Eastside Culture Crawl celebrates 30 years of opening doors to Vancouver art studios, November 19 to 22 — Stir

The festival’s milestone 30th anniversary arrives at a landmark moment for the Eastside Arts Society. This year, it secured a major step toward permanence with the purchase of its 5,980-square-foot headquarters building at 716 E. Hastings Street, through the approval of a Making Space for Arts and Culture grant from Vancouver City Council. Beyond serving as a cultural hub for productions and presentations, the building represents a vital path forward to protecting, preserving, and expanding the Eastside’s vibrant arts and culture ecology.As part of the 30th anniversary celebrations, the building will serve as the central hub for the Culture Crawl’s 2026 Preview Exhibition, P.A.R.T.Y. – Pushing Art diRectly To You, bringing 75 juried artists together from November 5 to 28. The Preview Exhibition provides a sneak peek at the variety of art that will be on display throughout the Crawl, with a curatorial concept, statement, and title developed by Crawl artists Eri Ishii, Hugh Kearney, and Paul de Guzman.