Virtual Program

Virtual Festival Program

The 2025 Artists for Conservation Festival brings several virtual elements online, making the event more accessible and available. For those who can't make the in-person event at VanDusen Botanical Garden or Maplewood Conservancy, join us online.

AFC Festival VIRTUAL Events (Previous Year)

 

VIRTUAL EXHIBITS

Time (PST)

Activity

Location

Sept 19, 2024 - August 1, 2025

AFC's 2024 Virtual Exhibit goes online on September 25. View all artwork from the live exhibit plus much more. Browse the exhibit.

 

Purchase the annual AFC Exhibit book. Proceeds support AFC programs.
ONLINE
Sept 20 Pacific Coast Portraits - A 360-degree Virtual Nature Art Walk through North Vancouver's Maplewood Flats. Featuring  AFC artists of Vancouver's Lower Mainland. 
ONLINE
Aug 31Browse AFC's Silent Skies Mural. 100ft mural of world's endangered birds by 170 AFC artists. Launched in 2018 at the AFC Festival.
ONLINE

 

Film Presentations

Time (PST) Activity Location
Aug 31- Sept 28  Special Film Screening of "How an Artist Saved the Mountain Gorilla" See the film.. 
ONLINE
Aug 31- Sept 28  Special Film Screening of "Art & Conservation in the Caymans See the film.. 
ONLINE
Aug 31- Sept 28  Special Film Screening of "The Soysambu Legacy: Art and Conservation in Africa's Rift Valley See the film.. 
ONLINE

 

Artist Demos & Studio Tours

 

Performances

 

 

 

We acknowledge that the Artists for Conservation Festival takes place on the traditional unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada, the Province of British Columbia.