Past Projects
For 18 years, Kendra Fanconi was Artistic Director and Lead Artist with The Only Animal, a theatre company that made work with a deep engagement
The One that Got Away
A play in a pool Original concept and written by Kendra Fanconi The One That Got Away tells the story of a girl with a fish where her heart should be, chasing her rapscallion grandfather into an afterlife reckoning with love and loss. This play-in-a-pool combines...
Other Freds
Other Freds was possibly the largest and most audacious site-specific theatre show Vancouver has ever seen. Other Freds is the story of a lonely fella named Fred and all of the Other Freds existing in nearby parallel worlds. It is about chance, fate and...
tinkers
tinkers is an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Paul Harding. This new transcendentalist work features an intimate and dazzling relationship with the natural world, woven into a story of family karma. Through an intergenerational story we...
Slime
Welcome to the 3rd Annual Slime Conference. Join 100 animals, seven young translators, scientists and suits, and fellow humans and step just slightly in the future… Seated amongst the delegates, you might hear an otter swimming down an aisle, a dolphin whistling at...
A Year with the Artist Brigade – A Report by Dr. Carolyne Clare
Executive Summary: Bringing Artists to the Climate Crisis by Kendra Fanconi In this age, characterized by ecological devastation, paralysing climate anxiety and grief in the citizenry, art has an important role to play. Art can unpack the complex emotional...
Year 25: ephemeral Stream By Julie Andreyev and Lara Felsing
Walk the elk trail, listen to the raven, hear the grouse’s beat, touch the young Cedar’s leaf tips. ephemeral stream is an embodied interactive experience about our coastal forest relations. The site follows an ephemeral stream — a stream activated by precipitation —...
Year 7: Cedar Window by Cody Chancellor
Come watch as the forest grows up around you. Gaze through the silhouette of the future and see the juvenile grow to be a giant. Watch the theatre of the forest. Bring patience, it's going to be a long performance! https://youtu.be/D9OiLz7kDOs The Thousand Year...
Year 1: The 1000 Year Theatre by Kendra Fanconi
Welcome to The 1000 Year Theatre. What makes this place a theatre? Well, it is a stage for you to act. Start at the beginning with Year 1, and play your part through 5 acts in the tiny forest in the slow performance of regeneration. You are imagineer, builder,...
Eco-Restoration
How do we to restore the land and ecosystem to support life in a changing climate? How do we design a new kind of living stage? A space responsive and responsible to living systems. How can the stories of non-human species bring about a new relationship...
CATastrophe!
If you just don’t have a Clue® about emergency prep…. If you think you have the Monopoly® on inertia… If you are aware of the Risk®…but don’t know what you can do… Then you are ready to play… CATastrophe! is an open-plan, human-scale board game to test your...
Museum of Rain
"The night became very dark, the rain surrounded the whole cabin with its enormous, virginal myth, a whole world of meaning, of secrecy, of silence, of rumour. Think of it: all that speech pouring down, selling nothing, judging nobody…What a thing it is to sit...
The Magic Hour
"The sun is about to go down. This is the Magic Hour.The term refers to the light that makes everything look more beautiful.” - The Magic Hour The Only Animal and friends welcome you to the VR version of last summer’s immersive show, The Magic Hour. The Magic Hour is...