EmberFest
About The Event
Formerly known as the Snow King’s Masque Parade, our festival has evolved into EmberFest—a celebration of creativity, community, and connection. Join us on February 21st, 2026 as we gather around the bonfire to share stories, skits, and artistic creations that reflect the spirit of our community.
This is grassroots, volunteer Lead, event showcases a wide range of hands-on artistic activities and attracting the widest possible audience – the whole community! Over a period of weeks, professional and community-based artists work in collaboration with folks in the community – both young and old and everyone in between – to create a large-scale outdoor ‘pageant’ performed with more than 1000 folks in Golden’s Spirit Square. Together, we make low tech magic.
The theme this year is Positive Futurisms: Portals of Possibility. The uncertainty of the future can be daunting and incomprehensible, but when we choose to embrace our imagination, reshape the impossible into the possible, and curate a future that we want to see and live in, those feelings of fear and powerlessness begin to melt away. The power of the imagination is within all of us, waiting to be tapped into and cultivated. It encourages us to challenge our ways of thinking and making, to move beyond the ordinary. This years festival will move us through portals into what’s possible.
Get Involved!
Behind the scenes of EmberFest is a magical world of community and creativity, folks from all walks of life coming together to dream, plan, and execute. Getting involved is easy, and staying involved is the best part!
Join FlickerFolk, the creative committee that dreams up the festival and makes it happen. From costume making, performance, logistics, and promotion this group is the creative force behind EmberFest’s magical pageant every year.
Volunteer at one of the many workshops leading up the the event. For weeks, artists work within the community to create props and costumes and experiences for the community. Take a look at the workshop line up here and reach out to us if you’re interested in helping out.
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Kicking Horse Culture presents about four dozen cultural events and activities throughout the year in Golden, B.C., the traditional unceded territory of the Ktunaxa and Secwépemc Nations which is also home to Métis Nation Columbia River.