Metro Vancouver events calendar for August 2017. Best festivals, concerts, fun things to do, British Columbia Day shows & events, kids activities, and free entertainment in Vancouver, BC.

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Regeneratus. Works by Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Barbara Cohen: Seeing Red

Jewelry artists from across Canada whose work push traditional boundaries have been invited to incorporate red in their work and asked to create pieces to showcase imagination and ingenuity

Vancouver | Crafthouse | 10:30 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Trimble Park Playground

Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 10:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Free Lunchtime Yoga. Drop-in Hatha Yoga

Free lunchtime Hatha Yoga on the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza, bring a mat.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Male Caregivers' Social Club

Get support from your peers and experienced facilitators as you navigate the job search process and start building your career!

Vancouver | South Hill Neighbourhood Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing

The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Lady Gaga: Joanne World Tour at Rogers Arena

Lady Gaga will be traveling the globe with the ‎Joanne World Tour starting on August 1st in Vancouver, BC

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Theatre Under the Stars presents: The Drowsy Chaperone

Glitz & Gusto. Mischief & Mayhem. A nostalgic love letter to golden age glam.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Celebs Tuesday - Lady Gaga Afterparty

Celebrities Nightclub & This Is Pride Presents… Tuesday at Celebrities

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

Vancouver - Evo Summer Cinema - Beauty and the Beast Sing Along

The Evo Summer Cinema Outdoor Movie Series in Stanley Park is back! Brought to you by Evo Car Share and FreshAirCinema.

Vancouver | Ceperley Meadow | 9:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Film | Free

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Regeneratus. Works by Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Barbara Cohen: Seeing Red

Jewelry artists from across Canada whose work push traditional boundaries have been invited to incorporate red in their work and asked to create pieces to showcase imagination and ingenuity

Vancouver | Crafthouse | 10:30 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Bill Reid Creative Journeys

An exhibition presented in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport to mark the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists

Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Trimble Park Playground

Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Kids

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Secrets of Stanley Park - New Walking Tour

These are the secrets that lurk in the shadows, on the hidden trails, and in the swirling waters. The secrets you aren’t supposed to know. The secrets of Stanley Park.

Vancouver | outside the Aquarium entrance | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

Main Street Station Farmers Market

Located just steps from Main St - Science World Skytrain Station at Main & Terminal, this convenient Wednesday farmers market is ideal for local food fans seeking an easy shop on their commute

Vancouver | 1100 Station Street | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing

The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Bard-B-Q & Fireworks

See Much Ado About Nothing or The Two Gentlemen of Verona followed by an exquisite salmon barbecue* from Emelle’s Catering with all the fixings, delicious desserts and an entire evening of entertainment!

Vancouver | Vanier Park | 5:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Family

Family Fun Nights at Trimble Park

Join us on Wednesday nights this Summer as we once again host our Family Fun Nights at Trimble Park. These nights mean that the pool reopens, the giant games are brought out and the hot dogs are put on the BBQ for a fun night spent in the park

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Family

Lansdowne Centre Starlight Cinema Drive-In: La La Land

Free Outdoor Movies return to Richmond at Lansdowne Centre at sundown every Wednesday this July and August.

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Film | Free

Kitsilano Showboat

Kitsilano Showboat's 82nd season of free music and dance begins on June 19th and continues every Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat until August 19

Vancouver | Kitsilano Showboat stage next to Kits Pool | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Kendrick Lamar: The Damn. Tour with Travis Scott & D.R.A.M.

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth is an American rapper and songwriter. Born and raised in Compton, California, he embarked on his musical career as a teenager under the stage name K-Dot

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Every Time I Die with guests Neck of the Woods, Anchoress

Buffalo-based metalcore quintet Every Time I Die formed in the winter of 1998. They have garnered acclaim for their energetic and intense live shows. Their eighth and latest studio album Low Teens was released through Epitaph on September 23, 2016

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Bingo For Life

Celebrities & This Is Pride present…The dynamic duo Mina Mercury & Carlotta Gurl host a very special ‘Grease” edition of Bingo for Life - arguably one of the most popular and outrageous community events during Pride Week.

Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Pinegrove with Stephen Steinbrink & guests

Pinegrove are a band from Montclair, New Jersey who blend ragged, emo-tinged indie rock with Americana influences

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Theatre Under the Stars presents: Mary Poppins

Perfectly Magical. Properly Heartwarming. A supercalifragilistic musical the entire family will love.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Genderbent

Celebrities & This Is Pride present…Right after Bingo, stick around for Genderbent. You’ve never seen drag like this before! Come for the show, stay for the party!

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

Honda Celebration of Light - UK - Jubilee Fireworks

Come join the celebration that lights up our region!

Vancouver | English Bay | 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Festival

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Regeneratus. Works by Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Barbara Cohen: Seeing Red

Jewelry artists from across Canada whose work push traditional boundaries have been invited to incorporate red in their work and asked to create pieces to showcase imagination and ingenuity

Vancouver | Crafthouse | 10:30 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Trimble Park Playground

Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 10:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids

Bill Reid Creative Journeys

An exhibition presented in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport to mark the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists

Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Downtown Farmers Market

The Downtown Farmers Market runs every Thursday, June 1 to October 5 on the Queen Elizabeth Plaza. Fresh produce and great food trucks!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Nobody's Perfect in English

Are you parents of children Newborn to age Five? Join us for Nobody’s Perfect

Vancouver | South Vancouver Neighbourhood House | 12:45 am to 2:45 pm | Family | Free

Into The Woods JR - The Musical

This delightful show features all of your favourite characters – Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack (and his beanstalk), the Wolf, Granny, and the Witch in this lyrically rich retelling of classic Brothers Grimm fables

West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 2:00 pm to 4:10 pm | Musical

Genre Workout by Instant Theatre

Explore the world of genre at Instant Theatre, with a new and different genre work out every month! Expand your skills and knowledge of tropes and forms as our instructors take you through a four hour workshop intensive

Vancouver | Instant Studios | 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Workshop

Echo & The Bunnymen and Violent Femmes

We’ve looked at all the studies and ran all the numbers, and we discovered that Echo & The Bunnymen and Violent Femmes are responsible for about 7.5 percent of all the good songs from the 1980s.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Celebrate Summer Love at After Hours

Watch. Learn. Taste. Fin to Tail returns for a second year, offering Vancouver foodies a chance to learn how to cook sustainable seafood from the city’s hottest chefs.

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale

A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Oh, Canada - The True North Strong and Funny

VTSL improvisers take a loving and comedic look at what makes us uniquely Canadian - poking fun at the stereotypes of Canada and Canadians

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

Waterfront Cinema

Back by popular demand, Waterfront Cinema will be hosted on the newly refurbished North Point at Canada Place.

Vancouver | Canada Place | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Film | Free

Marika Hackman & The Big Moon

Marika Louise Hackman is an English vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Ty Segall

American rock musician, singer, songwriter and producer, on tour to support his latest self-titled release

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

The Goblin Market

The Goblin Market is a contemporary circus re-telling, following two sisters, their temptation, sacrifice and eventual salvation

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Theatre Under the Stars presents: The Drowsy Chaperone

Glitz & Gusto. Mischief & Mayhem. A nostalgic love letter to golden age glam.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Sleepy Sun with The Orange Kyte and Cold Soda at The Cobalt

San Fransisco based psychedelic rockers Sleepy Sun are back with a new album on Dine Alone Records called 'Private Tales', you can get it first here. Super excited to have the band back to Vancouver

Vancouver | The Cobalt | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

Stu Larsen

The new album will be out on July 21st!!

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

The LOL of TMI

Our improvisers delve into our over-shared digital world. From Snapchat to Instagram, Weibo to Facebook and everything in between.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Show

Joanne The Scammer at Bowie Thursdays

Bowie Pride Edition features the Vancouver debut of Joanne The Scammer + Bowie DJs Skylar Love, BP Ninja, Matthew Hilton & My!Gay!Husband! + performances from South East & Ilona!

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

W&W at the Commodore Ballroom

After meeting up back in 2007 Willem van Hanegem & Ward van der Harst came together to form W&W and they haven’t looked back since. W&W is a Dutch DJ and record producer duo composed of Willem van Hanegem and Wardt van der Harst

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 10:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Regeneratus. Works by Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

AniRevo '17 All IDOL Gathering (AniRevo '17 全アイドル集結)

Anirevo is a collection of events that allow individuals to explore, celebrate and enjoy a colorful culture not readily available in North America.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Barbara Cohen: Seeing Red

Jewelry artists from across Canada whose work push traditional boundaries have been invited to incorporate red in their work and asked to create pieces to showcase imagination and ingenuity

Vancouver | Crafthouse | 10:30 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Trimble Park Playground

Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 10:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids

Bill Reid Creative Journeys

An exhibition presented in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport to mark the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists

Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Into The Woods JR - The Musical

This delightful show features all of your favourite characters – Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack (and his beanstalk), the Wolf, Granny, and the Witch in this lyrically rich retelling of classic Brothers Grimm fables

West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 2:00 pm to 4:10 pm | Musical

Shipyards Night Market

top by Shipbuilders’ Square for the Shipyards Night Market, where you will find fresh food, locally made products, musicians, art and entertainment.

North Vancouver | Shipbuilders' Square | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Market | Free

Fridays on Front

TGIF with us this summer as we launch Fridays on Front, a brand new weekly night market experience in Downtown New West!

