Come celebrate the return of festival culture in British Columbia with the launch of the Ignite the Arts Festival, a nine day celebration of music, art and culture in snpinktn (Penticton, B.C.), kicking off on Friday March 25th and running through to Sunday April 3th, 2022. We invite you to join us for a nine days celebration of music, art and culture through a curated mix of free and ticketed events for individuals and families of all ages. The Ignite the Arts Festival will culminate the weekend of April 1-3, 2022 with a three day ticketed music and arts festival featuring 4 daytime stages and an evening stage on the Friday and Saturday nights. Additional festival information will be posted online in the coming months on the Penticton Art Gallery's website: www.pentictonartgallery.com

FEATURED ARTISTS:

Kym Gouchie
https://kymgouchie.com/

With ancestral roots in the Lheidli T’enneh, Cree and Secwépemc Nations, Kym Gouchie is fostering change through her music and art. Her music brings awareness to First Nations and women’s issues, promoting reconciliation and authentic community engagement. Her stories are a testament to the human spirit, weaving together threads of her own journey from personal tragedy to triumph.

Kym’s traditional hand drum, clean, crisp acoustic guitar and full-bodied voice make her a powerful force. Indigenous-folk, and country tones alongside poignant and inspirational lyrics capture the hearts of young and old — her genuine and heartfelt performances have a profound and sometimes emotional impact on her audience. Throughout the pandemic, Kym has found beauty in the ability to connect with people around the world with the click of a button. She sees herself as a bridge, connecting hearts and minds… reminding us that we’re all in this together.

A respected elder-in-training of the Lheidli T’enneh Nation, also known as Prince George, BC, Kym is sought after to perform and speak at schools, conferences, traditional welcoming ceremonies, and cultural gatherings.

The Melawmen Collective 
www.melawmen.ca

The Melawmen Collective, a contemporary Indigenous alternative fusion woven together with elements of hip/trip hop, rock/folk, righteous rhymes and rich harmonies, carried through with experience, manifestation, and visions of intergenerational stories of pain and healing. The Melawmen Collective brings a uniqueness to their sound like no other, drawing in a wide variety of listeners through sharing their own journeys of life through their musical evolution together. ‘Melawmen’ means medicine in the Secwepemc language, and the unceded territory of the Secwepemc People in what is know known as BC, is where members Meeka Morgan (vocals, Secwepemc/Nuu-Chah-Nulth), Rob Hall (Vocals, Ghengis Ghandi’s, Ashcroft), Geo Ignace aka Geo The Voice (Vocals, Secwepemc/Cree), Kiva Morgan-Hall (Vocals, Secwepemc/Nuu-Chah-Nulth), and Kirk Watson (Bass, Ashcroft) continue to grow.

Curtis Clear Sky and the Constellationz
www.constellationz.com

Curtis Clear Sky is an Indigenous vocalist, emcee, writer and producer. Born and raised and based out of Vancouver BC Curtis is Anishinabe from Waywayseecappo, Manitoba and Niitsiitapii (Blackfoot) from the Blood Tribe, Alberta. Curtis Clear Sky and the Constellationz captivate audiences with their funky rhythms, thundering percussion, blasting horns, soulful harmonies, dicing & slicing DJ with empowering lyrics that gratify your soul. Curtis and his band’s highly-engaging performances make you “bump with the booming blasting blare”, you’ll be “moving your feet like you don’t care”. Upon the debut release of their Indigifunk album in 2019 this musical movement continues to amplify positive messages with uplifting energy and vibrations. This cultivated group professionally conducts themselves in their craft who are committed to the funky grooves that provide a satisfying experience.

Mariel Belanger
https://sqilxw.com/mariel-belanger/

Mariel Belanger: is a Syilx interdisciplinary performance artist and doctoral student in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. Following in her Syilx grandmothers analog footprint, using ethnographic historical recordings to map the archives for family specific Syilx song and story, she encounters, captures and creates her own understanding of these texts, sound bites and visual recordings of the important knowledge her grandmother left behind re-constructing her story-world as methodology of contemporary cultural engagement, transferring community-driven, land-based artistic knowledge and practice into a trans-media research creation project that carries a story of caring for the land and maintaining matrilineal relationships.

