Vancouver Mural Festival
The closure of Vancouver Mural Festival leaves a gaping hole in Vancouver’s art landscape
March 6, 2025By: Osna Hadef, SFU Student On January 24, 2025, the Vancouver Mural Festival (VMF) team announced their closure after nine years of contributing enormously to the public art scene in Vancouver. In their announcement, the team explained how they “have faced growing financial challenges in the past years.” VMF, a non-profit arts organization, was founded in 2016 with a mission of connecting art and people. Initially starting as a summer festival, the organization transformed into an agency that organized several events yearly. Aside from murals, their portfolio includes many community events, commissions, and projects. One of Vancouver’s visible characteristics is…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: The rest of Summer 2021
August 2, 2021By: Sara Wong, Arts & Culture Editor Sunflowers | Now until mid-September | From $10 | Lakeland Flowers This family-owned Abbotsford farm is new to the flower festival scene, but it has quickly become a local favourite. The picturesque sunflower…
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Laura Kwok’s Late Bloomer mural is a beautiful reminder that growth has no age limit
September 7, 2020By: Sara Wong, Peak Associate Vancouver hosts a lot of festivals in the summer, and while I appreciate the ingenuity of event organizers in making festivals such as the Vancouver Pride Festival and Powell Street Festival work online, the energy…
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The Vancouver Mural Festival continues to paint over its gentrification
June 16, 2020By: Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer If you’ve taken a stroll in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant area, you may have noticed a concentration of colourful shapes, people, animals, and words covering some of the walls. That’s because it’s the city’s hub for…
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Vancouver’s underrated, hidden art gems are well worth visiting
June 8, 2020By: Devana Petrovic, Staff Writer The Granville Loop Tunnel Street Art Gallery [caption id="attachment_114587" align="alignnone" width="634"] PHOTO: Courtesy of Stephanie Brook.[/caption] Location: Granville Loop Park Artists: Alternating local artists The Granville Tunnel Street Art Gallery is a hidden exhibit…
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