Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival Main Day Events

Still Moon Arts Society inspires vibrant and connected communities by creating art and nurturing a passion for nature in the Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood of Vancouver, B.C.

Still Moon Arts Society

A free celebration of art & community, with a Harvest Fair, Twilight Lantern Procession, Streamside Lanterns, and 100+ artists & performers.

Slocan Park & Renfrew Community Park

2026 Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival

You're invited to experience live music, giant lanterns, performances and illuminated art set against the towering trees and the flowing waters of Still Creek! Join workshops and outings throughout September to connect you with local nature and community.

While all events are free, we request that you <a href="https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/122485" title="https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/122485" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">make a $10 donation </a>if you can comfortably afford it (or more, if you like!).<h3>Harvest Fair | Twilight Lantern Procession | Streamside Lanterns</h3>Join us for the main day of the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival, a favourite autumn event for Vancouverites!The main festival day transitions through three events and travels between two venues. For the best experience, we encourage you to come for all three parts: Harvest Fair, Twilight Lantern Procession, and Streamside Lanterns.

<h3>Part 1: Harvest Fair</h3>4:00 PM to 7:00 PM (Sunset) at <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/A1UCjtLaxBDBKp7C8" title="https://goo.gl/maps/A1UCjtLaxBDBKp7C8" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Slocan Park</a>Kick off the Moon Festival’s main day! Enjoy a relaxed afternoon of performances and activities in Slocan Park. Listen to local music, create a lantern for the upcoming parade, purchase creations by local artisans, and enjoy a light dinner of harvest soup and snacks from local eateries.<ul><li>Welcome by Sesemiya (Tracy Cameron)</li><li>Performances by Windermere Jazz Band, BallyClaire, Uncle Trent and Friends, House of Indian Dance, and MAUVEY</li><li>Activities: Last-Minute Lantern Workshop with Ana Polgár, Reading "Climate Futures" with the ECOtarot with Adriene Jenik, Tiny Life Needle Felting with Kick Off The Truck Collective, Wetland Bug Bioblitz with City of Vancouver Green Rainwater Infrastructure Team, Facepainting</li><li>Artisan Vendors: Fatima Mohamed, Jangmi Choi, Marcela Villaça, Nai Carruthers</li><li>Harvest Veggie Contest returns this year with prizes from local businesses. Drop off your impressive veggie or fruit at the Veggie Contest table. Categories: The Big One, Tiniest Harvest, Weird &amp; Wacky, Judge's Choice!</li><li>Food: Harvest Chili, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lasaisondepatisserie/?hl=en" title="https://www.instagram.com/lasaisondepatisserie/?hl=en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Saison de Patisserie</a>, Panadería Latina Bakery, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pinehousebakery/?hl=en" title="https://www.instagram.com/pinehousebakery/?hl=en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Pinehouse Bakery</a>, Japadog Food Truck</li><li>Booths: Weaving for Water, Adopt-a-Catch Basin (City of Vancouver), Native Bee Society of BC, Stewardship and the Ecological Network (Vancouve Board of Parks &amp; Recreation), Collingwood Neighbourhood House Food Hub, Vancouver Public Library Bookmobile, Still Creek Streamkeepers.</li></ul> <h3>Part 2: Twilight Lantern Procession</h3>7:01 PM (Sunset) to 7:15 PM, starting from <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/A1UCjtLaxBDBKp7C8" title="https://goo.gl/maps/A1UCjtLaxBDBKp7C8" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Slocan Park</a> and ending at <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/RGtfk3YozrfQni9g9" title="https://goo.gl/maps/RGtfk3YozrfQni9g9" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Renfrew Community Park</a>Walk with colourful puppets and performers among surprising sounds and sights, with Balkan Shmalkan leading the procession with live music. We invite you to carry a lantern with you! The procession leads from the Harvest Fair to Streamside Lanterns, following the Renfrew Ravine and Still Creek.<h3> </h3><h3>Part 3: Streamside Lanterns</h3>7:15 PM to 9:15 PM at <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/RGtfk3YozrfQni9g9" title="https://goo.gl/maps/RGtfk3YozrfQni9g9" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Renfrew Community Park</a>Explore illuminated art and intriguing sounds among the towering trees and the flowing waters of Still Creek. Visit the Tea Garden for an evening snack and a hot drink.<ul><li>In the Forest: Adele Neuman, Andrew Tuline, Ann K Chou, Ben Rosen-Purcell, CJ McDonald, Carmen Rosen, Clover Duong, dria, Gamelan Turtle Bliss, GlassBloom Studio, Joe Boyd, Joey Mallett, Kick Off The Truck Collective, Mengya Zhao, Monica Lee, Naomi Singer, Rachel Lytzki, Reflecting on Water Project, Sisters of Concord, Slow Nihiki, Still Moon Youth Committee, Studio Objets Anxieux, Tiffany Yang, V&amp;C, Willoughby Arévalo, Winderemere Leadership Students, Yoko Tomito</li><li>On the Field: The Heartbeets, Tiddley Cove Morris, The RaRas</li><li>Homemade Lantern Contest: New this year! Show off your handmade creation and win a prize! Categories include Kids, Tiny Life Theme, Best Bug, Best Wearable Lantern, and Anything Goes</li><li>Finale Performance. Starts at 8:40 PM on the field. An introduction to Still Moon's newly completed Water Woman giant puppet, made with the love and care of many community members. Produced by Still Moon Arts. Puppet built by Carmen Rosen with Willoughby Arévalo, Liz Oakley, Sesemiya, and Joe Boyd, with participation from over 750 community members. Performance created by Isabelle Kirouac with community members. Music by The Ryuzen Trio.</li></ul> <h3>Accessibility Information and Venue Details are available on the <a href="https://stillmoonarts.ca/2026-renfrew-ravine-moon-festival/mf26-faq/" title="https://stillmoonarts.ca/2026-renfrew-ravine-moon-festival/mf26-faq/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">festival FAQ page</a>.</h3><h3> </h3>

