FESTIVALS

Surrey International Children’s Festival

The only arts-based children’s festival this side of the Fraser River, featuring live music, magic, circus and theatre. Seven new live performances will be featured at four performance venues — come and dance, sing, learn, explore, and be entertained!

• Surrey Arts Centre & Bear Creek Park, 13750 88th Ave., May 23-25

• surrey. ca/childrensfestival

5th annual Alexandra Festival

A day of fun for the whole family featuring entertainment, children’s activities, market vendors, food trucks and more.

• Camp Alexandra, 2916 McBride Ave., Surrey

• May 25, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

• Admission by donation, alexhouse.net

Hyack Festival and International Parade 2019

One of B.C.’s largest parades with over 100 entries from throughout B.C. and the Pacific Northwest. The Uptown Street Fest! turns Belmont Street into a hub of free entertainment and cultural performances.

• The parade starts at Eighth Ave. and Sixth St., New West

• May 25, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

• hyackfestival.com

4th Annual Root Beer Festival

Celebrate everything root beer with more than 50 different root beers from across North America available for tasting. There will be root beer floats, pastries, cotton candy and more, plus live music, vendors, activities and root beer sales.

• Douglas Park, Langley, May 25, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

• Free to attend, root beer samples are ticketed, advance purchase suggested at eventbrite.ca

The Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival

Fun for the whole family featuring more than 20 food trucks from the Greater Vancouver area, plus entertainment and a local artisan market.

• Cloverdale Exhibition Grounds, May 25, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

• Free admission, fvfoodtruckfestival.com

39th Annual Sheep Fair

Highlights include shearing demonstrations, pony rides, border collies at work, face painting and a felting demonstration.

• Maplewood Farm, 405 Seymour River Place, North Van

• May 26, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

• maplewoodfarm.bc.ca

Annual Turkic Festival

Celebrate a beautiful and engaging day out with your family and friends and enjoy cultural food and drink, arts, crafts, traditional dances and live music.

• Shipyards Square, Wallace Mews Road, North Van

• May 26, noon-7 p.m.

• Free admission

Fair in the Square

This annual celebration of the downtown neighbourhood will feature live music, an expanded artisan and social enterprise market, community groups, burgers and cupcakes prepared by VCC students, family activities, contests and more.

• Victory Square Park, Hastings & Cambie

• May 26, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

• Free, fairinthesquare.org

42nd Annual Vancouver International Children’s Festival

Experience an extraordinary line up of world-class theatre, music, dance, circus, puppetry and storytelling created specifically for children and youth. This year, 14 professional performing artists are scheduled to perform 99 shows in seven of Granville Island’s indoor theatre venues.

• May 27-June 2

• From $12.50/child or senior, $22/adult, childrensfestival.ca

Revolver Festival

Upintheair Theatre’s festival brings audiences the full range of contemporary theatrical practice, from script-based theatre to devised and site-specific works, staged readings of work-in-progress, and in-depth discussions with artists.

• The Cultch, 1895 Venables St., until June 2

• upintheairtheatre.com