Metro Vancouver events calendar for September 2016. Best festivals, concerts, fun things to do, free kids activities, street fairs, and Labor Day weekend events in Vancouver, BC.

Americas Masters Games 2016

We invite the world to the Americas Masters Games for an inclusive 9 days of celebration in the summer of 2016.

Vancouver | Jack Poole Plaza, West Building | 8:00 am to 10:00 pm | Sports

Farmers’ Market: Granville Island

Popular among chefs, home cooks, and local gastronomes, farmers’ markets have become an integral part of Vancouver’s food landscape.

Vancouver | Granville Island, Triangle Square | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Free Community Lunch

Free Community Lunch at St. Andrew's United Church.

North Vancouver | St Andrew's United Church | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Food / Wine

Necklace of HOpe: Walk Series from HOpe Centre

Necklace of HOpe, is a 45 min walk from HOpe Centre, towards Brand Blvd and up towards 19th Street, back down through Grand Blvd, and along 15th Street, back to the HOpe Centre.

North Vancouver | Kelty Dennehy Mental Health Resource Centre | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Downtown Farmers Market

We’re thrilled to announce that the Downtown Farmers Market at Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Plaza | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market | Free

Clinton Park Concept plan open house

Share your vision of the renewed park with our project team and learn about the design process at our open house

Vancouver | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Visite guidée à pied

Gratuit! auteurs et musiciens au cimetière Mountain View

Vancouver | Mountain View Cemetery | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | History

Neighbourhood Nights: Maillardville

Celebrate your neighbours, your surroundings and your history – join us at Neighbourhood Nights!

Coquitlam | Mackin Park | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Family | Free

ZeeTV Canada: Gujarati Cultural Festival 2016 - Karaoke Masti

It's time to meet all the teams from Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and LA! Of course, don't forget your singing voice and dancing shoes!

Richmond | Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | Festival

Shanghai Acrobats

One of the original Cirque-style performance troupes, the world-famous Shanghai Acrobats continue to astonish audiences around the globe with their amazing displays of artistry and athleticism.

Vancouver | Orpheum Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Show

Bard on the Beach: Othello

Othello is man blessed with power, respect and love - until lago's evil manipulation leads him to a fatal act off jealousy.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Bard's hit 2012 production is back and it's time again for music, flirting, fun - and fairies!

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Summer Night Concert: Dru Hill with Sisqo, Nokio, Jazz & Tao, 20th Anniversary

Dru Hill with Sisqo, Nokio, Jazz & Tao, 20th Anniversary Summer Night Concert at the Fair at the PNE Vancouver Years from now when it's all said and done, music historians will surely debate the contributions of those who majorly impacted the genre of R&B

Vancouver | PNE Amphitheatre | 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Firecracker!

Dynamite Ladies. Explosive Comedy. Our all-female show featuring some of the best improvisers in Canada.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:15 pm to 10:45 pm | Comedy

Americas Masters Games 2016

We invite the world to the Americas Masters Games for an inclusive 9 days of celebration in the summer of 2016.

Vancouver | Jack Poole Plaza, West Building | 8:00 am to 10:00 pm | Sports

Demo workshop with Chris Weaver

An exiting chance to take a workshop with acclaimed New Zealand maker of contemporary ceramic tableware Chris Weaver.

West Vancouver | Gleneagles Community Centre | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Workshop

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

North Vancouver’s Shipyards Night Market

You won't want to miss this years Shipbuilders' Night Market on Friday Nights !!

North Vancouver | Shipyards Night Market | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Market

Richmond Night Market

Similar to previous years, the annual gathering will feature seemingly endless rows of food vendors (offering hundreds of things to eat and drink), merchandise stalls, gaming stations, and live entertainment.

Richmond | nearby Bridgeport Station | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market

Buffalo Jones with Devin Van Burden

The Roxy Cabaret and The Live Agency Presents: Buffalo Jones with special guest Devin Van Burden

Vancouver | The Roxy Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Bard on the Beach: Othello

Othello is man blessed with power, respect and love - until lago's evil manipulation leads him to a fatal act off jealousy.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Bard's hit 2012 production is back and it's time again for music, flirting, fun - and fairies!

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Free Youth Swim

First Friday of each month from 8-10pm is a Free Swim time for youth (11-18 yrs).

Vancouver | Britannia Community Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Kids | Free

The Book of Mormon

Broadway's smash hit The Book of Mormon comes back to Vancouver after sold out shows in 2015.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical

ZeeTV Canada: Gujarati Cultural Festival 2016 - Romantic Bollywood Concert with Sumeet Tappoo

Guests will have the opportunity to enjoy a DHAMAKEDAR Bollywood Music Concert with Sensational Artist Sumeet Tappoo & an eight member band.

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | Music

Summer Night Concert: Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo: We Live For Love Tour

Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo We live for love Tour Summer Night Concert at the Fair at the PNE Vancouver Powerhouse duo and rock-n-roll legends Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo bring their undeniable chemistry and unprecedented sound to the Pacific National Exh

Vancouver | PNE Amphitheatre | 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

OWSLA

On Friday, September 2nd heavy hitters Wiwek, Dj Sliink & josh pan take over #StereotypeFridays for the OWSLA Showcase at Celebrities Nightclub!

Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music

2016 Topgun 3ON3 (Hockey Tourney)

3rd Annual 3 On 3 Play on Style Hockey Tourney

Richmond | Richmond Jamea Masjid | 8:00 am to 8:00 pm | Sports

Americas Masters Games 2016

We invite the world to the Americas Masters Games for an inclusive 9 days of celebration in the summer of 2016.

Vancouver | Jack Poole Plaza, West Building | 8:00 am to 10:00 pm | Sports

Digital Carnival: Call For Submissions!

Cinevolution’s Digital Carnival is back again at the Richmond World Festival on September 3rd!

Richmond | Media Lab | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Festival

Farmers’ Market: Trout Lake

Popular among chefs, home cooks, and local gastronomes, farmers’ markets have become an integral part of Vancouver’s food landscape.

Vancouver | Trout Lake | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

Demo workshop with Chris Weaver

An exiting chance to take a workshop with acclaimed New Zealand maker of contemporary ceramic tableware Chris Weaver.

West Vancouver | Gleneagles Community Centre | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Workshop

Lonsdale Artisan Farmers' Market: North Vancouver

We have been lucky in having some of the best organic and conventional farmers in B.C. attend the market plus great bakers, jam makers, honey gathers, and salsa makers.

North Vancouver | The East Plaza of Lonsdale Quay | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Community Market at Loutet Farm

Alongside our regular Farm Gate Sales, the Community Markets at Loutet Farm feature local vendors and local goods.

North Vancouver | Loutet Farm | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Market

Farm Gate Sale

Join us at Loutet Farm every Saturday to support our social enterprise, pick up your farm-fresh produce from our neighbourhood farmers, and meet your neighbours!

North Vancouver | Loutet Farm | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Market

Richmond World Festival

Richmond World Festival is the City’s newest signature event and its first major multicultural festival.

Richmond | Minoru Park | 11:00 am to 10:00 pm | Festival | Free

Sam Cave - UBC Farmers Market

Free Show And Healthy Food! Sam Cave is a 20 year old soul singer, songwriter and guitarist from the outback of Australia.

Vancouver | Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm | 11:00 am to 7:04 pm | Music | Free

Minoru Complex Community Art Project - What's Your Minoru Story?

Take part in a community based public art workshop this summer and your work could be displayed along the construction fencing surrounding the Minoru Complex.

Richmond | Minoru Park | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Workshop | Free

Taiwan Fest

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | Granville Street | 12:00 am to 7:00 pm | Festival | Free

Anual Southern African Friendship Club BBQ

This is Anual Southern African Friendship Club BBQ events

New Westminster | Lower Hume Park Sapperton New Westminster | 12:00 am to 8:30 pm | Family | Free

Taiwan Fest: International Pan-Asian Culinary Invitational Round 1

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Plaza | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Festival | Free

Taiwan Fest: Hope Talk

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | The Orpheum Annex | 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm | Lecture | Free

ZeeTV Canada: Gujarati Cultural Festival 2016 - Raas Garba Dance Showcase

Don't miss the HIGHLIGHT event of GCF, the Raas Garba Dance Show Case!

Vancouver | Orpheum Theatre | 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm | Dance

Taiwan Fest: Youth Ambassador Team

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver Sep 3-5, 2016. Get more info here.

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Festival | Free

加拿大温哥华--2016温哥华大型《玄艺综述》现场解答会

一场指点【人生与命运】的讲座即将要开讲了！

Richmond | Richmond Olympic Oval | 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm | Lecture | Free

The Book of Mormon - The best musical of the century

Broadway's smash hit The Book of Mormon comes back to Vancouver after sold out shows in 2015.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Musical

Bard on the Beach: Pericles

This fast-paced, thrilling tale, set in an ancient mythical world, follows a prince's arduous quest to find love and the meaning of life.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Taiwan Fest: International Pan-Asian Culinary Invitational Round 2

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Plaza | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Festival | Free

Taiwan Fest: Cinematic Taiwan

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver Sep 3-5, 2016. Get more info here.

Vancouver | The Orpheum Annex | 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm | Festival | Free

Sara (Ribeiro) Wedding

Dance to the Music D.J. Services

Richmond | Mobile Services | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Taiwan Fest: International Pan-Asian Culinary Invitational Round 3

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver Sep 3-5, 2016. Get more info here.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Plaza | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival | Free

Taiwan Fest: Soul of Dance

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm | Festival | Free

Noche bohemia en el Patron Tacos & Cantina

Comparta con nosotros una noche de trova y bohemia con el compositor y guitarrista mexicano Samir Belkacemi,SON BOHEMIO,nuestra invitada especial Laura Rivera Montalvo y amigos.

Vancouver | Patron Tacos & Cantina, Mexican Restaurant | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Richmond Night Market

Similar to previous years, the annual gathering will feature seemingly endless rows of food vendors (offering hundreds of things to eat and drink), merchandise stalls, gaming stations, and live entertainment.

Richmond | nearby Bridgeport Station | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market

Bard on the Beach: Romeo and Juliet

A classic staging of the world's greatest romantic tragedy, with its story of young star-crossed lovers who inspire us as they break our hearts.

Vancouver | BMO Mainstage, Bard on the Beach, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach: Pericles

This fast-paced, thrilling tale, set in an ancient mythical world, follows a prince's arduous quest to find love and the meaning of life.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Barns Courtney with guests

A British singer/songwriter who splits the difference between Ed Sheeran's sensitivity, the big-footed stomp of early Mumford & Sons, and a keen moodiness, Barns Courtney received a heavy boost in 2015 when his song "Fire" appeared on the soundtrack to th

Vancouver | The Media Club | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

The Book of Mormon

Broadway's smash hit The Book of Mormon comes back to Vancouver after sold out shows in 2015.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical

The White Panda With Guests

Timbre Concerts proudly presents The White Panda.

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Dance

Summer Night Concert: Tim Hicks

Tim Hicks Summer Night Concert at the Fair at the PNE Vancouver Since signing to ORR in 2011, Hicks has captured the hearts and minds of Canadian country fans in a huge way.

Vancouver | PNE Amphitheatre | 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Michael Woods

Progressive stand out & our good friend Michael Woods makes his highly anticipated return to Celebrities Nightclub for a very special edition of Celebs Playhouse

Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music

2016 Topgun 3ON3 (Hockey Tourney)

3rd Annual 3 On 3 Play on Style Hockey Tourney

Richmond | Richmond Jamea Masjid | 8:00 am to 8:00 pm | Sports

Americas Masters Games 2016

We invite the world to the Americas Masters Games for an inclusive 9 days of celebration in the summer of 2016.

Vancouver | Jack Poole Plaza, West Building | 8:00 am to 10:00 pm | Sports

ZeeTV Canada: Gujarati Cultural Festival 2016 - Sports Day

Calling sports players of all skill levels to join us at the Richmond Oval for a day of fun and sportsmanship!

Richmond | Richmond Olympic Oval | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Sports

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Taiwan Fest

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | Granville Street | 12:00 am to 7:00 pm | Festival | Free

16th Annual Artful Sundays

An outdoor multimedia and visual arts market on Napier Greenway (Napier Street at Commercial Drive)

Vancouver | Napier Greenway | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Market

Taiwan Fest: Cinematic Taiwan

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | The Orpheum Annex | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Festival | Free

Taiwan Fest: International Pan-Asian Culinary Invitational Semi Final 1

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Plaza | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Festival | Free

The Book of Mormon - The best musical of the century

Broadway's smash hit The Book of Mormon comes back to Vancouver after sold out shows in 2015.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Musical

Bard on the Beach: Pericles

This fast-paced, thrilling tale, set in an ancient mythical world, follows a prince's arduous quest to find love and the meaning of life.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Taiwan Fest: Dreams from Andalusia and the Silk Road

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Festival | Free

Taiwan Fest: International Pan-Asian Culinary Invitational Semi Final 2

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Plaza | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Festival | Free

Taiwan Fest: International Pan-Asian Culinary Invitational Final

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Plaza | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival | Free

Taiwan Fest: Cinematic Taiwan - Film Blue Moon

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | The Orpheum Annex | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival | Free

Westminster Savings Free Swim

Enjoy a free monthly swim and skate, sponsored by Westminster Savings.

Coquitlam | Poirier Sport & Leisure Complex | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Sports | Free

Richmond Night Market

Similar to previous years, the annual gathering will feature seemingly endless rows of food vendors (offering hundreds of things to eat and drink), merchandise stalls, gaming stations, and live entertainment.

Richmond | nearby Bridgeport Station | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market

Bard on the Beach: Romeo and Juliet

A classic staging of the world's greatest romantic tragedy, with its story of young star-crossed lovers who inspire us as they break our hearts.

Vancouver | BMO Mainstage, Bard on the Beach, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

The Book of Mormon - The best musical of the century

Broadway's smash hit The Book of Mormon comes back to Vancouver after sold out shows in 2015.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

Bard on the Beach: Pericles

This fast-paced, thrilling tale, set in an ancient mythical world, follows a prince's arduous quest to find love and the meaning of life.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Taiwan Fest: The Path to Peace

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival | Free

Summer Night Concert: The Monkees - Good Times: The 50th Anniversary Tour

The Monkees celebrate their fiftieth anniversary with a tour of North America and the release of their first album in nearly 20 years, Good Times! will also feature a previously unreleased recording of a song entitled Love to Love written by Neil Diamond

Vancouver | PNE Amphitheatre | 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Simon Patterson / Sean Tyas / John Askew

SIMON PATTERSON x SEAN TYAS x JOHN ASKEW @ Venue Nightclub

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 9:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music

2016 Singles Championships / Championnat canadien en simple 2016

West Vancouver LBC has a reputation for running high quality innovative competitions from the local to national level.

West Vancouver | West Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Sports

Taiwan Fest

Discover Asia and the Chinese speaking world in Taiwan Fest in downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | Granville Street | 12:00 am to 7:00 pm | Festival | Free

Music in the Park

Free Family Fun! What better way to end the summer than spending the day outside listening to great music

North Vancouver | Capilano River Regional Park | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family | Free

Opera and Arias: The Magic Flute

We’ve invited some special guests down to the Village to entertain you, tantalize your taste buds and teach you a thing or two.

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Opera

Bard on the Beach: Salon Series - Designing Costumes for Shakespeare

Join us for a one hour panel discussion as we explore what it takes to bring Shakespeare from “the page to the stage”.

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Exhibition

Opera and Arias: The Magic Flute

We’ve invited some special guests down to the Village to entertain you, tantalize your taste buds and teach you a thing or two.

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Opera

Summer Night Concert: Chris Isaak

Chris Isaak's upcoming tour in conjunction with his critically acclaimed new album, First Comes The Night, will include a performance on the closing night of the PNE on September 5

Vancouver | PNE Amphitheatre | 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

2016 Singles Championships / Championnat canadien en simple 2016

West Vancouver LBC has a reputation for running high quality innovative competitions from the local to national level.

West Vancouver | West Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Sports

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Fringe Street Promo 101

It’s not enough to have a great show. People need to know about it. This workshop will help you feel more confident promoting your production, whether you are flying solo or have a double-digit cast.

Vancouver | Picnic Pavilion | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Workshop

Kwantlen St. Farmers Market

The Kwantlen St. Farmers Market offers all the goodness of a farmers market, with live entertainment, kids workshops, artisan foods and crafts, food trucks and chef demos using the freshest local produce.

Richmond | Kwantlen St. Farmers Market, Kwantlen Polytechnic University | 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Market | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival Opening Night: Dick on the Fringe

Open the Festival with one of the wildest characters in Fringe history. Butt Kapinski is a private eye like no other.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Swans

SWANS (Young God / Mute) with guest BABY DEE. Dozens of people came and went through the 15 years of Swans existence.

