Links - Festivals

FESTIVALS - groups that celebrate art in the community

Greater Vancouver

• AfrikaDey Festival www.africanvibesfm.com
• Alcan Dragon Boat Festival www.adbf.com
• Anime Evolution - a celebration of Asian entertainment www.animeevolution.com
• Arnold Mikelson Festival of the Arts www.mindandmatterart.com
• Arts Alive Festival www.downtownlangley.com/events.htm
• Arts in the City Festival www.artsinthecity.com
• Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival www.bardonthebeach.org
• BC Fashion Week www.bcfashionweek.com
• BC Highland Games www.bchighlandgames.com
• BC Ukranian Cultural Festival www.vcn.bc.ca/bcucf/
• Better World Handbook Festival www.betterworldhandbookfestival.org
• Burnaby Blues Festival www.burnabybluesfestival.com
• Caribbean Days Festival www.caribbeandaysfestival.com
• Catch the Spirit Art & Music Festival (Delta) www.catch-the-spirit.com
• Celtic Fest Vancouver www.celticfestvancouver.com
• Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival www.jccgv.com/home/cult_litevents.htm
• Cherry Blossom Festival http://www.vcbf.ca/qs/page/2875/0/-1
• Chilliwack Blues Festival www.chilliwackartscouncil.com
• Chilliwack Art Walk www.chilliwackartists.ca
• Chutzpah! The Lisa Nemetz Showcase of Jewish Performing Arts www.chutzpahfestival.com
• Circus of Dreams www.publicdreams.org
• CityFest www.cityfest.ca
• Coastal Sound International Choral Festival www.coastalsoundfestival.com
• Coho Festival www.westvancouver.com/coho/
• Dancing on the Edge Festival www.mcsquared.com/edge
• Decorate Vancouver www.decoratevancouver.com
• Deep Cove Days - 604-924-6871
• Downtown Eastside Film Festival (DTES) http://carnegie.vcn.bc.ca/index.pl/filmfest
• DOXA Documentary Film + Video Festival www.vcn.bc.ca/doxa
• East Van Farmer's Market www.eatlocal.org
• Edgemont Harvest Festival - 604-987-7529
• explorASIAN Festival www.explorasian.org
• extravaGAYza! Vancouver's Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual and Transgendered Pride Parade www.vanpride.bc.ca
• Festival Baobab www.zula.ca/?p=322
• Festival du Bois www.festivaldubois.ca
• Festival Vancouver www.festivalvancouver.bc.ca
• Fire Box www.publicdreams.org
• Fort Festival of the Performing Arts and Brigade Days (Fort Langley) www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/bc/langley/index_e.asp
• Freedom of Expression Festival www.altrue.net/site/resolution217/section.php?id=7444
• Global Discoveries www.caravanbc.org
• Greek Food Festival www.helleniccommunity.org
• Harmony Arts Festival www.harmonyarts.net
• Heart of the City Festival www.vcn.bc.ca/cai/hocf.html
• Heart of the City Parade http://carnegie.vcn.bc.ca/index.pl/parade
• HSBC Powersmart Celebration of Light www.celebration-of-light.com
• Hyack Festival www.hyack.bc.ca
• Illuminares www.publicdreams.org
• IMAGeNation Aboriginal Film and Video Festival www.imag-nation.com/
• Instant Improvisation Festival www.instanttheatre.com/festival.html
• In The House Festival www.inthehousefestival.com
• It Never Happens Here Arts & Music Festival (Fort Langley) www.neverhappenshere.ca
• kickstART! Celebration of Disability Art & Culture www.s4dac.org
• Langley Country Style Days Parade www.downtownlangley.com/events.htm
• Latin Summer Fest http://www.latinsummerfest.com/
• LIVE Biennial of Performance Art www.livevancouver.bc.ca
• Maple Ridge Jazz and Blues Festival www.jazzblues.ca
• MayWorks http://users.resist.ca/~mayworks/index.shtml
• Mid-Autumn Moon Festival www.vancouverchinesegarden.com
• Mission Folk Music Festival www.missionfolkmusicfestival.ca
• New Forms Festival www.newformsfestival.com
• New Music West www.newmusicwest.com
• New Play Festival on Granville Island www.playwrightstheatre.com
