Image: Chinatown by Jan Kasparec
Come for the giant serpent machine, stay for the art.
Celebrating its 18th year, this four-day public festival running November 20 to 23 now sees around 20,000 people descend upon the Strathcona neighbourhood to meet and haggle with 400-plus artists directly in their studios.
Concentrated in the area between Main Street and Victoria Drive just north of 1st Avenue, visitors partaking in this most artsy of walking tours will encounter hundreds of works from emerging and established painters, jewelers, sculptors, photographers, potters, glassblowers, furniture makers and more.
New this year is a six-piece outdoor film and video projection entitled Moving Art, as well as Kids at the Crawl workshops, on-location food trucks and bigger-than-ever exhibitions like the Snackart Vending Machine and the 50-foot, one-tonne electromechanical serpent machine.
They had us at serpent machine.
In addition to snaky spectacle, the crawl brings new acts engineered to inspire, like do-it-yourself art-making workshops, art talks and educational screenings on how to begin collecting quality art.
The details:
What: Eastside Culture Crawl
When: November 20 to 23, 2014, Thursday and Friday 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
How much: Free until you buy something.
Before you go: Tips on collecting art
Online map of the crawl: Eastside Culture Crawl map
Don’t forget to bring: A friend who lifts with his legs and owes you a favour.
