IndieFest

| DigiBC Creative Tech Studio
We invite you to join us for a community gathering hosted by interdisciplinary artist,fanny kearse. As part of this opening gathering, we’ll be showcasing three bite-sized performances from artists part of our incubation initiative, the Convergence Cohort: Kristina Lao, Alyssa Samson, andVan Le Fan. The goal of the evening is to connect artists and community members from across disciplines, facilitating community connection and collision of art forms. During the evening, enjoy select installations from Signals: Creative Tech Expo.

| Digital Program | DigiBC Creative Tech Studio
Willilish’d is a new immersive production by Thule van den Dam and Hayley Sullivan McInerney, presented at DigiBC Creative Tech Studio. Willilish’d explores themes of memory, emotion, change, and motherhood through lullabies and nursery rhymes sung to Hayley by her mother. through a re-composed narrative soundscape. The title of the piece, Willilish’d, comes from a nursery rhyme that Hayley’s mother, Glad, was taught by her sisters, who made it up. Through creative design, quad sound, and archival elements, what was two-dimensional and in the past becomes four-dimensional and present. It lives at the intersections of design, music, and immersive theatre.

| Lobe Studio
In partnership with Lobe Studio and Guest Curator Vanessa Yuen, experience DEPTHS by Audio Essentia, a 4D spatial audio installation exploring consciousness through immersive sonic art. This innovative experience combines advanced spatial audio technology with Indigenous wisdom traditions, guiding participants through a transformative journey from descent into shadow to integration and transcendence.

The installation incorporates authentic Shipibo Icaros, binaural beat recordings, and environmental soundscapes to facilitate deep states of consciousness exploration.

DEPTHS represents a unique fusion of technology and spirituality—a sonic ceremony that challenges participants to confront their shadows and emerge transformed.

| The ANNEX
One of our most loved events, Future Mythologies, returns to the Annex for IndieFest 2025! This is a celebratory showcase for the new works in development that aspire to redefine the future of storytelling, and become the myths of tomorrow. Through performance excerpts and facilitated discussions between artists and audiences, this event unveils the captivating evolution of three groundbreaking new works.

This year’s Future Mythologies is a collaboration with Chapel Sound and electronic music incubator program, Notebook, featuring musical artists exploring intersections of new sounds and folklore.

| DigiBC Creative Tech Studio
Join re:Naissance, TDYVR, and MOVE37XR for Vancouver’s first-ever Immersive Jam Session—a night where technologists, performers, and digital dreamers collide to create new worlds in real time. Explore four interactive showcase zones, including the Immersive Stage (wall and floor projections), Voxelite (20,000 LED Light Sculpture),270 Projection Cube, and the 20’x20’ Floor-to-Ceiling Lounge Screen, as artists share works-in-progress, experiments, and spontaneous performances.

LEARN MORE | Digital Program| DigiBC Creative Tech Studio
Nov 28: Doors open at 6:30pm, show starts at 7:30pm.
Nov 29: Doors open at 6:30pm, show starts at 7:30pm.

re:Naissance is thrilled to present this developing work by Omari Newton and Amy Lee Lavoiein an exclusive concert performance of its music and script. Inferno: A Hip-Hop Opera blends hip-hop, rap, beat boxing, sampling, R&B, and contemporary opera in celebration of IBPOC voices, and features powerhouse vocalists including: Teiya Kasahara, opera singer, Leo DE Johnson, Soul and Blues, Kimmortal, Rapper and hip hop artist and Scribbly Doodle, beatboxer. 

The story reimagines Dante’s Inferno as a feminist, anti-establishment, and anti-colonial allegory. Hell is reimagined to be a Spotify-esque headquarters – with each floor of the skyscraper representing a different layer of hell. Our story follows Vie, a young producer, whose music has been stolen by the company, and Mo, the building’s security guard who has their own experiences with having their music co opted. Together, vie and mo embark on an epic journey to take back the rights to their work. Their ultimate goal? Reach the top floor of the skyscraper and confront the CEO (a.k.a. The devil).