Installation
Orcar
bookable
A 24 ft illuminated orca on a 20 ft truck chassis. Twenty people ride inside the belly of the whale while 7,000 LEDs trace its ribs. Carries a Southern Resident orca message.
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Specs
Footprint 24 x 8 x 14 ft sculpture on a 20 ft chassis
14 ft tall at the dorsal fin, built on a decommissioned Isuzu NPR flatbed. Allow ~28 x 14 ft including the viewing perimeter.
Power Self-powered, no generator
12V battery bank drives ~1 kW of LED. A 2-hour daytime charge runs 12 hours of night lighting.
Transport Drives itself to your site
Highway-legal truck based in Squamish, BC. Transport within BC included; farther afield quoted per event.
Install On site and running in 1-3 hours
Moving it takes 1 operator and 2 spotters. Parked, it runs unattended; a crew member manages the belly door during open hours.
Storage Lives on its chassis in Squamish
Multi-day and multi-week placements welcome.
Engineering Structural engineer reviewed (not a P.Eng)
Reviewed by a structural engineer (not a P.Eng). No P.Eng stamp. A written safety plan comes with every booking.
Site ~28 x 14 ft of level, firm ground
Needs a drive path in. No open flame, propane, pyro, haze or lasers used.
The Orcar is a 24 ft steel-and-fabric orca built on a decommissioned Isuzu NPR flatbed. Walk up the stairs and you're inside the belly of the whale: up to 20 people at a time, under ribs lit by roughly 7,000 addressable LEDs, with motion-reactive lighting inside.
"The machine that warms the ocean, reborn as the creature that depends on it." The piece carries a conservation message for the Southern Resident orcas and the three things threatening them: wild Chinook salmon at historic lows, vessel noise that masks the echolocation they hunt with, and toxins that build up in their blubber and pass to their calves.
It was built in spring 2026 by 30-plus makers in the Create Public Art program at Create Makerspace in Squamish, BC. Its first summer took it to Otherworld, Bass Coast (parked beside the stage), What If Festival, the Feather Shakedown, Canada Day in downtown Squamish, Cap U Mountain Fest and the Brackendale Fall Fair. It has also worked as a bar: in September 2026 it hosted a brand happy hour for Arc'teryx.
It works two ways. Mobile, it roams your site at walking pace with riders aboard. Parked, it's a lit walk-through sculpture that runs all night without a generator. Climbing the exterior is supervised and can be switched off to suit your site rules.
Request to book
Bring Orcar to your event
Nothing is held until we confirm your dates.