8th annual Vines Art Festival

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Cost: Free

We support underrepresented voices in developing their work. We bring imagination into everyday spaces by presenting work for free on “earthstages” – populated and natural public spaces in Vancouver and throughout the province.

The festival is a free public event that creates platforms for local artists and performers to create with and on the land, steering their creative impulses toward work that focuses on the environment – whether a deep love of nature, sustainability, or climate justice.
We stage work in pedestrian, open-air settings so audiences will happen upon public art, finding delight in the unexpected beauty and power of the stunning Coast Salish Territory. We present a wide range of disciplines and cultures, reinforcing the reality that each art form and each community has a deep-rooted tie to the earth and a story to go along with it. Vines shares thought-provoking art that tackles environmental justice with various approaches that are inclusive of diverse ages, genders, abilities and cultures; granting each individual the possibility to access, engage, and participate in creation or performance.

Vines Art Festival was created by director Heather Lamoureux in 2015. It is an annual event on on unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, BC). The festival has been rapidly growing in size, and completed its fifth edition in 2019. Audiences and local artists raved about Vines Festival – one festival-goer called it a “rewarding and rejuvenating experience that connected [them] deeper to the park and local community”. A truly grassroots initiative, our budget has grown from $4,000 to $200,000 and received support from the Canada Council, BC Arts Council, City of Vancouver, Canadian Heritage, BC Gaming, Vancity Bank, as well as individual donors. The funding we receive allows us to hire more artists, to host more events over a longer period of time in a variety of locations, and thereby reach larger, more diverse audiences. In 2019 Vines hosted and 11-day festival, presenting over 90 performances with over 200 individual artists involved and was attended by over 5000 people. Our commissioning programs include Resilient Roots (grassroots Indigenous artists), Vines’ Youth Program, Intersections; we recently have begun touring and presenting additional showcases with these programs.
SCHEDULE
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AUG 03 – OPENING CEREMONIES
AUG 04 – FORGED BY US
AUG 05 – WE, THE MANY
AUG 06 – THE BLACK BLOSSOM
AUG 09 – OUR BODIES, A SHORELINE
AUG 10 – PRISONERS JUSTICE DAY
AUG 11 – RESILIENT ROOTS
AUG 12 – WHEN WE WERE
AUG 13 – OUR TENDED HARVEST
LAKE OF DREAMS
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