FESTIVALS
Hot Chocolate Festival 2024
Vancouver's Hot Chocolate Fest is returning in 2024! The event is a great way to connect with a community of chocolate lovers and try something new.
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Dates: January 13 - February 24, 2024 Locations: Various locations around the Greater Vancouver Area, please check the map for details Cost: Free entry, some cost associated with additional beverages and goodies |
PuSh Festival
The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is a beacon of artistic innovation and cultural reflection. The festival presents an array of personal narratives around resistance, vulnerability, and pressing contemporary themes such as migration, displacement, labor, injustice, and the ever-evolving realm of artificial intelligence.
This year's theme: “Can a live art festival be a ritual for social change? A cultural strategy? A means to rethink history while imagining possible futures?” offers a compelling invitation to explore and engage. Details:
Dates: January 18 - February 4, 2024 Cost:
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Street Food City Festival
The Street Food City Festival is celebrating its 12th anniversary by giving the community a delicious opportunity to sample from a collection of Vancouver's Street Food carts all in one convenient location.
The festival features over a dozen delicious cultural options from around the world, as well as fan favourites and unique flavours. Dates: January 20 - 28, 2024 Times: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm on weekends 11:00 am to 2:00 pm on weekdays Location: šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énk Square, West Georgia Street (Vancouver Art Gallery) Cost: Free |
Lunar Festival Vancouver
Come celebrate the Lunar New Year at Vancouver's Lunar Festival. The event observes the beginning of spring and the new year on the lunisolar calendar. It is an important holiday in China and other Asian countries.
Celebrate the year of the dragon and learn about Chinese traditions. Event features:
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Winter Arts Festival
The Winter Arts Festival seeks to turn the city into an open-air gallery and celebration featuring sculptures, projection mapping, augmented reality (AR), laser art, and performances. The Winter Arts Festival spotlights the fusion of light, language and technology in captivating light-based public art. In the darkest season, light serves as a vital form of communication, conveying warnings and radiating warmth while creating spaces for reflection and storytelling.
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Dates: February 22-27, 2024 Locations: Various locations around Vancouver Email: hello@winterartsfest.com |
Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
The VIMFF seeks to connect the global outdoor community with international filmmakers, creators, and speakers, while promoting film-making and education. It offers mountain film screenings, live multimedia presentations, photography exhibitions, workshops, seminars & other special events that inspire, inform, and educate the public.
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Dates: February 23 - March 24, 2024 Cost: Ticket prices vary by event |
Vancouver International Dance Festival
The Vancouver International Dance Festival celebrates and focuses on the diversity of contemporary dance expression, its individuality, and its astonishing capacity for touching one’s heart and soul. It features dance performances from around the world, including Spain, Japan, and Hungary, as well as talent from across Canada.
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Location: Various locations around Vancouver Dates: February 25 – March 9, 2024 Cost: Prices vary based on event |
CelticFest
Join in the celebration of Celtic culture at the largest Celtic Festival in Western Canada.
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Dates: March 16-17, 2024 Location: North Plaza of the Vancouver Art Gallery, West Georgia St., Vancouver |
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
The Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates the arrival of Spring, as 43,000 cherry trees start to bloom around the city. There are dozens of cherry blossom-themed community events through March and April.
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Dates: March 29 – April 25, 2024 dates for specific events to be confirmed Locations: Various locations around Vancouver Cost: Most events are free to attend |
Vancouver Folk Festival
The Vancouver Folk Festival is a weekend music event where the community gathers together to enjoy folk and roots music from across Canada and around the world. The festival is internationally renowned and features popular and lesser-known artists.
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Dates: July 19 – 21, 2024 Location: Jericho Beach (4th Ave, west of Alma St.) Cost: Ticket prices range from $95 - $175 |
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