The Public Dreams Society is a non-profit company that organizes community art celebrations in the Greater Vancouver Region. This includes community workshops on lantern and puppet making, stilt walking and fire dancing. Each event begins with our creative team working together. This team is made-up of an artistic director, performance coordinator, production manager, volunteer coordinator and set design coordinator. A shared voice comes out of a collective process for envisioning each community event, which is strengthened as we move forward to the event itself. We have learned that no one person can hold all the ideas and dreams for the productions and, therefore, we encourage and invite others to bring forward ideas which in turn allows everyone to learn more about what is creatively possible. The result is a celebration that reflects a myriad of cultural symbols in the communities in which we live.

Public Dreams produces theatrical events and participatory community events, integrating artists, performers and the public with theatre performance, ritual, myth, celebration and community activism. Professional and recreational artists work together to create large-scale outdoor performances through props making and performance workshops. Our tools are the elements of spectacle, processions, giant puppets, pyrotechnics, group choreography, street performance artists, outdoor art installations, stilt walkers, fire sculptures and music. With them we make "low tech magic".

It is fundamental for everyone involved with Public Dreams to realize the potential in each of us to be creative and to inspire our audiences to explore their own creativity. It is the individual contribution of each person who chooses to be a part of the experience that makes Public Dreams events what they are. We provide the overall framework and tools and invite the community to participate, interact, interpret and create. Public Dreams not only plays the role of creating the opportunities for a wide range of artistic and community expressions, but also brings community members together to create events that challenge the audience and presents elements of artistic risk.