Vancouver Fringe Festival, Granville Island, Vancouver BC

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Vancouver Fringe Festival

Eighty-plus unfiltered indie shows across Granville Island, most of them an hour or less, so you can see two in a night and argue about them over a waterfront drink.

Granville Island

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The date

Every September the Vancouver Fringe takes over Granville Island's theatres, back rooms, and pop-up stages with uncurated, unjuried performance: comedy, one-person plays, dance, the genuinely strange. Shows run about sixty minutes and cost little, so the whole date is picking two wildly different things and comparing notes between them. The 2026 festival runs September 10 to 20. Buy a membership button once, then individual tickets per show.

Dates & times

September 2026

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Friday, September 18 · today

3pm - 11pm

Shows across Granville Island venues; individual showtimes at vancouverfringe.com

Times unconfirmed for this year. Verify before you go.

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Duration
About 2 hours
Best time
Evening to late night
Per person
$
setting
Indoor / Outdoor
neighbourhood
Granville Island
best season
Summer, Fall

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