A Message from Mayor Larry Campbell:
Vancouver is alive with celebrations and activities! Each year, right across the city, hundreds of thousands of
people participate in a vast array of cultural celebrations, festivals, walks, runs, processions and parades.
Summarized by month, this brochure presents a diverse range of activities that took place in 2004 in our city
streets, parks, and cultural facilities. Use this list, or visit the City’s Community Web Pages
(www.vancouver.ca/communitypages) to discover new ways to celebrate in your city in 2005.
< Greek Summer Festival
Renfrew-Collingwood
< Chinatown Arts and Culture Festival
Strathcona
< RCMP and VPD's Pulling Together
West End
< Intertidal Art Festival
West Point Grey
< Multicultural Summer Celebration
Renfrew-Collingwood
< Vancouver Folk Music Festival
West Point Grey
< Dancing on the Edge Festival
Strathcona/Grandview Woodland
< Marpole Summerfest
Marpole
< Chatelaine on the Move Walk/Run
West Point Grey
< Downtown Community Picnic in the Park
Downtown
< Obon Festival
Strathcona
< Strathcona Park Opening Day Celebration
Strathcona
< Pink Flamingo Croquet Tourney
West Point Grey
< Vancouver Folk Music Festival
West Point Grey
< Celebration of Fiji Day
Renfrew-Collingwood
< SUCCESS Walk With the Dragon
West End
< Vancouver Chamber Music and Song Festival Dunbar-Southlands
< Tour de Gastown
Downtown
< Molson Indy Vancouver
Downtown
< Illuminares Lantern Festival
Kensington-Cedar Cottage
< Excelerations' Tri It Triathlon
Hastings-Sunrise
< Pride Picnic
West End
< Summer Dream Reading Festival
Downtown
< Summerfast Fun 10K Road Race
West End
< Danskin Run
West Point Grey
< QueerStock-Music at Haywood Bandstand
Downtown
< Dyke March
Grandview-Woodland
< Vancouver Early Music Programme
and Festival
Fairview
< Celebration of Light
West End/Kitsilano
< Powell Street Festival
Strathcona
AUGUST
< Pride Parade and Festival
West End
< Festival Vancouver
Fair