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LUNA Festival of Nocturnal Art and Wonder is back in all its glory on September 23rd to 25th 2022. Come to LUNA and prepare to experience Revelstokeas you have never seen it before. LUNA Arts transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary with 42 unique indoor and outdoor interactive visual art installations and professional performances selectively placed in Revelstoke’s downtown core. After a two-year hiatus where LUNA Reimagined kept the flame of outdoor arts, performance and culture alive in Revelstoke, 2022 is set to be the biggest most impressive LUNA ever, with the theme FLIGHT. Founded in 2017, LUNA is a curated multidisciplinary 3-day annual Festival held annually in September that brings art and energy to downtown Revelstoke.

Luna Arts Sound

Friday, September 23rd 2022 8pm - Late

A wild night of music that kicks off LUNA Festival weekend. LUNA SOUND features hip hop, bues, punk rock, RnB, EDM and everything in between, with ten bands across four stages. For 2022 we are thrilled to have drag artists PM and Continental Breakfast joining us from Vancouver to MC.

Dance the night away at four uniquely LUNA venues, and prepare to be blown away by the spectacular and diverse Canadian musical talent. LUNA Sound tickets will give you access to all 4 venues and are on sale at lunafest.ca.

Luna Arts

Saturday, September 24th 2022 6pm - 11pm

Get ready for a mind-blowing extravaganza of immersive installations, neo-clowning with 3D metal art, shadow puppetry with flying dragons, traditional Indigenous dance and throat singing with electronic beats and looping technology. This incredible and wondrous mash up of unique experiences, original commissions and interactive artworks is for young and old, from experienced art connoisseurs to complete novices. Come out and experience Revelstoke’s downtown core in ways you have never imagined.

LUNA Arts is free of charge but donations for future LUNA events are appreciated and can be made on the night or at www.artsrevelstoke.com .

Luna Studio

The weekend Festival offering will be rounded out by LUNA Studio on Sunday filled with workshops and artist talks.

Art Alleries and Artists talks:

10am - Zuzana Riha, Flight of Light (Regent alleyway) 10:30am - Leah Allison (Revelstoke Credit Union Alleyway) 11am - Tania Willard (TBC) 11:30am - Charise Folnovic (Roxy Theater Entrance) 12 noon – Johnny Bandura – (TBC) 12:30 - Andrew Kermack (Roxy Theater alleyway)

Workshops More info and sign up at lunafest.ca

Crochet techniques for 3D projects Led by: Cathy English Location: Revelstoke Museum and Archives 11am - 1 pm BLUSCRN - Dance and mixed media Led by : Ralph Escamillan, Milton Lim and Kayleigh Sandormisky Location: Traverse 10am – 11:00am

Art & Fungi Walk Led by Willoughby Arevalo

How to fold your Dragon with Ben Morrow - confirmed 10am – 12pm Location: Library Learning Lab Registration on the day at the Library Learning Lab.

Flourish

By Andrew Kermack

Working with five Calgary-based Drag Queens, Revelstoke-born artist, Andrew Kermack will capture a series based around each Queen as they build a unique look based on their personal definition of flight, taking into account their Drag Persona and the path that led them to where they are in their Drag Journey. In addition to each Queen's unique look, they will have a set of wings to accompany the look - as a not so subtle nod to LUNA’s flight theme.

The 215

By Johnny Bandura

When Johnny Bandura was first inspired to paint a mural comprised of portraits of the 215 children whose remains were found on the grounds of the Kamloops Residential School last May—a tragic revelation that prompted a national reckoning with Canada’s colonial legacy—he never imagined the journey his work would spark. Johnny decided to paint portraits to honor and give perspective of each child found. The striking, Comix-inspired images of the children imagined as they might have looked had they survived to adulthood, have touched viewers around British Columbia at a variety of exhibitions, serving both as a memorial and as an educational tool.This upcoming year the project will be featured at several festivals and events and will end the year with a 3 month stay at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops BC.

Freedom of the Press

By The Printmakers

By challenging the size restriction of a traditional print press we will create large scale wood block prints, printing them with the assistance of a steamroller. A process that will transform the mostly solitary medium of print into a collaborative and interactive experience for both the performer and the audience. Post LUNA we will trim down the large scale artwork and bind it in a book that will remain on display at Fable Book Parlor. The Printmakers are a collaborative print collective founded by six local Revelstoke artists including Meghan Porath, Rob Buchanan, Brett Mallon, Cornelius Suchy, Ella Hardy and Dylan Hardy. This beautiful addition to Relevelstoke’s Art Alleries by Delreé Dumont will portray a jingle dancer, lifting her eagle feather fan towards the sky. When dancers lift their fan into the direction of the sky, to the drum beat (Mother Earth's heartbeat), they are connecting to the Creator to receive healing. (The eagle is the only bird that can fly closest to the Creator to deliver messages). The jingle dance is a healing dance and the jingle cones make the sound of the rain when they dance. Nowadays, all Nations across North America dance the jingle dance at competition or traditional pow wows. This piece will be painted using orange (Every Child Matters) and Red (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls) with blue, yellow and white as highlights and embellished with real jingle cones (365 cones for every day of the year) studs, feathers, beads and pointillism.

BLUSCRN

By Fakeknot

BLUSCRN explores contemporary advertising in relation to the body. By using both live and post-production chroma keying softwares to filter and replace environments, objects, and clothing, the project asserts a simultaneous operation of the body as subject and object. The performance is live captured and composited onto monitors, from which other worlds, environments and desires emerge. This piece is brought to LUNA by Fakeknot, the umbrella entity for collaborative performance works that play with the complexities of identity and culture through costume, sound, technology, and movement. FakeKnot is grounded in street, commercial, and contemporary dance techniques that honours the queer, POC identity of artistic director, Ralph Escamillan. Collaboration as a practice of knowledge co-creation is essential for FakeKnot in the ways it can bring differences together.

Bubbleworks

By The Big Eddy Babes

BubbleWorks will transform the most fundamental shape in glass blowing, the bubble, into a whimsical wonderland of color and flight. The centerpiece of the installation is an antique cast iron bathtub that has been a welcome sign at the Big Eddy Glass Works studio since it was founded. Bubbleworks is a collaborative work by Big Eddy Glass Works’ team of six makers, led by Leah Allison who are based in the Big Eddy Neighborhood of Revelstoke.