WEEKEND SCHEDULE + EVENTS

SCHEDULE MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE!!

FRIDAY MAY 23

  • 9am – 4pm Vendor Set Up
  • 5pm GCCF Vendor and Sponsor reception at Holiday Inn

SATURDAY MAY 24

  • 8am ‘Taking down the inter provincial boarders’
    Professional Development Seminar
  • 9am Vendor coffee meet up & set up
  • 10am 2025 Great Canadian Cheese Festival opens to the public
  • 11am ‘Everybody Loves a Winner!’
    Tutored Tasting #1in the Great Hall
  • 12pm ‘Kids Make Cheese!’  Educational seminar and cheese making course for ages 10-17 on the Upper Patio
  • 1pm ‘The Finest Quebec Cheese’
    Tutored Tasting #2 in the Great Hall
  • 3pm ‘All Around the Farmyard’
    Tutored Tasting #3 in the Great Hall
  • 5pm Day 1 Festival Close
  • All Day Howard Lopez Jazz on the Main Stage
  • All Day Where does Milk come from? An interactive petting zoo/milking simulator
  • All Day Live activations from our various sponsors

SUNDAY MAY 25

  • 8am ‘Understanding International Dairy Trade’
    Professional Development Seminar
  • 9am Vendor coffee meet up & set up
  • 10am Day 2 Festival Open
  • 11am ‘The Finest Quebec Cheese’
    Tutored Tasting #4 in the Great Hall
  • 12pm ‘Kids Make Cheese!’  Educational seminar and cheese making course for ages 10-17 on the Upper Patio
  • 1pm ‘Everybody Loves a Winner!’
    Tutored Tasting #5 in the Great Hall
  • 4pm 2025 Great Canadian Cheese Festival Closing
  • 4pm – 6pm Vendor clean up
  • All Day Howard Lopez Jazz on the Main Stage
  • All Day Where does Milk come from? An interactive petting zoo/milking simulator
  • All Day Live activations from our various sponsors