What We Do
Since 2004, we have used the arts to raise awareness and drive positive change, helping restore Still Creek’s Renfrew Ravine from a neglected dumping ground into a cherished green space and outdoor learning hub.
Over the years, we’ve created dozens of community-engaged eco-art projects, hosted more than 20 editions of the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival—an annual celebration of art, nature, and community—and offered hundreds of accessible workshops connecting people with nature and the arts. We’ve created the Colour-Me-Local Natural Dye Garden, an outdoor art space next to the Ravine where we now host many of our workshops. Our stewardship work has grown to encompass much of Vancouver’s Still Creek watershed, and we proudly host the Still Creek Streamkeepers.
Our Vision
A Still Creek neighbourhood where people live as part of a healthy ecosystem, and participate in a community where the arts thrive.
Our Mandate
- To develop, engage and promote the creation of art from a diversity of disciplines;
- To promote and engage in activities that educate our communities, raise environmental awareness, and enhance and restore sustainable natural environments;
- To promote community engagement and participation in environmental and artistic projects; and
- To promote and engage in activities that link arts, community and environment.
Still Moon’s Values
Art – Art is a means to individual exploration, creative expression, and community building.
Positive experiences in nature – Positive experiences in nature elicits experiences of unity, interconnectedness and create moments that are “greater than self”.
Radical inclusivity – Everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate in Still Moon programs regardless of age, class, gender, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, ability, indigineity, and any other intersection of experience that excludes people in society.
History – We recognize systemic and structural inequalities as a result of ongoing colonization.
Diverse cultural traditions – We acknowledge and celebrate diverse cultural traditions as an opportunity for community building, intercultural learning, and allyship.
Environmental stewardship – It is our duty to respect, steward and learn from the earth which supports us. We seek to reimagine a world where land and people are good medicine for one another.
Collective action – We are better when we’re doing it together; Action holds more value than words.