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Canada West
Performing
Arts Festival
For more information about the Canada West Performing Arts Festival, please visit www.canadawestfestival.ca
The 5th Annual Canada West Performing Arts Festival will be held in Edmonton, Alberta
Dates: July 24 - 25, 2026
The CWPAF is rotation with Saskatchewan hosting the CWPAF event in 2025, Alberta hosting in 2026, and British Columbia hosting in 2027.
The CWPAF features the top amateur music and speech arts competitors from each partnering province’s provincial performing arts festival. Competitors compete in three different age categories in a variety of solo disciplines as well as Chamber and Choral.
To learn more about the CWPAF, please contact the provincial administrator of the festival association in your participating province. If you would like to volunteer or sponsor a scholarship at the CWPAF, please contact the provincial administrator of your participating province or the hosting province.
Canada West Performing
Arts Festival (CWPAF)
Documents (click to access):
2026 Rules and Syllabus
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CWPAF 2026 Donors/Sponsors:
Each partnering province is required to fund a certain amount in CWPAF scholarships. AMFA would like to thank the following Alberta donors for their generous support of 2026 CWPAF scholarship awards:
Norma Jean Atkinson
Coronation Music Festival
Wendy and Rudy Durieux
NRS Foundation through the Victoria Foundation
Serendipity Choral Foundation
The Vera and Ranald Shean Foundation
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