Sustenance Festival: Incandescence with Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper
Schedule
Thu Oct 23 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Vancouver Public Library | Vancouver, BC
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Every summer, wildfires increasingly ravage places around the globe, darkening the skies with thick smoke and reducing communities to little more than ash and debris.Award-winning directors Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper (Metamorphosis) weave together immersive on-the-ground footage with first-person accounts from Indigenous Elders, first responders, and ordinary people forced to react to a rapidly evolving ecosystem in the feature documentary Incandescence (2024).
As climate change continues to escalate, full suppression measures have largely failed, leading to bigger, more intense mega-fires. But there is another way. Indigenous knowledge keepers explain that the First Nations people traditionally used controlled burns to regenerate the land. As one woman explains, fire is like a grizzly bear running to stay alive. But instead of fighting this insatiably hungry beast, working with nature transforms fire’s capacity to destroy into a powerful force for growth and renewal.
We are honoured to have Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper in person at the library to introduce the film with a Q & A session to follow after the screening.
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Rating: PG
Runtime: 104 mins
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The Sustenance Festival is a food-focused city-wide festival that celebrates and shares local food-inspired workshops and events in public spaces in Vancouver.
Since 2009, the city-wide festival has provided a unique platform locally and internationally that gives space to explore the growing concerns around food in our world.
These concerns include:
- Industrialization of our food systems
- Access to food
- Inequity built into our food systems
- Climate change
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Presented in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada and the City of Vancouver.
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Please register. Registration is not required to attend, but it helps us anticipate attendance and send a reminder the day before the event, or any updates about this program.
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VPL is committed to making our programs accessible for all. If you have an access need that we have not addressed here, please email us at [email protected].
This event takes place in the Montalbano Family Theatre on Level 8
*Elevator access to level 8 is available with the main elevators on level 2.
*The theatre has three wheelchair accessible spaces in the front row on the right hand side.
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Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street,Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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