SECHELT ARTS FESTIVAL
Mission
To present a free, high-caliber, community festival focused on art, ecology and climate change.
The Sechelt Arts Festival connects art to considerations of climate change and environmental justice. We seek to present a high-level Festival that will place Sechelt as a leader in the regional festival ecology. From music, dance, theater, exhibitions, performances and film screenings, to lectures, discussions and hands-on activities, we envision an intergenerational Festival that draws our community into engaged and inspiring ideas around biodiversity, climate activism and creative making.
2025: Sinku (Open Water)
September 19 - 28, 2025
In 2025, with Sinku as our companion, the Festival will bring forward ideas and stories that are uniquely and deeply connected to our lands, air and waters, with a focus on the “Trail Bay” waterfront, from the gravel belt to the rocks at Snickett Park. Sinku is the she shashishalhem word for “open water”, or what we commonly call the Salish Sea today. From September 19 - 28 we will host an interdisciplinary festival that includes film screenings, a keynote lecture, a digital heritage project, an ecological field school, hands-on workshops, youth-focused climate action theatre, an exhibition, and a thematic community procession on the autumnal equinox culminating in a large-scale waterfront concert.
2025 Curatorial Committee:
Sadira Rodrigues, Jessica Silvey, Gerardo Avila, Arwen MacDonald