Rich & Beka
www.richnbekamusic.com

Grounded in poetry, rap and melody, Rich n Beka are like fire and water, masculine andfeminine elements of nature coming together in harmony. Their artistic partnership goesback six years, and bridges life and love – they’re engaged to be married and have abeautiful daughter together. Both share in the culture of the Tsilhqot’in Nation, Beka (Rebecca Solomon) from Xeni Gwet’in and Rich (Richard MacDonald) from Tletinq’ox, West of Williams Lake, BC.

Rich n Beka carry the power of story, family, and community in their music. Rising upfrom the Tsilhqot’in, their music ignites the passion and presence of healing andresilience, the light of hope that shines when cycles of oppression are overcome.Unapologetic and powerful, there’s a fierce flow of Earth’s medicine through their songstories.

Their 2020 studio debut Let the Games Begin conjures truth and bold emotion refinedby lyrical skill. Sharp and bright like the facets of a crystal, Let the Games Begin levelsthem up to spark the next generation. This record takes them into the R&BContemporary field, produced by Kontrabandz, recorded and mixed at Vancouver’sBluelight Studios with Pherbie Midgley, and mastered at Suite Sound Labs by GregMindorff.

Al Simmons
www.alsimmons.com

Al Simmons is a creative genius whose highly original performances of profound wackiness and of off-the-wall inventions take the arts of Music and Comedy to unparalleled heights of hilarity.

Al Simmons’ one-man, multi-prop, music-filled, off the wall performances have elevated audiences world-wide to collective giggles and all-out guffaws. At once childlike in its simplicity and sophisticated in its execution, Al’s humour touches a responsive chord in people of every age.

Vaudeville’s half-century run of popularity may have died back in the 1940's, but don’t try to tell that to Al Simmons or the crowds of fans that have packed theatres across North America to see him. Into the tradition of the great comedy kings--Danny Kaye, Spike Jones and Jimmy Durante--comes Al Simmons, ­ a man dedicated to the all but lost art of combining comedy with song, dance, magic, and sight-gags. The end result is plenty of good-natured fun in a one-man variety show.

In the entertainment business since 1970, the popular Manitoba-based children’s performer is likely Canada’s most versatile comedian. He puts on a funfest, full of bizarre gadgets, wild costumes, unique songs, crazy vaudeville-inspired routines and of course bad puns.

Corwin Fox
https://corwinfoxmusic.com

Corwin Fox is a Canadian songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist living on Vancouver Island. Having toured across four continents, Corwin has been spending an increasing amount of time recording and producing other artists across a wide range of genres. He still plays concerts and festivals performing his songs on banjo and guitar, and he teaches songwriting to youth each summer, but the studio has really become his focus since he founded the Corwin Fox Academy of Perpetual Excellence. Corwin is also playing with Richard Reed Parry's Quiet River of Dust.

Born in Halifax and raised in Ottawa, Corwin went to high school at Canterbury High, a school for the arts, where he studied theatre and learned to play bass, guitar and mandolin. From 2000-2002 Corwin attended Fanshawe College (London, ON) to absorb the Music Industry Arts Recording Engineering program. While there, he won the award in 2001 for best song from EMI Music Publishing Canada with a song called “Doctor God”.

Back on the west coast in 2006, Corwin was asked for the first time to produce a recording for another artist: Sarah Noni Metzner's "Daybreak Mourning" (Dog My Cat Records) with which she won Best Solo Artist at the Canadian Folk Music Awards (2007). Since then, he has produced over forty albums for other artists and worked in the studio on more than 160 albums in various capacities as well as composing music for theatre and documentary soundtracks. For his solo music, Corwin has released three full-length albums, Compassionate Relay (2002), Dream Water Rain Music (2004), mememe (2017) and six e.p.'s: Tiger (2005), He Remembers What I Forgot (2007), Cloud Seating (2009), Minutiae (2011), Man and Her Symbols (2013) and the midst (2015). Corwin's latest offering is a rootsy one called Corwin Fox & The Cumberland Brothers (2018).

Corwin continues to write, record and tour, although he is quite content that the bulk of his time is now spent in his studio or hanging out with his kids and making soup.

Tereza Tomek
www.youtube.com/user/terezatomekmusic

Tereza Tomek is a Cumberland based songwriter who draws inspiration from great stories both real and imagined. She uses colourful characters, vivid imagery, and a good dose of humour to bring unique tales to life. Tereza is also the driving force behind, and artistic director of, the Woodstove Festival, a remarkable little winter festival held annually (under normal circumstances) in the Village of Cumberland.

