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Eastside Culture Crawl
Eastside Arts Society presents the 29th Annual Eastside Culture Crawl Highlights Diversity of Artist Studio Space Across Eastside Arts District
Eastside Arts Society (EAS) proudly supports the participation of more than 500 artists in its 29th annual Eastside Culture Crawl Visual Arts, Design & Craft Festival from November 20-23, 2025. The festival will welcome visitors into the studios and workshops of Eastside artists in more than 80 registered buildings, including 20 new buildings to the Crawl – marking a 25 per cent increase in options for exploring all that is on display across the Eastside Arts District.
As part of the 2025 Culture Crawl, EAS will host a series of ancillary events, including the annual Take Flight fundraiser, which runs until November 4, 2025 and makes up a critical component of funding for the free festival. Guests who purchase tickets to Art Roulette, an art draw featuring 30 pieces donated by EAD artists, are guaranteed to go home with an original piece of art. Take Flight also features a silent auction, which opens on October 25, 2025, and features a series of items donated by community partners, including an exclusive curator-led tour of the Vancouver Art Gallery, a three-night stay at The Ivy on Parker Guest House, and much more.
The festival will also host the 2025 Preview Exhibition, a multi-venue, salon-style curated exhibition that explores a variety of media, formats, techniques, and styles. This year’s theme of “Passion, Reason, Idiocy” invited participating artists to submit works that speak to the emotional, rational, and foolish elements of their lived experience as working artists. The exhibition will feature juried works from 78 artists at three venues from November 6-30, 2025: Pendulum Gallery, The Cultch Gallery, and Alternative Creations Gallery. For full programming details, visit culturecrawl.ca/events.
EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL EVENTS
Take Flight
Oct. 7-Nov. 4, 2025
In celebration of 29 years of Vancouver’s beloved art festival, the EAS holds Take Flight –an art based fundraising initiative for the 2025 Culture Crawl festival, featuring an online silent auction, and the return of the wildly popular Art Roulette draw.
This year’s silent auction features some extraordinary items, including an exclusive curator-led tour of the Vancouver Art Gallery, a three-night hotel stay, a $350 Fluevog gift certificate, a double magnum from Burrowing Owl winner, and much more. The auction will open Oct. 25 and closes Nov. 4.
This year’s Art Roulette fundraiser includes in-person viewing at EAS (716 E Hastings St.) on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from Oct. 21 to Nov. 4, from 10am to 3pm. Each ticket holder will go home with one of 30 original pieces of artwork, donated by Eastside artists. The Art Roulette draw happens Nov. 5.
Moving Art: Unity
Online Premiere Nov. 6, 2025
Projecting at Lumiere Festival Nov. 13-16, 2025
The 12th Annual Eastside Culture Crawl Film and Video Exhibition, in partnership with the Lumière Festival, will be projected outdoors nightly from November 13-16, 2025.
Short films from 8 participating artists Ethan White, Garrett Andrew Chong, Cheree Lang, Fatima Travassos, Debra Gloeckler, Rashi Sethi, Isaac Forsland, and Nisha Platzer explore the theme of “Unity,” selected by Moving Art curators Esther Rausenberg, Kate MacDonald and Sierra MacTavish.
Talking Art
Nov. 5, 12 & 13, 2025
This year’s series of Talking Art panels will feature three events, and will be shared online at culturecrawl.ca/events:
Talk 1 – Collective Perspectives in Analogue Film
Nov. 5 at 7pm
Filmmakers Nisha Platzer and Isaac Forsland present recent analogue works that embrace the collaborative spirit of collective filmmaking. Through shared processes, layered authorship, and tactile experimentation, these films reflect on how analogue practices can foster vulnerability, trust, and new modes of storytelling. Curated and moderated by Kate MacDonald.
Talk 2 – in situ: finding place
Nov. 12 at 7pm
Artists Mackenzie Perras and Jes Hanzelkova explore artist practices that rely on the use of place, whether as a source for their concepts, art medium and materials, or site for performance. Curated and moderated by Samantha Mains.
Talk 3 – Creating in Community
Nov. 13 at 7pm
This talk features artists Jai Sallay-Carrington and Gina D’Aloisio and explores artists whose practices have been changed by the influence of others, through participation in artist residencies or social media. By putting themselves out there, their perspectives on identity and creation have changed. Curated and moderated by Samantha Mains.
Full details of Eastside Culture Crawl events, artists, talks, and locations can be found at culturecrawl.ca/events.
