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Hello lentils and gladymen of lekwungen and w̱sáneć territories ❤️‍🔥 We will be hosting a three part sonacion series. Please come join us for explorations on voice as… ~ a living organ of memory, care, and connection. ~ the monstrous, the secretive, the loud in the underground ~ the hum at the edges This is an open lab for people curious about the voice before language. For the low hum beneath the social self. For the feral, the tender, the sonically confused. No singing experience needed. RSVP for location: [email protected] Reciprocity: $10-30 No one turned away for lack of funds. 100% of funds for mutual aid- info below. Dates + times Thursdays: May 14 + 21 + 28 7-9pm House ⁠accessibility info 3-minute walk from the #3 bus route (Fairfield at Vancouver stop), and roughly 10 minutes from the #7 and #11 routes on Fort Street. Limited street parking is available along Vancouver Street and adjacent side streets. The front entrance involves 5 stairs leading up to the main door. The event will be held in a 6x8m room with two windows and a set of porch doors that can provide cross-ventilation 100% of funds raised will go toward supporting an Indigenous youth in accessing healing and recovery through their ancestral ceremonial care, including offerings and gifts for knowledge keepers, medicine carriers and ceremonial people in their home lands. They wish to remain anonymous and want to share that “your care and support in this moment means deeply more than words can express, and will return tenfold.”

You can take the community out of Nova, but can’t take Nova out of the community! For the warmer months, our creative community nights will be OUTSIDE, in different places around the city. We don’t want to make art inside a room, so why would we ask you to? See all the detail/registration on our website (link in bio).

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Another beautiful event we cannot wait to experience with you, as part of our Reclaiming Space, Reframing Truth Summer Series! n us in mask making with Kyra and delving into relationship with our ancestors and ‘invasive’ plants. Date: April 30th Time: 7-9 pm Pre-registration only

For our final ExP x @theonlyanimaltheatre artist, say hello to Noelle, Kyra, and George! They're sharing their new work: wings in the breath, rope in the spine Featuring: Noelle Lee- Creator/performer @noael_ly George Berking- Creator/performer @geo.gram Kyra Fay- Creator/performer @eletrik_algae Sophie Dow- Sound Design @agrimony.arts Ricardo Hardy- Outside Eye @rchrdy Featuring a three-tiered arbutus mobile and set of hand-made, naturally tanned, fish leather wings, three bodies are guided through shared tension, tracing between land and body, past and future, and individuality & shared becoming. Forming temporary architectures of care and strain, balance depends on attention and collective sensing. What is inherited from our ancestors is embodied with memory, choice, and knowledge of its possible impacts– a process sensitive, alive, and wider than a single body. Photo credits: 2. Photo and words by Creators / performers: Noelle, George and Kyra 3. Música Solar: Solar Music, Remedios Varo 4. Untitled, Noviadi Angkasapura 5. Heart muscle with chromosomes- James Hayes 6. Porpita Porpita, Lawrence Scheel 7-9. By Noelle, George and Kyra 10. Always Home, Ursula Le Guin & Todd Barton Exquisite Pressure x The Only Animal⁠ March 27-28 @ 7:30pm⁠ Details in bio.⁠ We're almost sold out for tonight, tickets still available for Saturday!

Hi fellow animals, anata laylay here✨ Happy Spring! Our Exquisite Pressure performances are coming up this Friday and Saturday (March 27 and 28) at What Lab. Here is a video invitation from Kyra Royo Fay🌱 ExP is a WL series for performing artists to share new works-in-progress in front of an audience. Each ExP is hosted by a different company or collective, shaping each event with their own flavours and spices and curiosities. The Only Animal is hosting an eco-arts edition of What Lab’s Exquisite Pressure Residency. We asked 3 artist groups to: -explore a novel creation process reflecting ‘eco-centric’ values or concepts -initiate a process or relationship that could have a life beyond the show We are so excited for you to see the pieces these artists have created. When: Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28 Time: 7:30PM Where: What Lab, 1814 Pandora Street, Vancouver Tickets: $17, no one turned away for lack of funds Tickets available at the link in our bio. Accessibility and Safety This event is masks required to protect immunocompromised artists and community members. Masks will be available on site if you do not have your own. We understand some folks may not be able to mask for medical reasons—please be in touch with us if so and we will make sure you are able to access the performance. If you are feeling unwell or have had a recent COVID exposure, please stay home! Please note, there will be no bar at these performances. We welcome your questions and access requests. Please email us at [email protected]. We hope to see you there! Video Description: Kyra Royo Fay sitting on a couch in What Lab speaking more about their practice and upcoming performance with Noelle Lee and George Berking.

