Vancouver's Eastside Culture Crawl returns for its 28th season welcoming thousands of visitors into the studios of local talent.
This year's festival features over 500 registered artists, including 90 new artists, in over 55 buildings and a pop-up exhibit for home-based participants over four days kicking off on Nov. 14. The pop-up exhibit at the Progress Lab (1422 William St.) will allow five artists who work at home but can't open their studios to the public to join the event.
Visitors will discover artist studios, galleries, and workshops in the Eastside Arts District, encompassing the region bounded by Columbia Street, 1st Avenue, Victoria Drive, and the Waterfront. The area is Vancouver's most concentrated section of artists, designers, performers, craftspeople, and culture producers.
Attendees see artists inside their spaces, providing an insider's perspective of where they create their works among other creatives. This year's festival features folks specializing in painting, jewelry, sculpture, furniture, leather goods, photography, glass works, textiles, and more.
Fundraiser will kick off Vancouver's Eastside Culture Crawl
The annual Take Flight fundraiser, Moving Art Film and Video Exhibition, and 2024 Preview Exhibition take place from Oct. 29 to Nov. 29. The multi-venue, salon-style curated exhibition features 90 artists at four galleries who "explore the unlimited human emotions and experiences related to the word 'Green.”
Silent auction items available at the fundraiser include a Bocci table lamp, a three-night stay at The Ivy on Parker Guest House, diamond stud earrings from Era Design, a $350 Fluevog gift certificate, a double magnum from Burrowing Owl winery, VQFF all-access festival passes, and much more. Each ticket holder will go home with one of 30 original pieces of artwork, donated by Eastside artists.
Locals looking for things to do in Vancouver can also find an exhibit in the West End. Culture Crawl will partner with the Lumière Festival to project a moving art installation at the West End Community Centre from Nov. 7 to 10. "5 Senses, 4 Elements” explores the "relationship between our shared humanity and the four classical elements of earth, water, fire and air."
This year's Talking Art panels will feature online events from Nov. 4 to 6 with artist talks for artists to share and explain their work, including Breath: The Art & Mechanics of Air, Collaboration, Craft, and the Art of Cross-Disciplinary Creation, and World-Building and Storytelling through Visual Art.
2024 Eastside Culture Crawl
When: Nov. 14-17, with the fundraiser from Oct. 29-Nov. 29
Where: Region bounded by Columbia Street, 1st Avenue, Victoria Drive, and the Waterfront. See the online map.
Cost: Free to visit studios, select events cost money.
