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Willoughby Arevalo

Streamside Lantern Artist
Installation: Beaver Beavering
Props design for Consciousness of Streams

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’s worked with Still Moon Arts 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; Beaver Pondering Lodging, 2024; and as a contributing artist, mycologist and educator in many of their other projects.

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LoriAnn Bird (Snyder)

Facilitator: Natural Dye Truth & Reconciliation Workshop

LoriAnn Bird is an Indigenous Metis herbalist and educator with a deep knowledge of wild, medicinal and edible plants that grow in everyday spaces. Through LoriAnn’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, LoriAnn leads people of diverse backgrounds in reconnecting to the Earth’s wisdom.

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Joe Boyd

Streamside Lantern Artist
Installation: Red Cedar Memories

Joe weaves natural materials – ivy, willow, cedar – into objects of various shapes and sizes, working primarily with ivy, invasive English ivy, which is satisfying to weed and weave into useful objects and more fanciful lanterns.

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Nina Buddhdev

Performing YogBhava Story at Harvest Fair

Nina graduated in fine arts & ceramic sculpture in 1992 with DMU & RCA BA (Hons) in the UK. She studied temple sculpture, philosophy, and Tantric arts in Khajuraho, India as a continued interest in Indian classical music and dance. Using this knowledge, Nina is an awarded presenter and expressive storyteller, with ideas captured in dance, music, healing movement and art. She’s the founder of the Bandish Network, mentoring artists and presenters with expertise in cultural development.

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The Carnival Band

Harvest Fair & Twilight Lantern Procession Performers

The Carnival band is a community brass band based out of Britannia Community Centre. Starting as an activist protest band in 1999, they’ve reformed their brand of samba/klezmer/funk all over the world over the past quarter century.

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Mina Chan

Performing Journey of the Streams and Stars at Tea, Tunes and Verse in the Garden

Mina Chan is a pianist, singer-songwriter, pianist, and storyteller with a imaginative fantasy prone personality that has been performing for several years in unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Territory (“Vancouver”). Through her fairy tale inspired music, she hopes to spark the imagination and encourage people to embrace the magic of the world around us.

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Ann K Chou

Streamside Lantern Artist
Installation: Aqua-Dragon (head+boat) – a feminist version

Ann K Chou (周冠雯), a Hong Kong-born visual artist, specializes in lanterns and wearable puppets, embodying her intersectional identity as a hard-of-hearing, first-generation immigrant, and an individual on the Autism Spectrum. Engaged in daily Chinese calligraphy meditation, she integrates sustainability through reusing materials, with a history of weather-adaptive installations. Lanterns symbolize support, sharing, and family bonding. Embracing rebirth through deconstruction, her art promotes accessibility, nurturing connections, a playful spirit and commitment to community engagement.

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Coeurtis

Performing at Harvest Fair

Cœurtis, a classically trained artist born in France to Cameroonian parents, is a multi-talented musician mastering the guitar, piano, and soulful R&B vocals. He began his musical journey early, merging his heritage with his passion. Accomplished in both solo performance and directing a competitive a cappella group, Cœurtis draws inspiration from gospel, R&B, soul, and neo-soul.

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Indigenous Women Rise

Performing at Harvest Fair

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Community Performers

Consciousness of Streams

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

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Clover Duong

Streamside Lantern Artist
Installation: Fish Dinner

Clover is a maker who grew up in Joyce-Collingwood. In June 2024, she had the opportunity to visit the Dawes Glacier in Alaska. The mesmerizing experience of seeing this landscape (and the accompanying anxiety about it one day being gone) motivates her to create art around the themes of environmental stewardship during a climate crisis. When Clover isn’t making a mess or tidying, you may find her urban hiking with her sassy dog-friend, Gretta.

Gamlan Turtle Bliss with lanterns by Naomi Singer. Photo by Yunjan Cao.

Gamelan Turtle Bliss

Performing at Streamside Lanterns

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Jennifer Getsinger

Reading at Tea, Tunes, and Verse in the Garden

Jennifer (Jenny) Getsinger has lived near Renfrew Ravine since 2006, and has been an active member of Still Moon. A retired geoscientist interested in all aspects of the natural world, she’s also written a life-long journal, inspired by Henry Thoreau, Anne Frank, and Anais Nin.
Jenny has written poetry since the 1990s, with a few poems published occasionally. She’s a graduate of The Writers Studio at Simon Fraser University, in 2006 receiving a Certificate in Creative Writing.

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Varsha Gill

Facilitator: Natural Dye Truth & Reconciliation Workshop

Varsha is a second-generation Indo-Canadian settler with family roots in northwestern India. Born and raised on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ territories, she’s deeply passionate about reimagining a world where people and land are good medicine for one another. Varsha has a bachelor’s in Gender & Indigenous Studies from Quest University. She’s currently completing a Masters of Social Work at UVIC. You’ll find her biking around East Van, cooking with foraged ingredients, dyeing with plants, and cuddling loved ones.

