enchantment in many forms
2026 activations, experiences & artists
See below the many experiences you can visit at victoria at dusk 2026
activations and special events
lekwungen Traditional Dancers
dance group
friday 13th, 5.30pm
royal bc museum
We invite visitors to join the Lekwungen dancers with a vibrant dance and music outside the Royal BC Museum. Members of the group take great pride in sharing in a positive manner what their elders and ancestors kept alive for them to carry on.
songhees tours
Lekwungen culture and stories around the fire
all nights 5 - 9pm
royal bc museum
Songhees Tours and Nawhea'mowhah invite you to gather for evenings of Lekwungen storytelling around the fire, with traditional tea. This is a welcoming, respectful space for sharing history, culture, and lived experiences. Through stories and conversation, guests will learn about Lekwungen connections to this land and the meaning behind the places we stand on today.
Bring your curiosity and your questions for a meaningful fireside discussion rooted in community, culture, and connection.
bastion square
revitalization society
artisan market
fri, sat, sun
bastion square
The BSRA are hosting a vibrant Family Day Weekend Market in historic Bastion Square. The square will be transformed into a lively marketplace featuring incredible local makers, artisans, and small businesses, alongside delicious treats and handcrafted local sips from our Island cideries and distilleries.
Whether you’re strolling the city with the kids, meeting friends downtown, or discovering new local favourites, stop by the Bastion Square Family Day Market during Victoria at Dusk.
victoria Francophone Society
Francophone Candlelight Live Concert with Chocolate fondue
friday 13th, 6 - 8pm
1218 Langley Street
Exhibition by Francophone artists
sunday 15th, 5 - 7pm
1218 Langley Street
ann chou
Teapot lantern workshop
Friday, feb 13, demonstrations at 5.10pm and 6.40pm
royal bc museum
Using a unique "depressed cup" technique, you will transform everyday materials into a glowing teapot lantern. Use Sumi-e ink to paint motifs or words from your own heritage onto your lantern, sharing your "language" and story with your neighbors. Once finished, carry your lantern through the CloudWalk—a magical path of fairy lights and inflatable clouds at the Conference Centre Pavilion.
gage gallery
all nights 5 - 9pm
Window display by Rose Cowles; all are invited to contribute to the community painting.
Friday, Feb 13, open 5-9 pm
7 pm - Dallas Segno, singer songwriter with acoustic eclectic songs. Come in and create a Valentine's Day card.
Saturday, Feb 14, open 5-9 pm
Experience songs and dance of love with Kai Rae Khushi, and create a Valentine's Day card.
Sunday, Feb 15, open 5-9
Closing celebration of the Luv It show, with refreshments and music.
Meet the artists, check out the Luv It Art Show (on Jan 27-Feb 15). Gage Gallery
art battle
friday, saturday
government street
Come visit the folks at Art Battle who will have an interactive black light mural on Government Street February 13th and February 14th from 5PM-9PM.
hidden victoria walking tours
all nights 5.30 & 7pm
bastion square
by donation $$
Starting in Bastion Square and making their way over to the inner harbour the 45 minute tour will cover the history and culture of Bastion Square, Government St, the Inner Harbour, the Empress and Parliament.
Hidden Victoria Tours is a locally owned and operated walking tour company dedicated to helping people fall in love with Victoria—again or for the very first time. We specialize in entertaining, educational, and engaging tours that bring the city’s stories to life through expert storytelling, local history, and thoughtful partnerships with downtown businesses.
greater victoria public library
activity
friday 5 - 9pm
ship point
Come by and visit the Greater Victoria Public Library’s table for a fun glow in the dark bookmark craft, as well as a chance to check out our Tech Play toys.