Sesemiya (Tracy Cameron): For 20+ years, Sesemiya has been engaged with revitalizing Coast Salish cultural practices. Through research, collaborative experimentation, and consultation with Knowledge Keepers, Sesemiya’s work embodies her deep knowledge of Skwxwu7mesh lands and waters. A fifth-generation cedar weaver, the objects she makes extend directly from her practice of gathering and preparing wild materials. Her work has appeared in exhibitions at Vancouver Art Gallery, Bill Reid Gallery, Polygon Gallery and the Contemporary Art Gallery. In 2021, a commissioned work of Sesemiya’s was included in the Vancouver Art Gallery’s presentation of Yoko Ono’s Water Event. Sesemiya is a proud member of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation.Windermere Jazz Band is an off-timetable course composed of Grade 9-12 students. The Jazz Band offers students the opportunity to play many different styles of music within the jazz idiom, including blues, funk, Latin, swing, and rock styles. The Jazz Band is essentially a music community within the program, as they work together closely, go on field trips to watch and learn from professionals, and study the history of this incredibly diverse art form.BallyClaire is a Vancouver-based songwriter and self-produced artist originally from Australia, creating alt-folk/rock that moves between quiet confession and emotional release. Written across hundreds of songs over the past decade, her work explores grief, belonging, and the fragile beauty of being human. Her performances are adaptable to space and setting, shaped by atmosphere, presence, and connection. Influenced by Joni Mitchell, The Cranberries, and Adrianne Lenker, her sound blends folk intimacy with alternative edge. (<a href="http://linktr.ee/BallyClairemusic" title="http://linktr.ee/BallyClairemusic" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>/<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ballyclairee/" title="https://www.instagram.com/ballyclairee/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)Uncle Trent and Friends: Trent and Bryce watched their dad from a young age sit at the kitchen table and write songs. He always had a pot of coffee, a lit cigarette, and an old tape recorder. They would hide in the next room and listen to the stories their dad would create. Their love of music and storytelling would eventually inspire them to start performing alongside their dad and create their own space in the global music landscape. (<a href="https://linktr.ee/trentagecoutaymusic" title="https://linktr.ee/trentagecoutaymusic" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)House of Indian Dance is a Vancouver-based training program in Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance, open to kids, adults, and complete beginners. Founded by choreographer Vidya Kotamraju, presented by Dancing on the Edge and the Vancouver International Dance Festival, HOID's mission is breaking barriers in Indian dance, one step at a time. Performers at the Renfrew Rvine Moon Festival: Himali Chabbra, Sanjana Tota, Siga Chettiar, and Vidya Kotamraju. (<a href="https://www.vidyadance.com/" title="https://www.vidyadance.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)MAUVEY is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist blending Afro-influenced rhythms with pop, hip-hop, alternative, and electronic music to create immersive, emotionally charged performances. Rooted in storytelling and cinematic world-building, his work explores identity, transformation, and human connection.Fresh off performances at Glastonbury Festival in 2025, MAUVEY has shared stages with Talib Kweli, Oxlade, July Talk, Dear Rouge, and Snotty Nose Rez Kids while pushing genre and performance boundaries through music, film, and visual storytelling. (<a href="https://www.mauvey.com/" title="https://www.mauvey.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>/<a href="https://www.instagram.com/lovemauvey" title="https://www.instagram.com/lovemauvey" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)