• Out on Screen Queer Film & Video Festival www.outonscreen.com
• Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) www.pne.ca
• Parade of Lost Souls www.publicdreams.org
• Port Moody Festival of the Arts www.pomoartsfestival.bc.ca
• Portuguese Heritage Month Festival http://www.portuguesecanadian.com
• Powell Street Festival (Japanese-Canadian) www.shinnova.com/powellstfestival
• Pride in Art Festival www.prideinart.ca
• PuSh International Performing Arts Festival www.pushfestival.ca
• ReelFast 48Hr Film Festival www.reelfastfilms.com
• Reel to Real: International Film Festival for Youth and Families www.r2rfestival.org
• Sacred Music Festival www.sacredmusicvancouver.org
• Scandanavian Midsummer Festival www.scandinaviancentre.org
• Signal & Noise - festival of video and sound www.videoinstudios.com
• Sista'Hood Celebration www.sistahoodcelebration.com
• Sawan Mela Festival (South Asian) www.safa.ca
• Spring Break Theatre Festival - 604-927-6555
• Summer in the City (North Vancouver) - 604-987-7529
• Taiwanese Cultural Festival "Temple Fair" www.tccs.ca
• Talking Stick Festival - A Celebration of Aboriginal Performance and Art http://www.fullcircle.ca/
• TD Canada Trust Media Arts Festival (child students) www.artsumbrella.com
• TD Canada Trust Vancouver International Jazz Festival www.coastaljazz.ca
• UBC Apple Festival www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/events/applefest.php
• Under the Volcano Festival of Art and Social Change http://users.resist.ca/~volcano/
• Unleashed and Unashamed: Youth Week Festival at VECC www.vecc.bc.ca
• Vancouver Asian Film Festival www.vaff.org
• Vancouver Chamber Music Festival www.vanrecital.com/chamber/index.html
• Vancouver Chinatown Festival www.vancouver-chinatown.com
• Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival www.vcbf.ca
• Vancouver Early Music Festival www.earlymusic.bc.ca
• Vancouver Folk Music Festival www.thefestival.bc.ca
• Vancouver Fringe Festival www.vancouverfringe.com
• Vancouver International Arts Festival http://www.theartsfestival.com/
• Vancouver International Children's Festival www.childrensfestival.ca
• Vancouver International Comedy Festival www.comedyfest.com
• Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) www.vidf.ca
• Vancouver International Digital Festival www.vidfest.com
• Vancouver International Hip Hop Film Festival (VIHF) www.vihf.com
• Vancouver International Film Festival www.viff.org
• Vancouver International Improv Festival www.instanttheatre.com
• Vancouver International Jazz Festival www.coastaljazz.ca
• Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival www.vimff.org
• Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival www.playhousewinefest.com
• Vancouver International Writers Festival www.writersfest.bc.ca
• Vancouver Island Music Fest www.islandmusicfest.com
• Vancouver Jewish Film Festival www.vjff.org
• Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festival www.musicfestivals.kiwanisbc.com
• Vancouver New Music Festival www.newmusic.org
• Vancouver New Play Festival www.playwrightstheatre.com/NewPlay.html
• Vancouver Queer Film & Video Festival www.outonscreen.com
• Vancouver Storytelling Festival www.vancouverstorytelling.org
• Vancouver Videopoem Festival www.cinematheque.bc.ca/videopoem_festival.htm
• Vancouver World Rhythm and Dance Festival www.vrad.ca
• Walking Fish Festival www.upintheairtheatre.com/walkingfish.html
• West Coast Chocolate Festival www.chocolatefestival.ca
• West Coast Science Fiction Society (V-Con) www.v-con.ca
• West Vancouver Community Day & Parade - 604-925-7288
• Wild Lights Lantern Festival - 604-988-6844
• Winter Soltice Lantern Festival www.secretlantern.org
• Word on the Street www.thewordonthestreet.ca

