Our Impact

Our 2024 - 2025 Year in Light

 

Last year The Wilder deepened our impact across communities and seasons — creating shared experiences of wonder, reflection, and belonging.

 

Highlights:

• Produced Squamish at Dusk — our flagship winter light walk. We contributed our own funding, in-kind resources, and volunteer time to ensure the event’s success while keeping ticket prices affordable for families and residents.

• Ran In the Wild Woods — a free community event in September 2024, fully volunteer-run and resourced by The Wilder. It welcomed 200 visitors and featured a range of hands-on activities to help people learn about our incredible world. 

• Worked with diverse creators — from Is This Real to Squamish at Dusk, we collaborated with Indigenous, emerging, and underrepresented artists to create inclusive, representative installations.

• Created three new installations about our world: Glow Slugs sharing about ocean health, Memories of Colour sharing about global coral bleaching, and Sunshine sharing about global changing weather patterns and climate change. Each of these were presented at arts festivals, sharing their messages with thousands of visitors. 

• Reached 35,000+ visitors across our installations and activations throughout BC.

 

Community Activation

• 3 major self-produced public events supported by grants and sponsorship (Squamish at Dusk, In the Wild Woods, Is This Real)

• 3,000 + attendees and participants

• Resources, volunteer time and in-kind contributions

Artist & Youth Development

• 45 artists supported through our endeavours

• Prioritised youth hiring

• Prioritised Indigenous artist involvement, showcasing Indigenous artistry, cultural sharing, and innovation

Environmental Storytelling

• 3 new major installations about the environment 

• Ongoing integration of climate and nature themes in all programming and sustainable event production

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Why It Matters

Immersive public art builds shared experience, belonging, and understanding. Through accessible, inclusive, and environmentally aware creative production, we help communities rediscover public space, support local economies, and foster stewardship of our shared planet.

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Looking Ahead

For 2025–26, we will:

• Launch new Dusk experiences in Victoria sharing stories about the region

• Showcase our environmental art installations at festivals in BC and beyond 

• Expand youth and Indigenous artist engagement

• Improve sustainability practices and impact measurement for our event production

• Build multi-year municipal and sponsorship partnerships for sustainability fo impact

 

Acknowledgement

Our gratitude to the municipalities, sponsors, artists, partners, sponsors, and volunteers who make these luminous experiences possible — and to every visitor who joins us at dusk to see the world in a new light.

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Published: October 2025
Reporting Period: October 2024 – October 2025