2023 Moon Festival Artists & Performers

Brittney Appleby & Rea Saxena 

Artist Facilitators: Botanical Cyanotype Lantern Workshop

Artists: Yearning Moon / Streamside Lantern Installation

Brittney Appleby (she/they) is a queer interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker with a primary focus is in experimental analogue filmmaking and photography. They are most inspired by the materiality of analogue practices and incorporate their background in painting, drawing and printmaking into experimental filmmaking.

Rea Saxena (she/they) is a video artist from New Delhi, India. Her practice engages with analogue practices, documentary, and narrative filmmaking. Meshing analogue and digital practices, she weaves the personal and public politic into her storytelling. Brittney and Rea currently reside on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nations, otherwise known as Vancouver, BC.

Willoughby Arévalo

Artist: Beaver Beavering / Streamside Lantern Installation

Willoughby Arevalo is an interdisciplinary artist, mycologist and educator working on community-engaged projects that build relationships between humans, fungi and other members of our interspecies community.

He has worked with Still Moon Arts Society since 2013, as a lead artist in community-engaged public eco-art works (We All Belong, 2020; Fruiting Bodies, 2019; Mycelial Connections, 2018; Reimagining into Reality: Collingwood’s Lost Beaver Lake, 2016; and Beaver Pond(er)ing Lodging, current), and as a contributing artist, mycologist and educator in many of their other projects.

Adrian Avendaño

Facilitator: Wetlands BioBlitz: A Moon Festival Eco-Adventure

Adrian Avendaño is an environmental technician, and sound artist based in Vancouver [stolen lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations]. He holds a Diploma of Technology from BCIT’s Forest and Natural Areas Management program, enabling him to work in invasive plant management projects around the Lower Mainland. He has volunteered for the Government of Chile’s National Forest Corporation in Torres del Paine National Park, developing an invasive plant management used by current park rangers. He is interested in the intersection of ecology, sound thinking, open-source technology, community engaged art, and ecological restoration.

Siobhán Barry

Artist: 2023 Moon Festival Theme & Poster Designer

Siobhán Barry (she/her) is an illustrator and graphic designer inspired by the messiness of everyday life.

She seeks to make joyful and colorful work; from ink drawings of the natural world, to brand design, to digital cartoons about social relationships.

Her work is as diverse as her interests and hobbies, and she is always ready to embrace a new style of visual communication. When she’s not drawing, she’s growing vegetables or swimming in cold water.

Joe Boyd

Artist: Cedar Water / Streamside Lantern Installation

Joe Boyd has long had an interest in the natural environment and stewardship, and has recently been weaving natural materials such as ivy and willow, everything from coasters to beavers, with baskets and lanterns along the way.

He is looking forward to the streamside lantern installation.

Ann K Chou

Artist: Feel the Water / Streamside Lantern Installation

Ann K Chou, a Hong Kong-born visual artist, specializes in lanterns and wearable puppets, reflecting her intersectional identity as a hard-of-hearing, first-generation immigrant.

With a meditation practice of Chinese calligraphy stroke painting, Ann incorporates sustainability through material reuse. Lanterns, capturing light and evoking emotions, symbolize support, sharing, and family bonding.

Embracing rebirth through deconstruction, Ann cherishes the creative process. Her art breaks barriers, promotes accessibility, and nurtures connections.

Alongside her artistic endeavours, Ann’s technical expertise in healthcare and IT enriches her artistic expression. Residing in Victoria, she has received cross-disability screen-dance residency, showcasing her multidisciplinary approach.

Community Performers

Performers: Consciousness of Streams

Led by choreographer Isabelle Kirouac, Still Moon Arts Society invited a group of community members to learn body awareness, dance, stilts and embrace their inner performer!

We are grateful for this diverse group of performers, children to adults alike.

