Clean Air Festival 2024

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Back by popular demand, the second annual Clean Air Festival kicked off the festivities on Sunday, September 8 with a fun, casual online social for folks to meet their fellow COVID-safer cuties. Then on Sunday, September 15, we presented a day of family fun at Vancouver’s Slocan Park, including a DIY air purifier building workshop, games and activity tables, a prize draw, stage magic and live music. The event also featured a mask swap table as well as free respirators, rapid tests, zines and DIY fit test kits, and was livestreamed for people to enjoy from at home and afar.

Featuring performances by:
Travis Bernhardt
DANI YOUR DARLING
Kayli Jamieson
Rae Spoon

Host Nation welcome: Elder Kelly White, Snuneymuxw and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm
Emcee: Roger Haskett
Workshop lead: Bryan Louis, Dr.sc., CAFS
Online social facilitator: Robin Hahn

Sponsors & Partners:

  • Opera Mariposa logo with black serif and cursive text and a red and black swallowtail butterfly
  • Baevocative Photography & Videography logo with italic black text
  • Vitacore logo with black letters and a red maple leaf logo with a heartbeat symbol on it
  • LET'S logo, with a small lightbulb symbol made out of colourful speech bubbles
  • The Poster Guy logo, with a dripping paintbrush over the text
  • Massy Books logo in red and black, with a stylized owl illustration
Beneath a large tree canopy attendees browse the festival tables. In the foreground, a person in a striped shirt and a beautifully decorated Flo Mask bends towards a welcome team member who is assisting them. Behind them, a person in dark clothes and a white headstrap respirator is holding a shopping bag and choosing free masks, which being displayed by a man in grey and blue clothing with a blue respirator.
Beneath a tree, attendees browse the festival tables. In the foreground, a person in a striped shirt and a Flo Mask bends towards a welcome team member. Behind them, a person in dark clothes and a white headstrap respirator holds a shopping bag and chooses free masks, which are displayed by a man in grey and blue clothes with a blue respirator.
  • A person wearing a white mask stands on a stage playing a ukelele. In the foreground, a row of children sit in grey folding chairs with their backs to us.
  • Under a tent canopy, masked attendees are examining a display of clean air equipment, being explained by a man in casual clothes, a baseball cap and a white headstrap respirator. In the background, a convertible metal PC fan air cleaner hangs from the canopy.
  • Bryan crouches next to a flat-style DIY air cleaner, holding it for display. He wearing a Vitacore CAN99 respirator, casual clothes, a nametag and an errant post-it note, and you can see the smile in his eyes.
  • Closeup of four Festival volunteers (and friends), sitting on a plaid picnic blanket on the grass. They are wearing jewel tones and pastel colours, and white and black respirators. On the right, a person in an all-lavender outfit makes the peace sign.
  • A cluster of flat-style DIY air cleaners standing on the pavement.
  • Beneath the peaked roof of a large shelter, Travis is seen from behind performing a magic act onstage with the help of a child from the crowd. In front of them stretches a large audience, seated in chairs and on picnic blankets and standing in the background. They are surrounded by park greenery, with a vibrant blue sky above. Everyone is wearing a respirator.
  • Portrait of Rae against a sunny green field and clear blue sky. Their cropped hair is white, their blue eyes are smiling, and they are wearing a boldly patterned pink and black shirt with yellow sunglasses tucked into the neckline, and a 3M Aura respirator.
  • Gala and Zero stand next to a tripod with a smartphone filming rig, including external microphone. Zero is wearing dark denim and a white ballcap, and peering at the phone screen. Zero has neon yellow and brown hair and a colourful sweater, and looks over Zero's shoulder. Both are wearing white respirators, sunglasses, and nametags.
  • Kayli Jamieson and DANI YOUR DARLING are holding up Berlin Buyers Club Stickers with the slogans "Long Covid is chronic, masking is iconic" and "We are living in a mass disabling event". Kayli is a young biracial woman with dark hair tied with a red ribbon, wearing a black respirator, red checked blazer, white blouse and grey skirt. Dani is a Black person wearing a patterned headscarf, a white t-shirt with the slogan DULF Saves Lives, a leather belt and denim capris.
  • Masked audience members of all ages sit on the ground in picnic blankets, watching the concert (not shown). On the right is Karina Zeidler, a white woman with grey hair in a ponytail, and Geoff Berner, who is wearing a sailor hat.
  • Under a tent canopy, Bryan Louis on the left and Roger Haskett on the right smile at the camera. Both are wearing headstrap respirators and dark sweatshirts, with nametags and yellow wristbands. Roger makes a peace sign with his fingers.
  • Three audience members in colourful respirators sit outside on a striped picnic blanket, surrounded by greenery. In the middle, a small dog with curly dark hair poses for the camera.
  • Portrait of an outdoor booth from Spring Mag, with a large banner reading, Solidarity Has No Borders, with an illustration of a bird singing on a barbed wire fence. Four people in respirators sit behind the booth table, fists raised in solidarity. The table has a watermelon tablecloth and a variety of handouts and clipboards on it.
  • Under a canopy in the park, a person holding a shopping bag "shops" at a table with the sign, "Free Masks"! The table is covered in boxes and bags of respirators, and a dolly covered in crates of more masks is behind the table.
  • Closeup of a table covered in hand sanitizer, masks, rapid tests, and zines. A sign in the foreground reads, Free Delivery N95 / KN95 masks & covid tests. Available in East Vancouver or remote areas of BC. Request here: bit.ly/masks4eastvan Masks4EastVan@gmail.com
  • Waist-length portrait of Dr Karina Zeidler in the park. Karina has short gray hair, bold framed glasses, an N95 mask, a black top and a yellow wristband. She wears a nametag with her name and pronouns, and is crossing her arms.
  • A white person with long red hair, glasses, a white headstrap N95 and a dark coat sits behind a table in the park, covered in colourful postcards, with a sign for DoNoHarm BC.
  • Young people wearing casual clothing and respirators are sitting around a picnic table, doing crafts in the park.
  • Closeup of a hand holding a tiny zine with the title Clean Air in your School and everywhere! A cartoon style illustration includes a CR box with a smiling face, and two kids flying through the air like superheroes, wearing capes and masks
  • In the midst of a park setting, a young person stands next to an adult, both wearing respirators. The young person stands next to a large poster and an easel. The adult holds a toy glider.

Photo credit: Grace Lau

The 2024 Clean Air Festival was presented by: