The Vancouver Pride Festival usually takes place the week leading up to BC Day, or the first Monday in August. This year’s festival will also feature virtual programming.īelow is information about the following:Ībout Pride Week | When & Where | 2021 Events Schedule | Pride Run & Walk | Pride Picnic | Pride at the Pier | Festival at Sunset Beach | Pride Parade | Tips & Suggestions | Other InformationĬlick any of the above links to jump to a specific event or topic, or continue reading to learn all about Vancouver Pride Week’s biggest and most popular events. Hopefully it is able to happen as an in-person event. In 2022, the parade is scheduled to take place on Sunday, July 31st. These included the Pride Lounge, Brews & Tunes and the Stanley Park Farmer’s Market, among others. Some of the live in-person events took place at Stanley Park Brewing at 8901 Stanley Park Drive. The 2021 festival hosted in-person events along with virtual events from July until the beginning of August, with a de-centralized parade on August 1st. However, both in-person events were cancelled due to the pandemic and online events took place instead. In 2020 Pride Week was going to run from July 27th until August 3rd and the parade was scheduled to happen on the 2nd (which happens to be on the BC Day Long Weekend).
The Vancouver Pride Festival occurs each year on the first week or so of August and the Vancouver Pride Parade takes place on the Sunday (which is the second-to-last day of the festival). The Vancouver Pride Parade itself happens in-person on Sunday, July 31st. In 2022 the festival’s theme is “Together Again”, and it takes place around the end of July.
Between mid-July and August 3rd there were both in-person and virtual festivities scheduled to take place. It includes a world-famous Pride Parade in early August.ĭue to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vancouver Pride Festival took place in a modified format for the second straight year in 2021. Pride Week is a gay festival in Vancouver’s West End that celebrates the city’s LGBTQIA2+ community.