WHY FESTIVAL?
Education, Encouragement, ENGAGEMENT!
Performance Opportunity: Festival provides local artists with the opportunity to perform before an audience of their peers and other community members.
Fantastic Adjudicators: Festival engages renowned experts in the arts to provide quality adjudications and feedback to each performer.
Many Disciplines: With sixteen Sections, including Music, Speech Arts and Dance, Festival offers options for most performers.
Quality Venues: Venues are carefully chosen to provide the best possible performance experience.
A Road to the Provincial Festival and National Music Festival: Adjudicators will recommend the top performers in eligible Sections to participate in the BC Provincial Festival and the National Music Festival.
Awards Program: Each year Festival distributes over 400 awards that are generously gifted by over 100 donors.
Classes for Everyone: Classes are offered for junior, intermediate, senior and adult levels, as well as community and school groups. Participants who would like to enter simply for their own enjoyment, to gain experience and to benefit from supportive adjudication are welcome!
“GVPAF has been a part of my musical education for the last 6 years and I can’t imagine my life without it. Performing at the festival has always been a great goal to work towards. GVPAF has an extremely welcoming atmosphere and the high caliber of students and adjudicators will always help you improve!”
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Festival was an enriching experience that helped me improve all aspects of my musical ability thanks to comments by fantastic adjudicators and the performances by many great young musicians.
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“Over the years the opportunity for our young fiddle community to focus their energy into a one-time performance in front of peers and an adjudicator has been an exceptional experience on many levels. Not only did this provide a unique platform for the studios of various teachers to gather and share their efforts but it has given us a legacy of performances that we would otherwise never have had.
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Lucy McLung, Student of Daniel Lapp
“Festival provides chorus members with an opportunity to work collaboratively towards a common goal. One of our favourite parts of the experience is working with such captivating and encouraging adjudicators.
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“GVPAF has always been an exciting goal to work towards. I’m grateful to be able to participate in a festival with such a positive, welcoming atmosphere. Having the privilege of listening to so many amazing students and adjudicators at GVPAF has definitely enhanced my music education! ”
“As both a teacher and dance teacher I have entered my students into the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival for the past twenty-eight years. It has been a wonderful experience for both my students and myself. I have taught both Irish and Jazz dance to my students as an extra curricular activity. This gave me an opportunity to share my heritage and love of dance with many students from all different ethnic backgrounds, and varying opportunities to enjoy participating in the comradery, and joy of movement. Practicing early in the morning before school classes began gave the students a vitality that overlapped into their daily work. I was blessed to watch their confidence and pride in their accomplishments grow exponentially throughout the year. The Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival was definitely the highlight of
our year when the students would finally perform on stage, in costume, for their families, friends, and peers from other schools. ”
St. Joseph’s School Dancers