Venice Weekend Festivals
Venice is staging a packed cultural weekend with the Love Festival, the reopening of a heritage museum, and a new playground unveiling — all designed to draw locals and visitors into lively street celebrations. On the trade side, LUXE Venice 2026 will run March 29–April 1, bringing elite travel buyers and suppliers together for curated luxury experiences in the city’s historic waterways. (yovenice.com) (travelandtourworld.com)
Venice Love Fest is scheduled for March 21, 2026 beneath the Venice Sign and organizers are projecting roughly 20,000 attendees for the one-day program. (lamag.com) Organizers say the festival will feature four performance stages, more than 300 local vendors and 20-plus emerging artists, plus a VIP cocktail garden and morning wellness programming. (yovenice.com) The rebuilt Windward (Windward Plaza) playground will have an official ribbon-cutting the morning of the events from 10:00 a.m. to noon after the original play structures were removed in 2023 for safety reasons. (yovenice.com) City sources and local reporting note the playground project moved from groundbreaking in October 2025 to a completed rebuild this spring under Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks oversight. (yovenice.com) The Venice Heritage Museum is relocating to the Westminster Park community room adjacent to Westminster Dog Park (1234 Pacific Ave) and will reopen with extended public hours and community-sourced exhibitions. (veniceheritagemuseum.org) The city’s luxury MICE showcase LUXE by M&I will use Venice’s JW Marriott Venice Resort & Spa as its host venue and is running a curated B2B format of targeted one-to-one meetings and pre‑qualified curators designed to connect high-end suppliers and incentive-travel buyers. (mi-forums.com)
