tiny lights inSight Video Series

At Tiny Lights Festival we have been quietly working behind the scenes, doing the deep work of reflection, continuing to support more equity and systems change in the BC Arts landscape, and moving toward decolonizing our organization.

We had the absolute pleasure of welcoming Tiny Lights artists back to the Ymir Schoolhouse to film these beautiful videos. This is our favourite playlist it brings us right back to the connection we feel when we can all gather in person.

LISTEN AND WATCH HERE

The COVID-19 crises forced us to postpone the festival. This time has provided our team a new exciting opportunity to grow and pivot our Tiny Lights programming (not forever) outside of Ymir into the wider arms of BC.

This project captured the beauty of our Tiny Lights emerging performers which continued to promote the inspiring curation we support as rural presenters. The live performances captured will elevate new voices and communicate the intensity, vulnerability, and authentic uninhibited connection that is created between the audience and performer at Tiny Lights.

We are so grateful for our creative team Trent Freeman Anandi Brownstein, Louis Bockner, Shawn and Carla Stephenson and Evie Lavers

 Tiny lights Insight Series 2020

Listen and watch the beauty here

At Tiny Lights Festival we have been quietly working behind the scenes, doing the deep work of reflection, continuing to support more equity and systems change in the BC Arts landscape, and moving toward decolonizing our organization.

The COVID-19 crises forced us to postpone the festival. This time has provided our team a new exciting opportunity to grow and pivot our Tiny Lights programming (not forever) outside of Ymir into the wider arms of BC.

This project captured the beauty of our Tiny Lights emerging performers which continued to promote the inspiring curation we support as rural presenters. The live performances captured will elevate new voices and communicate the intensity, vulnerability, and authentic uninhibited connection that is created between the audience and performer at Tiny Lights.

For this reason, we steered away from the on-trend, live stream format, instead opting for thirty six videos that were filmed without an audience present, then will be edited and released on social media channels over the winter months from Tiny Lights Festival.

Our creative team for this project:

Filming and editing Trent Freeman, Eva Anandi Brownstien

photography: Mary Matheson

Onsite Producer: Evie Lavers

Artistic Directors: Shawn and Carla Stephenson

These stories were shared on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the;

• The Coast Salish peoples– the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations.

• The Esquimalt, The W̱SÁNEĆ and the Songhees people.

• The K'ómoks First Nation people