Metro Vancouver events calendar for July 2017. Best festivals, concerts, fun things to do, Canada Day shows & events, kids activities, and free entertainment in Vancouver, BC.
Vancouver celebrates Canada's 150th anniversary. Here are some special events and activities.
July 1, 2017
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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
Canada 150: Steveston Salmon Festival
Welcome to the Steveston Salmon Festival “Canada’s Biggest Little Birthday Party Since 1945” July 1st
Richmond | Steveston | 6:30 am to 5:00 pm | Festival
Canada 150: Our Home & Native Bloom
Throughout June, City Hall Plaza will blossom forth with a tribute to the biodiversity and beauty of Richmond’s native plants.
Richmond | Richmond City Hall | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family | 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
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
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
Canada Day, 150th Birthday
The celebration in 2017Canada Day at Canada Place will be a two-day program
Vancouver | Canada Place | 9:45 am to 4:40 pm | Family | Free
Canada Day in Surrey
The ultimate celebration of Canada's 150th birthday!
Surrey | Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre | 10:00 am to 10:30 pm | Family | Free
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
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
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
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
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
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Canada Day at the Cannery
Visit the Cannery with the entire family to celebrate Canada Day with us on July 1st. Enjoy outdoor kids’ games in Fisherman’s Park, and fishy crafts and activities for kids of all ages inside the museum
Richmond | Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | History | Free
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Richmond Canada Day in Steveston
In honour of Canada 150, Richmond Canada Day will be the ultimate birthday bash with a street festival in Steveston Village incorporating the much beloved Steveston Salmon Festival, ship boarding, free concerts, food trucks and a brilliant fireworks displ
Richmond | Steveston | 10:00 am to 10:30 pm | Family
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City
The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Vancouver in the Seventies
Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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
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
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 6:00 pm | Family
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
Surrey Celebrates Canada 150. Dominion Days
Celebrate Canada's 150th Birthday at the Farm. Canada is turning 150 and we're celebrating like it's 1900 with a new two-day festival
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 Day Open House 2017
You are invited! The Vancouver Convention Centre is hosting an Open House in its West building on July 1, Canada’s 150th Birthday
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Family
Youth Celebrate Canada Day with Still Moon Arts Society
Still Moon Arts Society will be participating in this years Youth Celebrate Canada Day, at Renfrew Park Community Centre.
Vancouver | Renfrew Park Community Centre | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Active Life / Health
J'ouvert on the Mountain
Carnival Sensations is proud to partner with SFU Students of Caribbean & African Ancestry to bring you J'ouvert on the Mountain
Burnaby | Simon Fraser University | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Family | 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
Self-guided tour of the Orpheum
Take a self-guided tour of Vancouver's historic Orpheum concert hallm and learn the Orpheum's surprising history.
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 11:30 am to 12:30 am | History
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
Celebrate Canada's 150th Birthday
Named one of the top 20 festivals in Metro Vancouver by Business in Vancouver, this is a free community festival with live music and entertainment, food, beverages, family activities and fireworks
Coquitlam | Town Centre Park | 12:00 am to 10:30 pm | Family | Free
Canada Day at Kensington Community Centre
Come out and celebrate with your family, friends, and neighbours.
Vancouver | Kensington Community Centre | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
YVR Food Fest: Canada Day Cookout & Outdoor Concert
Celebrate Canada’s 150th Birthday with great food, beer, and music. A gigantic Austin-style outdoor party with bands, DJs, and, of course, amazing food, the Canada Day Cookout will be one of the city’s biggest celebra- tions
Vancouver | Olympic Village | 12:00 am to 8:00 pm | Food / Wine
Youth Celebrate Canada 150+
Canada is celebrating 150+ years! Show us your spirit and smiles at this free, family-friendly event.
Vancouver | Renfrew Park Community Centre | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
Canada Day 150 Celebration
Free Family Fun courtesy of the Commercial Drive Business Society, Britannia Community Centre and local community partners at Grandview Park! Thanks to Vancouver Public Library, Safeway, and all the local volunteers!
Vancouver | Grandview Park | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free
慶祝加拿大150週年粵韻金曲演唱會 Celebrate Canada 150 - Chinese Opera Golden Songs Gala
Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 12:30 am to 2:30 pm | Music
Britannia's Canada Day 150 Celebration
Children's area; Teen Centre concession; community booths; cake cutting ceremony, and more!
Vancouver | Britannia Community Services Centre | 12:30 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free
The Orpheum -Self-guided tour
Take a self-guided tour of Vancouver's historic Orpheum concert hallm and learn the Orpheum's surprising history.
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 12:45 am to 1:45 pm | History
Walking Tour Vignettes
Travel back in time to the year 1917 with these walking tours. A narrator leads you though the streets of Steveston to see five short historical plays performed.
