2023 Moon Festival: Call for artists and performers

by Karen La and Masa Kateb

Still Moon Arts Society is seeking creative folks, like yourself, to join the 21st Annual Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival. They are recruiting performers of all kinds for the Harvest Fair and diverse artists for the Streamside Lantern Installation. Both events take place on the first full day of autumn, Saturday, September 23, 2023.

The festival features live music, dance, shadow puppets, ecological arts, workshops, youth performances and more. It’s an annual community arts and sustainability festival with free events that span the month of September. It celebrates the full moon, harvest abundance, diverse cultural traditions, the natural environment of Renfrew-Collingwood, and its communities.

Over two decades, the Moon Festival has engaged over 100,000 people by providing arts-related jobs, visibility for artists and opportunities for local businesses and residents to experience art in the presence of a caredfor Ravine.

• 2023 Moon Festival Theme:

Water’s Wisdom

• Application deadline: Sunday, May 21st, 2023 at 11:59 PM (PST)

• Selected applicants will receive a fee and opportunities to connect

We honour, reflect and ask:

• What is your relationship to water?

• What is your relationship to wisdom?

Visit www.StillMoonArts and apply to be part of the festival’s 2023 edition.

The Harvest Fair is a familyfriendly event at Slocan Park (2750 East 29th Ave) where attendees can make crafts, play games and enjoy acts by local musicians and performers. It also features the popular vegetable competition, which celebrates the neighbourhood’s best homegrown produce. Performers can be musicians, dance groups, stilt walkers, clowns, balloon artists, puppeteers, storytellers and any other performance artists.

The Streamside Lantern Installation is the magical heart of the Moon Festival. This evening spectacle is set against a magnificent backdrop of towering trees, welcoming walking guests through a transformed Renfrew Community Park (2929 East 22nd Ave), decorated with giant lanterns and diverse illuminated art, and accompanied by enchanting live music and the running sound of water. Artists can be those who make illuminated art suitable for the outdoors. Like lanterns, electronic-art, eco-art, land art, or any other art that shines in the dark.

If you are a performer, artist or a creative community member, Still Moon Arts would love to hear about your practice and how your artistic expression could embody the theme of Water’s Wisdom.

For more details and to apply, visit www.StillMoonArts.ca. For questions and support with the application, contact amanda@ stillmoonarts.ca.