Vancouver Gets Colourful | The Vancouver Mural Festival

Goodbye grey, hullo colour! The first-ever Vancouver Mural Festival takes house this Saturday, August 20th hither inward Vancouver too nosotros grabbed a few early on snapshots of a few yesterday earlier all the festivities begin. Luckily the skies were their bluest of the twelvemonth yesterday to brand the colours actually pop!

Together amongst the City of Vancouver, the Main Street BIA too the Burrard Arts Foundation, the festival offers closed to twoscore murals past times over l artists inward 20 unlike locations around Mount Pleasant too the Downtown Eastside. Main Street betwixt Seventh too twelfth volition last closed Sabbatum for alive music, interactive fine art exhibits too a marketplace from 12-6 p.m. that afternoon.

Local artists participating include Frazer Adams, Russell Alton, Tim Barnard, Paige Bowman, Ali Bruce, Corey Bulpitt, Nomi Chi, DEDOS, Shannon Elliott, Mark Illing, Julia Iredale, Shallom Johnson (INDIGO), James Knight, Cody Lecoy, Tim Mack, Graeme McCormack, Tierney Milne, Colin Moore, Kyle Scott, Taka Sudo, Scott Sueme, Mandy Tsung, Ben Tour, Ilya Viryachev, Ola Volo, Andrea Wan, Alison Woodward, Drew Young too more.

International artists participating are Bicicleta Sem Freio (Brazil), KASHINK (France), LOW BROS (Germany), too NEVERCREW (Switzerland).

Tip: If you're inward the area, buy the farm on your eyes on the heaven for their large bluish balloons. Each 1 marks a Vancouver Mural Fest mural site!

Let's accept a await at some of our pics below!


Vancouver's Hootsuite component subdivision got their entire edifice painted past times Vancouver artist, Scott Sueme, the same creative somebody who painted the Waldorf Hotel too

We honey this 1 (below) at 13th Ave past times By Fouhundredml amongst Godzilya.

And this (below).  Caught a swain mural fan taking a shot of Ben Tour's masterpiece on the dorsum of 49th Parallel besides at 13th Ave.

Lots of stunning colouring from Taka Sudo's slice at Broadway too Kingsway.

And this extra large masterpiece (below) going upward a block upward from Broadway too Main past times Jay Senetchko.

And merely kitty korner from that, this pastel beauty past times Ali Bruce.

Not certain if this is a novel 1 or non (below).  In fact it's correct behind our former store merely off Broadway.  By Godzilya.  So floral pretty!

So happy whoever came upward amongst this sentiment get-go for a mural festival.  Winters inward Vancouver volition last happier. Can't hold off to unearth them all!