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Board Members

Our dedicated members bring a wealth of experience and passion to the festival, ensuring its success year after year.

Meet the team behind the magic:

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Patrick Rabby

President

In his four years volunteering with the Board for the Children’s Festival, Patrick has grown to love the festival, which brings together our exceptional St. Albert City staff, fantastic volunteers, talented artists from around the globe, and the wonderful children and families from our community that attend every year to

make it such a fun and heartwarming experience.

Kevin Jones

Vice President

Kevin is an educator and administrator with more than two decades of experience in the St. Albert Public School District. Beyond his work with the Children’s Festival, A strong supporter of the Arts, Kevin loves how the festival provides children with windows into a wide range of art forms and connects our youngest citizens to our community.

Connie Regier

Treasurer

Connie is an accounting professional that has held the position of Treasurer of for over five years on our Board. She is thrilled to be working with the Festival!

Justin Pesheau

Secretary

Justin has been volunteering for the Children’s Festival for a decade and has been a board member for eight years. Each year, he brings his passion for helping others and performs a variety of roles during the festival. He loves the energy of the festival and seeing the impact that performing arts has on the community.

Kim Smith

Director

Kim is a former TV news reporter, turned professional communicator. She’s been on the Board for the Children’s Festival since 2020 and loves taking her two kids to the event every year. Her favourite festival memories include introducing her kids to live theatre and meeting new people as a volunteer.

Ceilidh Hemmati

Director

Ceilidh has been attending children’s festivals since she was a child. Now a mother of two young kids, she has loved sharing the joy of the Festival with her children and, as they’ve grown, their friends. Ceilidh strongly believes in the uplifting power of art, theatre and dance and volunteers with the Festival to support its mission of making the arts accessible to the broader community.

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Krimsen Sumners

Krimsen has been an educator in the Public School system in St. Albert for more than 28 years. As an active community member, she has volunteered as a Festival Board member since 2020. She has fond memories of taking her own two boys to the festival (rain or shine), but also remembers attending the festival with many of her students over the years.

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Danielle Mohr

As a more than 30 year resident of St. Albert, Danielle first participated in the Children’s Festival as a parent with her children, then as an on-site volunteer and currently as a board member. She loves the vibrancy and excitement that the performing artists bring to downtown St. Albert and believes the opportunities presented to children through this venue are priceless.

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