In hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ ʔəm̓i ce:p xʷiwəl translates to “Come Toward the Fire”. It suggests a movement of returning Indigenous voices to the forefront—and bringing them back to the centre, the fire, the heart of the community, following a generation of removal due to residential schools.

​ʔəm̓i ce:p xʷiwəl is a festival celebration of Indigenous culture and community presented by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)—on whose territory the Chan Centre and UBC are located.

The festival is a family-friendly accessible gathering that also features musical performances by Indigenous artists from across the continent, film screenings, dancers, speakers, workshops, artist discussions, an Indigenous artisan market, and food vendors.

Our aim is to amplify Indigenous voices and to create a vibrant space to celebrate Indigenous creativity, brilliance, and culture. All members of the general public are welcome to join in the festivities.

Book by Kellen Blair and Joe Kinosian
Lyrics by Kellen Blair
Music by Joe Kinosian

It takes two to tango and two to pull off a wild musical murder comedy!
Murder for Two is the story of a disastrous surprise birthday party for novelist Arthur Whitney. The big surprise was that one of the guests murdered the novelist because he had the habit of revealing his friends darkest, naughtiest secrets in his novels.

First on the scene is small town cop Marcus Moscowicz, who has dreams of becoming a big city detective, and solving this case in record time could be his ticket to the big time. There are 13 suspects and they all have good reason to want Whitney dead and buried, so Moscowicz has his job cut out for him.

Jim Lambie transforms everyday architectural spaces into immersive, energetic experiences through his vibrant vinyl tape installations. These site-specific works are an extension of his acclaimed Zobop series, which uses brightly coloured strips of industrial vinyl tape to contour the architectural space, wrapping its form in optical rhythm and vivid saturation.

Lambie is a Glasgow–based artist, DJ and musician. His practice draws from pop culture, music and Minimalism, and he often uses inexpensive, ready-made materials. In the Zobop works, which date back to the late 1990s, he meticulously applies tape in concentric patterns that respond to and amplify the geometry of the space. The effect is both playful and disorienting—simultaneously flattening and deepening the visual field.

Installed directly onto the stairs and floor of the Gallery’s Rotunda, Zobop (Colour-Chrome) (2019) blurs the boundaries between sculpture, installation and drawing. The works activate the act of moving through space, turning the mundane journey up or down a stairwell into a psychedelic, performative experience and radically shifting how we understand place—in this iteration, the Gallery’s architecture.