Burnaby Blooms
Burnaby’s favourite springtime celebrations returns in 2025 as the City welcomes Burnaby Blooms. Join us on Sunday, May 4 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Deer Lake Park.
Enjoy entertainment, roving performers, eco-artist meet and greets, family activities, free talks and tours, plant sales, community groups, food trucks and more!
Burnaby Blooms promotes the long-term sustainability and the ecological health of our community in a fun and creative environment. Mark your calendars and plan to join us for hours of fun at the City's favourite spring festival.
Free admission and entertainment. The event is designed to happen rain or shine.
Reminder: due to construction, parking at Shadbolt Centre’s upper and underground lots will be unavailable. Parking is available at City Hall and Deer Lake Centre public pay parking lots; parking in the vicinity is limited. For SPARC permit holders, a designated area has been provided at the Shadbolt surface parking lot. There is also a drop-off zone located across from the Burnaby Village Museum carousel entrance on Deer Lake Ave.
Alternate transportation is recommended. Onsite bike valet is available near the Shadbolt Centre surface lot. Please refer to our public parking map for more information.
Schedule
| Artist | Art Work |
|---|---|
| Alex Stewart | Great Blue Heron The temporary installation will be a visually striking, interactive focal point, highlighting Burnaby’s natural environment and the beauty of chosen species through detailed, hand-painted designs, offering unique photo opportunities. |
| Lexi Richards | The Challenge of the Chafer Beetle and Flower Wall A giant European chafer beetle and grub sculpture, made from natural materials, sits beside a colourful wildflower meadow, aiming to create a larger-than-life 'pest' and explore outdoor space alternatives. |
| Caius Chew | Guardian Guardian will highlight Burnaby's diverse cultural landscape, focusing on its 33% Chinese population. Guardian lions symbolize protection and harmony, with spiritual significance in Chinese Buddhism, believed to ward off harmful influences. |
| Garrett Andrew Chong | Eroded Origins The Eroded Origins project, a climate art initiative, raises awareness of climate change and ecosystem interconnectedness through three parts: The Flow, The Cut, and The Blessing, urging viewers to reconsider humanity's role. |
| Kevin Orlosky | P. Microspora P. Microspora is a community installation that highlights the plastic biodegrading potential of mushrooms and questions our relationship with plastic, urging reflection on whether we can solve this environmental crisis. |
| Melanie Lazelle | Urban Bloom/Submerged Urban Bloom showcases colourful, giant flowers representing BC flora species, sharing their stories. Submerged features inflatable sea creatures, highlighting ocean biodiversity with a sea strawberry, ancient glass sponge, and giant green anemone. |
| Nickie Lewis | Scheming Creatures Scheming Creatures evokes childhood's magical connection to nature with fantastical yet familiar creatures. Nickie's creations blend the strange and recognizable, inviting deeper viewer engagement. |
| Rachel Lytzki | Garden Tea Party Garden Tea Party, crafted from reclaimed paper and cardboard, challenges viewers to reconsider everyday materials. Each item has served its original purpose and now lives a second life as art before recycling. |
| Stevan Oostenbrug | Dowsing for Light Dowsing for Light is a participatory workshop and performance featuring a light-activated "print curtain" made of eco-printed paper. Unlike light therapy lamps, it uses shifting daylight to create a glowing effect. |
| Still Moon Arts Society | Beavers Beavering Beavers Beavering explores beavers' world through site-specific performances at Burnaby Blooms, featuring three beavers collecting branches, chewing, preening, feeding and building dams and lodges. |
| Sylvie Roussel-Janssens | The Essential The Essential, inspired by The Little Prince, is a trio of Westcoast-flavored sculptures interpreting the quote "The essential is invisible to the eyes," emphasizing caring for each other and our planet. |
| Tarcila de Figueiredo Neves | ARtopus: Sounds of the Sea Tarcila Neves creates engaging art experiences connecting technology and nature. She adds interactive elements to eco sculptures using sensor-based audio and augmented reality, enhancing tactile, auditory and visual connections to the environment. |
| Time | Talks/Tours | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 11 am-12:30 pm | The Birds of Deer Lake | Join a 3.5 km morning walk at Deer Lake park to observe migrating, nesting and singing birds. All ages welcome. Bring binoculars. Terrain: pavement, gravel paths, boardwalk. |
| 11:30 am-1 pm | Blossoms, Bugs and Birds | Join a family-friendly 3.5 km spring stroll at Deer Lake trails to spot birds, bugs and wildflowers. Ages 9+. Borrow or bring binoculars. Terrain: pavement, gravel paths, boardwalk. |
| 1-2:30 pm | The Birds of Deer Lake | Join a 3.5 km morning walk at Deer Lake park to observe migrating, nesting and singing birds. All ages welcome. Bring binoculars. Terrain: pavement, gravel paths, boardwalk. |
All activities take place from 11 am-4 pm.
| Activity | Location |
|---|---|
| EartHand Gleaners Society | East Plaza |
| ACE Burnaby | East Plaza |
| Help Plant a Flower Wall | South Plaza |
| Free Children's Face Painting | South Plaza |
| Drop in Drawing in the Garden (weather permitting) |
Century Gardens |
| Flamboyant Flowers & Figure Drawing | Inside Shadbolt |
| Create a Tiny Terrarium | South Lawn |
| Tatakazomi: Floral Printed Fabric | South Lawn |
| Plant a Spring Flower to take home! | South Lawn |
| Colour Diffusing Paper Activity | South Lawn |
| Nature Scavenger Hunt | South Lawn |
| Create a Floral Mask/Paint a Garden Stake | South Lawn |
| BAG on a Bike | Burnaby Art Gallery |
| Time | Entertainment | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 11-11:30 am | Zornitza Dance Ensemble | South Plaza |
| 11:45 am-12:15 pm | Learn About Bees with Beekeeper Cassie | South Plaza |
| 1-1:45 pm | Ventriloquist Kellie Haines | South Plaza |
| 2:15-3 pm | Maple Melodies - Canadian Classics for the Whole Family! | South Plaza |
| 3:15-4 pm | Folk & Fairy Tales with Storyteller Russell Hirsch | South Plaza |
| 11:45 am-12:30 pm, 1-1:45 pm, 2:15-3 pm | Stilters | Roving |
| 1-1:30 pm, 2-2:30 pm, 3-3:30 pm | Circus Fungus Rovers | Roving |
| Time | Entertainment | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 11-11:45 am | Ranj Singh | East Plaza |
| noon-12:45 pm | Dani Black | East Plaza |
| 12:15-1:15 pm | Patrick Kao | Century Gardens |
| 1-1:45 pm | Sara Magal | East Plaza |
| 1:30-2:30 | Prairie Wolf & Chika Buston | Century Gardens |
| 2-2:45 pm | Teresa Marie | East Plaza |
| 2:45-3:45 pm | Matt Hermano | Century Gardens |
| 3-3:15 pm | Zach Saunders |
East Plaza |
