StrideFest 2025
Burnaby, British Columbia
March 22 - 29, 2025
Just Imagine!
Welcome to the online home of StrideFest. We’re busy sculpting and composing StrideFest 2025 and will be updating the site. Stay tuned for updates!
Do you hear it? Can you feel it? Festival host The Long Table Society and Burnaby’s creative community bring you StrideFest 2025, a celebration of creativity and connection. Enjoy visual art displays and installations, live music, poetry, artist demos, workshops and more. With accessible and free family friendly programming and exhibits spreading out from North Burnaby, StrideFest serves as a colourful reminder that creativity is happening all around our city all year long.
With this year’s theme Just Imagine!, anything is possible.
Some exciting creative changes have been happening behind the scenes and we are making your favourite parts of StrideFest even better
New Name
Stride Burnaby Arts Festival is now StrideFest
New Season
We’ve moved down the calendar from cool February to mild March.
New Ideas
The Art Walk (a crowd favourite) continues to grow as more artists and exhibition venues join the fun. Watch for new additions to our Story Walk and Poets Corner features. Burnaby has lots to say!
Burnaby’s Long Table Society and We Are Burnaby have joined forces to showcase the resilience of our local community members and support them in breaking down barriers. This is a collaborative, grass-roots venture that focuses on the well-being of our residents. We believe in building community for the people who live here.
Long Table Society
The Long Table Society’s passionate work involves supporting the health and well-being of citizens experiencing barriers around food security and isolation. We introduce our neighbours to food resources, community organizations, and each other through our warm and welcoming community gatherings, programs, and events.
We Are Burnaby
We Are Burnaby is an online community gallery that features local stories in the form of written and visual works. As a community-inspired initiative, We Are Burnaby amplifies and celebrates community voices by showcasing the resilience and determination of Burnaby community members.
Nourishing community through culture, stories, and connections.
The Burnaby Festival of Learning is a co-creation of Simon Fraser University and the City of Burnaby. In 2015, The spark was ignited by an interactive, grassroots community-based festival in Cork, Ireland. SFU attendees to the Cork Festival of Learning loved the idea of bringing SFU “down from the mountain” to share and work alongside community members and those doing community-based research. A conversation with the City of Burnaby sealed the deal, and a new festival was born in 2016.
Since 2016, the festival has continued to grow, involving an increasing number of organizations inside and outside Burnaby. Each year, new partnerships and collaborations emerge that diversify the program, allowing its partners to reach more and more community members.
The Burnaby Festival of Learning is a co-creation of Simon Fraser University and the City of Burnaby. In 2015, The spark was ignited by an interactive, grassroots community-based festival in Cork, Ireland. SFU attendees to the Cork Festival of Learning loved the idea of bringing SFU “down from the mountain” to share and work alongside community members and those doing community-based research. A conversation with the City of Burnaby sealed the deal, and a new festival was born in 2016.
Since 2016, the festival has continued to grow, involving an increasing number of organizations inside and outside Burnaby. Each year, new partnerships and collaborations emerge that diversify the program, allowing its partners to reach more and more community members.