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

2016 Singles Championships / Championnat canadien en simple 2016

West Vancouver LBC has a reputation for running high quality innovative competitions from the local to national level.

West Vancouver | West Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Sports

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Farm Gate Sale

In need of mid-week fresh veggies?

North Vancouver | Loutet Farm | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market

Skillshare Workbee

Our skillshare workbees are the perfect volunteer opportunity for folks who want to learn about gardening through informal workshops and knowledge sharing.

North Vancouver | Loutet Farm | 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Workshop

Brewers Park Renewal open house

Share your vision of the renewed park with our project team and learn about the design process at our open house

Vancouver | 4175 Victoria Dr. | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

Bard on the Beach: Wine Wednesdays with Sandhill

Wine Wednesdays are an intimate pre-show wine tasting in the Bard Marquee presented by special guests.

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine

Bard on the Beach: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Bard's hit 2012 production is back and it's time again for music, flirting, fun - and fairies!

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

2016 Singles Championships / Championnat canadien en simple 2016

West Vancouver LBC has a reputation for running high quality innovative competitions from the local to national level.

West Vancouver | West Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Sports

Farmers’ Market: Granville Island

Popular among chefs, home cooks, and local gastronomes, farmers’ markets have become an integral part of Vancouver’s food landscape.

Vancouver | Granville Island, Triangle Square | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Free Community Lunch

Free Community Lunch at St. Andrew's United Church.

North Vancouver | St Andrew's United Church | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Food / Wine

Necklace of HOpe: Walk Series from HOpe Centre

Necklace of HOpe, is a 45 min walk from HOpe Centre, towards Brand Blvd and up towards 19th Street, back down through Grand Blvd, and along 15th Street, back to the HOpe Centre.

North Vancouver | Kelty Dennehy Mental Health Resource Centre | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Downtown Farmers Market

We’re thrilled to announce that the Downtown Farmers Market at Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Plaza | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Fat Sex

Comedy, spoken word, and song with a smart satirical twist from an international slam champion with two decades of experience bringing audiences world-over to a glorious climax!

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 5:00 pm to 5:59 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: "Ze": Queer as Fuck!

Catapulted by a series of unlikely experiences, Michelle/Ryan stumbles through an expanding parade of LGBTQI, etc. identities in search of a definitive sense of zir own queer pride.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 5:00 pm to 6:05 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: In The Trenches: A Double Feature

A delightful duet of original comedies! Witness an apocalyptic war zone become a slapstick extravaganza as three clown soldiers take cover in an abandoned trench.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 5:00 pm to 6:10 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. One Man Dark Knight: A Batman Parody

The creators of One Man Star Wars and One Man Lord of the Rings, present an irreverent homage to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 5:00 pm to 6:05 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Leash Your Potential

Drawing on 15+ years of experience at a Fortune 500 company, Ryan will teach you how to succeed in a modern corporate bureaucracy, where outdated notions like talent, competence, and hard work are irrelevant.

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Dance Teacher

A riveting story about a complex and broken individual who has chosen the dark path of manipulation and power.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 5:00 pm to 6:10 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Space Hippo

Scientists weren’t lying. Earth is really dying. Space Hippo, you’re the only one that can undo what we’ve done. Together we can stop the Sun. Sail across the universe. Help us save the planet Earth.

Vancouver | The Waterfront Theatre | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. How to Adult: The Musical

Four 20-somethings trying to get their shit together in present-day Vancouver. It’s time to adult the f*ck up.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 5:15 pm to 6:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Waiting for Garbo

Fresh from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Garbo meets Brecht meets Beckett in this comic, musical-ish stomp in an about-to-close garbage dump.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 6:00 pm to 7:10 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: 2 for Tea

Having SOLD OUT in 2014 (High Tea) and 2015 (In The Dark), 14-time Best of Fest winning British comedy duo James & Jamesy come with the show that propelled them to being “one of the most popular Fringe duos ever” (

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Secret

Why do we keep secrets? And why would you keep just one? Join comedian Chelsey Stuyt on a quest to unlock the reason why she tells her mother everything—everything except that one little thing.

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm | Festival

Neighbourhood Nights: Eagle Ridge

Celebrate your neighbours, your surroundings and your history – join us at Neighbourhood Nights!

Coquitlam | Eagle Ridge Park | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Family | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Jon Bennett: My Dad's Deaths (A Comedy)

Jon Bennett’s dad always wanted his son to be an author… like Banjo Patterson.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Peripeteia

Peripeteia: A reversal of circumstances or a turning point.

Vancouver | Granville Island - Ron Basford Park Stage | 6:30 pm to 7:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Insults, injury, and Anne Boleyn’s head are tossed around as the the six wives return to battle it out in purgatory once again. And when Henry arrives…well, you just have to see it.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 6:45 pm to 7:55 pm | Family

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Wild/Society

Rabbit wants to be the most popular city lady when she moves to the newest development in town. Raccoon couldn’t care less about social politics.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 6:45 pm to 7:35 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: My Stroke of Luck

Can the good doctor become a good patient? My Stroke of Luck shares Diane’s journey of medical catastrophe and recovery—not only as the physician she is, but as a single mom to a frightened teenaged son.

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 6:45 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: 2 Ruby Knockers, 1 Jaded Dick: A Dirk Darrow Investigation

Australia’s favourite silly psychic detective is back. All new comedy, magic, and crime. Think Boardwalk Empire meets Naked Gun. Based on a Dashiell Hammett story.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 6:45 pm to 7:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Piaf and Brel: The Impossible Concert

Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel: Two French musical icons. They sang songs of romance, heartbreak, hope, and love. They lived lives of drama and passion.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 6:50 pm to 7:50 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Emily Chambers & Moondrifter - Free at the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar

Welcome to the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar, the Festival’s social hub. Now located at Ocean Art Works, in front of Ocean Concrete and next to the Creekhouse on Granville Island!

Vancouver | Ocean Art Works | 7:00 pm to 1:30 am | Festival

Keith Rice-Jones: From Cabinet Maker to Ceramic Sculptor

Keith Rice-Jones shares his artistic journey, discussing his cultural and artistic influences along the way

Surrey | Surrey Art Gallery | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts

Vancouver Fringe Festival: V. R. Dunne

In 1934 a small group of workers decided to fight for a better life. Their actions were a pivotal event in 20th century American labour history.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Manipulation

Join prOphecy sun, Cause & Effect Circus, and Moth Orbit Object Theater for a night of physical and digital manipulation.

Vancouver | Emily Carr University's Intersections Digital Studios | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 7:00 pm to 7:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Mrs. Barbour's Daughters

Mary is facing eviction and is beset by memories of life in a family which for 100 years has been influenced, for good and bad, by Mrs. Barbour, leader of a rent strike in 1915.

Vancouver | The Vancity Culture Lab | 7:00 pm to 7:58 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Badmatch

Cocaine, diarrhea, a Canucks’ riot, and the Grouse Grind. What could they possibly have in common?

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 7:05 pm to 8:20 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Give It Up

Morgan Brayton has it all! Okay, well, she has questions about it all. Where is her husband Scott Baio? When is SNL going to call?

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm | Festival

Bard on the Beach: Romeo and Juliet

A classic staging of the world's greatest romantic tragedy, with its story of young star-crossed lovers who inspire us as they break our hearts.

Vancouver | BMO Mainstage, Bard on the Beach, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach: Pericles

This fast-paced, thrilling tale, set in an ancient mythical world, follows a prince's arduous quest to find love and the meaning of life.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Carry On: A Musical

Set in the YVR baggage claim, Carry On: A Musical examines the convergent lives of weary wanderers and the baggage they bring with them.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:45 pm to 9:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. I Forgot To Fly Today - Trent Baumann

From the creator of The Birdman, award winning, sold out seasons, standing ovations, and following ten international tours! Imaginative comedy finding the weight of the world may just float on a cloud.

Vancouver | Granville Island, Near Railspur Park | 7:45 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Georgia Straight Fringe-For-All

Get your Fringe feet wet at the Fringe-For-All, a fast and furious preview event where artists perform two minute teasers for their upcoming shows

Vancouver | Cartwright Street | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 8:00 pm to 8:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Trump: The Musical!

He’s going to build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it!!! It’s going to be HUGE!!!

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Sea Wall

Alex’s life seems perfect. But underneath his love for his wife and child, there is a deep abyss. A moving monologue about fatherhood, family, and things that cannot be undone.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 8:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Not Enough

In an effort to finally grow the F up, Megan embarks on a last-ditch gambit: a 10-day silent meditation.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival

1972 Team Canada on the ice '72 Summit Series Tour

Share the real stories behind 1972’s Canada-Russia Summit Series. A giant screen will carry Summit Series images that are eternally famous, while the team shares memories that, sometimes, are only told once.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Ballad Of Frank Allen

From Australian fringe-favourite Shane Adamczak comes a bizarre new buddy-comedy about a man who lives in another man’s beard.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 8:20 pm to 9:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Burn Job

Fringe staple TJ Dawe returns with a story about growing up in Burnaby, LSD, and a breathing technique that brings you into a psychedelic state.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 8:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Charlatan!

Travis Bernhardt, creator of the award winning magic shows Unpossible! and Lies!, returns to tell fortunes, lift curses, and speak to the dead.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. The Famous Haydell Sisters Comeback Tour

Since their last record flopped in 1993, fans of the biggest sister act in country music history have been awaiting their return.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:35 pm to 9:35 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Perpetual Wednesday

Walter and Bruce, con artists extraordinaire, while disguised as magicians, killed an audience member during their infamous bullet-catch act! Or did they?

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 8:45 pm to 9:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Windy Wynazz: Rich & Famous

A Showgirl, her Soul-Searching Yearnings, & Secret Demons.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 8:45 pm to 9:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Suburban Motel: Featuring Loretta

Loretta is the kind of girl you would do anything for. Dave and Michael are in love with her. Dave wants to take her shopping. Michael wants to make her a star! A porn star. What is a woman to do in a man’s world.

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 8:45 pm to 10:15 pm | Festival

Firecracker!

Dynamite Ladies. Explosive Comedy. Our all-female show featuring some of the best improvisers in Canada.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:15 pm to 10:45 pm | Comedy

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Love, Lust & Lace

Witness the raunchy pursuit of primal desires in this farcical masque commedia dell’arte piece. You will indulge in the dynamic intrigues of the heart as you follow Il Capitano and Columbina’s trials in love.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Festival

2016 Singles Championships / Championnat canadien en simple 2016

West Vancouver LBC has a reputation for running high quality innovative competitions from the local to national level.

West Vancouver | West Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Sports

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Vancouver's Original Greek Food Festival

As the street festival season begins... here's one of the originals!

Vancouver | The Hellenic Community | 12:00 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival: NeOn

I know someone who has never been the main character of their life. She believed in other people’s happiness, but not hers. NeOn questions how you commit to the practice of love.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

North Vancouver’s Shipyards Night Market

You won't want to miss this years Shipbuilders' Night Market on Friday Nights !!

North Vancouver | Shipyards Night Market | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Market

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Nerdfucker

The spectators are early, her lover is late, and the players are due any minute.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Frank: To Be Frank

World-renowned! The Rat Pack’s 17th member! America’s most entertaining entertainer invites you to partake in his interactive live “life retrospective.”

Vancouver | Performance Works | 5:00 pm to 5:55 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Nether

The Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity, and indulge your every desire.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: My Ocean

Twelve-year-old environmentalist Lenny has his lucky pouch around his neck and the eczema behind his knees is hardly even itchy.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Bella Culpa

From nine-time award winning company, A Little Bit Off comes a slapstick comedy that follows two peculiar servants in an Edwardian manor as they bustle around, trying in vain to complete all of their chores.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: In the Blue of Evening

A stunning and fantastical epic journey whisking us from a living room to the high seas!

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 5:00 pm to 5:55 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: James Jordan Vaudevillian

This all ages vaudeville variety show with magic, juggling, royalty-free music, and brilliant comedy has been headlining comedy clubs and festivals all over the world!

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: One Good Marriage

Steph and Stewart are celebrating their first anniversary. She’s an English teacher; he’s a high-school librarian.

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 5:30 pm to 6:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Insults, injury, and Anne Boleyn’s head are tossed around as the the six wives return to battle it out in purgatory once again. And when Henry arrives…well, you just have to see it.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 5:45 pm to 6:55 pm | Family

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Trump: The Musical!

He’s going to build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it!!! It’s going to be HUGE!!!

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Hip.Bang! presents The History of Romance

From Hip.Bang!, creators of 2015 hit WHITE PANTS, comes The History of Romance. Touching on everything from Romeo and Juliet to modern dating, this show will make you laugh like a child who has just learned about ice cream.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Peripeteia

Peripeteia: A reversal of circumstances or a turning point.

Vancouver | Granville Island - Ron Basford Park Stage | 6:30 pm to 7:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Wild Romantics & Wooden Horsemen- Free at the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar

Welcome to the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar, the Festival’s social hub. Now located at Ocean Art Works, in front of Ocean Concrete and next to the Creekhouse on Granville Island!

Vancouver | Ocean Art Works | 7:00 pm to 1:30 am | Festival

Richmond Night Market

Similar to previous years, the annual gathering will feature seemingly endless rows of food vendors (offering hundreds of things to eat and drink), merchandise stalls, gaming stations, and live entertainment.

Richmond | nearby Bridgeport Station | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Manipulation

Join prOphecy sun, Cause & Effect Circus, and Moth Orbit Object Theater for a night of physical and digital manipulation.

Vancouver | Emily Carr University's Intersections Digital Studios | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 7:00 pm to 7:40 pm | Festival

Tommy Alexander with Lew Philips

The Roxy Cabaret Presents: Tommy Alexander with Lew Philips Friday, September 9th 2016

Vancouver | The Roxy Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival. One Man Dark Knight: A Batman Parody

The creators of One Man Star Wars and One Man Lord of the Rings, present an irreverent homage to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:35 pm | Festival

Bard on the Beach: Othello

Othello is man blessed with power, respect and love - until lago's evil manipulation leads him to a fatal act off jealousy.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Bard's hit 2012 production is back and it's time again for music, flirting, fun - and fairies!

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival. I Forgot To Fly Today - Trent Baumann

From the creator of The Birdman, award winning, sold out seasons, standing ovations, and following ten international tours! Imaginative comedy finding the weight of the world may just float on a cloud.

Vancouver | Granville Island, Near Railspur Park | 7:45 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Georgia Straight Fringe-For-All

Get your Fringe feet wet at the Fringe-For-All, a fast and furious preview event where artists perform two minute teasers for their upcoming shows

Vancouver | Cartwright Street | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 8:00 pm to 8:40 pm | Festival

The Fab Four - The Ultimate Tribute

The Emmy Award-winning Beatles tribute show, The Fab Four - The Ultimate Tribute - which has been hailed as “the best Beatles tribute ever” - is coming to the Molson Canadian Theatre at Hard Rock Casino Vancouver

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Jon Bennett: My Dad's Deaths (A Comedy)

Jon Bennett’s dad always wanted his son to be an author… like Banjo Patterson.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | Festival

霍尊2016世界巡回演唱会 温哥华站 Henry Huo 2016 World Tour Vancouver

霍尊2016世界巡回演唱会 温哥华站 Henry Huo 2016 World Tour Vancouver

Vancouver | River Rock Show Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Not Enough

In an effort to finally grow the F up, Megan embarks on a last-ditch gambit: a 10-day silent meditation.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 9:45 pm to 10:45 pm | Festival

2016 Singles Championships / Championnat canadien en simple 2016

West Vancouver LBC has a reputation for running high quality innovative competitions from the local to national level.

West Vancouver | West Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Sports

GarBarge Plastic Pollution Sorting Party

Cleaning the natural environment while demonstrating the use of sustainable waste management strategies.

Richmond | Steveston Harbour | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals

Burnaby Artisan Farmers' Market

We have great farmers, both conventional and Organic with a great selection of prepared food vendors and local crafters.

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

Big Yoga for Big Sisters

This September, we are holding the inaugural Big Yoga for Big Sisters! This event is a team-based 10-hour relay consisting of 10 one-hour yoga sessions.

Vancouver | Jonathan Rogers Park | 9:00 am to 7:00 pm | Active Life / Health

State of the Practice: Leading from Beside

State of the Practice is an annual exhibition highlighting a current theme in community-engaged art and social practice.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre, Exhibition Hall | Performance Centre | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Farmers’ Market: Trout Lake

Popular among chefs, home cooks, and local gastronomes, farmers’ markets have become an integral part of Vancouver’s food landscape.

