Vines Art Festival 2025 – Celebrating Land, Art, and Community

📍 Locations: Multiple parks across Vancouver
📅 Dates: August 6–16, 2025
💸 Admission: Free and open to all
🌿 Organiser: Vines Art Society
🔗 Website: www.vinesartsociety.com

Event Overview

The 11th Annual Vines Art Festival returns to Vancouver from August 6 to 16, 2025, offering a powerful and poetic celebration of land-based art, relational justice, and community connection. Rooted in Indigenous knowledge and grassroots activism, this unique multidisciplinary festival brings together local artists, dancers, poets, and performers in a collaborative vision of ecological healing and cultural resilience.

Set in Vancouver’s most beautiful parks and gathering places, the Vines Art Festival is a free, all-ages event featuring performances, ceremonies, workshops, and installations that honour land, water, and memory through art.

2025 Festival Highlights & Schedule

📅 August 6 – Opening Ceremony | Receiving Direction

Location: Second Beach, Stanley Park
A spiritual opening to set the direction and intention for this year’s festival.

📅 August 7 – Times Reflection

Location: Pandora Park
A community gathering focused on ancestral teachings, time, and transformation.

📅 August 8 – Songs of the Sun

Location: Dude Chilling Park
Music, movement, and warmth in an evening of solar celebration.

📅 August 9 – Driving in Palestine: Opening Night – Rehab Nazzal

Location: Vines Den
Art and stories from occupied lands, sharing global voices and resistance.

📅 August 13 – Hands of Hope

Location: Oppenheimer Park
Community healing through performances and collective art practices.

📅 August 14 – Supernatural Gifts

Location: Sunset Beach
A gathering celebrating spiritual offerings, dance, and storytelling.

📅 August 15 – Rooted Relations

Location: Grandview Park
Centres Indigenous teachings, plant medicine, and artistic mentorship.

📅 August 16 – Elemental Nourishment

Location: Trout Lake Park | 1:00 PM
Finale gathering with earth-honouring performances, music, and workshops.

Festival Purpose & Values

Founded in 2015, the Vines Art Festival uplifts artists working at the intersections of art, land, and social justice. This year’s theme invites artists to explore what stories need to be rooted, remembered, or released, and how our relationship to the land informs our collective futures.

The festival is held on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, with a commitment to honouring Indigenous knowledge and ongoing presence.

Notable Features

• 🎭 Over 60 multidisciplinary performances across 8+ parks

• 🎨 Community-driven installations & visual arts

• 🌱 Mentorship programs like Rooted Relations for Indigenous artists

• 🎶 Music, dance, storytelling, and healing workshops

• 🧘 Spaces for reflection, resistance, and reimagination

• 💬 Free & accessible to all – no tickets required

Visitor Info

• All events are free and family-friendly

• Bring your own seating or blanket for outdoor performances

• Events are held rain or shine

• Visit vinesartsociety.com for park maps and schedule details

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