About the Memory Festival

The Vancouver Memory Festival is an ongoing inquiry into public and private memory. The idea of a festival with no fixed time or place evolved from a discussion of History and Memory at the Geist Foundation — in particular the apparent absence of both history and memory from much of the culture discourse of the “New World.” When we discovered that Cambridge University has been holding an annual “History Festival” for some years (only to be postponed in 2007 for lack of funds), we wondered if a preliminary to an eventual History Festival in North America might take the form of an improvised exploration of memory and the artifacts of memory.

Hence the Memory Festival, which is scheduled to take place in many places and at many times throughout 2008.

The Festival is sponsored by the Vancouver Memory Collective, a non-profit society incorporated in British Columbia in 2007.

Festival activities include public readings, talks, performances, exhibitions, workshops, walking tours and other events, in a range of venues.

Proposals for Memory Festival Events are encouraged.

Sponsoring organizations include:

Directors of the Vancouver Memory Collective:

Patty Osborne
Clare Coughlan
Katherine McManus
DanielFrancis
Michael Hayward

The Vancouver Memory Festival
341 Water Street, #200
Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6B 1B8

Phone: (604) 681-9161
Fax: (604) 669-8250
Email: info@memoryfestival.org