Vaughan’s award-winning winter festival returns

Jan. 29, 2020 9:00 a.m.
​International sensation Baby Shark headlines the City of Vaughan’s annual Winterfest

Shake off those winter blues! Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua and Members of Council invite the community to bundle up and join the 31st annual Vaughan Celebrates Winterfest event. The award-winning winter festival returns on Sunday, Feb. 9 to Vellore Village Community Centre (1 Villa Royale Ave.). Family-friendly entertainment and attractions – including a headlining live performance from the international phenomenon Pinkfong & Baby Shark – will take place from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
 
The festival features an outdoor stage with live entertainment, meet and greets with popular characters, midway rides and inflatables, horse-drawn wagon rides, maple taffy station, indoor and outdoor interactive activities and an official welcome from Mayor Bevilacqua and Members of Council. Stage entertainment is hosted by YTV The ZONE’s Spencer and Duhin. Admission, activities and a pancake breakfast served at 10 a.m. are free for all who attend. Food will be available for purchase in the Food Zone. The 2020 Winterfest event is presented by TD and the event sponsor is Tim Hortons.
 
Additional event details can be found below.
 
Entertainment and performances:
  • Pinkfong & Baby Shark Show
  • The Magic of Aaron Matthews
  • Fabulous Feud
  • Kreative In Dance Styles (K.I.D.S.)
 
Activities and attractions:
  • Arts and crafts
  • Chess drop-in
  • CN Little Obie train
  • Creation Lab
  • Digiteau interactive digital play
  • Engineering for Kids
  • Face painting
  • Family storytime
  • Horse-drawn wagon rides
  • Ice throne
  • Inflatables
  • Life-size games
  • Mad Science
  • Maple taffy station
  • Midway rides
  • Outdoor fire pits
  • Outdoor skating
  • Recreational swim (1 p.m. to 3 p.m.)
  • Snowshoeing
  • Tween spa
  • Vaughan Animal Services
  • Vaughan Fire and Rescue Services
  • Vaughan Public Libraries
  • York Regional Police
 
Parking: 
  • Park and shuttle: Parking is available at Vaughan City Hall, 2141 Major Mackenzie Dr., or at Emily Carr Secondary School, 4901 Rutherford Rd. A free shuttle bus service will be provided by TOK Coachlines and will run to and from the event site between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
  • Park and walk: Visitors can also park and walk from Fossil Hill Public School, 2 Firenza Rd., or St. Veronica Catholic Elementary School, 171 Maria Antonia Rd.
  • Accessible parking: Accessible parking is available at St. Jean de Brebeuf Catholic High School at 2 Davos Rd.
 
Founded in 1989, Vaughan Celebrates Winterfest has grown to become a popular and much-anticipated City of Vaughan tradition. For more information about the upcoming 2020 event, visit vaughan.ca/Winterfest.
 
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