Artists: Fort Langley wants a banner design for its 200th year, and will pay $1,000 for it
The Fort Langley Community Association is taking original designs for the village's 2027 bicentennial street banners until 5 pm on November 30. Open to artists from the Township, the City and Kwantlen Nation; $1,000 honorarium.
- What
- One original design for the street banners that will hang through Fort Langley village in 2027, its 200th anniversary year
- Who can enter
- Artists and designers from the Township of Langley, the City of Langley and Kwantlen Nation, emerging or established
- Deadline
- Monday, November 30, 2026, 5 pm, by email to the association with "2027 Street Banner Art Competition" in the subject line
- Honorarium
- $1,000 to the selected artist
The brief is one line long: “Fort Langley 1827–2027 | Past, Present and Future.” The association says you don’t have to paint a fort or a fur trader; abstract, contemporary and imaginative entries are all welcome, and it notes that the history of this land and river goes back long before 1827 and that the anniversary means different things to different communities.
The practical bits, from the call for artists: the banners are vertical, about 32 inches wide by 60.75 inches high, so sketch in portrait. Send an image of the design, a short note on how it fits the theme, and your contact details, and read the full guidelines PDF on that page first for the technical requirements. Entries are judged in December, the artist is named in January, and the banners go up in February 2027 ahead of BC Heritage Week. The chosen design may get the official bicentennial branding added later, in consultation with the artist.
The association has done this before: its current welcome banners came out of a 2024 contest that drew more than 20 local artists, with the winning design by Langley artist Jungmin Ko carrying Kwantlen welcome phrases in both the Upriver and Downriver dialects. This time the association is paying for and running the project with the Fort Langley Bicentennial Committee. More on the anniversary and how to volunteer for it: our bicentennial committee page and the Fort Langley village guide.