ENGAGING

GARDEN #5

Anita Morse Gardener

Nestled under a canopy of cedars, this tranquil shade garden features shrubs and climbers such as rhodos, hydrangeas, clematis, hostas, and jasmine, leading to and encircling a beautiful pond.

Visual Artists

ANITA MORSE Acrylic, Oil

Anita loves to paint abstract faces, impressionistic lanscapes, and modern abstracts of bold colors in lines, dots, and swirls, inspired by J.Pollack.

BILL ELDER (HE/HIM) Metal Sculpture

Bill Elder focuses on Bulrushes and Herons, made for the garden or inside a home. All work is made in his workshop and no two pieces are the same.

MUSICIANS & PERFORMERS

KR UNITED Ambient World | Both Days, 12:00pm – 2:00pm

Through a synchronistic meeting, shakuhachi flute master, Alcvin, and handpan virtuoso, Kiyoshi, made an immediate musical connection. They love making uplifting music that is healing for the community.

ALFREDO MANGHERINI Ambient Psychedelic | Both Days, 2:30pm – 4:30pm

Alfredo is a multi-instrument musician who intertwines sounds and atmospheres by creating a distinctive melancholic, yet hopeful, ambience through his finger-style picking method.

RACHEL MADDOCK (SHE/HER) Dance and Music | Sunday, 3:00pm – 3:30pm

“Clear in the River” is a contemporary dance work based on a sensory response to the environment of Lynn Valley Headwaters. The creative process aims to give agency to the natural landscape by allowing it to drive the expression and movement.

Marliese Eilers Gardener

Nestled in the Grousewoods Forest, this quaintly sculptured garden has been lovingly crafted into a small tranquil setting, with a peaceful babbling stream adding serenity to the plentiful flowering shrubs, glorious perennials and majestic maples.

Visual Artists

MARLIESE EILERS (SHE/HER) Acrylic Collage

Marliese enjoys creating works that will draw the eye in and entice it to keep wandering through the piece, to see what can be discovered.

HAYLEY CRICHTON: HAPPY NOMAD CANDLE

Beeswax and Soy Wax Candles

Hayley Crichton is the chandler behind Happy Nomad Candles, started in 2017. The beeswax is 100% Canadian, and comes in a variety of shapes and sizes.

MUSICIANS & PERFORMERS

JOCELYN PETTIT DUO Celtic, Folk | Both Days, 12:00pm – 2:00pm

For this special duo performance, fiddle player Jocelyn Pettit will be joined by her mother, Siew Wan Khoo, on piano. The duo will present an uplifting program of traditional and original music.

TERESA MARIE DUO Jazz | Both Days, 2:30pm – 4:30pm

Teresa Marie is a Vancouver-based Jazz and R&B vocalist. Teresa typically performs music from the Great American Songbook tradition, but she also enjoys singing Pop as well as her original compositions.

GARDEN #7

SUSAN BATH GARDENER

This whimsical garden has been created over the course of twenty five years using hands-on knowledge, for the love of flowers and trees. 75 repurposed chandeliers render the garden magical.

Visual Artists

KAT TZINGOUNAKIS ILLUSTRATION Gouache, Digital, Prints

Kat uses vibrant colour and movement of shape to evoke humour, playfulness, absurdity, and love, hinting at our daily contradictions.

EMILY PICARD (SHE/HER) Mixed Media

Emily’s work allows her to interact with alternate realities and our own; bringing a part of these worlds into form on our side of existence.

MUSICIANS & PERFORMERS

CLARA MACLEOD (SHE/HER) Dreampop, Folk | Both Days, 12:00pm – 2:00pm

Known as a “fairy songstress,” Clara infuses indie pop with ethereal imagery, soaring harmonies, and elements of Celtic, folk, and alternative genres. There’s nothing she loves more than weaving stories and creating a soft space for listeners to stay for a while.

DIA Pop, Folk | Both Days, 2:30pm – 4:30pm

Dia is an all-female vocal performance trio that sings songs of hope, empowerment and resistance for a changing world. They aim to empower people with their music and messages, and lift up the voices of women and queer femme songwriters and artists.

