The Vancouver International Children's Festival is an annual event that is a major tourist attraction in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2008, the Festival ran May 12–19 at Vancouver's Vanier Park. Featured performers included: Halmang, Myth of Jeju Island; Les Parfaits Inconnus; Big Nazo Intergalactic Creature Show; Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience; Connie Kaldor; Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir; Sam's Rot'n Pot'n Pan Band; Henry V (Theatre Gruene Sosse); Hansel and Gretel (Matthias Kutchta); The Little Old Man (Theatre Bagger); Kling Klang (Det Lille Turneater); Staccato (Theatre de L'Aubergine); James Campbell; Red Thunder: The Next Generation, and author Kenneth Oppel. The 2009 event will be held May 11–18, 2009.
In 2011, the Vancouver International Children's Festival moved from Vanier Park to Granville Island. It returns to Granville Island May 29 - June 3, 2012 for the Festival's 35th season.
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