Dances, assemblies, baby raves and PAC family nights for Vancouver schools. Run by a host, not a playlist, and built for the whole family on the floor together.
Baby Rave · Toddler Techno
The one nobody else offers
Same idea, smaller humans. A daytime dance party for the little ones, run quieter and gentler, with bubbles, balloons, confetti and a fog blast that gets a scream every time. Parents dance too. That is not a bonus, that is the point.
Schools run these as kindergarten welcome events, early years family nights and PAC fundraisers where the little siblings finally get something of their own.
No charge, no catch
I run free concerts for preschools and daycares around Vancouver. Same bubbles, same balloons, same music, scaled all the way down for a room of two and three year olds and the people who look after them.
If you run a centre, or your little one goes to one, put them in touch. It costs the centre nothing.
What this year is about
For a long time the job looked like this. Fill the floor with kids, let the adults watch from the chairs along the wall, send everybody home. I am not running it that way any more.
The best nights I have worked are the ones where a mom gets pulled into a game and a dad loses a dance off to his nine year old. Kids remember the night their parent got up. Nobody has ever remembered the playlist.
So parents are not chaperones here. They are in the games, on the floor and playing for prizes beside their kids.
Every rotation has a round built for the grown ups. Adult games with adult prizes, parent and kid teams, and rounds where the whole gym picks a side.
The floor games are built so you cannot do them alone. A partner, a hand, a name you did not know an hour ago. Kids who walk in alone walk out with a crew.
Same games, same floor, same prizes, same photos. By the last song nobody can tell you which part of the night was for who.
The Crew Call
Come as a crew. Wear the shirts.
Families turn up in matching personalized shirts, same design, family name, however they want to do it. Partway through the night the music stops and every crew gets called to the front and recognized by name in front of the whole gym. Thirty seconds each.
It costs the school nothing, it gives your families something to organize together beforehand, and it is the reason parents stay instead of dropping off at the door. Tell them to make a shirt.
Always Building Community
A school dance done properly isn’t a night of music. It’s the night the quiet kid gets pulled into a group game and ends up with people to sit with on Monday, and the night a family finds out they are better in a room together than they are at home on three separate screens. That’s the actual product.
Nobody dances.
The lights go down, the music starts, and 200 kids stand in a ring around an empty floor waiting for somebody else to go first. Teachers try to start it and that makes it worse. By the time anything happens there’s forty minutes left and half the kids have decided the dance was a bust.
It is almost never the music. It is that nobody has been given permission to start. That is a hosting job, and most school DJs weren’t hired to do it.
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The full night. Sound and lighting, a host on the mic the whole way through, the game rotation that fills the floor in the first ten minutes, and the complete Viva Boom effects build on top. CO2 cannons, confetti, cold sparks, bubbles, LED and the photo booth. This is what makes a school dance feel like an actual event instead of a gym with music in it.
We take on your whole year. Dances, assemblies, dry grad and family nights, plus the fundraising side: we help you plan the events, run them, and actually raise the money. One agreement across the calendar at better rates than booking them one at a time, and the same team every time, who already know your school.
Dry grad and overnight events are quoted separately. Multi school and district bookings welcome.
The floor gets opened with a game, not a slow song. Something with a score, a name and a reason to step forward. Once thirty kids are moving, the rest follow, and you never have to fight for the floor again all night.
From there it’s a rotation. Music, a game, music, a competition, music, a moment, with a person on the mic the whole time whose actual job is reading the room and deciding what happens next. Not a laptop on shuffle.
The main event. Elementary, middle and high school all run differently, and we build to the age.
The whole family on the floor for the same two hours. Kids and adult games, matching crew shirts, prizes on both sides of the room.
High energy, whole school, tight run time.
Long night, changing energy, and a host who can carry it from 10pm to 4am. Photo booths, magicians, DJs, game shows, all of it.
Magic shows, game show nights, bingo, karaoke and family dance nights, plus help selling the tickets.
Halloween, winter, Valentine's, whatever the calendar throws.
Grade 6 and 7 need a completely different approach. There is a dedicated program for it.
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You'll get availability and a quote you can forward.
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Proof of insurance and references, sent in one email you can forward.
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Run time, age group, space, anything the school needs us to avoid.
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Fully self contained. All we need is power and space.
Yes. Liability insurance is carried on every event and a certificate is available on request. Send it straight to whoever on your committee needs it on file.
Parents join in, and that’s the part I care most about now. There are rounds built for the adults with adult prizes, parent and kid teams, and dance games that need two people to work. The adults are not there to supervise.
You don’t have to be a dancer and nobody gets hauled up who doesn’t want to go. By the second game most of the room is in anyway, because the games give a grown up the same thing they give a shy kid: a reason to step forward that isn’t “be the first person dancing.”
It’s called the Crew Call. Families come in matching personalized shirts, same design and family name, however they want to do it. Partway through the night the music stops and every crew gets brought to the front and recognized by name in front of the whole room.
It costs the school nothing, it gives your families something to organize together in the weeks before the dance, and it’s the reason parents stay instead of dropping off at the door. Put it in the newsletter with the ticket link and watch what comes through the gym doors.
That’s the job, and it’s the reason to hire a host rather than a DJ. The floor gets opened with a game instead of a song, because a game gives kids a reason to step forward that isn’t “be the first person dancing.” Once thirty are moving, it holds for the rest of the night.
Gyms are most of what we do. The sound gets set for the room, not for a nightclub, and the game rotation means the night doesn’t depend on the acoustics being perfect.
We send you a song request link, you pass it on to the students, and we get to see what they are actually listening to right now. The set list gets built from that, so the floor fills with music they chose themselves rather than what we guessed at.
Everything is clean-edit and screened for the age group. Send your school’s list of what is not allowed and it is honoured.
Yes. PO friendly and invoiced however your school needs it, to the school or to the PAC.
That’s the goal. We often set up annual deals with schools to cover all of their events for the year on one agreement, at better rates than booking them one at a time. It also means the same host every time, who already knows your students, your gym and what your school does not want.
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