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2021 Harmony Arts is being recreated due to COVID-19
The District of West Vancouver is following COVID-19 protocols as set by the Provincial Health Officer. The Harmony team is cautiously optimistic as they recreate Harmony for 2021. If you’re interested in being a part of Harmony, no matter what it looks like, get in touch us.
The 2020 Harmony Arts Festival was cancelled due to the pandemic and was set to be the District’s 30th annual celebration.
“It’s difficult to imagine a summer in West Vancouver without Harmony Arts,” Mayor Mary-Ann Booth said about the cancellation.
Although Harmony will look different this year, the spirit, lifestyle, and natural beauty that makes West Vancouver so special will shine through.
History
We acknowledge that the Harmony Arts Festival is on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Squamish Nation, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, and Musqueam Nation. We recognize and respect them as nations in this territory, as well as their historic connection to the lands and waters around us since time immemorial.
Harmony Arts Festival, presented by Odlum Brown Limited, began 30 years ago with a simple dream: to give the North Shore a festival worthy of its unparalleled setting.
The desire to create a community-oriented celebration of the visual arts, has grown to include culinary, performing arts and literary arts. With Harmony, we share the very best that West Vancouver has to offer: creative arts and community, all set against a view that can't be beat.
We've seen the profound impact that a diverse and sophisticated festival like Harmony Arts can have on our community and its citizens. In previous years, Harmony Arts is where longtime locals mingle with new neighbours, art enthusiasts meet enthusiastic novices, and generations come together on the waterfront.
Along the way, we've built a community festival that extends beyond the North Shore. The festival has attracted more than 140,000 annual visitors from the Sea to Sky and across Metro Vancouver.
Harmony Arts Festival. A uniquely West Van experience.
Location
The festival takes place in West Vancouver along the waterfront on Argyle Avenue, from 14th to 16th Street. Festival sites include John Lawson Park, Millennium Park, Ambleside Landing, the Music Box, the Silk Purse and the Ferry Building Gallery.
Information about these arts facilities
Zero Waste
The festival is proud to be a Zero Waste Festival. In 2019, the festival further improved by diverting 87.5 per cent of its waste from landfills with the support of Green Chair Recycling.
- 723 bags of garbage saved
- 5,550 kg of items recycled
- 15.9 tonnes of CO2 saved (the equivalent of driving 260 round trips from Vancouver to Whistler)