Canal Dream Art Festival 2023
Where Art, Nature, Community and Heritage Converge
Dream overview
Canal Dream Art Festival is a non-profit community-based and nature-based multi-arts event. Through multi-disciplinary engagement and cross-sector collaboration, we bring emerging creatives to the old canal in order to create opportunities for the young artists' practice, community well-being, and canal regeneration.
The heart of our programme is socially engaged art, as well as poetic community service.
Dream Time
23-25 June 2023
Friday - Sunday
Dream Location
Kings Cross, London
Regent’s Canal
Organised by
Canal Dream CIC
Slash Arts
Programming Partners
Word on the Water
Global Generation & Floating Garden
Dangerous Kitchen
Aranya Theater Festival Migratory Birds 300 (China)
Canal Dream Art Festival 2023
Boat of Sound & Motion (Motion) Trailer
Dream impact
Artwork & Artist
Opening night
Director:
Chuntian Hu, Xixi Xiao, Qi Chen
Artist:
Tong Li, Yu-Ting Hung, Victoria Tchibor, Julia Deng, Zhengzhong Zhang, Jiarong Yu, Qianzi Song, Siyuan Meng, Sizhe Fang, D.R.R.Sidaway, Teige, Jamal, Lester, Regal Jason, Bryan Yueshen Wu, Chang Meng, Shangyang Yu, Yiru Yan (Cainy), This is Paul's daughter, Kian Vaziri, Buzz Violet, Bao yin
Boat of Performance Art
Growing Connection Through Rope: Heath Pennington
Can you feel the fluidity within?: ￥10 CIRCUS
Rebirth In Silhouette: Barbara Prada, Melanie Hawthorne
In the Corner: Shupin Liu, Maya Takeda, Kohei Nakatsu, Yuka Futaba, Lukmou Natpavee Wanichnatee, Xiangxue Liu
'Do Not' Cross the River: DING LING, Joe Peng, PeiyiZhong
Hypernature: Ziyue Wang,Alicia Lconie Waibel
My Adventures 我的：Zhengzhong Zhang张正中
Those that come and those that go: Scott Payne
Nocturnes: When the World Sleeps : Junyu Wen, Cainy Yiru, Shangyang Yu, Nigel Dadaist
Four Dreams of Linchuan 临川四梦：Shuang Ren任爽, Yunqi Bai白昀玘, Jiahan Yao姚嘉涵, Jinglei Xu徐静蕾
The Brass Altar: REVERIE
Boat of Visual Art
Cold Flame: Ke Peng (PK)
Consuming Landscape: Rachel Payne
Dance of the ghosts： Simon Hodgkinson
Elegies of Sanctity: Yiru Yan (Cainy)
Elegy: Liangqia Huang
Empty Water: Hardy Gru
ITHAKA : 伊萨卡：Yiyzhang 张潇月
Le Fond Noir : Manon Sun
Mundane Days Along the River：Zhenyi Zheng
Phonatable[adj.]： Ou Yanshan
Plant Concert： Wanlin Jiang
Sonic Contamination: Laura Selby
the light: Sophia Obuch Cakova
The Pointy Boat: Wacky
Upside-Down Dance of the Ghost Princess《尖尖之舟：衰鬼翘翘颠倒摇》：Wei Chen 囍菇
The Voice of Forgotten：Bao Yin尹宝
Boat of Poetry
Brandon Squires
Aliona Kolesnikova
Oliver Sedano Jones
Jah-Mir Early
CurlyWordy
Christian Foley
Zohab Khan
Magnus McDowell
Kory
Arthur Boyd
Phoenix Yemi
Linda Eckardt
Miracle nwaizu
Oliver Sedano
Flytowhitneysmoon
Hide Takemoto
Boat of Creative Activity
We are the one: Yingying Gao, Xinyue Wang, Yi Song, Lala Sha, Zheqi Jia, Sky wheel
A room of one's own: Heroom Group
Play with the River: Tao Chen, Xinru Huang, Jiayu Lin, Xinyi Zhao
Capture the form of water: Yuchen Li, Xiaoyu Wu, Jolyn Yin
A Cup of Hawthorn Tea: Chengwei Xia, Yirou
Unconsciousness: Zhaoyu Wang, Dixiao Zhang
Weaving - emerged plants: Huixian Zheng, Yihan Fu, Shuyuan Lu, Ruoyun Zhou
Boat of Sound & Motion (Sound)
TEIGE
Liza Lo
Caslean
Rossana
Kian Vaziri
Fitzroy Holt
Deep theory
The Kobras
Myles Morgan
