Location
240 Km North of Toronto.
Harvest Festival is hosted on the magical lands of Midlothian Castle near Burk's Falls, Ontario Canada just 240km north of Toronto and 375km west of Ottawa Ontario Canada.
Midlothian Castle is the creation and home of retired Secondary School art teacher Peter Camani, an artist and sculptor who’s created an unusual residence in the form of a castle complete with sculpture garden on an old farm which is most commonly known as “Screaming Heads”.
With his paintings already hanging in such coveted places as the Vatican and Buckingham Palace Camani decided to focus his energy on realizing a vision of significantly larger proportions and permanence.
Taking more than 30 years to construct more than a hundred “screaming head” sculptures with each one approximately 20 feet high and weighing as much as 30 tons Camani says he built his otherworldly creations as a warning about environmental degradation.
His castle has been featured several times on television, including the CBC series “On The Road Again, Arthur Black's Weird Homes, Driven By Vision, Shrines and Other Holly Places, World Of Extreme Homes, and soon to be MTV’s Cribs. Peter Camani was also the subject of the 1996 documentary Concrete Ambitions, a film which won two awards.
Camani is presently working on a film of his own entitled “Witch Way”. There has been no set release date but we should see its completion by the end of 2011.
Midlothian Castle on the Screaming Heads grounds is a truly magical place that’s continually changing and evolving. It’s a place where all are welcome to explore throughout the year as there is a donation box at the entrance and it is the perfect fit for our beloved Harvest Festival.