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The Caturday Crew comprises of so many different people who have attended one of our events and been inspired to help in some way, shape or form. We wanted to showcase all these amazing people and let you know a little about them and how they stay involved or help out.

We create special profiles for those who provide a physical aspect to the performance; DJs, Actors, Performers, Dancers and Artists [coming soon] are all featured in addition to their volunteer profile

Find out all about the Caturday Crew or browse our community below:

Tyson Power

Tyson is one of the founding members of the Caturday Crew and one of the main driving forces behind the events. As the community has grown and people have stepped up into new roles, these events have expanded into areas he never anticipated. He still remains closely tied to the organization of the event, scheming up exciting new themes for future events. Not only is he the lead cat herder and motivator behind these events, he is also the lead stage designer and the wizard behind the ridiculous visuals at Caturday events.

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Erik Mackie

Erik is one of the founding members of the Caturday Crew. He is dedicated to ensuring these events continue to get better. At most of the events, you will see him behind the stage as the Stage Manager and Equipment Manager for events, as well as an Odd Job Jack of sorts, dabbling in a bit of everything. His experience with equipment, gear and the electronic scene are invaluable. His primary objective is to make sure Cody tapes down cables properly. He also DJs at Caturday shows under the moniker Pretty Much?.

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Gabriel McCay

Gabriel McCay, owner of a local digital agency and life long Vancouver resident is the man with many hats. He takes the main lead in Marketing strategy and implementation in addition to doing the majority of the graphic design and website development. He has also had a large role in the implementation of Theatrical & Storylines for Caturday’s themed events. Having been a part of the Caturday Crew since 2009 he has seen it grow and evolve in incredible ways, but aside from the incredible events that get manifested, he loves the community that has been built around the creation of these events. He also throws down as one of DJs that play at Caturday shows under the moniker Soul Seek.

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Brian Mackie

Brian is our appointed event coordinator and Public Relations talky talk man. He’s been involved with the Caturday Crew since 2010 and plays an important role in facilitating interactions with other crews, venues and companies that we interact with while throwing our events. He also loves to play some pretty funky tunes as one of DJs that play at Caturday shows under the moniker BPM.ackie! A lot of you may also know him as the late night champion, staying awake WAY later than the rest to ensure everything flows smoothly throughout the night.

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Claire Gabereau

Local designer, Claire Gabereau, leads the Art Department of Caturday Crew and has been involved since 2011. She quickly fell in love with Caturday and now works closely with Tyson Power on conceptualization and design of the stage as well as decorations. She is also part of the visuals team with a focus on projection mapping and creation of unique visuals.

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Alex Timmer

Aside from his role in marketing though Vancouver based web radio, Radio Toxic, Alex assists the art department, social media management as well as looks to contribute with the use of his film editing background. Alex is also known under the alias, EhTee, in which he takes the role as one of Caturday’s few Drum & Bass DJs.

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Michael Duncan

Mike is a recent addition to the crew and joined forces to help throw the original Eden Prime event back in Summer 2013. He is a key liaison to other Vancouver based collectives and groups and was a huge help in creating Eden Prime: Dark Fracture. He loves to create installation art and is usually found wearing tutus and spandex. Mike is likely to be found right in the centre of the dance floor, holding it down.

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Josh Lepinsky

Josh went to his first Caturday Crew party in 2012 and has seen the community grow from larger outdoor parties in the city, to wild bush raves, and completely out of this world. With experience in throwing smaller house and forest events back in his home town in Thunder Bay, he eagerly wanted to participate in the larger community he had discovered. You will often see him on stage mixing (as Dubba Kush), assisting on stage builds, finding new and creative ways to fundraise, and asking you kindly to take your drinks off of the speakers.

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Cody Derkach

Cody has seen Caturday Crew transform from inception to the amazing community and culture it has today. He works closely with the visual team to produce and execute killer eye candy. He also tapes down cables and pretends to DJ.

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Mike Art

Mike (known to many affectionately as Moustache Mike) has been part of Caturday since the house party days and has found ways to help grow and to grow alongside Caturday, helping with a variety of roles within the community. He has been a big help with construction, stage design, the theatrical department, dance choreography and acting. Gets hyped off smiley faces!

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Joel Taylor

Joel is the choreography guru and theatrical stage manager for all of the Caturday events. He has also taken part in every theatrical performance ever showcased at a Caturday Crew event.

