Winnipeg International Children's Festival

The Winnipeg International Children's Festival — widely known as Kidsfest — is a charitable performing-arts organization based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is best known for its annual multi-day festival of children's entertainment, which brings together musicians, circus artists, storytellers and interactive performers for young audiences and their families. The organization describes itself as dedicated to providing outstanding performances, circus arts and interactive activities that are educational, inspiring and accessible to children and families from diverse communities. Kidsfest is a seasonal anchor of Winnipeg's family cultural calendar. Its programming mixes headline children's entertainers with participatory, multisensory activities, and the festival has featured well-known Canadian children's performers such as Al Simmons and Fred Penner alongside dance troupes and emerging artists. The event is ticketed, with tickets sold through the Eventbrite platform, and it is staged over several days in June. The 44th annual edition is scheduled for June 11–14, 2026, indicating a decades-long run. Beyond the festival itself, the organization states a vision of being the recognized leader in presenting year-round child- and family-focused interactive performing and circus arts in Manitoba. Its stated values emphasize integrity in quality programming, creative and dynamic interactive activities, energetic multisensory experiences, an inclusive and accessible safe environment, inspiration, learning and fun, and contribution to arts development in the community. As a charitable organization, Kidsfest operates with a community and arts-development mandate rather than a purely commercial one, though it functions as a ticketed cultural brand with its own identity, website and audience. Its administrative contact is a post-office box in Winnipeg, and its public-facing brand is built around the Kidsfest name and the annual festival experience.

The Winnipeg International Children's Festival, commonly branded as Kidsfest, is a performing-arts organization in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It presents an annual festival of children's entertainment and, according to its mission statement, works toward year-round child- and family-focused interactive performing and circus arts in Manitoba. The festival has run for decades: the organization's website advertises the 44th annual Kidsfest Festival for June 11–14, 2026, which places the first edition roughly in the early 1980s. Over that period it has become a recurring fixture of Winnipeg's summer family calendar, combining ticketed mainstage performances with participatory activities. Its programming has featured established Canadian children's entertainers, including Al Simmons and Fred Penner, as well as other artists such as Micah!, Sarah Teakle and the Summer Bear Dance Troupe. Tickets are sold through Eventbrite. The organization operates as a charity, with administrative contact through a post-office box in Winnipeg, and frames its work around accessibility, inclusion and contribution to community arts development.

• 44th annual Kidsfest Festival scheduled for June 11–14, 2026.

A charitable, community-focused children's performing-arts festival and year-round presenter in Manitoba.

• Annual Kidsfest Festival

  Multi-day ticketed festival of children's performances, circus arts and interactive activities.

1. 1Winnipeg International Children's Festival | The Winnipeg International Children's Festivalkidsfest.ca
2. 2Mission Statement | The Winnipeg International Children's Festivalkidsfest.ca
3. 3Winnipeg International Children's Festivalwikidata.org