Hi fellow animals, anata laylay here☁️ UPDATE: This event is now sold out! Email us to join the waitlist. The Only Animal is hosting an ‘eco’ edition of What Lab’s Exquisite Pressure Residency. We asked 3 artist groups to: - explore a novel creation process reflecting ‘eco-centric’ values or concepts - initiate a process or relationship that could have a life beyond the show This March, join us for a series of relaxed ‘Slow Social Club’ meet-ups to share research, experiments, and methods inspired by the artists’ residencies, leading to a showing of the new works March 27-28, 2026 at What Lab. Our first Slow Social Club X Exquisite Pressure is Saturday, March 7th with featured artists Noelle Lee, George Zheng Berking, and Kyra Royo Fay at UNIT/PITT. Thank you to our friends at UNIT/PITT for hosting us for this event! making mobiles: dynamic entanglements 🌀 Join us for a shared making space where we’ll create mobiles using found and everyday materials. We’ll work with the mobile as a dynamic form, an entity of balance, movement, and entanglement, shaped by touch, gravity and relationship. As we build and play with balance, we will engage with questions of place, movement, and connection through bodies, materials, memories, and the lands we are shaped by. We invite objects as portals carrying personal, collective, and land memory. We invite you to bring small objects that fit easily in one hand. Here are some prompts for collecting: -something reclaimed -a portal to home -something that holds traces (elemental markings, memory, ancestral) -something with a promise -A childhood fascination -A glimmer (something that makes your body at ease or feel safe) Some examples: dried flowers, parts of a broken clock, sticks, stones, shells, a tiny spoon, an ancestor’s ring, a pinecone. You’re welcome to bring whatever feels meaningful. No experience is needed. This is a space for curiosity, making, and being together! When: Saturday, March 7th @ 1PM - 3PM Where: UNIT/PITT, 2954 W 4th Ave, Vancouver Free to attend, donations are always welcome! Photo Credits: 1 & 2: Noelle Lee 3: George Berking 4: Kyra Fay Image Descriptions in the comments.

Hi fellow animals, anata laylay here🌀 We are so excited to be supporting three groups of artists during What Lab (@what__lab ) x The Only Animal’s Exquisite Pressure! Today we’re spotlighting Noelle Lee (@noael_ly ), George Zheng Berking (@geo.gram ), and Kyra Royo Fay (@eletrik_algae ). Noelle, George, and Kyra will be hosting a special session of Slow Social Club at UNIT/PITT on Saturday, March 7th. Details to come in our next post. About the Artists: Noelle Lee 李茵諾 (Lei Yan Nok) is an interdisciplinary, process-based artist, working predominantly with dance, performance, and visual arts. Her work is rooted in an exploration of the intersections between artistic practice and therapeutic modalities, supported by teachings from the land and the people who tend to it. She is greatly interested in improvisational sound and movement, somatic therapeutics, archetypes and myths, and the cultivation and movement of energy. Her work is informed by all those before her and all those that will come, and she is forever grateful to the living entity of land that has always supported her. She was born and raised in Hong Kong, has a Cantonese-Hong Kongese mother, and a Fujianese father raised between Hong Kong and Makassar, Indonesia. She currently live on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations. George Zheng Berking is an artist and community organizer on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations. Rooted in lineages of clown, contact improvisation, somatics, and mobile sculpture, he tends to systems change across individual and collective bodies, attuning them to land and other-than-human beings. Kyra Royo Fay is a Filipina-American multi-undisciplinary artist, educator, and facilitator living on the unceded territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Nations. Born and raised in the archipelago of Indonesia, her work is shaped by the textures of diasporic identity, ecological kinship, and ancestral entanglement. Image Descriptions in the comments.

As we continue to navigate gales of fuckery and strife, I want to take a moment to celebrate an impeccable human, My siiistarrr!!! Often the one behind the lens, I dedicate this space to you my beloved Kyrayatmi. It was your birthday a few days ago (teehee) and I wanna celebrate you’re fine self on the interwebs juga. Thank you for blessing the world each day with the presence of your tenderness, with the stubbornness of your devotion, with the wisdom of your counsel, the rhythm of your funk, the healing of your song, the power of your body, the textures of your eye, the prolificness of your craft, the dimensions of your noticing, the abundance of your creativity, the sweetness of your laughter, the unwaveringness of your integrity, and the steadiness of your love. You teach me so much, and you are a PROFOUND gift; to the world, to life, to all the people you love. I love you deeeeeeep!!! I celebrate you everyday, I howl for you everyday, and I pray you shine deeper and deeper as the rotations of your life continue to move. Big love, your Ade.

🌕 and the story unfolds again and again star seeds. lungs in water. breath plunging into us as we merge with atmosphere then a sister, becomes a mother. a human bean smiles like moonlight. murmurs of ancestors fizzle with delight. and ive officially entered my tita era :0 !! love you so so much sandrayati~ and ofc lil bean (ps check out the album she dropped same month as bb 🔥)

“What is the difference between hearing and listening? Hearing receives sound; listening receives life. Listening happens not only through ears but through skin, breath, memory, soil, pulse, the wider metabolic body of Earth sensing itself.” In Listening to the Liminal, artist and educator Kyra Royo Fay invites us into a series of somatic and creative practices for learning to listen beyond the mind—through body, soil, silence, and memory. These practices unsettle the habits of modern listening—where hearing is about comprehension and control—and instead reawaken listening as relationship: a porous, embodied dialogue with the living world. Through guided exercises like Learning to Listen, Tangential Spokes, and Temporal Echoes, Kyra offers ways to attune to what hums beneath language—the subtle frequencies of the liminal. 
“Hearing receives sound; listening receives life.” This offering is part of Reactivating Exiled Capacities (REC), a collective inquiry curated by Azul Carolina Duque that asks how artistic practice can help us restore the capacities for relationality, care, and complexity that colonial modernity has numbed. Read Listening to the Liminal on artseverywhere.ca link in b!0 @eletrik_algae @azuleho__ Image Description: 1/ A triple-exposed photo of a young person and a horned animal skull. 2/ black and white photo of feet standing on soil.

Last year I got to contribute to 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘅𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 (𝗥𝗘𝗖:)𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗿 with a group of wonderful human beans. Still reverberating from the learnings and excited for this publication @artseverywhere.ca ✨️ Check out my work here: https://www.artseverywhere.ca/listening-to-the-liminal/ curated by @azuleho__ 🫀🌱🌻