Vancouver | Trout Lake | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

Lonsdale Artisan Farmers' Market: North Vancouver

We have been lucky in having some of the best organic and conventional farmers in B.C. attend the market plus great bakers, jam makers, honey gathers, and salsa makers.

North Vancouver | The East Plaza of Lonsdale Quay | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Farm Gate Sale

Join us at Loutet Farm every Saturday to support our social enterprise, pick up your farm-fresh produce from our neighbourhood farmers, and meet your neighbours!

North Vancouver | Loutet Farm | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Market

Fleetwood Festival 2016

Celebrate the 18th annual Fleetwood Festival at the Fleetwood Community Centre

Surrey | Francis Park | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House

Please join us for the 15th annual Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House.

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Dance | Free

Sam Cave - UBC Farmers Market

Free Show And Healthy Food! Sam Cave is a 20 year old soul singer, songwriter and guitarist from the outback of Australia.

Vancouver | Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm | 11:00 am to 7:04 pm | Music | Free

Vancouver's Original Greek Food Festival

As the street festival season begins... here's one of the originals!

Vancouver | The Hellenic Community | 12:00 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Nether

The Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity, and indulge your every desire.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 12:00 am to 1:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Secret

Why do we keep secrets? And why would you keep just one? Join comedian Chelsey Stuyt on a quest to unlock the reason why she tells her mother everything—everything except that one little thing.

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 1:00 pm to 1:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Everything is Fine

Take one naive and reckless teenager, add a desolate highway and a cold winter afternoon. The result?

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 1:00 pm to 1:45 pm | Festival

Mirela Dzaferovic

Parkinson SuperWalk is the single most important provincial and national awareness and fundraising event for Parkinson Society British Columbia (PSBC).

Richmond | Minoru Park | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Ballad Of Frank Allen

From Australian fringe-favourite Shane Adamczak comes a bizarre new buddy-comedy about a man who lives in another man’s beard.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 1:00 pm to 1:55 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Charlatan!

Travis Bernhardt, creator of the award winning magic shows Unpossible! and Lies!, returns to tell fortunes, lift curses, and speak to the dead.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Windy Wynazz: Rich & Famous

A Showgirl, her Soul-Searching Yearnings, & Secret Demons.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Suburban Motel: Featuring Loretta

Loretta is the kind of girl you would do anything for. Dave and Michael are in love with her. Dave wants to take her shopping. Michael wants to make her a star! A porn star. What is a woman to do in a man’s world.

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Perpetual Wednesday

Walter and Bruce, con artists extraordinaire, while disguised as magicians, killed an audience member during their infamous bullet-catch act! Or did they?

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 1:15 pm to 2:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. The Famous Haydell Sisters Comeback Tour

Since their last record flopped in 1993, fans of the biggest sister act in country music history have been awaiting their return.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 1:25 pm to 2:25 pm | Festival

Bard on the Beach: Othello

Othello is man blessed with power, respect and love - until lago's evil manipulation leads him to a fatal act off jealousy.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Bard's hit 2012 production is back and it's time again for music, flirting, fun - and fairies!

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Love, Lust & Lace

Witness the raunchy pursuit of primal desires in this farcical masque commedia dell’arte piece. You will indulge in the dynamic intrigues of the heart as you follow Il Capitano and Columbina’s trials in love.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Sea Wall

Alex’s life seems perfect. But underneath his love for his wife and child, there is a deep abyss. A moving monologue about fatherhood, family, and things that cannot be undone.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 2:45 pm to 3:15 pm | Festival

Afro RC Competition Round 3

RWD rear tires will be restricted to 2 Bro's Hobbies flat tires. Prizes will be sponsored by Team-TETSUJIN RC Drift Lounge and Afro's RC CLUB

New Westminster | Afro's RC CLUB | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Sports

Vancouver Fringe Festival: NeOn

I know someone who has never been the main character of their life. She believed in other people’s happiness, but not hers. NeOn questions how you commit to the practice of love.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: One Good Marriage

Steph and Stewart are celebrating their first anniversary. She’s an English teacher; he’s a high-school librarian.

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 3:15 pm to 4:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Women of Lockerbie

After a terrorist’s bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a battle begins between the women in the town and US officials over the clothing of the victims.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Jon Bennett: My Dad's Deaths (A Comedy)

Jon Bennett’s dad always wanted his son to be an author… like Banjo Patterson.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm | Festival

Steveston High Class of 1976. 40th Reunion

Come meet us at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery - the museum located behind the Buccaneer Pub

Richmond | Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site | 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm | History

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Advice to Love/Hate You (and everything in between)

It doesn’t matter who you are or how you identify, we all go through relationships. This is a flexible love story where the audience gets to offer their advice to help a relationship flourish.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Hip.Bang! presents The History of Romance

From Hip.Bang!, creators of 2015 hit WHITE PANTS, comes The History of Romance. Touching on everything from Romeo and Juliet to modern dating, this show will make you laugh like a child who has just learned about ice cream.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Not Enough

In an effort to finally grow the F up, Megan embarks on a last-ditch gambit: a 10-day silent meditation.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Peripeteia

Peripeteia: A reversal of circumstances or a turning point.

Vancouver | Granville Island - Ron Basford Park Stage | 6:30 pm to 7:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: "Ze": Queer as Fuck!

Catapulted by a series of unlikely experiences, Michelle/Ryan stumbles through an expanding parade of LGBTQI, etc. identities in search of a definitive sense of zir own queer pride.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 6:45 pm to 7:50 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Limbs of the Stars & Wishkicker - Free at the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar

Welcome to the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar, the Festival’s social hub. Now located at Ocean Art Works, in front of Ocean Concrete and next to the Creekhouse on Granville Island!

Vancouver | Ocean Art Works | 7:00 pm to 1:30 am | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. One Man Dark Knight: A Batman Parody

The creators of One Man Star Wars and One Man Lord of the Rings, present an irreverent homage to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 7:00 pm to 8:05 pm | Festival

Richmond Night Market

Similar to previous years, the annual gathering will feature seemingly endless rows of food vendors (offering hundreds of things to eat and drink), merchandise stalls, gaming stations, and live entertainment.

Richmond | nearby Bridgeport Station | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Manipulation

Join prOphecy sun, Cause & Effect Circus, and Moth Orbit Object Theater for a night of physical and digital manipulation.

Vancouver | Emily Carr University's Intersections Digital Studios | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 7:00 pm to 7:40 pm | Festival

Summer Latin Cruises

Summer Latin Cruises With the Best Selection of Latin and Salsa Top 40!

Vancouver | M.V. Queen of Diamonds | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

In Bliss with Tropical Fish

The Roxy Cabaret and The Live Agency Present: In Bliss with Special Guests Tropical Fish

Vancouver | The Roxy Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Keith Urban - RipCORD World Tour 2016

Another Gold & Gold, Sakamoto Entertainment Production, in association with Huka Entertainment 93.7 JRFM Welcomes KEITH URBAN

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Bard on the Beach: Othello

Othello is man blessed with power, respect and love - until lago's evil manipulation leads him to a fatal act off jealousy.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Bard's hit 2012 production is back and it's time again for music, flirting, fun - and fairies!

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival. I Forgot To Fly Today - Trent Baumann

From the creator of The Birdman, award winning, sold out seasons, standing ovations, and following ten international tours! Imaginative comedy finding the weight of the world may just float on a cloud.

Vancouver | Granville Island, Near Railspur Park | 7:45 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Badmatch

Cocaine, diarrhea, a Canucks’ riot, and the Grouse Grind. What could they possibly have in common?

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 7:45 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival

Plastic Acid Orchestra with Veda Hille and Friends

The Plastic Acid Orchestra with Veda Hille in this evening of inspired new music

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 8:00 pm to 8:40 pm | Festival

Simile: dumb instrument Dance + Action at a Distance

Simile is an evening of contemporary dance choreographed and performed by Ziyian Kwan (dumb instrument Dance) and Vanessa Goodman (Action at a Distance), which highlights the artistic camaraderie between two vibrant creative voices.

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance

胡美儀美妙人生慈善演唱會2016 Amy Wu In Charity Concert

Many of you know Amy Wu as a famous Hong Kong Film and stage artist, but Amy is also a famous opera singer.

Richmond | River Rock Show Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Wild/Society

Rabbit wants to be the most popular city lady when she moves to the newest development in town. Raccoon couldn’t care less about social politics.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 8:15 pm to 9:05 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: 2 Ruby Knockers, 1 Jaded Dick: A Dirk Darrow Investigation

Australia’s favourite silly psychic detective is back. All new comedy, magic, and crime. Think Boardwalk Empire meets Naked Gun. Based on a Dashiell Hammett story.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:20 pm to 9:20 pm | Festival

Summer Salsa Cruise Series 2016

Summer fun starts & ends here, with the Salsa Cruises on the beautiful waters of Vancouver!

Vancouver | MV Britannia | 8:30 pm to 0:30 am | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: My Stroke of Luck

Can the good doctor become a good patient? My Stroke of Luck shares Diane’s journey of medical catastrophe and recovery—not only as the physician she is, but as a single mom to a frightened teenaged son.

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 8:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: V. R. Dunne

In 1934 a small group of workers decided to fight for a better life. Their actions were a pivotal event in 20th century American labour history.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Piaf and Brel: The Impossible Concert

Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel: Two French musical icons. They sang songs of romance, heartbreak, hope, and love. They lived lives of drama and passion.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:35 pm to 9:35 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Give It Up

Morgan Brayton has it all! Okay, well, she has questions about it all. Where is her husband Scott Baio? When is SNL going to call?

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 8:45 pm to 9:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Waiting for Garbo

Fresh from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Garbo meets Brecht meets Beckett in this comic, musical-ish stomp in an about-to-close garbage dump.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 9:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Carry On: A Musical

Set in the YVR baggage claim, Carry On: A Musical examines the convergent lives of weary wanderers and the baggage they bring with them.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Smut Slam: Where Sexy and Storytelling Collide

Hold on to your hats and sit on a towel, Vancouver. Cameryn Moore is back and she's bringing

Vancouver | Performance Works | 10:30 pm to 0:01 am | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Trump: The Musical!

He’s going to build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it!!! It’s going to be HUGE!!!

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 10:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Burn Job

Fringe staple TJ Dawe returns with a story about growing up in Burnaby, LSD, and a breathing technique that brings you into a psychedelic state.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 10:30 pm to 11:45 pm | Festival

GarBarge Plastic Pollution Sorting Party

Cleaning the natural environment while demonstrating the use of sustainable waste management strategies.

Richmond | Steveston Harbour | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals

State of the Practice: Leading from Beside

State of the Practice is an annual exhibition highlighting a current theme in community-engaged art and social practice.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre, Exhibition Hall | Performance Centre | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Ambleside Artisan Farmers' Market

We are very lucky to have such a great variety of organic and conventional farmers at this location.

West Vancouver | Between 15th & 16th Street | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Market

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Scotiabank & BC SPCA Paws for a Cause

Join us for a super fun day raising money for animals in need. This fundraising event is a great way to get out and get active with your furry friend.

Richmond | Garry Point Park | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Vancouver's Original Greek Food Festival

As the street festival season begins... here's one of the originals!

Vancouver | The Hellenic Community | 12:00 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

C̓əsnaʔəm Discussion Series featuring Larry Grant and Jill Campbell

To celebrate National Aboriginal Day, join the Language and Culture team for an informal talk and tour of the Museum of Vancouver’s exhibition c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city.

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 12:00 am to 2:00 pm | Lecture

Nelson Avenue Community Church: Community Party 2016

There will be a free hot dog lunch, live entertainment, crafts, games for all ages, bouncy castle and more.

Burnaby | Nelson Avenue Community Church | 12:00 am to 1:30 pm | Family | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Carry On: A Musical

Set in the YVR baggage claim, Carry On: A Musical examines the convergent lives of weary wanderers and the baggage they bring with them.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 12:00 am to 1:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Trump: The Musical!

He’s going to build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it!!! It’s going to be HUGE!!!

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Jon Bennett: My Dad's Deaths (A Comedy)

Jon Bennett’s dad always wanted his son to be an author… like Banjo Patterson.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Festival

From Rationing to Ravishing Fashion Show

The Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society is honoured to present an exciting upcoming fashion show of women’s wartime fashion: From Rationing to Ravishing.

Richmond | Gulf of Georgia Cannery | 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Show

Bard on the Beach: Othello

Othello is man blessed with power, respect and love - until lago's evil manipulation leads him to a fatal act off jealousy.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Bard's hit 2012 production is back and it's time again for music, flirting, fun - and fairies!

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival: 2 for Tea

Having SOLD OUT in 2014 (High Tea) and 2015 (In The Dark), 14-time Best of Fest winning British comedy duo James & Jamesy come with the show that propelled them to being “one of the most popular Fringe duos ever” (

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 2:15 pm to 3:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Not Enough

In an effort to finally grow the F up, Megan embarks on a last-ditch gambit: a 10-day silent meditation.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 2:45 pm to 3:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Bella Culpa

From nine-time award winning company, A Little Bit Off comes a slapstick comedy that follows two peculiar servants in an Edwardian manor as they bustle around, trying in vain to complete all of their chores.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 4:10 pm to 5:10 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Nether

The Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity, and indulge your every desire.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 4:15 pm to 5:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Waiting for Garbo

Fresh from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Garbo meets Brecht meets Beckett in this comic, musical-ish stomp in an about-to-close garbage dump.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 4:15 pm to 5:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Everything is Fine

Take one naive and reckless teenager, add a desolate highway and a cold winter afternoon. The result?

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 4:30 pm to 5:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Suburban Motel: Featuring Loretta

Loretta is the kind of girl you would do anything for. Dave and Michael are in love with her. Dave wants to take her shopping. Michael wants to make her a star! A porn star. What is a woman to do in a man’s world.

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 5:15 pm to 6:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Fat Sex

Comedy, spoken word, and song with a smart satirical twist from an international slam champion with two decades of experience bringing audiences world-over to a glorious climax!

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 5:30 pm to 6:29 am | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. How to Adult: The Musical

Four 20-somethings trying to get their shit together in present-day Vancouver. It’s time to adult the f*ck up.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 5:30 pm to 6:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: In The Trenches: A Double Feature

A delightful duet of original comedies! Witness an apocalyptic war zone become a slapstick extravaganza as three clown soldiers take cover in an abandoned trench.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 5:45 pm to 6:55 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Space Hippo

Scientists weren’t lying. Earth is really dying. Space Hippo, you’re the only one that can undo what we’ve done. Together we can stop the Sun. Sail across the universe. Help us save the planet Earth.

Vancouver | The Waterfront Theatre | 5:55 pm to 6:55 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Dance Teacher

A riveting story about a complex and broken individual who has chosen the dark path of manipulation and power.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 6:15 pm to 7:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Sea Wall

Alex’s life seems perfect. But underneath his love for his wife and child, there is a deep abyss. A moving monologue about fatherhood, family, and things that cannot be undone.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 6:15 pm to 6:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Leash Your Potential

Drawing on 15+ years of experience at a Fortune 500 company, Ryan will teach you how to succeed in a modern corporate bureaucracy, where outdated notions like talent, competence, and hard work are irrelevant.

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. One Man Dark Knight: A Batman Parody

The creators of One Man Star Wars and One Man Lord of the Rings, present an irreverent homage to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 7:00 pm to 8:05 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Sun Belt and Barbara Adler & Ten Thousand Wolves - Free at the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar

Welcome to the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar, the Festival’s social hub. Now located at Ocean Art Works, in front of Ocean Concrete and next to the Creekhouse on Granville Island!

Vancouver | Ocean Art Works | 7:00 pm to 1:30 am | Festival

Richmond Night Market

Similar to previous years, the annual gathering will feature seemingly endless rows of food vendors (offering hundreds of things to eat and drink), merchandise stalls, gaming stations, and live entertainment.

Richmond | nearby Bridgeport Station | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Manipulation

Join prOphecy sun, Cause & Effect Circus, and Moth Orbit Object Theater for a night of physical and digital manipulation.

Vancouver | Emily Carr University's Intersections Digital Studios | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 7:00 pm to 7:40 pm | Festival

【詩韻】溫哥華首屆詩詞文藝晚會 “中秋篇” The Charm of Poetry

This is Vancouver's first performing arts show in which Chinese poetry is the main theme.

Richmond | River Rock Show Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Nerdfucker

The spectators are early, her lover is late, and the players are due any minute.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: NeOn

I know someone who has never been the main character of their life. She believed in other people’s happiness, but not hers. NeOn questions how you commit to the practice of love.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm | Festival

Bard on the Beach: Othello

Othello is man blessed with power, respect and love - until lago's evil manipulation leads him to a fatal act off jealousy.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Women of Lockerbie

After a terrorist’s bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a battle begins between the women in the town and US officials over the clothing of the victims.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm | Festival

Bard on the Beach: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Bard's hit 2012 production is back and it's time again for music, flirting, fun - and fairies!