New Westminster | Downtown New Westminster | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Market | Free

Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour

The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption

Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | History

Sunshine Pikkapika Ondo at AR 2017

KabuDon Wotagei will be hosting a dance gathering/filming for the Sunshine Pikkapika Ondo done by elementary school students in Numazu for their Summer Festival

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Dance | Free

Music at the Cannery

Our annual summertime evening concert series returns on July 7th! Join us every Friday night at 6:30pm in July and August for an evening of music

Richmond | Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Music

Kitsilano Showboat

Kitsilano Showboat's 82nd season of free music and dance begins on June 19th and continues every Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat until August 19

Vancouver | Kitsilano Showboat stage next to Kits Pool | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Illumination Summer Night Market

Illumination Vancouver International Summer Night Market presents multiple types of attractions suitable for all ages. There are over 300 food and merchandise booths, and more than 20 events or performing shows every week

Richmond | RIchmond Night Market | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market

Anciients with Dead Quiet, Mendozza, Hashteroid & Seer

Somewhere between sheer, apocalyptic heaviness and precise riffing, lays otherworldly Anciients - a Vancouver-based rock juggernaut forging crushing heavy metal evocative of veterans High on Fire and contemporary sonic craftsmen, Opeth.

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

REQUIOS, Okinawan Kodama: A Celebration of the Heart, Soul and Spirit

For the first time in Vancouver, a unique and vibrant presentation of Eisa drum-dancing by REQUIOS will be performed at the Vancouver Playhouse

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale

A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Oh, Canada - The True North Strong and Funny

VTSL improvisers take a loving and comedic look at what makes us uniquely Canadian - poking fun at the stereotypes of Canada and Canadians

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

Vancouver Pride with Queer As Funk!

Queer As Funk returns to The Fabulous Commodore Ballroom!! It's time for the 4th annual Queer As Funk Vancouver Pride kick-off show

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Tim and Eric - 10th Anniversary Awesome Tour

Comedy duo Tim and Eric bring their 10 Year Anniversary Awesome Tour to Vancouver.

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Comedy

The Goblin Market

The Goblin Market is a contemporary circus re-telling, following two sisters, their temptation, sacrifice and eventual salvation

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Theatre Under the Stars presents: Mary Poppins

Perfectly Magical. Properly Heartwarming. A supercalifragilistic musical the entire family will love.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Honey Soundsystem Pride 2017 - Celebrities

Honey Soundsystem (San Francisco) with special guests DJ. D. Dee (Pacific Rhythm) + Jen Pea (Subversive)

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

Man Up Pride: The Gender Adventure!

Gender freedom! Drag for every body! The patriarchy smashed beyond recognition! Glitter and bliss for queers everywhere!

Vancouver | The Cobalt | 9:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music

TheatreSports™

Relying on razor-sharp wit and lightning-fast reflexes, two teams of performers are pitted against each other in competitive improv matches. Using audience suggestions to fuel scenes, teams must create totally improvised situations on the spot

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy

Foolish - Every Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret

Every third Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret Platinum era hip hop and r&b (96-09’)

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music

Ok Tinder - Swipe Right Comedy

Our 17+ show is 60 minutes of fast-paced, no-holds-barred comedy looking at the good, bad and the laughable of Vancouver’s dating scene

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 11:15 pm to 0:15 am | Comedy

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Farmers' Market

Burnaby's Farmers' Market is the place to find locally grown conventional and organic produce, prepared foods and crafts every Saturday from May 6 until October 28, 2017

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

Tsawwassen Sun Festival

Enjoy a slo-pitch tournament all weekend long, as well as activities and entertainment in Winskill Park and the parade down 56th Street.

Delta | Winskill Park | 9:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Trout Lake Farmers Market

This is where you’ll find the vendors who have been doing it since the beginning; what started as 14 farmers ‘squatting’ at the Croatian Cultural Centre back in 1995 has grown into Vancouver’s most well-known and beloved market

Vancouver | John Hendry Park | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market | Free

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Reiki Level 1

Reiki Level 1 is an introduction to what reiki is and all of the useful benefits that it has in your life and all of creation

Langley | Blue Star Light Work | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Active Life / Health

UBC Farmer's Market

We'll be here with fresh tempeh right on UBC Farm

Vancouver | UBC Farm | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Music | Free

White Rock Sea Festival

The White Rock Sea Festival is a summer tradition, over the August long weekend, that has been celebrating seaside fun for more than 60 years

White Rock | 14970B Marine Drive | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Family | Free

Body Rolling Self Massage

Give yourself a massage by rolling on a ball. Your weight creates a force that massages and releases muscles and myofascia tissue.

Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 9:15 am to 10:15 am | Active Life / Health

Lonsdale Artisan Farmers’ Market

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 | Lonsdale Quay | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Regeneratus. Works by Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

River District Farmers Market

This one-of-a-kind market is the only riverfront market in Vancouver. Come shop for fruits and vegetables, prepared foods, and handmade products produced by farmers and artisans

Vancouver | River District Vancouver | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

AniRevo '17 All IDOL Gathering (AniRevo '17 全アイドル集結)

Anirevo is a collection of events that allow individuals to explore, celebrate and enjoy a colorful culture not readily available in North America.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Barbara Cohen: Seeing Red

Jewelry artists from across Canada whose work push traditional boundaries have been invited to incorporate red in their work and asked to create pieces to showcase imagination and ingenuity

Vancouver | Crafthouse | 10:30 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

14th Annual Vancouver Dyke March

Join us for Vancouver’s 14th Annual Dyke March & Festival! We will begin in McSpadden Park at 11 AM with some pre-March festivities and a community art project.

Vancouver | McSpadden Park | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Bill Reid Creative Journeys

An exhibition presented in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport to mark the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists

Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Downtown Eastside Women's Fair and Flea Market

Join us at our second annual Women's Summer Fair, promising a vibrant atmosphere, lively entertainment, and fun for all! Come by and show your support

Vancouver | 200 Block, Columbia St. @ Cordova St. | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Fair | Free

Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour

The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption

Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | History

41st Annual Powell Street Festival

The Powell Street Festival is the largest Japanese Canadian festival in the country and the longest running community arts celebration in Vancouver

Vancouver | Oppenheimer Park | 11:30 am to 7:00 pm | Festival | Free

First Saturday Open Art Studios - Meet Artists in their Studios

We are part of First Saturday Open Studios which means we throw open the doors of the studio on the First Saturday of each month.

New Westminster | 100 Braid St Studios | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Summer Community Day

Capstan Alliance Church is hosting a non-profit community event designed for families, friends, and anyone in and around the community! Our goal is to create a community with a wholesome, family-friendly environment that cultivates love and hospitality.

Richmond | Richmond Capstan Alliance Church | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family | Free

El Hangover Pool Party at the Waldorf!

The original pride parking lot pool party is back! Your balmy oasis of queer joy and beachy vibrations, in the heart of east van! Official Man Up day-after party!

Vancouver | The Waldorf Hotel | 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

North Vancouver LoLo Food Tour

During the 2.5 hour tour, you will be able to learn about the historic ship building industry and early settlers to the area as you savor a delicious culinary experience. The tour includes 10 stops featuring 7 market vendors

North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay Market | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Food / Wine

BC Lions vs Saskatchewan Roughriders

The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team competing in the West Division of the Canadian Football League

Vancouver | BC Place | 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Sports

Red Light Rendezvous. Sins of the City Walking Tour

Vancouver might have been founded on a barrel of whisky, but it was built on the brothels that lined the muddy streets of Gastown. Explore the history of Vancouver's sex trade with the Vancouver Police Museum's Red Light Rendezvous

Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm | History

Summer Sessions Concerts

The Summer Sessions Concerts, take place every Saturday evening (7pm to 10pm) in July and August in Shipbuilders’ Square at the foot of Lonsdale from July 8th to August 26th.

North Vancouver | Shipbuilders' Square | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Family | Free

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing

The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Bard-B-Q & Fireworks

See Much Ado About Nothing or The Two Gentlemen of Verona followed by an exquisite salmon barbecue* from Emelle’s Catering with all the fixings, delicious desserts and an entire evening of entertainment!

