Modulus Festival 2025: Luddite Land Assembly Concert
featuring: Tsimka Martin and Michael Red, Caley Watts, Welcome by Rita Point Kompst (xʷmәθkʷәy̓әm)
Date/Time: Nov 9 2025, 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Vancouver, Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | Event calendar181 Roundhouse Mews
Tickets
Cost: $25.00
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TICKETS: Pay-what-you-will $38-$62. (Student/arts worker $25)
The Luddite Assembly Concert brings together the results of four hands-on crafting sessions, where audiences help create a large-scale, plant-dyed textile.
A re-enchantment of place, tuned to the rhythm of our hands:
The Only Animal Theatre does magic tricks with natural dye in this multidisciplinary slow art and music experience. Inspired by the history of the Luddites, skilled textile workers of the Industrial Revolution who resisted automation and fought for fair work, this contemporary reimagining invites audiences to slow down, connect, and co-create.
Over two days of social gatherings and performances, a large-scale, plant-dyed textile comes to life with contributions from the public. Audiences dye, eco-print and embroider fabrics to reveal hidden designs by artist Keely O’Brien, alongside live storytelling and recorded sound.
On Sunday night the stitching continues, paired with ‘music from the land and heart’ by Tsimka Martin and Michael Red, and songs of ‘rivers, mountains and rainforests’ by Caley Watts.
As you enjoy the concert, you’re welcome to pick up some of our beautifully natural-dyed materials to stitch or create cordage. No experience is needed and everything will be provided. Join in if you like, or simply sit back, listen, and enjoy the enchanting sounds.
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