Clean Air Festival 2025

The third annual Clean Air Festival is coming this September, and it’s going to be bigger and better than ever!

We’re kicking things off this year with a clean air webinar and Q&A on Sunday, September 7. Then join us for Festival Day on Sunday, September 14 at Vancouver’s Slocan Park and via livestream (with a recording of the performances to follow). Register below to attend – and sure to check out ways you can support the Festival, including by donating, sponsoring, or volunteering on site or from the comfort of home!

With thanks to our sponsors for prizes and production support:

Featuring

Performers:
(in order of appearance)
Mx Bukuru (emcee)
Travis Bernhardt
Tiddley Cove Morris
Zeo Boekbinder

Host Nation welcome:
Elder Kelly White, Snuneymuxw & xʷməθkʷəy̓əm

Art installation:
Gem Hall & Sacha Ouellet’s Invisible Dream Caravan

Webinar:
Bryan Louis, Dr.sc., CAFS
Ian Robertson, M.Arch

Support the Festival

What’s On

Ask a Clean Air Nerd: a webinar and Q&A

When:
Sunday, September 7, 2025
4 – 5:30 pm PT / 7 – 8:30 pm ET

Where:
On Zoom

Level up your clean air game with the help of some experts! Bring your questions about ventilation, filtration, masks, and more.

Free (donations welcome)
On Zoom, registration required
English-language closed captions and real-time transcript enabled; size of caption text is adjustable
Zoom supports screen readers and allows keyboard-only navigation
Participants are welcome to have their cameras on or off, snack, stim, and come and go as needed
We request that people refrain from using Zoom’s “blurred background” feature, for the safety of those with certain visually-triggered disabilities
The session may be recorded (speaker-only, not attendees)
Summaries and slides will be provided afterwards to registered attendees, for asynchronous access
We regret that we are not able to offer ASL interpretation for this session
If you require technical assistance in-meeting, ask our team members to help!

Bryan Louis, Dr.sc., CAFS (he/him)

Bryan Louis is an independent air filter consultant in the metro-Vancouver area and is a National Air Filter Association Certified Air Filter Specialist, with a doctorate in mechanical engineering. He is a former academic researcher (materials and mechanical engineering), in work closely aligned in the relevant fundamental topics of fluid and air flows, and nanoparticle filtration in fibre materials. Bryan has spent the last few years assisting local community organizations in improving their indoor air quality – particularly, where he can assist by pulling from his relevant professional background to develop pragmatic clean air strategies.

Ian Richardson, M.Arch (he/him)

Having lived, worked or studied in six countries, on three continents, Ian believes that the ability to radically re-see and re-think normal is fundamentally important to innovative, interesting and essential architecture. Planning spaces for a wide variety of users and uses and places requires the ability to see the world with a flexible perspective. Ian has worked on both the creative and the concrete, flexibly shifting skills and scales, believing in [an] architecture of existential integrity, using technology as an efficient tool to make the design free, seeking architecture which simply is and must be.

Clean Air Festival Day

When:
Sunday, September 14, 2025
1 – 7 pm PT / 4 – 10 pm ET

Where:
Slocan Park
and on Zoom

Join us online and outdoors for day full of unforgettable performances, games and activity tables, prize draws, freebies, and more!

Required safety protocols:

N95-style masks (or better) are required and available on site for people over age 2.*
Please do a COVID test before attending – get some from the pharmacy or Masks4EastVan!
Symptomatic or recently exposed? Attend digitally instead!
Follow our other safety measures: no fragrances, smoking or vaping on-site please, and follow our code of conduct!

Get our full safety and accessibility details below. Questions can be sent to events[at]CleanAirFestival.ca

Safety & Accessibility

*If you are medically unable to wear a respirator, or attending with a child under 2, please check in with the welcome table when you arrive so we can help everyone have the safest experience possible.

In-person schedule

Time (PDT)	Activity
1:00 pm	Host Nation welcome
1:20 pm	Workshops & activities
3:15 pm	Intermission & kids’ parade
3:40 pm	Emcee Mx Bukuru †
3:45 pm	Travis Bernhardt, magician †
4:15 pm	Tiddley Cove Morris dancers
4:50 pm	On-site prize draw †
5:30 pm	houseguest †
6:00 pm	Zeo Boekbinder †
7:00 pm	Festival end

† ASL interpretation provided

Online schedule

Time (PDT)	Time (EDT)	Activity
1:00 pm	4:00 pm	Host Nation welcome
1:20 pm	4:20 pm	Virtual site tour, meet the orgs
2:20 pm*	5:20 pm*	Spotlight: Canadian Covid Society
2:35 pm*	5:35 pm*	Intermission
2:45 pm*	5:45 pm*	Facilitated discussion
3:05 pm	6:05 pm	Games
3:35 pm	6:35 pm	Livestream returns
3:40 pm	6:40 pm	Emcee Mx Bukuru †
3:45 pm	6:45 pm	Travis Bernhardt †
4:15 pm	7:15 pm	Tiddley Cove Morris
4:50 pm	7:50 pm	Prize draw †
5:30 pm	8:30 pm	houseguest †
6:00 pm	9:00 pm	Zeo Boekbinder †
7:00 pm	10:00 pm	Festival end

* Times approximate, and subject to change
† View of on-site ASL interpretation provided

Enter the online prize draw

Ths year we’re bringing the excitement of our on-site prize draw to our livestream attendees as well! From now until Festival day, you can enter to win over $1,000 in prizes for FREE, or by donating to our crowdfunding campaign for additional entries. We everything from an Aranet to an air cleaner, so be sure to check it out!

When:
September 7-14, 2025
Prize draw on Festival livestream

Where:
Online

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