Vancouver Mural Festival to provide more inclusive artistic experiences

by carly_mchugh | 23 May 2023 3:00 pm

The Vancouver Mural Festival (VMF) will return this summer, with celebrations of community and creativity set to take place throughout the city.

Running between Aug. 4 and 13, the 10-day event will feature daily mural tours, live performances, public talks, and a one-night-only market curated by queer Asian event producer Ricecake.

Known for its inclusive experiences that embrace and celebrate the rich cultures and communities of Metro Vancouver, VMF’s open-air gallery of murals transforms buildings into colourful works of art. Over the past seven years, the festival has brought more than 400 murals to life across the region.

This year, the third edition of the Murals Without Walls project will also address the lack of opportunities for professional artists who experience barriers due to disabilities by creating ways to participate in the public realm and Vancouver arts and culture.

“Access, from our perspective, is the most basic condition needed for us to show up to the proverbial table, or in this case, the mural wall,” says Jenna Reid, artistic director of Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture, the organization behind the project. “Murals Without Walls endeavours to move beyond access by inviting audiences in to witness the brilliance that exists within the field of Disability Arts and Culture, rather than simply including mad, deaf, and disabled artists into the formal art world.”

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