The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival is going to tour Japan in Spring 2010 and you’re invited! Join us for a trip of a lifetime at the end of March to view Japan’s stunning cherries and other spring flowers, as well as the ancient and modern culture through the beauty of cherry trees. Please click on the brochure below for information and if you are interested we are happy to send you more details. Space is limited so please forward your expression of interest by February 26th, 2010.

Haiku Invitational 2010 – new spring deadline

The haiku is at the heart of our festival. Each year, we invite poets all over the globe to submit haiku poetry. Last year, we received 1,400 submissions from 29 countries, including Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Malta, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Russia, Trinidad & Tobago, the United States and the UK.

The deadline for the next round of haiku submissions will be May 31, 2010. While the cherry blossoms bloom from March through May, you are invited to write your haiku with fresh inspiration. The poems will be judged during the summer and winners announced in the fall 2010. Winning poems will then be featured during the 2011 festival. So start planning now to submit your cherry blossom haiku this coming spring.

More details will be posted over the next few months.
 

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 2010

We are thrilled that Vancouver is hosting the Winter Olympics in 2010, and look forward to celebrating the games. Whilst we won’t be running our full program in 2010, there will be opportunity to get involved in activities including our upcoming Birthday Blossoms. You will be able to reserve and plant your very own Birthday Blossoms cherry tree on your private property to commemorate Vancouver’s 125 anniversary in 2011.  We will be posting further details over the next couple of months, with the aim of increasing the cherry tree count for Metro Vancouver by 3,000! 

We are grateful to the David and Dorothy Lam Foundation for their support of Birthday Blossoms, which will further enhance the blossoming beauty that is Vancouver.

The full Festival program will return in 2011. If you would like to get involved in the excitement of 2011 now; please contact us at info@vcbf.ca. 
 
Cherry Scout Training

VCBF Cherry Scouts will be reporting on the festival favourite viewing locations in 2010. If you'd like learn to be a scout, attend the training session on March 2. Read more ...

 
2009 BC Blossom Watch Winning Photos

  
                     Stefan Loose                                                    Thomas Hentrich