(Re)Creation Stories

1:10 PM | Kwitsel Tatel

1:25 PM | Gamelan Kembang Telang
A performance of traditional and contemporary Balinese gamelan music, featuring contemporary works by Ryan Swaryandana (with dancer Ayu Karisma) and I Made Subandi.

1:55 PM | D Fretter
D Fretter a spoken word artist/indie pop musician living on the unceded territory of the Semiahmoo Nation. He began writing at a young age when he and his friends began freestyling over vinyl records and instrumental tapes. As a poet D is known for preaching a gospel of self love and challenging listeners to imagine a better world. As a singer/songwriter D opens up about loss, love, and community.

2:20 PM | Ashvini Sundaram – Krishna Panchaka Mallari
This bharanatyam piece was choreographed by Rama Vaidyanthan who is known around the world for her contemporary perspective on Bharatanatyam within its classical canon. The piece evokes praise for the divine consciousness, describing its physical beauty through elements of nature, like the lotus petal feet, eyes in the shape of fish, and limbs like ocean waves. “Oh divine being, embrace me. I submerge within you.”

2:35 PM | George Christian Vasquez – Plants dance
Visual Vernacular, an ASL storytelling technique that is a culmination of elements including strong body language, facial expressions, and mime from my imagination come to life using only my hands, face, and bodies.

2:50 PM | Raven Grenier - Wolverine
Wolverine is about queering the notion of the shapeshifter being that lives in the house beneath the waters. It is about celebrating all gender identities that identity with the concept of the Gitxsan nochnoch Wee sim no sik, and femme power through the context of prince hood.

3:05 PM | Shina – lovers in isolation
A compilation of original music and covers.

3:30 PM | Elizabeth Yip-Armitage – Earthbound Spirit 地缚灵
Earthbound Spirit 地缚灵 is a movement score driven by the bond between human and earth cycles: cultural rituals, life cycles, circadian rhythms, seasonality, and looping earth systems. Urban environments and culture have disconnected us from our rituals and rhythms of nature. As we dwell in our Anthropocene, how will the bond shift, break, and attempt to heal? 

3:50 PM | Oh Pray Tell – Weaving Our Ways
Oh Pray Tell is a musical trio of interdisciplinary artists – Shayna Jones, Betty Supple and Sally Titasey – based on Sinixt Territories in the West Kootenays. Our sound is rooted in RnB, soul, gospel and folk. Three-part harmonies grounded with banjo, cajon and stomp-clap rhythms carry folk stories, our stories, jokes, invocations, questions and declarations. Through a process of “scrying what is,” we weave poetry and melody and allow it to transform us as we move through new and ancient worlds of rhythm, song and spoken word.  Shayna Jones (she/her) is a full blooded African Canadian woman. Sally Titasey (she/they) is a Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous Australian) of Melanesian descent with ancestry from Indonesia, England, Scotland and Ireland.  Beth Stupple (she/they) is a descendent of white settlers with ancestry from England, Scotland, and Ireland. Our collective themes touch on identity, sense of place,  and social responsibility through creative expression of our personal experiences. This, for us, is an important part of healing from and recognizing our respective relations to colonial oppression, and is our humble offering.

4:25 PM | Joshua Ongcol – The END
The Energy Never Dies (E.N.D.) represents an interdisciplinary collaboration of dance and music, aimed at exploring the concept of “cypher” within dance communities. This term refers to the openness and generosity that exists within the circular dance formation that energizes the communal flow state. This conduction of energy is characterized by the exchange of creativity and movement between individuals both inside andoutside the circle. The Energy Never Dies meditates on patterns, cycles and rhythms formed between dancers, community and onlookers to further investigate energy and movement as a state of being that tethers and connects us to one another both socially and culturally.

4:55 PM | Ready Dance Youth Project (All Bodies Dance) – reMARKS!
reMARKS! is co-created by participants of Ready Dance Youth Project alongside professional dance artists Harmanie Rose and danielle wensley. The piece playfully integrates music and sound making, voice, and drawing along with both improvised and choreographed dance. reMARKS! draws focus to sound making and highlights the sonic textures of the outdoors while welcoming spectators into a joyous approach to performance. The dance is  performed to original music created by Ben Brown, which includes field recordings from rehearsals.  

5:10 PM | the squids – unfolding separability
Tucked into the layered folds of global inequality, heteropatriarchy, environmental collapse and overarching colonialism is a socialized logic of separability from the land and each other. This predicament is at the core of our creative inquiry for this performance. How can we open the space for witnessing our disconnected relationships, without shying away from the discomfort it brings? This performance is an offering to the collective process of hospicing the systems of violence/oppression/ (both within and outside ourselves). To wit(h)ness and hold our contradictions as a way of evoking responsibility through mask play, clowning and experimental sounding. 

5:35 PM | Pesewa
Solo musical performance featuring kologo, vocals, and flutes, accompanied by ambient backing tracks.

6:00 PM | Elite Squad – Unity Rhythms
Unity Rhythms embodies the core of Pan-Africanism’s principles of unity, resilience, and liberation in a multidisciplinary performance showcasing the diversity and vibrancy of African rhythms in dance, music and storytelling. It pays tribute to the extraordinary contributions of African peoples throughout history. The production highlights the fusion of traditional African dances with contemporary elements. At a time when the world is increasingly recognizing the importance of cultural diversity and the need for unity in the face of global challenges, UNITY RHYTHMS serves as a powerful force to bring people together, transcending boundaries and differences to foster a sense of togetherness and solidarity.

6:20 PM | Marco Esccer, Carolina Silva, Carla Alcántara – Agridulce (Bittersweet)
Agridulce [Bittersweet] is a Spanglish storytelling 10-13 min performance that involves dance, singing, and poetry. With original music from Carolina Silva it evokes the theme of migration and its nuances. Nostalgia merged with joy, ukulele and singing: three voices, three suitcases and three bodies, shaping the stage into the imagery of migrants.

6:35 PM | Orchid Orchestra
Orchid Orchestra invites you into a space of shared vulnerability. Their unique blend of indie pop, hip-hop, and gospel creates a tapestry of raw, authentic emotion.  With heartfelt lyrics and soulful melodies, they explore life's imperfections, offering a moving and cathartic experience.