Art Happens Here
The Eastside Arts Society (EAS) has developed and produced some of Vancouver’s most innovative and cherished programming for contemporary performing and visual arts.
The Eastside Arts Society is a registered charity that is home to the wildly popular Eastside Culture Crawl Visual Arts, Design & Crafts Festival, Eastside Arts Festival and the Eastside Arts District.
The Eastside Arts Society (EAS) develops and produces some of Vancouver’s most innovative and cherished programming for contemporary performing and visual arts. Now in its 29th year, the EAS is embarking on a number of new initiatives to ensure that Art Happens Here, on Vancouver’s Eastside, for decades to come.
Our Mission
Inspire, educate, and engage the community in performing and visual arts
Foster excellence and professionalism in the performing and visual arts.
Preserve, promote and grow production space in Vancouver’s Eastside in support of contemporary performing and visual arts.
Our Initiatives
Eastside Culture Crawl Festival
Classic Crawl: Nov 20th – 23rd, 2025
The Culture Crawl is an annual visual arts festival in November that involves 500+ artists on Vancouver’s Eastside opening their studio to the public.
Eastside Arts Festival
July 18th – 27th, 2025
The Eastside Arts Festival is an art festival in the Eastside Arts District bringing together local artists and the community to explore, learn and create art together through art workshops, public-participation art installations and live performances.
Eastside Arts District Multi-year project
The EAD is a multi-year project whose goal is to preserve the unique character of Vancouver’s Eastside, and to retain, promote and develop artists and cultural production spaces.
Studio 101
Studio 101 is an Eastside Arts Society program dedicated to supporting diverse and engaging artistic experiences for over 220 of Vancouver’s public school youth annually.
Ways to Support
Your support of the Eastside Arts Society is an investment in the arts and artists of Vancouver’s Eastside. It allows us to build upon a 29-year legacy of connecting community with East Vancouver’s vital population of artists, creating access to culture and fostering a love of contemporary performing and visual art for so many over the years, and for years to come.
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