Current Projects
Out of the Darkness Lantern Procession & Shadow Show
People of all ages are exploring this year’s theme “What lights up your heart?” working with our artist assistants and art supplies in community workshops to make real life happy thoughts that will light up on February 15th, 2026 at 7 pm along the river walk in Enderby, BC.
Full details about the Lantern Procession are at:
https://runawaymoon.org/lanterns
Lantern Making Workshops
Salmon Arm
at the Salmon Arm Arts Centre (70 Hudson Ave NE)
Saturday, January 24th from 1 to 4pm
Sunday, January 25th from 1 to 4pm
Armstrong
at PV BLVD Coffee (2510 PV Blvd)
Sunday, February 1st from 1 to 4pm
Saturday, February 7th from 1 to 4pm
Enderby
at Enderbeans Cafe (908 B Belvedere St)
Saturday, January 31st from 3 to 6pm
Saturday, February 14th from 1 to 4pm
Are you interested in getting involved or would you like to help during the procession? We would love to hear from you.
A Story for a Wintry Day
Prince Pierre won’t get out of bed. His mother has tried everything with the help of her well- meaning advisors. Who else is there who can figure out what will bring him to life?
A story told with puppets for all ages, especially for adults and children to enjoy together.
Approximately 25 minutes; can take place in any setting.
Performed by Lorna Tureski
Are you interested in hosting this show in your community? Reach out to us, we’d love to hear from you.
Moon Baby
Moon Baby falls to the earth one night and finds herself at the end of Grandma’s fishing line!
That is just the beginning of the baby’s journey as she knits together the lives of three very different people who try to help her find her way home.
A whole tiny world full of surprises opens out of a suitcase.
Story for children and their families.
25 minute presentation followed by questions-and-answers.
Performed by Lorna Tureski
Are you interested in hosting this show in your community? Reach out to us, we’d love to hear from you.
Shuswap River Waterthread Map
How well do you know our Watershed? Do you know where the water comes from, that we drink every day?
Runaway Moon worked with community embroidery groups in Armstrong, Ashton Creek, Enderby, Mara, Lumby, Sicamous, Lumby and Spallumcheen Township/Silver Star to create an embroidered map of the Shuswap River, and the creeks and lakes that run into it.
Available for exhibition! Please contact us to discuss what’s possible.
The Waterthread Map was on display September 26th and 27th, 2025 at the Quilter’s Exhibit at the Vernon Recreation Centre
October, 2025 at the Village Gallery in Lumby (Monashee Arts Council)
Calendario Wheel Interactive Sculpture
Our CALENDARIO WHEEL interactive sculpture is now at Curly Willow Farm. 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.
The Calendario Wheel is available for exhibition! Please contact us to discuss what’s possible.
Recent Projects
The Song of the Swan
A new original Runaway Moon Theatre Play
A story of friendship between a girl and a swan, told with puppets, actors, music and sumptuous sets.
Part true and part fairytale, “The Song of the Swan” celebrates the magnificent Trumpeters, who have regenerated in numbers after coming close to extinction, and who grace the waters in our region during the winter months. For adults and children alike.
Performances took place from July 10th to 20th, 2025.
Performances at Curly Willow Farm in Grindrod at 130 Tomkinson Rd
Out of the Darkness Winter Lantern Procession 2025
This year’s theme: “Wings, Wheels, Water” Transportation
This year we will be celebrating all the ways we get around and thinking about how to make our footprints lighter together.
Winter Lantern Procession occurred at 7 pm on Sunday Feb 16th
Share your pics or video on FB or IG with #lanterns2025
One Final Workshop was Saturday Feb 15th
We have one final chance to build your lantern this weekend. Free for everyone.
Email us at info@runawaymoon.org to get involved.
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?”
Someone Else’s Shoes
Runaway Moon created puppets for a project with a group of non-binary youth, through the Salmon Arm Gallery, where the puppets were on exhibit during Pride Week.
This project continues with an update coming soon…
Sketches by Wren Rathbone
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.
Walk of the Woods
We have been getting to know the trees in this area through a number of art opportunities, community workshops, and unexpected appearances. How well do you know cottonwood, birch, Western Red Cedar, Trembling Aspen, Hemlock? Which tree would you be if you were a tree?
Tree appearances
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.
SPLASH
The Blue People Adventures
These new beings are appearing in different places … an experiment that may turn into something larger!
Thomas Conlin Jones, Dalynn Kearney, Isabelle Kirouac, Molly March, Jaci Metivier and guest musician Stephan Bircher.
catch some of their adventures…
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).
ZOOM SHADOW:
Inspired by UNESCO’s documentation of Intangible Cultural Heritage, we are curious to find out what Intangible Personal or Cultural Treasures you might be holding. Groups worked with Sarah Redmond, Cathy Stubington, and composer Joelysa Pankanea to create short shadow plays, describing these elements from their memory banks.
Have a look at this set of Intangible Treasures (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r2rUaZhRAc&ab_channel=HeartOfTheCityFestival). This is a showing of our second group of Treasures, made by residents of the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, facilitated by Sarah Redmond and Cathy Stubington. This took place at the Heart of the City Festival, and was a partnership between Runaway Moon and Vancouver Moving Theatre.