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About the Festival
Festival Afloat is a paddle-powered music festival and educational offering that brings together allied businesses and impassioned community members. Our goal? To raise funds and awareness for Indigenous Nations who are in court to protect the ocean and keep our coast clean!
Our first year started in 2020 with just one show, but it planted a seed that has continued to blossom! That seed burst open and from 2021 to 2024 Festival Afloat has raised over $250,000 with concerts all over the Salish Sea!
Although Festival Afloat is on hiatus for 2025, we’re keeping the dream afloat and aim to be back in 2026.
Thank you for making Festival Afloat 2024 so Magic
It’s always a bit surreal to wrap up Festival Afloat each year. We know we’ve created something so unique and special that brings together lovers of being at sea, with advocates for Indigenous rights, top…
Reflections on the Water: Festival Afloat 2023 recap
As we lower our sails and anchor for the fall, we are reflecting on another successful year of Festival Afloat. We are still basking in the excitement of our adventure on the water (and land)!…
Festival Afloat – Tall Ship Adventures in Pictures!
With sailings aboard the tall ship Providence out of Gabriola, Salt Spring, Pender Island, Sidney and Vancouver, we’ve welcomed hundreds of ocean protectors in support of Heiltsuk Nation’s inspiring legal challenge to enshrine Indigenous marine protection into law!
