Powell Street Festival

Powell Street Festival 【パウエル祭】Japanese Canadian art & culture summer festival, plus year-round programs and events! The Powell Street Festival takes place every BC Day long weekend.

Powell Street Festival (PSF) is the largest event of its kind in Canada and the longest running community arts festival in the Lower Mainland. We provide a venue for emerging and established, professional and amateur, and traditional and contemporary artists in the Japanese Canadian and Asian Canadian communities. We also participate in co-presentations with other arts organizations throughout the year and produce our own programming as part of an annual season.

Last chance to catch our exhibition "Return to Paueru G*i: Fifty Years of Powell Street Festival" at the Nikkei National...
09/03/2026

Last chance to catch our exhibition "Return to Paueru G*i: Fifty Years of Powell Street Festival" at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre! This retrospective exhibition curated by Emiko Morita celebrates 50 years of Powell Street Festival's art and activism through photographs, videos and installations.

Check out the exhibition one last time during Nikkei Centre’s Nikkei Matsuri! Also happening this weekend, enjoy the exhibition alongside vibrant traditions, flavours, and sounds of Japan right in Burnaby. Celebrating its 14th year, the festival is expanding with more culture, more food, and an all-new community zone. It's the perfect chance to stop by and explore the exhibition while you're there, before it closes September 6th.

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Check out the 3rd Annual Sumo Basho Vancouver in the Powell Street Neighbourhood!
08/26/2026

Check out the 3rd Annual Sumo Basho Vancouver in the Powell Street Neighbourhood!

Join us on Monday, Sept. 7 for our third annual amateur sumo exhibition in Vancouver's historic Powell Street neighbourhood!

Some of our craft and marketplace vendors from the 50th Annual Powell Street Festival! Photos by Angus Kwan, 2026
08/18/2026

Some of our craft and marketplace vendors from the 50th Annual Powell Street Festival!

Photos by Angus Kwan, 2026

08/04/2026

The Shig Hirai Sumo Tournament at the 50th Annual Powell Street Festival! Thank you to Sumo Sundays | All bodies sumo wrestling in Vancouver, BC for organizing and Fujiya Foods for your family’s long standing support! Congrats to Rain City Sumo and Sumo Sundays | All bodies sumo wrestling in Vancouver, BC for taking home the winning prize of rice!!

Za Daikon - First Performance of DAY 2! Head over to Firehall Arts centre to check out a theatre production of Japanese ...
08/02/2026

Za Daikon - First Performance of DAY 2! Head over to Firehall Arts centre to check out a theatre production of Japanese Comedy!

Za Daikon is a Vancouver-based amateur Japanese theatrical group formed in 1994. They perform Japanese comedies, folktales, and staged readings at various community events. In Japanese with English subtitles.

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410/111 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
V6B1G4

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm

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