FREE ADMISSION Set atop Boucherie Road and surrounded by mountain views, the 23-acre Grizzli estate is a picturesque setting for West Kelowna’s annual Art in the Park series. Join us for this two-day outdoor event to promote the arts community featuring a variety of Canadian artists, live music and wine. Meet local artists whose unique creations will be available to Read more...

Experience the French Canadian cultural traditions through musical performances, children’s entertainment, visual arts, contests, educational videos and a little history of our traditions. Be sure not to miss our comedian Saturday evening, a one shot opportunity, Live Streamed! Also, look for our online store where you can order traditional food from Pappy’s Creton as well as a variety of maple Read more...

FREE ADMISSION Join us on Thursday, June 24th from 5:00pm-7:00pm for the official opening of the exhibition ‘Tmixw- That Which Gives Life’, a Syilx Okanagan art installment showcasing works from Suknaqinx artists David Wilson Sookinakin and Coralee Miller. Take part in an exciting evening filled with art, dance and culture. Get an exclusive preview of the exhibition before it opens Read more...

Join us for the Artists for Conservation Festival presented by RE/MAX – a multi-day art and environmental education event, featuring AFC’s annual show – the world’s top conservation-themed art exhibit and artist expo, benefiting wildlife. Meet leading artists from various countries, buy art, enjoy live music, art demos, birds of prey, films, presentations, music and cultural performances. The AFC Festival 2021 Read more...

Culture Days is a national celebration of arts and culture. At the end of each September, millions of people attend thousands of participatory arts and culture events across the country. Culture Days programs invite the public to get hands-on and behind-the-scenes to highlight the importance of arts and culture in our communities. In BC, artists, cultural organizations, and municipalities host Read more...

The Annual Chetwynd International Chainsaw Carving Championship has visually shaped The District of Chetwynd into a one-of-a-kind locale. Artists from all over the world compete in this unique competition. The District of Chetwynd keeps each intricately carved piece from the championship and places them throughout town. Spectators can watch the artists create their works of art over the four days Read more...

20th Annual Chutzpah! Festival Vancouver, B.C. – The Chutzpah! Festival returns with an exciting lineup of performances, all available online, with special opportunities to attend intimate shows live streamed from the stage of the Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre. 2021 marks the celebration of Chutzpah’s 21st milestone year of presenting Vancouver audiences with new and exciting, critically acclaimed artists from Read more...

Explore artists’ studios, museums, art galleries and heritage sites through this free, self-guided tour within the Columbia Basin. Meet the artists, shop for fine art and craft, view demonstrations, special exhibitions, interpretive displays or chat with local historians during this day-long cultural celebration! The following communities are participating: Grand Forks, Christina Lake, Rossland, Trail, Ymir, Castlegar, Robson, Beasley, Nelson, Harrop, Read more...

Crafted Vancouver is an annual 25-day festival that celebrates and advances local, national & international craft and craft artists through a curated program of events taking place in venues throughout Metro Vancouver & the Fraser Valley. Along with our official Event Partners, we foster public appreciation by featuring exceptional artists & designers working in multiple disciplines across the craft continuum, Read more...

The Richmond Museum is excited to offer the second fully virtual Doors Open Richmond, happening online from June 5-12, 2021. This year’s edition will feature over 30 sites representing the city’s cultural diversity and heritage, such as places of worship, civic centres, museums, and local businesses. New sites this year include Anar Persian Cuisine, Fairchild TV, the Richmond Chinese Community Read more...

This exhibition aims to lift the veil and introduce you to the work of three incredible artists and activists, each of whom has had to overcome unimaginable challenges to be able to function within the confines of our increasingly unpredictable and ever-shifting landscape. For Laurie Landry and Bruce Horak, they have both learned from the beginning to live and function Read more...