319 14th Street East North Vancouver

North Shore Hospice

This garden is a restorative, relaxing gathering space. The garden, which includes a wide variety of local indigenous plants, has been tended by an amazing team of Van Dusen Master Gardeners since 2010.

Visual Artists

ALLISON BURNS JOSEPH (SHE/HER) Beads, Wool, Leather, Vinyl

Allison started wool weaving in 2008, and has continued expressing herself through her pieces, helping pass on the Squamish Nation tradition of wool weaving. Since the Covid 19 pandemic, she has expanded into beading, and has had the opportunity to make many items such as beaded hats, earrings, and pendants!

LAUREN MORRIS (SHE/HER) Acrylic on Canvas, Acrylic on Wood with Resin

As a floral artist, Lauren’s goal is to create arrangements that not only showcase the beauty of flowers, but also tell a story. Her objective is in her desire to fulfill an emotional response, rather than focusing on subject matter.

MUSICIANS & PERFORMERS

PICO MASAKI Traditional, World Music | Both Days, 12:00pm – 2:00pm

Pico Masaki incorporates contemporary elements into an Asian traditional instrument, koto/guzheng, accompanied by her singing. She creates a fusion of Western and Eastern sounds, showcasing the diversity of the city and communities in which we live.

KIM LORENE (SHE/HER) Acoustic, Original Folk, Roots, Jazz

Both Days, 2:30pm – 4:30pm

Kim Lorene is a singer-songwriter inspired by the lush natural beauty of southern coastal British Columbia. Her warm, rich vocals are supported by acoustic guitar, and more recently by the fun addition of ukulele.

UNIT 8, 262 EAST ESPLANADE AVENUE NORTH VANCOUVER

Lifespace Garden

LifeSpace Gardens’ new location on 259 E 1st St is ready to host gardeners and friends. Come learn about urban farming, self-watering gardens, and how you can transform your space to grow your own food!

LifeSpace will be putting on seed starting and edible garden workshops all day. Come for a visit, and leave with some seedlings ready to grow!

Visual Artists

KENNEDY SNIDER (SHE/HER) Jewelry and Ceramics

Kennedy’s work is situated in the day to day. Using relief sculpture, she depicts seed pods, flowers, moths, and other creatures to express the potential energy we carry and cumulate through the day.

CHRISTINA RADVAK (SHE/THEY) Design, Illustration, Print-making

Christina is Mexican-Canadian artist who explores the feminine as a source of strength and boldness through digital drawing and print-making techniques.

MUSICIANS & PERFORMERS

RICARDO Pop, Blues, Jazz, R&B | Both Days, 12:00pm – 2:00pm

Ricardo’s music is deeply personal and honest at the core. He is influenced by his experience as a composer, producing for hip-hop, afro beat, and R&B clients, and his work composing and performing in choirs.

CURLS & VIOLINS (SHE/HER) Pop Covers | Both Days, 2:30pm – 4:30pm

Fiona is a classically trained South Asian violinist who now plays a variety of repertoire, comprising of English and Ethnic music. Her musician motto is “I am the party”.

LOUTET FARM & GERRY’S GARDEN

Loutet Farm, managed by the Edible Garden Project, is a community farm, offering programs, events, and produce for the community. The Edible Garden Project grows food using regenerative practices, and strives to use their space to educate community members about sustainable food production, and to connect people to the natural world. All their events are open to the community and free of charge.

GUIDED FARM TOURS

Saturday, May 27th at 12:30pm and 1:30pm.

Visual Artists

HOLLIS NELSON (SHE/HER/THEY) Painting, Found Objects, Recyling

Hollis is a queer interdisciplinary artist living and working in the DTES of Vancouver, who is best known for her handpainted wearable leather art pieces. Her practice is recyclebased wearable art; a contradiction to fast fashion, they ask her viewers to re-consider what is trash.

