Richmond World Festival 

August 30 and 31 at Minoru Park  

Beyond the music stages, cutting-edge media galleries will liven up the Richmond site as the concurrent Your Kontinent Digital Carnival takes on the theme of fire this year. Organizers at the Cinevolution Media Arts Society are transforming eight shipping containers into pop-up galleries featuring multimedia installations from several local and national innovators.

Vancouver-based environmental artist Nicole Dextras takes centre stage with The Dystopian Museum (shown in part here), a set of performances, costumes, and digital projections that explore the environmental impact of wildfires via “eco-science-fiction” and plant-based garments that draw upon the Greek myth of Persephone.

Soundwalk Sunday Soundwalk

September 1 at 999 Beach Avenue  

Gather ’round as the inventive folks at the Vancouver Soundwalk Collective and Vancouver Co-op Radio’s Soundscape show turn the Burrard Bridge into a gigantic musical instrument. How, you ask? A chain of players will be using everyday implements—think maple stems and metal spoons—to make resonant music on the structure’s railings.