Raghu Lokanathan
https://youtu.be/2srQQhIHZBQ

Raghu Lokanathan is an artist whose life’s work has focused on playing and writing music. In recent years he has begun to experiment with playwriting, performance and visual art. A recent body of work he is developing is centered around found objects that range in material from paper to metal to pens. This process of collecting stemmed from Lokanathan’s concerns about waste and his interest in the life span of objects. With no particular plan for his growing collection, he began to contemplate the objects in different ways by tracing them, sketching them, arranging them in different configurations and creating performances. Lokanathan’s process of contemplating these found objects is ongoing.

When the late Stuart McLean, the iconic author and radio personality, brought his Vinyl Cafe recording crew to CN Centre on March 8, 2015 to commemorate Prince George's 100th anniversary, Lokanathan was one of the featured musical guests. In introducing Raghu to the audience McLean said: "When talk turns to songwriting in the back of the Vinyl Cafe bus, it is inevitable that his name will come up. He is one of those songwriters who musicians respect. Why? Well, for starters, he writes about stuff that not everyone writes about. And his songs say something. He tells stories with music, and often those stories are surprising ... it's about the subtle beauty that often only reveals itself when you're ready to see it."

Warren Hooley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs_MTUogkyw

Warren Hooley is from the Syilx (Okanagan) territory in Penticton, BC. He graduated from the En’owkin Centre under the National Aboriginal Professional Artist Training Program in the spring of 2011. Through workshop facilitation and hip hop performances he delivers an empowering and uplifting message that he believes people of all races and ages can enjoy and relate to. Having mixed roots of Okanagan, Irish and Ukrainian and growing up in both the western and indigenous world, Warren brings experience from both sides of his lineage to his work as a facilitator, helping people reclaim freedom of expression and creative confidence in a supportive space.

For the past 8 years, he has passionately chosen a career of facilitating groups and delivering workshops on the topics of Creative Facilitation, Healthy Masculinity and Compassionate Communication. Today, living in Vancouver BC, he works for multiple organizations as a contract facilitator providing communities, groups of youth and adults with the skills and awareness to make meaningful changes in their lives. “I use facilitation as a tool to help myself and others build the lives and communities we want to live in, beyond what we’ve been told, beyond the limits of our past. To build a future truly worth living and passing on the next generations”.

Madeline Terbasket
www.ted.com/talks/madeline_terbasket_captikwl_is_medicinewww.facebook.com/qsapitimes

Madeline Terbasket (they/them) is a two-spirit Syilx, Ho-Chunk, Anishinaabe performing artist that explores themes of cultural identity and mental health in their work. Madeline was in the Acting for Stage and Screen program at Capilano University. They discovered a passion for clowning and stand-up. They express their comedy by telling traditional Okanagan coyote stories. In 2017, Madeline was in šxʷʔam̓ət (home) with Theatre for Living, directed by David Diamond. In 2018, they toured BC and Alberta with the production. In 2019, Madeline was awarded a STORYHIVE Indigenous Storyteller Edition grant to make their film “q’sapi times”. They were also selected to be a TEDx speaker at Kelowna's TEDxYouth @ DoyleAve. In 2020, Madeline painted their first mural "Chief Skemxist" in the town of Keremeos. Madeline Terbasket is reimagining traditional stories with their physical comedy, queerness and vulnerability.

Hachey the MouthPEACE
www.facebook.com/HacheyTheMouthpeace/

https://hacheythemouthpeace.bandcamp.com

Jason Hachey, aka Hachey the MouthPEACE, is an award winning Beatboxer from Hamilton, Ontario. Every sound in his music comes from one instrument – his mouth. The vocals, percussion, bass, turntable scratches and other rhythmic sounds on his recordings and live performances are all created using his tongue, larynx, lips and a wide variety of complex breathing techniques. Hachey released his first EP titled “Outside The Box” in 2013 winning him “Special Instrumentalist Of the Year” at the Hamilton Music Awards. Since then Hachey has toured Canada 4 times. In 2013 he got national spotlight winning the Much Music Beatbox Championship. In 2015 he won his second HMA for his second EP “Out Of Line”, as well as winning the 2015 Great North Beatbox Battle Loop-station Championship and most recently winning Emerging Artist for the 2018 City Of Hamilton Arts Awards.

