Back for another year, the Mosaic Arts & Culture Festival presented by Ptarmigan Arts will take place for the second time in the pine forest behind the Pender Community Hall, offering a weekend full of live music performances, emerging youth performers and lots of arts and nature-based activities for the whole family.
The festival has been part of the island community for years, with its origins in the old Hope Bay Boat Days, which ran from 2012 to 2017 as a celebration of wooden boats, music and local art. Mosaic began in 2019 and — except for a pandemic break in 2020 — has grown to include more music and activities every year.
Friday’s schedule kicks off at 6:15 p.m. with a welcome and land acknowledgement, followed by Star Captains at 6:30 p.m. and tweener Cole Dine before Garret T. Willie at 8 p.m. and After Dark with Goertz and Lopatecki and DJ Denny at 9:30 p.m.
Saturday’s main stage headline performers include The Dip at 2 p.m., Mercedes Papalia at 4 p.m., Tio Chorinho with Flavia Nascimento at 6:30 p.m., The Infinite Atom at 8 p.m. and After Dark with DJ Denny at 9 p.m. Numerous “tweeners” will also perform between the main acts.
On Sunday, back on the Main Stage at 10 a.m. is the Sunday Singalong with Wayward Sirens, followed at 11 a.m. by Madame B Musique. After the lunch break at 2 p.m. is Cork and Porcupine, followed by a 3 p.m. performance by Clanna Morna. The Angelica Taekema Band and the Songwriters Circle is at 4 p.m. Pony Gold plays at 6:30 p.m. and The Brooks at 8 p.m.
Other activities are the Zen Zone, face painting, workshops, market stage music, Art Play with Wendy and the TOTT Mural Installation, plus Saturday’s Imagination Station featuring the POD Baleinophone workshop from 2 to 4 p.m.
Field + Forest programs include Yoga with Mia, Art in the Pines exhibit and Typewriter Poetry in the Pines at different times, and a reconciliation discussion on Sunday with author and artist Johnny Aitken from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Parking is available at the hall; for more information and tickets visit themosaicfestival.com.