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Mrs. Barbour's Daughters

Mary is facing eviction and is beset by memories of life in a family which for 100 years has been influenced, for good and bad, by Mrs. Barbour, leader of a rent strike in 1915.

Vancouver | The Vancity Culture Lab | 7:30 pm to 8:28 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: James Jordan Vaudevillian

This all ages vaudeville variety show with magic, juggling, royalty-free music, and brilliant comedy has been headlining comedy clubs and festivals all over the world!

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 7:45 pm to 8:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. I Forgot To Fly Today - Trent Baumann

From the creator of The Birdman, award winning, sold out seasons, standing ovations, and following ten international tours! Imaginative comedy finding the weight of the world may just float on a cloud.

Vancouver | Granville Island, Near Railspur Park | 7:45 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Frank: To Be Frank

World-renowned! The Rat Pack’s 17th member! America’s most entertaining entertainer invites you to partake in his interactive live “life retrospective.”

Vancouver | Performance Works | 7:50 pm to 8:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 8:00 pm to 8:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Jon Bennett: My Dad's Deaths (A Comedy)

Jon Bennett’s dad always wanted his son to be an author… like Banjo Patterson.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: My Ocean

Twelve-year-old environmentalist Lenny has his lucky pouch around his neck and the eczema behind his knees is hardly even itchy.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 8:15 pm to 9:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: In the Blue of Evening

A stunning and fantastical epic journey whisking us from a living room to the high seas!

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 8:15 pm to 9:10 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Love, Lust & Lace

Witness the raunchy pursuit of primal desires in this farcical masque commedia dell’arte piece. You will indulge in the dynamic intrigues of the heart as you follow Il Capitano and Columbina’s trials in love.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:15 pm to 9:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Certified

Join the irreverent fun in this hilarious and heart aching romp, as comedian and certified insane person Jan Derbyshire turns the audience into a mental health review board to help determine her current state of sanity.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 8:45 pm to 9:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Ballad Of Frank Allen

From Australian fringe-favourite Shane Adamczak comes a bizarre new buddy-comedy about a man who lives in another man’s beard.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 9:00 pm to 9:55 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: One Good Marriage

Steph and Stewart are celebrating their first anniversary. She’s an English teacher; he’s a high-school librarian.

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 9:15 pm to 10:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Charlatan!

Travis Bernhardt, creator of the award winning magic shows Unpossible! and Lies!, returns to tell fortunes, lift curses, and speak to the dead.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Hip.Bang! presents The History of Romance

From Hip.Bang!, creators of 2015 hit WHITE PANTS, comes The History of Romance. Touching on everything from Romeo and Juliet to modern dating, this show will make you laugh like a child who has just learned about ice cream.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Windy Wynazz: Rich & Famous

A Showgirl, her Soul-Searching Yearnings, & Secret Demons.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 9:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: "Ze": Queer as Fuck!

Catapulted by a series of unlikely experiences, Michelle/Ryan stumbles through an expanding parade of LGBTQI, etc. identities in search of a definitive sense of zir own queer pride.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 9:30 pm to 10:35 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Not Enough

In an effort to finally grow the F up, Megan embarks on a last-ditch gambit: a 10-day silent meditation.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 9:45 pm to 10:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Perpetual Wednesday

Walter and Bruce, con artists extraordinaire, while disguised as magicians, killed an audience member during their infamous bullet-catch act! Or did they?

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 9:55 pm to 10:55 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Advice to Love/Hate You (and everything in between)

It doesn’t matter who you are or how you identify, we all go through relationships. This is a flexible love story where the audience gets to offer their advice to help a relationship flourish.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Secret

Why do we keep secrets? And why would you keep just one? Join comedian Chelsey Stuyt on a quest to unlock the reason why she tells her mother everything—everything except that one little thing.

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 10:30 pm to 11:15 pm | Festival

Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place conference

The premier conference in North America for walking and cycling professionals

Vancouver | The Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre | 8:00 am to 4:54 pm | Lecture

State of the Practice: Leading from Beside

State of the Practice is an annual exhibition highlighting a current theme in community-engaged art and social practice.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre, Exhibition Hall | Performance Centre | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Certified

Join the irreverent fun in this hilarious and heart aching romp, as comedian and certified insane person Jan Derbyshire turns the audience into a mental health review board to help determine her current state of sanity.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: In The Trenches: A Double Feature

A delightful duet of original comedies! Witness an apocalyptic war zone become a slapstick extravaganza as three clown soldiers take cover in an abandoned trench.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 5:00 pm to 6:10 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Leash Your Potential

Drawing on 15+ years of experience at a Fortune 500 company, Ryan will teach you how to succeed in a modern corporate bureaucracy, where outdated notions like talent, competence, and hard work are irrelevant.

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Dance Teacher

A riveting story about a complex and broken individual who has chosen the dark path of manipulation and power.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 5:00 pm to 6:10 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Space Hippo

Scientists weren’t lying. Earth is really dying. Space Hippo, you’re the only one that can undo what we’ve done. Together we can stop the Sun. Sail across the universe. Help us save the planet Earth.

Vancouver | The Waterfront Theatre | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Nerdfucker

The spectators are early, her lover is late, and the players are due any minute.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 5:15 pm to 6:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Sea Wall

Alex’s life seems perfect. But underneath his love for his wife and child, there is a deep abyss. A moving monologue about fatherhood, family, and things that cannot be undone.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: 2 for Tea

Having SOLD OUT in 2014 (High Tea) and 2015 (In The Dark), 14-time Best of Fest winning British comedy duo James & Jamesy come with the show that propelled them to being “one of the most popular Fringe duos ever” (

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. How to Adult: The Musical

Four 20-somethings trying to get their shit together in present-day Vancouver. It’s time to adult the f*ck up.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 6:15 pm to 7:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Everything is Fine

Take one naive and reckless teenager, add a desolate highway and a cold winter afternoon. The result?

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 6:15 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Peripeteia

Peripeteia: A reversal of circumstances or a turning point.

Vancouver | Granville Island - Ron Basford Park Stage | 6:30 pm to 7:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. One Man Dark Knight: A Batman Parody

The creators of One Man Star Wars and One Man Lord of the Rings, present an irreverent homage to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 6:45 pm to 7:50 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Fourth Annual Fringe Square Dance with Paul Silveria - Free at the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar

Welcome to the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar, the Festival’s social hub. Now located at Ocean Art Works, in front of Ocean Concrete and next to the Creekhouse on Granville Island!

Vancouver | Ocean Art Works | 7:00 pm to 1:30 am | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Manipulation

Join prOphecy sun, Cause & Effect Circus, and Moth Orbit Object Theater for a night of physical and digital manipulation.

Vancouver | Emily Carr University's Intersections Digital Studios | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 7:00 pm to 7:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Mrs. Barbour's Daughters

Mary is facing eviction and is beset by memories of life in a family which for 100 years has been influenced, for good and bad, by Mrs. Barbour, leader of a rent strike in 1915.

Vancouver | The Vancity Culture Lab | 7:00 pm to 7:58 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Women of Lockerbie

After a terrorist’s bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a battle begins between the women in the town and US officials over the clothing of the victims.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 7:15 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. The Famous Haydell Sisters Comeback Tour

Since their last record flopped in 1993, fans of the biggest sister act in country music history have been awaiting their return.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 7:45 pm to 8:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Bella Culpa

From nine-time award winning company, A Little Bit Off comes a slapstick comedy that follows two peculiar servants in an Edwardian manor as they bustle around, trying in vain to complete all of their chores.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Secret

Why do we keep secrets? And why would you keep just one? Join comedian Chelsey Stuyt on a quest to unlock the reason why she tells her mother everything—everything except that one little thing.

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 8:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 8:00 pm to 8:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Falling Awake

Death and other common experiences... coffee, lightning, flash floods, and a pinch of salt.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 8:15 pm to 9:10 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Waiting for Garbo

Fresh from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Garbo meets Brecht meets Beckett in this comic, musical-ish stomp in an about-to-close garbage dump.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 9:15 pm to 10:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Frank: To Be Frank

World-renowned! The Rat Pack’s 17th member! America’s most entertaining entertainer invites you to partake in his interactive live “life retrospective.”

Vancouver | Performance Works | 9:30 pm to 10:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Nether

The Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity, and indulge your every desire.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Jon Bennett: My Dad's Deaths (A Comedy)

Jon Bennett’s dad always wanted his son to be an author… like Banjo Patterson.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 9:45 pm to 10:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: NeOn

I know someone who has never been the main character of their life. She believed in other people’s happiness, but not hers. NeOn questions how you commit to the practice of love.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 10:00 pm to 11:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Insults, injury, and Anne Boleyn’s head are tossed around as the the six wives return to battle it out in purgatory once again. And when Henry arrives…well, you just have to see it.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 10:15 pm to 11:25 pm | Family

Vancouver Fringe Festival: In the Blue of Evening

A stunning and fantastical epic journey whisking us from a living room to the high seas!

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 10:15 pm to 11:10 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: My Ocean

Twelve-year-old environmentalist Lenny has his lucky pouch around his neck and the eczema behind his knees is hardly even itchy.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 10:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Festival

Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place conference

The premier conference in North America for walking and cycling professionals

Vancouver | The Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre | 8:00 am to 4:54 pm | Lecture

State of the Practice: Leading from Beside

State of the Practice is an annual exhibition highlighting a current theme in community-engaged art and social practice.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre, Exhibition Hall | Performance Centre | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Fringe Festival. On the Road Touring Workshop

Are you an aspiring or emerging artist interested in touring? Have you ever wanted to learn more about how presenters book their shows?

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | Workshop | Free

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses

Known for his enormous contribution to the canon of great art in the 20th century, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881—1973) is one of the masters of Modernism.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kwantlen St. Farmers Market

The Kwantlen St. Farmers Market offers all the goodness of a farmers market, with live entertainment, kids workshops, artisan foods and crafts, food trucks and chef demos using the freshest local produce.

Richmond | Kwantlen St. Farmers Market, Kwantlen Polytechnic University | 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Market | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Perpetual Wednesday

Walter and Bruce, con artists extraordinaire, while disguised as magicians, killed an audience member during their infamous bullet-catch act! Or did they?

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Love, Lust & Lace

Witness the raunchy pursuit of primal desires in this farcical masque commedia dell’arte piece. You will indulge in the dynamic intrigues of the heart as you follow Il Capitano and Columbina’s trials in love.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Advice to Love/Hate You (and everything in between)

It doesn’t matter who you are or how you identify, we all go through relationships. This is a flexible love story where the audience gets to offer their advice to help a relationship flourish.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: James Jordan Vaudevillian

This all ages vaudeville variety show with magic, juggling, royalty-free music, and brilliant comedy has been headlining comedy clubs and festivals all over the world!

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Wild/Society

Rabbit wants to be the most popular city lady when she moves to the newest development in town. Raccoon couldn’t care less about social politics.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 5:25 pm to 6:15 pm | Festival

People, Parks, and Dogs: Trout Lake open house

Join us at an open house to discuss, learn more, and provide feedback about People, Parks, and Dogs, a strategy for sharing Vancouver's parks.

Vancouver | Trout Lake Community Centre, Lakewood Room | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Trump: The Musical!

He’s going to build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it!!! It’s going to be HUGE!!!

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Not Enough

In an effort to finally grow the F up, Megan embarks on a last-ditch gambit: a 10-day silent meditation.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Carry On: A Musical

Set in the YVR baggage claim, Carry On: A Musical examines the convergent lives of weary wanderers and the baggage they bring with them.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Peripeteia

Peripeteia: A reversal of circumstances or a turning point.

Vancouver | Granville Island - Ron Basford Park Stage | 6:30 pm to 7:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Weekend Leisure Karaoke - Free at the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar

Welcome to the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar, the Festival’s social hub. Now located at Ocean Art Works, in front of Ocean Concrete and next to the Creekhouse on Granville Island!

Vancouver | Ocean Art Works | 7:00 pm to 1:30 am | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 7:00 pm to 7:40 pm | Festival

Celebrating Indigenous Writers - Book Launch

Join us to celebrate Indigenous writers including Roy Henry Vickers, Roberta Price, and Kathleen King-Hunt.

Vancouver | Native Education College | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Piaf and Brel:The Impossible Concert

Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel: Two French musical icons. They sang songs of romance, heartbreak, hope, and love. They lived lives of drama and passion.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Bluebird North 100th show

The season begins with our 100th show! Featuring Helen Austin, Stephen Fearing and Shaun Verrault (Wide Mouth Mason).

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre, Performance Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Fat Sex

Comedy, spoken word, and song with a smart satirical twist from an international slam champion with two decades of experience bringing audiences world-over to a glorious climax!

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 7:45 pm to 8:44 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Falling Awake

Death and other common experiences... coffee, lightning, flash floods, and a pinch of salt.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 7:45 pm to 8:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. I Forgot To Fly Today - Trent Baumann

From the creator of The Birdman, award winning, sold out seasons, standing ovations, and following ten international tours! Imaginative comedy finding the weight of the world may just float on a cloud.

Vancouver | Granville Island, Near Railspur Park | 7:45 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Friends of Chamber Music: Escher Quartet

The Friends of Chamber Music are please to welcome back the Escher Quartet to Vancouver for an evening of Schoenberg and Mendelssohn.

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 8:00 pm to 8:40 pm | Festival

楊臣剛 老鼠愛大米 北美巡迴演唱會 Yang Chen Gang Concert

Yang Chen Gang is a singer and music artist from China, Wu Han city.

Richmond | River Rock Show Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Certified

Join the irreverent fun in this hilarious and heart aching romp, as comedian and certified insane person Jan Derbyshire turns the audience into a mental health review board to help determine her current state of sanity.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Bella Culpa

From nine-time award winning company, A Little Bit Off comes a slapstick comedy that follows two peculiar servants in an Edwardian manor as they bustle around, trying in vain to complete all of their chores.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Suburban Motel: Featuring Loretta

Loretta is the kind of girl you would do anything for. Dave and Michael are in love with her. Dave wants to take her shopping. Michael wants to make her a star! A porn star. What is a woman to do in a man’s world.

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 9:15 pm to 10:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: 2 for Tea

Having SOLD OUT in 2014 (High Tea) and 2015 (In The Dark), 14-time Best of Fest winning British comedy duo James & Jamesy come with the show that propelled them to being “one of the most popular Fringe duos ever” (

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 10:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. One Man Dark Knight: A Batman Parody

The creators of One Man Star Wars and One Man Lord of the Rings, present an irreverent homage to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 10:45 pm to 11:50 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Secret

Why do we keep secrets? And why would you keep just one? Join comedian Chelsey Stuyt on a quest to unlock the reason why she tells her mother everything—everything except that one little thing.

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 10:45 pm to 11:30 pm | Festival

Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place conference

The premier conference in North America for walking and cycling professionals

Vancouver | The Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre | 8:00 am to 4:54 pm | Lecture

State of the Practice: Leading from Beside

State of the Practice is an annual exhibition highlighting a current theme in community-engaged art and social practice.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre, Exhibition Hall | Performance Centre | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses

Known for his enormous contribution to the canon of great art in the 20th century, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881—1973) is one of the masters of Modernism.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Bard on the Beach: Romeo and Juliet

A classic staging of the world's greatest romantic tragedy, with its story of young star-crossed lovers who inspire us as they break our hearts.

Vancouver | BMO Mainstage, Bard on the Beach, Vanier Park | 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Theatre

Farm Gate Sale

In need of mid-week fresh veggies?

North Vancouver | Loutet Farm | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market

Vancouver Fringe Festival: My Stroke of Luck

Can the good doctor become a good patient? My Stroke of Luck shares Diane’s journey of medical catastrophe and recovery—not only as the physician she is, but as a single mom to a frightened teenaged son.

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 5:00 pm to 6:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: V. R. Dunne

In 1934 a small group of workers decided to fight for a better life. Their actions were a pivotal event in 20th century American labour history.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Badmatch

Cocaine, diarrhea, a Canucks’ riot, and the Grouse Grind. What could they possibly have in common?

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 5:00 pm to 6:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Give It Up

Morgan Brayton has it all! Okay, well, she has questions about it all. Where is her husband Scott Baio? When is SNL going to call?

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: 2 Ruby Knockers, 1 Jaded Dick: A Dirk Darrow Investigation

Australia’s favourite silly psychic detective is back. All new comedy, magic, and crime. Think Boardwalk Empire meets Naked Gun. Based on a Dashiell Hammett story.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 5:15 pm to 6:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Secret

Why do we keep secrets? And why would you keep just one? Join comedian Chelsey Stuyt on a quest to unlock the reason why she tells her mother everything—everything except that one little thing.

