Still Moon Arts Society

All workshops are free to the public.

SPIRIT FISH BOAT WORKSHOPS
Create your own fish lantern boat. Bring your words, small images and glue-able items for your boat.
Sun. March 7th, 2-4 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Mather House studio G
Sun. March 14th, 2-4 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Mather House studio G
Thurs. March 18th, 3-6pm, Renfrew Community Centre, Rm. 110

FISHY COSTUME AND ART MAKING BLITZ
We’re taking over the school during spring break! Come and make your fishy costume or installations with friends!
Wed. March 10th, 10am – 2pm, Windermere High School Still Moon room 208
Friday. March 12th, 10am – 2pm, Windermere High School Still Moon room 208
Sat. March 10th, 10am – 2pm, Windermere High School Still Moon room 208

FISHY BIKE DECORATING WORKSHOPS
Decorate your bike with your art and prayers for the fishy parade.
Tues. March 16th 3-5pm with the Windermere Bike Club
Thurs. March 18th, 3-6pm, Renfrew Community Centre, Rm. 110
Fri. March 19th, 4-6pm, Britannia Community Centre, Family Activity Room

Workshop locations:
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts – 6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby
Renfrew Community Centre – 2929 East 22nd Avenue, Vancouver
Windermere School – 3155 East 27th Avenue, Vancouver
Britannia Community Centre – 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver

Sunday March 21st

Celebrate spring and World Water Day and experience our Still Creek full of Life, playful art and music!

Join the fishy Bike parade 1pm leaving from Renfrew Skytrain station and come to our Spirit Fish Art and Tea party from 2-4pm on the Central Valley Greenway bike route just west of Sperling Skytrain station under the Kensington overpass

The Spirit fish project is an art and awareness project by Still Moon Arts Society with the support of BC Arts Council, City of Burnaby and numerous community partners. We aim to connect communities to water and it’s journey from our back yards through streams and rivers to the ocean. This project celebrates the circulatory system of the earth and all living creatures’ dependence on it.

more info Flyer spirit fish 2010

we are very excited about our new project to have 2 interns to work with Still Moon to develop their skills in communications and outreach and ravine stewardship.

We are partnering with Windermere family of Schools and have use of an office space at the school in order to make it easy for our interns to work with us during lunches and spare blocks in their school day.

if you are interested, get short letter of interest and resume together and submit it to the Windermere community of schools office by Monday Feb 8th 1pm

Ravine intern description

communications and outreach intern

This year’s Spirit Fish will take place Sunday March 21st – 1pm bike parade, 2-4:30pm performance, art, music, prayers for the water – just west of Sperling Skytrain station under the Kensington Overpass on the CVG Bike Route
more details

Spirit Fish 2009 from stillmoon on Vimeo.

We are getting ready for Spirit Fish for the first day of Spring and World Water Day.
On Sunday March 21st we’ll have a Fishy bike parade following the course of Still Creek which happens to be the same as the Central Valley Greenway Bike Route. Join us on the parade and come to a great hidden treasure outdoor performance space right on the greenway, the stream, and near the Sperling skytrain station. Parade starts about 1pm at Renfrew Station. Tea, music, art a show, and prayers for the water at our hidden treasure performance space will be from 2-4:30pm….more details to come!

Wow it’s 2010! A time to look ahead and enjoy our success from the past
Here’s our Moon fest 09 video filmed by David Schuurman and Dale Reid and edited by David Schuurman
and we have a new video page for all our videos

Renfre Ravine Moonfest 2009 from stillmoon on Vimeo.

We’ve been going through all the footage and putting together a video with highlights of the Spirt Fish Project in March 09 and the Moon Festival last month. Patricia Kim is editing the Spirt Fish video and David Schuurman is editing the moon fest video. There is some really great stuff. we’ll post the results soon! 

We also have some funding in place (BC Arts Council) to go ahead with phase two of Spirit Fish! We’ll be facilitating workshops and events around World Water Day on March 22nd and World Peace Day on August 6th. More info coming soon!

 the moon festival was beautiful. The weather was perfect and the evening was full of art and music. More info and details and thanks to come soon after I rest for a day or two. meanwhile check out this link of photos from a moon festival guest. or this link for more beautiful photos! OR this link for photos by the Youth Media from Collingwood Neighbourhood House

it’s getting very exciting around here! The costumes are all done (almost), new lanterns are finished and favourites from previous years are repaired and ready to go. Now it’s the last minute details of final rehearsals, shopping lists and excited calls from artists with last minute inspirations and questions. Great performers are coming! check it out!

4-7 pm Harvest Fair artists include, 

Zeellia singing Slavic Soul Music

the Wheeling eights square dance club

A-Slam punjabi live hip hop music

BC Clettes, bicycles dancers           

7:00 pm Lanterns, music and art by the stream in Renfrew Park

Live music by 

 Twisted String – Random Acts of Violins

 Aligator Joy Gamelan ensemble

 Lisa Chase – singer songwriter

 Jun Rong- erhu

 Violin Chapeau – classical violin duo

  Marimbamaphone interactive instrument

   Performance Art by

    Mind of a Snail shadow puppet theatre

    True North – Upaya, with an Evelyn Roth inflatable

    Lantern Installations by

     Nicole Dextra

    Yoko Tomita

     Carmen Rosen

    Joey  Mallett

    Naomi Singer

    and many many more

8:30pm finale spectacle on Renfrew Park field with a big band, original music, dance, fire spinning and fireworks

 Original Music by Brad Muirhead and the Renfrew Community Performance Project band

 Original dance, stilt dance and  fire spinning  by Isaac Rosen-Purcell, Odette Slater, Ariel Anderson and 25 young performers from the community

Sunday September 27th we all went down to Still Creek in Burnaby and Celebrated World Rivers Day. We had 5 youth Stilt walkers and 5 fiddlers with Twisted String roving the festival grounds and the Central Valley Greenway trail next the Still Creek near the Burnaby Lake/Sperling skytrain station. We also had two wonderful musicians Colin Maskell and Joe Poole creating wonderful ambient music under the Kensington Street overpass where people were disembarking from their boat trips up the creek. The festival organizers even treated everyone to a free sockeye salmon lunch. What a great way to spend a sunny Sunday!