Fort Langley Jazz & Arts Festival Presents Jazz at Home Jazz at Home is the virtual version of the 3rd annual Fort Langley Jazz & Arts Festival, Sept 4 – 5. In addition to two signature live-streamed ticketed events on Friday and Saturday nights, the festival will also stream FREE world-class jazz all day on Sept 5th. Whichever shows you Read more...

Free Admission. The Grizzli Spring Art Show features works from the members of the Federation of Canadian Artists- Central Okanagan Chapter (FCA-COC) in support of the Canadian Mental Health Association. The FCA-COC is a community of over 170 artists from the central Okanagan area, that includes emerging artists through to highly proficient professional artists. 10% of all paintings sold will Read more...

Free Admission In honour of National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21st, we want to celebrate the unique heritage, diverse cultures, and outstanding achievements of the Okanagan’s indigenous peoples with the summer installment of our Grizzly Art Gallery. We are excited to welcome Syilx Okanagan artists David Wilson Sookinakin and Coralee Miller who will showcase their work in the exhibition: Read more...

WORLD MUSIC & ART: SMALL TOWN ROOTS Now into its 6th decade, the Harrison Festival of the Arts has presented the best in Canadian and International performing and visual arts in a setting free of large crowds, long lineups and high ticket prices. The Festival is an event the whole family can enjoy featuring music from all corners of the Read more...

Welcome to Lake Country ArtWalk The Interior’s Largest Arts Festival For two days every September, the Lake Country Community Complex transforms into a festival of creativity. ArtWalk attracts over 7000+ attendees and features displays of visual and performing arts from 300+ Okanagan artists, hands-on children’s activities, live artist demonstrations, workshops, a live art auction and a delicious menu of food Read more...

The Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts has been providing high caliber workshops in a wide range of artistic mediums for artists, teachers and serious adult students since 1984. MISSA has a reputation for attracting local, national and international instructors who engage with students in an intense multi-disciplinary environment. MISSA welcomes students from around the world to participate in Read more...

* Free outdoor concerts * All in Nanaimo’s easy-walk downtown & stunning waterfront.  * A New Orleans 2nd Line Street Parade – Join the band with Nanaimo Style – and bring your decorative NOLA umbrella * Steve Jones’ Decadence will provide the music for a Swing/Funky/Jazz Dance – Dress up, Jive & Boogie to the dynamic 10-piece group, lead by saxophonist/arranger, Steve Jones. “Decadence features some of the best Nanaimo musicians playing an Read more...

The Nelson and District Arts Council is excited to present the fourth Nelson International Mural Festival happening August 13th-15th, 2021 throughout Nelson, BC (or online)! Cultural vibrancy in Nelson continues to flourish under the festival’s engagement of street artists, muralists, creators, and art enthusiasts joining the festival from the local, national, and international art scene. Through large scale public artworks, Read more...

New Diner Exhibit Serves Up Accessible Local History   Surrey, BC – Dine on Time invites you to feast, not on burgers and fries, but local history. The new permanent display inside the Surrey Stories Gallery at Museum of Surrey is a homage to several decades of diner culture in Surrey.   Visitors can slide into the retro 1950s vinyl booth and Read more...

The New West Cultural Crawl is a two-day visual art and cultural festival that celebrates and presents New Westminster’s creative character and diversity. A cultural experience that exists throughout the city’s neighbourhoods. Discover our historical heritage and the ‘New’ New West. New Westminster has a fantastic artistic landscape that continues to evolve with every passing year.  Saturday and Sunday the Read more...

Are You and Your Inner Critic looking to expand your discussions?  Looking at your work in an objective manner is hard when you are emotionally invested in it.  Having an objective artist to talk to about your work and your goals is a valuable tool.  Wendy is a sounding board, coach, and teacher. She has suggestions, techniques, and tips to help Read more...

First Class: Wednesday, May 12: 10am – 12:30pm Schedule: Wednesday and Saturday mornings May to mid September,  Also available for private small group classes at other times.  Come and experience the joy of Outdoor Sketching.  Capture that special moment in time in your sketchbook, your own private treasure trove of Art.  Wendy has lots of  Tips and Techniques that will Read more...