Ana Polgár is an urban planner who developed a love for painting and eco-arts. After a couple of years working in urban planning for climate change adaptation in Europe, Asia, and Africa, she moved to Vancouver to conduct doctoral research. Her practice and research on ecosystem-based adaptation and socio-spatial justice are driven by curiosity, compassion, and a love for nature. This is also reflected in her colourful illustrations and her work with Still Moon Arts. Pili’s art is inspired by their own fantasy, dreams, nature, as well as myths and legends from various cultures. This symbolises the shared human experience of wonder and curiosity of the world around us. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/pilimagination/" title="https://www.instagram.com/pilimagination/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)Adriene Jenik is an artist, educator, scholar-activist, and death doula. In her work, she develops and shares creative processes that support personal introspection, social critique, community building, and cultural transformation. Her performances have been presented all over the world, written about in The New York Times, published in The Drama Review, and recognized by the Rockefeller Foundation. Jenik’s current creative activity spans “data humanization” performances, ECOtarot readings, and experiments in extreme experiential learning. (<a href="http://www.adrienejenik.net" title="http://www.adrienejenik.net" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>/<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ecotarot/?hl=en" title="https://www.instagram.com/ecotarot/?hl=en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)Kick Off The Truck Collective: Friends making art. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/kickoffthetruck" title="https://www.instagram.com/kickoffthetruck" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)

Jangmi Choi is a communication design student, designer, and maker based in Vancouver. She is interested in observing and documenting small moments encountered in nature and everyday life, and sharing those experiences through photography, illustration, design, and handmade work.Marcela J Villaca is a visual artist born and raised in Brazil who migrated to Coast Salish lands a decade ago. Her work tells stories of belonging, movement, play, and the many relations connecting humans and the land. She creates with pencils, acrylics, collage, watercolors, crayons, and digital tools. Marcela sells original artworks, art prints, and merch. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/marcelajvillaca/" title="https://www.instagram.com/marcelajvillaca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>/<a href="https://marcelajvillaca.com/" title="https://marcelajvillaca.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)Nai Carruthers offers a collection of whimsical crafts, inspired by the magic and wisdom that can be found in relationships with nature. There will be patches, prints, charms, and more!Fatima Mohamed makes bookmarks and envelopes using the art of collaging. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/nebesniy_skyish?igsh=MWNneDg4MHB3ZmVtaA==" title="https://www.instagram.com/nebesniy_skyish?igsh=MWNneDg4MHB3ZmVtaA==" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)

Balkan Shmalkan is East Vancouver’s Trubaci orchestra; think global music with a local attitude. Their funky brass beats are rooted in the aural traditions of the Roma and Klezmorim of Eastern Europe and blended with pop and jazz. Members of the group sing in Serbian, Romani, and Italian. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/shmalkan/?hl=en" title="https://www.instagram.com/shmalkan/?hl=en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>/<a href="https://balkanshmalkan.ca/" title="https://balkanshmalkan.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)