NICK CAMPNEY-DURRANT (THEY/THEM) Illustration, Crochet, Textiles

Nick is a non-binary multidisciplinary artist and craftsperson working in a wide variety of mediums, with their current practice revolving around tattooing, illustration, zinemaking, painting, experimental textile dyeing, knitting and crochet. Their work often features messages of queer joy, playful text, checkers, and smiley faces, and explores the intersection between soft and tough.

GARDEN #10

1400 Rufus Avenue North Vancouver

Musicians

JASON QIU (HE/THEY) Singer-Songwriter, Acoustic, Pop | Saturday, 12pm – 2pm

Classically trained on piano since age 4, Vancouver-born Jason Qiu began composing his own songs as a teenager. After a choir director told him that he couldn’t hear his voice, Qiu began a personal journey as a solo artist to rediscover his confidence as a singer-songwriter. Performing in both Chinese and English, Qiu’s songs are introspective musings on impactful life experiences.

GOLDBARD Singer-Songwriter | Sunday, 12pm – 2pm

GOLDbard’s music is a veritable potpourri of influences from Jazz to folk. If James Taylor had a baby with Annie Lennox and Etta James, GOLDbard would be that baby.

GLOW MOTIVE Pop, Vocal Layers | Both Days, 2:30pm – 4:30pm

Glow Motive is a collaboration between prolific poet/songwriter/ musician/loop pedalist Anjalica Solomon and seasoned musician/ producer Oceaan Pendharkar. Glow Motive’s heart-warming pop sound is characterized by their luscious vocal layers and emotive lyrics.

Performers

HER TRIBAL ROOTS Multidisciplinary performance, movement, drumming, singing | Saturday, 3pm – 3:30pm

Her Tribal Roots is a collective of emotive and compassionate interdisciplinary artists. Through dance, expression, and radical kindness, Her Tribal Roots strives to pay homage to the cultures and people who have influenced their artistic journeys, and to foster connection between communities and with the natural world.

FAIRYTHING (THEY/THEM) Spoken Word Poetry | Sunday, 2:00pm – 2:30pm

For Alex, writing is a means of connection and expression, within themself and with others, and a major source of joy and medicine. Alex fuses words with soundscapes and compositions, and it’s rare to see them perform without the accompaniment of their trusty Suzuki QChord.

This garden space has been partly curated in collaboration with Andy Warner, one of the six co-founders of the Transgender Expressions Haven.

The Haven is a venue for transgender, non-binary, Two-Spirit, intersex artists and other artists transcending gender, who are prioritized in this space during Arts in the Garden, along with their community.

AHBYAH BAKER GARDENER

This garden is working towards becoming a biodiverse garden that can host a multitude of pollinators and wildlife. A tropical section and a multitude of perennials in a naturalistic design lead to a predominantly native woodland garden.

Visual Artists

ROBERT TURRIFF (HE/HIM) Wood Carving, Metal, Welding, Bronze Robert enjoys creating organic forms that reference motion or gesture, drawing from elemental forces such as ocean waves, how a tree grows, and patterns left in the sand by the ocean.

ANIA SALMINA Acrylic, Digital

Ania is an illustrator and painter interested in self-discovery through personal life experiences.

MUSICIANS & PERFORMERS

THE SHORTIES Folk, Indie, Singer-Songwriter | Both Days, 12:00pm – 2:00pm

A contemporary folk trio inspired by influences in singer-songwriter, jazz, and R&B, The Shorties weave harmonies together with lyrics authentic to their experiences with anxiety, friendship, grief, and hope.

HALF/ASIAN WITH AMY THE CODA Synth Pop with Sign Language

Both Days, 2:30pm – 4:30pm

HALF/ASIAN with Amy the CODA is a mixed race (Cantonese/British) musician making synth pop on an 80’s synth and a Child Of Deaf Adult singing, and signing the lyrics in her mother tongue: sign language.

FRANZ SEACHEL Spoken Word | Sunday, 12:45pm – 1:15pm

Franz Seachel believes art makes living bearable, and is doing her best to put more colour into the world, both in the sense of brightening up the mundane with creation, and in her mission to uplift the truths of marginalized bodies. Franz hopes you dream often; she hopes you find reasons to stay.