BEACH CREATURES: A Bouncy Beach Boogie 🧜♀️🌊🦑👽
August 16 | 1- 6pm | Coal Beach
Come bask in the beats of summer and unleash your inner BEACH CREATURE! Whether you’re a mermaid, jellyfish, starfish, sea cucumber, ocean alien, dolphin, swamp witch, or a water soaked fairy, this day is for you! Dress as your favorite creature (real or imagined) and embody the whimsical and weird side of life 🌞🌊
🌊 DETAILS:
📍 Coal Beach (unseeded K’ómox territory) See directions below on how to get to the beach!
🕐 1-6pm on Saturday, August 16
💙 Surprise vendors will be announced soon!
👙 Dress for the elements - sun, wind, water!
🚫 No glass on the beach! Leave it better than you found it - remove all trash and belongings! If you bring your dog please practice responsible care in the heat and be mindful of others!
🏊 No lifeguard on duty - swim and dance responsibly.
🎟️ Fund the fun by supporting the DJs with a sliding scale donation of $20-30 No one turned away for lack of funds.
❗DIRECTIONS❗ Enter “Coal Beach Parking” NOT “Coal Beach” in Google Maps. Parking is along the road, the trail to the beach is on the right side of the road when driving from town. Take a fairly flat, 15 minute stroll through the lush forest - honouring her beauty along the way! Allow the enticing beats on the beach to guide you! The path good for wagons, so bringing all of your comfort items. We will make a post closer to the event with clear direction, be sure to look out for it!
Featuring 3 female BEACH CREATURES that will fiercely be spinning tunes with the rhythm of the waves and our favorite beach babes! Expect deep sea grooves, tidal waves of joy, and musical rhythm to swim and sway the day away!
🌻Dandelion – Living Truth in Motion
Guided by rhythm and the present moment, Dandelion is a Swenadian life explorer who honors music and dance as playful, timeless rituals that connect us to the pulse of life and the heartbeat of the Earth. Her music-weaving invites to celebrate aliveness through motion, expression, and connection – curating spaces where we can unfurl and dare to dance into the rhythm of our own inner drum.
https://soundcloud.com/toverella
❗❣️ Exclamation Heart ❣️❗
Rooted in rhythm and revolution, Exclamation Heart is a queer, neuro-spicy, and disabled artist who punctuates love wherever she goes!!! Every set is a love letter of collective joy, emotional release, and ecstatic connection. With deep reverence for the healing power of music and movement, she creates safer, soul-charged spaces that awaken our wild within. Swim on over to SoundCloud to get a taste today! www.soundcloud.com/exclamationheart
🌱 Tammra / dj sprouT - has a 'rhythmiculous' 25+ year beat-streak as a DJ, Event Curator, Planner and Promoter. Her passion for music and crafting mixes has taken her to various corners of the globe, leading her to DJ at numerous events, nightclubs and festivals, including Wicked Woods Music Festival, Motion Notion, Shambhala Music Festival, Bass Coast Project and many more. The profound connection between music and the audience fuels her creativity, inspiring her to push the boundaries of her craft even further. sprouT fuses deep, funky house & breaks, bass-forward, melodic, and percussive layering into eclectic mixes. She weaves juicy sound journeys that ignite the heart and stir the soul.
https://soundcloud.com/djsprout
✨CONSENT-FIRST SPACE✨
This is an all-ages, body-positive, and radically welcoming environment. Mutual consent is mandatory before entering someone’s physical space or touching them (including on the dance floor), ask first and listen deeply. Everyone deserves to feel safe and sovereign.
💙SUBSTANCE-FREE EVENT:
This is a substance-free space. No drugs, alcohol, or other intoxicants are permitted.
🌿INCLUSIVITY & LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
We respectfully acknowledge the Sahtloot, Sasitla, Ieeksun, Puntledge, and all K'ómox Coastal Salish peoples, traditional keepers of The Land of Plenty and rightful stewards of this beautiful, unceded territory in which we are grateful to share space with you.
We ask all participants to align with our code of ethics, as we do not discriminate against any person or group based on race, ethnicity, language, religion, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, abilities, socio-economic status, or national ancestry. All bodies are beautiful.
Bring your floaties, water, snacks, sparkle, and sea legs to dance the day away! Don’t forget WATER! Let’s make magic on the sand together and pay our gratitude and respects to the beautiful land we are so lucky to connect upon 💙 Carpooling is cool! Feel free to post a thread to find rides!
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