BabyFace Brass
https://babyfacebrass.com/

BabyFace Brass has been busking with high energy and danceable music on the streets of Vancouver for over 10 years. Babyface Brass plays a modern and exciting mix of Jazz, World Music, New Orleans second line, Hip Hop, and Funk. Defying expectations, musical genres and bylaws BabyFace Brass is Vancouver's premier street jazz and party band. With an ensemble that regularly ranges from 4 to 12 people including horns, drums, bass, and tap dancers. Babyface Brass is led by experienced working local musicians, Ashton Sweet, Mike Allen, Kenan Sungur, Dave Taylor, and Rhys Arrieta. BabyFace Brass has performed at venues such as the Vancouver PlayHouse, Headlined the ArtsWells festival, the 2011 Hockey Riot, Cafe Deux Soleil, the Imperial, and City Hall. We have appeared on CBC Newshour, Co-op Radio, and in the Vancouver Sun, yet remain Vancouver's best kept secret at the corner of Granville and Georgia!

Balkan Shmalkan
https://balkanshmalkan.ca/

Balkan Shmalkan is East Vancouver’s sweet dance party orchestra; think global music with local attitude. Their funky brass dance beats are rooted in the aural traditions of the Roma and Klezmorim of Eastern Europe and blended with a mixture of pop and jazz. Members of the group sing in 5 languages including Serbian, Romani, and Italian. The group contains six to twelve musicians playing reed, brass and percussion instruments of both eastern and western origin.

Balkan Shmalkan is the brainchild of a group of musicians with a long history of collaboration in traditional South Serbian Trubaci music. This project is a way of blending that music with other vibrant traditions and bringing it to the general population of Greater Vancouver.

Balkan Shmalkan is exceptionally versatile and mobile, playing on and off stage with nothing more than the power of their lungs and a few horns.

Kitty & The Rooster
www.kittyandtherooster.com


Kitty & The Rooster is a rock n’ roll duo from Vancouver, BC featuring Jodie Ponto on the stand-up cocktail drum kit and Noah Walker on electric guitar. They are known for their surf-tastic hooks, clever lyrics, and ridiculously fun shows. Avant-garde art meets early-60s guitar-rock in Vancouver rock ’n’ roll duo Kitty and The Rooster. It’s like painter Rene Magritte teamed up with Talking Heads to do an homage to The Ventures.

Noah is an acclaimed guitarist who has toured all over the world – from Turkey to Tokyo and Dawson City to New York City. He has been a full-time professional guitar player for more than 15 years and is well known for having been C.R. Avery's right hand man for decades. Noah plays with countless other bands, some recent notables include The Sojourners, Petunia & The Vipers, and Khari Wendall McLelland with his nationally televised CBC special/touring theatre show Freedom Singer.

Jodie is a drummer and professional photographer who creates all Kitty & The Rooster's masked photos. She spent 5 years touring with Miss Quincy & The Showdown as the band's manager and has played drums for many artists including Twin Peaks, Carolyn Mark, and Jody Peck.

Shirley Gnome
www.shirleygnome.com

Shirley Gnome is a Canadian singer and comedian from Vancouver, British Columbia. Best known as a singer of comedy songs about taboo topics such as sexuality, she received a Juno Award nomination for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2021 for her 2020 album Decoxification. She is also a four-time Canadian Comedy Award nominee for Best Variety Act, receiving nods at the 15th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2014, the 16th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2015, the 18th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2018 and the 19th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2019. In 2018, she also received a nomination for Best Comedy Album, for Taking It Up the Notch.

From the west coast of Canada comes this multi-award winning cabaret musician, whose all original music is hilarious, uncensored, honest, subversive, irreverent, witty, empowering, and taboo. Her clever lyrics go down smooth with her gorgeous vocals, and her charm will disarm you through topics both provocative and silly. With genres as wide ranging as country, folk, rock, EDM, electro pop and r&b, her versatility as a musician and songwriter lends itself to her hilarious sensibility.

Her one-woman cabaret shows have wowed audiences and critics alike, with sell out shows across Canada, the US, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. She’s appeared at JFL Northwest, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival and CBC’s The Debaters. You may have heard her on Dan Savage's podcast The Savage Lovecast and on SiriusXM. She is signed with Canada's largest independent music label (604 Records) with Comedy Here Often. Her album Taking It Up The Notch debuted at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts in Canada when it debuted in late 2017. Her latest release Decoxification also went to #1 and was nominated for a Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year. She also has a four song EP of pandemic themed erotic lovemaking tracks called Quantity Time which will hopefully not be relevant for much longer.

