New Leaves Festival of Arts and Culture
New Leaves Festival of Arts and Culture
Thursday June 20 - Saturday June 22, 2024
Downtown Kelowna
Join us in turning over a new leaf, June 20-22, 2024
For three days in Kelowna’s downtown core, a host of artists from from the Okanagan and across Canada will perform (in both French and English) and put on workshops, including performances from multidisciplinary performer Alexis O’Hara, rapper SINZERE, poet and musician Moe Clark, and drag superstar Chiquita Mére and many many more.
The inaugural New Leaves Festival of Arts and Culture takes the idiom “turning over a new leaf” as inspiration to focus on an annually changing theme speaking to expressed/urgent needs of the community. Responding to a recent rise in anti-LGBTQ2SIA+ sentiment in the Okanagan and beyond, the 2024 New Leaves theme is “Queer Art as Resistance,” focussing on celebrating queer arts through drag, poetry, music, comedy, dance and more.