Adele Neuman is a multidisciplinary artist inspired by nature, imagination, and the hidden life within urban spaces. Focusing on handcrafted lanterns that blend organic forms with storytelling, her work explores the interconnectedness of the natural and built world, transforming varied materials into illuminated sculptural forms. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/adele_neuman" title="https://www.instagram.com/adele_neuman" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)Andrew Tuline began programming addressable LED strings to create animated patterns in 2012. After attending the Still Moon Festival around 2016, he took a lantern-making workshop with Yoko Tomita and has made organic-looking lanterns ever since, using WLED (to which he's contributed) and originating a popular sound-reactive fork with 2D animated effects. (<a href="https://tuline.com/" title="https://tuline.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)Ann K Chou is a d/Deaf, neurodiverse, Hong Kong-born visual and lantern artist based in Vancouver. Her practice explores site-responsive lantern installations, wearable puppets, and light-based storytelling using reclaimed and natural materials. Merging Chinese calligraphy with sustainable upcycling, she has worked with Still Moon Arts Society for three years on installations at Renfrew Ravine. (<a href="http://www.annreflection.ca/" title="http://www.annreflection.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>/<a href="https://www.instagram.com/annreflection" title="https://www.instagram.com/annreflection" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)Ben Rosen-Purcell has been making lanterns for community festivals in East Vancouver for 20+ years.CJ McDonald is an experimental eco artist specializing in making plant inks. She loves to explore nature and discover how UV light can be used to learn about plants.Carmen Rosen is an award-winning visual artist, singer, and interdisciplinary performer with a long history of community art projects. Through Still Moon Arts, she has collaborated with many partners to create the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival and other projects highlighting the ravine, Still Creek, and urban salmon. She also leads workshops on dyes, lanterns, puppets, and costumes. (<a href="https://stillmoonarts.ca/home/staff/" title="https://stillmoonarts.ca/home/staff/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)Clara Rose is a performing and visual artist with deep roots in Renfrew-Collingwood. As a kid, Rose studied lantern making, stilt dance, fire spinning, and clowning with Still Moon Arts. Her lanterns are playful and striking, inspired by the hidden wilderness of Still Creek and the landscape surrounding Vancouver.Clover Duong: Hello! I'm a multidisciplinary maker working with sculpture, textiles, and installation. I explore the magic and emotions of everyday life, often using sustainable materials like reclaimed fabrics and tempera paint. I'm drawn to handmade, imperfect forms that show care and process. Through my work, I invite you to ask questions, play, and be a little silly with me. (<a href="https://whatchamakinblog.wordpress.com/" title="https://whatchamakinblog.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)dria is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and cultural worker whose work unfolds through sound, movement, voice, poetry, and interactive media. Their practice is rooted in witnessing as an artistic method, a relational act, and an ongoing process of inquiry. Their work creates space for attention, experimentation, adaptation, and interdependence, exploring the shared experience of not yet knowing. (<a href="http://instagram.com/dddriaaaa/" title="http://instagram.com/dddriaaaa/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>/<a href="https://www.driaaa.art/" title="https://www.driaaa.art/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)Gamelan Turtle Bliss is a Vancouver ensemble playing Balinese gamelan gender wayang, an intimate chamber form of Balinese gamelan that accompanies wayang (shadow puppetry). The ensemble is centred around two pairs of metallophones and a gong. Since 2018, the ensemble has been performing mostly new works composed by Michael O'Neill, and premiered the shadowplay Show on Earth in September 2024 at Performance Works, Granville Island. The group is intercultural, with five gamelan players, including renowned Balinese musician and composer I Putu Swaryandana Ichi Ocha (Ryan), and three string players (violin, viola, cello).GlassBloom Studio: Sana Biden (Oxana Baydina) is a contemporary stained glass and mixed-media artist based in British Columbia. Classically trained in Moscow, she creates illuminated artworks inspired by insects, forests, wetlands, and mythology. Using vintage glass, mosaic, and layered mixed-media techniques, she explores light, transparency, and fragile ecosystems. Since moving to Canada in 2016, she has exhibited across BC. (<a href="https://www.ebay.ca/usr/glassbloomstudio" title="https://www.ebay.ca/usr/glassbloomstudio" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)Joe Boyd is a developing eco-artist, weaving ivy and willow and creating lanterns from natural materials. He can be found in odd corners of parks sourcing materials, doing stewardship, and volunteering on big, messy Still Moon Arts projects: the Beaver Pondering Lodge, Cob Shed, and Salmon Creek Mosaic mural. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/joeboydster/" title="https://www.instagram.com/joeboydster/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)Joey Mallett is a painter, sculptor, and maker passionate about nature on the West Coast. Best known as a Vancouver muralist, she also teaches mixed media and expressive arts to adults and in schools. Largely self-taught through travel and apprenticeship, she holds a certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy from Langara and explores community and identity. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/JoeyMallettArt" title="https://www.instagram.com/JoeyMallettArt" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)Kick Off The Truck Collective: Friends making art. