Join us at the Inner Harbour for the festival of the summer! The Function is the newest festival in downtown Victoria and it is making its debut in a big way! Features one main stage, BIPOC vendor village, food trucks, live art, barbershop & kids zone!

Featuring emerging Canadian BIPOC talents and International stars, The Function is set to be a unique and diverse experience for this city whether you've heard the names or not come out to support and discover your new favourite artists and best of all make some new friends!

Featuring:

• Kaash Paige

• Boslen

• 11:11

• Prado Monroe

• Turunesh

• Micky

• DJ Blac Asphalt

and a special performance by 

• Notorious Cree

Community-building and solidarity are almost exclusively discussed as a response to collective trauma - while this response is important in those moments of hardship, communities must also come together for reasons outside of this week's news cycle. Building solidarity requires supporting each other at our protests, vigils, and jail supports. Building solidarity also requires sharing our towering triumphs as much as our simplest pleasures. Building solidarity requires cultural exchange from a point of mutual respect and that's what The Function is for!

We work and live on the unceded and occupied territories of the Lekwungen, WSÁNEĆ and Coast Salish people; these people remain here as the original and rightful stewards of this land. There are messages in the landscape here; oral histories, surviving traditional place names, and in the soil itself are ancient teachings and stories to be told. In our work and lives, we are committed to upholding and honouring the original peoples of these lands and their sovereignty.