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Victoria events and festivals draw visitors from all over Canada and the US. We have events you will not want to miss including the hilarious family fun of the Victoria International Buskers Festival.
Other popular festivals include the Victoria International Cycling Festival with the amazing Jumpship competition, where the world's best freeride mountain bike riders compete on a floating barge before a crowd of over sixty thousand spectators.
We also have a variety of music and food festivals to tempt your ears and your tastebuds. View our Calendar of Events below or click on our festival page to see all the options year round in Victoria.
Special Events
19th Annual Greater Victoria Bike to Work Week
Gear up for cycling to work May 27-June 2 during the 19th annual Greater Victoria Bike to Work Week. Prizes, Celebration Stations and more. Create a team with your workplace and participate in this Fun, Free, community event. Please visit the website for more information or contact Theresa: theresa@biketowork.ca ... more
AFRICA FEST 2013
Recurrence Recurring daily
Type: Special Events
Time: afternoons and evenings
Location: Victoria Event Center / Centennial Square
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VICTORIA'S FIRST AFRICA FEST 2013 Come celebrate Victoria’s First African and Caribbean Cultural Week from May 17 to May 25 2013. There will be African dances, drumming workshops, exquisite and exotic food and beverages, cultural artwork, crafts, clothing, movies. education, fashion. Performers include Jord... more
Armchair Travel: Central Europe
Type: Special Events
Time: From: 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
Location: Juan de Fuca Branch, Greater Victoria Public Library
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Thinking about a trip to Central Europe? Join us for a slide show and talk that will explore some of the oldest and best preserved cities on the continent. From Prague to Bratislava, Budapest to Vienna, Central Europe has something to offer every traveler! Register online at gvpl.ca or call your local branch for more inf... more
Art Gallery Drop-In Tour: Emily Carr: On the Edge of Nowhere
Venue: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Type: Special Events
Time: From: 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
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With this exhibition, the AGGV is now the premiere destination on Vancouver Island to visit and learn about Emily Carr through her paintings. On the Edge of Nowhere will include an historical survey of Carr’s artistic career, featuring pieces in all the media and styles she explored and perfected. It will also focu... more
Art Gallery Drop-In Tour: Landscape Prints of Kawase Hasui
Venue: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Type: Special Events
Time: From: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
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Kawase Hasui is considered one of the most important Japanese landscape artists of the 20th century. Hasui could evoke Japan of the pre-war period as none other. Hasui's work enjoyed huge popularity, at home and abroad, from his very first print in 1918. His publisher, Watanabe Shozaburo, quickly recognized his enormous ... more
Art Gallery Drop-In Tour: Landscape Prints of Kawase Hasui
Venue: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Type: Special Events
Time: From: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
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Join in this tour with Curator of Asian Arts, Barry Till. Tours are a great way to learn about art history, put our exhibitions into context, and delve deeper into the themes being presented. Included with Gallery admission or free with membership. more
Artists' Reception: To Reunite To Honour To Witness
Venue: Legacy Art Gallery
Type: Special Events
Time: From: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
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In addition to the opening of the new downtown exhibit on May 8 at UVic's Legacy Art Gallery, this Saturday afternoon event at the gallery will honour survivors who attended the Alberni Indian Residential School in the 1950s and 60s. This public reception celebrates the reunification of the makers with their artwork, whi... more
Author Reading - Jeremy Hespeler-Boultbee
Type: Special Events
Time: From: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Location: Oak Bay Branch, Greater Victoria Public Library
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"History has been written in large part by soldiers, who generally don’t care to remember the principal legacy of war which is bitterness and hatred" says author Jeremy Hespeler-Boultbee. For a different perspective, join us as he reads from "Mrs. Queen’s Chump: Idi Amin, the Mau Mau, Communist... more
BC Bites & Beverages: Uncorked: The Teenage Years of the BC Wine Industry
Venue: Royal BC Museum
Type: Special Events
Time: From: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: Clifford Carl Hall
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Drawing on our extensive British Columbia wine label collection, join Dr Hammond for a sparkling toast to forgotten classics and the popular wines of the 1960s and 1970s. Enjoy sampling contemporary award-winning local wines paired with delicious BC cheese at this informative and often times irreverent evening. more
Classical Indian and Jazz fusion Concert
Type: Special Events
Time: 7pm
Location: David Lam Auditorium, UVic
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The leading American voice in Indian jazz fusion, saxophonist and composer, George Brooks, Indian bamboo flute master Pt. Ronu Majumdar, a major innovator of Indo-jazz fusion, and tabla maestro Ramdas Palsule come together to create the finest Indian-inspired jazz and jazz flavored raga. These world music visionaries ble... more
Dream Big Gala ~ Supporting the Help Fill a Dream Foundation
Venue: Hotel Grand Pacific
Type: Special Events
Time: 6:00pm - Midnight
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Black Label Events is proud to present the 1st Annual Dream Big Gala supporting the Help Fill a Dream Foundation. Enjoy a formal night out with a fabulous three-course dinner, dance, and silent auction to support this local Vancouver Island charity. We are excited to announce that The Temps will be providing the live ... more
Fired Up! Contemporary Works in Clay Exhibit
Recurrence Recurring daily
Type: Special Events
Time: Opening reception, May 24th, 6-8PM, Saturday, May 25 & Sunday, May 26th, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Metchosin Hall
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The artists of Fired UP! Contemporary Works in Clay invite you to their “Salt of the Earth -Vessels for Tasteful Living” exhibit at the 29th annual ceramics show, May 24-26th, 2013. Nine core Fired UP! members as well as five guest artists will fill the Metchosin Hall with a range of signature pieces ... more
Free 2nd Annual Off-the-Grid Music Festival
Venue: Fort Rodd Hill & Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites of Canada
Type: Special Events
Time: From: 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
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Guitars, drums, keyboards... Spotlights, microphones, amplifiers… Where is the power outlet? On Friday May 24 from 4pm to 7pm, the main field of Fort Rodd Hill National Historic site will be the central stage for the 2013 Off-the-grid Music festival. The soundstage for this mega FREE concert, welcoming asp... more
Galiano Ensemble Performs a Celebration of English Music
Type: Special Events
Time: From: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Location: Phillip T. Young Recital Hall -- UVic
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In their final performance of the 2012-13 season, the Galiano Ensemble of Victoria is offering an evening to recognize the works of several English composers. The program includes Gustav Holst’s St. Paul Suite, Gerald Finzi’s Romance, Opus 11, John Ireland’s Concertino Pastorale, Ralph Vaughan William... more
Glorious Victorians Walking Tour: Residential Architecture in “The Junction"
Type: Special Events
Time: From: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: Stadacona Centre mall at the junction of Fort St. and Pandora Ave. (look for a grassy island at the east end).