Vancouver | Vanier Park | 5:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Family

Sunshine Pikkapika Ondo at AR 2017

KabuDon Wotagei will be hosting a dance gathering/filming for the Sunshine Pikkapika Ondo done by elementary school students in Numazu for their Summer Festival

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Dance | Free

Foam Glow - Vancouver

What is Foam Glow™ 5K? Foam Glow™ 5k is a unique experience focused less on speed and more on Glow in the dark fun with friends and family

Surrey | Cloverdale Raceway | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Tinder Tales: Live at the Fox Cabaret

Professional/Amateur Daters, Storytellers, Comedians & everyday people confess their most outrageous and hilarious Tinder Tales and other online dating stories live on stage at the Fox Cabaret

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 6:45 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

Kitsilano Showboat

Kitsilano Showboat's 82nd season of free music and dance begins on June 19th and continues every Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat until August 19

Vancouver | Kitsilano Showboat stage next to Kits Pool | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Blueridge Chamber Music Festival: The Very Thought Of You

An evening of chamber music in the intimate Annex

North Vancouver | Mount Seymour United Church | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Illumination Summer Night Market

Illumination Vancouver International Summer Night Market presents multiple types of attractions suitable for all ages. There are over 300 food and merchandise booths, and more than 20 events or performing shows every week

Richmond | RIchmond Night Market | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market

Oh, Canada - The True North Strong and Funny

VTSL improvisers take a loving and comedic look at what makes us uniquely Canadian - poking fun at the stereotypes of Canada and Canadians

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

Davido live in Vancouver

Performing all his latest hits, including: If, Fail and Skelewu and more

Burnaby | 7481 10th Ave | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Salsa & Latin Dance Night

Featuring Salsa, Bachata & Merengue lesson & Latin Music with Alberto Gonzalez and Teresa Szefler

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Dance

Dance In Transit. Plaza of Nations

If you think dancing isn't for you, you haven't tried it yet. If you can walk, you can dance. Dance in Transit is a street dancing festival - it's not about wearing special clothes or fancy shoes, it's about moving to music, one foot at a time

Vancouver | Plaza of Nations | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Dance | Free

The Goblin Market

The Goblin Market is a contemporary circus re-telling, following two sisters, their temptation, sacrifice and eventual salvation

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Theatre Under the Stars presents: The Drowsy Chaperone

Glitz & Gusto. Mischief & Mayhem. A nostalgic love letter to golden age glam.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Rodriguez

Singer-songwriter Rodriguez is enjoying the collective heartfelt dream of a musician, beating the odds and finding a place in music history

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Music

Miguel Migs - Celebrities

Celebrities & This Is Pride present… Miguel Migs & Lisa Shaw with special guests DJ Leanne, Yurie, Johnny Jover + The Snap Boys

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

Honda Celebration of Light - Canada - Royal Pyrotechnie

Come join the celebration that lights up our region!

Vancouver | English Bay | 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Festival

Nite*Moves at the Biltmore Cabaret

House party jams for the young, restless, and bored Every Saturday at the Biltmore Cabaret with your resident DJ’s Can I Live Harvey Harvey ++ special guests

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music | Free

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Free Admission to the Fresh Family Fun Field

Enjoy free entry for the whole family to the Fresh Family Fun Field. Jumping pillows, games, tether ball, peddle cart race track and more

Langley | Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family | Free

Tsawwassen Sun Festival

Enjoy a slo-pitch tournament all weekend long, as well as activities and entertainment in Winskill Park and the parade down 56th Street.

Delta | Winskill Park | 9:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Poirier Street Farmers Market

The Poirier Street Market hosts a diversity of vendors and products from May through October. Each week a wide variety of vendors gather to showcase their products – made, baked, grown, or raised in BC

Coquitlam | Dogwood Pavilion | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Market

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Reiki Level 1

Reiki Level 1 is an introduction to what reiki is and all of the useful benefits that it has in your life and all of creation

Langley | Blue Star Light Work | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Active Life / Health

White Rock Sea Festival

The White Rock Sea Festival is a summer tradition, over the August long weekend, that has been celebrating seaside fun for more than 60 years

White Rock | 14970B Marine Drive | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Family | Free

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Kitsilano Farmers Market

Every Sunday from May - October, the parking lot of Kitsilano Community Centre bustles with 50+ farms and producers bringing Vancouver's west side the finest and freshest food in the city

Vancouver | Kitsilano Community Centre | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

AniRevo '17 All IDOL Gathering (AniRevo '17 全アイドル集結)

Anirevo is a collection of events that allow individuals to explore, celebrate and enjoy a colorful culture not readily available in North America.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Barbara Cohen: Seeing Red

Jewelry artists from across Canada whose work push traditional boundaries have been invited to incorporate red in their work and asked to create pieces to showcase imagination and ingenuity

Vancouver | Crafthouse | 10:30 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Sunset Beach Festival

Celebrate Pride at the annual Sunset Beach Festival. This event brings together thousands of individuals in the LGBTQ2+ community and their allies for a day of fun-filled festivities.

Vancouver | Sunset Beach | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Music | Free

Ambleside Artisan Farmers' Market

​We are very lucky to have such a great variety of organic and conventional farmers at this location. We also have a good selection of prepared foods including baking, syrups, jams, jellies, honey, salsas, anti pastas and much more.

West Vancouver | Ambleside Park | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Market

Bill Reid Creative Journeys

An exhibition presented in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport to mark the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists

Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

41st Annual Powell Street Festival

The Powell Street Festival is the largest Japanese Canadian festival in the country and the longest running community arts celebration in Vancouver

Vancouver | Oppenheimer Park | 11:30 am to 7:00 pm | Festival | Free

ShootingStars at 41st Annual Powell St Festival

We'll be performing on the street stage! See you there

Vancouver | Oppenheimer Park | 12:00 am to 12:30 am | Dance

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Guided Kayaking Tour from Granville Island

Set off from the dock on Granville Island and paddle away in the protected waters of False Creek

Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Active Life / Health

Sunshine Pikkapika Ondo at AR 2017

KabuDon Wotagei will be hosting a dance gathering/filming for the Sunshine Pikkapika Ondo done by elementary school students in Numazu for their Summer Festival

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Dance | Free

Tsawwassen: Sunfest Drive-In - Rogue One A Star Wars Story

The Rotary Club of Tsawwassen present the 2nd Annual Tsawwassen SunFest Drive-In at Beach Grove Elementary playing field

Delta | Beach Grove Elementary School | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Film | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Illumination Summer Night Market

Illumination Vancouver International Summer Night Market presents multiple types of attractions suitable for all ages. There are over 300 food and merchandise booths, and more than 20 events or performing shows every week

Richmond | RIchmond Night Market | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Market

Rookie Night

Rookie Nights feature our Rookie League players, who have all successfully completed improv training via the Improv Comedy Institute

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm | Comedy

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing

The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

El Tri de Mexico en Vancouver

Vancouver, BC - The legendary Mexican rock band El Tri added their first date in Canada on their summer tour, taking place in Vancouver

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music

The Goblin Market

The Goblin Market is a contemporary circus re-telling, following two sisters, their temptation, sacrifice and eventual salvation

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Theatre Under the Stars presents: Mary Poppins

Perfectly Magical. Properly Heartwarming. A supercalifragilistic musical the entire family will love.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Babes On Babes / Vancouver Queer Pride Jam

Vancouver's Queer Long Weekend Jam is back at Fortune Sound Club for an extra special Pride Sunday!

Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 9:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music

Pride Hershe Bar - Closing Party

Hershe Bar is the big, beautiful, spicy, pumping, powerful, grand finale of Pride. This party’s an indoor festival with two spacious clubs, six of North America’s finest DJs, jets of confetti, laser lights, and sizzling hot dancers

Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 9:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music

Hotline: Pride Sunday Afterhours

Hello Operator? Please connect me to the Hotline... Vancouver Pride Sunday underground House & Techno afterhours featuring female/LGBTQ DJs

Vancouver | Secret Warehouse | 11:59 pm to 6:00 am | Music

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Tsawwassen Sun Festival

Enjoy a slo-pitch tournament all weekend long, as well as activities and entertainment in Winskill Park and the parade down 56th Street.

Delta | Winskill Park | 9:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Barbara Cohen: Seeing Red

Jewelry artists from across Canada whose work push traditional boundaries have been invited to incorporate red in their work and asked to create pieces to showcase imagination and ingenuity

Vancouver | Crafthouse | 10:30 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Holiday Family Fun - BC Day

A day of fun for the family on your Statutory Holiday! Join us at Sunset Community Centre for playgym (including a bouncy castle), arts and crafts, games, and more!

Vancouver | Sunset Community Centre | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm | Family | Free

Mah Jong

Come and play this popular centuries old Chinese game of skill, strategy and calculation

Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Taste of Kayaking

A two hour taster session; the perfect opportunity to discover what you love about kayaking and how to progress towards safely and effectively doing more of it

Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Active Life / Health

Kitsilano Showboat

Kitsilano Showboat's 82nd season of free music and dance begins on June 19th and continues every Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat until August 19

Vancouver | Kitsilano Showboat stage next to Kits Pool | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Dungen

Dungen is a Swedish rock band based in Stockholm. Often classified as progg or psychedelic rock, Dungen is also influenced by Swedish folk music, classic rock, progressive rock, garage rock and alternative rock

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music

The Goblin Market

The Goblin Market is a contemporary circus re-telling, following two sisters, their temptation, sacrifice and eventual salvation

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Theatre Under the Stars presents: The Drowsy Chaperone

Glitz & Gusto. Mischief & Mayhem. A nostalgic love letter to golden age glam.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Trimble Park Playground

Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 10:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids

Barbara Cohen: Seeing Red

Jewelry artists from across Canada whose work push traditional boundaries have been invited to incorporate red in their work and asked to create pieces to showcase imagination and ingenuity

Vancouver | Crafthouse | 10:30 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Free Lunchtime Yoga. Drop-in Hatha Yoga

Free lunchtime Hatha Yoga on the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza, bring a mat.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Family Nights

Make lasting memories with a trip to Much Ado About Nothing. Arrive at the Village early for family-friendly activities, the PIXSTAR photobooth, the Emelle’s food truck and an exclusive pre-show talk designed just for kids (Mainstage tent)

Vancouver | Bard Village | 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Family

Male Caregivers' Social Club

Get support from your peers and experienced facilitators as you navigate the job search process and start building your career!

