Elemental Nourishment

1:15PM - 1:30PM: OPENING

‍1:30PM -2:00PM: Donna Redlick - Relationscapes
"Relationscapes" is an outdoor somatic dance installation that foregrounds kinesthetic empathy.   Dancers move from the sensorial experience while  attuning to one another in the park. Movement sculptures emerge, morph, and evolve within nature's landscapes in the park to create the 'collective body'. The work intersects somewhere between dance, sculpture, moving installation, and community eco-somatics. What happens when we slow down, engage our senses, and work with the intention of deep listening to one another, with nature as our guide?  

‍2:05PM - 2:20PM: Eva Fernandez Ojeda - 508 CRS score: not enough
There is a pressure that I feel in my chest. It is not a strange feeling, I’ve felt it before; yet, I cannot recall when it first appeared. Maybe I was born with it, carried through my ancestors. Maybe it’s carried through my brown skin, through my gender or through my queerness. As I navigate this world, I use my body as the tool of expression to understand and heal the pressure in my chest. With the use of spoken word, body language and text, I make art that challenges the socio-political systems that we live under. I focus on my experience as a Mexican brown queer woman that migrated to “Canada” at the age of 20 and through it, I raise questions about race and feminism.

‍2:25PM - 2:45PM: Ashley Chodat - Be(a)Tree
Ashley is a theatre artist and educator.  She currently resides on the traditional, unceded territories of the Salish Peoples, specifically the Katzie, Kwantlen, and Semiahmoo First Nations. Ashley is drawn to stories that explore science fiction, speculative futures and coming of age. Playwright highlights include: Camp Goneaway (Best of the Fest, Patron's Pick, BC Touring Award- Vancouver Fringe 2024) June Bug (UpintheAir rEvolver Festival, Theatre on the Edge) and Mother Pin (Fabulist Theatre/Or Festival) She is the co-artistic director of Ragamuffin Productions. Ashley works as a teaching artist with Bard on the Beach and The Arts Club Theatre Company. She loves playing outside with her friends. 

‍2:50PM - 3:15PM: Sam Chimes - THE RESONANCE ENSEMBLE: "BOXES OF PERCEPTION & IDENTITY"
Created by Sam Chimes, The Resonance Ensemble transforms personal limitations into collective liberation. Sam's box was cultural silence until the looper amplified his voice. Piper's perfectionism cage became rhythmic freedom through contact mic tap. Naomi's stillness transformed into powerful movement expression. Macca's stereotypical expectations evolved into authentic artistic vision.

At Vines Festival, each performer begins in colored boxes representing their journey. Sam's looper influences sequential emergence - inspiring Piper to step out and tap, Piper's rhythms move Naomi, Naomi's dance encourages Macca to paint freely. The audience participates, encouraging liberation while children crawl through connected boxes, proving barriers become bridges for collective transcendence.

‍3:20PM - 3:35PM: Palak Dhiman - Basant Rtu: Colours of Spring
Choreographed by Smt. Usha Sharma (She/Her), and Palak Dhiman (She/Her)
Palak Dhiman (she/her) is an independent dance artist, choreographer, and educator trained in Kathak since 1993. She practices her art and its related forms in Vancouver, B.C., on the unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations. She has participated in numerous stage productions, with Manohar Performing Arts in Winnipeg (2006-2019) and Upasana in Ottawa (2016-2019), and toured 

‍3:40- 4:05 PM : TBC

4:10PM - 4:30 PM: m'itlaa | meesh
M'itlaa "Meesh" is a poet who in 2017's CFSW was honored as a "Rising Voice" Poet of Honor. and then in 2018's CFSW, earned a spot as a team-representative on the Vancouver Poetry Slam team, who then competed their way to the national stage, placing 3rd in the country. Their most recent work is featured in the short film "Johnny Crow" directed by Xstine Cook and illustrated by Jesse Gouchey.

‍4:35PM - 4:45PM: Immacula

‍4:45PM - 5:15PM  (25 min): Izzy Cenedese
Izzy is a queer musician playing music that has been described as “freaky folky”. They focus heavy on lyrics and storytelling. Izzy is a previous recipient of Said The Whales Young Artist Grant and will be releasing an album in the next year (has been said for the past few years so grain of salt). Izzy is happiest performing live and finds it to be the most special way of sharing art and communicating with an audience. They can be found playing around the city, busking, or on tik tok.

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5:20PM - 5:40 PM: Siobhan Barker
The body, commodification, the devaluing of self to conform to capitalist colonial esthetics. An earlier draft was performed last year. This story goes deeper into creating a mythical origin story of Thunderthigh’s universe colliding with this world. Literally when planets collide. Vines attendees “get it” they come and talk details of my story and how it intersects with their lives. They are engaged and captivated by the source material and challenge me in good ways to stretch what is possible as a modern day Griot giving social justice commentary on what ails the body, the land, and our collective spirit. 

‍5:45PM - 6:20PM: DJ Squeezy