Also - "Victoria at Dusk-themed" Storytime at the Library at 10.30 - 11.30 before your Dusk adventure!
freq silent disco
sun 5 - 9pm
bastion square
Come and boogy to the music of three Indigenous DJs in Coulee Ross and friends' popup silent disco! Drop by anytime and pickup a headset then select your DJ vibes.
the aunty collective, cedar-weaving
saturday/sunday 5 - 9pm
royal bc museum
Knowledge keeper Laura Manson from Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation, will share cedar harvesting and weaving teachings. Each participant will leave with their creation. Due to the drop in style of this offering, Laura will have a drop in method of teaching and sharing.
joseph singers & dancers from esquimalt
friday 7pm
ship point
Join the Xwsepsum dancers for vibrant dance and music on our final night of festivities!
artists, performers & creatives
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Royal BC Museum
Fri, sat, sun 9-5pm
Soluna Productions specialize in creating large-scale art installations that transform ordinary spaces into dynamic, immersive playgrounds of light, color, and motion. Visual Alchemy is a large-scale, interactive projection with a portal into a vibrant world of mesmerizing, dynamic, AI-generated visuals shaped entirely by participants movements and choices.
Victoria conference center
sat, sun at 6&7pm
Anat Elkayam is an interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples. Her practice moves between sound, sculpture, and performance.
Her sound piece Water Talk, is an ambient sound performance incorporating the live sound of the fountain, where falling water droplets are captured and transformed into harmonic pitches.Experience it at the Tidepools installation in the lower pavilion.
Royal BC museum
Fri, Sat, Sun 5-9pm
A group of artists dedicated to creating environments and spaces that are both inviting and warm while also evoking emotions and contemplation about life; the evolution of humans, society, culture and technology. Experience their candle activation in the Royal BC Museum Sunken Garden.
Soluna Productions
Anat Elkayam
Big Candle Collective
Bastion Square
Fri, sat, sun 5-9pm
Adrian Granchelli designs experiences—physical, digital, and everything in between. Guided by educational research, he blends play, technology, and storytelling to design interactive installations and games that foster curiosity, collaboration, and innovation through user-centred design. He lives on the unceded territory of the K’òmoks First Nation. Experience two of his interactive music and light works in Bastion Square.
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Royal bc museum
Fri, sat, sun 5-9pm
Jayeson is a visual artist, developer, and educator, gathering inspiration from local theatre, neon signs, mechanical things, and musical instruments. This 60-minute, hands-on workshop invites participants of all ages to create their own illuminated paper cutout lanterns.
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Bastion Square
Fri, sat performances between 5-9pm
Sarah Hin Ching U 余衍晴 (she/her) is a Chinese-Canadian dance artist who moves between contemporary dance, breaking, hip-hop, and emerging technologies. Us Beneath the Currents is an interactive augmented reality (AR) performance-installation inspired by humanity’s remarkable capacity to adapt to changing environments. warming has intensified to the point that humans must live underwater, asking: what might our bodies become?
Adrian Granchelli
Jayeson Lyonns
Sarah Hin Ching U 余衍晴
Victoria conference center
fri, sat 5-9 pm
Mathieu Larente is a multimedia audiovisual artist and the founder of White Rabbit Media. With his 25 years of experience in corporate audio-visual services and over 10 years in major summer music festivals, he combines video mapping, lights, and music to transform architectural spaces into immersive, site-specific experiences. Experience a fully immersive light, sound and projection experience inside Carson Hall at the Victoria Conference Centre.
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Ship point
fri, sat, SUN 9-5pm
Nora Dawn Tribe is a multidisciplinary artist and the founder of a family friendly electronic music festival called Revel which happens annually in the Similkameen Valley.
Come to Ship Point to experience the Elemental Spirit light art installation that she is putting together which doubles as a stage. Each night her and a group of local and visiting DJs and VJ will feature projection mapped live visuals, fresh beats and mellow sounds.
Bastion Square
fri, sat, sun 9-5pm
At Hololabs, we craft experiences that blend technology with imagination. Whether it's designing groundbreaking augmented reality theme park rides, building new worlds in virtual reality, or designing immersive works of art, we infuse a spirit of play into everything we do. For more than a decade, we’ve been trailblazing the experiences of tomorrow, inventing new technologies that bring people together in exciting and unexpected ways.
Experience their interactive projection popup in Bastion Square.
White Rabbit Media
Nora Dawn Tribe
Hololabs
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ship point fri, sat (bodypainting)
bastion square sun 9-5pm (freq silent disco)
Coulee Ross an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and Indigenous futurist. Professionally trained as a makeup artist with decades of experience in face/body painting, their work weaves storytelling, performance, and community practice.
Experience her Indigenous music silent disco FreQ in Bastion Square on Sunday, and neon facepaint designs in the Ship Point Community Hub.