Vancouver | South Hill Neighbourhood Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Lecture | Free

The Decemberists

The Decemberists appear at the Orpheum in support of their new release What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing

The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Royal Blood at the Commodore Ballroom

Royal Blood are a two piece band formed in Brighton, UK

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

A-WA with special guests

A-WA is an Israeli band made up of the three sisters Tair, Liron, and Tagel Haim. Their single "Habib Galbi" became a world hit, with its Yemenite traditional music mixed with hip-hop and electronic music

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Theatre Under the Stars presents: Mary Poppins

Perfectly Magical. Properly Heartwarming. A supercalifragilistic musical the entire family will love.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Celebs Tuesday

All year round, Tuesday at Celebrities are packed with party animals

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

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Regeneratus. Works by Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Barbara Cohen: Seeing Red

Jewelry artists from across Canada whose work push traditional boundaries have been invited to incorporate red in their work and asked to create pieces to showcase imagination and ingenuity

Vancouver | Crafthouse | 10:30 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Bill Reid Creative Journeys

An exhibition presented in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport to mark the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists

Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Trimble Park Playground

Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Kids

Secrets of Stanley Park - New Walking Tour

These are the secrets that lurk in the shadows, on the hidden trails, and in the swirling waters. The secrets you aren’t supposed to know. The secrets of Stanley Park.

Vancouver | outside the Aquarium entrance | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

Main Street Station Farmers Market

Located just steps from Main St - Science World Skytrain Station at Main & Terminal, this convenient Wednesday farmers market is ideal for local food fans seeking an easy shop on their commute

Vancouver | 1100 Station Street | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market

Drumming Workshop - Trout Lake Center

Show with Sweet Pan steel drums followed by Concert in the park Rio Samaya show! don't miss this

Vancouver | Trout Lake Community Centre | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Music

Family Fun Nights at Trimble Park

Join us on Wednesday nights this Summer as we once again host our Family Fun Nights at Trimble Park. These nights mean that the pool reopens, the giant games are brought out and the hot dogs are put on the BBQ for a fun night spent in the park

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Family

Summer Fun Nights - August 9

Celebrate Canada 150 with our annual Summer Fun Nights series

Richmond | King George Park | 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Family | Free

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Wine Wednesdays

Wine Wednesdays are an intimate pre-show wine tasting in the Bard Marquee presented by special guests. Enjoy a selection of wines from Sandhill, Red Rooster and more as you learn tasting etiquette from wine makers and industry experts

Vancouver | Vanier Park | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Food / Wine

Stand Up Paddleboarding Essentials

In two hours we introduce you to the fun of Stand Up Paddleboarding. We cover equipment, safety, paddle strokes, launching and landing and will get you paddling on your own in no time

Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Active Life / Health

Lansdowne Centre Starlight Cinema Drive-In: 10 Things I Hate About You

Free Outdoor Movies return to Richmond at Lansdowne Centre at sundown every Wednesday this July and August.

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Film | Free

Kitsilano Showboat

Kitsilano Showboat's 82nd season of free music and dance begins on June 19th and continues every Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat until August 19

Vancouver | Kitsilano Showboat stage next to Kits Pool | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Sunset Cinema. Smetto quando voglio (I Can Quit Whenever I Want)

​Downtown stargazing - Vancouver Civic Theatres partners with film fests for free outdoor films - bring a chair to Sunset Cinema at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre plaza

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Film | Free

Blueridge Chamber Music Festival: The Very Thought Of You

An evening of chamber music in the intimate Annex

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

TheatreSports™

Relying on razor-sharp wit and lightning-fast reflexes, two teams of performers are pitted against each other in competitive improv matches. Using audience suggestions to fuel scenes, teams must create totally improvised situations on the spot

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing

The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Theatre Under the Stars presents: The Drowsy Chaperone

Glitz & Gusto. Mischief & Mayhem. A nostalgic love letter to golden age glam.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Firecracker!

Firecracker! Dynamite ladies. Explosive comedy. Our all-female show featuring some of the best improvisers in Canada. The resulting comedy is inventive, unpredictable, uproarious and sure to spark your funny bone

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

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Regeneratus. Works by Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Yoga in the Gallery

Yoga in the Gallery classes are Hatha based, with a focus on alignment and, as such, are suitable for all levels.

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:15 am to 11:15 am | Active Life / Health

Trimble Park Playground

Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 10:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids

Barbara Cohen: Seeing Red

Jewelry artists from across Canada whose work push traditional boundaries have been invited to incorporate red in their work and asked to create pieces to showcase imagination and ingenuity

Vancouver | Crafthouse | 10:30 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Bill Reid Creative Journeys

An exhibition presented in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport to mark the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists

Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Downtown Farmers Market

The Downtown Farmers Market runs every Thursday, June 1 to October 5 on the Queen Elizabeth Plaza. Fresh produce and great food trucks!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Renfrew Park Summer Carnival

Come out and enjoy the annual Renfrew Summer Carnival at Renfrew Park. Burn off some energy in our bouncy castle and then cool off in our wading pool

Vancouver | Renfrew Park | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Nobody's Perfect in English

Are you parents of children Newborn to age Five? Join us for Nobody’s Perfect

Vancouver | South Vancouver Neighbourhood House | 12:45 am to 2:45 pm | Family | Free

Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the 29th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) takes place this summer from August 10-20 at various theatres.

Vancouver | Various theatres across Vancouver | 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Film

TD Concerts at the Pier - Little Destroyer

Grab your lawn chair and head down to the pier for another summer of live music!

White Rock | TD Concerts at the Pier | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Queer Film Festival: I Dream in Another Language

The award-winning Contreras brothers - director Ernesto and writer Carlos - have teamed up again to bring us their most ambitious film yet

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Film

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale

A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Oh, Canada - The True North Strong and Funny

VTSL improvisers take a loving and comedic look at what makes us uniquely Canadian - poking fun at the stereotypes of Canada and Canadians

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

Waterfront Cinema

Back by popular demand, Waterfront Cinema will be hosted on the newly refurbished North Point at Canada Place.

Vancouver | Canada Place | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Film | Free

Love's Labour's Lost By William Shakespeare

Alchemy Theatre in cooperation with Vagabond Players returns this summer to present William Shakespeare’s Love's Labour's Lost

New Westminster | The Bernie Legge Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

The Goblin Market

The Goblin Market is a contemporary circus re-telling, following two sisters, their temptation, sacrifice and eventual salvation

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Theatre Under the Stars presents: Mary Poppins

Perfectly Magical. Properly Heartwarming. A supercalifragilistic musical the entire family will love.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Lucent Dossier Experience

This world-renowned, innovative performance collective embellishes its original and live music with technologically advanced visuals, powerful dancers, breathtaking aerial artists and stunning fire shows.

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show

R&B Only

After being on the road for months on the R&B only North American Tour, DJ Printz and Jabari are bringing the vibes to Vancouver!

Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 9:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

The LOL of TMI

Our improvisers delve into our over-shared digital world. From Snapchat to Instagram, Weibo to Facebook and everything in between.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Show

James Murphy DJ Set - Celebrities

Frontman of the legendary LCD Soundsystem and founder of DFA RECORDS, James Murphy joins for a very special DJ set!

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

Make Them Suffer

MRG Concerts West Presents: Make Them Suffer with Enterprise Earth & SPITE. Make Them Suffer have had the pedal to the metal since the release of their last album, Old Souls, in 2015.

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 11:59 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Hell's Gate, Bridal Falls and Othello Tunnels

The Fraser Canyon is filled with natural scenic beauty highlighted by Hell's Gate scenic Tram Ride and suspension bridge

Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 7:00 am to 7:45 pm | Active Life / Health

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Party in the Park

We invite families and family child care providers to joins us in Connaught Park @ Kitsilano Community Centre to help us celebrate 30 years of serving and supporting parents, children and care providers!

Vancouver | 2690 Larch Street | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Family | Free

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Regeneratus. Works by Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Walk Vancouver: Move for Health

Walk 150 km on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and discover the land beneath your feet

Vancouver | Killarney Community Centre | 10:30 am to 12:00 am | Active Life / Health

Trimble Park Playground

Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 10:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids

Bill Reid Creative Journeys

An exhibition presented in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport to mark the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists

Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the 29th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) takes place this summer from August 10-20 at various theatres.

Vancouver | Various theatres across Vancouver | 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Film

Opening Night: New West Cultural Crawl 2017 & ArchiTEXTure

Join us at Anvil Centre Community Art Space (3rd Floor) to both kick off the 2017 New West Cultural Crawl, and the opening of the exhibition "ArchiTEXTURE" in the Community Art Space!

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Visual Arts

Shipyards Night Market

top by Shipbuilders’ Square for the Shipyards Night Market, where you will find fresh food, locally made products, musicians, art and entertainment.

North Vancouver | Shipbuilders' Square | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Market | Free

Fridays on Front

TGIF with us this summer as we launch Fridays on Front, a brand new weekly night market experience in Downtown New West!

New Westminster | Downtown New Westminster | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Market | Free

Night at the Races! Social Event @ Hastings Racetrack

It's that time of year...! Grab your fanciest hats and fascinators; we’re going to the races! The Hastings Racecourse is a long-time Vancouver establishment (opened in 1889!) but many Vancouverites have never attended.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Business / Finance

Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour

The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption

Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | History

Point Grey Cinema at Trimble Park

West Point Grey Community Centre in partnership with Fresh Air Cinemas are hosting a big screen movie at Trimble Park. Activities including a BBQ and family friendly activities, which will begin at 6:30pm with the movie starting at approx. 8:00pm.