British Columbia

• Aboriginal Film Festival (Duncanc) http://aff.cowichan.net
• Alpine Blossom Festival (BC Interior) www.sunpeaksresort.com
• Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film & Video (Victoria) www.antimatter.ws
• Art In Bloom Festival (Courtenay) www.woodlandgardens.ca
• ARTrageous (Whistler) www.whistlerartscouncil.com
• ArtSwells Festival (Wells) www.imarts.com
• Arts on the Avenue - Ladysmith's Annual Outdoor Arts Festival www.ladysmithcofc.com/artscouncil/avenue.htm
• Asian Hertiage Month Festival www.ahm.bc.ca
• Bandfest - Victoria's International Military Music Festival www.bandfestvictoria.ca
• BC Cultural Crawl www.art-bc.com/events/culturalcrawl.php
• BC Renaissance Festival www.bcrenfest.com
• BC Student Film Festival www.bcstudentfilm.com/BCStudentFilm/BCFilmFest.html
• Bluegrass Festival (Sorrento) www.musicworkshops.ca/index.htm
• Brant Wildlife Festival (Qualicum Beach/Parksville) www.brantfestival.bc.ca
• Buccaneer Days (Esquimalt) - 250-414-7103
• Campbell River Shoreline Arts Society Woodcarving Competition www.crshorelinearts.com
• Canadian Mountain Bike Festival (BC Interior) www.sunpeaksresort.com
• Cathedral Festival Days (Victoria) www.cathedralfestival.net
• Chemainus Festival of Murals www.muraltown.com
• Chemainus Fiddle Fest www.chemainus.com
• ChocolateFEST (Victoria) www.chocolatefest.ca
• Christmas Writers Festival (Sidney) www.christmaswritersfestival.ca
• Classsic Boat Festival (Victoria) www.classicboatfestival.ca
• Comox Nautical Days - 250-338-1120
• Comox Valley Fall Fair www.cvexhibition.com
• Coombs Country Bluegrass Festival www.chrco.org/bluegrass.htm
• Cowichan Bay Boat Festival www.classicboats.org/festival/festival.html
• Cowichan Fringe Festival www.cowichanfringe.com
• Creston Valley Garden Festivals www.gardenfestivals.ca
• Creston Valley Fest http://www.crestonvalleyfest.com/
• Cumberland Empire Days www.cumberlandbc.org
• Dandelion Festival (Creston) - 250-402-6200
• Discovery Coast Music Festival (Bella Coola) www.bellacoolamusic.org
• Dominion Day Celebration (Fort Steele) - 250-417-6000
• Duncan-Cowichan Summer Festival www.cowichanfestivals.com
• Edge of the World Music Festival (Queen Charlotte Islands) www.edgefestival.com
• Emily Carr Festival of the Arts (Victoria) www.emilycarr.com
• enRoot Harvest & Heritage Festival (Penticton) 250-770-3276
• Eyelens Film and Video Festival (Galiano Island) www.giftsfilms.com/onscreen/eyelens.html
• Fat Cat Children's Festival (Kelowna) www.fatcatfestival.ca
• Faust Festival (Victoria) www.islandnet.com/~tinconnu/faustfest.html
• Festival of Freedom (Grand Forks) www.f3u.com
• Filberg Festival (Comox) www.filbergfestival.com
• Fire and Ice Festival (Qualicum Beach) www.fireandicefestival.net
• Fort Steele Heritage Showcase - 250-417-6000
• Free B Film Festival (Victoria) www.vifvf.com
• Gabriola Arts Council - Thanksgiving Studio Tour www.gabriolaartscouncil.org
• Gibsons Landing Fibre Arts Festival www.gibsonslandingfibrearts.com
• Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival www.coastjazz.com
• Gibsons Sea Cavalcade www.seacavalcade.ca
• Griz Days (Fernie) www.fernie.com/events/griz_days.html
• Harrison Festival of the Arts www.harrisonfestival.com
• Heritage Days (Cowichan Lake) www.cowichanlake.ca
• Hornby Festival of the Arts www.hornbyfestival.bc.ca
• Horsefly River Salmon Festival www.horsefly.bc.ca/salmonfest
• Hope Brigade Days www.hopebrigadedays.com
• ICA FolkFest - Victoria's Mulitcultural Arts Festival www.icafolkfest.com
• International Choral Kathaumixw World Music Festival (Powell River) www.kathaumixw.org
• Island Mountain Arts (Wells) www.imarts.com
• Islands Folk Festival www.folkfest.bc.ca
• Julyfest (Kimberley) - 250-427-3666
• Kamloops Cowboy Festival www.bcchs.com/festival.htm
• Kaslo Jazz Etc. Summer Music Festival www.kaslojazzfest.com
• Kelowna Blues Fest www.parksalive.com/bluesfest.htm
• Kimberly International Music & Dance Fest - 250-427-3326
• Kimberly International Old Time Accordian Festival www.kiotac.ca
• Kiospiox Valley Music Festival (Hazelton) www.kispiox.com/kvmf/index.html
• Kootenay Storytelling Festival (Nelson) www.kootenaystory.org
• Lake Country Art Walk - 250-766-4406
• Latin & Caribbean Music Festival (Victoria) www.vircs.bc.ca/latinfest.html
• Life and Arts Festival www.lifeandarts.com
• Literary Arts Festival (Victoria) www.literaryartsfestival.org
• Luminara Lantern Festival (Victoria) www.luminaravictoria.com
• Meadowlark Festival (Penticton) www.meadowlarkfestival.bc.ca
• Merrit Mountain Music Festival www.mountainfest.com
• Midsummer Festival (Smithers) www.bvfms.org
• Moss Street Paint-In (Victoria) http://aggv.bc.ca/programs-mspi.asp
• Mountain Arts Festival (Revelstoke) www.revelstokecc.bc.ca/events/major/major-mtnarts.htm
• Nakusp Music Fest www.nakuspmusicfest.com
• Nanaimo Marine Festival www.bathtub.island.net
• Naramata Faire - 250-496-5760
• Nelson Summer Songfest www.nelsonsongfest.com
• New Denver May Days - 250-358-2125
• North Island Jazz Festival (Courtenay) www.island.net/~swebers/
• Oak Bay Tea Party (Victoria) www.oakbayteaparty.com