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Dominic Grimm

Performing at Tea, Tunes, and Verse in the Garden

Dominic is a 30 year old genderfluid composer. He was a classically trained musician from the age of 8 onwards. After discontinuing piano and voice lessons in his early twenties, he started playing banjo as an attempt to rekindle my love of music. Dominic is hugely inspired by the unique biome that is BC, and his own personal journey transitioning to a body that is a truer reflection of himself.

 

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Deb Hartford

Reading at Tea, Tunes & Verse in the Garden

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ivy hazard

Streamside Lantern Artist
Installation: through the snaking river (or your boroughs)

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 are handmade monstrous costumes created for the bizarre category in their ballroom community. tires, chandelier pieces & defaced barbie dolls are some textures that crawl over ivy on the runway. ivy’s playfully ominous style lets them create characters, walking through complicated emotions, skittering late into the night.

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Healthy Friendly Morning Exercise Group

Performing at Harvest Fair

Healthy Friendly Morning Exercise Group does exercise and dancings every morning under the leadership and trainings of one of their leaders, Mrs. Chan, as well as their Tai Chi teacher.

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Kick off the Truck

Streamside Lantern Artists
Installations: TUBSPACE | Cubspace | Droning Sun

KOTT is a collective of artists with a long and varied history of building large scale art, from mega projects at Burning Man, to large pieces at local festivals. After many years of large-scale installation, we joked about focusing more on smaller art that you can just “kick off the back of a truck and its done”. We hope to reach that goal soon. For now, we make small(er) art.

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Isabelle Kirouac

Choreographer, Consciousness of Streams
Performing in The fashioned Sound Body at Tea, Tunes & Verse in the Garden

Isabelle 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 to investigate the poetics of senses, and questions of everyday life. With studies in dance improvisation, somatics and contemporary circus, her research is inspired by art and ecology relationships through movement practice, immersive performances, and community projects.

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Miriam Levine

Streamside Lantern Artist
Installation: Mycelial Sprout

Miriam Levine is the owner & purveyor of several hats. Some of those hats are literal, others figurative. Regardless of their nature, Miriam’s many hats are absurd.

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Rachel Lytzki

Streamside Lantern Artist
Installation: Vancouver Lightbox

Crafty Rach likes making big things and small things and believes true happiness can be found in gluing one thing to another.

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Mind of a Snail

Performing with Consciousness of Streams

Mind of a Snail is a shadow puppetry duo currently based in Vancouver. Since 2003, Chloe Ziner and Jessica Gabriel have been developing a multilayered style of visual storytelling using handmade projections. They have recently been integrating live video and interactive live-streaming into their tool kit. They love exploring beyond the boundaries of traditional theatre and creating magical immersive experiences for their audiences. Their award-winning shows have toured across Canada, USA, Taiwan & Brazil.

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Sahand Mohajer

Videographer for Consciousness of Streams

Sahand Mohajer is a filmmaker and artist based in Vancouver, Canada. He collaborates with impactful organizations helping tell their stories and connect with their communities. His documentary and narrative films have exhibited at Art Toronto, The Museum of Vancouver, and Vivo.

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Adele Neuman

Streamside Lantern Artist
Installation: Mystery of the Deep

Adele is a creative dynamo who loves working in all media, although she has a particular affinity for the creative construction of lit objects. She can usually be found with a pocket-sized sketchbook in hand, seeking inspiration from the often-overlooked.

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Polymer Dance

Performing at Streamside Lanterns

“Dance is for everyone, Dance is for everywhere.”
Polymer Dance is a community-based dance troupe since 2012 for over 100 non-professional adult dancers. Their goals are to provide a space for continuous training, cultivating improvisation, creativity, challenge and fun. Performing at a variety of venues a few times a year, they strive to bring dance to broader audiences, generating a shared sense of joy, identity, and safety. They are part of a movement, democratizing access to arts and dance.

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Ben Purcell

Streamside Lantern Artist
Installations: Wolves | Beckoning Hand

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Joshua Ralph

Streamside Lantern Artist

Joshua is an uninvited settler-occupier on the stolen lands of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. They are a community-engaged eco-artist, interested in changed and changing ecologies. They are the founder of the Invasive Art initiative, a travelling project that promotes environmental dialogues and workshops on uses for invasive plants. Joshua can often be seen partaking in environmental restoration volunteering or looking at birds.
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Clara Rose

Streamside Lantern Artist
Installation: Frog

Clara Rose has been making music her whole life, from childhood living room concerts to choral concerts to underground jazz clubs. Clara began composing for violin at age 10, drawing inspiration from the vivid landscape of British Columbia and her community in Vancouver. In live performances Clara loops layers of intricate, funky fiddle grooves and pensive melodies, with deep influences from jazz, Celtic, Balkan, and Scandinavian folk.

