Downtown St. John's

CCNL Clay Studio Grand Reopening!
2026-07-28 13:00 - 19:00 (America/St_Johns) | Craft Council Clay Studio, 50 Harbour Drive, St. Johns, Newfoundland, A1C 1A5, Canada
Join the CCNL Clay Studio as we celebrate the implementation of our Membership Program with fun activities, live demos, door-prizes, refreshments, and much more! Drop-ins are free for the day so bring your friends and family to join in on the fun!
The CCNL Clay Studio is transitioning to a Membership Program to better support our users, give you more access to the studio, new materials and tools available to purchase, better support systems, and more benefits to come! The Membership program was designed with all of you, our wonderful users in mind, and we hope you can join us in celebrating the launch of this program. There will be refreshments and snacks available, demonstrations, fun hands-on activities, door prizes, a Seconds Sale, and more!

41st Annual George Street Festival
2026-07-30 18:00 - 2026-08-05 23:30 | George Street, George Street, St. John's, NL, A1C5K8, Canada
THE 41ST
ANNUAL GEORGE
STREET FESTIVAL.

Thursday, July 30 – Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Located in the center of historic downtown St. John’s, George Street is one of the premier entertainment districts in North America.

Annual Downtown St. John's Busker Festival
2026-07-31 12:00 - 2026-08-02 21:00 | Downtown Pedestrian Mall, Water Street, St. John's, Canada
July 31 to August 2, 2026!
The Annual Downtown St. John’s Busker Festival is all about bringing performance entertainment to the streets! From July 31 to August 2, 2026, our streets will be alive with national, international, and local talent—including jugglers, magicians, acrobats, comedians, visual artists, and more.
The festival is FREE and runs 12 pm – 9 pm daily. Plus, it’s open to all ages, and we’ll have face painting, balloon twisters, and living art statues for everyone to enjoy.
For more details on the 2026 Busker Festival lineup visit: https://downtownstjohns.com/signature-events/busker-festival/

Reel Downtown - Downtown St. John's FREE Outdoor Movies Every Monday Night in July - Now Extended to Aug 3!
2026-08-03 21:00 - 2026-08-31 23:30 | Downtown Pedestrian Mall, Water Street, St. John's, Canada
Join us downtown and watch the stars under the stars at the Reel Downtown FREE Outdoor Movie series held every Monday night in July (weather permitting). Stay tuned for more details!
July 13 – Skeet
July 20 – Michael Jackson
July 27 – Austin Powers Goldmember Sponsored by MINI St. John’s – POSTPONED TO AUG 3!

Hold Fast 2026
2026-08-12 08:00 - 2026-08-15 17:00 | Eastern Edge Artist-Run Centre, 72 Harbour Drive, St John's, NL, A1C 1B1, Canada
HOLD FAST Festival is a celebration of contemporary performance, interdisciplinary art, and community engagement in St. John’s, Ktaqmkuk/NL.
This year’s festival takes place August 12-15, 2026.
Our core values are:

Facilitating community engagement and meaningful exchange
Increasing public arts literacy
Creating opportunities for artists
Critiquing and subverting structural oppressions & systems of power, with emphasis on:

queer, feminist, and anti-racist perspectives
Newfoundland & Labrador regional identity
and Indigenous resistance to colonialism

HOLD FAST culminates in a Saturday afternoon Art Crawl, a series of performances, installations, and interactive pop-ups staged outdoors and in non-gallery venues across downtown St. John’s. Past programming has included performances, interactive installations, artist talks, workshops, dance, drag, burlesque, film screenings, and free community events for people of all ages.

HOLD FAST respectfully acknowledges that the land we are occupying is the unceded and ancestral homelands of the Beothuk and that Ktaqmkuk, known as the island of Newfoundland, is home to the Mi’kmaq peoples. We would also like to recognize the Inuit of Nunatsiavut and NunatuKavut, and the Innu of Nitassinan as the original peoples of Labrador. We strive to move beyond acknowledgment to active solidarity, by building meaningful relationships in our communities, dismantling structures of white supremacy, and opposing ongoing colonization. We invite our communities to consider their own responsibilities to Indigenous peoples and to the stolen lands where we make our homes.

St. John's Craft Beer Festival August 29 @The Lot on Harbour Drive
2026-08-29 19:00 - 22:00 | The Lot on Harbour Drive
A downtown St. John’s tasting event that gathers breweries from around Newfoundland and Labrador and beyond for an evening of all-inclusive sampling on the harbourfront. Live music and food vendors round out the night, and admission includes a take-home cup. Run by local food-and-drink promoter WAM! Events at The Lot on Harbour, a stone’s throw from Water Street.
