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Sustenance Festival

Sustenance begins on World Food Day, October 16. It 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.

Find a Sustenance Festival event near you