OUR ART

In the fight for climate justice, facts only go so far. Although information about climate change is everywhere, many people remain immobilized by climate anxiety, powerless to affect change. The Only Animal takes a different approach. To inspire commitment and action, we empower people to reconnect to the land they live on, using art and creative engagement that inspires hope and imagination for a more sustainable future.

The Only Animal brings art and artists to the front lines of the climate battle. We seek solutionary impacts on the ecological crisis by connecting our audiences to the natural world in creative ways that support the value of Earth Care. Our practice supports equity, diversity and inclusion in our organization, in local environs, and with a global sensibility, climate justice.

THIS YEAR

SLOW PRACTICE

Slow Practice is a traveling work-in-progress textile installation by The Only Animal  that will culminate in ‘Mermaid Spring’ - an original, place-based music theatre concert premiering in 2026. With help from commissioned artists and publics across B.C., our...

Dear Animal by Kendra Fanconi

Dear Animal responds to an invitation by incoming Artistic Director, Barbara Adler, to outgoing Artistic Director and co-founder of The Only Animal, Kendra Fanconi, to document a year of falling in love with a new landscape. Kendra’s story tracks her move from the...

Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing: Ways of Being and Seeing

Knowledge is story. But what happens when the stories are lost? Where do we turn to understand what we value? What leads the way? And how do we find the words in a language we do not speak?  Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing is a gathering of stories that can lead us on our...

The Thousand Year Theatre

Year 1: The 1000 Year Theatre Year 7: Cedar Window Year 25: ephemeral stream https://youtu.be/D9OiLz7kDOs The Thousand Year Theatre The Thousand Year Theatre started as an idea to plant a botanical ‘set’ from BC’s native forest species that will take a millennium to...

PRODUCTIONS