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/kickoffthetruck" title="https://www.instagram.com/kickoffthetruck" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)Mengya Zhao is a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist working in ceramic sculpture, illustration, and mixed-media installation. Her work explores imagined creatures, layered bodies, cultural memory, and subtle discomfort through organic forms. Drawing on her Chinese-Canadian background and interest in folklore and ecology, she creates pieces that feel both familiar and otherworldly. (<a href="https://mengyazhao.com" title="https://mengyazhao.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>/<a href="https://www.instagram.com/mengyazhaoo/" title="https://www.instagram.com/mengyazhaoo/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)Monica Lee is a songwriter who weaves a harmonious web of sound — songs that connect us to the nature of all things, the heartbeat of the human experience, love and community. Drawing inspiration from wild places and the majesty of our forests, she invites audiences into an intimate, emotive soundscape where every note feels like home. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/plantthepeas/" title="https://www.instagram.com/plantthepeas/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>/<a href="https://linktr.ee/monicaleemusic?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&lt;sid=dbe0cf9f-5fa9-4e44-aee7-31f35f1512e8" title="https://linktr.ee/monicaleemusic?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&lt;sid=dbe0cf9f-5fa9-4e44-aee7-31f35f1512e8" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)Naomi Singer is the founding artistic director of the Secret Lantern Society and the founder of Vancouver’s Winter Solstice Lantern Festival, launched in 1994 and led for over three decades. She studied at Emily Carr College of Art and Design and has spent over thirty years cultivating community-based celebrations and public events, coordinating hundreds of multicultural performers, artists and musicians across Vancouver neighbourhoods. She is a recipient of a BC Achievement Community Award, the Mayor’s Arts Award and the Emily Award for her contribution to public celebration in the province. (<a href="https://www.secretlantern.org/" title="https://www.secretlantern.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)Rachel Lytzki is a self-taught, sometimes artist who works mainly in cardboard and paper. She enjoys making things that are very big or very small — not so much in the middle. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/crafty_rach" title="https://www.instagram.com/crafty_rach" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)Reflecting on Water Project: Carmen Rosen, Isabelle Kirouac, Sesemiya, Sheila Rosen, Luciana Freire D'Anunciação, and community participants at HopeHill and Collingwood Neighbourhood House. (<a href="https://stillmoonarts.ca/water-woman-remembers/" title="https://stillmoonarts.ca/water-woman-remembers/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)Sisters of Concord: Retired librarian Margo and retired geologist Jennifer ran wild as children, adventuring in various woods and waters. Now joined by daughter and actor Chilko, they adventure to various imagined elsewheres, using natural and repurposed items to be transported to whimsical states of mind. In this piece, they travel through an enormous Hydra to tiny pond life.Slow Nihiki is a collaboration between Nihiki Designs and Go Sew Slow, celebrating the slow and sweet side of queer resistance through handmade, upcycled paper and textile art, using ethical sources and natural dyes <a href="https://www.instagram.com/slow_nihiki" title="https://www.instagram.com/slow_nihiki" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">(IG</a>)Still Moon Youth Committee is a group of volunteers aged 15-19 who help to create the annual Moon Festival and engage in community art, environmental stewardship, and outreach activities. (<a href="https://stillmoonarts.ca/youthcommittee/" title="https://stillmoonarts.ca/youthcommittee/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)Studio Objets Anxieux's Jin Wu is an artist, designer, and children's art educator exploring poetic, cross-disciplinary creation. Her practice spans drawing, sculpture, time-based media, zine-making, photography, and digital design. Holding degrees in Visual Arts and Industrial Design (the latter inspired by environmental sustainability), she now focuses on creative work with children using recycled offcuts. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/objetsanxieux/" title="https://www.instagram.com/objetsanxieux/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)Tiffany Yang is a Taiwanese-Canadian multidisciplinary artist specializing in natural-material upcycling, snow-sculpture storytelling, and performance art. She holds a degree from Emily Carr University in Interaction Design with a Social Practice and Community Engagement minor. Tiffany believes in everyday acts of kindness — picking up litter, smiling at pigeons, or sharing space and food with those in need. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/yunerverse" title="https://www.instagram.com/yunerverse" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)V&amp;C are a nephew-and-uncle duo who play and spend lots of time in the Renfrew Ravine. Their millennial/Gen Alpha creative process is full of silliness and play. With a bit of focus and melded skills, they share their joy for the neighbourhood. They made their first lantern together in 2025 and felt inspired to go bigger this year.Willoughby Arévalo is an interdisciplinary artist, mycologist, and educator building relationships between humans, fungi, and other beings. He has worked with Still Moon Arts since 2013 as lead artist on community eco-art works, including We All Belong, Fruiting Bodies, and Beaver Pondering Lodging, and as contributing artist and educator elsewhere. (<a href="https://artandfungi.org/" title="https://artandfungi.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)Winderemere Secondary Leadership Program Students have created lantern installations for the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival most years since the festival's inception.Yoko Tomito, originally from Osaka, Japan, has led many community-engaged art projects in East Vancouver, including street banners, the Salmon Creek and water fountain mosaics, and multicultural community murals. She also practices textile art and Japanese sashiko mending for upcycling clothing and teaches painting, sketching, and watercolour at an East Vancouver community centre. Her lanterns appear annually at the Moon and Winter Solstice Festivals.

