# Event Details - **Event Name**: Slow Social Club X Exquisite Pressure w./ Alyssa Amarshi & Sarah Nash Wong - **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 15 Mar, 2026 at 04:30 pm – Sun, 15 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm - **Event Description**: Learn from rock and lichen companions with collaborators and comrades Alyssa Amarshi & Sarah Nash Wong.About this EventThe Only Animal is hosting an 'eco' edition of Exquisite Pressure Residency. We asked 3 artist groups to:explore a novel creation process reflecting ‘eco-centric’ values or conceptsinitiate a process or relationship that could have a life beyond the showThis March, join us for a series of relaxed 'Slow Social Club' meet-ups to share research, experiments, and methods inspired by the artists' residencies, leading to a showing of the new works March 27-28, 2026 at What Lab.Looking to Rock and Lichen with Alyssa Amarshi and Sarah Nash WongDuring their residency, Alyssa Amarshi and Sarah Nash Wong have been developing Future Soil, an anti-performance and collective meditation inspired by the ritual of tarot reading and the collaborative relationship between rock and lichen, who came together through slow processes of weathering to create the first soils that were the basis for all life on land. As we live through times of global socio-political collapse, we look to rock and lichen as elders, survivors, and oracles, whose collaboration models the kind of solidarity we must embody to birth new worlds from the cracks of empire.Alyssa Amarshi and Sarah Nash Wong write:"Our Slow Social will invite folks into our process of learning from our rock and lichen companions, first through guided meditation scores that invite our bodies into gentle movement and reflection through the acts of slowing down, listening, and zooming in. We will spend the second half of the workshop translating the wisdom we receive from the rock and lichen meditations into writing, creating collaged poems that will form a card deck, which we will incorporate in our performance. Conversations around solidarity, collective liberation, animacy, grief, and kinship will guide the session."Cardstock, printed excerpts of text, paper, pens, scissors, glue will be providedAccessibility and SafetyThis event is masks required to protect immunocompromised artists and community members. Masks will be available on site if you do not have your own. We understand some folks may not be able to mask for medical reasons—please be in touch with us if so and we will make sure you are able to access the performance. If you are feeling unwell or have had a recent COVID exposure, please stay home!Please see What Lab: Visual Story Guide for detailed info about parking, washrooms, wheelchair access to the space, and more.We welcome your questions and access requests. Please email us at info@theonlyanimal.com.Reading/Listening ListWe invite you to explore these materials before or after our event:, Eliza LaubachSophie Strand, adrienne maree brown, Alta Starr, chelsea cleveland, Lottie V. SpadyAbout Slow Social ClubRegular meet-ups to share methods for slow, process-led artmaking. Each edition responds to local themes, materials and collaborators and becomes a co-creation with our communities. We offer soft tactics to remember and repair our relationships to place. See past editions here.About The Only AnimalYour companion through the climate crisis. Slow art & community on unceded Coast Salish lands.The Only Animal (TOA) brings art and artists to the heart of the climate crisis. We foreground social connection and slow creation to offer a form of environmental activism that takes place in the folds of our everyday lives.Our 'slow social' events reflect our understanding that transformation is an ongoing process, not a single experience, product, or show.Our current projects explore how place-based creativity can set the stage for climate care and sensitize relationships between people and place. We prioritize long-term and porous relationships with the public and our artist collaborators, shifting what we do in response to local curiosities and needs.https://youtu.be/B_q_jQDjEEM - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/vancouver/slow-social-club-x-exquisite-pressure-w-alyssa-amarshi-and-sarah-nash-wong/100001983987392699 - **Event Categories**: art, meditation, health-wellness, workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: CAD ## Event venue details - **city**: Vancouver - **state**: BC - **country**: Canada - **location**: What Lab - **lat**: 49.2829629 - **long**: -123.0678254 - **full address**: What Lab, 1814 Pandora Street, Vancouver, Canada ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Slow Social Club X Exquisite Pressure w./ Alyssa Amarshi & Sarah Nash Wong - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/ffd75a4c5144eb37926c5c667f4d53a85c4edff16b6ec14c15990639a93c9c9c-rimg-w1200-h1600-dc322c31-gmir.jpg?v=1772815341 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Slow Social Club X Exquisite Pressure w./ Alyssa Amarshi & Sarah Nash Wong being held? - **A:** Slow Social Club X Exquisite Pressure w./ Alyssa Amarshi & Sarah Nash Wong takes place on Sun, 15 Mar, 2026 at 04:30 pm to Sun, 15 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm at What Lab, 1814 Pandora Street, Vancouver, Canada. - **Q**: Who is organizing Slow Social Club X Exquisite Pressure w./ Alyssa Amarshi & Sarah Nash Wong? - **A:** Slow Social Club X Exquisite Pressure w./ Alyssa Amarshi & Sarah Nash Wong is organized by The Only Animal. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Slow Social Club X Exquisite Pressure w./ Alyssa Amarshi & Sarah Nash Wong is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Vancouver, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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