Jack Garton
https://jackgarton.com/

Born and raised in Vancouver, BC, now living on Galiano Island, Jack Garton has been making exciting music and theatre professionally for 15 years. Equally at home in the dense rain forest and eclectic West Coast arts scenes, he is sought after as both a collaborator and solo artist. Jack has forged a unique sound on the trumpet, playing as a sideman with many BC roots acts, including most recently Petunia and the Vipers, blending a traditional jazz style with a sense of forward-looking adventure.

With a deep commitment to cross-genre collaboration, Jack has created many successful cabaret and theatre shows that blend politics with spectacle, and poetry with ritual. Whether it’s small-scale publishing or outdoor political theatre, orchestra or film arrangements, mime, dance, or puppetry collaborations, Jack brings an honesty, curiosity, and core belief in the transformational power of beauty to everything he does. Particular theatrical highlights have been working with Public Dreams, Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret, Maria in the Shower and Mind of a Snail among many others.

Since 2013 Jack has had a busy career as a touring songwriter, releasing Move The Mess Around in 2016, called “a perfect soundtrack for this generation” by the CBC, and Love You Over Time in 2018, following both with a steady tour schedule across Western Canada and the USA. Whether performing with his touring band, The Demon Squadron, or solo, armed with an accordion, trumpet and drums, his show is dynamic, fluid, and fun. Playing a steady stream of festivals, clubs, house concerts and halls has honed the sound and performance into an impressive and unique experience.

Yael Wand
www.yaelwand.ca

Originally emerging on the Canadian folk scene in 2004, acclaimed singer-songwriter Yael Wand established herself through repeat tours in western Canada and across Ontario, garnering both national and regional media attention. From her base (at the time) in the tiny mountain hamlet of Wells, B.C., she gained a reputation as a commanding performer and “a songwriter of uncommon skill” (Ottawa Express). Audiences connect to her stories of far-off places and songs of life in the slow lane, and are lulled by “the effortless beauty of her voice” (Exclaim!).

After a long pause from both recording and the stage, Saltwater Heartwood is Yael’s fourth release, following a decade-long hiatus. The record is a deep dive into the myriad of transitions which saw Yael through motherhood and moves. Her new album is a testament to her drive, passion and incredible musicality. Staying true to her roots, Yael continues to compose songs that showcase her innate sensibility when it comes to blending the worlds of folk, jazz, and blues. Wand’s move from Wells to Salt Spring Island is evident throughout the tracks on Saltwater Heartwood – with both the interior and exterior of that transition documented. The intensely personal and heartfelt subject of the new music builds upon her musicality and draws the listener into a sonic world of honesty and understanding. “My original intent for this record was to record these songs as a bookmark of the transitions that I underwent over the past 10 years. Transitions of home and community, my role in life, my relationships, even my age,” says Wand. “There’s a reckoning between who I’ve been and who I am becoming.” That reckoning comes across throughout the album, with Wand’s masterful ability to summon the emotional punch of a song.

The Oot n' Oots
www.theootnoots.com

The Oot n’ Oots make kids music that is, to quote Jerry Garcia, “not for kids only”. Drawing on diverse influences from the history of rock n’ roll, this is a band with chops, soul, and swagger.

Their original songs are wildly imaginative, brimming with humour and inspiration. In performance they cast a spell of freedom, lightheartedness, and laughter. This is truly entertainment for the whole family, enlivening community, joy, and understanding through free-spirited musical performance.

The quintet released their second album, Electric Jellyfish Boogaloo in 2018. It was nominated for both a Canadian Folk and a Western Canada Music Award, and named on the Fids and Kamily Awards “Top 20 albums for kids and families” in 2018. Other milestones include 2017 WCMA nominations and a Okanagan Arts Award for their debut album Songs and Tales from the Great Blue Whale (2016). The family released their latest single “Thank You Universe” in June 2020, and is recording their third album.

The Oot n’ Oots incloots Ruth Cipes (voice, ukulele) — described as “…a force of nature” — her dad, Ezra (voice, guitar) and uncles, Ari (voice, guitar), Gabe (voice, bass), and Matthew (voice, drums). Ruth trades lead vocal duties with Ari and his melodic tenor.

Barefoot Caravan
www.barefootcaravan.ca

Barefoot Caravan believes in the influence that music has in the unification of the nations. Music and the arts are a gateway to knowing ourselves; a window to the soul. This is why music is so important in the world today. This is the intention the group plays with.