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Nicholas Prouten

Nick has been gratitating slowly towards Caturday since back in 2011, but got a lot more involved in late 2013. As a First Timer to Caturday, bringing with him his ingenuity, artistry, and acting which he brought forward in a huge way with the “8 bit Reloaded” Theatrical act and all theatrical productions since then. He has since gotten involved as part of the Catbassador team, the GLO Squad and helping to organize small portions of the events.

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Nathan Beardfight

Nathan grew up in snowy Edmonton as a mixed media artist, musician and actor. His journey to Vancouver brought with it a renewed interest in the blossoming electronic music scene when he stumbled into his first Caturday event on New Years eve of 2011. It was recognized immediately not just as a party but an extremely talented group of artists and friends coming together to create something a little more special. Since then, Nathan has immersed himself into the Caturday community lending his talents in theatre, audio production, costumes, performance under his stage moniker “BeardFight” and in any other useful way he can.

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Tanisha Chandler

Tanisha Chandler is a recent addition the Caturday Crew, bringing her charisma and artistic flair to minor decoration set ups at house parties and larger Caturday productions. Some of the work she has been involved with includes minor fabric work & the star painting at 8 bit reloaded. She is inspired by the wonderful community of new friends and crew to create and contribute towards the art department, and where ever else she is needed, You’ll often be able to find Tanisha dancing about with her LED future hoop, and bringing around fruit or smoothie offerings in the early am!

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Melissa Wynn

Melissa was inducted into the crew in 2012. She is the creator of that pesky little party devil Itty Bitty Bass Kitty and is the newest member of the Visuals team, where she is designing custom visuals for the always fresh and exciting stage set ups. Melissa is also known for her cozy flying squirrel hugs!

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Katie Vogel

Katie has been involved with Caturday Crew since the Adventure Time themed event in 2012. She is currently one of the 2 leads of the GLO Squad, as well as being a Catbassador and being a part of the Caturday Theatrics team! She also supports the events by participating in fundraisers and spreading the word around town, through word of mouth and online. You can usually find Katie dressed as a unicorn getting weird on the dance floor.

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Joslin Chan

Joslin finally found her posse after meeting the crew in 2012. With a background in illustration and visual arts, she works with Claire and Mary to bring you the craziest, most insanely fantastical imagery, EVER!

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Cole Crocker

Cole is a member of our GLO Squad, but is also a key liaison to other Vancouver based collectives. He got involved in Caturday in early 2014. He loves to create intimate and mind-blowing soundscapes and then use them to give the gift of multiple eargasms as a dynamic, multi-genre DJ under the moniker Coleblooded.

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Cameron MacPhail

Cameron was introduced to the Caturday Crew at the Green Eggs And Jams party in 2012. From Eden Prime in Squamish to Camp Caturday at Shambhala, the whole crew has continued to exceed all expectations and out-do themselves every time. This is why Cameron was thrilled be able to take part in the on stage performance and creating props for 8-Bit RELOADED: Press Start To Continue.

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Justin Hay

Justin is the DOME MASTER! and is the official extra pair of hands that help set up any and everything needed for events. His event production background allows him to handle a wide range of audio visual equipment and he definitely knows how to tape down cables. Justin is also an avid flow artist and fire performer prone to random impromptu performances. Keep your eyes peeled for flames when he’s around.

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Gary Bannon

Hi, I’m Gary and I like to party. After almost loosing all hope in humanity I decided it was time for a life change so I moved to the coast in mid 2013 for Audio Engineering & Music Production on the North Shore of Van City. After being invited into such a diverse crew and being introduced to an abundance of great times and great people the Caturday crew changed my mind and faith in humanity was restored. While attending my first Caturday event (Eden Prime) and being blessed with the opening set to Saturday nights adventure, they had shown me not only a party but also a friendship as close as family. With several small gatherings the next step into providing for the crew was when I was asked to Engineer a studio session for the Voice over portion of their 8 Bit Reloaded party, and it couldn’t have went more smooth and everyone delivered an amazing session. I want to conclude my section with saying I couldn’t be more blessed to have met such an awesome family of friends, and I look forward to many more amazing memories!

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Zoë Collins

Zoë Collins has been involved with the Caturday Crew since early 2010. Her journey with the Crew began when she spent weeks preparing the decorations for the legendary outdoor Dr. Seuss party, where she acted as a Sam-I-Ambassador for the evening. She has since become a part of Caturday’s wicked theatrical productions, and has added the element of fire dance to outdoor events.

