Unwritten Weekend Festival
A festival celebrating music, art, and creativity
MARCH 27 鈥� 29, 2026
Alliance Fran莽aise Vancouver, The Hargrove, 8EAST, & Red Gate
Join us from March 27 to 29 for the second edition of Unwritten Weekend festival! Experience 3 days of concerts, workshops, and art across four venues in Vancouver: Alliance Fran莽aise Vancouver (6161 Cambie St.), The Hargrove (Alley Entrance, 150 E 3rd Ave.), 8EAST (8 East Pender St.), and Red Gate (1965 Main St.).
We鈥檙e happy to welcome 3 featured artists: Farida Amadou (Brussels), Myriam Gendron (Montreal), and Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Montreal). Their presence is approached as an interactive exchange with Vancouver, as they will be invited to meet local artists and local audiences through either an improvised set, a workshop, or a listening session.
Come celebrate the creativity our region hosts. The festival also brings together more than 30 artists with ties to the region: singer-songwriters, noise musicians, improvisers, visual artists, and audiences meet to new creations and collaborations, meetings across generations, and multidisciplinary performances.
Our three featured artists are francophone, though this language is a different lived reality for each of them, and has a different place in their creative music: from Myriam Gendron鈥檚 re-imagining and transformation of traditional French songs, to Farida Amadou鈥檚 improvised and noise music, and to Radwan Ghazi Moumneh鈥檚 melding of buzuk (Lebanese lute) and Arabic modal singing with effects, electronics and synths.
Unwritten Weekend is also strongly rooted in the local scene. The festival brings together more than 30 artists with ties to the region and celebrates the creativity our community hosts across the friendly spaces of its four partner venues.
Through new creations and collaborations, meetings across generations, and multidisciplinary performances, the festival highlights this local scene. There鈥檚 a little bit of music for everyone.
Hear the road-worn songs of Inuk singer-songwriter Willie Thrasher, the improvised psychedelics of EarthBall, 鈥檚 鈥渃onfessional jazzy pop鈥� songs, the sound experimentations of Bahar Khazei (with XEL) and , DJ sets by Sammy K and friends from Dandelion Records, Francis Baptiste鈥檚 indie songs sung in a mix of English and Nsyilxc蓹n, the improvisations of the 8EAST collective friends, drone-jazz collages by Lettr Openr, and a new supergroup of artists who don鈥檛 live in Vancouver anymore but remain close friends of the city (Rafiq / Babin / Toren / Gaucher).
At The Hargrove, we鈥檒l also present installations, art, and photography by Sarah Nash Wong, Travis Kirton, XEL, Joy Mullen, and Gordy Li.
Unwritten Weekend wouldn鈥檛 exist without the generosity and steady commitment of our community partners to the arts scene: NOW Society, Alliance Fran莽aise Vancouver, Queer Arts Festival, Red Gate, The Hargrove, Coastal Jazz, Dandelion Records, MENA Film Festival, Vancouver New Music, le Centre Culturel Francophone de Vancouver, and act art mgt.
Poster design by Leisure Thief and (Lost Dog); art by Cole Schmidt.
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