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Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival 2024

In-person

Deaf & Disability arts Interdisciplinary Performance Theatre Visual arts
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Date and time

We’ll email you reminders a week before and the day before the event.

Location

Roundhouse Community Centre

181 Roundhouse Mews

Vancouver, BC

Directions: Walking: From Granville Street, head east five blocks down Davie. Skytrain: The Yaletown-Roundhouse Canada Line Station is 200 metres from us. Bus: Buses 6 & C23 stop within feet of the Roundhouse. Driving: Underground pay parking is available; access off Drake (south of Pacific Blvd). Parking is available and rates are posted on www.roundhouse.ca.

Access

Free.

Offered in English.

Wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms.

About

The Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) is excited to present the annual Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival. Offering opportunities for exhibition, performance, connection and learning to visual and performing artists facing social exclusion and other barriers, the Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival is Canada’s first and only festival for Outsider Art.

The festival will showcase over 40 visual artists, 3 art groups from local non profit organizations, 12 performing arts groups and workshops and artist talks. The artists may be self-taught or trained: they are all devoted to their creative practices, and come from a point of view that is outside the mainstream art world trends.

Organizer

Community Arts Council of Vancouver

The Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) was the first arts council in North America. Since its beginning in 1946, the Community Arts Council of Vancouver has been a contributor to shaping the cultural life of Vancouver. CACV has been a powerful force in creating and advocating for many of the institutions, traditions, and policies in Vancouver that we benefit from today. CACV is an independent non-profit organization, registered charity, unaffiliated with any government department.

CACV was instrumental in the creation of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, the Vancouver Museum and Planetarium, the UBC School of Music, the first Vancouver Film Festival, and many other of Vancouver’s cultural institutions and events. For many decades, CACV has been contributing to the cultural and community development of Vancouver by creating art projects that engage the community and facilitating, supporting, and advocating for initiatives, facilities, and programs that increase community participation in the arts. Our interests are to increase understanding of how the arts create community, grow our appreciation of our cultural differences, and engage Vancouver’s citizens in the art of developing community.

OUR VISION & MISSION

CACV’s vision is of a socially-engaged, inclusive, and vibrant city alive with community arts.

CACV’s mission is to further the development of community arts throughout Vancouver.

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