StrideFest 2024
February 2 - 10
Nourishing Community
Greetings artists and art lovers, creatives and the curious, neighbours and visitors! Welcome to the online home of Burnaby’s StrideFest. Explore the site to see what we’ve been up to and discover what we have in store.
Festival host The Long Table and Burnaby’s creative community invite you to reconnect with the arts and with each other during StrideFest from February 2-10, 2024. Meet Stride’s visual artists on an art walk, dance to live music at a Celtic kitchen party and unlock your own creativity at an art demo or workshop. Discover engaging art installations, inspiring poetry displays and more.
Check out our extended visual arts exhibition at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts – Centre Aisle Gallery until February 15
With accessible, free, family friendly programming and exhibits StrideFest serves as a colourful reminder that creativity is happening all around our city all year long.
StrideFest — unlocking the power of the arts to nourish community
Burnaby’s Long Table Society and We Are Burnaby have joined forces to showcase the resilience of our local community members and support them in breaking down barriers. This is a collaborative, grass-roots venture that focuses on the well-being of our residents. We believe in building community for the people who live here.
Long Table Society
The Long Table Society’s passionate work involves supporting the health and well-being of citizens experiencing barriers around food security and isolation. We introduce our neighbours to food resources, community organizations, and each other through our warm and welcoming community gatherings, programs, and events.
We Are Burnaby
We Are Burnaby is an online community gallery that features local stories in the form of written and visual works. As a community-inspired initiative, We Are Burnaby amplifies and celebrates community voices by showcasing the resilience and determination of Burnaby community members.
Nourishing community through culture, stories, and connections.
The Burnaby Festival of Learning is a co-creation of Simon Fraser University and the City of Burnaby. In 2015, The spark was ignited by an interactive, grassroots community-based festival in Cork, Ireland. SFU attendees to the Cork Festival of Learning loved the idea of bringing SFU “down from the mountain” to share and work alongside community members and those doing community-based research. A conversation with the City of Burnaby sealed the deal, and a new festival was born in 2016.
Since 2016, the festival has continued to grow, involving an increasing number of organizations inside and outside Burnaby. Each year, new partnerships and collaborations emerge that diversify the program, allowing its partners to reach more and more community members.
The Burnaby Festival of Learning is a co-creation of Simon Fraser University and the City of Burnaby. In 2015, The spark was ignited by an interactive, grassroots community-based festival in Cork, Ireland. SFU attendees to the Cork Festival of Learning loved the idea of bringing SFU “down from the mountain” to share and work alongside community members and those doing community-based research. A conversation with the City of Burnaby sealed the deal, and a new festival was born in 2016.
Since 2016, the festival has continued to grow, involving an increasing number of organizations inside and outside Burnaby. Each year, new partnerships and collaborations emerge that diversify the program, allowing its partners to reach more and more community members.