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Abbot Kinney Festival
Venice, CA · Festival
- When
- September 27, 2026
- Where
- Abbot Kinney Boulevard · Venice · CA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Venice closes its most fashionable mile for a day of hundreds of vendors, food trucks and music stages, a neighborhood tradition for four decades. Returning in 2026 after two cancelled years.
The history within reach
- Abbot Kinney Festivalsame spot
Venice closes its most fashionable mile for a day of hundreds of vendors, food trucks and music stages, a neighborhood tradition for four decades.
- Venice of America0.4 mi
Abbot Kinney drained a marsh and dug canals with gondoliers imported from Italy, on the theory that Americans would take to a cultural resort.
- Venice Beach Boardwalk0.4 mi
Abbot Kinney's 1905 canal resort became the street-performance and bodybuilding capital of the coast..
Abbot Kinney cut a network of canals into the coastal marsh and opened his Venice of America resort on 4 July 1905, drawing tens of thousands of visitors on the first day.
Barbie and Ken rollerblade out of Barbie Land into the real world on the Venice Beach boardwalk, in neon so bright the paparazzi photos became the film's own marketing a year early.