Festival Info
What is StrideFest 2024?
Festival host The Long Table and Burnaby’s creative community invite you to reconnect with the arts and with each other during StrideFest from February 2-10, 2024. Meet Stride’s visual artists on an art walk, dance to live music at a Celtic kitchen party and unlock your own creativity at an art demo or workshop. Discover engaging art installations, inspiring poetry displays and more. Check out our extended visual arts exhibition at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts – Centre Aisle Gallery until Feb 15. With accessible, free, family friendly programming and exhibits StrideFest serves as a colourful reminder that creativity is happening all around our city all year long.
StrideFest – unlocking the power of the arts to nourish community.
For more information visit our website at WeAreBurnaby.com or follow us on Facebook and Instagram @StrideFest.
What is the StrideFest Art Walk?
StrideFest transforms the Heights business district into a temporary outdoor art gallery. Follow our Art Walk map and take a peek through the front windows of participating local shops and businesses where you’ll experience amazing artworks by talented Burnaby visual artists. Additional pieces might be inside, too. So, pop in, warm up and say ‘hi’ to our generous Art walk hosts.
Grabbing a coffee and running errands have never been so inspiring!
What is the Stride Story Walk?
Willingdon Linear Park connects neighbourhoods and during Burnaby’s StrideFest it will also connect us with some of Burnaby‘s inspired and inspiring artists. This open air installation of art and personal stories collected by StrideFest partner We Are Burnaby will spark curiosity and remind us of how the arts can enrich and strengthen a community.
What is Poets Corner?
The art of the written word is on display in Poets Corner, one more way to add art to your day as you shop and stroll the Heights. Read for yourself how diverse and fun poetry can be! Look for our bright yellow poems on the poster columns at each intersection along Hastings St. between Ingleton and Madison Avenue.
Reading the Heights
Stride Festival Poetry Zone + Story Walk
The @StrideBurnabyArts Festival celebrates the art of the written word. Poets and wordsmiths engage our imagination in the Poetry Zone between Ingleton and Madison along Hastings Street. The Stride Story Walk winds through Willingdon Linear Park. Here, through text and imagery, another group of Burnaby artists shows us some of the ways we all might strengthen our connections with the arts and with our community.
What is Burnaby Art Calling (Free Little Art Gallery)?
Location: 4191 Hastings St. (by Dairy Queen)
A decommissioned phone booth in Burnaby Heights is now the city’s smallest community art gallery. Make art, take art or leave art. Find the newest piece for your budding art collection in this ever-changing exhibition curated by YOU. Open 24/7, 365.
This free little art gallery sends a message to residents and visitors alike: Our community is strengthened by the arts and by creativity in all its forms!
What is the Nourishing Community exhibition?
StrideFest Arts at the Shadbolt
The Nourishing Community exhibition is a special part of the February 2-10 festival and its energy carries right through to February 15. Experience diverse visual artworks by many of our StrideFest artists all in one place, the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts – Centre Aisle Gallery. StrideFest sponsor Burnaby Photographic Society joins us with a display of Burnaby-inspired photographic works in Shadbolt’s Encores Cafe.
Community connections never looked so good! Find the Shadbolt’s location and hours online.
What is the Alchemy Room?
Saturday, Feb 10 (2-4pm)
North Burnaby Neighbourhood House
4908 Hastings St., Burnaby
StrideFest wants to turn raw ancient elements into something more valuable than gold. The only ingredient that’s missing is YOU. Step into Alchemy Room and discover a new media art-scape filled with light, shadow, movement and sound. bLink Visionary Arts (Grant Withers and Yunuen Perez Vertti) have turned their popular artCUBE concept inside out, once again transforming art viewing into art do-ing!
Enjoy this immersive projected art experience for one night only at The Amazing Brentwood (near Purdy’s Chocolatier). Free, accessible and for all-ages.
Alchemy Room — where earth, air, fire, water and YOU go to play.
What is "Illuminate the Arts!"?
On the evenings of February 2 and 3 Burnaby City Hall and the SkyTrain guideway near Metrotown will glow with the colours of creativity to mark the start of StrideFest 2024. Stroll through these illuminated outdoor spaces as they shift between brilliant yellow, dazzling red and bold blue. Don’t miss it!
Our global community is facing huge challenges and understanding them can seem overwhelming. This primary colours motif is symbolic of everything the arts offer us every day. Not just a source of entertainment to be consumed, the arts can inspire hope and spark creative solutions, can rebuild connections and empower citizens. The arts illuminate the possible and these luminous installations serve to remind Burnaby citizens and visitors that creativity is in all of us. We all have access to the skills and raw materials needed to navigate the present and to shape the future.
Name: Illuminate the Arts!
Date: Feb 2 & 3
Time: Nightfall
Location 1: Burnaby City Hall, 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby
Location 2: SkyTrain guideway along Central Blvd, near Metrotown Mall
What is StrideFest Reels?
Sunday, Feb 4 (2-4pm)
and Saturday, Feb 9 (5-6pm)
Amazing Brentwood Plaza, Big Screen
4567 Lougheed Hwy., Burnaby
Go out(doors) to the movies!
Enjoy four short films by Burnaby video and digital media artists including the NB24 documentary, showcasing what makes North Burnaby special through the eyes and cameras of local residents over 24-hours. Try to spot your own neighbourhood!
Meet your neighbours by the fountain and don’t forget the popcorn – and the hot chocolate!
StrideFest Reels – Artful. Meaningful. Local.
How can I share my Stride experience?
Stride is also about you and your experiences, your community connections. Help us celebrate Burnaby’s art and soul by showing off what you see and do during the festival. Share and tag your festival photos!
#StrideFest, #StrideFestival, #BurnabyArts, #ExploreBurnaby, #thelongtable