Victoria’s first Winter Arts Festival, which brought lights, music and interactive art mixed with technology to downtown Feb. 16-19, was ‘beyond expectations’ organizers said.
“The feedback that we got was that this kind of festival was needed in Victoria, and everybody said, ‘Come back next year!’ So we’re blown away,” said Miriam Esquitin, executive director of VMF, the non-profit organization that produces the Winter Arts Festival and the Vancouver Mural Festival.
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