Past Projects

We worked with artist Yoko Tomita and over 180 community members to create a mosaic mural that honours the salmon that have been returning to spawn in Vancouver’s Still Creek since 2012, and the community volunteer stewardship that has made their return possible after an absence of 80 years.

An interactive performance by Artists Carmen Rosen, Willoughby Arevalo & Isabelle Kirouac.

During the final open houses for the City of Vancouver’s Rupert-Renfrew Station Area Plan, community members were invited to help create a ‘Waterways Cultureways’ vision felt. This  collaborative needle-felt artwork imagines the future of culture and ecology along Still Creek. which lies at the heart of the plan area.

A 3-year interdisciplinary performance that contemplates the lost streams buried beneath Renfrew-Collingwood. Created by award-winning choreographer Isabelle Kirouac, it features dance, stilt performers, shadow theatre and live music. Each installment was featured at the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival from 2022 to 2024.

We worked with community members and artist Clare Kenny to build a Cob Garden Shed in the Colour Me Local Dye Garden. Cob is a building substance that has been used for about as long as humans have been building shelter. Made of low-cost materials like mud, straw, and sand, cob is hard-wearing and sustainable.

The City of Vancouver hosted  public consultation sessions for the Rupert and Renfrew Station Area Plan, a long-term framework guiding how this area of Vancouver, with Still Creek at its centre, will grow. To bring community imagination into the planning process, Still Moon led a creative engagement activity to create a Community Vision Felt.

A larger-than-life beaver and RV are woven from living willow growing on the banks of Still Creek in the highly urbanized area by Rupert Skytrain Station. This sculpture  reminds us to make room for the water, for rich wildlife habitat and for accessible human habitat for all. 

Each night during the winter season, nearly 20,000 crows come to roost at Still Creek! In early spring, we organize a twilight bicycle ride along the Central Valley Greenway to quietly follow the crows on the last leg of their journey.

This monthly program for Sarah Ross House residents aimed to welcome them and ensure they felt safe in the community. The events combined art, conversation, and dessert.

In collaboration with Sarah Ross House and community residents, we designed and painted a mural on the Sarah Ross House laneway fence, titled ‘We All Belong’. The design concept incorporates the meaning of place and home.

Resurfacing History was an Indigenous-led program run out of the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House and supported by Still Moon’s Alder Eco-Arts Hub. The program develops a community process for resurfacing Indigenous land-based teachings and practices.

This Fall, six amazing youth participated in our Youth Tapestry of Place program. For eight weeks, we worked together to create eco-art projects, practice storytelling, and engage in self discovery and expression.

We have facilitated many school workshops, on topics such as giant puppet making, circus skills, and climate change awareness.

Over the years, artists at Still Moon Arts have partnered with the students of Windermere Secondary for several eco-art projects using materials from nature.

We created a site-specific performing arts project with youth to explore our relationship with Still Creek through movement, poetry, visual art and sound. The project resulted in three public performances and a youth-produced documentary film.

Bringing together people from diverse communities to share and connect over food, these potlucks featured delicious dishes made with ethically foraged or homegrown ingredients. These feasts encouraged slowing down and enjoying food, and meeting others who also care about local slow food.

We created two art pieces in Renfrew Community Park. Mycelial Connections is a living collaboration between mushrooms and Alder. Fruiting bodies are figurative sculptures about the cycles of life, death, and regeneration.

Still Moon Arts and residents of Renfrew-Collingwood created a number of beautiful street murals throughout the neighbourhood to uncover the lost streams of Still Creek.

Bringing together community members with varying experiences and knowledge in stewardship and the arts, this project provided a model for community-led restoration of Still Creek.

We organized a parade and festival to celebrate bodies of water and the creatures that inhabit them, inviting participants to dress up as fish and reflect on the importance of our aquatic ecosystems.