Based out of the North Okanagan, this dance-it-up World Fusion group blends up-beat Soca, Afro-Cuban and Reggae rhythms with melodic three part harmonies and organic under-tones. Roots music, raw and true; naturally compelling your body to move.

This project is constantly evolving, bridging community, art and people of all ages. The members offer various experiences including rhythm, dance, and song-writing workshops, onsite live recording and drum making programs. They are a group who truly share the greater goal of re-connecting us all to the world we live in together.

Adam Farnsworth
https://adamfarnsworth.ca/

Adam Farnsworth began singing in Vancouver Bach Choir, took piano lessons as a kid, got guitar lessons as a teen, started songwriting at sixteen and, as an adult, has led and joined a network of many fabulous and ever-evolving bands including: C.R. Avery, Joey Only Outlaw Band, Jack Garton, Jeff Andrew, Kara Kata Afrobeat, Michael Friedman, Les Nobbs and Carl Craig to name a few.

Farnsworth’s fearless live performance style raises neckhairs; from handcuff escapes to sing-alongs, from silly soliloquys to burning piano solos. Farnsworth toured with East Van. punkrock motown outfit, High Society for nine years; a group which features Kenan Sungur on drums, Ashton Sweet on baritone sax, Dave Taylor on bass and Chelsea D.E. Johnson on vocals and guitar. Farnsworth’s five solo albums are great additions to any independent music collection, which include the nineteen-track giant, Sandbox Mixtape Vol. 1. Farnsworth’s absorbing style of storytelling, vast vocal range and raucous ragtime playing are sure to suspend listeners’ disbelief for years to come.

Jeff Andrew
www.jeffandrew.ca/

Jeff Andrew’s songs create a world of their own. It’s a place where gritty, character-driven travelogues and twisted love stories live alongside weird visions of ghosts and monsters in a post-apocalyptic future. The landscape is an electrified patchwork of outsider folk and post-punk, with echoes of baroque violin, old-time Americana and 80s horror movie soundtracks. Over the past decade, this BC-based artist has released 3 albums on Shade Tree Records, to airplay and critical acclaim across North America and western Europe. Jeff has been a featured performer at over a dozen festivals and has toured Canada multiple times, playing hundreds of shows between Vancouver Island, St. John’s, NFLD and Dawson City, YT.

Jeff’s live show moves between solo acoustic performances, raw, gutsy fiddle playing and loud, effects-driven electric guitar, all spun together with his folksinger’s baritone voice. The result, whether solo or with a band, is a thrilling journey of narrative songs with the energy of a punk rock show. He’s currently working with Vancouver musicians Adam Farnsworth, Shannon Marie and Devon Venoit to explore a new, harder-edged sound, inspired by acts like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and The Cure, as well as genre-crossing songwriters like Neko Case, Tom Waits and Nick Cave.

Watch for a new, full-band album that mixes keyboard synths, orchestral instruments and heavy percussion with his classic songwriting.

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AND SO MUCH MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED!
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All adult tickets include a $15 festival voucher with which you use to towards purchasing artist and festival merchandise and at selected businesses in Penticton over the course of the festival. All festival pass holders will also receive a reduced admission for any events leading up to the ticketed portion of the festival.

Please note: The Ignite the Arts Festival will be following COVID Protocol as outlined by our Provincial Government. As of today, February 15th, any adult attending the Festival will be required to show proof of vaccination.

The Government has no policy in place yet for Children under 12 but we will be checking back with them on a regular basis and will follow up with new information here.

For further information, please visit

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/info/restrictions#outdoor-organized

Due to the limited capacity in our venues, children 12 and under must have a ticket in advance of the festival to be admitted. You can get this ticket on our ticket page.

Due to capacity limits in our venues only a limited quantity of tickets are available this year. Don’t be disappointed in missing out and take advantage of our early bird ticket price and help support our festival this year.

Early Bird Tickets ~ available until February 28, 2022
$75 adults + (tax and service fees)
$20 Youth (13 – 18) + (tax and service fees)
Children under 12 Free (Tickets must be ordered in advance)

Regular Tickets ~ February 28 – March 24, 2022
$100 Adults + (tax and service fees)
$25 Youth (13 – 18) + (tax and service fees)
Children under 12 Free (Tickets must be ordered in advance)

Last Chance Festival Tickets March 25 – April 1, 2022
(subject to availability)
$125 Adults + (tax and service fees)
$25 Youth (13 – 18) + (tax and service fees)
Children under 12 Free (Tickets must be ordered in advance)