Light Up Chinatown!

Name: Light Up Chinatown!
Start: 2026-08-09T11:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-08-09T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Chinatown

Chinatown's biggest festival is back!

Date/Time: Aug 9 2026, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

Vancouver, Chinatown
500 Block Columbia Street

Tickets

Cost: Free

Join us for a free, two-day outdoor festival featuring live performances, insanely good food, and exclusive pop-ups all throughout the neighbourhood.

Limited-time festival bites and special collaborations.

Live music, cultural performances, and street-side art.

Explore Chinatown, collect passport stamps, and win exciting prizes.

Explore Chinatown and enjoy exclusive festival-weekend deals.
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Light Up Chinatown! presented by RBC is a celebration of the living heritage and diverse history of Vancouver’s Chinatown, produced by the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation.

This annual festival featuring live entertainment, limited-edition food collaborations, and special offerings from merchants takes place at 500-block Columbia Street and neighbouring streets, covering 16 blocks of Vancouver’s Chinatown. The goal of Light Up Chinatown! is to welcome visitors to Chinatown and support one of the last historically Asian neighbourhoods in our country.
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