Drawn from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s rich photographic holdings, Pictures and Promises focuses on lens-based works that employ the structures, conventions and formal qualities used in mass media, fashion and advertising. The works then deploy these strategies to play on collective understandings of the world around us and to investigate the iconography of consumerism. Given advertising’s shift from denotative to Read more...

The Pride in Art Society (PiA) produces, presents and exhibits with a curatorial vision the Queer Arts Festival (QAF), an annual, professional, artist-run, multidisciplinary festival that harnesses the visceral power of the arts to inspire recognition, respect and visibility of people who transgress gender and sexual norms, and the new SUM Gallery located in the Sun Wah building in the Read more...

Richmond offers more free, interactive cultural activities over the national Culture Days weekend than any other place in BC. Express your love of culture by participating in one of dozens of activities offered by local artists, designers, crafters, writers and other creative people. Explore Richmond’s heritage sites, learn a new dance move, sing along with a choir, compose a story Read more...

The Richmond Maritime Festival is Richmond’s signature event showcasing the cultural and maritime heritage of Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site. Visitors in-person and virtually are not just observers, but have the opportunity to experience the arts and participate in Steveston’s maritime heritage. Learn more at www.richmondmaritimefestival.ca.    August 21-22, 2021 Read more...

A True Canadian Arts & Culture Experience… take a self guided mapped art tour through the Canadian Rockies! Contact us to confirm availability, you book flights & we take care of the rest. Visit www.rockymountainarttour.com A once in a lifetime dream vacation… Travel the parkway to world renowned tourist destinations of Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper and Mount Robson. Visit top Read more...

Watch/rewatch  Day 1- 3 of the 2020 online festival! Find out more about future events at www.rootsandblues.ca 28th Annual ROOTSandBLUES “An Altered State” Festival – Day 1 28th Annual ROOTSandBLUES “An Altered State” Festival – Day 2 28th Annual ROOTSandBLUES “An Altered State” Festival – Day 3 Read more...

The Ryga Arts Festival is a diverse multi-day celebration of arts and culture in the Okanagan, inspired by influential Canadian playwright and author George Ryga. Both online and in-person events will be offered for the 2021 festival. Bringing together professional and local artists, it features concerts, spoken word, author readings, visual arts, theatre, and more.  Visit http://www.rygafest.ca/ for tickets and Read more...

ROOTS andB LUES is currently exploring opportunities through which to share the joy, talent and authenticity of the ROOTSandBLUES Festival with a broader audience using a technology solution and alternate format in 2021. We commit to keeping you informed regarding alternate opportunities to enjoy ROOTSandBLUES as information becomes available in the coming weeks and months The Salmon Arm ROOTS & Read more...

The Sunshine Coast’s leading edge arts and cultural festival will be presented this year in October  2020 has been a challenging year for everyone – but the Sechelt Arts Festival is forging ahead with a hybrid mix of live and online events to bring arts and culture to all Sunshine Coast residents. We are extremely pleased to be able to Read more...

The Sooke Fine Arts Show is Vancouver Island’s longest-running, juried fine art show and one of the region’s premier summer arts events. This 11-day art show and sale usually transforms Sooke’s SEAPARC arena and leisure centre into a stunning, 17,000-square-foot gallery, bringing artists, volunteers, students, visitors and art patrons together for a festival of the arts that includes live music, Read more...

“Experience the power of creativity at Splash – Arts Umbrella’s annual art auction and gala. On Saturday, October 23, 2021.” Splash – Special 2021 Edition – will feature multiple private gala locations, each with a glamourous event experience. The art auction and evening entertainment will be broadcast live, reaching more than 500 guests. Through a combination of audiovisual providers and Read more...

July 1, 2021 Since 1945, the Steveston Salmon Festival has provided opportunities for the entire Richmond community to collectively celebrate Canada Day. This year’s event will feature an online program that includes elements of past events and opportunities for residents of all ages to safely celebrate our nation’s birthday. Learn more at www.stevestonsalmonfest.ca. Read more...

