Family Arts Festival

Join us for the Saanich Family Arts Festival at the Cedar Hill Arts Centre! 

When:
Monday, February 17, 2025, 11.00 am - 3.00 pm
Where:
Cedar Hill Arts and Recreation Centre,
3220 Cedar Hill Road
How much:
Admission and all art activities are FREE!   
Hot food and snacks will be available for purchase from the Cridge's Second Chance Cafe in the Arts Centre.                                           

This fun-filled family event is a celebration of imagination, creativity and discovery. Kids of all ages will explore a wide variety of activities led by Arts Centre staff and guest instructors from the region’s arts and culture community, as well as watch and listen to an array of live performances. Activities will include:

  • Glittering Light Catchers: decorative foil inlay light catchers
  • Make a Crown: create and decorate a crown with Kaleidoscope Theatre
  • Shape Your World: stamp a work of art by combining shapes
  • Tin Foil Sculptures: join artist Tanya Bub to make a sculpture from tinfoil, pipe cleaners and upcycled cardboard
  • Piece Makers: make your own mini quilt design
  • Collective Portrait: contribute to a community portrait 
  • Field Guide to Monsters: create a character and story with Story Studio
  • Lego Robotics: hands on activities with First Robotics
  • Spin Art and Handbuilding: make spiral art using markers and a pottery wheel, and try handbuilding clay figures in the ceramics studio* 
  • Self-Guided Story Walk: read The Very Hungry Caterpillar as you walk along the Cedar Hill Golf Course pathway
  • Book Nook: Relax and read with your family
  • Human Artwork: find the human art models who will be walking throughout the facility

Please note that all clay must remain in the ceramics studio. We invite families to contribute their clay figurine to a community forest and take a photo.

Throughout the day there will be live music and entertainment in the gym. Get ready to wiggle, dance and sing along with these amazing performers!

11.15 am - Veselka Dancers
12.00 pm - Brian Cook
1.00 pm - Melody Moonshaker
2.00 pm - Chinese Victoria Children's Choir
2.30 pm - Lekwungen Traditional Dancers

Getting Here
The Cedar Hill Arts Centre is located at 3220 Cedar Hill Road.

Driving: the Cedar Hill Arts Centre has a main parking lot off of Cedar Hill Rd, and an overflow gravel parking lot off of Finlayson. We will additionally have parking available at Doncaster School, just a short walk away. 
Biking: The Centre has covered bike parking near the main entrance.
Bussing: The number 24 bus runs past the front entrance of the facility. 



For questions or comments about the Family Arts Festival, please email events@saanich.ca or call 250-475-5558.