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.
Montreal's Italian week is a festival that honors the beauty and diversity of Italy, allowing you to discover its musical culture, art, gastronomy and folk in the world. The festivities of Montreal's Italian Week create an intercultural space for discussion, discovery and sharing between different cultural communities .
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.