Scavenger Loops

Scavenger Loops! Come join Patchbay and EPFC North Collectives during BC Culture Days 2025 for a fun and free exploration of the form of The Loop.

What is a Scavenger Loop? A short (5-15 sec) story or sequence that cycles through beginning to end and is created from scavenged sources, repurposing sound, film, images, or text. It can be anything YOU make it!

Guided by EPFC NORTH and PATCHBAY, participants will have the opportunity to explore Elm Park using cameras, audio recorders and an assortment of found objects that they will splice together in our LOOP LAB to create a short audiovisual work. EPFC NORTH will guide you into a world of analog filmmaking, where you can learn to splice and dice 16mm footage into a new creation. PATCHBAY will mentor sound creation, using field recording and other audio tricks to soundtrack your loop.

Loops can be saved and taken home, and will have the opportunity to be shared/displayed outside the fieldhouse for the duration of Culture Days! Bring a friend (or make one there!) and fuse music, film, and everything in between to create your very own (super) short story!

All ages welcome and no experience necessary! Supplies and materials are included. Feel free to bring materials of your own that you may be curious about! All’s fair in the name of The Loop. Please RSVP to let us know you’re coming.