Over nine years, the Burnaby Festival of Learning has brought the community together to learn from each other and enrich each other’s lives. Every year, one thing becomes clearer and clearer: community learning is powerful.

Where folks in our community come forward to share their knowledge, voices, traditions, and truths, honouring the land we’re on as our “classroom”, honouring the places we’re from for the wisdom they’ve given us.

2024’s Connect Fest invites you into an exploration of story, where we share our wisdom, voices, traditions, and truths, acknowledging the land and places that shape our experiences. Burnaby is a place saturated with stories. Stories of so many people—newcomers, immigrants, students, refugees, First Peoples, settlers—finding, stewarding, or defending their place in this evolving, vital, and dynamic city. Join us as we explore stories of place at this year’s Connect Fest, April 26-30th, 2024! We have so much to learn from each otherly.