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Put on your comfy shoes and join us in the Oak Bay Junction area for an exciting walking tour of Victoria's unique and historic architecture! Nick Russell, heritage researcher, photographer and author, will show us a wide range of architecture including Edwardian Vernacular, Swiss Chalet, Queen Ann, and Italianate. Regis... more
Great Strides Walk for Cystic Fibrosis
Venue: Royal Roads University
Type: Special Events
Time: From: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Royal Roads University
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We make strides because others take strides! Every year across Canada, friends, family and co-workers of people with cystic fibrosis lace up their walking shoes to participate in Great StridesTM: Taking Steps to Cure Cystic Fibrosis. It's Cystic Fibrosis Canada's largest national fundraising event. Walk with us on Sunday... more
GVHA's CPR Steamship Terminal's Spring Open House
Type: Special Events
Time: From: 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: CPR Steamship Terminal
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First chance to experience newly renovated levels of the historic Steamship Terminal building on the Inner Harbour! The Robert Bateman Centre on the upper levels will be open to the public that weekend. Building renovations of the Belleville Street level will be complete and ready for tenant fit-outs. This i... more
Investors Group Fundraiser for Power To Be
Venue: Sticky Wicket Pub & Restaurant
Type: Special Events
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Sticky Wicket Pub & Restaurant
Tickets are $20.00 and include appetizers, a chance to bid on the silent auction items as well as win prizes in the Balloon Pop. more
Island Children's Festival
Type: Special Events
Time: 12pm to 5pm
Location: Island Montessori School
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The 2nd annual Island Children’s Festival is proud to present an afternoon of family entertainment and activities, featuring two-time Juno award winning children’s musician, Fred Penner. The festival will also feature children’s singer and songwriter, Shé, a mad science demonstration, face painti... more
Making Crime Pay: Crime Writers of Canada at GVPL
Type: Special Events
Time: From: 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: Central Branch, Greater Victoria Public Library
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BC members of Crime Writers of Canada de-mystify the art and craft of writing and selling crime fiction. Topics will include Getting from Idea to Draft; Handling Common Problems in Plot, Character, and Style; and Marketing Your Work. To request a brief critique, email kay_stewart@shaw.ca. Register online at gvpl.ca or ca... more
Movie Night - Pride & Prejudice
Venue: Oak Bay Beach Hotel
Type: Special Events
Time: From: 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM
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Welcome to Oak Bay’s new community movie house! The Oak Bay Beach Hotel is thrilled to once again welcome back a long standing tradition of big screen releases to the community through our regularly scheduled movie nights in the David Foster Foundation Theatre. This May we are featuring your favourite British-m... more
Movie Night - Sense & Sensibility
Venue: Oak Bay Beach Hotel
Type: Special Events
Time: From: 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM
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Welcome to Oak Bay’s new community movie house! The Oak Bay Beach Hotel is thrilled to once again welcome back a long standing tradition of big screen releases to the community through our regularly scheduled movie nights in the David Foster Foundation Theatre. This May we are featuring your favourite British-m... more
Musings: An enchanted evening of dance.
Recurrence Recurring daily
Type: Special Events
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Berwick Royal Oak
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For its premier performance, Ballet Étoile presents an exquisite collection of four short ballets set to the music of Bach, Beethoven, Scott Joplin and more! Musings boosts dazzling performances by some of Victoria’s top professional dancers, accompanied by the brilliant Michael Drislane on piano. From gra... more
Mystery Mini Chats: Crime Writers of Canada at GVPL
Type: Special Events
Time: From: 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: Central Branch, Greater Victoria Public Library
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Meet Canadian crime-writers and learn about their latest books in this fast-paced, fun-filled event. Books available for purchase and signing. Register online at gvpl.ca or call your local branch for more information. In partnership with the BC/Yukon chapter of Crime Writers of Canada, TouchWood Editions, and GVPL. more
