ASL Interpretation provided
Water has connected people for centuries. These waterways not only enable us to share knowledge, share resources, cultivate lasting relationships, and tend to a community collectively, but help us to resist, to renew, to cleanse. To welcome new waterways which hold a community that has space for more of us in it. We close our 9th festival with the belief that we are stronger together.
In partnership with Neworld Theatre and Trout Lake Community Centre
Featuring
Haleluya Hailu (and the fake friends), Kitty Guerin, Morning Star Trickey, SoyJoy
MC
Ted Angelo Ngkaion and Abi Padilla
1:00 PM – Opening Welcome
1:10 PM – Kaya Ko
Kaya's songs are written from the centerfold of their Soul's being ; the heart. Many of the pieces that they write pertain to matters of love and relationship to others as well as their relationship to themself. Ultimately, Kaya likes to touch on deep subjects of emotion, through their life experiences, to translate and transmute the ineffable into tangible, enjoyable and resonant art. Often told that their songs have helped people to move through their own emotional processes, Kaya is honoured to share their vulnerability in the knowingness that it can help others shine a light into their personal experience.
1:35 PM – Shanny Rann (Flowers Dream of MaMa)
Energy benders navigating the flow of chi through sound weaved by a music artist and movements by Tai Chi practitioners. Together, they transform the atmosphere with imaginations into a harmonious, enchanted space in honour of the land, sea and sky.
2:00 PM – Ann Chou
2:10 PM – Phiroozeh Petigara
"I weave threads of illness and recovery against the backdrop of my relationship to this land: growing up in BC, this land held my trauma, and moving back here after 14 years because I fell in love with a queer magical brown soul, this land has held and amplified my healing. Through my wife’s love, I forge a deeper relationship to myself; through this land’s wisdom I listen more deeply to my soul."
2:30 PM – Morning Star Trickey
3:00 PM – Multicultural Senior Group (Chan Wai Yu, Lawrence Tung, Huo Gui Yi)
"We will sing 10 to 15 minutes consisting of Chinese New Year songs, Cantonese opera song, Taiwanese and popular songs. We will play the drums while we sing cappella. Our songs will be played with music and drums separately. We will be dressed in Chinese traditional costume. Our performance will have a combination of 1 person singing and singing in group as well."
3:15 PM – George Christian Vasquez
3:35 PM – Fiana Kawane (blueblueblue)
blueblueblue is a performance piece based on a 12-beat rhythmic cycle (Ek Taal) and the 12-bar Blues. As an invitation into the space of movement to explore what the prompt of watery bodies might inspire, the piece explores water as a physical property, water as a social space, water as a political object, water as a metaphor, water as inorganic kin, and water as history.
3:55 PM – ebonEmpress
4:20 PM – Fabulous Burrowing Kittens (Nesting)
A multidisciplinary showcase using soundscapes made of vocal and percussion looping and keyboard accompaniment, exploring elements in relation to the land and ideas of home.
4:45 PM – Images of Whole Productions (Getting reacquainted with your blackness an Ancestral Teaching tale)
Africa, The Motherland, is the birthplace of every individual that now resides on the earth. For five million years human ancestors have lived on the African continent and migrated to other parts of the planet. Fossils have only ever been found in Africa showing each stage of evolution. Now imagine some of these fossils waking up from being stuck during different periods of migration. Frozen and forgotten but listening and learning until their emergence in the present day. Warning, wisdom, and big laughs on us. What could they have to say?
5:10 PM – Makeda Martin
5:40 PM – SoyJoy
6:05 PM – Amok Project (nowHERE)
"nowHERE" is a dance installation piece created by the Amok Project Artistic Director Carol Mendes in collaboration with Brazilian dance artist Ysadora Dias. This piece is an excerpt from a work previously created for a large cast of dancers to discuss isolation, individuality, and community. This iteration will focus on the relationship between one dancer and her Brazilian identity and heritage. We will reflect on our shared experiences of being culturally estranged immigrants. Themes of belonging, expatriate feelings, cultural impostor syndrome, and acknowledgment of a newfound love for a chosen land inspired the work. Ultimately, this piece is about searching and finding a place of belonging.
6:20 PM – Kitty Guerin
6:40 PM – Haleluya Hailu (and the fake friends)