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Women of Lockerbie

After a terrorist’s bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a battle begins between the women in the town and US officials over the clothing of the victims.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm | Festival

Literary Pub Trivia Night with Word Vancouver!

We had so much fun last time, we're doing it again! The metaphors have been sharpened. The plots are thickening. The pens have been thrown down...

Vancouver | Sunset Grill Vancouver | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Jon Bennett: My Dad's Deaths (A Comedy)

Jon Bennett’s dad always wanted his son to be an author… like Banjo Patterson.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Generation Hot: Program A

Generation Hot is a group of fiercely courageous young artists responding to the climate crisis through new performances.

Vancouver | Anderson Street | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Insults, injury, and Anne Boleyn’s head are tossed around as the the six wives return to battle it out in purgatory once again. And when Henry arrives…well, you just have to see it.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 7:00 pm to 8:10 pm | Family

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Jody Glenham and the Dreamers and Adrian Glynn - Free at the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar

Welcome to the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar, the Festival’s social hub. Now located at Ocean Art Works, in front of Ocean Concrete and next to the Creekhouse on Granville Island!

Vancouver | Ocean Art Works | 7:00 pm to 1:30 am | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Manipulation

Join prOphecy sun, Cause & Effect Circus, and Moth Orbit Object Theater for a night of physical and digital manipulation.

Vancouver | Emily Carr University's Intersections Digital Studios | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 7:00 pm to 7:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Carry On: A Musical

Set in the YVR baggage claim, Carry On: A Musical examines the convergent lives of weary wanderers and the baggage they bring with them.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:15 pm to 8:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. How to Adult: The Musical

Four 20-somethings trying to get their shit together in present-day Vancouver. It’s time to adult the f**k up.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:40 pm | Festival

Bard on the Beach: Pericles

This fast-paced, thrilling tale, set in an ancient mythical world, follows a prince's arduous quest to find love and the meaning of life.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Frank: To Be Frank

World-renowned! The Rat Pack’s 17th member! America’s most entertaining entertainer invites you to partake in his interactive live “life retrospective.”

Vancouver | Performance Works | 7:35 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Space Hippo

Scientists weren’t lying. Earth is really dying. Space Hippo, you’re the only one that can undo what we’ve done. Together we can stop the Sun. Sail across the universe. Help us save the planet Earth.

Vancouver | The Waterfront Theatre | 7:45 pm to 8:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Dance Teacher

A riveting story about a complex and broken individual who has chosen the dark path of manipulation and power.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 7:45 pm to 8:55 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. I Forgot To Fly Today - Trent Baumann

From the creator of The Birdman, award winning, sold out seasons, standing ovations, and following ten international tours! Imaginative comedy finding the weight of the world may just float on a cloud.

Vancouver | Granville Island, Near Railspur Park | 7:45 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Waiting for Garbo

Fresh from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Garbo meets Brecht meets Beckett in this comic, musical-ish stomp in an about-to-close garbage dump.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:10 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Leash Your Potential

Drawing on 15+ years of experience at a Fortune 500 company, Ryan will teach you how to succeed in a modern corporate bureaucracy, where outdated notions like talent, competence, and hard work are irrelevant.

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival

Co.ERASGA presents Collected, Traces and Still Here

Co.ERASGA’s 16th season presents the company’s newest ensemble creation choreographed by critically acclaimed Vancouver choreographer, Alvin Erasga Tolentino.

Vancouver | Scotiabank Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

Juliette Lewis

Juliette Lewis with guest

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 8:00 pm to 0:30 am | Music

Atmosphere: Freshwater Fly Fishermen Tour

Atmosphere Freshwater Fly Fishermen Tour with guests Brother Ali, Plain Ole Bill, Last Word and deM atlas

Vancouver | The Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 8:00 pm to 8:40 pm | Festival

Reality Curve Theatre: Bug the play

Love, fear, paranoia, conspiracy theories, twisted psychological motives and a slow descent into insanity. Pulitzer prize winning author Tracy Letts crafts a riveting, lurid thriller about two damaged people trying to make a connection.

Vancouver | The Annex | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Not Enough

In an effort to finally grow the F up, Megan embarks on a last-ditch gambit: a 10-day silent meditation.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. Bajo La Influencia by Toque Flamenco

This esteemed Vancouver flamenco troupe (regular performers at Kino Café) will share an eclectic, tongue-in-cheek twist on traditional flamenco palos (song forms).

Vancouver | Centro Flamenco studio | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

The Escapist Music

The Roxy Cabaret Presents: The Escapist Music with special guest Deceptive Resolutions

Vancouver | The Roxy Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Mrs. Barbour's Daughters

Mary is facing eviction and is beset by memories of life in a family which for 100 years has been influenced, for good and bad, by Mrs. Barbour, leader of a rent strike in 1915.

Vancouver | The Vancity Culture Lab | 9:15 pm to 10:13 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Everything is Fine

Take one naive and reckless teenager, add a desolate highway and a cold winter afternoon. The result?

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 9:45 pm to 10:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Sea Wall

Alex’s life seems perfect. But underneath his love for his wife and child, there is a deep abyss. A moving monologue about fatherhood, family, and things that cannot be undone.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 10:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Nerdfucker

The spectators are early, her lover is late, and the players are due any minute.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 10:15 pm to 11:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Hip.Bang! presents The History of Romance

From Hip.Bang!, creators of 2015 hit WHITE PANTS, comes The History of Romance. Touching on everything from Romeo and Juliet to modern dating, this show will make you laugh like a child who has just learned about ice cream.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 10:45 pm to 11:45 pm | Festival

Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place conference

The premier conference in North America for walking and cycling professionals

Vancouver | The Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre | 8:00 am to 4:54 pm | Lecture

State of the Practice: Leading from Beside

State of the Practice is an annual exhibition highlighting a current theme in community-engaged art and social practice.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre, Exhibition Hall | Performance Centre | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses

Known for his enormous contribution to the canon of great art in the 20th century, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881—1973) is one of the masters of Modernism.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts

Farmers’ Market: Granville Island

Popular among chefs, home cooks, and local gastronomes, farmers’ markets have become an integral part of Vancouver’s food landscape.

Vancouver | Granville Island, Triangle Square | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Free Community Lunch

Free Community Lunch at St. Andrew's United Church.

North Vancouver | St Andrew's United Church | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Food / Wine

Necklace of HOpe: Walk Series from HOpe Centre

Necklace of HOpe, is a 45 min walk from HOpe Centre, towards Brand Blvd and up towards 19th Street, back down through Grand Blvd, and along 15th Street, back to the HOpe Centre.

North Vancouver | Kelty Dennehy Mental Health Resource Centre | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Plays Well With Others

A continuation of the equity and inclusion conversations happening in the theatre community, “Plays Well with Others” provides theatre artists, producers, and administrators from any/all lived experiences a space to foster inclusive practices that target

Vancouver | Vancouver International Fringe Festival | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Festival

Vetta Chamber Music: Beethoven!

This all Beethoven concert features Vancouver’s best chamber musicians performing much loved sonatas and the famous “Ghost” Trio.

Vancouver | West Point Grey United Church | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Music

Downtown Farmers Market

We’re thrilled to announce that the Downtown Farmers Market at Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Plaza | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market | Free

And the Monkey Flips the Switch

‘And the Monkey Flips the Switch’ is a pop-up art and fashion show that marks the first solo exhibition of emerging artist Anthony Joseph, as he showcases a series of black and white oil paintings.

Vancouver | Makeshift Spaces Ltd. | 5:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Fringe Festival. The Famous Haydell Sisters Comeback Tour

Since their last record flopped in 1993, fans of the biggest sister act in country music history have been awaiting their return.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Falling Awake

Death and other common experiences... coffee, lightning, flash floods, and a pinch of salt.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 5:00 pm to 5:55 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: William vs The World

The epic adventure of a geek and his cactus who just want to be left alone.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: My Ocean

Twelve-year-old environmentalist Lenny has his lucky pouch around his neck and the eczema behind his knees is hardly even itchy.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Peripeteia

Peripeteia: A reversal of circumstances or a turning point.

Vancouver | Granville Island - Ron Basford Park Stage | 6:30 pm to 7:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: "Ze": Queer as Fuck!

Catapulted by a series of unlikely experiences, Michelle/Ryan stumbles through an expanding parade of LGBTQI, etc. identities in search of a definitive sense of zir own queer pride.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 6:45 pm to 7:50 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Ballad Of Frank Allen

From Australian fringe-favourite Shane Adamczak comes a bizarre new buddy-comedy about a man who lives in another man’s beard.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 6:45 pm to 7:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Charlatan!

Travis Bernhardt, creator of the award winning magic shows Unpossible! and Lies!, returns to tell fortunes, lift curses, and speak to the dead.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 6:45 pm to 7:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Love, Lust & Lace

Witness the raunchy pursuit of primal desires in this farcical masque commedia dell’arte piece. You will indulge in the dynamic intrigues of the heart as you follow Il Capitano and Columbina’s trials in love.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 6:45 pm to 7:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: In the Blue of Evening

A stunning and fantastical epic journey whisking us from a living room to the high seas!

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 6:45 pm to 7:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Hollow Twin and Skye Wallace - Free at the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar

Welcome to the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar, the Festival’s social hub. Now located at Ocean Art Works, in front of Ocean Concrete and next to the Creekhouse on Granville Island!

Vancouver | Ocean Art Works | 7:00 pm to 1:30 am | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Manipulation

Join prOphecy sun, Cause & Effect Circus, and Moth Orbit Object Theater for a night of physical and digital manipulation.

Vancouver | Emily Carr University's Intersections Digital Studios | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 7:00 pm to 7:40 pm | Festival

People, Parks, and Dogs: Trout Lake small group meeting

Register for a small group meeting to discuss, learn more, and provide feedback about People, Parks, and Dogs, a strategy for sharing Vancouver's parks.

Vancouver | Trout Lake Community Centre, Lakewood Room | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

Leading From Beside: Exhibition Opening & Keynote Speaker

Exhibition Opening and Keynote speaker Luca Silvestrini, Protein (UK)

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

The Embroidered Cancer Comic

The Embroidered Cancer Comic is an artist’s look at love and prostate cancer.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Fringe Festival: One Good Marriage

Steph and Stewart are celebrating their first anniversary. She’s an English teacher; he’s a high-school librarian.

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 7:30 pm to 8:40 pm | Festival

Bard on the Beach: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Bard's hit 2012 production is back and it's time again for music, flirting, fun - and fairies!

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Windy Wynazz: Rich & Famous

A Showgirl, her Soul-Searching Yearnings, & Secret Demons.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 7:45 pm to 8:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: In The Trenches: A Double Feature

A delightful duet of original comedies! Witness an apocalyptic war zone become a slapstick extravaganza as three clown soldiers take cover in an abandoned trench.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 7:45 pm to 8:55 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. I Forgot To Fly Today - Trent Baumann

From the creator of The Birdman, award winning, sold out seasons, standing ovations, and following ten international tours! Imaginative comedy finding the weight of the world may just float on a cloud.

Vancouver | Granville Island, Near Railspur Park | 7:45 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Co.ERASGA presents Collected, Traces and Still Here

Co.ERASGA’s 16th season presents the company’s newest ensemble creation choreographed by critically acclaimed Vancouver choreographer, Alvin Erasga Tolentino.

Vancouver | Scotiabank Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 8:00 pm to 8:40 pm | Festival

Reality Curve Theatre: Bug the play

Love, fear, paranoia, conspiracy theories, twisted psychological motives and a slow descent into insanity. Pulitzer prize winning author Tracy Letts crafts a riveting, lurid thriller about two damaged people trying to make a connection.

Vancouver | The Annex | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Marrow

Two estranged sisters—a witchcraft historian and a bulimia survivor—delve into their conflicted past. Fiercely divided, they attempt to reconcile their differences. But a secret connects them in a way they never imagined.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 8:00 pm to 8:50 pm | Festival

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. Rosanna Terracciano

Rosanna Terracciano. Lauded for her experimental approach to flamenco, Terracciano fuses traditional & contemporary dance with short film.

Vancouver | Centro Flamenco | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Dance

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Jon Bennett: My Dad's Deaths (A Comedy)

Jon Bennett’s dad always wanted his son to be an author… like Banjo Patterson.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | Festival

Nirvanish

Nirvanish is a tribute to Nirvana that strives to replicate the audio integrity of Nirvana's recorded work while capturing the electric fury that the group was known for on stage.

Vancouver | The Roxy Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Nether

The Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity, and indulge your every desire.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:15 pm to 9:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: 2 Ruby Knockers, 1 Jaded Dick: A Dirk Darrow Investigation

Australia’s favourite silly psychic detective is back. All new comedy, magic, and crime. Think Boardwalk Empire meets Naked Gun. Based on a Dashiell Hammett story.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Festival

the Comedy MIX presents Headliner: Steph Tolev

Steph Tolev is a stand up and sketch comedian from Toronto, that currently lives in Los Angeles.

Vancouver | the Comedy MIX | 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Burn Job

Fringe staple TJ Dawe returns with a story about growing up in Burnaby, LSD, and a breathing technique that brings you into a psychedelic state.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 8:45 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: V. R. Dunne

In 1934 a small group of workers decided to fight for a better life. Their actions were a pivotal event in 20th century American labour history.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 9:40 pm to 10:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Not Enough

In an effort to finally grow the F up, Megan embarks on a last-ditch gambit: a 10-day silent meditation.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 9:45 pm to 10:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Badmatch

Cocaine, diarrhea, a Canucks’ riot, and the Grouse Grind. What could they possibly have in common?

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 10:00 pm to 11:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Wild/Society

Rabbit wants to be the most popular city lady when she moves to the newest development in town. Raccoon couldn’t care less about social politics.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 10:15 pm to 11:05 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: My Stroke of Luck

Can the good doctor become a good patient? My Stroke of Luck shares Diane’s journey of medical catastrophe and recovery—not only as the physician she is, but as a single mom to a frightened teenaged son.

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 10:15 pm to 11:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Piaf and Brel:The Impossible Concert

Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel: Two French musical icons. They sang songs of romance, heartbreak, hope, and love. They lived lives of drama and passion.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 10:20 pm to 11:20 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Give It Up

Morgan Brayton has it all! Okay, well, she has questions about it all. Where is her husband Scott Baio? When is SNL going to call?

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 10:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: 2 for Tea

Having SOLD OUT in 2014 (High Tea) and 2015 (In The Dark), 14-time Best of Fest winning British comedy duo James & Jamesy come with the show that propelled them to being “one of the most popular Fringe duos ever” (

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 10:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Hip.Bang! presents The History of Romance

From Hip.Bang!, creators of 2015 hit WHITE PANTS, comes The History of Romance. Touching on everything from Romeo and Juliet to modern dating, this show will make you laugh like a child who has just learned about ice cream.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 10:45 pm to 11:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Insults, injury, and Anne Boleyn’s head are tossed around as the the six wives return to battle it out in purgatory once again. And when Henry arrives…well, you just have to see it.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 10:45 pm to 11:55 pm | Family

TCRG hosts International WFTDA Division 1 Playoffs - Vancouver

Watch some of the most talented skaters in world compete for women’s flat track roller derby’s highest honor in the 2016 International WFTDA D1 Playoffs in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Richmond | Richmond Olympic Oval | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Sports

State of the Practice: Leading from Beside

State of the Practice is an annual exhibition highlighting a current theme in community-engaged art and social practice.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre, Exhibition Hall | Performance Centre | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses

Known for his enormous contribution to the canon of great art in the 20th century, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881—1973) is one of the masters of Modernism.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Leading From Beside: Community-Engaged Dance Symposium

Join us to explore the many faces of community-engaged dance through panel discussions, workshops, performances, dialogue circles, and more.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Performing Arts

The West End Sex Workers Memorial Event

The City of Vancouver is proud to support a public event in honour of a diverse community of sex workers who lived and worked in the West End from the mid-1960s to 1984.

Vancouver | St. Paul's Anglican Church | 11:00 am to 1:30 pm | Workshop

Vancouver's Original Greek Food Festival

As the street festival season begins... here's one of the originals!

Vancouver | The Hellenic Community | 12:00 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Piaf and Brel:The Impossible Concert

Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel: Two French musical icons. They sang songs of romance, heartbreak, hope, and love. They lived lives of drama and passion.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Carry On: A Musical

Set in the YVR baggage claim, Carry On: A Musical examines the convergent lives of weary wanderers and the baggage they bring with them.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm | Festival

North Vancouver’s Shipyards Night Market

You won't want to miss this years Shipbuilders' Night Market on Friday Nights !!

