Informed by the notions of public pedagogy, cultural production as civic/political participation, and the multiliteracies perspective, this article explores the connection between (inter)cultural/art production, public pedagogy, and civic education in a community festival setting in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Drawing upon three examples of cultural production from the interviewing and participating observation data, we demonstrate how festival participants' engagement with such (inter)cultural practices (1) actualizes their pursuit of civic and political action, (2) develops 'connected civic learning' and (inter)cultural citizenship experiences and learning, and (3) enables them to become critical designers/citizens.