refillables

BEER/ WINE/SPIRITS GARDEN

Bike Valet

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FREE 20 Minute Festival Day Ride!

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www.pikeride.org Code: COSWHATIF22

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KCME 93.5 STAGE

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EVERYBODY WELCOME Meet culture-based nonprofits, dance groups, and technology that makes this stage happen!

1 Pikes Peak Diversity Council 2 Jamoral African Dancing and Drumming 3 Golden Lotus Foundation 4 Mãnava O Polynesia 5 Production Point 6 Colorado Custom 7 Hex Audio 8 Stroud/Martin 9 Clean Commute Learn about electric vehicles so you can make the switch!

Drive Clean Colorado

10 Join the Club Electric Vehicles of Colorado Springs - from Teslas to Chevys Colorado Springs Electric Vehicle Club 11 Solar Sparks Watch the sun power an entire stage! Affordable Solar Colorado 12 Ultravision Art An ultraviolet rendezvous which elevates fantastic colors into our realm of vision. Fused with the art of video mapping. Featured Artist: Jaguart Art Experience 13 Holographic Interaction Interact with holographic space objects such as a representation of the James Webb Space Telescope. Palmer High School 14 What is Your Journey? Throw cups and tell your story based on their adjectives. 1 Million Cups

PARK ING

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Get to the Festival!

Drive - Bus - Walk - Bike!

15 Be a WHATIFFER Hear reading of children’s book “What if...” and help Tinker and The Kid solve a problem.

What if... (Children’s Book) 16 Note to Self View a set of rare horns that played music directed back to the performer instead of an audience.

MEGACORP: Earth Division 17 Best of Books Highlight your favorite book and sign up to receive free ones!

Colorado Springs School District 11

Restrooms

20 Tablescapes of Color Design and Create !Learn to design a memorable occasion around a table. Gather together to create flowers. Engage in a playful approach to artmaking. Featured Creatives: Mundi Ross/Sarah Gregor 21 That’s nervy! Experience how NASA-designed technology can test for nerve interference in the spine. Etio Chiropractic

18 What if our Poetry could come true? Contribute to a community poem.

Ashley Cornelius, PPLD Poet Laureate

22 Couch Conversations Sit on a set of cushions that transform a couch into living creatures. MEGACORP: Earth Division

19 Musical Mixed Reality Virtual and augmented reality allows you to appreciate music in a whole new way.

Portraits of Change

23 EchoLokal This app builds community and will broadcast What If... events in real time! Featured Entrepreneur E c h o L o k a l

H ANDIC APPED

H ANDIC AP PE D

Bring water!

Wear sunscreen !

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FOOD COURT

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Restrooms

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PARK ING

24 Sing with us! Sing-a-long with our singers as we celebrate music, the universal language. Featured Organization 45 years! Colorado Springs Children’s Chorale 25 Pet Toys Create a pet toy and learn pet first aid. Harley’s Hope 26 Grow Healthy Food from Scraps learn which vegetables can be recycled/ regrown to nourish our bodies over and over. Care and Share Food Bank 27 Growing Gurus Learn about compost, bread, and microgreens!

Growing Gurus 28 Curious Creatures Watch for a Golden Chinese Dragon, Joyful Jellyfish, and Prancing Dancers roaming the Festival! Kaleidoscope Arts Project

One of the first questions artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, explorers, inventors & scientists ask when they begin a new endeavor is

Live Performances! 10 am - 4 pm

What If ...?

29 Energy and Water Make instant snow, Build an LED circuit light magnet. Understand the water system. Create a solar bead craft.

Colorado Springs Utilities 30 Hypnotize! Explore the mind with hypnosis demonstrations. Colorado Springs Hypnosis 31 Pup Performances Learn to train dogs and see what they can do! Young Pup 32 Fusion Dance Watch and try cultural dance forms and interactive art projects. Smokebrush Foundation

ROAMING EXPERIENCES 46 Find the Torch The Atlanta Olympic torch will roam the Festival. Stop it and learn. U.S. Olympic & Parlaympic Museum

61 Digital Manufacturing Fun See how digital manufacturing can be used to create a fun project that you can take with you. PPM

47 The Wandering Minstrel Find the musician that travels throughout the festival! benprattmusic.com

62 Rug Making Help make make a rug using tufting tools and processes. Pikes Peak Makerspace

48 Wandering Drummers Bringing joyful rhythms and songs. Judith Piazza & The Mountain Soul Drummers

63 Spare Electronics See how an interactive Kiosk was made out of spare electronics then interact with it using a repurposed game controller. Pikes Peak Makerspace