North Vancouver | Shipyards Night Market | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Market

Back to School Pool Party

Make a splash at Guildford Recreation Centre to celebrate the new school year

Surrey | Guildford Recreation Centre | 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Kids

The Vancouver Police Museum: Vice Dice Opium Pipes

Walk the beat and see what it was like to be a cop over a century ago, when Vancouver was a seething hub of sex, drugs, corruption and organised crime.

Vancouver | The Vancouver Police Museum | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Exhibition

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Waiting for Garbo

Fresh from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Garbo meets Brecht meets Beckett in this comic, musical-ish stomp in an about-to-close garbage dump.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 6:00 pm to 7:10 pm | Festival

Bike The Night

Come join us for Bike the Night! Experience nocturnal Vancouver at its best - by bike.

Vancouver | Kitsilano | 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Show

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Hidden Stories

Theatre Terrific and Aboriginal Front Door collaborate to create the sensory sister to last year’s Being Animal.

Vancouver | Sculpture Grove | 6:00 pm to 6:50 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Hip.Bang! presents The History of Romance

From Hip.Bang!, creators of 2015 hit WHITE PANTS, comes The History of Romance. Touching on everything from Romeo and Juliet to modern dating, this show will make you laugh like a child who has just learned about ice cream.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: V. R. Dunne

In 1934 a small group of workers decided to fight for a better life. Their actions were a pivotal event in 20th century American labour history.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Everything is Fine

Take one naive and reckless teenager, add a desolate highway and a cold winter afternoon. The result?

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 6:15 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Peripeteia

Peripeteia: A reversal of circumstances or a turning point.

Vancouver | Granville Island - Ron Basford Park Stage | 6:30 pm to 7:25 pm | Festival

Journeys in the Right Direction, Guiding Youth Home

Help raise money for Surrey youth of the All Nations Youth Safe House

Surrey | Riverside Signature Banquet Hall | 6:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Give It Up

Morgan Brayton has it all! Okay, well, she has questions about it all. Where is her husband Scott Baio? When is SNL going to call?

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 6:45 pm to 7:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Wild/Society

Rabbit wants to be the most popular city lady when she moves to the newest development in town. Raccoon couldn’t care less about social politics.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 6:45 pm to 7:35 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: My Stroke of Luck

Can the good doctor become a good patient? My Stroke of Luck shares Diane’s journey of medical catastrophe and recovery—not only as the physician she is, but as a single mom to a frightened teenaged son.

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 6:45 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Badmatch

Cocaine, diarrhea, a Canucks’ riot, and the Grouse Grind. What could they possibly have in common?

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Rossi Gang and Los Duendes - Free at the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar

Welcome to the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar, the Festival’s social hub. Now located at Ocean Art Works, in front of Ocean Concrete and next to the Creekhouse on Granville Island!

Vancouver | Ocean Art Works | 7:00 pm to 1:30 am | Festival

Richmond Night Market

Similar to previous years, the annual gathering will feature seemingly endless rows of food vendors (offering hundreds of things to eat and drink), merchandise stalls, gaming stations, and live entertainment.

Richmond | nearby Bridgeport Station | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Manipulation

Join prOphecy sun, Cause & Effect Circus, and Moth Orbit Object Theater for a night of physical and digital manipulation.

Vancouver | Emily Carr University's Intersections Digital Studios | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 7:00 pm to 7:40 pm | Festival

Silk Road Melody

Silk Road Melody is a musical epic performed by the Guangdong National Orchestra of China at the Orpheum

Vancouver | Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: 2 Ruby Knockers, 1 Jaded Dick: A Dirk Darrow Investigation

Australia’s favourite silly psychic detective is back. All new comedy, magic, and crime. Think Boardwalk Empire meets Naked Gun. Based on a Dashiell Hammett story.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 7:05 pm to 8:05 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: 2 for Tea

Having SOLD OUT in 2014 (High Tea) and 2015 (In The Dark), 14-time Best of Fest winning British comedy duo James & Jamesy come with the show that propelled them to being “one of the most popular Fringe duos ever” (

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm | Festival

Vetta Chamber Music: Beethoven!

This all Beethoven concert features Vancouver’s best chamber musicians performing much loved sonatas and the famous “Ghost” Trio.

Vancouver | West Point Grey United Church | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Suburban Motel: Featuring Loretta

Loretta is the kind of girl you would do anything for. Dave and Michael are in love with her. Dave wants to take her shopping. Michael wants to make her a star! A porn star. What is a woman to do in a man’s world.

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival

Bard on the Beach: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Bard's hit 2012 production is back and it's time again for music, flirting, fun - and fairies!

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Certified

Join the irreverent fun in this hilarious and heart aching romp, as comedian and certified insane person Jan Derbyshire turns the audience into a mental health review board to help determine her current state of sanity.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 7:45 pm to 8:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. I Forgot To Fly Today - Trent Baumann

From the creator of The Birdman, award winning, sold out seasons, standing ovations, and following ten international tours! Imaginative comedy finding the weight of the world may just float on a cloud.

Vancouver | Granville Island, Near Railspur Park | 7:45 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

the Comedy MIX presents Headliner: Steph Tolev

Steph Tolev is a stand up and sketch comedian from Toronto, that currently lives in Los Angeles.

Vancouver | the Comedy MIX | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Comedy

Vancouver Fringe Festival: James Jordan Vaudevillian

This all ages vaudeville variety show with magic, juggling, royalty-free music, and brilliant comedy has been headlining comedy clubs and festivals all over the world!

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival

Co.ERASGA presents Collected, Traces and Still Here

Co.ERASGA’s 16th season presents the company’s newest ensemble creation choreographed by critically acclaimed Vancouver choreographer, Alvin Erasga Tolentino.

Vancouver | Scotiabank Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 8:00 pm to 8:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Trump: The Musical!

He’s going to build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it!!! It’s going to be HUGE!!!

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Sea Wall

Alex’s life seems perfect. But underneath his love for his wife and child, there is a deep abyss. A moving monologue about fatherhood, family, and things that cannot be undone.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 8:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Reality Curve Theatre: Bug the play

Love, fear, paranoia, conspiracy theories, twisted psychological motives and a slow descent into insanity. Pulitzer prize winning author Tracy Letts crafts a riveting, lurid thriller about two damaged people trying to make a connection.

Vancouver | The Annex | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Theatre

至尊四大天王 模仿秀 Top Four Heavenly Kings - Tribute Show

亞太區最強 "至尊四大天王" 模仿秀 世界巡迴慈善演唱會2016 "Top Four Heavenly King" World Tour Charity Concert 2016

Coquitlam | The Molson Canadian Theatre at Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Show

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival

The Vancouver International Flamenco Festival presents: Mercedes Amaya "La Winy" (Mexico); With ¡ARTE! Flamenco (Saskatoon) at the Playhouse.

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: William vs The World

The epic adventure of a geek and his cactus who just want to be left alone.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival

Digital & Interactive Art Preview Night

Come and view youth digital art projects and new interactive artwork at UrbanScreen

Surrey | Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Nerdfucker

The spectators are early, her lover is late, and the players are due any minute.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 8:20 pm to 9:20 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: NeOn

I know someone who has never been the main character of their life. She believed in other people’s happiness, but not hers. NeOn questions how you commit to the practice of love.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 8:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Frank: To Be Frank

World-renowned! The Rat Pack’s 17th member! America’s most entertaining entertainer invites you to partake in his interactive live “life retrospective.”

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:30 pm to 9:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Generation Hot: Program A

Generation Hot is a group of fiercely courageous young artists responding to the climate crisis through new performances.

Vancouver | Anderson Street Parking Lot | 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: In the Blue of Evening

A stunning and fantastical epic journey whisking us from a living room to the high seas!

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 8:45 pm to 9:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. I Had Sex Until My Heart Stopped

Cheating death and finding love in the modern age. Cameron MacLeod’s true stories of flat lining, deadly food allergies, and awkward sexual escapades will have you on the edge of your seat.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 8:45 pm to 11:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Bella Culpa

From nine-time award winning company, A Little Bit Off comes a slapstick comedy that follows two peculiar servants in an Edwardian manor as they bustle around, trying in vain to complete all of their chores.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:50 pm to 9:50 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: My Ocean

Twelve-year-old environmentalist Lenny has his lucky pouch around his neck and the eczema behind his knees is hardly even itchy.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Women of Lockerbie

After a terrorist’s bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a battle begins between the women in the town and US officials over the clothing of the victims.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 9:15 pm to 10:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Jon Bennett: My Dad's Deaths (A Comedy)

Jon Bennett’s dad always wanted his son to be an author… like Banjo Patterson.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 9:45 pm to 10:45 pm | Festival

Mat Zo

London bred Mat Zo makes his highly anticipated Vancouver return Friday, September 16th for the 'MAD Tour' at Celebrities Nightclub!

Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival. The Orbweaver

She loves bright, lively things like candles and starlight. He is Death’s very own personal assistant. Not your usual boy meets girl story.

Vancouver | Revue Stage | 10:05 pm to 11:20 pm | Festival

the Comedy MIX presents Headliner: Steph Tolev

Steph Tolev is a stand up and sketch comedian from Toronto, that currently lives in Los Angeles.

Vancouver | the Comedy MIX | 10:30 pm to 11:45 pm | Comedy

Vancouver Fringe Festival. The Girl Who was Raised by Wolverine

A dystopic future; resources are depleted, overpopulation is destroying the earth. The culling approaches—one person in three will be killed, for “the greater good.”

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 10:35 pm to 11:25 pm | Festival

TCRG hosts International WFTDA Division 1 Playoffs - Vancouver

Watch some of the most talented skaters in world compete for women’s flat track roller derby’s highest honor in the 2016 International WFTDA D1 Playoffs in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Richmond | Richmond Olympic Oval | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Sports

2016 Vancouver Area Walk for Children with Apraxia of Speech

Walk will be held at The Fridge

Richmond | The Fridge at Fraserview Church | 9:00 am to 12:00 am | Charity / Fundraising

Burnaby Artisan Farmers' Market

We have great farmers, both conventional and Organic with a great selection of prepared food vendors and local crafters.

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

State of the Practice: Leading from Beside

State of the Practice is an annual exhibition highlighting a current theme in community-engaged art and social practice.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre, Exhibition Hall | Performance Centre | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Farmers’ Market: Trout Lake

Popular among chefs, home cooks, and local gastronomes, farmers’ markets have become an integral part of Vancouver’s food landscape.

Vancouver | Trout Lake | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

Focus on Seniors Forum - Financial Awareness

Join us for this free information session about financial awareness

Surrey | Fleetwood Community Centre | 9:00 am to 2:30 pm | Business / Finance | Free

Lonsdale Artisan Farmers' Market: North Vancouver

We have been lucky in having some of the best organic and conventional farmers in B.C. attend the market plus great bakers, jam makers, honey gathers, and salsa makers.

North Vancouver | The East Plaza of Lonsdale Quay | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses

Known for his enormous contribution to the canon of great art in the 20th century, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881—1973) is one of the masters of Modernism.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Leading From Beside: Community-Engaged Dance Symposium

Join us to explore the many faces of community-engaged dance through panel discussions, workshops, performances, dialogue circles, and more.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Performing Arts

Farm Gate Sale

Join us at Loutet Farm every Saturday to support our social enterprise, pick up your farm-fresh produce from our neighbourhood farmers, and meet your neighbours!

North Vancouver | Loutet Farm | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Market

4th Annual Vancouver Modern Architecture + Design Society Home Tour

Kicking off the Fall 2016 Session, MADS Home Tours visits Vancouver, BC to explore the most unique modern residential spaces in the area.

Vancouver | West 22nd Street | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

The Vancouver Police Museum: Vice Dice Opium Pipes

Walk the beat and see what it was like to be a cop over a century ago, when Vancouver was a seething hub of sex, drugs, corruption and organised crime.

Vancouver | The Vancouver Police Museum | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm | Exhibition

Sam Cave - UBC Farmers Market

Free Show And Healthy Food! Sam Cave is a 20 year old soul singer, songwriter and guitarist from the outback of Australia.

Vancouver | Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm | 11:00 am to 7:04 pm | Music | Free

Celebrate Fall

Visit Kensington Prairie Community Centre to ring in the new season with a variety of activities!

Surrey | Kensington Prairie Recreation Centre | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Kids | Free

Pie in the Plaza

Take a bite out of BC's Largest Blueberry Pie and celebrate farming and food in Surrey

Surrey | City Hall Plaza, City Hall | 11:00 am to 3:30 pm | Family | Free

YOGA for Scoliosis - Part II (Vancouver)

West Vancouver | Om Prem Yoga Studio | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Vancouver's Original Greek Food Festival

As the street festival season begins... here's one of the originals!

Vancouver | The Hellenic Community | 12:00 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

Coquitlam 125: Community Heritage Picnic

Step back in time at Blue Mountain Park for a 1925-themed community picnic

Coquitlam | Blue Mountain Park | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Women of Lockerbie

After a terrorist’s bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a battle begins between the women in the town and US officials over the clothing of the victims.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 12:30 am to 1:45 pm | Festival

GardenSmart Workshop: Food as Medicine

Food As Medicine: Summer Edition. Nourishing the mind, body and spirit with local summer harvests

North Vancouver | Loutet Farm | 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm | Workshop

Surrey Youth Fest 2016

Be part of the City of Surrey's Youth Fest 2016

Surrey | Guildford Recreation Centre | 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Kids | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Carry On: A Musical

Set in the YVR baggage claim, Carry On: A Musical examines the convergent lives of weary wanderers and the baggage they bring with them.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: NeOn

I know someone who has never been the main character of their life. She believed in other people’s happiness, but not hers. NeOn questions how you commit to the practice of love.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm | Festival

Bard on the Beach: Othello

Othello is man blessed with power, respect and love - until lago's evil manipulation leads him to a fatal act off jealousy.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Hidden Stories

Theatre Terrific and Aboriginal Front Door collaborate to create the sensory sister to last year’s Being Animal.

Vancouver | Sculpture Grove | 2:00 pm to 2:50 pm | Festival

Bard on the Beach: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Bard's hit 2012 production is back and it's time again for music, flirting, fun - and fairies!

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Nerdfucker

The spectators are early, her lover is late, and the players are due any minute.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 2:15 pm to 3:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Frank: To Be Frank

World-renowned! The Rat Pack’s 17th member! America’s most entertaining entertainer invites you to partake in his interactive live “life retrospective.”

Vancouver | Performance Works | 2:30 pm to 3:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: My Ocean

Twelve-year-old environmentalist Lenny has his lucky pouch around his neck and the eczema behind his knees is hardly even itchy.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Marrow

Two estranged sisters—a witchcraft historian and a bulimia survivor—delve into their conflicted past. Fiercely divided, they attempt to reconcile their differences. But a secret connects them in a way they never imagined.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 2:30 pm to 3:20 pm | Festival

AGM 2016 & Green Party Upate

Annual General Meeting and elections - 3:00 pm

West Vancouver | Gleneagles Community Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Lecture

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Trump: The Musical!

He’s going to build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it!!! It’s going to be HUGE!!!

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: In the Blue of Evening

A stunning and fantastical epic journey whisking us from a living room to the high seas!

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 3:00 pm to 3:55 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Bella Culpa

From nine-time award winning company, A Little Bit Off comes a slapstick comedy that follows two peculiar servants in an Edwardian manor as they bustle around, trying in vain to complete all of their chores.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 3:15 pm to 4:15 pm | Festival

The Vancouver Police Museum: Red Light Rendezvous

Take a walk on the West Coast's wild side with The Vancouver Police Museum's Sins of the City tours.

Vancouver | The Vancouver Police Museum | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

14th Annual Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival

Still Moon Arts Society is excited to announce that the 14th annual Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival will take place on September 17th, to celebrate the nature and beauty of Renfrew Ravine and Still Creek!

Vancouver | Renfrew Park, Slocan Park | 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival: "Ze": Queer as F**k!

Catapulted by a series of unlikely experiences, Michelle/Ryan stumbles through an expanding parade of LGBTQI, etc. identities in search of a definitive sense of zir own queer pride.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 4:10 pm to 5:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: James Jordan Vaudevillian

This all ages vaudeville variety show with magic, juggling, royalty-free music, and brilliant comedy has been headlining comedy clubs and festivals all over the world!

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 4:45 pm to 5:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Insults, injury, and Anne Boleyn’s head are tossed around as the the six wives return to battle it out in purgatory once again. And when Henry arrives…well, you just have to see it.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 5:00 pm to 6:10 pm | Family

Vancouver Fringe Festival: One Good Marriage

Steph and Stewart are celebrating their first anniversary. She’s an English teacher; he’s a high-school librarian.

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 5:00 pm to 6:10 pm | Festival

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. Free Flamenco Class

Join us for a free introductory flamenco class at the Marcuse Studio in the Scotiabank Dance Centre! Please register to guarantee your spot!