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Tom van der Lee

Tom van der Lee is a local artist practicing in the realms of illustration, painting, and whatever else suits his fancy. He has been a part of Caturday since early 2012, aiding in the conception and construction of a variety of visual media goodies. He was also behind the creation of a rather smashing 3’x4′ commissioned Adventure Time painting for the Party in the Nightosphere. Tom is also an avid fire spinner and will often make a point to set the evening aflame, so if you’re on the hunt for him it is advised that you keep your eyes peeled for the glowy bits.

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Matt Rippon

Matt Rippon met the Caturday Crew back when it all began in 2010 on a two year working vacation from his home of Brisbane, Australia. As an original member, Matt had the opportunity to observe the blossoming of the ideals that have grown into what the Caturday Crew parties are today. After his time here was up he was determined to return and landed again in Vancouver last year only to immediately become fully immersed in the ripened culture that is Caturday today. Matt is currently using his millwork certificate to assist in the construction and assembly of stage and decorative elements and has a tendency to be a favorite odd-job guy.

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William Macdonald

I’ve been witness to the expansion, growth and wonderfulness of Caturday since 2010 and have fully fell in love with the people and the atmosphere that are present around these out of world adventures. I like to help out in any way shape or form that I can to be a part of the magic behind the magic. Always ready with a smile and always happy to meet you (sometimes again, and again…. and again and again). If seen at the party, please come say hi and receive a hug. I rant and (yes i know) rave about these game changing events and I’m always happy to see the smiles on peoples faces and help put them there.

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Grady Flanagan

I started attending Caturday events back in early 2013, and fell in love with the people and atmosphere instantly. Everyone is so inviting, and the vibes are always positive, it is exactly where I love to be. I only started getting actually involved as of recent, with some theatrical contributions to the Ascension of Atlanteans event. Ive been long friends with some of the deeply involved members and figured it was time I circumvented the love I can offer through the community that brings myself and many others amiable experiences, and amazing memories. I plan to continue to help this community grow in any way i can and outreach to as many people as possible who share the same passion for this sort of thing.

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Jubal Saville

With a passion for building I left my first Caturday event Eden Prime inspired. I saw a movement gaining momentum towards social evolution. I plan to use my versatile construction skill-set and passion combined with a strong intuition and a comedic stage presence to fill in the blanks where I can while the collective Caturday spaceship heads to the stars!

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Andrew Stackhouse

ZoSo, aka Andrew Stackhouse, Is a man.. who is also a guy! You may know him from such rolls as “that movie guy voice in 8 bit”, and.. “that guy who is the evil dude in Atlantis”. Or you may have seen a fire show or two. ZoSo, like many wayward travellers, checked out a few Caturday parties here and there back in 2012, and quickly discovered his niche. These were people he could relate with, and be complete fools with! Artists, musicians, jesters, clowns, fire shows, freak shows and an extra large order of amazeballs with a side of rice! He has since then become increasingly involved in the making and creative efforts of the Caturday parties, and hopes to add even more creative content in the future. Whats next for ZoSo and the Caturday heroes? Find out next time on Dragonball Z!!

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Callum Mathers

My name is Callum Mathers. I am a professional bagpiper with a degree in Criminal Justice. I am a futurist and art of all avenues inspire my world. I found Caturday just this past year for 8 bit Reloaded and soon after joined in for Ascension of the Atlanteans in April 2014 as a supporting actor & aiding with constructing props. We all have a responsibility to awe, and I continue to help Caturday give their beautiful community the chance to feel that wondrous emotion.

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Alyssa Elizabeth

Alyssa has been involved in Caturday since Fall 2013 and is in charge of coordinating Workshops for all of the Caturday Crew events, but also runs the Caturday College Series which facilitates workshops to promote alternative education & build a stronger community within the city. She is a major part of the Catbassadors, GLO Squad and has also helped in 2 separate theatrical productions.

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Care Smith

Care Smith is a professional singer with some theatrical background. Found out about Caturday through her friend David Parry back in 2013 and entered a world of beautiful events and people. She fell in love with the atmosphere and the community of Caturday, and wanted to help out and be apart of Ascension of Atlanteans. She plans to be a part of future events.

