Ocean Island Victoria Guide

A newcomer to the Victoria festival calendar, the Victoria Buskers Festival is a free, multi-day event featuring some of the best street and stage performers from around the globe. There’s contortionists, fire dancers, clowns, musicians, jugglers… you name it, it’s there.

Showcasing the best in off-off-off broadway theatre production including musicals, spoken word, comedy, and… well… anything you can think of. The Fringe takes place every August / September at various venues around Victoria.

Tsukino Con is a yearly anime and cultural convention. The name “Tsukino Con” literally translates to “Convention of the Moon.” Personally, I want to go to the “You Got Rejected From the Cosplay Contest” event….

A really, really interesting and varied presentation of crazy underground film. Definitely not to be missed. Some of it will confuse the hell out of you and your friends, and some of it will blow you away.

Every August, the Victoria Film Festival erects an outdoor screen in Beacon Hill park and shows a bunch of movies. Bring a blanket and some popcorn and join in the fun! Just like the name suggests, this festival is free.

Vancouver Island’s Largest Film Festival takes place every February, screening 150 films over 10 days. Previous guest celebrities and judges include: Kris Kristofferson, Atom Egoyan, David Foster, Barry Pepper, John Waters.

One of Victoria’s most popular summer sporting festivals, and the only Dragon Boat Festival in Canada to take place in a working harbour. Watch 90 Dragon Boat teams from across North America race across a 500-metre water course at Ship’s Point, in the Inner Harbour. In addition to the dragon boat races, the festival also has: [...]