News from the festival.
Announcements, gala wrap-ups, BC Provincial results, and updates from the board.
Your first festival: a guide for performers and families
Is this your family's first time at the Vernon Performing Arts Festival? Welcome. This guide walks through what happens before, during, and after a festival performance.
Read more →How scholarships work at the Vernon Performing Arts Festival
In 2026, the Vernon Performing Arts Festival gave $4,000 in scholarships to 30 performers across Music and Dance. This article explains who chooses the winners, how performers qualify, and where the money comes from.
Read more →Competitive or non-competitive: how to choose your festival entry
When you register for the Vernon Performing Arts Festival, you choose how each entry is judged. It can be competitive or non-competitive. You make the choice on the registration form.
Read more →How Vernon performers reach the BC Provincial Festival
The Vernon Performing Arts Festival is an official member festival of Performing Arts BC. That means our festival can recommend performers to the BC Provincial Festival. This article explains how that works.
Read more →Registration for the 2027 festival opens November 15
Registration for the 2027 Vernon Performing Arts Festival opens online on November 15, 2026. It closes on January 15, 2027.
Read more →Sheet music and copyright rules for festival performers
Every festival performer in Music and in Speech and Drama gives the adjudicator a copy of their piece. That copy has to be a legal one.
Read more →What to know before entering Speech and Drama in 2027
Speech and Drama at the Vernon Performing Arts Festival is about the spoken word. Performers recite poetry, tell stories from books, and play characters from published plays. The 2027 Speech and Drama classes run in Marc...
Read more →What to know before entering the 2027 Dance festival
Dance at the 2027 Vernon Performing Arts Festival runs February 28 and March 3 to 6. Every dance class takes place at the Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre. Here is what dancers, parents, and teachers need to kn...
Read more →What to know before entering the 2027 Music festival
Music at the 2027 Vernon Performing Arts Festival runs March 1 to 9. It covers piano, strings, classical guitar, voice, and choral classes. Here is what performers, parents, and teachers need to know before they enter.
Read more →Where your donation goes at the Vernon Performing Arts Festival
Donors deserve to know where their money goes. This article walks through the Vernon Performing Arts Festival's 2025 to 2026 budget, line by line.
Read more →VPAF is now a member festival of Performing Arts BC
Our festival's goal has always been to provide the best opportunities for the Vernon community. We have proved to the provincial board that our festival is a success, and they have welcomed us as a member festival.
Read more →Our first movie night fundraiser was a success
Thank you everyone for a great evening of popcorn, movies, music, and community. The theater walls were filled with music and tap dance in the lobby as we took popcorn and pizza. Before Hotel Transylvania started, more m...
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