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Carmen Rosen

Moon Festival Artistic Director
Facilitator: Renfrew Ravine Nature & History Tour
Streamside Lantern Artist
Installations: Three Bellies | River Moon Goddess | Tea Bag Tea Set | Love Poems for the Bees | Prayers for the Water I & II

Carmen (she/her) is a visual artist, singer, and interdisciplinary performer with a long history of leading community-integrated projects. As the Founder of Still Moon Arts Society, and in collaboration with many community partners, she created the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival and other projects and events that shed light on Renfrew Ravine, Still Creek, salmon in the city, and the community’s creative capacity.

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Sheila Rosen

Reading at Tea, Tunes and Verse in the Garden

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Isaac Rufus

Performing The fashioned Sound Body at Tea, Tunes & Verse in the Garden
Music Composition and Performance for Consciousness of Streams

Isaac explores realms of acoustic and electronic sounds, weaving together overlapping worlds into experimental soundscapes. He uses his clarinet and self-built electronics, creating textures of sound for live improvised and thru composed performances. He finds use of amplification a wonderful sound microscope, allowing the listeners to be carried into the enlarged world of sonic characters. Isaac’s work revolves around magnifying subtle sound worlds, inviting people to share, explore and play with the physicality of sound.

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Martin Reisle

Performing at Consciousness of Streams

Pronounced (rise-lay), Martin is a little bird with a very outdated website. Their most recent songs centre around discarded, obsolete, or forgotten, objects. When not hosting community sing-alongs, they are likely to be mending tattered hearts with cello, or guitar, strings.

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Salalaul

Performing at Streamside Lanterns

Salalaul (Secret Song) are Estonian-Canadian singers who gather in the hidden corners and forgotten caverns of the city. Their mission is sharing intimate music in unexpected settings, offering witchy, acapella folk as well as pop songs and occasional sea shanty. Much of their repertoire is in Estonian, as their focus is exploring their shared Baltic heritage. Some pieces are contemporary arrangements while others derive from regilaul, an ancient style of singing shared by Baltic-Finnic peoples.

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Udeshi Seneviratne and Jack McKenna

Streamside Lantern Artist

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Naomi Singer

Streamside Lantern Artist

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Still Moon Cobbers

Streamside Lantern Artists
Installation: The Lift-Off

Say hello to Ana, Aishwarya, and Taylor of the Still Moon Cobbers! After meeting each other at the cob shed plastering event at Still Moon’s Dye Garden, they envisioned a piece that could transform trash into treasure. Using recycled materials such as plastic bottles, containers, and newspapers, their installation “The Lift-off” aims to tell a whimsical story about the interplay between human innovation and the spirit of nature.

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Still Moon Dyer’s Guild

Exhibiting at Tea, Tunes and Verse in the Garden

The Still Moon Dyer’s Guild is a group of experienced natural dye artists working out of Still Moon Arts’ Alder Eco-arts Hub and the Colour Me Local Dye Garden. The Guild has previously showcased their work at the Deer Lake Art Gallery.

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Connelly Stirling

Facilitator: Birds of Renfrew Ravine Tour

Connelly (she/her) is a biologist with a passion for nature, science, and community. She received her Bachelor of Science in Applied Animal Biology from the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at UBC. During her career, Connelly has participated in pollinator research, led nature education in the Gulf Islands, and guided stewardship efforts in local parks.

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Tanglewood Duo

Performing at Twilight Lantern Procession (Labyrinth)

Prepare to be immersed in a diverse blend of warm melodies, vibrant rhythms, and flawless execution. Emily Villavicencio and Noa Neuman are The Tanglewood Duo, blending their voices to create a captivating musical journey that encompasses folk, bluegrass, jazz, French Canadiana, and music from around the world. Get ready for a profound and unforgettable musical experience!

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Tania Grinberg & Mauro Perelman Duo

Performing Brazilian Songs of the Sea at Streamside Lanterns

Mauro Perelmann, an accomplished guitarist, arranger, composer, music producer, and musical director, continues to make significant contributions to the global music scene. Tania Grinberg is a dynamic singer, composer, actress, and educator who has captivated audiences in Brazil and internationally with her interactive performances, clear voice, and boundless creativity. The two met in Vancouver and have been developing a rich and diverse musical repertoire together. Their performance will celebrate not only their meeting but also the connection between different seas: the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through our Brazilian roots.