Ada Dragomir

Artist Facilitator: Wetlands BioBlitz: A Moon Festival Eco-Adventure and Truth & Reconciliation Workshop: Naturally Dye an Orange Shirt Emblem

Ada Dragomir (she/they) is a visual artist, writer, photographer and professional jack-of-all trades. Born shortly before the tumult of the Romanian revolution in Bucharest, and currently living in Grandview-Woodland, she works across media, feeling most at home somewhere between spoofed youtube videos and serious sculptural objects.

Ada holds a BFA from Emily Carr University (2020). Her practice primarily addresses questions of productivity, value, and labour, but underneath, is about living a life of joy, creativity, and connection.

Outside of work at Still Moon, she’s sewing a quilt, weaving wool on a loom designed in the neolithic age, constructing several ceramic plant pots, learning to ride a motorcycle and trying her best to point to life. Ada loves people and wants all of us to live lives filled with dignity, play, and love. Her favourite sounds are wind-chimes and friends laughing.

Elektra Women’s Choir

Performers: Consciousness of Streams & Streamside Lantern Installation

Elektra Women’s Choir from Vancouver, Canada has been a leader among women’s choirs since 1987. Under the direction of Artistic Director, Morna Edmundson, the choir is known for its adventurous programming and performance excellence.

Elektra delivers its mandate through a highly-acclaimed concert series featuring outstanding guest artists. A leader in repertoire development, Elektra performs worthy music from the past and new works. In its first three decades, Elektra has commissioned and premiered over 100 compositions and arrangements.

The choir’s recordings extend the reach of its repertoire internationally on a multitude of digital platforms, and its extensive YouTube channel further promotes the choir’s repertoire discoveries. Elektra has released 17 CDs, and its website offers a permanent repertoire resource for other choirs. Its celebrated Community Engagement programs encourage, train, and mentor the next generation of youth and adults: singers, conductors, and composers.

A multiple, national prize-winning ensemble, Elektra has been honoured to perform at major conferences of choral professionals worldwide.

Elektra Women’s Choir acknowledges that they will be performing Snewíyalh tl’a Staḵw (Teachings of the Water) music by T. Patrick Carrabré, Squamish words contributed by Rebecca Duncan.

Lady Zenaida Escobedo

Performer: Streamside Lantern Installation

Lady Zenaida Escobedo is a singer songwriter, ukuleleist, circus performer, and Advocate for the Natural World.

She’s dedicated to inspiring wonder and respect for our planet through her captivating acts. She brings the magic of the FAE to audiences of all ages. Creating enchanting, educational, and interactive experiences for children and families of all ages.

By combining performances, workshops, and multimedia. she sparks the imagination of her audience and encourages the regeneration process of this earth all while having the utmost fun!

Eclipse Galloway

Artist: Flowing Stillness / Streamside Lantern Installation

Eclipse Galloway is an emerging artist and graduate from UBC Okanagan with a BFA in Visual Arts.

She grew up in a small village along the Arrow Lakes nestled in the Kootenay wilderness which has influenced her art for most of her life.

Following her graduation at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, Eclipse moved to Vancouver, BC, inspired by the diverse coastal landscape as well as the lack of snow useful for outdoor painting.

Her current practice involves gathering natural samples and field sketches to bring back to her studio to inform her oil paintings.

Nayana Fieldkov

Performer: Consciousness of Streams

Nayana Fielkov is a critically acclaimed performing artist dedicated to the work of play.

She is co creator of multi-award winning RAGMOP Theatre, Habitats, Underbelly and The Myrtle Sisters. She brings together the mediums of clown, dance, mask, and physical comedy.

Along with her touring duo and solo shows, she creates ensemble work, roving acts, hosting characters, and variety acts. She teaches contact dance and clown internationally, and is a proud mother of a 13 year old boy.

Gamelan Turtle Bliss

Performers: Streamside Lantern Installation

Varsha Gill

Artist Facilitator: Meditative Candle Dipping Workshop at Harvest Fair

Varsha Gill (she/her) is a textile artist, feminist filmmaker, and social-change oriented arts educator. She is a second-generation Indo-Canadian born and raised on unceded Coast Salish territories, with family roots in northwestern India.

