Shuswap River Waterthread Map Project

How well do you know our Watershed? Do you know where the water comes from, that we drink every day?

Runaway Moon has embarked upon a new community art project, to create an embroidered map of the Shuswap River, and the creeks and lakes that run into it.

Our groups met in the following communities in the winter and early spring of 2024: Armstrong, Ashton Creek, Enderby, Mara, Lumby, Sicamous, Lumby and Spallumcheen Township/Silver Star.

We are looking for places to display and share the map of our watershed. Please reach out if you have ideas. info@runawaymoon.org

Calendario Wheel Interactive Sculpture UPDATE

Our CALENDARIO WHEEL interactive sculpture is now at the Enderby Public Library until further notice after spending May and June at the Salmon Arm Art Centre. This model, with its 6 wheels of images created by the community, is 1/2 the size of the ultimate 7 foot outdoor sculpture.

Thanks to scenic artist Molly March for finalizing the composition of images made by community members, sculptor Eric Kutschker for designing and building it, and to project producer Marcella Moser looking for a home where the full sized outdoor version of the CALENDARIO WHEEL will ultimately be installed!

Vassilisa and the Light

A shadow play based on a favourite folktale from Russia.

When the light goes out in the house where she lives, brave Vassilisa ventures into the dark forest to find a source of light. She finds more than she bargains for …

Performances were hosted by the Armstrong Spallumcheen Museum Art Gallery, the Grindrod Recreation Association, and the Kingfisher Community Society.

Growing Roots

From June to August 2024, Mohammed Zaqout and Cathy gathered with a group of asylum seekers in Vancouver every Sunday, to get to know local trees through drawing, poetry, storytelling and fabric collage. Participants were from Afghanistan, Colombia, Iran, Peru, Iraq, and Southern Mexico.

“How did you get here?”

Join Doug Saba, Beverley Peacock, Mary Anne Domarchuk and Lorna Tureski.

There have been several recent performances of the Suitcase Shows answering the question “How did you get here?”

Out of the Darkness

Lantern Parade

We met at 6:45pm on February 18th beside the Maud Street parking lot in Enderby.

A Winter Lantern Procession took place Sunday, February 18th, 2024. Inspiration came from our daily life with this year’s theme being “home.”

We held free drop in public workshops in Salmon Arm, Armstrong and Enderby.

We held workshops at Grindrod, Shihiya, Heartwood, AL Fortune and MV Beattie Elementary along with a few community groups.

Riparian ReAnimation

Giant Puppet Workshops

The Giant Puppet Workshop was part of Riparian ReAnimation, a donation-based community program with the goal of creating medium- and large-scale puppets of characters from the Kelowna floodplain for a series of public parades and presentations in the summer and fall of 2023. During these open workshops, participants worked as part of a team or as individuals to help create a collection of puppets inspired by the living beings of Brandt's Creek.

For more information visit Rotary Centre for the Arts.

The Miraculous (After)Life of Isidro, Patron Saint of Farmers

This production was brought to life by actor/musicians Aidan Sparks, Sarah May Redmond and Christie Watson with Runaway Moon Theatre’s 2022 Summer Tour from Revelstoke to Kamloops to Lumby and Vernon and all points in between during the last week of July and first week of August 2022.
We are hoping to tour the show in other parts of BC soon!
Thanks to everyone involved in putting together and presenting this whimsical production, and to those who took the time to enjoy the show.
Photo courtesy of the Salmon Arm Observer (Martha Wickett).