BC Highland Games
The B.C. Highland Games is the second oldest continually running Highland Games in British Columbia, Canada. The games are run by the BC Highland Games Organizing Committee as a program of the United Scottish Cultural Society of Vancouver. The 2020 Games will be held at Town Centre Park on June 19-20, 2020 in Coquitlam.
| B.C. Highland Games and Scottish Festival | |
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| Genre | Highland games |
| Dates | June 19, 20 & 21, 2020 |
| Location(s) | Lafarge Lake Park, Coquitlam, BC. |
| Years active | 1931-present |
| Website | BCHighlandGames.com |
The BC Highland Games is a traditional highland games, with competitive athletics, music and dancing. The Games include Scottish heavy events (caber tossing), pipe bands and solo piping competitions, the Vancouver Championship Highland Dancing, whisky school, cultural workshops, Scottish Clan displays, Scottish country dancing, Celtic artisans, kids activities, stock dog sheep herding, live Celtic entertainment, beer garden and massed pipe bands at end of day.
Traditional events include:
- Solo Piping
- Solo Drumming
- Pipe Bands
- Performance Pipe Bands
- Highland Dancing
- Whisky tasting
- Children's activities
- Haggis hunting
- Heavy Events, which include:
- Stone put
- Weight throw
- Scottish hammer throw
- Weight over the bar
- Sheaf toss
- Caber toss
- Farmers walk
- Piobaireachd competition
- Beer garden
- Food & product vendors
- Main stage entertainers/performers