Vancouver | Scotiabank Dance Centre, Marcuse Studio | 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm | Workshop | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Ballad Of Frank Allen

From Australian fringe-favourite Shane Adamczak comes a bizarre new buddy-comedy about a man who lives in another man’s beard.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 5:45 pm to 6:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Secret

Why do we keep secrets? And why would you keep just one? Join comedian Chelsey Stuyt on a quest to unlock the reason why she tells her mother everything—everything except that one little thing.

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 5:45 pm to 6:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Falling Awake

Death and other common experiences... coffee, lightning, flash floods, and a pinch of salt.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 5:45 pm to 6:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Nether

The Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity, and indulge your every desire.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Hip.Bang! presents The History of Romance

From Hip.Bang!, creators of 2015 hit WHITE PANTS, comes The History of Romance. Touching on everything from Romeo and Juliet to modern dating, this show will make you laugh like a child who has just learned about ice cream.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival

Marduk with support Rotting Christ, Carach Angren, Necronomicon, Kafirun, Hissin

Marduk was formed by Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson in order to form the “most blasphemous band in the world”.

Vancouver | Imperial | 6:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Advice to Love/Hate You (and everything in between)

It doesn’t matter who you are or how you identify, we all go through relationships. This is a flexible love story where the audience gets to offer their advice to help a relationship flourish.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Not Enough

In an effort to finally grow the F up, Megan embarks on a last-ditch gambit: a 10-day silent meditation.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Perpetual Wednesday

Walter and Bruce, con artists extraordinaire, while disguised as magicians, killed an audience member during their infamous bullet-catch act! Or did they?

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 6:25 pm to 7:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Peripeteia

Peripeteia: A reversal of circumstances or a turning point.

Vancouver | Granville Island - Ron Basford Park Stage | 6:30 pm to 7:25 pm | Festival

Drake: Summer Sixteen Tour

Grammy® Award-winning and multi-platinum selling artist Drake will launch the Drake Summer Sixteen Tour with Future and special guests in support of his brand new album

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Artists' Talk & Opening Reception

Kick off the fall with an art party celebrating still life!

Surrey | Surrey Art Gallery | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Visual Arts

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Burn Job

Fringe staple TJ Dawe returns with a story about growing up in Burnaby, LSD, and a breathing technique that brings you into a psychedelic state.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 6:45 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Charlatan!

Travis Bernhardt, creator of the award winning magic shows Unpossible! and Lies!, returns to tell fortunes, lift curses, and speak to the dead.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 6:50 pm to 7:50 pm | Festival

ReSounding Ryerson Fundraising Concert 2016

Four of Vancouver’s foremost choirs - are performing at Ryerson United Church, a beloved Kerrisdale venue, on September 17th

Vancouver | Ryerson United Church | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Nautical Miles and Tonye Aganaba - Free at the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar

Welcome to the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar, the Festival’s social hub. Now located at Ocean Art Works, in front of Ocean Concrete and next to the Creekhouse on Granville Island!

Vancouver | Ocean Art Works | 7:00 pm to 1:30 am | Festival

Richmond Night Market

Similar to previous years, the annual gathering will feature seemingly endless rows of food vendors (offering hundreds of things to eat and drink), merchandise stalls, gaming stations, and live entertainment.

Richmond | nearby Bridgeport Station | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market

Airbourne at Commodore Ballroom

Airbourne with guests

Vancouver | The Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Manipulation

Join prOphecy sun, Cause & Effect Circus, and Moth Orbit Object Theater for a night of physical and digital manipulation.

Vancouver | Emily Carr University's Intersections Digital Studios | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 7:00 pm to 7:40 pm | Festival

Cuban Cruises

This year 2016 we will have 3 Cuban Cruises with Live Cuban Salsa band in one of the floors plus our costumers can buy the traditional cuban dishes on board The Boat will be the M.V. Abitibi.

Vancouver | Plaza of Nations | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Bard on the Beach: Othello

Othello is man blessed with power, respect and love - until lago's evil manipulation leads him to a fatal act off jealousy.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Bard's hit 2012 production is back and it's time again for music, flirting, fun - and fairies!

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival. I Forgot To Fly Today - Trent Baumann

From the creator of The Birdman, award winning, sold out seasons, standing ovations, and following ten international tours! Imaginative comedy finding the weight of the world may just float on a cloud.

Vancouver | Granville Island, Near Railspur Park | 7:45 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

the Comedy MIX presents Headliner: Steph Tolev

Steph Tolev is a stand up and sketch comedian from Toronto, that currently lives in Los Angeles.

Vancouver | the Comedy MIX | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Comedy

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Waiting for Garbo

Fresh from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Garbo meets Brecht meets Beckett in this comic, musical-ish stomp in an about-to-close garbage dump.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:10 pm | Festival

Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires

Charles Bradley’s remarkable, against-all-odds rise has been well documented: how he transcended a bleak life on the streets and struggled through a series of ill-fitting jobs before finally being discovered by Daptone's Gabriel Roth.

Vancouver | Orpheum Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Music

Co.ERASGA presents Collected, Traces and Still Here

Co.ERASGA’s 16th season presents the company’s newest ensemble creation choreographed by critically acclaimed Vancouver choreographer, Alvin Erasga Tolentino.

Vancouver | Scotiabank Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

2016 Fundraising Event in Scotiabank Dance Centre

Our annual fundraising event will take place September 17th 2016. See our newest full-length show and enjoy a post-performance social with cocktails, food, silent auction, entertainment and some surprises.

Vancouver | Scotiabank Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 8:00 pm to 8:40 pm | Festival

Reality Curve Theatre: Bug the play

Love, fear, paranoia, conspiracy theories, twisted psychological motives and a slow descent into insanity. Pulitzer prize winning author Tracy Letts crafts a riveting, lurid thriller about two damaged people trying to make a connection.

Vancouver | The Annex | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Theatre

至尊四大天王 模仿秀 Top Four Heavenly Kings - Tribute Show

亞太區最強 "至尊四大天王" 模仿秀 世界巡迴慈善演唱會2016 "Top Four Heavenly King" World Tour Charity Concert 2016

Richmond | River Rock Show Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. Mercedes Amaya "La Winy" with Flamenco Rosario opener

Flamenco Rosario - Flamenqueando (flamenco-ing) – the word refers to the action of dancing flamenco, but expresses the pure joy of dancing, singing and playing in flamenco culture.

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Dance

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Love, Lust & Lace

Witness the raunchy pursuit of primal desires in this farcical masque commedia dell’arte piece. You will indulge in the dynamic intrigues of the heart as you follow Il Capitano and Columbina’s trials in love.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:15 pm to 9:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Space Hippo

Scientists weren’t lying. Earth is really dying. Space Hippo, you’re the only one that can undo what we’ve done. Together we can stop the Sun. Sail across the universe. Help us save the planet Earth.

Vancouver | The Waterfront Theatre | 8:35 pm to 9:35 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Certified

Join the irreverent fun in this hilarious and heart aching romp, as comedian and certified insane person Jan Derbyshire turns the audience into a mental health review board to help determine her current state of sanity.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 8:45 pm to 9:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Mrs. Barbour's Daughters

Mary is facing eviction and is beset by memories of life in a family which for 100 years has been influenced, for good and bad, by Mrs. Barbour, leader of a rent strike in 1915.

Vancouver | The Vancity Culture Lab | 9:01 pm to 10:28 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Fat Sex

Comedy, spoken word, and song with a smart satirical twist from an international slam champion with two decades of experience bringing audiences world-over to a glorious climax!

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 9:15 pm to 10:14 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. How to Adult: The Musical

Four 20-somethings trying to get their shit together in present-day Vancouver. It’s time to adult the f**k up.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 9:15 pm to 10:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: In The Trenches: A Double Feature

A delightful duet of original comedies! Witness an apocalyptic war zone become a slapstick extravaganza as three clown soldiers take cover in an abandoned trench.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 9:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: 2 for Tea

Having SOLD OUT in 2014 (High Tea) and 2015 (In The Dark), 14-time Best of Fest winning British comedy duo James & Jamesy come with the show that propelled them to being “one of the most popular Fringe duos ever” (

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 9:45 pm to 10:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Dance Teacher

A riveting story about a complex and broken individual who has chosen the dark path of manipulation and power.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 9:45 pm to 10:55 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: William vs The World

The epic adventure of a geek and his cactus who just want to be left alone.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 9:45 pm to 10:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Sea Wall

Alex’s life seems perfect. But underneath his love for his wife and child, there is a deep abyss. A moving monologue about fatherhood, family, and things that cannot be undone.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 10:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Leash Your Potential

Drawing on 15+ years of experience at a Fortune 500 company, Ryan will teach you how to succeed in a modern corporate bureaucracy, where outdated notions like talent, competence, and hard work are irrelevant.

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Festival

the Comedy MIX presents Headliner: Steph Tolev

Steph Tolev is a stand up and sketch comedian from Toronto, that currently lives in Los Angeles.

Vancouver | the Comedy MIX | 10:30 pm to 11:45 pm | Comedy

Vancouver Fringe Festival: "Ze": Queer as F**k!

Catapulted by a series of unlikely experiences, Michelle/Ryan stumbles through an expanding parade of LGBTQI, etc. identities in search of a definitive sense of zir own queer pride.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 2:15 am to 3:20 pm | Festival

TCRG hosts International WFTDA Division 1 Playoffs - Vancouver

Watch some of the most talented skaters in world compete for women’s flat track roller derby’s highest honor in the 2016 International WFTDA D1 Playoffs in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Richmond | Richmond Olympic Oval | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Sports

State of the Practice: Leading from Beside

State of the Practice is an annual exhibition highlighting a current theme in community-engaged art and social practice.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre, Exhibition Hall | Performance Centre | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Gift Expo

During Fashion Week at the FX Metro Market!

Vancouver | PNE Forum | 9:30 am to 5:00 pm | Show

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses

Known for his enormous contribution to the canon of great art in the 20th century, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881—1973) is one of the masters of Modernism.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts

Ambleside Artisan Farmers' Market

We are very lucky to have such a great variety of organic and conventional farmers at this location.

West Vancouver | Between 15th & 16th Street | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Market

Kits Wedding Show

Join us on September 18th, 2016 for the first Kits Wedding Show! An intimate, boutique wedding show hosted at the newly restored Kits House Community Hall, situated in the heart of Kitsilano.

Vancouver | Kits House | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Show

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

YOGA for Scoliosis - Part II (Vancouver)

West Vancouver | Om Prem Yoga Studio | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Vancouver's Original Greek Food Festival

As the street festival season begins... here's one of the originals!

Vancouver | The Hellenic Community | 12:00 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Give It Up

Morgan Brayton has it all! Okay, well, she has questions about it all. Where is her husband Scott Baio? When is SNL going to call?

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: My Stroke of Luck

Can the good doctor become a good patient? My Stroke of Luck shares Diane’s journey of medical catastrophe and recovery—not only as the physician she is, but as a single mom to a frightened teenaged son.

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm | Festival

GardenSmart Workshop: Perennial Food Garden

Growing a Perennial Food Garden. It’s autumn! Time to plan your garden for next year.

North Vancouver | Loutet Farm | 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm | Workshop

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Space Hippo

Scientists weren’t lying. Earth is really dying. Space Hippo, you’re the only one that can undo what we’ve done. Together we can stop the Sun. Sail across the universe. Help us save the planet Earth.

Vancouver | The Waterfront Theatre | 1:15 pm to 2:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Badmatch

Cocaine, diarrhea, a Canucks’ riot, and the Grouse Grind. What could they possibly have in common?

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 1:30 pm to 2:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Windy Wynazz: Rich & Famous

A Showgirl, her Soul-Searching Yearnings, & Secret Demons.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: V. R. Dunne

In 1934 a small group of workers decided to fight for a better life. Their actions were a pivotal event in 20th century American labour history.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 1:45 pm to 2:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Falling Awake

Death and other common experiences... coffee, lightning, flash floods, and a pinch of salt.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 1:45 pm to 2:40 pm | Festival

Sharon and Bram

Sharon and Bram shows are exciting events for the entire family and the renowned duo joins together with the audience in laughter, whilst singing songs set to familiar folk-inspired tunes.

Vancouver | Orpheum Theatre | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Kids

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Wild/Society

Rabbit wants to be the most popular city lady when she moves to the newest development in town. Raccoon couldn’t care less about social politics.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 2:00 pm to 2:50 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: One Good Marriage

Steph and Stewart are celebrating their first anniversary. She’s an English teacher; he’s a high-school librarian.

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 2:00 pm to 3:10 pm | Festival

Bard on the Beach: Pericles

This fast-paced, thrilling tale, set in an ancient mythical world, follows a prince's arduous quest to find love and the meaning of life.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Hidden Stories

Theatre Terrific and Aboriginal Front Door collaborate to create the sensory sister to last year’s Being Animal.

Vancouver | Sculpture Grove | 2:00 pm to 2:50 pm | Festival

Bard on the Beach: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Bard's hit 2012 production is back and it's time again for music, flirting, fun - and fairies!

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Recital Society: Ksenija Sidorova

From Latvia the ambassador of the accordion - Ksenija Sidorova - performs classical music in this afternoon concert.

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Charlatan!

Travis Bernhardt, creator of the award winning magic shows Unpossible! and Lies!, returns to tell fortunes, lift curses, and speak to the dead.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Perpetual Wednesday

Walter and Bruce, con artists extraordinaire, while disguised as magicians, killed an audience member during their infamous bullet-catch act! Or did they?

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Hip.Bang! presents The History of Romance

From Hip.Bang!, creators of 2015 hit WHITE PANTS, comes The History of Romance. Touching on everything from Romeo and Juliet to modern dating, this show will make you laugh like a child who has just learned about ice cream.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 3:15 pm to 4:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. How to Adult: The Musical

Four 20-somethings trying to get their shit together in present-day Vancouver. It’s time to adult the f**k up.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 3:30 pm to 4:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Advice to Love/Hate You (and everything in between)

It doesn’t matter who you are or how you identify, we all go through relationships. This is a flexible love story where the audience gets to offer their advice to help a relationship flourish.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Ballad Of Frank Allen

From Australian fringe-favourite Shane Adamczak comes a bizarre new buddy-comedy about a man who lives in another man’s beard.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 3:35 pm to 4:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Mrs. Barbour's Daughters

Mary is facing eviction and is beset by memories of life in a family which for 100 years has been influenced, for good and bad, by Mrs. Barbour, leader of a rent strike in 1915.

Vancouver | The Vancity Culture Lab | 4:00 pm to 4:58 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Marrow

Two estranged sisters - a witchcraft historian and a bulimia survivor—delve into their conflicted past. Fiercely divided, they attempt to reconcile their differences. But a secret connects them in a way they never imagined.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 4:00 pm to 4:50 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Piaf and Brel:The Impossible Concert

Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel: Two French musical icons. They sang songs of romance, heartbreak, hope, and love. They lived lives of drama and passion.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 4:05 pm to 5:05 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Leash Your Potential

Drawing on 15+ years of experience at a Fortune 500 company, Ryan will teach you how to succeed in a modern corporate bureaucracy, where outdated notions like talent, competence, and hard work are irrelevant.

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 4:45 pm to 5:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: 2 Ruby Knockers, 1 Jaded Dick: A Dirk Darrow Investigation

Australia’s favourite silly psychic detective is back. All new comedy, magic, and crime. Think Boardwalk Empire meets Naked Gun. Based on a Dashiell Hammett story.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 4:45 pm to 5:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Burn Job

Fringe staple TJ Dawe returns with a story about growing up in Burnaby, LSD, and a breathing technique that brings you into a psychedelic state.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 5:00 pm to 6:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Fat Sex

Comedy, spoken word, and song with a smart satirical twist from an international slam champion with two decades of experience bringing audiences world-over to a glorious climax!

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 5:15 pm to 6:14 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: In The Trenches: A Double Feature

A delightful duet of original comedies! Witness an apocalyptic war zone become a slapstick extravaganza as three clown soldiers take cover in an abandoned trench.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 5:15 pm to 6:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Dance Teacher

A riveting story about a complex and broken individual who has chosen the dark path of manipulation and power.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 5:15 pm to 6:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Suburban Motel: Featuring Loretta

Loretta is the kind of girl you would do anything for. Dave and Michael are in love with her. Dave wants to take her shopping. Michael wants to make her a star! A porn star. What is a woman to do in a man’s world.

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 5:45 pm to 7:15 pm | Festival

Naad Festival of Music, Dance & Film 2016

Discover a fabulous fusion of Indian and Western music and more

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:20 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Jon Bennett: My Dad's Deaths (A Comedy)

Jon Bennett’s dad always wanted his son to be an author… like Banjo Patterson.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Carry On: A Musical

Set in the YVR baggage claim, Carry On: A Musical examines the convergent lives of weary wanderers and the baggage they bring with them.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Peripeteia

Peripeteia: A reversal of circumstances or a turning point.

