Antigonight 2025

16TH ANNUAL ANTIGONIGHT: ART AFTER DARK
LORE, THE STORIES WE SHARE
SEPTEMBER 19TH & 20TH, 2025

festival schedule and map

Website: aqukultre.com

Aquakultre (Lance Sampson) – The Listening Lounge: Don’t Trip

‘The Listening Lounge offers lowlight and a sensory friendly space for festival goers to unwind and vibe with ‘Don’t Trip’, an album from CBC Searchlight award-winning rapper and neo-soul songwriter Lance Sampson. The record will be looping through the evening so listeners can drop into the Lounge at their leisure.

Initially, Sampson envisioned the album’s sound as a tribute to every era of R&B. “I Can Wait”, featuring Chudi Harris, Zamani Miller, and underground Halifax rapper Nixx, is his homage to the classic mid-2000s rumpshaker sound reminiscent of Next’s “Too Close.” Elsewhere, the lush retro vibes of “Magic” reckon with Sampson’s upbringing from an absentee father. Continuing the family affair, Phoenix Pagliacci and O’Sound’s voices flow through the horn-propelled boogie funk of “You Got Feets”, with lyrics about a grandmother busting out her best moves. The album wraps up like a brown paper bag in Sampson’s closing collaboration with New Jack Swing duo DJ Chidow and Vadell Gabriel, bringing those house party vibes back in full effect.

Website:

A Complete Self (MOVEMARROW)

Brandon Hoax – Tent Piece

Tent Piece – is an extension of MOVEMARROW. The piece uses ribbon, a material used as decoration and embellishment for different indigenous wear; like powwow regalia, ribbon shirts, and ribbon skirts. The piece is a three-dimensional structure for the viewer to move around; move through; dance around; dance through; stand around; stand inside.

You both meet.

The Tent is a structure to protect your body. 

The structure is a body adorned.

The work moves from the viewer interacting with it; as well as from standing free within the environment, small movements made from environmental factors. Sweeping gestures from participation, small dances from standing still. 

You both depart.

Website:

donicalarade.org

Donica Larade – Blueprints of Memory

‘Blueprints of Memory’ will offer festival goers an opportunity to cyanotype small personal objects and preserve them in real time with Donica Larade guiding guests through the science, the process and the importance of preservation. 

Website:

instagram.com/supportyourlocaljordan

Jordan Johnson – Throwback Thursday

Jordan Johnson is going back to the building blocks of her arts practice, to create

moveable large scale paintings that reveal stories of belonging through texture, play

and colour. ‘Throwback Thursday’ invites guests to rewind and play.

Website:

kristaleighdavis.com

Krista Leigh Davis – Choreographies for Capitalist Ruins

‘Choreographies for Capitalist Ruins’ is a tiny glimpse into the Extremophile’s world. Set in a small black box, Davis presents the video to share the feeling of examining microbial movements under microscopes where tiny drops of water can feel like an infinite universe: Dance, Dance, [More-than-Human] Revolution!  A tiny revolution of care is unfolding at our feet. It’s playing out in the garden dirt, ponds and forest burns. In the gutters and guts of the cities. In impossibly contaminated land marked by fences and signs to KEEP OUT. This is resistance, with a seemingly preposterous playbook that just might lead us toward futures different from the ones we’re headed for. And you’re invited.

Two of Davis’ video works in this series will be on display, and they will be accompanied live by the revolution’s spokesmicrobe who will be sharing revolutionary exercises onsite. 

Website:

linktr.ee/rezoundproject

Rezound – Memory Stream

Rezound invites you to be part of an enchanting journey where stories and music blend into a living, breathing experience. At this year’s festival, Rezound will create an ever evolving ambient landscape, improvising with loops, samples, and the unique audio contributions of festival-goers all collaborating to create ‘Memory Stream’.

Whether you share a personal memory, a snippet of a story, or a simple sound, your voice will become part of the collective soundscape. Each contribution will be woven seamlessly into the music, creating a unique, immersive experience that evolves throughout the night. Let your story become part of the tapestry!