Life Lived Here
Art. music. food. Shared.
From shared tables to live music and familiar gathering places, staying here offers easy access to our vibrant community.
Sound & Gathering
Live music is part of everyday life in Cumberland, with shows happening regularly in small rooms, shared halls, and familiar venues across the village. Performances tend to be close and informal, shaped by the size of the spaces and the people in them, and woven into weekly routines.
A locally cherished arts collective hosting a summer concert series celebrating bold creativity with live music nights & unforgettable shows.
The Waverly has long functioned as one of Cumberland’s primary music hubs, hosting live shows that draw both local performers and touring acts. It is a familiar room where diverse groups perform regularly, anchoring the village’s live-music calendar through scale, frequency, and quality, and accessibility.
Festivals that celebrate the community
Throughout the year, Cumberland comes alive with festivals that showcase its vibrant culture. Seasonal celebrations highlight music, arts, and local traditions, inviting visitors to join in the festivities, connect with the community, and create lasting memories.
Woodstove Festival
Woodstove turns all of Cumberland into it’s venue each November. Cafés, heritage halls, barbershops, and alleyways turn into stages for a three-day celebration of music, theatre, & community.
Cumberland Wild
Cumberland Wild is where live music and wild places meet. Surrounded by the Cumberland Community Forest, festival go-ers experience a diverse range of performers, including hip-hop, indie, DJs, and an all-night silent rave in Village Park.
May Day Celebrations
May Day is an annual, volunteer-run celebration that combines parade, music, food, and community gatherings, marking the start of the season and drawing the village together in a way that has endured for generations.
Summer Farmer’s Markets
Held weekly through the warmer months, the Cumberland Farmers Market brings local growers, food producers, and neighbours together in a regular, practical exchange that anchors village life.
Mushroom Fest
Fungus Fest is a fall event focused on foraging, food, and education, reflecting the region’s close relationship with surrounding forests and the knowledge shared within them. The depth of that relationship is such that one locally known mushroom carries the name of the village itself.
Filberg Festival
Set against the seaside grounds of Filberg Heritage Lodge & Park, the Filberg Festival is one of the Comox Valley’s most beloved arts gatherings. Showcasing fine art, craft, music, and performance, it pairs creative excellence with a relaxed coastal atmosphere.
Museums, Galleries, and Cultural Centers
Museums and galleries throughout the Comox Valley offer insight into the region’s deep Indigenous history, creative traditions, and evolving cultural life. Community-run spaces and local exhibitions reflect stories of land, people, and place, alongside artistic expression shaped by the valley today. Together, these collections also gesture to a much older natural history, revealing how this landscape has been formed over time by forces far beyond human memory.
The Gallery at the Weird Church
Set within a former church building, The Gallery at Weird Church operates as a shared, multi-use space that hosts exhibitions, events, and public gatherings throughout the year. The building’s ongoing use allows it to remain part of daily village life, providing a place where people regularly come together for creative and community-led programming.
The Worthy Room
The Worthy Room is an intimate performance and gathering space that hosts live music, readings, and small-scale events. Between performances, the room also functions as a rotating exhibition space, with artwork displayed along the walls — allowing the venue to remain active and engaged beyond special events.
Cumberland Museum and Archives
Cumberland Museum and Archives traces the village’s transformation from an Indigenous landscape to a coal-mining centre of global significance, revealing how industry, migration, and community life reshaped Cumberland while remaining rooted in much deeper histories of the land.
I-Hos Gallery
I-Hos Gallery is an Indigenous-owned gallery presenting contemporary Northwest Coast art that reflects living cultures, ancestral knowledge, and the continued presence of First Nations artists shaping the region today.
Comox Valley Art Gallery
Comox Valley Art Gallery presents contemporary exhibitions that foreground regional, national, and Indigenous artists, offering insight into the creative practices and ideas influencing the Comox Valley’s cultural life today.
Courtenay & District Museum and Paleontology Centre
Courtenay Museum and Paleontology Centre examines the Comox Valley through ancient times, connecting Indigenous history, community memory, and internationally significant fossil records that reveal how this landscape has been shaped by forces far older than human settlement.
Comox Air Force Museum
Comox Air Force Museum documents the Comox Valley’s strategic role in Canadian aviation history, tracing how military service, technology, and coastal geography intersected to shape the region during the twentieth century.
flavours of cumberland
Cumberland’s dining scene has grown into a destination of its own, shaped by places that do a few things very well — bakeries turning out serious pastries, burger and pizza joints done with care, thoughtful kitchens, and small producers working close to the source. After long days in the hills or down at Comox Lake, locals and visitors alike gather around food that is satisfying, varied, and reliably good, making eating out here as much a part of the routine as the landscape itself.
Morning
Boulder Hill Bakery
Boulder Hill Baking is a small-batch bakery with a rotating counter of cakes, pies, scones, cookies, and breads—exactly the kind of sweet-and-savoury haul you’ll want with coffee. So good, we offer it in our complementary coffee corner!
Laneway Coffee & Kitchen
Laneway Coffee is a central stop for coffee and casual breakfast and lunch. It serves to supply the village with caffeine and is natural meeting point in the village.
Quick Bites
Cooks
Cook’s is a classic burger joint—fresh-ground chuck and chicken burgers, with excellent milkshakes (and beer!). This is the local go-to for a faster meal.
Biblio Taco
Biblio Taco is a downtown taco shop built around handcrafted tacos and mexican fare, with locally sourced meats and fish and fresh produce. Grab a burrito to go for a snack on the trail!
Treats
Loves Ice Cream
Love’s is a craft ice cream stop known for hand-rolled waffle cones and real-fruit ice cream. It is a long-standing village fixture, drawing a steady line of regulars and visitors looking for a classic summer treat.
Dark Side Chocolates
Dark Side Chocolates is a downtown Cumberland chocolaterie and café producing small-batch chocolate and confections on site.
Restaurants
Niiji
Niji offers Asian-inspired food and cocktails—presenting the best of flavours of Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Thai plates-adding real quality and range to a small village dining scene.
Waverly Hotel
A long-standing fixture in Cumberland, the Waverly is known for hearty pub fare, cold pints, and a lively, unpretentious atmosphere. It’s an easy go-to for casual dining, live music, or catching a game, just steps from the heart of town.
Riders Pizza
Riders serves wood-fired pizza in a relaxed, communal setting, drawing locals and visitors alike and contributing to the village’s reputation for eating well.
Cumberland Brewing Company
Cumberland Brewing Company functions as both brewery and social space, with food, beer, and long tables that encourage community and conversation.
Convenience
Cumberland Mini-Mart and Dollar Store
Just 2 blocks down Dunsmuir Avenue is Cumberland Mini-Mart - a local staple for treats, snacks, and all the things you might forget on your shopping trip.
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