49 Emu Is Loose! Look for an Emu roaming the Festival! Emu

33 Ute Discovery Learn about archaeology, the cultural history of Colorado, and its three Ute tribes!

El Paso County - Community Services Dept

50 Short films by Young Film Makers Watch films from young film makers. Meet acclaimed filmmaker and UCCS student, Andy Kwiatkowski, 34 Poetry & Pottery, Part 1 Professional showing “Lonely Highway” Featured potters will teach you to “throw a pot” Filmmaker Youth Documentary Academy on electric wheel Wong Wares 51 Hands-On Physics Experiment 35 Poetry & Pottery, Part 2 Create with physics concepts with handsa chapter book as Writing Mentors on materials you can use at home. facilitate poetry writing. Poetry Heals Academy for Advanced and Creative 36 Arts on Wheels Experience the Learning Mobile Arts truck, with theater, poetry, 52 Restore Old Photos Restore old/ music and artmaking CC Mobile Arts historic photographs; bring yours on 37 Mobile Earth and Space a thumb drive if you like. Signed book Observatory (MESO) Peer thru “Colorado Springs Then and Now” for telescopes for a deeper understanding sale 3 Peaks Photography of our universe! National Space Science & 53 Innovation Exercises Participate Technology Institute in innovation and creativity exercises, 38 Playing with STEAM Challenge win prizes. Featured Innovative Educator yourself with fun games and toys! Cool UCCS Bachelors of Innovation Science 39 Sun S’Mores Cook S’Mores in a solar 54 Lego Robots View the team’s oven and power electric gadgets with Challenge Field Board and build a robot. the sun! Southeast Colorado Renewable Manitou Springs School District 14 Energy Society (SECRES) 55 Meet Artist - See Process 40 So Many Bubbles!

Imagination combined with artistic skills 5 pools of soap + wands and hoops of translates into beautiful oil paintings. all sizes = bubbles heaven! The Millibo See how it’s done. Featured Painter Art Theatre Lee Murphy 41 Human Wheel Look on 56 FUNgi Work with mushroom materials in awe at this Cyr Wheel rider and make a compostable flower pot from Cyr Wheel Performer mushrooms and agricultural waste! Me 42 Fire truck Come check out a Colorado Springs Fire Department vehicle. CSFD 43 Chalk It Up Challenge Watch beginners to professionals create sidewalk chalk art Imagination Celebration/CIVA 44 Jump in with a set of your own pastels! Buy some pastels and jump in!

Hosted by Character, Integrity, Vision, and the Arts: CIVA Charter High School 45 Create Chalk Art! Get inspired by this creative high school team as they show you how Air Academy HS

& Myco 57 Without Violence Envision a community without violence, then create a square for a mosaic wall. TESSA

64 Dark Archive View this new exhibition by Elin o’Hara Slavick. GOCA

78 Create Food System Imagine what a healthy food system would look like in Colorado Springs! Food to Power

92 Tell Your Story Make a kid-friendly storytelling booklet.

Pioneers Museum

79 Dynamic Dance Take dance classes and make ballerina crafts. Kemper Dance Academy

93 Camera-less Photo Art Make your own lumen print and look at nature in a new way! Fine Arts Center’s Bemis School of Art at Colorado College

80 Stormwater Adventures Interact with the environment by introducing your own “pollutants” to see how they affect the watershed. City of Colorado Springs 81 Seeds and Pots Pot plants and make a seed bomb. Rick’s Garden Center 82 Butterflies Beautiful butterfly and dragonfly garden art, designed by local artists. Rotary Club of Colorado Springs

65 Podcast Star Create your own 5 min podcast or be a guest! Share your perspective. What do you think? Studio 809 83 Storm Mural One Watch as artists turn sidewalk drain areas into works of Podcasts / Peak Radar art (multiple locations). City of Co Spgs 66 Bike Valet Meet an essential 84 Bone Clone nonprofit at the Bike Valet Identify the skulls of animals. Pikes Peak Bike Colorado Springs State College 67 Drink Up Be curious about wine and spirits. Sip and Learn!

Downtown Wine, Lee Spirits 68 Aerial Artistry Watch pros and students perform aerial acrobatics.

Dragonfly Aerial Company 69 Throttle Therapy Check out “wide open throttle therapy” by interacting with trucks from many decades. AutoShop Vocational PBC 70 A Century of Messaging Track messaging technology over the last century. Pikes Peak Radio Amateur Association 71 Cave Crawling Put on your lighted helmet and explore 60 ft of artificial cave tunnels; learn vertical caving techniques in the tower CaveSim 72 Jump into Creativity Make jump ropes! Learn about holistic education Mountain Song Community School 73 Soccer Buddies Show off your skills with soccer practice drills! Soccer Buddies

74 STEM It Up Try STEM activities that challenge people of all abilities! Our 58 Creating Colorado Springs Add your House vision to the mural of future Colorado 75 Bees Please Plant your own seeds to Springs! PPLD attract and save honey bees! Girl Scouts of Colorado 59 It’s shocking! Understand and be safe around current and voltage. Colorado 76 The Global Village Explore global Springs Utilities languages, flags, and global perspectives.

Play Name that Flag! Pikes Peak 60 Concept to Product See how Community College an entrepreneur evolved an idea for a camping van air conditioner from concept through many prototypes to a marketable product. Pikes Peak Makerspace

www.whatif-festival.org #whatiffestival

77 Building Blast Create your own wood sculptures!

Concrete Couch

85 What If College Could Be Free Learn how to attend college without cost or debt. Use Virtual Reality to experience college life! Win goodies.