• Okanagan Fest-of-Ale www.fest-of-ale.bc.ca
• Okanagan International Children's Festival www.okchildrensfest.org
• Okanagan Mozart Festival www.okanaganmozartfestival.com
• Okanagan Summer Wine Festival (Vernon) www.silverstarmtn.com/events/festival.html
• Okanagan Vocal Arts Festival www.ovaf.ca
• Okanagan Wine Festivals www.okanaganwinefestivals.com
• One World Rhythm Music Festival (Penticton) 250-493-1134
• Open Air in the Square (Victoria) www.openairvictoria.com
• Out on the Coast - lesbian focussed film series www.designbybillie.com/outonthecoast/
• Pacific Rim Whale Festival (Tofino/Ucluelet) www.island.net/~whalef/
• Parksville Beach Festival www.parksvillebeachfest.ca
• Peach City Beach Cruise (Penticton) www.peachcitybeachcruise.com
• Pender Harbour Jazz Festival www.phjazz.ca
• Penticton Beach Blanket Film Festival www.beachblanketfilmfest.ca
• Penticton Highland Games www.pentictonhighlandgames.com
• Penticton Kiwanis Music Festival www.pkmf.org/festival/
• Penticton Mulitcultural Festival - 250-493-4713
• Penticton Pacific Northwest Elvis Festival www.pentictonelvisfestival.com
• Penticton Peach Festival www.peachfest.com
• Penticton Square Dance Festival http://squaredance.bc.ca/jamboree.shtml
• Penticton Sunshine Cabaret www.penticton.org/festivals_events.html
• Pentastic Hot Jazz - The Annual Pentastic Jazz Festival (Penticton) www.pentasticjazz.com
• Performing Arts BC www.performingartsbc.ca
• Port Alberni ForestFest www.forestfest.ca
• Powell River Blackberry Festival www.roughlife.com/events/street%20party.htm
• Powell River Regional Film Festival www.prfilm.ca
• Prince George Folkfest www.pgfolkfest.com
• Revelstoke Mountain Beats and Blues Festival www.mountainbeats.com
• Rogue Art's Antimatter: Festival of Underground Short Film and Video www.antimatter.ws/index.html
• Romp Festival of Independent Dance (Victoria) - 250-388-0600
• Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Fest www.rootsandblues.ca
• Sechelt Family Arts Festival - 604-885-0606
• Selkirk Waterfront Festival www.f2000p.org/programs_events/selkirk_waterfront_festival.php
• Shakespeare in the Summer (Victoria) www.victoriashakespearesociety.com
• Shuswap Lake International Writers Festival (Salmon Arm) www.shuswapwritersfest.ca
• Sidney Fine Art Show www.cacsp.com/fineart.html
• Slocan Lake Sacred Music Festival - 250-358-2125
• Sooke Bluegrass Festival www.insooke.com/bluegrass/
• Squamish Caribbean Summer Jam Festival - 604-892-9244
• Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts www.writersfestival.ca
• Sunshine Coast Performing Arts Festival www.coastfestival.com
• Sunshine Music Festival (Powell River) www.sunshinemusicfest.com
• Tall Ships Victoria www.tallshipsvictoria.ca
• Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival (Whistler) www.whistler2005.com
• Touch the Earth Arts Festival (Indigenous people) www.geocities.com/iaso_2/10.html
• Udder Theatre Festival (Prince Rupert) www.harbourtheatre.bc.ca
• Uno Festival of Solo Performance (Victoria) www.intrepidtheatre.com
• Victoria Dance Project www.city.victoria.bc.ca/residents/artscl_artfest.shtml
• Victoria Day Parade www.city.victoria.bc.ca/residents/artscl_artfest.shtml
• Vancouver Island Blues Bash (Victoria) www.vicjazz.bc.ca/bluesbash/
• Vancouver Island Children's Book Festival (Nanaimo) http://schools.sd68.bc.ca/LIBSERVICES/BFest.html
• Vancouver Island Children's Festival www.childrensfestival.com
• Vancouver Island Music Fest www.islandmusicfest.com
• Victoria Asian Heritage Month - 250-385-8246
• Victoria Dance Series www.victoriadanceseries.com
• Victoria Dragon Boat Festival www.victoriadragonboat.com
• Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival www.victoriafringe.com
• Victoria Highland Games www.victoriahighlandgames.com
• Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival www.vifvf.com
• Victoria International Flower and Garden Festival www.flowerandgarden.ca
• Victoria Jazzfest International www.vicjazz.bc.ca
• Victoria Latin Caribbean Festival www.vircs.bc.ca/latinfest.html
• Victoria Literary Arts Festival www.literaryartsfestival.org
• Victorian Christmas Festival (Victoria) www.victorianchristmas.ca
• Weetama - Whistler's Celebration of Aboriginal Culture www.mywhistler.com/to_do/events/weetama2.asp
• Whiskey Creek Music Festival www.whiskeycreekmusicfestival.org
• Whistler Art and Music Festival www.mywhistler.com
• Whistler Children's Art Festival www.whistlerartscouncil.com
• Whistler Comedy Festival www.tourismwhistler.com
• Whistler Film Festival www.whistlerfilmfestival.com
• Whistler Jazz & Blues Festival - 604-932-2394
• Whistler Oktoberfest www.mywhistler.com
• Victoria Ska Festival www.victoriaskafest.ca
• Whistler Summer Street Entertainment www.mywhistler.com/to_do/events/street_entertainment2.asp#classical
• Whistler Paddlefest - 604-894-5035
• Wildcat Days & Canada Day Celebrations (Elkford) www.district.elkford.bc.ca
• Words on the Water Writers' Festival (Campbell River) www.wordsonthewater.ca
• World Championship Bathtub Race (Nanaimo) www.bathtub.island.net
  