Varsha is deeply passionate about community building, exploring the local mountains, making art with friends, and reimagining a world where people and land are good medicine for one another.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Gender Studies and Media Arts from Quest University Canada, and is currently pursuing a Masters of Social Work at the University of Victoria. She also runs a small sustainable textile business called Dyed Smiling where she sells her naturally dyed and embroidered art.

Varsha believes art is a place that holds many possibilities for social and environmental justice through its ability to connect people to the land and each other.

She was honoured to support Still Moon Arts in facilitating this by running their eco-arts programs from April 2021 – July 2023.

Sophia Han

Artist Facilitator: Community Data Tree: A Public Awareness Art Project at Harvest Fair

Sophia Han is a digital communication specialist with global experience in outreach and program development, Sophia Han has worked with research institutes, public universities, Crown and private corporations in the areas of education, science communication, and arts for social change.

She comes from a multidisciplinary background in media production and publishing, beginning her career as a storyboard artist with the National Film Board after graduating from Concordia University in Montreal.

In 2018, she completed dual MA degrees at SFU and the Communication University of China in Beijing. Now a PhD candidate in the School of Communication at SFU and instructor at Douglas College, she researches the social impact of communication technologies on marginalized communities.

ivy hazard

Artist: Worlds of Our Own (for Now) / Streamside Lantern Installation

ivy hazard is a fashion force of nature. living & breathing on unceded coast salish territory, they work to create art thoughtfully with others around them.

The core of ivy’s practice is the handmade monstrous costumes they create for the bizarre category in their ballroom community.

Their signature effects stand out with the unconventional materials creatively re-used. bike tires, chandelier pieces & defaced barbie dolls are some of the many textures that crawl over ivy on the runway.

ivy’s playfully ominous style lets them create characters to walk through complicated emotions, who can be heard skittering late into the night.

(Photo credit by Lourdes Hugo)

Dailin Hsieh

Performers: Cob Shed Party & Dyer’s Guild Showcase

Dailin Hsieh, one of the most talented Zheng performers of her generation, is very active on stage as a soloist and chamber music player in Taiwan and abroad.

Performing with precision and astonishing techniques, she has been invited to perform in Asian countries, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium etc. And Dailin performed as a soloist with the Turning Point Ensemble, Allegra Chamber Orchestra, Little Giant Chinese Chamber, and Taipei Municipal Chinese Orchestra.

In recent years, Dailin has given many solo recitals internationally and premiered a number of Taiwanese and Canadian Zheng compositions. Her solo CD “Zheng Image”, released in 2014, is a collection of new compositions, and it has quickly met critical acclaim.

Since 2019, Dailin lives in Vancouver. Focusing her music career in Zheng performance and teaching, Dailin currently is cooperating with Orchid Ensemble, Naadaleela Ensemble, Vancouver Inter-culture Orchestra, Sound of Dragon Ensemble, BC Chinese Music Orchestra/ Ensemble and Music on Main.

Indigenous Women Rise

Performers: Harvest Fair

The Indigenous Women Rise Drum Group is proud to represent Indigenous women from across Turtle Island.

We’re honoured to share good medicine with community through drum and song. We start with a sharing circle and sharing of songs and end with a prayer.

The women who attend our circle have expressed that the drum circle is very healing and good medicine, and some have found their voice.

Some of the Indigenous nations represented are: Stolo, Mohawk, Lenape, Saulteaux, Ojibway Peguis, Sagkeeng, Snuneymuxw, Wetsiwiten, Metis, Anishinaabe, Nadleh Whut’en, Squamish, Tla’amin and Oneida.

We welcome First Nations, Metis, and Inuit women to join us on our healing journey, uplifting and sharing medicine with each other.

