Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival Main Day Events
About this Event
While all events are free, we request that you if you can comfortably afford it (or more, if you like!).
Harvest Fair | Twilight Lantern Procession | Streamside Lanterns
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 pars: Harvest Fair, Twilight Lantern Procession, and Streamside Lanterns.
Part 1: Harvest Fair
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM (Sunset) at
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.
- Welcome by Sesemiya (Tracy Cameron)
- Performaces by Windermere Jazz Band, BallyClaire, Uncle Trent and Friends, House of Indian Dance, and MAUVEY.
- Activites: 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
- Artisan Vendors: TBA
- Harvest Veggie Contest returns again this year with prizes from local businesses. Drop off your impressive veggie of fruit at the Veggie Contest table. Categories: The Big One, Tiniest Harvest, Wierd & Wacky, Judge's Choice.
- Food: Harvest Soup, Saison de Patisserie, Panadería Latina Bakery, Pinehouse Bakery, Japadog Food Truck
- Booths: TBA
Part 2: Twilight Lantern Procession
7:01 PM (Sunset) to 7:15 PM starting from , and ending at
Walk with colourful puppets and performers among surprising sounds and sights. 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.
Part 3: Streamside Lanterns
7:15 PM to 9:15 PM at
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.
- In the Forest: Adele Neuman, Andrew Tuline, Ann K Chou, Ben Rosen-Purcell, CJ McDonald, Carmen Rosen, Clover Duong, Gamelan Turtle Bliss, GlassBloom Studio, Gravity's Threshold Collective, Joe Boyd, Joey Mallett, Kick Off The Truck Collective, Mengya Zhao, Naomi Singer, Rachel Lytzki, Reflecting on Water Project, Sisters of Concord, Slow Nihiki, Still Moon Youth Committee, Studio Objets Anxieux, Tiffany Yang, V&C, Willoughby Arévalo, Winderemere Leadership Students, Yoko Tomito
- On the Field: The Heartbeets, Tiddley Cove Morris, The RaRas
- Homemade Lantern Contest: New this year! Show off your handmade creation and win a prize!
- 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.
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Sesemiya (Tracy Cameron).
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. (Web/IG)
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. (Web)
House of Indian Dance. (Web)
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.(Web/IG)
Ana Polgár
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. (LinkTree)
Kick Off The Truck Collective: Friends making art. (IG)
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. (IG)
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. (Web)
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. (Web/IG)
Ben Rosen-Purcell has been making lanterns for community festivals in East Vancouver for 20+ years.
CJ McDonald
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. (Web)
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. (Web)
Gamelan Turtle Bliss
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. (Web)
Gravity's Threshold Collective is a group of emerging dance artists based in the Unceded Territories of the Coast Salish Nations. Their shared practice is rooted in contact improvisation, somatic listening, and site-responsive movement research. Bringing together varied bodies, backgrounds, and relationships to dance, the collective explores how movement can emerge from the margins of sensation that shift the thresholds between self and other.
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. (IG)
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. (IG)
Kick Off The Truck Collective: Friends making art. (IG)
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. (Web/IG)
Naomi Singer (Web)
Rachel Lytzki is a self-taught, sometime 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. (IG)
Reflecting on Water Project : Carmen Rosen, Isabelle Kirouac, Sesemiya, Sheila Rosen, Luciana Freire D'Anunciação, and community participants at HopeHill and Collingwood Neighbourhood House. (Web)
Sisters of Concord: Retired librarian Margo has spent her life making creations with new purposes from old and found items, and especially enjoys crafting whimsical transporters to various elsewheres for the mind.
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 (IG)
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. (Web)
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. (IG)
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. (IG)
V&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. (Web)
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&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. (IG)
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. (Web)
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. (IG)
Welcoming Water Woman
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.
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. (Web)
Isabelle Kirouac is an interdisciplinary choreographer, movement artist, stilt-walker and educator born on unceded Abenaki territory, now living on unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territory. She uses movement to explore the poetics of senses and everyday life, with research drawing on dance improvisation, somatics, and circus to connect art and ecology. (Web)
Land acknowledgement
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.
About Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival
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 full Festival Program!
About Still Moon Arts Society
Still Moon Arts Society 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.
Thank you to our Funders & Partners
We gratefully acknowledge the support of our Presenting Partner, Renfrew Park Community Association, as well as our Funders and Partners: the Government of Canada, Canadian Heritage, Government of British Columbia, BC Arts Council, City of Vancouver, Stir Vancouver, the Hamber Foundation, Vancouver Film Studios, Modo Carsharing Coop, 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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