The 2023 Provincial Festival of PERFORMING ARTS BC will be held in Penticton, May 28 - June 1 The Association is grateful to our many individual and corporate donors for their sponsorship.
Performing Arts B.C. Festivals Society (Performing Arts BC) is an organization of thirty-four local Member-Festivals located throughout the Province of British Columbia. This Syllabus outlines the rules, regulations and requirements for performers who are recommended by adjudicators at the Local level to proceed to the Provincial level of competition.
The 2022 - 2023 PABC Syllabus is available through the link below. There are a large number of changes this year so please read the syllabus carefully. Major changes include a virtual competition for Group Dance, a Duet class and a Public Speaking and Storytelling class. There is now a Provincial level competition for dance and speech arts as well as music. The ages for Intermediate, Senior and Provincial Excellence Vocal classes have all been lowered. Acrobatic dance may now be included in the stage dance category. And finally, a new system for calculating double and in some cases triple entries allowed from local festivals, is now in effect as the automatic double entries from single discipline festivals has been done away with.