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Film | Free

Music at the Cannery

Our annual summertime evening concert series returns on July 7th! Join us every Friday night at 6:30pm in July and August for an evening of music

Richmond | Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Music

One Love Westcoast Festival - VIP Concert

Afro/Latin and Reggae Music and Culture all in one place! International and local bands, food trucks, family entertainment, community info and booths.

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | Festival

One Love Westcoast Party with Antidoping, The Sentiments, Ku J

Afro/Latin and Reggae Music and Culture all in one place! International and local bands, food trucks, family entertainment, community info and booths.

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

Kitsilano Showboat

Kitsilano Showboat's 82nd season of free music and dance begins on June 19th and continues every Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat until August 19

Vancouver | Kitsilano Showboat stage next to Kits Pool | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Blueridge Chamber Music Festival : I've Got You Under My Skin

Romance is in the air! Woodwinds are at the forefront in this program of heartwarming music of the 19th Century

Vancouver | St Mark's Anglican Church | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Illumination Summer Night Market

Illumination Vancouver International Summer Night Market presents multiple types of attractions suitable for all ages. There are over 300 food and merchandise booths, and more than 20 events or performing shows every week

Richmond | RIchmond Night Market | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale

A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Oh, Canada - The True North Strong and Funny

VTSL improvisers take a loving and comedic look at what makes us uniquely Canadian - poking fun at the stereotypes of Canada and Canadians

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

Burq Off!

A British Pakistani Muslim's Autobiographical One-Woman Play. Burq Off! is an autobiographical coming of age comedy about a British Pakistani girl trying to find herself in two madly opposing worlds

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Theatre

Margaret Glaspy with Liza Anne

Margaret Glaspy is an American singer-songwriter from Red Bluff, California, based since 2010 in New York City. She is currently signed with ATO Records

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

An Evening with Bill Nye

Bill Nye is one of the worlds most eminent promoters of science. He is a scientist, engineer, comedian, author, and inventor

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Show

Story Story Lie: All Stars

Story Story Lie is a laughter filled show like no other! The cities best performers share intimate, hilarious, often embarrassing, stories that seem to odd to be true

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy

Love's Labour's Lost By William Shakespeare

Alchemy Theatre in cooperation with Vagabond Players returns this summer to present William Shakespeare’s Love's Labour's Lost

New Westminster | The Bernie Legge Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

The Goblin Market

The Goblin Market is a contemporary circus re-telling, following two sisters, their temptation, sacrifice and eventual salvation

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Theatre Under the Stars presents: The Drowsy Chaperone

Glitz & Gusto. Mischief & Mayhem. A nostalgic love letter to golden age glam.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 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. Using audience suggestions to fuel scenes, teams must create totally improvised situations on the spot

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy

Foolish - Every Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret

Every third Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret Platinum era hip hop and r&b (96-09’)

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music

Ok Tinder - Swipe Right Comedy

Our 17+ show is 60 minutes of fast-paced, no-holds-barred comedy looking at the good, bad and the laughable of Vancouver’s dating scene

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 11:15 pm to 0:15 am | Comedy

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

SeaWheeze Half Marathon

SeaWheeze Half Marathon 2017 is happening Saturday, August 12, at 7am

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 6:20 am to 12:00 am | Active Life / Health

Farmers' Market

Burnaby's Farmers' Market is the place to find locally grown conventional and organic produce, prepared foods and crafts every Saturday from May 6 until October 28, 2017

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

6th annual North Delta Show & Shine

Into its 6th year, the North Delta Show & Shine gets bigger and better event year! Check out dozens of classic and vintage cars on display for public viewing!

Delta | North Delta Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Family

MBT: From Head to TOE

MBT Events are thrilled to be bringing former NASA physicist, consciousness explorer and author of the My Big TOE trilogy Thomas Campbell up to the Pacific Northwest for the first time as this beautiful region is long overdue a visit from Tom

Vancouver | Simon Fraser University | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Lecture

Trout Lake Farmers Market

This is where you’ll find the vendors who have been doing it since the beginning; what started as 14 farmers ‘squatting’ at the Croatian Cultural Centre back in 1995 has grown into Vancouver’s most well-known and beloved market

Vancouver | John Hendry Park | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market | Free

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

UBC Farmer's Market

We'll be here with fresh tempeh right on UBC Farm

Vancouver | UBC Farm | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Music | Free

Body Rolling Self Massage

Give yourself a massage by rolling on a ball. Your weight creates a force that massages and releases muscles and myofascia tissue.

Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 9:15 am to 10:15 am | Active Life / Health

Lonsdale Artisan Farmers’ Market

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 | Lonsdale Quay | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

New West Cultural Crawl 2017

Welcome to The New West Cultural Crawl, your opportunity to discover the creative landscape of Historical New Westminster

New Westminster | The Gallery at Queen's Park | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Visual Arts

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

River District Farmers Market

This one-of-a-kind market is the only riverfront market in Vancouver. Come shop for fruits and vegetables, prepared foods, and handmade products produced by farmers and artisans

Vancouver | River District Vancouver | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Regeneratus. Works by Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Recreational Line Dancing

Did you know that line dancing is an easy way to exercise the body and mind? It's a wonderful way to lose weight and meet new friends.

Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 10:30 am to 12:00 am | Dance

Trimble Park Playground

Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 10:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Exploring Shakespeare. The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Simon Fraser University’s Paul Budra delivers in depth explorations of each of the Shakespeare plays in his lively and engaging style

Vancouver | Vanier Park - Howard Family Stage | 11:00 am to 12:00 am | Lecture

Bill Reid Creative Journeys

An exhibition presented in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport to mark the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Afro/Latin and Reggae 3 day Festival

US-Mexico-Canada Intl talent with local fusion top bands non stop Live, marketplace, food court, kids zone, community booths and more.

Burnaby | Swangard Stadium | 11:00 am to 8:00 pm | Festival

Coconut Village - One Love Westcoast Festival

Afro/Latin and Reggae Music and Culture all in one place! International and local bands, food trucks, family entertainment, community info and booths.

Burnaby | Swangard Stadium | 11:00 am to 8:00 pm | Festival

Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists

Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazing Farm Scavenger Hunt

Would you have made it as a pioneer? Find out as you team up with friends, coworkers or family in this race around the Farm

Surrey | Stewart Farm House | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

Downtown Eastside Women's Fair and Flea Market

Join us at our second annual Women's Summer Fair, promising a vibrant atmosphere, lively entertainment, and fun for all! Come by and show your support

Vancouver | 200 Block, Columbia St. @ Cordova St. | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Fair | Free

Canada 150: Richmond Maritime Festival

Celebrating all things waterfront at the Britannia Shipyards Historic Site.

Richmond | The Britannia Shipyard | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Festival | Free

Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour

The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption

Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | History

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Summer Art & Craft Sale at the James Black Gallery

The artists at the James Black Gallery are hosting an art & craft sale in the front garden on August 12th from 12pm - 6pm. There will be ceramics, drawings, paintings, crochet, and other art for sale

Vancouver | James Black Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Newton Days

And we're back for the dog days of Newton Days! Joining us once again are the Surrey Re-enactors, so if you missed them in July here's your chance! Once again, the kids zone will have face painting, crafts, games and henna

Surrey | Newton Wave Pool | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Fibre Arts & Crafts Festival

Explore fibre arts and crafts at the Surrey Museum. Makers and creators of all ages get their hands on all things fibre with this family-friendly, fun and interactive exploration!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Labour History Walking Tours

Vancouver has a rich and diverse labour history. This guided tour invites you to visit sites of significance to workers' heritage and working class struggle that commemorate the importance of labour unions, individuals, collective actions and much more

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | History

Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the 29th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) takes place this summer from August 10-20 at various theatres.

Vancouver | Various theatres across Vancouver | 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Film

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale

A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Databending Workshop by the James Black Gallery

Sonification databending is a common and versatile method used by glitch artists, and many other digital artists, to aestheticize distortions using sound-based processes.

Vancouver | The James Black Gallery | 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Workshop

Stanley Park BioBlitz 2017

Join the Stanley Park BioBlitz and contribute to the knowledge of the Park’s Biodiversity. This event has something for everyone from scientists, to budding naturalists to outdoor enthusiasts

Vancouver | Lumberman's Arch Concession | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Bif Naked at Kaleidoscope Arts Festival

Kaleidoscope Arts Festival is a free, full-day festival in Coquitlam, BC with activities for kids, art fairs and artisan crafts, food trucks, and lots of great music!

Coquitlam | Town Centre Park | 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival | Free

North Vancouver LoLo Food Tour

During the 2.5 hour tour, you will be able to learn about the historic ship building industry and early settlers to the area as you savor a delicious culinary experience. The tour includes 10 stops featuring 7 market vendors

North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay Market | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Food / Wine

Red Light Rendezvous. Sins of the City Walking Tour

Vancouver might have been founded on a barrel of whisky, but it was built on the brothels that lined the muddy streets of Gastown. Explore the history of Vancouver's sex trade with the Vancouver Police Museum's Red Light Rendezvous

Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm | History

SeaWheeze Sunset Festival featuring Young the Giant

SeaWheeze Sunset Festival is happening on August 12, 2017 featuring Young the Giant with special guests Cold War Kids

Vancouver | Brockton Fields | 4:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Festival

Summer Sessions Concerts

The Summer Sessions Concerts, take place every Saturday evening (7pm to 10pm) in July and August in Shipbuilders’ Square at the foot of Lonsdale from July 8th to August 26th.

