Meet the cast of Canada’s longest-running musical Anne of Green Gables - The Musical™ - now in its 44th year. Get behind the scenes with a special tour of the Confederation Centre of the Arts. Engage your children and the child in everyone with a day of activities celebrating 100 years of Anne! Explore the Art Gallery exhibition Imagining Anne. Don’t miss the gala opening night of Anne of Green Gables - The Musical™.

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Come step inside the world of Anne and celebrate with us as the characters come to life in true Avonlea style! Enjoy some good old-fashioned fun at our country fair: Try your luck at our traditional fair booths. On Thursday afternoon, attend a beautiful garden party at Green Gables and stay for the evening campfire. On Friday morning, watch the Anne of Green Gables Parade: Celebrating our Community Heritage, as it makes its way through the community of Cavendish, then come to Avonlea Village as we kick off the Country Fair! Enjoy our Anne film festival. Check out the demonstrations and displays by local artisans. Come kick up your heels at our kitchen party on Friday evening. Be part of the Avonlea Community Picnic, complete with old fashioned games and races. Take square dancing lessons at the Avonlea Barn Dance on Saturday night. Enter the Anne of Green Gables look-a-like contest. Attend creative workshops on costumes and photography. Enjoy non-stop live entertainment including concerts; theatre performances; a magician; children’s entertainers; an Island story-teller festival; ghost stories; puppet shows; re-enactments; readings and interpretive programs. Go on a horse and wagon ride. Attend school in Avonlea. Watch the pig races. Dress up in period costume. Sample handmade chocolate. Watch and learn how to shuck an oyster or make a lobster trap. Add your own piece to the “friendship quilt” of artwork. Attend the official opening of the exhibit of “Anne Around the World”. Enjoy an exhibit of L.M. Montgomery photography. All this and much, much more! Ice cream and raspberry cordial will be in plentiful supply!

On August 17, beneath the gloriously golden full moon, Anne, Matthew and Marilla will host a cook-out and kitchen party featuring baked beans and corn-on-the-cob! And of course a kitchen party is not complete without down home fiddle music and lots of dancing! Dress in period costume and get in for free.

Wrapping up the celebrations is a final event at Green Gables, PEI National Park, Cavendish, November 30, which happens to be the birthday of L.M. Montgomery.

This birthday party will be the closing celebration for Anne 2008 and will honour the much-loved author and her rich contribution to literature and our Island.

An Anne 2008 time capsule will be created in cooperation with Island students and with writing submissions sent to anne2008.com on display. Several submisstions will be selected for inclusion in the time capsule along with other appropriate memorabilia from the year-long celebrations.