2017 Vancouver International Children’s Festival

by ssquires · May 29, 2017

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Date(s) - May 29, 2017 - June 4, 2017
All Day

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Vancouver, BC Events

Welcome to the 2017 Vancouver International Children’s Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia!

2017 Vancouver International Children's Festival Mark your calendar for May 30 to June 5, 2017! The Vancouver International Children’s Festival will be back at Granville Island this spring ready to delight, enchant and engage you and your kids. Both Public tickets and School tickets are on sale NOW!

More Than a Show!

Did you know that if you purchase tickets to a Vancouver International Children’s Festival show you also get access to our Activity Village? Spend the day at the Festival! We’ve got many unique and fun activities planned for this year plus some special Workshops! Take the kids to an active mini-workshop at Arts Umbrella, sit down with some of our artists and learn about their artistic processes creating theatre for very young children, or learn to draw and paint. Workshops are available at minimal or no cost! Plus we’ve got a special Story Time with award-winning author Kevin Crossley-Holland.

Mission

We inspire and motivate young minds with professional artistic experiences that transform a child’s understanding of the world around them and what is creatively possible.

Vision

• VICF aims to be a highly anticipated festival that is recognised internationally for creating a unique and diverse celebration of the arts for children and grown ups.
• In delivering new and diverse world-class live performances, we open a world of creative possibilities. A world in which future generations build on the passion for art and performance we share with them today.

What guides us

• SIMPLE: We make it easy for a family/class to spend a day being creatively playful.
• FUN TOGETHER: We make activities fun and creatively adventurous for kids and adults to enjoy together
• QUALITY: We surprise you every year with the extraordinary quality of our programming and our performers.
• CREATIVITY: Imagination and artistic ingenuity governs our decision-making. We are comfortable taking creative risks.
• LOCAL: We look for ways to incorporate and celebrate BC and Canadian artists.
• GLOBAL: We demand diversity in emotional experience: in people, language, ideas, attitudes and culture.
• ARTISTIC RISK: always looking for new, different, pushing the boundaries work for young audiences 6 months – 13 years of age.