Still Moon Arts Society

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!

On Friday evenings rehearsals are underway for the finale. We had our first rehearsal on Sept 11th and there is still time to join if you want to be part of the fun. You can be part of creating moving patterns on stage with lanterns, flags, and even fire torches! Rehearsals are at Windermere high school  drama room Fridays from 5-7 pm for young performers, or staying until 9 pm if you want to get really involved.

Nina works on her water goddess streams

performing in front of the fireworks Moonfest 08

The lantern workshops have just begun and there is still lots of time to drop in and make a lantern to carry in the Moon Festival. Yoko Tomita is leading the workshops and she can give expert advice on creating simple globe lanterns or more complex,  but worth the extra work bamboo frame lanterns. Workshops are at Renfrew Commuity Centre 4-8pm, Mon – Friday. Leadership students at Windermere in grade eight and nine have already made a village of house lanterns and a whole school of fish lanterns and they are looking great!

The grade 10 leadership students have begun their training to take a leadership role in the festival crew. Each year the Moon Festival has about 200 youth volunteers and the Grade 10 leadership students help keep all the volunteers focussed and the whole event running smoothly.