THE ONLY ANIMAL THEATRE SOCIETY

• Thousand Year Theatre: is an installation of three interactive botanical stages created by Kendra Fanconi Cody Chancellor and Julie Andreyev & Lara Felsing on the lands of the shíshálh and Skwxwú7mesh in Mt Elphinstone Provincial Park; since July 2023 ? Thousand Year Theatre created by Kendra Fanconi is a featured exhibit at the Rewilding installation at Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa from October 11 2024 to September 8 2025 ? Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing - Phase Two: by Rosemary Georgeson and Lara Aysal a documentary video series with Indigenous knowledge holders and youth sharing perspectives on climate; Yellow House Arts Centre Galiano (Sept 2025) ? Irresistible Worlds: a national education initiative on the role of the artist in society during the climate crisis. 40 artists 8 facilitators over 3 days In partnership with National Arts Centre Canadian Climate Challenge Mass Culture and Metcalf Foundation. ? Slow Socials: an ongoing series of gatherings that invite communities to connect through relaxed textile creation environmental sound/music and conversation. Participants learn natural dyeing techniques and using simple rope aka ‘cordage’ from natural fibres including fabric scraps and garden waste. ? Autumn Winter Spring Summer (AWSS): a growing audio and textile installation inspired by seasonal colour predictions for the autumn-winter and spring-summer seasons.

• Slow Socials: Around Sound: Centered around artist talks with Q & A’s and open discussion with composer/performers produced in partnership with Music on Main. • Listening in Relation: A research project in collaboration with educator Julie Andreyev alongside faculty and students at Emily Carr University and the Canadian Ass’n for Sound Ecology to explore how listening sound-making and land-based material art practices can help foster care for more-than-human lifeworlds. Participants join us in sound walks improvisation workshops a reading group natural dye workshops and botanical printmaking and more. • Slow Social Club: Brings together people from local communities across disciplines and lifestyles to 'slow down' by engaging in botanical artistic practices environmental readings and sound-based practices (including soundwalks and improvised music). Offered in partnership with The Roundhouse Community Centre Unit/Pitt Gallery and Gordon Neighbourhood house. • Public Programming Residency @ FLEET Studios in Edmonds Park Burnaby featuring Vancouver-based visual/textile artists Sena Cleave Tristan Sober-Boldgett Ysabel Gana and sound/media artists Toni-Leah C. Yake and Anju Singh and scholar/performance artist Julia Ulehla. • Soil to Stage: KIOSK Project in collaboration with the Sunshine Coast Arts Council a series of community engaged events culminating in two performances - January to September 2025 • Slow Social Alchemy Project investigates the challenge of nourishing our mutual relationships with the more-than-human world through socially engaged sound and visual arts practice from March -October 2025; featuring Vancouver visual/textile artists Sena Cleave Tristan Sober-Boldgett Ysabel Gana; and sound/media artists Toni-Leah C. Yake Anju Singh and Julia Ulehla; Fleet Studio