CRABFEST FUNDRAISER
Saturday | 27 September 2025 | 2:00-5:00pm
Sooke Region Museum invites you to celebrate local food and community at the Sooke CRABFEST fundraiser!
The afternoon festivities will feature a mouth-watering meal of fresh local Dungeness crab, corn on the cob, homemade coleslaw and bread. Crab will be cooked onsite and served long-table style outside on the Museum lawn.
Funds raised at CRABFEST will help maintain Triangle Island Lighthouse, to replace glass panels that have been damaged over the years. Learn more about the lighthouse here.
To accompany the meal, enjoy live music on the outdoor stage, and a cash bar operated by the Sooke Community Association.
Tickets go on sale July 27. Tickets $50 available online or at the Sooke Region Museum (during open hours Mon-Sat).
Printed tickets will be available for pick up at the Museum for online or telephone purchases, if desired. All ticket sales final, no refunds or exchanges.
There is still one way to get tickets to CRABFEST – complete our community survey and enter to win our fabulous draw of Museum merch and 2 tickets to CRABFEST!
UPCOMING EVENTS
2025 Schedule
more details available for each event closer to the date
5 June – 28 August – Sooke Night Market, 5-8pm
27 September – Crab Fest – new event!
30 September – Survivors Panel
25 October – Sooke Spook
6 December – Winter Market & Moss Cottage Christmas
PAST EVENTS
Open House and Salmon BBQ
Sunday 22 June 2025
11:00am – 4:00pm
Thank You to all the volunteers who made the event possible and to all the guests for joining us for our annual Open House!
We were thrilled that our friends from Sooke Fine Arts, Juan de Fuca Salmon Restoration Society, Sooke Lions and the Sooke Community Association joined us for the event.
Below are some images of the day.
AuntTilly (Kat Kadoski) greets visitors to Moss Cottage
volunteer Coral Poser chats with visitors in Moss Cottage kitchenH2025
Collections & Exhibits Manager Emma Wilton conducts tours of archives
visitors also painted story stones to tell us what is their favourite part of the Sooke Region Museum
we asked visitors what they want to see at the Sooke Region Museum….
…and you told us!
Bodeus performs for the afternoon crowd
In the Community
We also participate in other community events, and will be at the following this spring/summer:
26 April – Sookarama, organized by Sooke Lions at Seaparc
3 May – Rubber Duck Race, organized by SookeHarbourside Lions Club at Sooke River Campground
7 June – Sooke Community Festival, organized by the District of Sooke at Woodside Farm
1 July – Canada Day, organized by the Sooke Lions Club, District of Sooke, Sooke Chamber of Commerce at Fred Milne Park
9 August – Sooke Music & Arts Festival
16 August – All Sooke Day, organized by the Sooke Community Association
17 August – Shirley Day