Vancouver Gets Colourful | The Vancouver Mural Festival
Friday 19 August 2016
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Goodbye grey, how-do-you-do colour! The first-ever Vancouver Mural Festival takes house this Saturday, August 20th hither inward Vancouver as well as 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 as well as the Burrard Arts Foundation, the festival offers around twoscore murals past times over l artists inward 20 dissimilar locations around Mount Pleasant as well as the Downtown Eastside. Main Street betwixt Seventh as well as twelfth volition endure unopen Sabbatum for alive music, interactive fine art exhibits as well as 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 as well as more.
International artists participating are Bicicleta Sem Freio (Brazil), KASHINK (France), LOW BROS (Germany), as well as NEVERCREW (Switzerland).
Tip: If you're inward the area, continue your eyes on the heaven for their large bluish balloons. Each 1 marks a Vancouver Mural Fest mural site!
Let's get got a await at some of our pics below!
Vancouver's Hootsuite role got their entire edifice painted past times Vancouver artist, Scott Sueme, the same creative someone who painted the Waldorf Hotel as well as
We dearest 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 too at 13th Ave.
Lots of stunning coloring from Taka Sudo's slice at Broadway as well as Kingsway.
And this extra large masterpiece (below) going upward a block upward from Broadway as well as Main past times Jay Senetchko.
And simply 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 simply off Broadway. By Godzilya. So floral pretty!
So happy whoever came upward amongst this persuasion outset for a mural festival. Winters inward Vancouver volition endure happier. Can't hold off to unearth them all!