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Tiddley Cove Morris

Performing before Consciousness of Streams

Tiddley Cove Morris Dancers & Musicians is a diverse and welcoming Morris dance and live musicians group. Established in 1986, they are based in East Van, BC, Canada (not the semi-fictional Tiddley Cove, but the name was too much fun to pass up!) They welcome new members. You certainly don’t have to be English (most of them aren’t!), just enthusiastic, energetic and willing to have fun with a great community.

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Yoko Tomita

Streamside Lantern Artist
Installation: Cycle of Nature
Facilitator: Salmon Lantern Workshop

Yoko’s lanterns are inspired by nature’s forms and Japanese hand made paper. Pressed leaves from the local garden are used in her lanterns. Simple forms and combinations of bright colours are the signature of her artworks.

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Andrew Tuline

Streamside Lantern Artist
Installation: Animated Lanterns

In 2012, Andrew started learning how to program strings of addressable LED’s in order to make animated patterns. After attending the Still Moon Festival in 2016, Andrew attended a lantern making workshop hosted by Yoko Tomita the following year and has been making lanterns and hosting workshops since then.

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Tiffany Yang

Streamside Lantern Artist
Installation: Re-fraction

Tiffany Yang is an artist, snow sculptor and eco-educator. Graduated in 2016 from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, holding a bachelor’s in Interaction Design and a minor in S.P.A.C.E Social Practice and Community Engagement. During the Winter season, Tiffany builds snow sculptures of life size scale endangered species to inspire wild life conservation in her local community. Tiffany’s passion is sharing awareness on leading a minimalist lifestyle in a practical and fun way to all!

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Kathryn Wadel

Streamside Lantern Artist
Installation: Ripple Effects

Kathryn Wadel is a second-generation Filipinx-Canadian settler living on the unceded traditional territories of Coast Salish First Nations people. She is an interdisciplinary mixed media artist who utilizes light as a sculptural medium – experimenting with its plasticity and interactions with objects + space. She often combines up-cycled materials in her exhibiting installations to visualize relationships between humans and nature as it exists within the Anthropocene.

Photography by Ben Faulkner.

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Windermere Jazz band

Performing at Harvest Fair
1. On a Misty Night by Tadd Dameron, arranged by Terry White
2. Five Spot After Dark by Benny Golson, arranged by Mike Story
3. It’s Only a Paper Moon by Harold Arlen, arranged by Rick Stitzel
4. On Green Dolphin Street by Bronislav Kaper, arranged by Rick Stitzel
5. Play That Funky Music by Robert Parissi, arranged by Victor Lopez

The Windermere Jazz Band is an off-timetable course composed of Grade 9-12 students. The Jazz Band offers students the opportunity to play many different styles of music within the jazz idiom, including blues, funk, latin, swing, and rock styles. The Jazz Band is essentially a music community within the program, as they work together closely, go on field trips to watch and learn from professionals, and study the history of this incredibly diverse art form.

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Windermere Leadership

Streamside Lantern Artists

Windermere Leadership is a five-year program designed to provide challenges and opportunities to students in the classroom, the community, and in our natural environment. Students that attend the program are part of a community network that prioritizes social justice, environmental stewardship, and community engagement. Every year, Still Moon provides opportunities for local youth and schools to learn how to make lanterns. 

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Alayna Y

2024 Moon Festival Poster Designer

Alayna (she/her) is an artist-animator who’s interested in gourmet, girls, and gaming. She also likes alliteration a lot. Her animated LGBTQ grad film, Macaroni Soup (通心粉湯), has seen success in festivals across Canada, the United States, and Hong Kong. She works for Still Moon Arts Society as the Moon Festival Production Coordinator. Alayna’s work takes place on traditional q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie First Nation) land.

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David Yates

Performing at Full Moon Labyrinth Walk

David Yates (he/him) is a musician, performance artist, movement teacher, counsellor, and facilitator. He taught for Victoria Conservatory of Music and Concordia University of Alberta, recently performing for Lou Harrison House in Joshua Tree. David began learning didgeridoo in 2009 with Shine Edgar, who learned from elders of the Noongar people in Australia. He branched into sound healing and journeys working at Gandharva Loka, beginning a collection including the handpan, fujara, kalimba, mouth harp, and more.

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Dani Z

Performing A Sip of Serenity at Tea, Tunes & Verse in the Garden

Starting at 7, Dani Z started her musical journey with the Ruan and entered the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2012. She performed with the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra and Shanghai Cultural Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra. In 2016, she moved to the UK, engaging in cultural exchanges in Europe and the Middle East. In 2020, Dani fused traditional Chinese instruments with electronic soundscape at the Shenzhen Jupiter Art Museum, launching “Sounds in all the beings” workshops at Shenzhen GNG Creative Park.