Equinox Procession + Concert
September 20, 2025 | Festival Celebration, 6pm – 9pm
Free, Open to All | Snickett Park, Sechelt
In collaboration with the Coast Rogue Arts Society, Gerardo Avila, Driftwood Players and others
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s writing on the “grammar of animacy” asks us to think of ecologies and environments as “kin” and not “things”. “A bay is a noun only if water is dead. When bay is a noun, it is defined by humans, trapped between its shores and contained by the word. But the verb wiikwegamaa—to be a bay—releases the water from bondage and lets it live. “To be a bay” holds the wonder that, for this moment, the living water has decided to shelter itself between these shores, conversing with cedar roots and a flock of baby mergansers. Because it could do otherwise—become a stream or an ocean or a waterfall, and there are verbs for that, too. Water, land, and even a day, the language a mirror for seeing the animacy of the world, the life that pulses through all things, through pines and nuthatches and mushrooms. This is the grammar of animacy.”
