The 2024 Sustenence Festival theme is centering Indigenous voices as we reimage our relationships with land, water, food, and eachother.
Sustenance begins on World Food Day, October 16 and will wrap up on November 16.
Sustenance Festival is a food-focused city-wide festival that celebrates and shares local food-inspired workshops and events in public spaces in Vancouver.
Since 2009, the city-wide festival has provided a unique platform locally and internationally that gives space to explore the growing concerns around food in our world.
These concerns include:
- Industrialization of our food systems
- Access to food
- Inequity built into our food systems
- Climate change
By highlighting our approach to food, food traditions, and education we work towards responding to these concerns with the goal of building a brighter and more sustainable food landscape.