CREATE! Eastside Arts Festival

The 4th annual CREATE! Eastside Arts Festival is a week-long, exciting, and immersive arts event this summer, bringing together local artists and the community to explore, learn, and create in Strathcona Park, and in pop up locations such as breweries, venues, and art studios across the Eastside Arts District.

Celebrating the diversity of performing and visuals arts in Vancouver’s Eastside, this innovative festival offers arts workshops, live music performances, a beer garden, public art activations, an art shop and many more opportunities for art lovers of all ages and abilities to experience!

Festival Format

Happening from Monday, July 22nd to Sunday, July 28th, attendees will discover the diversity of the Eastside Arts District through affordable ticketed art workshops and performances at pop-up locations such as breweries, studios and performance venues.

On Saturday, July 27th, Eastside Arts Festival site returns as attendees immerse themselves in outdoor creativity at scenic Strathcona Park. Attendees will enjoy affordable, ticketed visual and performing art workshops + Create! Art Zone with public participation art projects, an art shop, food trucks and a beer garden at our fully licensed festival site.

All art activities are brought to you by artists living or working in Vancouver’s amazing Eastside Arts District. The CREATE! Eastside Arts Festival is presented by the Eastside Arts Society, producers of the Eastside Culture Crawl and the Eastside Arts District.