Kick Off the Truck Collective

Artists: TUBSPACE / Streamside Lantern Installation

In the late winter/early spring of 2022 a group of friends decided that it was time to build some art. Past time in fact.

They’d built giant installation art together before but it was time to do something different, something that would encourage them to learn to work with new materials and spend quality, collaborative, creative time with each other.

Kick off the Truck Collective was born.

Isabelle Kirouac

Choreographer & Performer: Consciousness of Streams

Isabelle Kirouac is an interdisciplinary choreographer, movement artist, acrobatic stilt-walker and educator born in Quebec, on the unceded territories of the Abenaki nation, and currently living in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations.

She uses movement as a tool to investigate the poetics of the senses, and to process questions raised in her everyday life.

Informed by her extensive studies in dance improvisation, somatics and contemporary circus, her movement research has most recently been inspired by the relationships between art and ecology through movement practice, immersive performances, and community engaged projects.

Isabelle has performed extensively across Canada, the USA, Mexico, Colombia and Europe. She performed in the work of Emmanuel Jouthe/Danse Carpe Diem (Montreal), Emmalena Fredriksson, Arash Khakpour, Julie Lebel/Foolish Operations, Theatre Junction (Calgary), La Pocha Nostra (USA/Mexico), Body Research (USA), The Carpetbag Brigade Physical Theatre (USA), Nemcatacoa Teatro (Colombia), and others.

She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.

Ari Lazer

Artist: Streamside Lantern Installation

Ari Lazer is a geometer, designer and interdisciplinary artist based in Salt Spring Island, BC.

His work explores the interaction of geometry, the patterns of nature, and the narratives they weave – through creating interactive spaces, art objects, and stories.

Ari’s unique artworks and functional art objects utilize traditional woodworking techniques and a CNC laser to create compelling symmetries, that echo the natural world.

Lazer weaves these patterns, creating contemplative spaces, artworks, and contemporary design to foster mindfulness in the modern world.

His company Sacred Light Design Co. specializes in custom installations for homes and businesses looking to create a mindful atmosphere, and a unique contemporary aesthetic.

Tobias Macfarlane

Performer: The Impossible Has Already Happened / Harvest Fair & Streamside Lantern Installation

Tobias Macfarlane is a Canadian performer interested in storytelling and technology.

He studied Business Economics and Theatre and has made several films about dogs.

With MascallDance’s The Impossible Has Already Happened he explores the overwhelm of trying to stop climate change one recycling bin at a time.

Photo Credit: Caio Silva

Clare Morgan

Musician: Equinox Ceremony

Clare Morgan (they/them) is an Anglican priest and Celtic harpist living, working, and loving in stolen xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ territory.

They serve as pastor to the St. Brigid’s congregation at Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver.

Clare is also affiliated with the Inayati Sufi community in Vancouver and the wider Pacific Northwest, and has been sharing music among them in sama and zhikr also since 2017.

Clare counts Rumi, Ibn Arabi, and Hafez as soul friends alongside St. John of the Cross and St. Julian of Norwich, and has been privileged to learn about Islam, Sufism, and the Qur’an from Seemi Ghazi, Sheikh Sherif Baba Çatalkaya, and Omid Safi.

Clare currently lives in Sen̓áḵw, unceded Skwxwú7mesh territory (now known as Kitsilano), with their husband, cat, and many musical instruments and plants. As well as the Celtic harp, Clare also plays the mandolin, ukulele, and Appalachian dulcimer.

Pili & Yumeng

Artists: Streamside Lantern Installation

Pili & Yumeng are both painters and mixed media artists who met living together in community housing.

Their collection includes illustrations inspired by their own fantasy, dreams, nature, as well as myths and folktales from various cultures.

Through their paintings and artworks they try to show the extraordinary in landscapes and people’s stories, and focus on nature and magic.

This symbolises the shared human experience of wonder and curiosity of the world around us.