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Machio Lall

Machio Lall found his passion for filmmaking as a “video kayaker” on whitewater expeditions with ESPRIT Rafting in Veracruz, Mexico. Shortly after, he attended Capilano University where he studied documentary film. Since, he has explored his passion further by pursuing various projects that allow him to visually tell stories. He got involved with Caturday Summer 2013 at our Shambhala camp and is now a major asset in our video production team. He currently resides in Vancouver as a freelance videographer.

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Fraser Milne

Fraser is a multidisciplinary designer from Ottawa who first discovered Caturday on a sunny May afternoon in 2010. Ever since then, he has been trying to share some of the amazing magic found on the dance floor with his cameras. Recently Fraser emerged from a two year party hiatus and has been immersing himself back into the Caturday community, doing whatever he can to help out photography, videography, lighting, and even DJing under the moniker F—

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Tasha Havoc

Tasha Havoc here, I’m a radio arts and production major with a passion for gettin’ down on the dance floor to ALL the funky beats! I was introduced to the crew two years ago and I became immediately and irrevocably enamoured with these amazing cats. Through my studies I discovered my love for event coordination and promotions, I couldn’t wait to put my skills to work for such a radically inclusive community!

I am now involved as one of the coordinators for The Caturday Crew’s Kitty Corner and I love keeping these talented cats organized.

If you see me on the dance floor come say Hi! It’s nothing but love bites from this kitten <3

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Hythe Al-Keder

Hythe. Our Chef. The Prince of Mischief. A true Dapper Gent. When we asked him to describe himself, he answered with several very clinical Descriptors, which we now present to you, unedited and unabridged.

Enthusiastic, Artistic, Avid; Reader, Writer, Storyteller. Smartass, Cocktail Snob, Wannabe Gardner, Beer Enthusiast, Neat Freak, Red Seal Certified. A Caffeine Dependent, Honest(painfully sometimes) and Health Conscious Over Eater. *GASP* Optimist, Pessimist, Realist. A Travel Bitten, Near sighted Entrepreneur.

He got involved with Caturday back in 2011. He decided to prepare some bites for the original 8-bit party, unfortunately, the set up happened late, and food was impossible. Although the intent was there. He also recently ran the Meal Plan for the Eden Prime: Dark Fracture and also earned a small cameo within the theatrical performance.

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Greg Hatswell

Greg Hatswell swims comfortably in the middle of corporate office world by day and underground party and festival world by weekend and night. He is a hobbyist DJ/producer, a burner, psychonaut and explorer of the fun vortex. Greg met many of the Caturday Crew at Bass Coast in 2013 and has been working his way into the scene happily since, helping Caturday successfully throw Eden Prime: Dark Fracture! Residing in North Vancouver, you will see Greg at many parties and festivals around BC – perhaps even as one of the DJs playing under the moniker The Inquisitive Giraffe.

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Kevin Li

Dancer, space/time sculptor, object manipulator, creator. Kevin Shazam has always loved music and dance. He started with various styles of street dancing such as hip hop, locking, house, and popping. After joining Caturday, Kevin started to meet artists from other disciplines and started to develop an interest in flow arts. At the same time he started exploring tutting, a geometry focused dance inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphics. Seeing the similarity between tutting and flow arts, he combined the two forms to create new movement. Nowadays Kevin practice contemporary dance, yoga, various forms of street dance, flow arts…. Hoping to combine all the strength of these disciplines and to create his own style. Last year, Claire Gabereau invited him, Zoe Collins and Amanda Joan to form Catalysis. Working with a group of diverse talent, Kevin continues to combine different forms of art to create new possibilities.

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Ariel Hansen

Born and raised on Vancouver Island, Ariel grew up with a love for nature and the arts. The first art to truly challenge her was a martial art, Taekwon-do. She rose to the challenge and eventually achieved a second degree blackbelt and bronze medal at the world championship, but something else began to pull her interest. Acting became her new love and after playing Puck and Peter Pan in Victoria she moved to Vancouver to pursue her career further. Here she discovered her love for voice acting which led her to voice multiple characters for Eden Prime: Dark Fracture in Spring 2014 with the Caturday Crew.

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Jaclyn Adair

Dubbed as Momma Party, Jaclyn Adair, originally from Edmonton, Alberta has a knack for savvy partying. After working on her own events, Jaclyn has started working alongside the Caturday Crew in late 2013 to manage the budget and keep the books in order. In between collecting receipts and paying bills, Jaclyn can be seen lending a hand in set up and tear down of events, assisting in organization and even odd jobs like painting the grandiose set pieces that her boyfriend Matt Rippon creates. In her down time and during events however you’ll be sure to find her getting all sparkled up and inspiring dance floor vibes all over the city. They don’t call her Momma Party for nothin’!

