LUNA Arts, Arts Revelstoke’s annual nocturnal festival is readying to disguise and transform Revelstoke’s downtown for an evening of artistic creativity and community fun. With artists focusing on physical, emotional and social transformations, guests will get to explore pieces highlighting perception, authenticity and the tension between self-identity and collective expression.
Community feedback from last year’s LUNA Fest focused on struggles to see all the indoor installations and attend the range of performances spread throughout Revelstoke. This year’s LUNA Fest will host performers on four different stages and keep art installations largely outside and accessible for folks touring through Revelstoke’s downtown.
“We are really proud to be continuing the legacy of this festival,” Robyn Goldsmith, Arts Revelstoke executive director said. “People from across Canada have heard of LUNA and admire what we can do in a small town setting.”
Here’s what to expect from artists and installations at LUNA Arts 2025, hosted in Revelstoke’s downtown Saturday, Sept. 20.
Wasteland Ghosts
Artist: Lashen Orendorff
Wasteland Ghosts is an installation of forged steel sculptural masks by underground artist and blacksmith Lashen Orendorff. Using material sourced from abandoned industrial sites and interstitial zones within the Kootenay region, the piece highlights the human relationship to landscape and the region’s longstanding industrial history. The scrap steel pieces highlight the “tangible and intangible elements of grief and landscape desecration,” Orendorff writes.
Stamp; To impress a pattern or mark
Artist: SJ Spurr
Stamp allows each LUNA Arts 2025 participant to collect art layers on a blank 5×7 card at numbered stations throughout the LUNA venue until they complete the final image that participants can keep or mail as a postcard.
Illuminated metamorphosis
Artist: Anto Otoya
Antonia Otoya, signing her work off as Anto Otoya will be bringing some light to LUNA’s nighttime festival with Illuminated Metamorphosis, an interactive light-box where participants reveal hidden colours by scratching away darkness. The piece will evolve throughout the night, highlighting personal and collective transformation.
Indie Print Paper
Artist: Taylor Sandell
Claim a piece of Revelstoke’s creative scene with a limited edition indie print newspaper, only available at LUNA Arts 2025. Packed with original works from local artists, poets, writers and musicians, this exclusive print captures a slice of Revelstoke’s community spirit. Visit one of the performing newsies to grab your free copy.
The Storykeeper
Artist: Melanie Lazelle
Melanie Lazelle invites participants to share their story while projections ripple and change in response to their story. An audio soundscape changes the mood when a participant activates the sensor globe. Don’t miss this big, bright and immersive installation.
Glow Slugs
Artist: Melanie Lazelle
This inflatable collection of sea slugs are colourful, curious and captivating to any who encounters them. Sea slugs are masters of changing colour based on prey, threats and environmental factors and changes.
Faces of the Wild Ones
Artist: Wildsight Revelstoke and Jacqueline Palmer
Faces of the Wild Ones takes audiences deep into the inland temperate rainforest to meet some of the wild creatures that call it home. Step into their world and learn about their lives through interactive storytelling.
Immersive Dreamscape
Artist: Jolene Mackie Art
Come immerse yourself in the creative dreamscape world of Jolene Mackie Art. This piece encourages viewers to explore and embed themselves in this otherworldly landscape, and take a photo of their adventures in this otherworld.
Flora Mortis
Artist: Arianna Sterritt
Gathering materials from nature mixed with a modern twist, Flora Mortis features the restoration of old skulls and bones from Canadian wildlife, displayed on brightly lit floral-filled displays, bringing on a new perspective of life emerging from death and the transference of energy.
Fieldcraft
Artist: Sarah Fuller
Fieldcraft looks at endemic, vulnerable species found in alpine and boreal environments through performance in the landscape utilizing wearable photographic camouflage. Images of plants, mosses, lichens and fossilized creatures on fabrics are used to camouflage the artist as they meet the ecosystem on its own terms.
Dance Like Everybody’s Watching
Artist: Hilary Zeeuwen/Dolla Hilz
Dance Like Everybody’s Watching highlights the transformative power of creative spaces and collective energy by transforming a familiar landmark into an anonymous and free-flowing performance space.
Lightbox
Artist: Professor X (also known as Xavier Corbeil)
Lightbox displays an abstract and colourful light show with viewers taking control of the input. The viewer can alter the colour of the light show, along with the speed and rotation of the animation.
Body Of Acres
Artist: Celina Frisson/thecreativetraveller
Body of Acres features four identically shaped masks made from a variety of found materials, such as wireframe, upcycled fabric and beads. Each mask represents a season and a menstrual phase: winter/menstrual, spring/follicular, summer/ovulation, and fall/luteal. These masks symbolize the human connection to nature and how each season and cycle flows through the individual.
The Brain Wash
Artist: Worm Girl/Jess Leahey
The Brain Wash is a sensory experience tunnel designed to ground and calm participants. Viewers are invited to enter a fifteen-foot long tunnel and be surrounded by lights illuminating the passage while iridescent fabric suspended from the ceiling brushes against them as they walk through. Keep an eye out for multiple light boxes hanging above presenting positive thoughts and intentions.
Sitting with Swift River
Artist: Brett Mallon
Sitting with Swift River is a traditional hand-drawn animation exploring the idea that Sn̓x̌ʷn̓tkʷítkʷ (n̓səl̓xčin̓ for Swift River, currently called the Columbia River) is a guide and healer that flows through the physical and metaphysical experiences of life here in Revelstoke.
The Stained Bastions
Artist: Nolan Cross
The Stained Bastions sepia-toned disoriented walk through abandoned industrial environments, set to a song played in reverse. Featuring a graffiti-painted sawmill on Highway 1 and the Völklingen Ironworks Factory in Germany, both towering monuments to the fleeting nature of construction. These buildings have transformed over time, from productive factories to ruins.
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