The Heartbeets was born from a shared passion for a cappella music among friends. This ensemble choir values crafting their arrangements and honing their performances, from indie rock to R&amp;B hits. Since their UBC days, their synergy has flourished over eight years of collaboration. Like a warm beet salad, let their voices nourish your soul. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/the.heartbeets/" title="https://www.instagram.com/the.heartbeets/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)Tiddley Cove Morris' dances currently include Border, Betty Lupton, and Adderbury, as well as current choreography. While originally an all-women’s group, they now welcome members of all genders . They are closely associated with the all men’s side, The Vancouver Morris Men, and they can be seen at some of the same events such as May Day Morning. (<a href="https://tiddleycovemorris.ca/" title="https://tiddleycovemorris.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)The RaRas: The RaRas are a sister duo made up of Clara and Nora Cowan, multi-instrumentalists and singer-songwriters known for their beautiful harmonies, heartfelt performances, and creative arrangements. Singing together their entire lives, they perform original songs and unique covers, bringing their distinctive style and joyful energy to every performance. (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/therarasisters" title="https://www.instagram.com/therarasisters" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IG</a>)

<h4>Welcoming Water Woman</h4>An introduction to Still Moon's newly completed <a href="https://stillmoonarts.ca/water-woman-remembers/" title="https://stillmoonarts.ca/water-woman-remembers/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Water Woman giant puppet</a>, made with the love and care of many community members. Produced by Still Moon Arts. Puppet built by Carmen Rosen with Willoughby Arévalo, Liz Oakley, Sesemiya and Joe Boyd, with participation from over 750 community members. Performance created by Isabelle Kirouac with community members.Carmen Rosen is a visual artist, singer, and interdisciplinary performer with a long history of community art projects. Through Still Moon Arts, she has collaborated with many partners to create the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival and other projects highlighting the ravine, Still Creek, and urban salmon. She leads workshops on dyes, lanterns, puppets, and costumes. (<a href="https://stillmoonarts.ca/home/staff/" title="https://stillmoonarts.ca/home/staff/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)Isabelle Kirouac is an award-winning interdisciplinary choreographer, dance artist, acrobatic stilt walker and movement educator. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Simon Fraser University and has presented work across Canada, the USA, Mexico and Europe. Guided by land-based practices and interspecies relationships, she has taught movement to young people for nearly 20 years, often creating performance work in collaboration with her students. (<a href="https://threelittlereddots.org/" title="https://threelittlereddots.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)The Ryuzen Trio is centered on the traditional Japanese shakuhachi flute of Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos. Curtis Andrews channels West African, South Indian, and jazz traditions into a vast rhythmic language, while multi-instrumentalist Greg Valou brings a heavy prog rock edge and experimental intensity. Together they build unclassifiable sound, where deep tradition and freewheeling improvisation share the stage in equal measure.Sesemiya (Tracy Cameron): For 20+ years, Sesemiya has been engaged with revitalizing Coast Salish cultural practices. Through research, collaborative experimentation and consultation with Knowledge Keepers, Sesemiya’s work embodies her deep knowledge of Skwxwu7mesh lands and waters. A fifth-generation cedar weaver, the objects she makes extend directly from her practice of gathering and preparing wild materials. Her work has appeared in exhibitions at Vancouver Art Gallery, Bill Reid Gallery, Polygon Gallery and the Contemporary Art Gallery. In 2021, a commissioned work of Sesemiya’s was included in the Vancouver Art Gallery’s presentation of Yoko Ono’s Water Event. Sesemiya is a proud member of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation.Willoughby Arévalo is an interdisciplinary artist, mycologist, and educator building relationships between humans, fungi, and other beings. He has worked with Still Moon Arts since 2013 as lead artist on community eco-art works, including We All Belong, Fruiting Bodies, and Beaver Pondering Lodging, and as contributing artist and educator elsewhere. (<a href="https://artandfungi.org/" title="https://artandfungi.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Web</a>)

