The Talking Stick Festival

The Talking Stick Festival, now in its 20th year, began as a way to showcase and celebrate Indigenous art and performance to a wider audience. From its humble beginnings, this unique and exciting event has grown into a full 2 week Festival held annually in February at locations across Vancouver. Now attracting over 20,000 attendees each year and still growing, we are noted as being the premier, multi-disciplinary Indigenous arts festival in North America.

With a desire to appeal to Indigenous and non-Indigenous attendees alike, our programming focuses on the diversity of visual arts, dance, theatre, music, powwow and film in both traditional and contemporary formats. Through the annual Talking Stick Festival, we provide the opportunity for artists to have a voice, a platform, a stage to showcase and share their stories with you – our audience.

Over the years, Full Circle has supported many professional and emerging artists. Our past work, highlighting their creations, can be accessed through our archived collection of program guides and videos from past festivals.