CREATE! Festival Concert Pass

604 Records, Light Organ Records and CREATE! Eastside Arts Festival present a sizzling summer concert with Vancouver artists Haleluya Hailu, Fur Trade and Sarah Jane Scouten on Saturday, July 27th in sunny Strathcona Park. Ticket holders also get access to the CREATE! Festival Art Zone with public participation art projects, an art shop, food trucks and a beer garden sponsored by Strange Fellows Brewing.

SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2024

Times: 1:30pm - 6pm (Doors at 1:30pm, show starts at 2pm)

Price: CREATE! Concert Festival passes are only $20 + GST

All-ages

Interested in also taking an art workshop? Workshops tickets are $35 per workshop and include access to the CREATE! Art Zone, including the live music concert. Art workshops run 12:30-2:00pm & 2:30-4:00pm. See our event page to browse the avaliable workshops!

THE ARTISTS

is reclaiming the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. The term describes a well-worn stock character whose sole purpose is to help or inspire brooding young men lost in a time of transition. Hailu, a multi-instrumentalist, poet, and activist, wants to bring a third dimension to these colorful female archetypes on her forthcoming album eternally, yours.

Named for the classic arthouse film Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, eternally, yours. features a vibrant and sparkling collection of alternative-minded tracks that effortlessly straddle emo, punk, and pop in the vein of Paramore, WILLOW, Clairo, and Dominic Fike.

As Haleluya prepares to launch eternally, yours., which finds the young singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist at a crossroads, one thing is for sure: Anyone working to better understand themselves, their friends, their relationships, and their next steps will relate — eternally.

(DJ Set) the ambitious, pop-twisting duo of Steve Bays (Mounties, Hot Hot Heat) and Parker Bossley (The Gay Nineties, Hot Hot Heat), will be bringing a lively DJ set to the CREATE! stage for this innugural live music show.

Their new album, Dark Celebration, is a get-together of shredded neon guitar-monies, gothic organ whirls, tropical disco vibes, and the free-flowing four-on-the-floors of “indie-club tracks with an arty twist”. While tapping into a wellspring of sonic inspiration — think Yellow Magic Orchestra, Dirty Projectors, Yumi Matsutoya, Hall & Oates, and Phoenix — Dark Celebration instantly becomes Fur Trade through signature moves like Bays’ familiar weighty croon, or Bossley’s slinky, bass-forward bump.

Fur Trade’s new album revels in aural jubilation, while acknowledging that life and love can be messy and chaotic. Eternal optimists, maybe, but Fur Trade know well enough by now that you’ve got to embrace all parts of a Dark Celebration.

is a Vancouver-born folk & country artist who lives in rural Scotland. Her upcoming fifth album, Turned to Gold (Light Organ Records), is a road trip album, drawing on Tom Petty, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris and Christine McVie. Opening up the record, “Wanderlust” is a highway dream. “Wilder When I Was With You”, with its irresistible chorus, was co-written with Samantha Parton (BeGood Tanyas). “Rose and Carnations” is a tribute to John Prine and “The Great Unknown” reveals a family experience of medical assistance in dying (MAID). For the title track “Turned to Gold”, Sarah Jane revisits the impact of the sudden loss of her biological mother, exploring the theme of alchemical transmutation. Made in a heatwave in Vancouver, she collaborated with producer Johnny Payne (The Shilohs), Matt Kelly on keys and guitars (City and Colour), Leon Power on drums (Frazey Ford) and James McEleney on bass (Andrew Collins Trio).

Sarah Jane Scouten has been nominated for 4 Canadian Folk Music Awards, a Western Canadian Music Award and an International Folk Music Award. She has performed at Vancouver Folk Music Festival, MerleFest, Calgary Folk Music Festival, Salmon Arm Roots and Blues, Dranouter Festival, Maverick Americana Music Festival and more. She has opened for Corb Lund, William Prince, Ron Sexsmith, The Sadies and shared the stage with Martha Wainwright, The Strumbellas, Allison Russell, Martin Carthy, Mandolin Orange (Watchhouse) and more. According to CBC q’s Tom Power, "Stan Rogers was able to do it, Ron Hynes was able to do it, Kate McGarrigle was able to do it – and Sarah Jane Scouten is able to do it."

FREE PUBLIC ART ACTIVITES

Whimsical Mini Mushroom Paintings

Come create a playful mini mushroom painting with markers and vivid watercolours. Artist Cara Guri will support you in making a whimsical miniature composition that celebrates the beauty and importance of the mighty mushroom while expressing your creative vision. Take home your very own mini masterpiece!

Lead by: Cara Guri, a professional visual artist and hyperrealist painter. She completed a BFA from Emily Carr and a painting residency at Columbia University. Her paintings, which play with perception, identity construction, the interconnectedness of people and their environment and the messy line between literal and psychological space, have been exhibited throughout Canada and New York.

Let’s Grow! Mini Plant Pot Painting

Come paint pots and plant flowers as a way to explore themes of personal growth. Participants of all ages will not only get to bring home their beautifully decorated pot and flower, they will also have learned ways to help themselves and those around them blossom.

Lead by: Alternative Creations Studio, located in East Vancouver, is a collective that supports artists with developmental disabilities. Their studio provides the opportunity for artists to experiment, explore and hone their skills. Since 2013, their focus has been to enrich the lives of our artists, their families and the broader community. They pride themselves on collaborating in like-minded initiatives, sharing studio space, and connecting with the wider public by hosting community workshops and other events. Alternative Creations Studio is supported by www.posAbilities.ca

The Community Chronicles Collaborative Zine Project

Join The Community Chronicles Collaborative Zine Project! Create your own 8-page mini zine about home. Your creation will be woven into a big community zine displayed at Create! You can interact with others by contributing to our canvas wall. Let's build our shared story together!

Lead by: Claire Davis is a multidisciplinary (poetry, painting, and installation) artist, educator and performer living in East Van. Memory, story, and identity intertwine within Claire’s work, punctuated with expressions of everyday wonder. Inspired by nature and its systems, Claire engages with people and their stories of place and home, creatively incorporating them into collective experiences.

ART SHOP EXHIBITORS

@slicevancouver

@winterluxe

Rebecca Holand @rj_holand

@markikaren

@weisearts

Patti Wall @pattiwallart

Candice Weber @loudly_insecure

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ACCESSIBILITY: The event site is on grass, gravel, and uneven terrain, there is no ramp access to the park. The open-air setting will have ambient noise, conversational sound levels, and loud areas with the noise of food truck generators and live music. Washrooms on site will be gender-neutral portable structures, with one wheelchair-accessible portable washroom. We will communicate verbally with members of the public using listening and spoken language in English. Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs.

REFUND POLICY

If you would like to cancel your attendance, we will offer you a refund, provided that you inform us at least 4 days prior to the scheduled event. Please note that the Eventbrite processing fee is non-refundable, and we do not have control over this part of the fee. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

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The CREATE! Eastside Arts Festival is presented by the Eastside Arts Society, producers of the Eastside Culture Crawl and the Eastside Arts District.

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