The Shape of a Wish was produced through a three-part workshop series led by Arts Umbrella in partnership with Health Arts Society that brought together seniors and children to consider their wishes for the Lunar New Year. Led by Arts Umbrella Instructor, Yan Song, seniors from S.U.C.C.E.S.S. and Ray-Cam Cooperative worked alongside Grade 4/5 students from Crosstown Elementary to combine watercolour and paper-cutting techniques to create colourful washes, patterns, and shapes that symbolize their wish for the new year.
Yan Song, Instructor – Yan Song loves working with children and has a deep passion for watercolor painting. She has been part of Arts Umbrella since 2018, teaching architecture to children and adult watercolor classes at local art galleries. Yan believes in the transformative power of art and is passionate about sharing it with the community.
Kenny Poon, Assistant – Kenny Poon is a Hong Konger based in Canada, with a background in creative education, applied theatre, and performance. His work spans theatre, podcasts, and short films. Working on LanternFest offered him a space for storytelling, cultural reflection, and art-making—an interconnected experience he hopes to share with the community
Shraddha Kumbhar, Assistant – Shraddha Kumbhar is a Vancouver-based artist and designer working with creative technologies, drawing, painting, and mixed media. Her work brings together digital and physical forms through visual storytelling, informed by her background in industrial and interaction design. Rooted in curiosity, her practice celebrates playful ways of seeing
N Loewen, Technician – nick is an art educator who aspires to a playful pedagogy rooted in contemporary art practice, and an artist examining social and material histories of technology. They live, work, and study on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Participants – Seniors from S.U.C.C.E.S.S and Ray-Cam Cooperative in collaboration with students from Crosstown Elementary, in partnership with Health Arts Society.
The Shape of a Wish
The Shape of a Wish was produced through a three-part workshop series led by Arts Umbrella in partnership with Health Arts Society that brought together seniors and children to consider their wishes for the Lunar New Year. Led by Arts Umbrella Instructor, Yan Song, seniors from S.U.C.C.E.S.S. and Ray-Cam Cooperative worked alongside Grade 4/5 students from Crosstown Elementary to combine watercolour and paper-cutting techniques to create colourful washes, patterns, and shapes that symbolize their wish for the new year.
Yan Song, Instructor – Yan Song loves working with children and has a deep passion for watercolor painting. She has been part of Arts Umbrella since 2018, teaching architecture to children and adult watercolor classes at local art galleries. Yan believes in the transformative power of art and is passionate about sharing it with the community.
Kenny Poon, Assistant – Kenny Poon is a Hong Konger based in Canada, with a background in creative education, applied theatre, and performance. His work spans theatre, podcasts, and short films. Working on LanternFest offered him a space for storytelling, cultural reflection, and art-making—an interconnected experience he hopes to share with the community
Shraddha Kumbhar, Assistant – Shraddha Kumbhar is a Vancouver-based artist and designer working with creative technologies, drawing, painting, and mixed media. Her work brings together digital and physical forms through visual storytelling, informed by her background in industrial and interaction design. Rooted in curiosity, her practice celebrates playful ways of seeing
N Loewen, Technician – nick is an art educator who aspires to a playful pedagogy rooted in contemporary art practice, and an artist examining social and material histories of technology. They live, work, and study on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Participants – Seniors from S.U.C.C.E.S.S and Ray-Cam Cooperative in collaboration with students from Crosstown Elementary, in partnership with Health Arts Society.
The Lantern City is grateful to be held on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). We acknowledge our privilege to be gathered on this land, and commit to work with and be respectful to the Indigenous peoples whose arts and stories inspire us to bring communities together.
