CeltFest Students may pre-order tickets on their registration form and receive a deep discount! Buy reduced rate concert tickets
Plan to relax, perform, jam, socialize or chill out each evening on campus! Performances and social gatherings happen Monday to Thursday evenings during CeltFest. All evening events are open to the public to enjoy and participate in!
CeltFest Concerts
The instructional Faculty perform, alongside selected other artists--in the professional concerts listed below. Each show has a different theme, and a different combination of artists and numbers. Details of each show will be posted soon on the event listings, also appearing on the events calendar for July.
Note: CeltFest participants receive reduced rates on concert tickets when purchased before June 25, 2011, as part of your registration form.
CeltFest Student Concerts & Ceilidhs
There are student performance opportunities each night, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights---- with the "goodbye" party following the Gala Concert on Thursday.
Tuesday night features the student talent show, the one, the only~
- Wacky Jig & Hornpipe Contest Be a part of it! Non-serious competition, but serious fun! The only criteria for entry is to perform (dance, play, sing) a jig and/or hornpipe as part of your number! Use your imagination--the rest is up to you! Bring your family and friends. It's a family pub night, which features a called Ceilidh Dance and live instructor ceilidh-band entertainment!
Each night the VIU Cafeteria is transformed into a Ceilidh place called the CeltFestival Club for an informal social gathering. After the student concert performances, there is a ceilidh (Gaelic for "gathering" each evening, allowing an informal open stage and a chance to do some ceilidh dancing! We provide sound, lights, a technician, a dance floor - it's a ceilidh! Each night the informal ceilidh "stage" is open to all musicians and dancers (individuals and groups), as well as the general public at a nominal cost at the door. Refreshments available!
CeltFest Ceilidhs are free to CeltFest students with name badges and ticket holders to the evening's earlier concert.
VIU Cafeteria: Doors open at 7pm on Monday, Tuesday; 9pm on Wednesday and Thursday.
Map to the Concert Ceilidhs & CeltFestival Club
Outside of CeltFest
Looking for leisure activities on/off campus? Have a tennis or beach volleyball game (courts next to residence), go swimming in the Nanaimo Aquatic Centre (steps away from campus), or go ocean kayaking (minutes away by car), or shopping or golfing, or... the choices are many! Tourism Nanaimo information will be available at the CeltFest office on campus during the school
Did you know that we present fantastic Celtic cultural and family events all year? Why wait for CeltFest to celebrate? Check out Year Round Concerts and Events.