North Vancouver | Shipbuilders' Square | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Family | Free

Kitsilano Showboat

Kitsilano Showboat's 82nd season of free music and dance begins on June 19th and continues every Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat until August 19

Vancouver | Kitsilano Showboat stage next to Kits Pool | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Blueridge Chamber Music Festival : I've Got You Under My Skin

Romance is in the air! Woodwinds are at the forefront in this program of heartwarming music of the 19th Century

North Vancouver | Mount Seymour United Church | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Illumination Summer Night Market

Illumination Vancouver International Summer Night Market presents multiple types of attractions suitable for all ages. There are over 300 food and merchandise booths, and more than 20 events or performing shows every week

Richmond | RIchmond Night Market | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale

A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Oh, Canada - The True North Strong and Funny

VTSL improvisers take a loving and comedic look at what makes us uniquely Canadian - poking fun at the stereotypes of Canada and Canadians

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

Burq Off!

A British Pakistani Muslim's Autobiographical One-Woman Play. Burq Off! is an autobiographical coming of age comedy about a British Pakistani girl trying to find herself in two madly opposing worlds

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Theatre

Basia Bulat with Twin Bandit

Barbara Josephine Bulat, known simply as Basia Bulat, is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. She is known for performing with an autoharp

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Salsa & Latin Dance Night

Featuring Salsa, Bachata & Merengue lesson & Latin Music with Alberto Gonzalez and Teresa Szefler

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Dance

Summer time dance with Ocean Park Wailers

Bring on the heat! It’s a Summer time dance party with the Ocean Park Wailers, a popular seven-member South Surrey band that particularly delights the dancers in the crowd.

White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Love's Labour's Lost By William Shakespeare

Alchemy Theatre in cooperation with Vagabond Players returns this summer to present William Shakespeare’s Love's Labour's Lost

New Westminster | The Bernie Legge Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

The Goblin Market

The Goblin Market is a contemporary circus re-telling, following two sisters, their temptation, sacrifice and eventual salvation

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Theatre Under the Stars presents: Mary Poppins

Perfectly Magical. Properly Heartwarming. A supercalifragilistic musical the entire family will love.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Salsa Cruises Fiesta Blanca

Join us as we celebrate our 17th season of the highly anticipated Salsa Cruise Series aboard the largest cruising vessel, MV Britannia commencing Sunday

Vancouver | Summer Salsa Cruise Series | 8:30 pm to 0:30 am | Dance

TheatreSports™

Relying on razor-sharp wit and lightning-fast reflexes, two teams of performers are pitted against each other in competitive improv matches. Using audience suggestions to fuel scenes, teams must create totally improvised situations on the spot

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy

Aazar x Point Point x Dombresky at Celebrities

The Filet Mignon Tour is coming to Vancouver. Get ready for the frenchies Aazar, Point Point & Dombresky

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

Nite*Moves at the Biltmore Cabaret

House party jams for the young, restless, and bored Every Saturday at the Biltmore Cabaret with your resident DJ’s Can I Live Harvey Harvey ++ special guests

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music | Free

Ok Tinder - Swipe Right Comedy

Our 17+ show is 60 minutes of fast-paced, no-holds-barred comedy looking at the good, bad and the laughable of Vancouver’s dating scene

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 11:15 pm to 0:15 am | Comedy

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Poirier Street Farmers Market

The Poirier Street Market hosts a diversity of vendors and products from May through October. Each week a wide variety of vendors gather to showcase their products – made, baked, grown, or raised in BC

Coquitlam | Dogwood Pavilion | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Market

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

VF Challenge2017 - Vancouver

Volunteers Foundation launches once again the VF Challenge. Like the last 5 years, the event will take place in multiple locations

Burnaby | 6450 Deer Lake Avenue | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising

New West Cultural Crawl 2017

Welcome to The New West Cultural Crawl, your opportunity to discover the creative landscape of Historical New Westminster

New Westminster | The Gallery at Queen's Park | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Visual Arts

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stanley Park BioBlitz 2017

Join the Stanley Park BioBlitz and contribute to the knowledge of the Park’s Biodiversity. This event has something for everyone from scientists, to budding naturalists to outdoor enthusiasts

Vancouver | Lumberman's Arch Concession | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Kitsilano Farmers Market

Every Sunday from May - October, the parking lot of Kitsilano Community Centre bustles with 50+ farms and producers bringing Vancouver's west side the finest and freshest food in the city

Vancouver | Kitsilano Community Centre | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

Regeneratus. Works by Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Ambleside Artisan Farmers' Market

​We are very lucky to have such a great variety of organic and conventional farmers at this location. We also have a good selection of prepared foods including baking, syrups, jams, jellies, honey, salsas, anti pastas and much more.

West Vancouver | Ambleside Park | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Market

Bill Reid Creative Journeys

An exhibition presented in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport to mark the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Afro/Latin and Reggae 3 day Festival

US-Mexico-Canada Intl talent with local fusion top bands non stop Live, marketplace, food court, kids zone, community booths and more.

Burnaby | Swangard Stadium | 11:00 am to 8:00 pm | Festival

Coconut Village - One Love Westcoast Festival

Afro/Latin and Reggae Music and Culture all in one place! International and local bands, food trucks, family entertainment, community info and booths.

Burnaby | Swangard Stadium | 11:00 am to 8:00 pm | Festival

Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists

Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Picnic in the Park

Come celebrate Kitsilano Community Centre's largest annual event. Connaught Park will be filled with fun-filled activities, interactive performances, rides, inflatables, community booths and food

Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family

Canada 150: Richmond Maritime Festival

Celebrating all things waterfront at the Britannia Shipyards Historic Site.

Richmond | The Britannia Shipyard | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Festival | Free

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the 29th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) takes place this summer from August 10-20 at various theatres.

Vancouver | Various theatres across Vancouver | 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Film

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing

The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Regeneratus Artist Panel

Author Leanne Prain will join artists Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie to discuss curiosity, innovation, and reimagining the discarded.

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Love's Labour's Lost By William Shakespeare

Alchemy Theatre in cooperation with Vagabond Players returns this summer to present William Shakespeare’s Love's Labour's Lost

New Westminster | The Bernie Legge Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Dance In Transit. Plaza of Nations

If you think dancing isn't for you, you haven't tried it yet. If you can walk, you can dance. Dance in Transit is a street dancing festival - it's not about wearing special clothes or fancy shoes, it's about moving to music, one foot at a time

Vancouver | Plaza of Nations | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Dance | Free

The Game of Fame by the James Black Gallery

August Guest Resident Ruby Gloom from Hong Kong explores fame. With the never-stop roaming of the Internet, ever-changing information on social medias, technology has been affecting the “cyber world” which leads to changes in self-identity

Vancouver | The James Black Gallery | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Blueridge Chamber Music Festival: Shoshana Telner in Recital

Blueridge is delighted to present multi-award-winning pianist Shoshana Telner. Experience her sparkling technique and deft musical discourse as she performs passionate works by Brahms, Hummel, and Liszt. One night only!

Vancouver | St Mark's Anglican Church | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Illumination Summer Night Market

Illumination Vancouver International Summer Night Market presents multiple types of attractions suitable for all ages. There are over 300 food and merchandise booths, and more than 20 events or performing shows every week

Richmond | RIchmond Night Market | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Market

Rookie Night

Rookie Nights feature our Rookie League players, who have all successfully completed improv training via the Improv Comedy Institute

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm | Comedy

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing

The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Bryan Ferry

Since the 1970s Bryan Ferry has taken his place as one of the most iconic and innovative artists to emerge in popular music. He continues to break new ground

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

The Goblin Market

The Goblin Market is a contemporary circus re-telling, following two sisters, their temptation, sacrifice and eventual salvation

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Theatre Under the Stars presents: The Drowsy Chaperone

Glitz & Gusto. Mischief & Mayhem. A nostalgic love letter to golden age glam.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Yin Yoga in the Garden

Enjoy yoga, under the trees! Yin yoga is a slow-paced style of yoga that focuses on stimulating the connective tissues of the body with the intention of increasing circulation in the joints and improving flexibility

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:15 am to 11:30 am | Active Life / Health

Trimble Park Playground

Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 10:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids

Mah Jong

Come and play this popular centuries old Chinese game of skill, strategy and calculation

Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the 29th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) takes place this summer from August 10-20 at various theatres.

Vancouver | Various theatres across Vancouver | 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Film

The Game of Fame by the James Black Gallery

August Guest Resident Ruby Gloom from Hong Kong explores fame. With the never-stop roaming of the Internet, ever-changing information on social medias, technology has been affecting the “cyber world” which leads to changes in self-identity

Vancouver | The James Black Gallery | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Zumba® at Canada Place

Zumba® at Canada Place is a fun, free event hosted on the beautiful North Point of Canada Place

Vancouver | Canada Place | 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Metallica "WorldWired Tour 2017"

Metallica is bringing their WorldWired 2017 North American tour to BC Place in support of their new album Hardwired… To Self-Destruct.

