The Vancouver Mural Festival features the painting of murals in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood. One of its events most years is a giant street party.
NOTE: The festival has been CANCELLED for 2025. The organizers say that last year was the event’s final year.
The festival used to take place in the first half of August. Other events taking place around that time most years include the African Descent Festival, Chilliwack Fair & Rodeo, BC Dumpling Festival and Chilliwack Corn Maze. Also in early August, it’s the BC Day Long Weekend with events like the Chilliwack Corn Festival, Brigade Days at Fort Langley, White Rock Sea Festival, Vancouver Pride Festival and a variety of other fun things.
To learn about the above and other festivals this month, see our August Calendar of Events. To learn about the Vancouver Mural Festival, continue reading.
CHILLIWACK MURAL FESTIVAL
If you like outdoor art, another event you’ll want to check out is Chilliwack Mural Festival. It usually takes place around the second week in August. In 2025 it happens on August 7th to 17th.
Mural Festival in Vancouver
The Vancouver Mural Festival ran for the last time from August 7th to 11th in 2024. The festival featured murals, several pop-up events and the Mount Pleasant Street Party. A new one-day Ricecake Summer Market debuted two years ago. Last year it happened on August 8th. It’s to be determined whehter this event happens again in 2025.
The Vancouver Mural Festival featured over 30 new murals to check out in a number of neighbourhoods, painted by dozens of artists. You could find murals all the way from the North Shore to downtown and the West End, as well as in Marpole and the River District further south.
There were public mural tours available during the festival’s run last year. There was also a VMF “Talk and Tunes” panel discussion event and two 19+ evening events held at The Bunker at 1103 Union Street.
Vancouver Mural Festival Street Party
The Vancouver Mural Festival Street Party was a massive event that involved public murals, art, live music and street festival activities.
The Street Party took place on August 8th to 11th last year. Hours on the Thursday and Friday were from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm, whereas hours on the weekend were from 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
Street Party Location
The street party portion of the festival took place in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood of Vancouver along Main Street between 5th Avenue and 6th Avenue. Activities also took place in the surrounding areas.
What to Expect
Those attending the street party could expect to see thousands of people, artistic murals on buildings, dozens of market vendors, art in the street and live entertainment on a couple of stages.
Live entertainment took place on a stage during the Vancouver Mural Festival Street Party. There were DJs, musicians, singers, dancers and more. Continue reading to see last year’s final performance schedule.
2024 Street Party Performance Schedule
Below was the Main Stage schedule for each day of the event. Exact details were subject to change.
Thursday, August 8th, 2024
- 5:00 pm – Opening Ceremony and Territorial Welcome
- 5:30 pm – Ricecake Asian Night Market Takeover (with DJ Bella Sie, Sweet Neens Karaoke and a Drag Show & Circus Act)
Friday, August 9th, 2024
- 5:00 pm – Tee Noble Curated Open Decks
- 7:00 pm – Bungalow
- 8:30 pm – Niña Mendoza
Saturday, August 10th, 2024
- 2:00 pm – Rock’n’Beau Kid’s Dance Party
- 3:00 pm – Luminesque Dance
- 3:30 pm – Lerma
- 4:30 pm – Roxy Motorola
- 5:30 pm – Softieshan
- 6:30 pm – INNEZZ
- 7:30 pm – Syd Woz
- 8:30 pm – DJ Hannah
Sunday, August 11th, 2024
- 2:00 pm – MNGWA
- 3:20 pm – Brejera Band
- 4:40 pm – Los Duendes
- 6:00 pm – Empanadas Ilegales
- 7:00 pm – Tropa Bloco Parade
- 8:00 pm – DJ Tiago Trop
Other Information
For more information about the event, see the Vancouver Mural Festival website.
For a list of other events that take place on the same weekend as well as on different days of the year, check out our August Calendar or click Festivals & Events.
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