Our Mandate

Campbell Bay Music Festival Society is a non-profit organization supporting music, arts, and educational programming on SḴŦAḴ / Mayne Island. The purpose of the Society is to foster relationships across cultural and generational gaps guided by the values of revitalization, reconciliation, and restoration, through the curation and support of community events, performing arts, and educational programming on Mayne Island.

Vision and Values
CBMF Society strives to support the development of relationships and vitality in the community through the arts. We initiate programs designed to create lasting, meaningful connections and spaces of shared belonging. Employing the mediums of performing arts, visual arts, and land-based practices, CBMF assembles programs based on the following three cultural values:

Revitalization 
Our artistic programming includes traditional folk arts (dance, music, land-based arts and practices) from our community’s various heritages. By helping to revive and continue art practices that are inter-generational and community-engaged, our intention is to bring vitality to the communities we serve. 

Reconciliation 
Campbell Bay Music Festival is held on the unceded traditional territories of the Straits Salish peoples, on the Island called SḴŦAḴ in SENĆOŦEN and later called Mayne in English. Since 2018, CBMF Society continues to run an Indigenous Arts program, in an effort to highlight the phenomenal artistic practices of the W̱SÁNEĆ people, and to correct the erasure of these practices by colonialism.

Restoration 
In the era of global climate and biodiversity crises, nurturing a connection with the land, and sharing knowledge of working with the land is necessary for our shared mutual well-being. CBMF Society supports programs that promote hands-on local engagement with the environment, learning on the land, and sustainability practices.

 

our team

board of directors

  • Jennifer Iredale is the Vice-President and a founding member of the Campbell Bay Music Festival Society (2016). She is a heritage professional, curator and the former Director of the BC Heritage Branch. Currently Jennifer focuses on research and writing along with her passion for Indigenous allyship work on SḴŦAḴ / Mayne Island where she has had family property at Campbell Bay since childhood. Some of her honors include a BC Museums Association Distinguished Service award (2015) and a W̱SÁNEĆ Blanket Ceremony (2022).

  • Currently, Animateur, Collegium Program for Young Classical Musicians, Victoria Conservatory of Music. In the arts, Micki has previously worked for Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Kootenay School of Art, the West Kootenay Regional and Nelson Arts Councils, the Columbia Basin Arts Alliance, the BC Festival of the Arts and the Canadian College of Performing Arts. She has also worked in accounting, home health care administration, and for the Sierra Club. Outside of work her passions are family, reading, dance and French. She has served on many non-profit boards in English and in French.

  • Robyn Jacob is a composer, pianist, vocalist and educator living and working from the unceded territories of the Sḵwxwú7mesh, Xwməθkwəyəm and Səl’il’wətaʔ Nations, also known as Vancouver. Her compositions include commissions by Grammy winning Third Coast Percussion (Chicago), Architek Percussion (Montreal), So Percussion (Brooklyn), Chor Leoni (Vancouver), and Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, as well as collaborations with visual artists and instrument makers. Her avant-pop project Only A Visitor (Mint Records) has toured internationally and released four albums to date. She has released two albums with her duo project The Giving Shapes in collaboration with harpist Elisa Thorn. Her new solo project Immix explores the emotive narratives of voice and electronics. Since 2012 she has been part of the multi-disciplinary art collective Publik Secrets, whose work includes a variety of public space interventions, performances, installations and ephemeral gatherings, including Gamelan Bike Bike, which she has been co-leading with artist and composer George Rahi for over ten years.

  • Lisa Siddons is a long-time folk dancer, contra dance caller, and relatively new full-time Mayne Island resident. She has many years of experience as the site coordinator and webmaster of a local weekend dance camp. Originally a biologist, her most recent career was as a technical writer, and she currently edits and publishes a newsletter for the Mayne Island Conservancy, happily combining both interests.

Georgia is in front of a ivy-covered wall, smiling at the camera wearing a colourful scarf

  • Georgia Lloyd-Smith is an Indigenous rights and environmental lawyer working to uphold Indigenous laws and governance and facilitate deeper connection to and care for these lands and waters. She works at West Coast Environmental Law in the RELAW Program (Revitalizing Indigenous Law for Land, Air and Water) with a focus on protecting coastal and ocean ecosystems. She was born and raised on the Sḵwxwú7mesh, Xwməθkwəyəm and Səl’il’wətaʔ Nations territories (Vancouver) with a lifelong connection to SḴŦAḴ / Mayne Island and spends her time learning alongside the diverse life forms of this place. 

 

Staff

  • Sandra Henderson brings twenty years of experience behind the scenes in live performance to her role as Executive Director for the Campbell Bay Music Festival Society. 

    Born in Kingston, Ontario, she has made home bases in Toronto and Vancouver while on the road with experimental dance, theatre for young audiences, and large-scale puppet theatre. Now, she is fortunate to call SḴŦAḴ/Mayne Island home, a settler here with her partner, two children and eleven chickens.

  • Meg Iredale grew up on SḴŦAḴ / Mayne Island on her family's farm in Campbell Bay. She is co-founder of the non-profit The Campbell Bay Music Festival, and continues to work for the organization as Festival Operations Director.  She works as an arborist and builder, and spends her off-time helping organize community events, playing music, and adventuring with her dog Nina.

  • Elise Boeur is a folk musician, a bandleader of JUNO-nominated prog-trad quintet Aerialists, and a chameleonic collaborator on violin and hardingfele. 

    Elise works with musicians and arts groups on album, web, and print design, social media, and live event documentation. Elise has been involved with CBMF since 2009.

Rose holding a microphone and speaking on stage, wearing large beaded earrings

  • Rose Spahan is an artist, teacher, and independent curator in First Nations art. She comes from W̱SÁNEĆ and Nłeʔkepmxc territories, and has been instrumental in working with the Campbell Bay Music Festival for the inclusion of W̱SÁNEĆ artists and their artworks which have led to creation of the welcome poles, murals, exhibitions, workshops and liaison between the artists and organizations on SḴŦAḴ / Mayne Island.

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