Blind and Low-Vision Friendly
Fire is a gift. We must gather around it, tend to it, and pass it on. As we continue stoking the fire we are building, we make space for the voices of the youth in our community to be heard. This evening highlights the culmination of the art ecosystem X Vines youth jam summer program. *At Vines, blind and low vision friendly means that 90% or more of performances are music or spoken word, with no visual elements to describe. If you need assistance getting to the parks and/or performance area, please contact Marcelo at marcelo@vinesartfestival.com to request it.
In partnership with art ecosystem
Featuring
MC
Lexi Mellish Mingo & Karmella Cen Benedito De Barros
5:00 PM – Opening with Senaqwila Wyss
5:20 PM – Terreane Derrick
5:35 PM – Youth Jam Artists
6:20 PM – SOLO RB
SOLO RB features drummer, Richard Brown, curating a performance with drum kit, loops, samples and tracks along with a few guest vocal performances. Grooves inspired by roots reggae, funk, DnB, and Nyahbinghi are featured along with engaging soundscapes that will make you dance and maybe even trance.
6:45 PM – Amy Amantea
7:00 PM – Trickster Agenda
7:25 PM – Poems with Eddy van Wyk
7:50 PM – Corrina Keeling (Water Cycle Songs)
Water Cycle Songs will be a cozy, collaborative visit with the songs & stories from ancestors of Gàidhlig, Breton, Acadien, Queer, and Unknown Origin, as one of the pathways we can walk towards healing our relationship to our own cultural identity while living on stolen land.
8:15 PM – Erica Masuskapoe
8:40 PM – DANI YOUR DARLING
Richard Brown is a professional drummer based in Vancouver, BC. He has recorded and performed with a number of popular artists as diverse as Ernest Ranglin, Wanting Qu, Pee Wee Ellis, Yellowman, Broken Social Scene, Dave Swarbrick, Jason Wilson, Delhi 2 Dublin, most recently a stint with Big Sugar and many more. Richard has toured in Southeast Asia, Europe, The United States, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean.
Film credits include "Glitter" starring Mariah Carey, Soul Food TV Series w/ Debra Cox, CBC’s Cover Me Canada (performing with Alannah Myles, Gino Vanelli), “The Tony Braxton Story: Unbreak My Heart" (Lifetime). The award winning film by Marie Clements The Road Forward" (NFB). And a recent appearance on rhe NBC series Resident Alien.
As well as an in-demand drummer for sessions, live performances and touring Richard is also the co-creator and co-leader of the popular Vancouver band Mad Riddim. Richard also maintains a busy teaching practice.
Erica is a 2-spirited Nehiyaw Okihcihtâw Iskwew (Cree Warrior Woman) trickster shapeshifter and a Land Defender who likes to help out around the fire. They are a creative influencer, writer, storyteller and radical artist who's pronouns are she/they and firecracker because she's a real one.
Dani Beyene Youth Activist and Organizer and the visionary of “#BlackVoidUBC” campaign for the investment and expansion of UBC African Studies and demand for a formal apology for the institution’s anti-Blackness. In addition to being a volunteer Social Media Manager at Takeover Skateboarding Dani is a Psychology Major at University of British Columbia, as well as a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist. With the better-known moniker DANI YOUR DARLING, they work with mediums including photography, painting, producing, poetry, illustration, digital art, singing, songwriting, djing, and creative directing. DANI YOUR DARLING has performed and had their art exhibited at grassroot organizations such as the Vancouver Black Library, Unity Arts Collective, Art Ecosystems, Hatch Art Gallery, and many others.
Terreane Derrick came into the arts both by accident and design. At an early age, Terreane’s first foray into the performing arts was puppetry. Terreane’s interests in the arts expanded first into drawing and painting, then into video production. In addition, Terreane is also an accomplished emcee, public speaker, facilitator, and has sat on government boards as a special needs / disability adviser. Terreane appreciates the medicine of art in its entirety and is currently focused on personal governance. Terreane speaks to things in present time and that is reflected in her art portfolio.
Amy Amantea, (she/her), has lived experience of both visible and invisible disability and identifies as having a profound sight loss. Seeing her sight loss as a “gift”, Amy has spent many years of her career in accessibility focusing on systemic change in the area of arts and culture. As an artist and creator, she has focused her work on the relationship to the lived experience of disability and how she experiences the world through her unique lens.
Under the artistic umbrella of Realwheels Theatre, Amy has performed in Arun Lakra’s “Sequence” (2017), Comedy on Wheels (2016), Wheel Voices Tune In (2021). Amy is also a media and radio personality for Accessible Media Inc and produces/hosts one of their original podcast, “Accessing Art with Amy”.
Working in her capacity as the Community Outreach Coordinator for VocalEye Descriptive Arts Society and the Accessibility Coordinator for the Arts Club Theatre Company have furthered access for arts lovers that identify with disability in our local community and a far. Participating in the Vines festival, in two pieces, has been a joy and an opportunity to continue developing as a creative artist.
Corrina is a multidisciplinary artist who is fumbling through using their creative work to arrive at deeper understanding in complex conversations about power, place, identity and belonging. Together with their sister Jessica Dawn, along with a handful of the constellation of artists asking similar questions, Water Cycle Songs will be a cozy, collaborative visit with the songs & stories from their ancestors of Gàidhlig, Breton, Acadien, Queer, and Unknown Origin. They bring the practice of singing together to share with Vines Festival as one of the pathways they walk towards healing their relationship to their own cultural identity while living on stolen land. They are passionate about how arts practices can equip us with some of the skills that are needed to reckon with the truth, confront discomfort, remember who we really are, and work together more meaningfully.
Trickster Agenda is a Syilx, Secwépemc and Mixed European multidisciplinary artist closest with their Syilx roots. They create visual art, music and writing.
Deirdre Pinnock is a talented rug hooker, passionate mental health advocate, and self-identified ‘woman of colour’ based in Vancouver, BC. She intuitively fuses diverse materials, vivid colors and therapeutic qualities into her work with sprinkles of playfulness.
She is best known for her yarnbombing of positive and uplifting messages such as “be kind” and “you are enough” into public fences around the city, as well as performing stand-up comedy about being Black in Vancouver. Her work expands to hosting workshops, guest speaking on the topic of diversity through art, and her memorial pieces known as Hearts of Honour, which act as a living memory that allows families to grieve their loss. Her compassion shows generously in the language of love expressed through her work, such as crocheted hearts.
Courtesy of CTV, she is publicly known as the Vancouver Yarnbomber. Additionally, she is the artist behind the “Dude Chilling Park” crocheted sign in Guelph Park, Vancouver, when the original one went missing for the 5th time.
The purpose behind Deirdre’s art revolves around self-healing and the empowering ability to battle through her grief, anxiety and pain. Deirdre also weaves the current political climate into her fibre art and confronts matters in a very whimsical and humorous way.
Melicia (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily as a costume designer and textile artist for stage and screen. Born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia to a family of Chinese ancestry, they are grateful to live and create on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. As a costume designer, they have worked with Pacific Theatre, ZeeZee Theatre, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, Aenigma Theatre, TomoeArts, Arts Club, among others. In addition to design, they channel their love of colours through painting, writing, collaging, and taking long walks guided by colours. Melicia is passionate about telling visually impactful stories through striking colour palettes, and is always inspired by their community to create art that uplifts and celebrates BIPOC, queer, and trans voices.
Eddy van Wyk is an international artist currently working as an unsettled settler in so-called Canada. They are native to Namibia with a performance history in South Africa. Eddy has more than 16 years of training in performance through the crafts of acting, dance, film, clown and theatrical creation.