Vancouver | BC Place | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Kitsilano Showboat

Kitsilano Showboat's 82nd season of free music and dance begins on June 19th and continues every Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat until August 19

Vancouver | Kitsilano Showboat stage next to Kits Pool | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

VNV Nation with guests ivardensphere

English/Irish alternative electronic music group acclaimed for their live shows.

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

The Goblin Market

The Goblin Market is a contemporary circus re-telling, following two sisters, their temptation, sacrifice and eventual salvation

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Theatre Under the Stars presents: Mary Poppins

Perfectly Magical. Properly Heartwarming. A supercalifragilistic musical the entire family will love.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Regeneratus. Works by Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Trimble Park Playground

Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 10:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Free Lunchtime Yoga. Drop-in Hatha Yoga

Free lunchtime Hatha Yoga on the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza, bring a mat.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the 29th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) takes place this summer from August 10-20 at various theatres.

Vancouver | Various theatres across Vancouver | 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Film

Rancid and Dropkick Murphys From Boston to Berkeley Tour

Rancid and Dropkick Murphys announce co-headlining tour. Plus, Bouncing Souls will provide support for the forthcoming trek

Vancouver | Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre | 4:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Music

Male Caregivers' Social Club

Get support from your peers and experienced facilitators as you navigate the job search process and start building your career!

Vancouver | South Hill Neighbourhood Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing

The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Sylvan Esso with special guests Flock of Dimes

Sylvan Esso is an American indie pop duo from Durham, North Carolina formed in 2013. The band consists of singer Amelia Meath and producer Nick Sanborn

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Pallbearer with guests

American doom metal band, on tour to support their latest release "Heartless"

Vancouver | The Cobalt | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

James Vincent McMorrow Summer Tour 2017

James Vincent McMorrow is an Irish singer and songwriter. He is best known for his albums Early in the Morning and Post Tropical

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Theatre Under the Stars presents: The Drowsy Chaperone

Glitz & Gusto. Mischief & Mayhem. A nostalgic love letter to golden age glam.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Celebs Tuesday

All year round, Tuesday at Celebrities are packed with party animals

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

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Regeneratus. Works by Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Bill Reid Creative Journeys

An exhibition presented in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport to mark the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists

Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Trimble Park Playground

Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Kids

Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the 29th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) takes place this summer from August 10-20 at various theatres.

Vancouver | Various theatres across Vancouver | 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Film

Secrets of Stanley Park - New Walking Tour

These are the secrets that lurk in the shadows, on the hidden trails, and in the swirling waters. The secrets you aren’t supposed to know. The secrets of Stanley Park.

Vancouver | outside the Aquarium entrance | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

Main Street Station Farmers Market

Located just steps from Main St - Science World Skytrain Station at Main & Terminal, this convenient Wednesday farmers market is ideal for local food fans seeking an easy shop on their commute

Vancouver | 1100 Station Street | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market

Family Fun Nights at Trimble Park

Join us on Wednesday nights this Summer as we once again host our Family Fun Nights at Trimble Park. These nights mean that the pool reopens, the giant games are brought out and the hot dogs are put on the BBQ for a fun night spent in the park

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Family

Outdoor Movie Night

Featuring Anne of Green Gables, Community booths, Games, performance by M'Girl and more!

Richmond | King George Park | 5:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Film | Free

Vancouver Labour History Walking Tours

Vancouver has a rich and diverse labour history. This guided tour invites you to visit sites of significance to workers' heritage and working class struggle that commemorate the importance of labour unions, individuals, collective actions and much more

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | History

Canada 150: East Richmond: Then and Now Summer Fun Night

We would like to invite the Richmond community to celebrate and discover the past, present and future of Canada and East Richmond.

Richmond | King George Park | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Family

Queen Film Festival: Free CeCe!

A documentary film by Laverne Cox and Jac Gares.

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Film

Lansdowne Centre Starlight Cinema Drive-In: Rocky

Free Outdoor Movies return to Richmond at Lansdowne Centre at sundown every Wednesday this July and August.

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Film | Free

Kitsilano Showboat

Kitsilano Showboat's 82nd season of free music and dance begins on June 19th and continues every Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat until August 19

Vancouver | Kitsilano Showboat stage next to Kits Pool | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Sunset Cinema. Chutney Popcorn

​Downtown stargazing - Vancouver Civic Theatres partners with film fests for free outdoor films - bring a chair to Sunset Cinema at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre plaza

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Film | Free

Blueridge Chamber Music Festival: Let Them Eat Cake

Breaking up is hard to do. Blueridge presents two classic stories of betrayal in this semi-staged production of vocal works by Joseph Haydn and Peter Maxwell Davies

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

TheatreSports™

Relying on razor-sharp wit and lightning-fast reflexes, two teams of performers are pitted against each other in competitive improv matches. Using audience suggestions to fuel scenes, teams must create totally improvised situations on the spot

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale

A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

k. d. lang Ingénue Redux - 25th Anniversary of the Ingénue album

After exploring different creative platforms in recent years, this unique and multi-talented performer is returning to the stage in celebration of her first love, promising to take her music to new heights on this brand new cross-Canada tour

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

The Orb - The Biltmore Cabaret

Long-running UK electronic group, originally formed by Jimmy Cauty (of The KLF) and Alex Paterson in 1988, that grew out of a love of ambient music and dub, soundscapes and science fiction.

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Theatre Under the Stars presents: Mary Poppins

Perfectly Magical. Properly Heartwarming. A supercalifragilistic musical the entire family will love.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Firecracker!

Firecracker! Dynamite ladies. Explosive comedy. Our all-female show featuring some of the best improvisers in Canada. The resulting comedy is inventive, unpredictable, uproarious and sure to spark your funny bone

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

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Regeneratus. Works by Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Yoga in the Gallery

Yoga in the Gallery classes are Hatha based, with a focus on alignment and, as such, are suitable for all levels.

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:15 am to 11:15 am | Active Life / Health

Trimble Park Playground

Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 10:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids

Bill Reid Creative Journeys

An exhibition presented in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport to mark the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists

Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Downtown Farmers Market

The Downtown Farmers Market runs every Thursday, June 1 to October 5 on the Queen Elizabeth Plaza. Fresh produce and great food trucks!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Nobody's Perfect in English

Are you parents of children Newborn to age Five? Join us for Nobody’s Perfect

Vancouver | South Vancouver Neighbourhood House | 12:45 am to 2:45 pm | Family | Free

Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the 29th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) takes place this summer from August 10-20 at various theatres.

Vancouver | Various theatres across Vancouver | 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Film

Behind the scenes tour with Jas Lally - Levine Flexhaug

Assistant Curator, Jas Lally offers an evening behind the scenes guided tour of the current exhibition 'A Sublime Vernacular by Levine Flexhaug'

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Rogers Arena

with Special Guest The Lumineers

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale

A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Oh, Canada - The True North Strong and Funny

VTSL improvisers take a loving and comedic look at what makes us uniquely Canadian - poking fun at the stereotypes of Canada and Canadians

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

k. d. lang Ingénue Redux - 25th Anniversary of the Ingénue album

After exploring different creative platforms in recent years, this unique and multi-talented performer is returning to the stage in celebration of her first love, promising to take her music to new heights on this brand new cross-Canada tour

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Waterfront Cinema

Back by popular demand, Waterfront Cinema will be hosted on the newly refurbished North Point at Canada Place.

Vancouver | Canada Place | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Film | Free

A Chorus Line

A darkened theatre, a gruelling audition and a ensemble of dancers praying for a job. Multi-award winning A CHORUS LINE tells the story of the gypsies of the Broadway stage.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Love's Labour's Lost By William Shakespeare

Alchemy Theatre in cooperation with Vagabond Players returns this summer to present William Shakespeare’s Love's Labour's Lost

New Westminster | The Bernie Legge Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Theatre Under the Stars presents: The Drowsy Chaperone

Glitz & Gusto. Mischief & Mayhem. A nostalgic love letter to golden age glam.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

The LOL of TMI

Our improvisers delve into our over-shared digital world. From Snapchat to Instagram, Weibo to Facebook and everything in between.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Show

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Regeneratus. Works by Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Trimble Park Playground

Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 10:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids

Bill Reid Creative Journeys

An exhibition presented in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport to mark the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists

Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the 29th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) takes place this summer from August 10-20 at various theatres.

Vancouver | Various theatres across Vancouver | 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Film

Rock The Park - Music Festival at Ambleside

Vancouver’s First-Ever 3-Day Rock Music Festival! 11 bands in 3 days. Let’s get ready to Rock!

West Vancouver | Ambleside Park | 5:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Shipyards Night Market

top by Shipbuilders’ Square for the Shipyards Night Market, where you will find fresh food, locally made products, musicians, art and entertainment.

North Vancouver | Shipbuilders' Square | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Market | Free

Fridays on Front

TGIF with us this summer as we launch Fridays on Front, a brand new weekly night market experience in Downtown New West!

New Westminster | Downtown New Westminster | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Market | Free

Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour

The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption

Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | History

Music at the Cannery

Our annual summertime evening concert series returns on July 7th! Join us every Friday night at 6:30pm in July and August for an evening of music

Richmond | Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Music

Zac Brown Band with special guest Madison Ryann Ward

Three-time GRAMMY winners and multi-platinum artists Zac Brown Band have become one of music's most heralded acts.