<h3>Land acknowledgement</h3>The Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival and all of Still Moon Arts' programming take place on the unceded territories of Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. <h3>About Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival</h3>A fusion of art, nature, and community, this month-long festival celebrates the Harvest Moon, Still Creek, local art, and the diverse cultural traditions of the Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood. Expect dazzling lanterns, live music, dance, food and workshops. Check out the<a href="https://stillmoonarts.ca/moon-festival/" title="https://stillmoonarts.ca/moon-festival/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> full Festival Program</a>! <h3>About Still Moon Arts Society</h3><a href="https://stillmoonarts.ca/" title="https://stillmoonarts.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Still Moon Arts Society </a>mobilizes community and creates positive change through eco-arts and environmental stewardship programming, and produces the annual Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival. Still Moon is a registered charity whose mission is to inspire vibrant and connected communities by creating artistic experiences and nurturing a passion for nature. <h3>Thank you to our Funders &amp; Partners</h3>We gratefully acknowledge the support of our Presenting Partner, <a href="https://www.renfrewcc.com/" title="https://www.renfrewcc.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Renfrew Park Community Association</a>, as well as our Funders and Partners: the Government of Canada, <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage.html" title="https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Canadian Heritage</a>, <a href="https://news.gov.bc.ca/" title="https://news.gov.bc.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Government of British Columbia</a>, <a href="https://www.bcartscouncil.ca/" title="https://www.bcartscouncil.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">BC Arts Council</a>, <a href="https://vancouver.ca/" title="https://vancouver.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">City of Vancouver</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stirvancouver?__cft__[0]=AZXsrj7axPnXpsjva8uBk5lOqxGg-UqxHzuH49CB1xaymKRwmst_DMEzZVRtGJpPwYYFkYUEPPIHoWUVPIv8ZxLX6kmRbclV-1UE5wMdOohXVPtdhUC8g7aupUKaXOJlPJf-7HXWwxjMkSsthVWLXuvUUrKBNwfPY5bOdcQqrN2G9KT2RCkR8IU4HUATdO2RL1qXSg0H_SDFJM3vmb8eWtDK&amp;__tn__=-]K-R" title="https://www.facebook.com/stirvancouver?__cft__[0]=AZXsrj7axPnXpsjva8uBk5lOqxGg-UqxHzuH49CB1xaymKRwmst_DMEzZVRtGJpPwYYFkYUEPPIHoWUVPIv8ZxLX6kmRbclV-1UE5wMdOohXVPtdhUC8g7aupUKaXOJlPJf-7HXWwxjMkSsthVWLXuvUUrKBNwfPY5bOdcQqrN2G9KT2RCkR8IU4HUATdO2RL1qXSg0H_SDFJM3vmb8eWtDK&amp;__tn__=-]K-R" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stir Vancouver</a>, the <a href="https://hamberfoundation.ca/" title="https://hamberfoundation.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Hamber Foundation</a>, <a href="https://www.vancouverfilmstudios.com/" title="https://www.vancouverfilmstudios.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Vancouver Film Studios, </a><a href="https://www.modo.coop/" title="https://www.modo.coop/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Modo Carsharing Coop</a>, and the many other supporters, donors, and volunteers who make the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival possible. Your contributions are invaluable and greatly appreciated.

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