Polymer Dance

Performers: Material Patience / Streamside Lantern Installation

Polymer Dance is a community-based contemporary dance troupe for adults. Our goals are to provide a space for continuous training and to cultivate an improvisation ensemble.

For 12 years, we have been learning how to create and curate movement spontaneously collectively, and to dance at our age and beyond. We take our craft to parks and festivals so we can foster with the audience a sense of belonging.

Our ethos is “Dance is for everybody and Dance is for everywhere”.

Quantum Care

Festival Wellness Partner

Facilitator: Equinox Ceremony

Performer: Streamside Lantern Installation

Quantum Care, a Neuroscience-based Educational Coaching & Consultancy, is revolutionizing perspectives & practices of holistic health, mindful movement, and intentional growth.

With a focus on accessibility, it’s co-led by activists, community developers, and coaches Eda Ertan and Masa Kateb. Their team offers tailored programs, wellness spaces, therapeutic classes, and more, fostering sustainable Self-Life-Work Balance.

Lead Facilitator:

Eda Ertan is a Turkish-Canadian health scientist and Founder of Quantum Care. She’s a student and teacher of Yoga, Meridian Therapy, Sound Therapy, and Earth Medicine.

With a background in Psychology, Neuroscience, Human Development and Spirituality, Eda champions preventive medicine, equity, and compassion.

Eda is also the Executive Director of Brock House Society Seniors’ Activity Centre and serves on the Board of Directors at BC Hospice Palliative Care Association.

Photo Credit & Nazar Kaftan by Soumak Boutique.

Joshua Ralph

Artist Facilitator: Monoprinting with Invasive Plants & Horse Chestnut + Morning Glory Keychains Workshops at Harvest Fair

Joshua Ralph is a media and community-engaged eco artist residing in so-called “Vancouver”.

Over the past year, he has been working throughout Southwest BC, delivering programming on rendering invasive plants sourced from local restoration sites to useable art supplies.

Aiming to provide sustainable and accessible art making materials to community and youth. His media artwork focuses on the natural world, highlighting the interwoven relationships between species and environment, with films having competed in Ottawa International Animation Festival and Innsbruck Nature Film Festival.

He can often be seen biking around Richmond and looking at birds.

Roots Peruvian Folk Dance

Performers: Harvest Fair

ROOTS is a Peruvian folk-dance group founded in 2017 under the direction of Jessica Roca Muncaster.

ROOTS seeks to present and preserve Peruvian cultural dances within the communities of British Columbia. The beauty, colour, and excitement of traditional Peruvian dances are displayed in the repertoire, including dances from the three regions of Peru: Coastal, Andes, and the Amazon.

You can find ROOTS performing in a variety of venues including festivals, community groups, schools, and private events.

Audiences love the combination of music, costumes, and folklore presented during the performances. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself up on your feet for the final dance.

Isaac Rufus

Performer: Streamside Lantern Installation

Artist Facilitator: Electronic LED Lantern Workshop

Performer: Consciousness of Streams

Isaac Rufus‘s studies and explorations of music, sculpture, theatre and dance have led him back to my lifelong fascination with sound. Specifically how sound vibrations can completely consume and surround one’s body and fill one’s mind.

He thinks of each sound as a little character which is in relation to each other sound. From these characters, he is able to craft a myriad of sonic worlds to be explored.

Thru exploration of sound acoustically and electronically, he weaves together overlapping worlds of sounds. He finds the use of amplification as a wonderful microscope of sound, which lets your ears be brought into this now enlarged, a quiet world that’s full of these sonic characters.

His artistic work revolves around magnifying these subtle worlds and inviting people to share, explore and play with the physicality of sound.

For MoonFest this year, he is leading LED lantern workshops Sept. 16th/17th as well as performing music at both Streamside Sept 23rd and as a part of Consciousness of Streams Sept. 29th.

