STRIDE Burnaby Arts Festival 2023

Greetings artists and art lovers, creatives and the curious, neighbours and visitors! Welcome to the online home of the Stride Burnaby Arts Festival. Explore the site to see what we’ve been up to and discover what we have in store.

Proudly hosted by The Long Table Society, Stride continues to build community through the arts from February 3-12. With the 2023 theme of CONNECTIONS Stride offers online and onstage performances, community art displays, artist talks, discussion panels, workshops, demos and more! Don’t miss the Stride Art at the Shadbolt extended exhibition running from February 3 – March 3.

It’s all free, for all ages and all by Burnaby artists and presenters! We anticipate most programming will be offered IN PERSON and in accordance with BC Health Ministry guidelines.

Made by neighbours for neighbours Stride is part arts festival, part community catalyst, and all fun! Celebrate Burnaby’s art and soul during the Stride Burnaby Arts Festival.

We recognize that we are on the ancestral and unceded homelands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples and are grateful to live, work and create on this territory.

Events Calendar

Poetry Zone

Stride Story Walk

Free Little Art  Gallery 

Stride at the Shadbolt Exhibition

Click events below for more info!

Sponsors and Partners

Poetry Zone

The art of the written word is on display in the Stride Poetry Zone, 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.

 

Stride Story Walk

Willingdon Linear Park connects neighbourhoods and during the 2023 Stride Burnaby Arts Festival it will also connect us with some of Burnaby‘s inspired and inspiring artists. This open air installation of art and stories collected by Stride partner We Are Burnaby sparks our curiosity and reminds us how the arts can enrich and strengthen a community.

Come celebrate Burnaby’s art and soul at the 2022 Stride Burnaby Arts Festival from February 3 – 12, 2023

Burnaby Art Calling (Free Little Art Gallery)

Open 24/7, 365

Location: Outside the Heights Dairy Queen at 103-4191 Hastings St

A decommissioned phone booth in Burnaby Heights is now the city’s smallest community art gallery. Make art, take art or leave art. Sharing something small in the FLAG can have a big impact in the neighbourhood. Find the newest piece for your budding art collection in this ever-changing exhibition curated by YOU. Free!

Birthday announcement: Burnaby Art Calling is 2! Here’s to all who have been giving and taking home mini artworks for the past two years. You make our community awesome. Keep it up!

Stride at the Shadbolt Exhibition

STRIDE visual art will also be on display in the Shadbolt’s Centre Aisle Gallery space until February 23rd.