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VICTORIA HARBOUR FESTIVAL
A celebration bridging Canada's Victoria Day and the USA's Memorial
Day long weekends. Many family events, such as the Victoria
Day Parade and the Bastion Square Cycling Festival are featured
along with many other arts and cultural events.There really
is something for everyone
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VICTORIA FESTIVAL OF WINE, MUSIC
& FOOD
Annual event focuses on BC, Australian and Washington State
wines; local restaurants and performing arts.
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VICTORIA DAY PARADE
This yearly event includes bands from Victoria and the United
States. Clowns, floats etc. Bands play in Victoria for the weekend. |
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SWIFTSURE INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACEE
very year this race is a major community event - the premiere
long distance sailing race in the B.C. and US Pacific Northwest
area and a festival on shore. Wonderful sight for all to experience.
Weekend of fun and frivolity.
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OAK BAY TEA PARTY
Beginning with the Oak Bay Tea Party Parade on Saturday morning
from Windsor Park to Willows Park, the Tea Party is a weekend
community celebration of ENTERTAINMENT, MIDWAY, FIREWORKS, Bathtub
race and (usually) AIR SHOW.
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VICTORIA COMMUNITY CORPORATE ROWING
CHALLENGE
A 7-week rowing program for Victoria businesses, groups and
clubs culminating in a final Championship Regatta Race. Crews
practice twice/week at one of three convenient locations. Victoria's
best rowers will coach teams as they learn basic boat handling,
rowing and racing skills. No experience is necessary! This program
is open to all ages and abilities.
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SUMMER IN THE SQUARE
The City of Victoria's premier Festival event. From late June
through to early August each year, tens of thousand of Victoria
residents and visitors stop by Centennial Square, adjacent to
Victoria's heritage City Hall to enjoy the best FREE entertainment
the City has to offer, seven days a week. |
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JAZZFEST INTERNATIONAL
- 20th Anniversary10 days and nights of the coolest music in
town - The biggest summertime music festival on Vancouver Island,
Jazzfest promises jazz, blues, gospel and world beat music of
the highest calibre. More than 250 musicians in more than 60
performances entertain at venues around the city.
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FOLKFEST
The Folkfest is mainly a music event that takes place in and
around the inner harbour each year. The organizer brings in
some of the more well known Folk musicians for headlining the
shows. Intercultural food kiosks are a big draw, as well as
arts & crafts on sale.
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CANADA DAY CELEBRATION
Celebrate Canada Day with various activities happening in Victoria.
Fireworks usually finish the evening. Folkfest offers all arts,
crafts, food & entertainment. |
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VICTORIA FLOWER AND GARDEN SHOW
Long envied for its very agreeable year round gardening climate,
British Columbia has cultivated a world-class reputation as
the 'Garden Capital of Canada' for its outstanding botanical
beauty. With great pride and in keeping with Victoria's garden
heritage, The Victoria Flower and Garden Show held each July
at Royal Roads University, will once again host it's annual
flower and garden competition.
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ETERNAL EGYPT EXHIBIT AT THE ROYAL
MUSEUM
The best of ancient art from the Royal Museum's Egyption collection
including 144 treasures from the tombs and temples of Egypt's
greatest rulers.
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MOSS STREET PAINT IN
Sponsored by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, over 100 artists
gather to exhibit their works up and down Moss Street (1:00
to 4:00 p.m.)
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LUMINARA FESTIVAL
Imagine if you will, a stroll in Beacon Hill Park on a warm
summer night, the darkness gently pushed back by the glow of
thousands of colourful handmade lanterns. While many are carried
by those who attend the event, many more are part of the numerous
and imaginative installations scattered throughout the park.
Acoustic music gently drifts through the park while performance
artists and dancers set light in motion, adding pageantry and
spectacle. Sponsored by the Inter-Cultural Assoc. of Greater
Victoria.
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SYMPHONY SPLASH
The biggest audience the Victoria Symphony plays to every year,
is at Symphony Splash in the Inner Harbour. With conductor at
the helm, musicians play a selection of classics and pops for
a summertime audience of up to 40,000. The big finish - Tchaikovsky's
1812 Overture is always a crowd pleaser
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VICTORIA DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL -
10th Anniversary
This colourful and popular August event offers something for
everyone: dragon boating in the Inner Harbour, multicultural
entertainment and Dragonland for the kids.
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VICTORIA FRINGE FESTIVAL
Anything goes at this annual alternative theatre festival. The
festival is a summer's-end 12-day celebration of some of the
most innovative theatre offered anywhere in the country at eight
locations throughout downtown Victoria. info:383-2663
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CLASSIC BOAT SHOW IN THE INNER HARBOUR
Victoria's Inner Harbour is the place to be this Labour Day
weekend when up to 100 classic sail and power boats from throughout
the Pacific Coast and beyond will arrive for the 26th Classic
Boat Festival. The highlight of the festival takes place on
Sunday morning, August 31, with the Sailpast. All vessels will
leave the Inner Harbour to take the salute from the Honorary
Commodore.
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SAANICH FALL FAIR
This fair on the Saanich Peninsula takes place during the Labour
Day weekend and has something for everyone. The oldest agricultural
fair in Canada, the atmosphere here is one of a traditional
country fair with agricultural displays and prize-winning livestock,
arts and crafts, fairgrounds and entertainment. |
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SALMON RUN AT GOLDSTREAM PARK
Every autumn, million of Pacific salmon forge their way up the
myriad streams of the Pacific northwest to spawn and die. Goldstream
has a world-class salmon spawning stream with thousands of Chum
Salmon returning each year. Look also for the speckled flanks
of the sea-going Cutthroat trout that are here for a feast of
roe. At night come the shy mink, raccoon, otter, and, perhaps,
a bear. THE END OF THE GOLDSTREAM Salmon Run is a signal to
the Bald Eagles that it is time to return to Goldstream for
their annual salmon feast.
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