Runaway Moon Theatre

Artist Facilitators: For the Love of Trees Costume-Making Workshop

The Walk of The Woods / Harvest Fair

Runaway Moon Theatre is a small company with a large vision, creating art projects that explore many aspects of involve many people from this valley in Secwepemc traditional territory, and beyond.

Since 1999, we’ve been exploring different aspects of what it means to be in this place, at this time.

Giant spectacles, community plays, performative fabric art, and bird parades, have all led us to the Walk of the Woods which we are touring in BC communities.

We also create theatre with puppets and live music, bringing simple magic to all ages. Our grassroots aesthetic reflects our rural roots.

Salalaul Vocal Ensemble

Performers: Harvest Fair

Salalaul (Secret Song): We are 3 Estonian-Canadian singers who gather in the hidden corners and forgotten caverns of our city.

Our mission is to share intimate music in unexpected settings. We offer witchy, a capella folk as well as pop songs and the occasional sea shanty.

Much of our repertoire is in Estonian as our focus is on exploring our shared Baltic heritage. Some pieces are contemporary arrangements while others derive from regilaul, an ancient style of singing shared by Baltic-Finnic peoples.

Stylistically, regilaul melodies are repetitive and are sung to create a continuous, unbroken flow to invoke a trance or fulfill a ritual purpose. Past performances include The Secret Lantern Society’s Winter Solstice Festival, All Souls at Mountainview Cemetery, and Dusty Flowerpot’s Parade of Lost Souls.

Uros Sanjevic

Performer: Consciousness of Streams

Uros Sanjevic finished his BA in Fine Arts (Glass dept) in Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and MA in Fine Arts (Glass dept) in Korean national university of Arts in Seoul, South Korea.

His curiosity led him to places from Amsterdam to Seul, from Belgrade to Rio. The knowledge he was receiving he was giving back through his art.

He has participated in exhibitions and residencies worldwide, notably the exhibition in the Stedlijk museum of contemporary art in Amsterdam, followed by auction at Christie’s.

Uros was the art director of cultural center in Nami Island, Korea, assistant production designer in several theater plays, and collaborated in Beijing Expo 2008.

Currently he has been dedicated in researching the ancient paper marbling technic Ebru in combination with digital print as a contemporary expression of his spiritual research, leading him to Brazil Amazonia.

Naomi Singer

Artist: Streamside Lantern Installation

Lori Snyder

Facilitator: Truth & Reconciliation Workshop: Naturally Dye an Orange Shirt Emblem

Lori Snyder is an Indigenous Metis herbalist and educator with a deep knowledge of wild, medicinal and edible plants that grow in everyday spaces. Through Lori’s eyes, our immediate surroundings take on a new life and offer a wealth of untapped nutritional and ecological resources. Through Indigenous ways of knowing and pedagogies, Lori leads people of diverse backgrounds in reconnecting to the Earth’s wisdom.

Through Indigenous ways of knowing and pedagogies, Lori leads people of diverse backgrounds in reconnecting to the Earth’s wisdom. She has collaborated with numerous organizations, including the Provincial Health Association of BC, Vancouver Parks Board, the VanDusen Botanical Garden, Douglas Community College, the David Suzuki Foundation, the Moberly Arts & Culture Centre, and the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Bra, Italy.

Lori’s vision is to continually co-create insightful dialogues, to remediate and reconcile with our Indigenous plants as we reintroduce them into our urban landscapes. By sharing and growing these practices, communities can access our true local foods and medicines, which support collective resilience and deep ecological healing for all species.

Lori is Metis a descendant from the Powhatan, Dakota, T’suu tina, Nakota, Cree, Nipissing, Dene and Anishinaabe peoples, mixed with French, Swedish and Celtic ancestry. She was born and raised on the lands of the Squamish people, near Vancouver, Canada, overlooking the Salish Sea on the Pacific Northwest Coast of Turtle Island.

