The Squamish Arts Council will be holding the 7th annual Wind Festival For The Arts from August 1 to 28 as a Distance Together Event Series.
From livestream concerts and drive-in movie experiences to online workshops and art installations, the event has been re-imagined in line with COVID-19 guidelines, the organsiers said.
The wind festival will also be hosting a drive-in movie night on Friday, Aug 7, at a venue that has yet to be announced.
There will also be performances at 7 pm with the movie kicking off at 9 pm. The event will take place with socially distanced stalls with a maximum vehicle count of 50 cars.
Reservations will be done online and no walk-in traffic will be available. The musical performances at the festival will be livestreamed for the audience.
The performance from Lazy Ghost, a psychedelic surf rock band from Whistler, will be livestreamed from the Brackendale Art Gallery.
Musical performances from the Tales & Tunes and The Boom Booms will also be livestreamed from the Brackendale Art Gallery and the Sea to Sky Gondola.
Online guests of the festival will also learn more about the Indigenous Shíshálh (Sechelt) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) people and how they utilized the forest for food, medicine and technology through a Talking Trees tour.
The full event schedule of the festival will be announced soon. Community members are also invited to volunteer or participate as a sponsor.