Vancouver | Granville Island - Ron Basford Park Stage | 6:30 pm to 7:25 pm | Festival

Drake: Summer Sixteen Tour

Grammy® Award-winning and multi-platinum selling artist Drake will launch the Drake Summer Sixteen Tour with Future and special guests in support of his brand new album

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Generation Hot: Program A

Generation Hot is a group of fiercely courageous young artists responding to the climate crisis through new performances.

Vancouver | Anderson Street | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. The Girl Who was Raised by Wolverine

A dystopic future; resources are depleted, overpopulation is destroying the earth. The culling approaches - one person in three will be killed, for “the greater good.”

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 6:30 pm to 7:20 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Trump: The Musical!

He’s going to build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it!!! It’s going to be HUGE!!!

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 6:45 pm to 7:45 pm | Festival

Thrice

Thrice with guests La Dispute & Nothing, Nowhere

Vancouver | The Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 10:35 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Apres Skii DJs - Free at the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar

Welcome to the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar, the Festival’s social hub. Now located at Ocean Art Works, in front of Ocean Concrete and next to the Creekhouse on Granville Island!

Vancouver | Ocean Art Works | 7:00 pm to 1:30 am | Festival

Richmond Night Market

Similar to previous years, the annual gathering will feature seemingly endless rows of food vendors (offering hundreds of things to eat and drink), merchandise stalls, gaming stations, and live entertainment.

Richmond | nearby Bridgeport Station | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Manipulation

Join prOphecy sun, Cause & Effect Circus, and Moth Orbit Object Theater for a night of physical and digital manipulation.

Vancouver | Emily Carr University's Intersections Digital Studios | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 7:00 pm to 7:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. The Orbweaver

She loves bright, lively things like candles and starlight. He is Death’s very own personal assistant. Not your usual boy meets girl story.

Vancouver | Revue Stage | 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. I Had Sex Until My Heart Stopped

Cheating death and finding love in the modern age. Cameron MacLeod’s true stories of flat lining, deadly food allergies, and awkward sexual escapades will have you on the edge of your seat.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm | Festival

Bard on the Beach: Pericles

This fast-paced, thrilling tale, set in an ancient mythical world, follows a prince's arduous quest to find love and the meaning of life.

Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Bard's hit 2012 production is back and it's time again for music, flirting, fun - and fairies!

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival. The Famous Haydell Sisters Comeback Tour

Since their last record flopped in 1993, fans of the biggest sister act in country music history have been awaiting their return.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 7:45 pm to 8:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. I Forgot To Fly Today - Trent Baumann

From the creator of The Birdman, award winning, sold out seasons, standing ovations, and following ten international tours! Imaginative comedy finding the weight of the world may just float on a cloud.

Vancouver | Granville Island, Near Railspur Park | 7:45 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 8:00 pm to 8:40 pm | Festival

Reality Curve Theatre: Bug the play

Love, fear, paranoia, conspiracy theories, twisted psychological motives and a slow descent into insanity. Pulitzer prize winning author Tracy Letts crafts a riveting, lurid thriller about two damaged people trying to make a connection.

Vancouver | The Annex | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Not Enough

In an effort to finally grow the F up, Megan embarks on a last-ditch gambit: a 10-day silent meditation.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. La Musica Del Flamenco

A musical evening featuring Mercedes Amaya Company artists, guitarist Santiago Enciso, singer Jose “Cachito” Diaz along with Musical Director and guitarist Victor Kolstee.

Vancouver | Centro Flamenco | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

Sam Cave

Sam Cave is a 20 year old soul singer, songwriter and guitarist from the outback of Australia.

Richmond | Richmond Night Market | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Sigur Ros

Icelandic experimental rock band Sigur Rós bring their North American tour to Vancouver.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: 2 for Tea

Having SOLD OUT in 2014 and 2015, 14-time Best of Fest winning British comedy duo James & Jamesy come with the show that propelled them to being “one of the most popular Fringe duos ever”

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:45 pm to 9:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Secret

Why do we keep secrets? And why would you keep just one? Join comedian Chelsey Stuyt on a quest to unlock the reason why she tells her mother everything—everything except that one little thing.

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 8:45 pm to 9:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: James Jordan Vaudevillian

This all ages vaudeville variety show with magic, juggling, royalty-free music, and brilliant comedy has been headlining comedy clubs and festivals all over the world!

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival

Sam Cave - Richmond Night Market

Sam Cave is a 20 year old soul singer, songwriter and guitarist from the outback of Australia.

Richmond | Richmond Night Market | 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Fringe Awards Night

Celebrating the Best of the Fest!

Vancouver | Performance Works | 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Everything is Fine

Take one naive and reckless teenager, add a desolate highway and a cold winter afternoon. The result?

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 9:45 pm to 10:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver, B.C. Leadership Excellence Course & Executive Coaching

Dramatically improve your leadership skills with 3 days of intense training.

Richmond | Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel | 8:00 am to 4:30 pm | Business / Finance

State of the Practice: Leading from Beside

State of the Practice is an annual exhibition highlighting a current theme in community-engaged art and social practice.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre, Exhibition Hall | Performance Centre | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Gift Expo

During Fashion Week at the FX Metro Market!

Vancouver | PNE Forum | 9:30 am to 5:00 pm | Show

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses

Known for his enormous contribution to the canon of great art in the 20th century, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881—1973) is one of the masters of Modernism.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Creative Weaving with Debra Sparrow

What if our community stories were actually woven together? Vancouver Arts Colloquium Society cordially invites you to co-design and co-create a blanket that will reflect our community’s multicultural heritage.

Vancouver | Dunbar Community Centre Association | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Workshop | Free

Red Green's I’m Not Old, I’m Ripe!

Red Green's brand new show for 2016 “I’m Not Old, I’m Ripe!”

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

Dolly Parton: Pure & Simple Tour

As one of the hottest concert tickets of the summer, Parton’s legion of fans are destined to sell out the shows quickly.

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Writers Fest: A Field Guide to Lies: Daniel Levitin

Living in the digital age, we are saturated with more information than ever before – and more than our brains can process.

Vancouver | UBC | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Latin America Independence Day Party

Performance by Grupo America

Burnaby | World Dance Co. | 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Dance

Sigur Ros

Icelandic experimental rock band Sigur Rós bring their North American tour to Vancouver.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Vancouver, B.C. Leadership Excellence Course & Executive Coaching

Dramatically improve your leadership skills with 3 days of intense training.

Richmond | Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel | 8:00 am to 4:30 pm | Business / Finance

State of the Practice: Leading from Beside

State of the Practice is an annual exhibition highlighting a current theme in community-engaged art and social practice.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre, Exhibition Hall | Performance Centre | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Tai Chi & Chai Tea for Seniors

Enjoy a free gentle exercise followed by delicious chai tea and brunch

Surrey | Guildford Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 11:30 am | Active Life / Health | Free

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses

Known for his enormous contribution to the canon of great art in the 20th century, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881—1973) is one of the masters of Modernism.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kwantlen St. Farmers Market

The Kwantlen St. Farmers Market offers all the goodness of a farmers market, with live entertainment, kids workshops, artisan foods and crafts, food trucks and chef demos using the freshest local produce.

Richmond | Kwantlen St. Farmers Market, Kwantlen Polytechnic University | 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Market | Free

Sam Cave - Kwantlen St. Market

Sam Cave is a 20 year old soul singer, songwriter and guitarist from the outback of Australia.

Richmond | Kwantlen polytechnic university Richmond Campus | 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Music | Free

Vancouver, B.C. Leadership Excellence Course & Executive Coaching

Dramatically improve your leadership skills with 3 days of intense training.

Richmond | Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel | 8:00 am to 4:30 pm | Business / Finance

State of the Practice: Leading from Beside

State of the Practice is an annual exhibition highlighting a current theme in community-engaged art and social practice.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre, Exhibition Hall | Performance Centre | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses

Known for his enormous contribution to the canon of great art in the 20th century, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881—1973) is one of the masters of Modernism.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Bard on the Beach: Romeo and Juliet

A classic staging of the world's greatest romantic tragedy, with its story of young star-crossed lovers who inspire us as they break our hearts.

Vancouver | BMO Mainstage, Bard on the Beach, Vanier Park | 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Theatre

Mundy Park Field House Opening

Join us as we celebrate the opening of the Mundy Park Field House.

Coquitlam | Mundy Park Field House | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Family

Farm Gate Sale

In need of mid-week fresh veggies?

North Vancouver | Loutet Farm | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market

Skillshare Workbee

Our skillshare workbees are the perfect volunteer opportunity for folks who want to learn about gardening through informal workshops and knowledge sharing.

North Vancouver | Loutet Farm | 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Workshop

Coquitlam 2016: 55+ BC Games, Opening Ceremony

The Opening Ceremony honours our provincial and community dignitaries and athletes from around the province.

Coquitlam | Poirier Sport & Leisure Complex | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Word Vancouver 2016. The Emerald

Poetry in Transit 20th - Anniversay Celebration

Vancouver | 555 Gore Avenue | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival | Free

Soul of Shaolin

The Soul of Shaolin is a breathtaking new Chinese martial arts spectacle.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

Bard on the Beach: Romeo and Juliet

A classic staging of the world's greatest romantic tragedy, with its story of young star-crossed lovers who inspire us as they break our hearts.

Vancouver | BMO Mainstage, Bard on the Beach, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

TheatreSports™

Relying on razor-sharp wit and lightning-fast reflexes, two teams of performers are pitted against each other in competitive improv matches.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm | Comedy

Tini(g)Tipon

Co.ERASGA proudly present The Gathered Voices and the Artists of “Tini(g)Tipon”

Vancouver | Scotiabank Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Ok Tinder – Swipe Right Comedy

The good, bad and the laughable of Vancouver’s dating scene. Enjoy this show at half-price with Half Price Hilarity.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Comedy

55+ Lifestyle Show

Come soak in the INSPIRATION at our 2016 Vancouver 55+ Lifestyle Show. This year’s location at the PNE grounds offers easy access by car or public transit.

Vancouver | PNE Forum | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Interior Design Show at the Vancouver Convention Centre

Make the Vancouver Convention Centre your destination as top designers and artists come together at IDS Vancouver, (formerly IDSwest).

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses

Known for his enormous contribution to the canon of great art in the 20th century, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881—1973) is one of the masters of Modernism.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Free Community Lunch

Free Community Lunch at St. Andrew's United Church.

North Vancouver | St Andrew's United Church | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Food / Wine

Necklace of HOpe: Walk Series from HOpe Centre

Necklace of HOpe, is a 45 min walk from HOpe Centre, towards Brand Blvd and up towards 19th Street, back down through Grand Blvd, and along 15th Street, back to the HOpe Centre.

North Vancouver | Kelty Dennehy Mental Health Resource Centre | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Bard on the Beach: Romeo and Juliet

A classic staging of the world's greatest romantic tragedy, with its story of young star-crossed lovers who inspire us as they break our hearts.

Vancouver | BMO Mainstage, Bard on the Beach, Vanier Park | 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Theatre

Downtown Farmers Market

We’re thrilled to announce that the Downtown Farmers Market at Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Plaza | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market | Free

Word Vancouver 2016. Banyen Books & Sound

Enjoy a presentation and book signing at Banyen Books & Sound as well as readings

Vancouver | 3608 West 4th Avenue | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival | Free

Pick Plus! One Woman Sex and the City: A Parody of Love, Friendship and Shoesat Performance Works

From “Fringe god” TJ Dawe and Kerry Ipema, this tribute takes audiences through a laughter-infused version of all six seasons of the beloved show.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 6:45 pm to 7:50 pm | Theatre

Object Knowledge - Inside MOV's Collection

Join us for an insider's perspective of the Museum of Vancouver's collection, presented by MOV Curatorial Associate, Jillian Povarchook.

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | History

Word Vancouver 2016. The Cottage Bistro

Enjoy a presentation and book signing at Banyen Books & Sound as well as readings and an open mic session at The Cottage Bistro.

Vancouver | The Cottage Bistro | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival | Free

The Big Picture - An Improvised Movie

Experience all your favourite movies in one hilarious mashup this summer as we pay tribute to the mega movie.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

Vancouver Writers Fest: An Evening with Bev Sellars

Join award-winning author Bev Sellars to celebrate the launch of her highly anticipated new book, Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival.

Vancouver | Norman Rothstein Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Pacific Theatre presents: A Good Way Out

Joey is a hardworking mechanic who operates as the front man for a biker gang. He joined for protection, but a few bad decisions have him looking for an escape that may not exist.

Vancouver | Pacific Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Theatre

the Comedy MIX presents Headliner: Kevin Foxx

From the smash success of his funny and irreverent radio show, on Toronto’s hit radio station CFRB to nightly shows at comedy clubs and corporate stages, Kevin Foxx is simply one of the funniest and most versatile performers working in North America today

Vancouver | the Comedy MIX | 8:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Comedy

Tritonal - Painting With Dreams Tour

New album, a brand new stage production, and most important, all of our Tritonians of British Columbia under one roof!!!!

Vancouver | The Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

Firecracker!

Dynamite Ladies. Explosive Comedy. Our all-female show featuring some of the best improvisers in Canada.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:15 pm to 10:20 pm | Comedy

Destructo with Makonnen, GANZ & Sita Abellan

HARD godfather Destructo returns to Vancouver for the #RenegadeTour2016 alongside ILoveMakonnen GANZ & Sita Abellán.

Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music

Interior Design Show at the Vancouver Convention Centre

Make the Vancouver Convention Centre your destination as top designers and artists come together at IDS Vancouver, (formerly IDSwest).

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Vancouver International Travel Expo 2016

Vancouver International Travel Expo is Vancouver’s only trade and consumer travel expo.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses

Known for his enormous contribution to the canon of great art in the 20th century, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881—1973) is one of the masters of Modernism.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Bard on the Beach: Romeo and Juliet

A classic staging of the world's greatest romantic tragedy, with its story of young star-crossed lovers who inspire us as they break our hearts.

Vancouver | BMO Mainstage, Bard on the Beach, Vanier Park | 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Writers Fest: Bev Sellars in Conversation

Join bestseller author Bev Sellars for a discussion about the history of Indigenous activism in Canada and her new book, Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival.

Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Lecture | Free

North Vancouver’s Shipyards Night Market

You won't want to miss this years Shipbuilders' Night Market on Friday Nights !!

North Vancouver | Shipyards Night Market | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Market

1st Annual Seniors Carnival

Feeling festive? Come celebrate the 1st Seniors Carnival at Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre!

Surrey | Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre | 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Active Life / Health

The Vancouver Police Museum: Vice Dice Opium Pipes

Walk the beat and see what it was like to be a cop over a century ago, when Vancouver was a seething hub of sex, drugs, corruption and organised crime.

Vancouver | The Vancouver Police Museum | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Exhibition

Word Vancouver 2016. Christianne’s Lyceum

An Evening of Faerie Magic Presented by Christianne’s Lyceum. With Tiffany Stone, Kallie George, Danika Dinsmore, and Christianne Hayward. Historic Joy Kogawa House

Vancouver | 3696 West 8th Avenue | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival | Free

Pick Plus! One Woman Sex and the City: A Parody of Love, Friendship and Shoesat Performance Works

From “Fringe god” TJ Dawe and Kerry Ipema, this tribute takes audiences through a laughter-infused version of all six seasons of the beloved show.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 6:45 pm to 7:50 pm | Theatre

Richmond Night Market

Similar to previous years, the annual gathering will feature seemingly endless rows of food vendors (offering hundreds of things to eat and drink), merchandise stalls, gaming stations, and live entertainment.

Richmond | nearby Bridgeport Station | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market

Bard on the Beach: Romeo and Juliet

A classic staging of the world's greatest romantic tragedy, with its story of young star-crossed lovers who inspire us as they break our hearts.

Vancouver | BMO Mainstage, Bard on the Beach, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

Colin Mochrie at The Improv Centre

Improv Legend Colin Mochrie, Vancouver TheatreSports™ alumnus, and star of Whose Line is it Anyway, returns this September to Vancouver TheatreSports™ (VTSL).

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm | Show

Huun Huur Tu - Tuvan Throat Singers

Caravan World Rythms is once again excited to bring the Tuvan folk music legends Huun Huur Tu back to Vancouver, after a 5-year absence! With special guests opening act, The Ryuzen Trio featuring Alcvin Ramos.

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Word Vancouver 2016. Historic Joy Kogawa House

Sober Second Thoughts with Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall Presented by Historic Joy Kogawa House with the support of the Canada Council and the BC Arts Council.