Winter @ Unit Pitt

Our team is piecing together eco-printed and dyed patchwork set pieces for upcoming performance events, including oversized pillows and duvets. Explore various techniques for botanical printing on fabric and paper alongside plant gathering, environmental sound art, anthotyping, and short excerpts from the Listening in Relation reading group (which you can join, see our other events!). You can add a printed patch or two to our creations, or take your "makes" home to use in your own projects.

The lead facilitator for this iteration of Slow Social Club - Winter is Stevan Oostenbrug. He will be supported by Barbara Adler, Camila Rueda Furuzawa, Annie Simms, and other amazing individuals on The Only Animal team.

Slow Social Club - Winter is graciously hosted and produced with the UNIT/PITT gallery. Entrance is Free by Registration on Eventbrite. Materials provided.

Accessibility notes for the gallery can be found at this link: https://www.unitpitt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Accessibility-notes.pdf

Feel free to reach out to Stevan at stevan@theonlyanimal.com about programming. For questions about the gallery reach out to info@unitpitt.ca.

About Stevan Oostenbrug

Stevan Oostenbrug is a queer event organizer, songwriter, and interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh first nations. Stevan creates lyrically driven contemporary folk music and sound-material driven experimental work with a focus on curiosity and interconnection between the individual, their community, and their environment. Stevan creates sound with his intrinsic knowledge of harmony from church-going as a child, his curiosity for sound created from physical materials, and his deep need to connect authentically. Stevan has organized many sound-based events at Simon Fraser University and gathers students for union meetings as the current President of the Music and Sound Union. He has Stevan explores varied media including instrument building, mono-prints, fibre arts, and sculpture. His artistic practice touches on queer informed religious trauma, navigating relationships with mental illness, and collective action. Stevan has performed at the 2023 and 2024 West Coast Composer Symposiums, participated in SFU’s student music and sound compilations, and Music and Sound Festivals at Simon Fraser University where he is a current student.

About Slow Social Club

The Only Animal’s Slow Social Club offers soft tactics to remember and repair our relationships to place through slow, process-led artmaking. Each edition responds to local themes, materials and collaborators, and becomes a co-creation between The Only Animal and its communities. You can experience our growing textile installation at Slow Social events throughout the province. Attendees will interact with plants, eachother, human-made materials, and artistic practice to draw attention to the natural rhythms of the Winter season.

This work is made possible through The Only Animal's supporters, including The City of Vancouver, British Columbia Arts Council and the Vancouver Foundation.