Vancouver 
Events Description
The Eastside Arts Society will present an expanded 6th edition of the Eastside Arts Festival, bringing together local artists and audiences across the Eastside Arts District neighbourhoods, parks, studios, and breweries. A district-wide celebration of the artists, cultural spaces, and creative communities that shape Vancouver’s Eastside, this year’s festival invites people to experience the district in hands-on and unexpected ways through soundwalks, artist-led workshops, public art tours, immersive performances, and live music.
On July 25, the festival will host its annual free, outdoor concert, at MacLean Park from 3:00-8:00 pm, in collaboration with the Rickshaw Theatre, and presented by the Strathcona BIA.
The festival will also co-present two events: The popular outdoor summer series, The Dance Deck, in partnership with Belle Spirale Dance Projects (July 18, 19, 25 & 26), and an afternoon of free music at MacLean Park, in partnership with MacLean Park Music (July 26). Tickets and festival schedule at eastsideartsfest.ca
Who is it for?
All ages
HOW MUCH
Tickets : $0 – $70
Art-Making Workshops
$35 (Equity), $45 (Standard), $55 (Supporter)
Various art studios, breweries, distilleries, and at
Strathcona Park (plein air drawing)
How to get tickets?
WHEN & WHERE
Date: Friday July 17, 2026 to Sunday July 26, 2026
Art-Making Workshops
$35 (Equity), $45 (Standard), $55 (Supporter)
Various art studios, breweries, distilleries, and at
Strathcona Park (plein air drawing)
July 17 & 20-24, 2026 at 7pm
July 18, 2026 at 10am & 1pm
July 19, 2026 at 10am
July 23, 2026 at 6pm
July 26, 2026 at 10am, 1pm & 3:30pm
Walking Tours – $20
Various Eastside meeting locations
July 17, 23 & 24, 2026 at 6pm
July 18 & 19, 2026 at 1pm
July 26, 2026 at 1pm & 3:30pm
The Dance Deck – $40-$70
1745 Napier Street
July 18, 19, 25 & 26, 2026 at 4pm
Free Activities
The Whitty Wily Poetry Connection
Kamloops x Hastings Plaza
July 18, 2026 at 12-2pm
All-day party at MacLean Park, including free art activities, live music, Art Shop, food trucks, and a beer garden
Live music by Jody Glenham, Big Rig, Stephen Hamm: Theremin Man, Wack, & Buddie
710 Keefer Street
July 25, 2026 from 3-8pm
MacLean Park Music
710 Keefer Street
July 26, 2026 from 2-5pm
Venue & Address
Eastside Arts District, 710 Keefer St, Vancouver
Wheelchair accessible
