VINES ART FESTIVAL
A group of people, one row kneeling and one row standing, pose in a garden with a mountain range behind them
The group that travelled to Wolverine’s Garden in June 2021 to work in the gardens. Photo credit: Karissa Chandrakate.

Wolverine’s Garden is located in Secwépemc territory outside of Chase, BC. Secwépemc Elder William Jones “Wolverine” Ignace and Flora Sampson began Wolverine’s Garden to feed frontline land defenders.

Links to articles:
Wolverine’s garden continues to fuel frontline land defenders ↗
Food for the frontlines — honouring Indigenous ingenuity during a colonial holiday ↗
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two figures in the distance walk along a spacious and sunny garden plot someone in a garden, with a shovel in one hand, reaches down into the soil four people tending to a garden. The figure in the foreground shovels soil while the other three perform various tasks in the distance seven people working in a garden plot in a large open landscape of rolling hills and trees six people engaged in various tasks in a garden plot an electric wire cuts across a brightly lit landscape of hills, trees, and fields
'Vines’ organized work party at Wolverine Gardens in Secwépemc territory. All photography by Soloman Chiniquay.
Vines Art Festival ↗ was created by director Heather Lamoureux in 2015. It is an annual event on on unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, BC).

Vines is a community/professional arts organization and festival that is responsive to and nurturing of artists that are working toward land, water, and relational justice. We support underrepresented voices in developing their work. We bring imagination into everyday spaces by presenting work for free on "earthstages" - populated and natural public spaces in Vancouver and throughout the province.