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Science World. After Dark: Innovation In The Great Outdoors

Technology and tinkering isn't just for house cats! Our upcoming After Dark event is all about design and innovation in the outdoors. Come play outside in the Science Park with your friends. Enjoy the science centre, build a tent and watch the sunset over

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine

Mount Eerie - Christ Church Cathedral

MRG Concerts West Presents: Mount Eerie with Nicholas Krgovich

Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Kitsilano Showboat

Kitsilano Showboat's 82nd season of free music and dance begins on June 19th and continues every Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat until August 19

Vancouver | Kitsilano Showboat stage next to Kits Pool | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Blueridge Chamber Music Festival: I Thee Dread

The Blueridge Festival comes to a powerful conclusion with a trio of pieces to get your heart pumping. This concert offers a rare chance to hear the fascinating string quintet version of Beethovens potent Kreutzer Sonata

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Illumination Summer Night Market

Illumination Vancouver International Summer Night Market presents multiple types of attractions suitable for all ages. There are over 300 food and merchandise booths, and more than 20 events or performing shows every week

Richmond | RIchmond Night Market | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market

Byrd Dawg - The Ultimate Tribute to The Everly Brothers and Simon & Garfunkel

Byrd Dawg is the ultimate tribute to two iconic musical duos - The Everly Brothers and Simon & Garfunkel - starring Joel Dietrich and Wayne Rempel, and their seasoned four-piece group, The Vintage Electric Band.

White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Bryson Tiller

Bryson Djuan Tiller, is an American singer, songwriter and rapper. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he started his career in 2011, releasing the debut mixtape titled Killer Instinct Vol.1

Vancouver | Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre | 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

BC Lions vs Calgary Stampeders

The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team competing in the West Division of the Canadian Football League

Vancouver | BC Place | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale

A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Oh, Canada - The True North Strong and Funny

VTSL improvisers take a loving and comedic look at what makes us uniquely Canadian - poking fun at the stereotypes of Canada and Canadians

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

YouBigIdiot TheGreatestSons Aanthems AntEater DeadEndDriveIn

Not Yer Buddy Presents Richard & Darnell's BirthDazed Double Down with You Big Idiot, The Greatest Sons, Aanthems, AntEater + Dead End Drive-In

Vancouver | The Pub 340 | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

A Chorus Line

A darkened theatre, a gruelling audition and a ensemble of dancers praying for a job. Multi-award winning A CHORUS LINE tells the story of the gypsies of the Broadway stage.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Love's Labour's Lost By William Shakespeare

Alchemy Theatre in cooperation with Vagabond Players returns this summer to present William Shakespeare’s Love's Labour's Lost

New Westminster | The Bernie Legge Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Dance In Transit. Robson Square

If you think dancing isn't for you, you haven't tried it yet. If you can walk, you can dance. Dance in Transit is a street dancing festival - it's not about wearing special clothes or fancy shoes, it's about moving to music, one foot at a time

Vancouver | Robson Square | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Dance | Free

Theatre Under the Stars presents: Mary Poppins

Perfectly Magical. Properly Heartwarming. A supercalifragilistic musical the entire family will love.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

2 Chainz - Pretty Girls Like Trap Music Tour 2017

Tauheed Epps, known professionally as 2 Chainz, is an American hip hop recording artist

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Foolish - Every Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret

Every third Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret Platinum era hip hop and r&b (96-09’)

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music

Ok Tinder - Swipe Right Comedy

Our 17+ show is 60 minutes of fast-paced, no-holds-barred comedy looking at the good, bad and the laughable of Vancouver’s dating scene

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 11:15 pm to 0:15 am | Comedy

Vancouver Whitecaps FC vs. Houston Dynamo

Vancouver Whitecaps FC will commence their seventh season in Major League Soccer when they host Houston Dynamo

Vancouver | BC Place | Sports

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Farmers' Market

Burnaby's Farmers' Market is the place to find locally grown conventional and organic produce, prepared foods and crafts every Saturday from May 6 until October 28, 2017

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

Trout Lake Farmers Market

This is where you’ll find the vendors who have been doing it since the beginning; what started as 14 farmers ‘squatting’ at the Croatian Cultural Centre back in 1995 has grown into Vancouver’s most well-known and beloved market

Vancouver | John Hendry Park | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market | Free

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

UBC Farmer's Market

We'll be here with fresh tempeh right on UBC Farm

Vancouver | UBC Farm | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Music | Free

Body Rolling Self Massage

Give yourself a massage by rolling on a ball. Your weight creates a force that massages and releases muscles and myofascia tissue.

Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 9:15 am to 10:15 am | Active Life / Health

Lonsdale Artisan Farmers’ Market

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 | Lonsdale Quay | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden

The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio

Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Persistence

Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Canada 150: 150th Anniversary of Lacrosse

Not only is 2017 Canada’s 150th Birthday is also marks the 150th Anniversary of Lacrosse.

Richmond | Minoru Park | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Sports

River District Farmers Market

This one-of-a-kind market is the only riverfront market in Vancouver. Come shop for fruits and vegetables, prepared foods, and handmade products produced by farmers and artisans

Vancouver | River District Vancouver | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Regeneratus. Works by Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Recreational Line Dancing

Did you know that line dancing is an easy way to exercise the body and mind? It's a wonderful way to lose weight and meet new friends.

Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 10:30 am to 12:00 am | Dance

Trimble Park Playground

Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 10:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids

Watch & Learn - A Vancouver Arts & Culture Festival!

Watch & Learn is a weekend-long summer festival showcasing Vancouver’s arts & culture community!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 11:00 am to 7:00 pm | Festival

Bill Reid Creative Journeys

An exhibition presented in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport to mark the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

A Vancouver Arts & Culture Festival!: Workshops at Watch & Learn Festival

Join us for a weekend of hands-on learning with some of Vancouver's most talented artisans! Workshop tickets include weekend passes to enjoy the rest of Watch & Learn Festival inlcuding Etsy Vancouver market, food trucks, live music, and more!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 11:00 am to 7:00 pm | Workshop

Etsy Vancouver Market: Summer 2017

Etsy Vancouver Market IS BACK! We are teaming up with the Vancouver Civic Theatres and the East Van Arts & Culture Society for a massive outdoor eventl - Watch & Learn - A Vancouver Arts & Culture Festival!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 11:00 am to 7:00 pm | Market

Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists

Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Downtown Eastside Women's Fair and Flea Market

Join us at our second annual Women's Summer Fair, promising a vibrant atmosphere, lively entertainment, and fun for all! Come by and show your support

Vancouver | 200 Block, Columbia St. @ Cordova St. | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Fair | Free

Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour

The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption

Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | History

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Newton Days

OH NO, It's almost over! Only 2 more weekends until we wrap for the summer. Be sure to swing down and enjoy the taste of sunshine from Zaklan Heritage Farm and the DIVERSEcity Community Kitchen

Surrey | Newton Wave Pool | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free

Gordon Bennett - Be Polite

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the 29th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) takes place this summer from August 10-20 at various theatres.

Vancouver | Various theatres across Vancouver | 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Film

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing

The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Beach-Con 2017 Round 4

Upset with the cons this year? Don't be cause those event organizers are hardworking....

Vancouver | Kitsilano Beach | 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Active Life / Health

North Vancouver LoLo Food Tour

During the 2.5 hour tour, you will be able to learn about the historic ship building industry and early settlers to the area as you savor a delicious culinary experience. The tour includes 10 stops featuring 7 market vendors

North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay Market | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Food / Wine

Rock The Park - Music Festival at Ambleside

Vancouver’s First-Ever 3-Day Rock Music Festival! 11 bands in 3 days. Let’s get ready to ROCK!

West Vancouver | Ambleside Park | 2:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Red Light Rendezvous. Sins of the City Walking Tour

Vancouver might have been founded on a barrel of whisky, but it was built on the brothels that lined the muddy streets of Gastown. Explore the history of Vancouver's sex trade with the Vancouver Police Museum's Red Light Rendezvous

Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm | History

Summer Sessions Concerts

The Summer Sessions Concerts, take place every Saturday evening (7pm to 10pm) in July and August in Shipbuilders’ Square at the foot of Lonsdale from July 8th to August 26th.

North Vancouver | Shipbuilders' Square | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Family | Free

Tsawwassen Rotary presents Guardians of the Galaxy 2

The Rotary Club of Tsawwaasen presents their annual FREE outdoor movie in Diefenbaker Park

Delta | Diefenbaker Park Tsawwassen | 6:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Film | Free

Science World: Alfresco

An unforgettable and unique long-table 5-course dinner, served family style

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine

Tiller’s Folly with Dawson Rutledge

Presented by Greenline Dental and Evergreen Cultural Centre, Music on the Grill bring top-notch musical acts to Coquitlam each summer

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Boot Scootin' BBQ by Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery

​ Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery invites you to put on your Hat and Boots and join us on Saturday, August 19th for our Boot Scootin’ BBQ

Langley | Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery | 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine

Latin Cuban Cruise

Welcome to the 2017 summer edition of the incredibly fun Cuban Party Cruises!

Vancouver | Summer Latin Cruises | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Marine

TD Concerts at the Pier - Platinum Blonde

Grab your lawn chair and head down to the pier for another summer of live music!

White Rock | TD Concerts at the Pier | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free

Starry Night

Join us at Starry Night for an evening to explore nature and Deas Island Park by starlight, featuring nature discovery stations, crafts, drumming entertainment, and a lantern-lit evening walk along a one kilometer trail