Francis la lune
Feifei Xiang
Emi & Sid
Glass Hearts
Hughie Hunter
Billy Mitchell
Kian Vaziri
ANTJE LANG
Francis la luna
Lucerna Quartet
Brie Devin
Whatever (band)
Boat of Sound & Motion (Motion)
Film type: Experimental
Life Section/Call Recording/Back to the house: Zifan Liu
Synesthesia: Ruby Wang
Self-portrait: Saki
Microscaling model: Aiping
4810: Jiaxi Wang
Południca: Iga Koncka
Star Centrioding: Moyu Yang
Rye: Siyuan Meng
Liquid, Confluent.: Yige Tong
Wasteland: Minghao Hou
Aether: Yuxuan Wu
Eyelid: Jiaxin Zhang
13 Course Meal: Yi Wang
Film type: Animation
Storm in the Seed: Zijing Chen
Nice to Meet You:) : Zhengyang(Eggy) Wei(director, animator), Jenny(Music)
My left face aged a little more: Ming Yuan
Unnamed Road: Songkai Zhou(director), Jenny(music)
Meal: Cindy Claudia(director, animator), Jenny(Music)
The Door of Dreams: Zixin Wu(music, director), Yunru Yan Rosa(Visual, animation)
The Fish Says: Chen Ma
Film type: Documentary
Notes on mikvah: Asha Lyons Sumroy
TW // ED: Laila Nemer
Adulterated Moonlight: Caslean
Master: Siyi Gu
After the guests arrive: Adam Zhu
Grandma, Mom and me: Fiona
Film type: Drama
Wild Director: Kangkang Luo
EndsWell: Xiaying Li
Slow Motors: Martha Horn
The Girl and The Great City: George Merabishvili
The Long Night: Xiao Guo, Zhenhua Guo
Festival Team
Organization
Funded & Organized by Canal Dream CIC, Slash Arts
Programming Partners:
Global Generation & the Floating Garden
Word on the Water
Dangerous Kitchen
Aranya Theater Festival Migratory Birds 300 (China)
Programme Management
Creative Director & Producer: Chuntian Hu
Operations Director: Simon Hodgkinson
Guest Director: Chang Liu
Curation Team
Boat of Performance Art: Tiantian Xie, Shuping Liu;
Boat of Visual Art: Yiru Yan (Cainy), Junyu Wen;
Boat of Poetry: Paddy Screech, TygerSoul, D.R.R.Sidaway;
Boat of Sound & Motion (Sound): Kai Marks;
Boat of Sound & Motion (Sound): Zhiwu(Adam) Zhu, Yuxuan Wu;
Boat of Creative activity: Yobe Wei, Juan Gomez.
The Waterway-based Artist Exchange Programme between the UK-China: Krona Cao, Ran Yan, Adam Li, Joyce(Xinyuan Qi).
Stage manager: Qiyuan Zhao (Boat of Performance Art), Zhenzhu Zhang (Boat of Visual Art), Tina Zhang (Opening night)
Technician: Emory Vaughan
Photography/Videography Team
Head of Photography/Videography Team: Zhiwu(Adam) Zhu, Yuxuan Wu
Photographer: Poppy(Jiaxin Zhang), Joyce(Xinyuan Qi), Alvin (Yanfeng Wu), Nozirohpic (Xiaolin), Anna-Sue, Ying Li, Wenqing Yao, Ruoying Hai, Siwen Chen, Jiaqi Li
Videographer: Xiaying Li, Siyi Gu, Dongcheng Cai, Kyoka, Jenny Shen, Linlin Zhu
Aerial Photography: DRONIST LONDON (Ramsey, Charlie, Eva, PAUL)
Marketing Team
Head of Marketing: Sarah LaBrasca
Visual Designer: Shiming Zhao, Yanshan Ou, Yefei Shi, Frank Huixin Ren
Volunteer
Stefanie Shen, Yifan Wang, Jun Wu, Yuanxin Li, Kelsey Su, Dachi Zhang, Lorie, Ocean, Xiaomin, Yue Luo, Yiming Pi, Ruitong Qian, Ningyi Sun, Keyi Wang, Kexin Wang, Susan, Bao Yin, Zhengzhong Zhang, Yudong Liu, Yishu Wang, Qiuyu Chen, oops, kiki, Xiaolan
Special Thanks
Laura Price, Juan Gomez, Emma Louise Moore, Lia, Hugo, Zhipei Ding, VISIT LONDON, DJI, Migratory Bird Radio 候鸟电波 & 谭箫, Midnight Network 深夜谈谈, Art Daodao 艺术叨叨 & Lanyi, New Epoch 新鲜人类, 福天洞地 & 阿林, Ciel Productions