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government street
fri, sat, sun 5-9pm
Josh Conrad is a multi-disciplinary Digital artist, and Art Director, as well as the founder of Slow of his small agency, Slow Studies Creative, based in Ts’elxwéyeqw (Chilliwack). Josh is Stó:lō // mixed European with strong Nlaka’pamux ties, and belongs to Chowéthel (Chawathil) First Nation in S’ólh Téméxw (our land, our world – so-called Fraser Valley)
{de}fragmented is an immersive installation that reflects te ongoing reclamation of culture through new mediums, meanings, and contexts in a rapidly evolving world. Experience this popup zone of constructed elements and AR on Government Street.
Coulee Ross
Joshua Conrad
ship point
fri, sat, sun 5-9pm
Monkey C Interactive is the interactive work of artists David Parfit and Scott Amos. Whether it’s a strange and whimsical musical instrument like the Bubble Organ, a giant motion-responsive LED cube sculpture, a tech-house-looping mutant cash register, or a 5-story-tall musical stairwell, Monkey C Interactive’s public art installations and interactive sculptures have amused and delighted countless people in their hometown of Victoria, BC, and at numerous festivals and events.
Experience their portable artcade works at Ship Point.
Monkey C Interactive
Royal bc museum
fri, sat, sun 9-5pm
Lajah Warren is a Songhees artist of mixed Indigenous and settler heritage. Her work
intertwines traditional Coast Salish designs and explores themes
of community empowerment, healing, and justice. Her practice often incorporates
reflective and participatory elements, inviting viewers to engage with art as a space for
challenge, insight, and transformation. Beyond her art practice, Lajah cultivates
dialogue and connection through Nova Arts Hub, her Community Arts Centre dedicated
to fostering cross-cultural creativity and collaboration.
Lajah Warren
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Bastion square
fri, sat, sun 5-9pm
Jesse Campbell (He/Him) is a Michif mural artist, public arts consultant, and director of Tah’lum Indigenous Artists collective. On his mother’s side he is Michif from St. Boniface as well as Salteaux from Waterhen Lake Manitoba. On his Fathers side he his mixed English, german, and French ancestry.
Jesse is creating an archway in the space now known as Commercial Alley. Spectators are invited to walk through and see through the structure and the light and shadow will cascade the stories of the land onto them. They will then see themselves as a part of these stories as opposed to removed from them.
Jesse Campbell
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douglas street
fri, sat, sun 5-9pm
Tarcila Neves is a mixed Afro-Indigenous Brazilian interdisciplinary artist and the Director of Art Nest Collective. Specializing in Augmented Reality and interactive installations, she creates immersive public art experiences that bridge the gap between digital technology and the natural world.
Experience her magical designs with augmented reality enhancements along Douglas Street and popped up during the festival.
Tarcila Neves
ship point
fri, sat, sun 5-9pm
Frost the baby Ice Dragon: Fresh from Antartica, Frost and her handler, Lady Abigale, will delight you with their mischievous antics. Meet them at our Ship Point community hub.
The Fortune Teller: Step up to the Fortune Teller's Table at Ship Point and have your future revealed! This moody, magical puppet interacts with audience members in an amusing, improvised non-verbal show. The Fortune Teller's enchanting illuminated objects will reveal your future...or your doom!
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Royal BC museum
fri, sat, sun 5-9pm
Dahlila Charlie is a Coast Salish visual artist from the SĆIȺNEW̱ Nation, currently residing in Victoria, BC. Through her breathtaking acrylic paintings and murals, Dahlila utilizes Coast Salish art style and realism to narrate the stories of her Nation.
Experience her work wəxə̣ ́ɬ at the Royal BC Museum front garden. During February is a time where local nations in the Coast Salish region transition from winter into early spring time, the inspiration behind Dahlila's piece is of the Frog and a story shared from their
home community Evelyn Vandermaas, Klallam Language director and respected elder.
There will be a frog sculpture that will be perched near the pond, and lily pads, and sound activated led lights that will be incorporated into this piece.
Together A Studio
Entangled Puppetry
Dahlila Charlie
Lamplit Art Society
royal bc museum
fri, sat, sun 9-5pm
Visit a youth art installation inside the Royal BC Museum
glenlyon norfolk school
puzzle labs, government street
fri, sat, sun 5-9pm
David & Abbey are two local creatives who have collaborated on light installations and quadraphonic sound experiences.
