Interactive art installations and park performances as Vines Art Festival celebrations continue
Earth Witnessing brings art to six greenspaces, with Resilient Roots and Return of the Thunderbeings on the roster
Dae Shields and Kor Kase, featured at The Return of the Thunderbeings. Photo by Luciana Freire D'Anunciação
Have you run into one of Vines Art Festival’s Earth Witnessing installations throughout city parks?
The summer fest is featuring interactive installations throughout six parks that you can enjoy at your leisure until August 20. The collection of mixed audio and visual works is designed for folks to engage with their senses in local parks. Look for Artists, Audio Tracks, Visual Art, Natural Law, Plant Animal and Place Name maps, and Augmented Reality (AR experiences).
These audio and text forms guide visitors to open their creative selves and conscientiously tune into our world. Highlighting Indigenous language, Earth Witnessing allows folks to learn the original name for the land they walk on. In a time where our social hibernation kept us from our larger environment, returning to our senses seems like a Herculean task, but it doesn’t have to be.
Find Earth Witnessing at X̱áywá7esks/Creekside Park, X̱epx̱páy̓ em/Hadden Park, Lek’lekí/CRAB Park, Smem̓ chús/Smamḵw’ch/David Lam Park, X̱í7nam̓ ut/New Brighton Park, and Trout Lake Park.
Meanwhile, make sure to check out two events in the final week of the festival that are close to Vines heart.
A Vines Art Festival staple, Resilient Roots returns with a flourish. Highlighting and uplifting multiple Indigenous artists by pairing them with a mentor, the program encourages artists to delve into a new medium, craft and tend to their skills, and share what they learned. Join Vines in celebrating the Feast Year’s cohort on August 18 at 6 pm at Trout Lake Park, featuring the work and stories of Terreane, Madelaine McCallum, Zofia Rose and many more.
And help Vines bring Feast Year to a beautiful close with The Return of the Thunderbeings on August 19 at 6 pm. Presented in partnership with AfroVan Connect, the event invites you to witness a celebration of Black life and its fragility. The story follows the experience of four youth of African-descent at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic as they confront loss, grief, and change as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Return of the Thunderbeings will take place at Creekside Park and will feature Yoro Noukoussi and AfroVan Connect, to name a few. The show will have ASL Interpretation.
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