Storytelling—its scope and ongoing significance—lies at the heart of Stories that animate us, a dynamic and compelling exhibition developed formally and thematically in conversation with Sun Xun’s Mythological Time. Highlighting a rich selection of works on paper and animations, Stories that animate us draws from a diverse range of oral histories, narratives, knowledge systems and cosmologies. Whether evoking the spirit world, delving into the Read more...

Celebrating 51 years of the Pacific Rim Arts Society AND 33 years of the Summer Festival! The Pacific Rim Summer Festival is one of our longest standing programs and has morphed over the years to reflect our communities as they change. We have set objectives to guide committee members in their planning of the current festival. Our goal is to  Read more...

Sun Xun is a mid-career Chinese artist who works in a range of mediums including painting, drawing, animation, video and installation. In his highly imaginative video installation Mythological Time (2016), Sun takes viewers on a journey through his hometown of Fuxin in northern China, a coal-mining centre facing the depletion of its economic lifeblood. Sun’s video installation from the Gallery’s Read more...

Sun Xun is a mid-career Chinese artist who works in a range of mediums including painting, drawing, animation, video and installation. In his highly imaginative video installation Mythological Time (2016), Sun takes viewers on a journey through his hometown of Fuxin in northern China, a coal-mining centre facing the depletion of its economic lifeblood. Sun’s video installation from the Gallery’s collection will Read more...

‘The Crawl’ will showcase artists on the entire Sunshine Coast from Langdale to Earls Cove or Earls Cove to Langdale. Over the 3 days, the ‘Coast’ transforms into one large interactive art show. It is a celebration of displays, demonstrations and opportunities to meet the artists behind their amazing creations. During the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic the Crawl will look a little different.  To provide Read more...

YEAR ROUND TOUR OF ARTISTS’ STUDIOS Look for the flying PURPLE BANNERS all along the Sunshine Coast from Gambier Island and Langdale to Powell River and Lund. Wherever you see a PURPLE BANNER, the arts are at work. In many cases, but not always, the banner is an invitation to drop in. Please refer to the specific listing to determine Read more...

Experience the Real Mandrake the Magician at Museum of Surrey New exhibit celebrates life of world-famous magician with Surrey roots The Real Mandrake the Magician is set to appear in the Museum of Surrey’s Community Treasures exhibit space Feb. 17 to May 16, featuring the legendary career of the late Leon Mandrake. Visitors will have the opportunity to see magical Read more...

Oppression and commodification meet artist Vivek Shraya’s first solo photography show in Vancouver, Trauma Clown. In a cultural climate where laughter and pain go hand in hand, Shraya shuffles through a deck of trauma cards, exploring what type of sad clown we embody when we externalize our suffering. Over the course of the exhibition, Shraya’s “trauma clown” revisits traumatic experiences Read more...

Community members are invited to submit work that is about voice and land. This theme is open to interpretation and encourage all to explore possibilities and create art work that speaks to the relationship and beauty between humans and the natural world. Art work by artists of all ages will be accepted and we encourage collaboration between artists.  Any medium, Read more...

Available to view on-demand from Friday, April 23 to Saturday, May 22. The Kamloops Symphony is shining a light on the sometimes-forgotten yet always exquisitely beautiful member of the string section: the viola. Sought-after Canadian soloist, Marina Thibeault plays the ethereal and folkloric Viola Concerto by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks. Grieg’s Holberg Suite, and the Concerto for Strings by Nino Read more...

Word Vancouver is a free annual literary arts festival. This year our festival will be virtually running in September  with special events leading up to the festival. Our mission at Word is to foster connectivity, inclusivity, inspiration and to bring the joy of the written word. Since 1995 The Vancouver Book and Magazine Fair Society has produced Word Vancouver (forrmerly Read more...