Skynut is an installation of spheres, knot-work & gently colour-shifting lights, creates a warm and unique visual experience & 3D aerialscape. Experience Skynut in Puzzle Lab which will be open each night for the event.
ship point, vcc, bastion square
fri, sat, sun 5-9pm
Melanie Lazelle is a creator based in Squamish. Her creative studio, The Wilder, creates art an experiences that share stories about our environment. Experience Memories of Colour: giant sea slugs and a glowing installation about coral bleaching at Ship Point, Urban Bloom and giant flowers at Bastion Square, a sky-inspired lantern walk with Cloudwalk at the Victoria Conference Centre and Tidepools with changing floor tiles at the Victoria Conference Centre.
David Boon & Abbey Lee
The Wilder
ship point
fri, sat, sun 5-9pm
Mieke Jay (Visuals) is a west coast based artist with over 20 years experience bringing colour, light and imagery to events. Her layered creations are unique to each show blending video loops created from images of nature, curated remixed clips, drawings, paintings and more. Live mixing visuals for DJs, musicians, dancers, theatre productions and arts festivals is one of her favourite things to do. Mieke also produces fully immersive events featuring 360 effects and multiple artists.
ship point
fri, sat, sun 5-9pm
Designed as a Coworking Club for Creators, Haus of Owl exists to support the creative spirit, hunger, and process of artists in the world of music, film, fashion, photography and dance.
Experience their large-scale, water-inspired artwork alongside the work of Mieke Jay projected onto Havn Sauna at Ship Point.
mieke jay
haus of owl
bastion square
saturday, 7-9
Morphaces is an emerging troupe from Vancouver Island, exploring the nuances of human experience and beyond through dynamic textures of physical expression. Each member brings their unique gifts to the collaborative vision - from experimental theatre, to belly dance, to improv movement, and erotic contortion. Witness them bridge the gap between your personal perception and immersive worlds as they shapeshift through the space.
Morphaces
670 fort street
fri, sat, sun 5-9pm
Presented in partnership with The Bay Centre, Suburban expectation by Peony Ng [January – March 2026] is the third in a year-long series of window presentations reimagining the storefront of the Victoria Arts Council’s Project Space.
Peony's work confines a sense of belonging within abandoned interior spaces, the rapidly urbanizing landscape made me reflect on how collective memory can be physically preserved as a contemporary artist. I envision dreams as a pachinko machine—a chaotic, glittering cascade of thoughts and possibilities. capture.
Peony Ng
royal bc museum
fri, 5 and 6.30pm
As a multidisciplinary visual installation artist working with mixed and physical media, Ann also explores poetic performative acts to deepen connections among diverse cultures and generations.
This workshop blends Victoria’s famous tea culture with the symbolism of the Chinese Lantern Festival. Join a drop-in teapot lantern-making activity at the Royal BC Museum. Ann will be providing demos at 5 and 6.30pm.
REGISTER HERE
ann chou
government st
sat, 6, 7, 8pm
PINDN is the stage name of Alex Taylor-McCallum, a Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw and Nuu-chah-nulth hip-hop artist, muralist, and educator based in Victoria, BC. His music blends hard-hitting lyricism with themes of healing, resistance, and Indigenous identity, drawing from personal experiences with addiction, recovery, and intergenerational trauma. Performing in English and incorporating traditional languages, PINDN uses hip-hop as a tool for storytelling and community connection. His performances are powerful, raw, and uplifting—inviting audiences of all ages into a space of rhythm, resilience, and reflection.
Pindn
510 fort st
fri, sat, sun 5 - 9pm
Open Space is going to host a sound and video work by Josh Ngenda, entitled 'lost in transmission'. It will be installed in our front foyer and accessible from the exterior of the main entrance at 510 Fort St.
josh ngenda & Open space
helmcken alley
fri, sat, sun 5 - 9pm
A luminous exploration of the liminal. This installation uses gobo projectors casting ephemeral, shifting patterns; visual echoes of places just beyond perception. Graphics, inspired by dreamlike languages and cosmic textures, are projected across the ground creating a layered, immersive atmosphere in Helmcken Alley.
ben z cooper