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Jacy Lawrence

Jacy… Faery Grandmother to some, Mind Blower to others… or best said my Mary….’Just F*ck off’
Multi talented skilled visual artist. Expert crafter, visionary of all things cool looking. Amazing sculptor, super generous spirit, very very kind and hospitable. Definition of all things mentioned above and more. She has worked on many projects with Caturday in the past few years getting involved back in early 2012. She is currently working with Kitty Corner Vending crew on Caturday merchandise and working with local artists in selling and creating product to share with the world.

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Steven Hoffart

Steven is a Set builder and Set Decorator for film and television who has recently brought his talents to the Caturday Crew for the most recent Back to the lab event, in Halloween 2014. Steven was brought into Caturday one fateful day when sitting next to a member on a Night Bus, and quickly fell in love with the scene. Steven aims to bring a new level of production and organization to the Art team as well as a more immersive party for all!

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David Thomas

David first showed up at our first Micro-Festival Eden Prime, but got involved back at the Ascension of the Atlanteans event in early 2014. He is someone who is always excited to help out I bring my smile to every event my love of this group and my support is always been welcome I have worked on stage as well as on the sidelines helping any way I can.

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Jordi Landon

Jordi Landon went to her first Caturday event in June 2014 – Eden Prime: Dark Fracture and since has fallen in love with the driven and creative people that make up Caturday. Her enthusiasm and talents in painting and drafting led her to working alongside Tyson Power and Steven Hoffart to bring you the killer stage at Back to the Lab, Halloween of 2014. She looks forward to making the stages and events bigger, better and more beautiful!

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Cody McGinnis

Cody got involved in early 2014 after Andrew told him we needed some extras for one of our performances, Ascension of the Atlanteans. He ended up getting involved with that theatric performance as the head lighting engineer. Since then, Cody has tried to be involved with every theatric production as an actor. More recently, he has managed to also get involved creating props for the theatric productions.

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Jessica Snook

If Jessica were actually, for real, a cat, she would be a creepy dark black kitty, and totally allergic to herself. But since the cats at Caturday are not the furry variety, allergies are not a problem. Aside from pretending to be a cat, Jess does all kinds of things for Caturday, since she has known them for like a billion years. Currently she is the fearless leader of the Interactive group, making sure everyone has as much fun as possible at events. Previous involvement included making art and monsters, creating gruesome décor, and generally making sure Caturday has just a hint of creepy and dark elements to balance its super fun and bright side. You can generally spot her looking very fancy and decked out in a costume, sometimes even wearing human faces as masks.

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Melina Mariposa

Mel comes to Caturday with a huge enthusiasm for EDM, festival culture, creative expression, and the Caturday Community! She was inspired to get involved in the Caturday productions after realizing that Caturday was comprised of some of the most insanely talented 20-somethings she’d ever encountered. She’s been bringing her background as an acting coach to her role in co-directing the theatrics for Guardians of the Mystics, and also voices the narrator and Kaelen in the production. You’ll almost never recognize her when you see her at a Caturday event- Mel’s got a knack for disguising herself and going incognito for the night. A writer, relationship coach, and advocate for consent culture, Mel will be providing some articles for the upcoming Caturday blog.

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Brian McIntyre

My first experience with Caturday was at 8 bit reloaded back in 2013. I fell in love with the uniqueness of the shows and the sense of community that caturday has. I unfortunately had missed a fair few shows after 8 bit but I knew I would be back soon. When I found out about the opportunity to help out with Guardians of the Mystics I jumped right on board to help with anything I possibly could. I helped work on the swords and shields, did a little bit of costuming (even if it was just for myself) and I was fortunate to be part of the theatrical team.

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Randy Marten Dubé

I’ve known about Caturday for about a year now and only just got involved with Guardians of the Grove. You’ve seen me at the door once and that’s just the beginning. I hope to be involved in many future Caturday events

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Bree Kingzett

Taking care of children by day and watching out for others by night I first met the Caturday Crew at the May long Caturday camp out in 2013, but only recently became more actively involved. The first event I helped out with was Back to the lab, where I helped work the door and I worked GLO squad. More recently, I helped out with prop construction and GLO squad for Guardians of the Mystics.

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