Canada

• Clear Lake Chamber Music Festival www.clearlakechamberfestival.com

International

• Shanghai International Fringe Festival mark.ceolin@gmail.com or telephone (86) 138 1668 4103

SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS - groups that serve the arts

Greater Vancouver

• Ridge Meadows Community Festivals Society www.communityfestivals.org

British Columbia

• Performing Arts BC www.performingartsbc.ca
• Greater Victoria Festival Society - 250-382-3111

Canada

• Canadian Festivals and Events Network 613-567-5757
• Canadian Multicultural Festival Society www.vcn.bc.ca/cmfs/
• Festivals and Events Ontario www.festivals-events-ont.com
• Saskatchewan Festivals and Events www.saskfestivals.com/home
• Toronto International Film Festival Group www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/

International

• Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) (USA) www.artspresenters.org
• British Arts Festivals Association www.artsfestivals.co.uk
• Euro-Festival Info Centre/European Festivals Association www.efa-aef.eu
• International Association of Fairs and Expositions (IAFE) www.fairsandexpos.com
• International Festivals and Events Association (IFEA) www.ifea.com

WEB RESOURCES - web-based resources

Canada

• Festival Seeker - Canada's Guide to Festival and Events www.festivalseeker.com

EDUCATION - groups that teach art

SUPPLIERS - groups that sell art or materials

Vancouver

• MyBadges www.mybadges.com

FUNDING - groups that provide funding to the arts

Canada

• Canada Showcase - Canadian festivals www.telefilm.gc.ca
• Department of Canadian Heritage - Arts Presentation Canada www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/pubs/2002/02_e.htm#apc

AWARDS - groups that give awards to the arts

Greater Vancouver

• Vancouver Arts Awards www.vancouverartsawards.ca

PUBLICATIONS - books, magazines, etc.

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 30, 2008