Still Moon Dyers’ Guild

Artists: Cob Shed Party & Dyer’s Guild Showcase

The Still Moon Dyer’s Guild opens up Still Moon’s fieldhouse residency, the Alder Eco-Arts Hub studio, to experienced natural dye artists.

Guild members have the opportunity to use the Alder as a space to work, experiment, collaborate, and skill-share with one another.

In May 2022, the Guild was invited to showcase their personal and collective work in an exhibition at the Deer Lake Art Gallery.

Many of the pieces displayed were dyed with plants grown in Still Moon’s Colour Me Local Dye Garden.

Still Moon Youth Committee

Artist Facilitators: Painting Jewelry Dishes at Harvest Fair

Still Moon Youth Committee is a group of youth aged 15-22 who engage in community art, stewardship and outreach activities based on the committee’s interests.

The committee members play a key role in engaging with other youth in the community around Still Moon’s values.

They are active year round, meeting monthly, and receiving support from the Youth Programs Manager and Artistic Director.

The youth gain leadership skills and get hands-on experience in community engagement and event management.

Tamami Maitland Trio

Performers: Harvest Fair

Tamami Maitland is a singer-songwriter/jazz pianist based in Vancouver.

She’s been performing at showcases and festivals across BC, and just finished her first international tour in Japan in the spring of 2023.

Her style of music is interspersed across several genres of jazz, pop, R&B and soul. Her music can be described as soothing, groovy, melodic, and rich in harmony.

She believes that with music she can express, send messages, and connect with people.

That’s exactly what her goal of writing /performing music is: to encourage and help people to stay positive through her music.

Tiddley Cove Morris Dancers & Musicians

Performers: Harvest Fair

Tiddley Cove Morris Dancers & Musicians reinterpret the ancient English ritual traditions of Morris dancing in a contemporary West Coast style.

We are a diverse and welcoming group, playing music, dancing and singing, doing mummers’ plays and wassailing apple trees in colourful costumes, with stick and hankie dances and lively tunes.

For more than 30 years, we have danced the sun up on May Morning, serenaded the winter trees in apple orchards, and performed at events and festivals.

We always welcome new dancers, musicians and mummers to join us!

Photo credit by Daphne Osoba.

Yoko Tomita

Artist: Streamside Lantern Installation

Yoko Tomita is originally from Osaka, Japan.

She is a community artist at East Vancouver creating community engaged art projects in visual arts, mosaics, lanterns, textile art and teaching acrylic painting, drawing and sketching class.

Her diverse expression of arts shows connection to nature is main theme which brings smiles and cheer to the public.

Andrew Tuline

Artist: The Animated Lanterns / Streamside Lantern Installation

Andrew Tuline started learning how to program strings of addressable LEDs in 2012 in order to create animated patterns.

After attending the Still Moon Festival in about 2016, Andrew attended a lantern making workshop hosted by Yoko Tomita and has been making organic looking lanterns ever since.

Andrew’s lanterns now use a popular program called WLED, which he has contributed to and written several animations for.

In addition, Andrew was the originator of a highly popular sound reactive branch (or fork) of WLED, which adds volume, frequency as well as 2D animated effects.

Windermere Leadership Classes

Artists: Streamside Lantern Installation

Every year, we aim to provide opportunities for local youth and schools to learn how to make lanterns.

You’ll see their works lit up at this year’s Streamside Lantern Installation!

Toni-Leah Yake

Performer: Streamside Lantern Installatinon

Toni-Leah C. Yake (European; Kanien’kehá:ka, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Turtle Clan) is a composer-performer currently based on xwməθkwəy̓ əm, Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ territories.

Her artistic practices are rooted in kanyen’keha (Mohawk language), embodied connections to land and memory, and explorations of conscious and unconscious realms.

Guided by dreaming and Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) epistemology, her performances embrace liminality.

Toni-Leah’s compositions are illuminated by archival recordings, synthesis, and noise, resulting in textural and immersive sound worlds.