Squamish Wind Festival

The Squamish Wind Festival is a community event in the summer. It features concerts, art displays, the performing arts, an outdoor movie and other activities.

The Squamish Wind Festival is now called the Squamish Arts Festival. It ran from August 7th to 19th in 2023. The festival returns in 2024, although exact dates and details are to be confirmed.

Arts Festival in Squamish

The Squamish Arts Festival (formerly known as the Squamish Wind Festival for the Arts) is an annual event with a focus on both visual and performing arts. In years prior to COVID-19, the festival used to take place in July. In 2020 the event was postponed until August 7th to 21st, and since then it’s continued to happen in August.

Where and When

The Squamish Arts Festival takes place in the summer in the town of Squamish. The area is about a 45-minute drive from Vancouver along the Sea to Sky Highway.

The festival ran from August 7th to 19th in 2023. Last year’s venues were Junction Park and Squamish Oceanfront. 2024 details are to be confirmed.

Known as the “Outdoor Recreation Capital of the World,” Squamish is home to some of the region’s premier outdoor recreation venues, including Stawamus Chief Mountain (for hiking), the Sea to Sky Gondola, and Squamish Spit (for kite boarding).

For more information on the area, click Squamish or the Sea to Sky region.

Squamish Wind Festival at Junction Park — Festival Activities at Junction Park

Wind Festival All-Day Events

At the festival there is usually live music, a beer garden and a food truck hub at various times throughout the weekend. In 2023, there were art workshops between August 5th and 17th. The Squamish Arts Festival happened on August 12th at Junction Park. Lastly, the Oceanfront Squamish Arts Festival ran on August 19th.

There were a large number of events that took place over the course of the 2023 festival. Below are details about two of the biggest ones which were both free to attend!

Saturday, August 12th, 2023

From 10:00 am to 6:00 pm there was a big free event at Junction Park. Below is a list of the free activities that happened.

The following things to do all began at 10:00 am:

Anna Lynch Live Painting
Yin Xzi Ho Pop-up Poetry
Holly Mitchell Live Painting
Emily Buck Pop-up Poetry
Steffi Lai Live Painting
Miriam Tingle Live Painting
Squamish Circus Collective
Michelle Ang Live Painting

Events and activities that happened at other times of the day included the following:

10:05 am – Ira Pettle
11:00 am – Sea to Sky Dance Collective
11:25 am – Madelyn Read
12:00 pm – Paintertainment
12:15 pm – Little Biggs Band
1:15 pm – Michaela Slinger
2:15 pm – Perspectiv
3:10 pm – Big Easy Funk Ensemble
4:10 pm – Bitterly Divine

Saturday, August 19th, 2023

The final day of the festival took place at Squamish Oceanfront from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm. The day’s live entertainment schedule from last year is listed below.

4:10 pm – Soultide
4:50 pm – FRANKIIE
5:50 pm – Surf Hat
6:50 pm – Squamish Nation Cultural Dancers
7:20 pm – Handsome Tiger
8:25 pm – The Librarian

Vendors

For an idea of which vendors to expect at the festival, food trucks and vendors that attended in previous years are listed below.

Vendors

Charcoal & Grain – selling handmade gifts made from reclaimed wood.
Dogwood Letterpress – specializing in handmade vintage stationary.
Fox Fibers – featuring hand-crafted woven plant and wall hangers.
Geojab Bowls – West Coast Indigenous-designed bowls made from reclaimed wood.
Hollow Tree – hand-crafted candles.
Sons of Vancouver Distillery – a Vancouver-based small batch distillery.

Food Trucks

Alice & Brohm Real Fruit Ice Cream – a New Zealand treat made with real fruit!
Carte Diem – Seize the Souvlaki – a food truck serving traditional Greek cuisine.
Chickpea – a food truck specializing in plant-based food.
Luz Tacos – fun and delicious tacos served out of a converted airstream trailer.
Mr. Bannock – a food truck serving traditional Indigenous foods.