Our auction has officially wrapped, and we are filled with gratitude. To everyone who bid, shared the link, donated an item, or cheered us on from the sidelines: THANK YOU!
Your enthusiasm and generosity made this year’s auction a beautiful success.
Because of you, we raised essential funds that will directly support soma anima arts’ artistic projects, community programs, and the artists who bring these works to life.
Your support reminds us that the arts thrive through community, collaboration, and care. We are honoured to have you with us on this journey.
As we look ahead to the coming year, with new creations, residencies, and projects in motion, we carry your encouragement with us. Thank you for helping sustain the artistic work we love and for being an integral part of our community!
Seeds of Tomorrow:
Our Online Auction is Live!
November 17 – December 1st 2025
Support dance & find amazing gifts this season.
Beauty. Art. Experiences. Kids items. Lifestyle treats.
There’s something for everyone — and every bid helps sustain soma anima arts.
Seeds of Tomorrow:
Our Online Auction will be live from November 17 to December 1st 2025!
Support dance & find amazing gifts this season.
Beauty. Art. Experiences. Kids items. Lifestyle treats.
There’s something for everyone — and every bid helps sustain soma anima arts.
Your generosity sustains our vital work!
From innovative performances to inclusive outreach | all grounded in creative liberation, collaboration, compassion, and community.
Your contributions directly support programs that bring movement, creativity, and connection to people of all ages and abilities.
This includes community outreach and engagement initiatives such as dance workshops for youth in francophone schools, creative classes for older adults in community centres, Generations, which brings dance to care facilities for seniors and community members living with chronic illness or mobility challenges, Freedom Floor, which offers improvisation sessions for at-risk youth navigating mental health and addiction challenges… and so much more!
Your support also fuels the research and creation of new interdisciplinary productions, including Bright Shadow, Gentle Glory, Reverence for the Rebels, What is us & eternal… and so many other inspiring artistic collaborations!
Why your support matters:
With rising costs and an increasingly competitive arts landscape, your generosity sustains the artists, staff, and volunteers who make this work possible.
Every auction bid helps ensure continued access to transformative art that nurtures mind, body, and spirit, building a more compassionate, inclusive, and connected world… one movement at a time!
We are forever grateful!
Each item up for bid has been generously donated by businesses and individuals, who believe in the work we do, with all proceeds directly benefiting artists and art-making.
Thank you Sean O’Flynn, Jacques Barry, The Hive, Chez Nous Bakery, Nevena Tadic, Keen Studio, Spanish Kids Corner, Nora Lu, Kathy Fletcher, and other individual donors who wish to remain anonymous! Your generosity knows no bounds! We are so thankful for your friendship!
Saturday October 11th, 2025
Gentle Glory is a solo work-in-progress by Rachel Helten that explores gentleness and empathy as pathways to liberation. Drawing from her personal experience navigating mental health challenges, Rachel examines how a deep connection to self, mother earth, and the wisdom of animism fosters healing and strength in an often violent world. The piece advocates for emotional intelligence as essential for greater awareness, celebrating vulnerability as a courageous act of alchemical transformation. It also reflects on how proximity can humanize or dehumanize, emphasizing the need to lean in and honour the sensitivity, sentience, and humanity of all through care.
The performance will be followed by an informal artists’ talk-back and a 45-minute creative movement workshop creating a space for collective exploration of themes such as embodied empathy and resilience.
- 2:00 pm – Civic Plaza: Performance + Artists’ talk-back
- 3:30 pm – North Vancouver City Library: Movement workshop
Free and open to all
Photo Credit: Emily Welz
Rachel and Ezequiel are honoured beyond measure to be a part of the Unity Consciousness – Art Festival presented by Chimerik and to celebrate the expansive, enduring, and beautiful love between Sammy and Caroline, our beloved friends and collaborators. They are profound sources of inspiration in our lives and in the world.
On June 29th, they will perform their new work what is us & eternal
Get your tickets to our performance here!
