A world-renowned festival of performing arts for young audiences, the Vancouver International Children's Festival has been educating, entertaining and inspiring young audiences since 1978. Festival Site on Granville Island The Vancouver International Children's Festival moved to Granville Island in 2011, after 33 years at Vanier Park.
In the 1990s, the Chinatown business community, through the Vancouver Chinatown Merchants Association, began to search for an effective vehicle to fund and implement projects to revitalize the area.