📍 Dunsmuir Patio at Bentall Centre
🗓 Saturday, April 4, 2026 [2-9PM]
⏰ Daytime Block Party
🎟 $5 Suggested Donation to VCBF
👨👩👧 All Ages Welcome
♿ Partial Accessibility (see below)
Public Disco and the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival return to Downtown with a one-day spring block party.
This year expands beyond the Dunsmuir Patio with a full street closure, doubling capacity and creating more room to gather, move, and welcome the season together, just steps from the blossoms at Burrard SkyTrain Station.
MUSIC ARTISTS:
Sakiko Nagai
TORONTO, ON
KOZUE
VANCOUVER, BC
Niña Mendoza
VANCOUVER, BC
Beiti
VANCOUVER, BC
MUSIC Curation:
WAX & FLOWER, a vinyl-only, all-femme lineup curated by Kozue.
Inspired by spring’s impermanence, the music unfolds naturally like petals opening on the dance floor. Deep and eclectic selections move through house, deep house, disco, soul, boogie, slow jams, and beyond. All guided by hands on wax.
Kozue is a Canadian based DJ who was born and raised in Japan. Her DJ style specializing in house, deep house, techno, and disco brings a positive and memorable experience to her audience through an expansive journey that touches across her unique selections of organic, electronic and eclectic sounds.
THE VENUE
A sunken downtown plaza tucked beneath the towers of Bentall Centre, layered terraces, wood seating, gardens, and mood lights transforming the city core into an open-air dance floor, with Dunsmuir Street between Burrard and Melville closed to traffic for the day to double the 2025 site footprint.
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✿ Play Zone & Kids’ Activities
✿ Live Interactive Mural by Becky Hill
✿ Blossom Market inside FUNK Coffee Bar
✿ Food Trucks & Sweet Treats
✿ Fully Licensed Bar
✿ No Stress Chess Activation
✿ Roaming Dance Performances
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Site Layout
This event spans multiple levels.
Accessible Areas
Wheelchair access is available on the upper levels, including:
Viewing areas
Shade/shelter
Bar
Accessible washroom
Food vendors
No ramp access to the lower dance floor or lower bar.
Seating
Lounge chairs, bistro tables, benches, and concrete blocks.
Washrooms
Inside Bentall Centre and at FUNK Coffee Bar (wheelchair accessible).
Lower-Stimulation Area
Designated quieter spaces available.
For additional support: nick@publicdisco.ca
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Public Disco is committed to creating a safer, inclusive dance floor for everyone.
Respect personal space. Look out for one another.
Harassment, discrimination, or violence will not be tolerated.
Harm reduction team on site.
Read full Code of Conduct → publicdisco.ca/code-of-conduct
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Public Disco reclaims public space for dance music, creating inclusive environments where people gather and connect. Rooted in the underground culture that shaped house and disco, we bring artist-led dance floors into the open, accessible, community-driven, and grounded in place.
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Experience Vancouver in bloom. From March 26 to April 28, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates spring across the city. Blossom Block Party brings music and movement into the downtown core as part of its expanding cultural program.
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Public Disco Society acknowledges that our events take place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. We honour the Indigenous peoples who have stewarded these lands for generations and continue to do so today. We recognize that the public spaces where we gather are situated on stolen land, and we commit to operating with care, respect, and responsibility.
THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS
SIGNATURE PARTNERS
PUBLIC PARTNERS
SUPPORTING PARTNERS
