Kits Beach Pool

Kitsfest 2023

Dates for this year are Friday, August 11 – Sunday, August 13, 2023.

KitsFest is a sports and healthy living community festival that celebrates diversity and inclusiveness for all ages and walks of life at every event. This contagious positive spirit helps them build stronger community environments and share their success by giving back to their community through legacies such as park facility upgrades and special events.

The Foundations’ senior executives Ron Putzi and Howard Kelsey, financed the popular Kits Beach basketball court upgrades. ‘Canada One Foundation’ played a lead role in helping facilitate the recent Kits Beach palm trees donations and the spectacular (10) Kits Beach tennis court renovations and will continue to help enhance other similar Kits Beach-related initiatives.

Future upgrades planned for the entire Kitsilano beach area include The Kitsilano Showboat and other sports and arts related enhancements.

In 2007, MVBF (Metro Vancouver’s Basketball Foundation) was renamed to “The Canada One Athletic Foundation” and launched “Kitsfest” (The Kitsilano Beach summer sports and healthy living festival on Vancouver’s most popular beach, “Kits Beach”.

The motto of the Foundation is simple: “Under promise, over deliver.” They always look to support sport, kids and deserving coaches, healthy living and active lifestyle initiatives. To quote one of their cherished associates: “We simply give where we live.”

Watch basketball, bathtub races, visit the Tim Horton’s Family Fun Zone or the Opus Art Zone, participate in lululemon Sunset Yoga, KitsFest Spin Bike activities, tennis, touch football, volleyball, water polo, zumba. Something for all ages. You can bike, walk, drive, run or swim over to the Kits Beach area and go from there!

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