The Eastside Culture Crawl Visual Arts, Design & Craft Festival runs Nov. 19 to 22, celebrating its 30th year with studios open to more than 525 artists.
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Vancouver’s Eastside Culture Crawl Visual Arts, Design & Craft Festival is marking its 30th year with more than 525 artists opening their studios across the Eastside Arts District from Nov. 19 to 22.
The event’s organizers say this year’s crawl includes more than 85 new artists and 12 new buildings participating in the four-day festival.
The Eastside Arts Society also marked a milestone by purchasing its 5,980-square-foot headquarters building at 716 E Hastings St., supported by a grant from Vancouver city council.
Activities are starting ahead of the main crawl weekend with the 2026 Preview Exhibition, P.A.R.T.Y. – Pushing Art diRectly To You, which is open now until Nov. 28 at the Eastside Arts Society headquarters. The exhibition runs Wednesdays through Sundays from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m., with crawl-weekend hours on Nov. 19 to 22: Thursday and Friday from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Admission is free.
Alongside the preview exhibition, the Eastside Arts Society is hosting Talking Art on Nov. 12, 13 and 14, 2026, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., also at 716 E Hastings St. Admission is free. An in-person screening of Moving Art follows on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026 at 9:00 p.m., again at 716 E Hastings St., with free admission.
For the main crawl weekend, a Culture Crawl Pop-up Studio is set to run Nov. 19 to 22, 2026, with Thursday and Friday hours from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday hours from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., at the Sunfire Studios Atrium, 1275 Venables St., Unit 111. Admission is free.
To support the Eastside Arts Society during the milestone year, the organization is also running a 30 for 30 fundraising campaign aiming to raise $30,000 to keep art accessible. Donations are being accepted through the Eastside Arts Society website.
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