Pikes Peak State College

94 PikeRide Meet the PikeRide e-bike share program! PikeRide 95 Oh, Honey Observe a hive and learn how bees live and work. Hanson Honeybee Farm 96 Seed Bombs Learn about seeds and make a pollinator “seed bomb.”

Flying Pig Farm 97 Lettuce Grow Absorb the way to grow in water. Emerge Aquaponics 98 Hillside Community Center Learn about this 32 yr old Community Garden and Food Pantry Hillside Community Center 99 BBQ Anyone? BBQ sauces for purchase. Crazy Pig BBQ

86 Storm Mural Two Watch as artists turn sidewalk drain areas into works of art (multiple locations). City of Co Spgs

100 Play Ball!

Play catch with a robot and learn what robotics are all about! Cougars Gone Wired FIRST Robotics Team D-11

87 Present Parenthood Contribute to the mural of mindfulness and learn about its benefits to parents and children.

Family Connections/Catholic Charities of Central Colorado

101 Theatre Across Borders Delve into an interactive storytelling experience and make Ghost Fish puppets! Theatre Across Borders

88 Science Smorgasboard Play with the twisting table, make machines out of pipe cleaners, and more!

That Science Fairy 89 Museum & Mural Take a selfie in front of the #IAMCOS mural by artist@ Paes164 and enjoy free entry to the museum.

Pioneers Museum 90 Connect Your Story Explore how stories connect residents to our community and to each other. Pioneers Museum 91 History Scavenger Hunt Explore the Museum, complete the #IAMCOS Scavenger Hunt Pioneers Museum

102 Publishing Newspapers!

CSIndy connects and celebrates community. Decorate the sidewalk, grab a paper with the Festival Guide.

Surprise giveaways!

The Colorado Springs Independent 103 Be Pollinator Friendly Learn about pollinators.

Create a seed bomb, study a bee house, take a seed packet home.

Manitou Pollinators 104 Storm Mural Three Watch as artists turn sidewalk drain areas into works of art (multiple locations). City of Colorado Springs

Imagination Celebration connects people of all ages to the brainstimulating, community-building, life-enhancing power of creativity to help us thrive - serving the Pikes Peak region for over 30 years. Support the nonprofit that produces this free community day of joy: whatif-festival.org/donate

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Live Music! Dance! Poetry!

FREE Performances by Great Local Talents!

ARRIVE EARLY Performance s Begin @ 10am

PLAZA OF THE ROCKIES TERRACE

EVERYBODY WELCOME CULTURAL STAGE Powered by Affordable Solar Colorado S U N PL A ZA L AWN

10 am

Grapefruit Moon

11 am

Roma Ransom

12 pm

Ryan Flores

1:30 pm Crystal and the Curious

COLORADO COLLEGE MOBILE ARTS STAGE

3 pm

CENTENNIAL HALL LAWN

The Reminders

10 am Didgeridoo / Skrivan & Wenzl

10 am Pikes Peak Diversity Council 10:10

PIONEERS MUSEUM GAZEBO

Jamoral African Drumming & Dance

11 am Harriett Landrum 12 pm Ballet Folklorico de Barajas

10 am

The Boyd Sweeney Trio

12:45 pm Mānava O Polynesia

11 am

Underground Clarinet

1:30 pm Panamanian Dance Group

12 pm

Colo Springs Conservatory

2:30 pm Shakti School of Dance

1 pm

Look’ee Here!

3 pm

2 pm

Tony Exum Jr Trio

3 pm

Street Deacons

Viva La Noche (Ryan Flores group)

11 am Spur - Americana Folk 12 pm CC Performers 1 pm

Spoken Word

2 pm

Ashley Cornelius - Poet Laureate

3 pm

Pikes Peak Yosakoi Obirin - Japanese Festival Dancing

3:30 pm Ben Pratt - Instrumental Guitar Performers and Schedules Subject To Change

E N O R M O U S T H A N K S T O T H E F O L K S W H O M A K E T H E F E S T I V A L P O S S I B L E ! Te a m : D a v i d L ee, Bet sy McClen ah an , Sh elb y Backman , C eC e & Allen Beau c h am p , C o l e tte La b a te , A l a n O w e ns , S l a de C us t e r, Te r e s s a H i l l , B r i t t ne y M a c D o na l d- L a nt z er, Sh irle y Mart in ez , Ken Oyer, Pam Smit h , Dean St rain. F esti val S u p p or t: Dan Wec k s, D a v i d B a l l , J a m e s Wo o d. F e s t i v a l H o s t s : C hr i s J e nk i ns o f N o r w o od ; Mike Hassell of Su n Plaz a; Jan e Zook of C olorado S p r i n g s U ti l i ti e s; M a tt M a yb e rr y o f C S P i o ne e r s M us e um ; B l a k e Z i nk o f The C i t y o f C o l o r a do Sp rin g s; Ryan Parsell of E l Paso Cou n t y.

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