Charlottetown’s Art in the Open festival scaling back for 2024 [Video]

The popular Art in the Open festival will not be happening in Charlottetown this year — at least, not in the same way it usually does.

The free public contemporary arts showcase has taken place from 4 p.m. until midnight on the Saturday before Labour Day since 2011.

“We’ve done everything from large sculptures [to] outdoor theatre performances, projections, screenings, dance,” said Art in the Open’s current chair, Jordan Beaulieu.

“It’s really unique and it’s not really like anything else that we do in P.E.I.”

The festival is spread throughout downtown Charlottetown, from Victoria Park and the surrounding wooded areas, to Connaught Square, Rochford Square and the Confederation Centre of the Arts.

A highlight for many is the annual March of the Crows. 

“People congregate on Victoria Row dressed up in their best crow costumes,” Beaulieu said. “And they flap their wings and they caw and they march from Victoria …