StrideFest 2024

February 2 - 10

Nourishing Community

Festival host The Long Table Society and Burnaby’s dynamic creative community invite you to reconnect with the arts and with each other during StrideFest from February 2-10, 2024. Meet StrideFest’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. With accessible, free, family friendly programming and exhibits StrideFest is a colourful reminder that creativity is happening all around our city all year long.

StrideFest — unlocking the power of the arts to nourish community

Made by neighbours for neighbours, Burnaby’s StrideFest is part arts festival, part community catalyst, and all fun! Celebrate Burnaby’s art and soul at StrideFest 2024.

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Illuminate the Arts!

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StrideFest Art Walk

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Poets Corner

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StrideFest Story Walk

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Free Little Art Gallery

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Nourishing Community Exhibition

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Illuminate the Arts!

Feb 2 - Feb 3

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

StrideFest Art Walk

Feb 2 - Feb 10

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! 

Poets Corner

March 22 to 29, 24/7

Multiple locations: Outdoor advertising columns on each Hastings street corner between Ingleton and Madison Ave + Inside McGill Public Library

Experience the art of the written word as you shop and stroll the Heights. Look for our bright yellow poems written by talented Burnaby wordsmiths. It’s one more way to add art to your day.

StrideFest Story Walk

March 22 to 29, 24/7

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.

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!

Nourishing Community Exhibition

Feb 2 - Feb 15

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.