Name: Unwritten Weekend Festival
Start: 2026-03-27T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-03-29T23:30:00-07:00
Location: Vancouver - Unceeded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Territory

Barking Sphinx and friends are happy to announce the second edition of our festival celebrating music, art, and community, Unwritten Weekend 2.
Join us from March 27 to 29 for three days of concerts, workshops, and art across four venues in Vancouver: Alliance Française Vancouver, The Hargrove, 8EAST, and Red Gate.
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Full lineup:

MARCH 28 & 29
The Hargrove - art by XEL, Gordy Li, Joy Mullen, Sarah Nash Wong, Travis Kirton

FRIDAY, MARCH 27
7pm, Alliance Française Vancouver
Myriam Gendron / Francis Baptiste
9pm, 8EAST
Farida Amadou meets 8EAST
Co-presented with NOW Society

SATURDAY, MARCH 28
11am, Alliance Française Vancouver
Myriam Gendron: Atelier
4pm, The Hargrove (free)
Art + Dandelion Records DJ Set
5pm, The Hargove
Amanda Sum / Willie Thrasher and Linda Saddleback
8 pm, Red Gate
Farida Amadou / Radwan Ghazi Moumneh / EarthBall

SUNDAY, MARCH 29
11am, The Hargrove
Listening Session with Radwan Ghazi Moumneh: Music from the SWANA region
Co-presented with MENA Film Festival
1:30pm, Red Gate
Improvised Music Workshop with Farida Amadou [FINTA* encouraged]
4pm, The Hargrove (free)
Art & Sammy K DJ Set
5pm, The Hargrove
Bahar Khazei & XEL / Mauricio Pauly
8pm, Hargrove, LOST DOG SUNDAY
LETTR OPENR
Erin Leigh (comedy)
Cat Toren, Mustafa Rafiq, Tommy Babin, Dan Gaucher
Night shows on sale now, day shows on sale soon.

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We’re happy to welcome 3 featured artists: Farida Amadou (Brussels), Myriam Gendron (Montreal), and Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Montreal). Their presence is approached as an interactive exchange with Vancouver, as they meet with local audiences and artists.
All three are also francophone, though this language is a different lived reality for each of them, and has a different place in their creative music: from Myriam Gendron’s re-imagining and transformation of traditional French songs, to Farida Amadou’s improvised and noise music, and to Radwan Ghazi Moumneh’s melding of buzuk (Lebanese lute) and Arabic modal singing with effects, electronics and synths.
Come celebrate the creativity our region hosts. Singer-songwriters, noise musicians, improvisers, visual artists, and audiences meet to share connections in friendly spaces.
The festival will highlight our local scene through new creations and collaborations, meetings across generations, and multidisciplinary performances. Please take some time to explore the wonderful list of artists who have accepted our invitation.
Unwritten Weekend wouldn’t exist without the generosity and steady commitment of our community partners to the arts scene: NOW Society, Alliance Française Vancouver, Red Gate, The Hargrove, Coastal Jazz, Dandelion Records, MENA Film Festival, Vancouver New Music, le Centre Culturel Francophone de Vancouver, and act art mgt.
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We acknowledge that our work takes place in Vancouver on traditional and unceded Indigenous land belonging to the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish),Stó:lō and səlil̓wətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We are grateful for this place.