Richmond | Steveston Museum | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | History
30th Annual Crab Park Festival, Canada Day
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Crab Park at Portside becoming an official waterfront park in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Vancouver | At the very North foot of Main Street | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music | Free
Million Dollar Quartet
Four Rock Legends, One Unbelievable Jam Session
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 3:45 pm | Music
150 Years of Fashion
Ivan Sayers and the Society for the Museum of Original Costume (SMOC) present 150 Years of Fashion. Celebrate Canada Day with a Free Fashion Show at Barclay Heritage Square
Vancouver | Roedde House Museum | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Self-guided tour - of the Orpheum
Take a self-guided tour of Vancouver's historic Orpheum concert hallm and learn the Orpheum's surprising history.
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | History
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
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
TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Laura Jurd Dinosaur
Laura Jurd is a British award-winning trumpet player, composer and bandleader and BBC New Generation Artist for 2015-2017. Dinosaur is one of the most vital and creative new ensembles in the UK today.
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 3:15 pm to 5:00 pm | Music
Watch Mexico vs Paraguay Game on Big Screen in Gastown
Watch Mexican Soccer Games on a big screen at the Mexican Food Restaurant La Casita Gastown in Vancouver, BC.
Vancouver | La Casita Gastown | 5:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Sports
TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Sylvain Darrifourcq In Love with
French drummer Sylvain Darrifourcq (Émile Parisien) leads this vital and startlingly creative trio through abstracted, brain-meltingly virtuosic compositions that come off like mashups of Webern, Satie, Mr. Bungle, and beautifully textured chamber jazz
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 5:00 pm to 6:15 pm | Music
EnChant: Mantra Meditation and Kirtan with Krishna-Prana & Kala
EnChant is a bi-weekly community gathering of open-minded souls for call and response chanting, also known as Kirtan
Vancouver | Unity Yoga Teahouse | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Active Life / Health
Dean Brody's Beautiful Freak Show Tour 2017
Dean Brody - Beautiful Freakshow Tour 2017, With special guests Madeline Merlo and the James Barker Band
Abbotsford | Abbotsford Centre | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
A Tribute to The Tragically Hip
The Roxy Cabaret Presents: A Tribute to the Tragically Hip All your favourite Hip songs, performed by The Millennials!
Vancouver | The Roxy Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:00 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
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
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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Musical
Million Dollar Quartet
Four Rock Legends, One Unbelievable Jam Session
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 9:45 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
Coastal Jazz: Tony Foster quartet FEAT. Pasquale Grasso
Pianist Tony Foster is joined by guitarist Pasquale Grasso, bassist Nate Parker, and drummer Joe Poole for this celebration of Foster’s latest album Project Paradiso
Vancouver | Frankie's Jazz Club | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
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 Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Comedy Basement at Goldies f. Dion Arnold
The Comedy Basement Pro/Am Showcase features Vancouver's funniest professional & up-and-coming stand up comics every Saturday at Goldies!
Vancouver | Goldies Pizza | 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy
Canada Day Fireworks
Vancouver’s only two-barge simultaneous pyrotechnic extravaganza. Watch as the sky lights up in celebration of our nation’s 150th! The two fireworks barges are located in Coal Harbour, and Dundarave in West Vancouver.
Vancouver | Canada Place | 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Family
We Ain't Givin' Up Tour
Social Change and Music (U.S. West Coast and Canada) Music that protects water/ fights fascism/loves queers/welcomes refugees/ and tears down walls!
Vancouver | Cafe Deux Soleils | 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Les Goodman After Dark Canada Day Party
Hosted by Les Goodman After Dark-Vancouver's Only Live Late Night Talk Show
Vancouver | LanaLou's | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show
DJ Tennis at DeepDownInside
Join us for a special Canada Day edition of #DeepDownInside with Life and Death label founder Dj Tennis on Saturday, July 1st.
Vancouver | MIA 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
The Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense at the Rio Theatre
Jonathan Demme’s groundbreaking concert documentary Stop Making Sense, featuring New Wave pioneers The Talking Heads
Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 10:30 pm to 11:50 pm | Film
Dion Timmer with Going Quantum at SUBculture Saturdays Canada Day!
Canada Day at SUBculture Saturdays featuring the VANCOUVER debut of..... Dion Timmer
Vancouver | Red Room Ultra Bar | 11:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Universe & G2's Life Tour 2017 - Vancouver
Bringing you the best K Hip Hop Tour, Hi-Lite Records, Astro Entertainment, CBM Vancouver, Legend Promotions proudly present to you " Universe & G2's Life Tour 2017"
Vancouver | Privé Nightclub | 11:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
July 2, 2017
Sun
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
Canada 150: Our Home & Native Bloom
Throughout June, City Hall Plaza will blossom forth with a tribute to the biodiversity and beauty of Richmond’s native plants.
Richmond | Richmond City Hall | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family | Free
Canada Day, 150th Birthday
The celebration in 2017Canada Day at Canada Place will be a two-day program
Vancouver | Canada Place | 8:30 am to 3:00 pm | Family | 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
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
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
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
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
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
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City
The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Vancouver in the Seventies
Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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 6:00 pm | Family
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
Surrey Celebrates Canada 150. Dominion Days
Celebrate Canada's 150th Birthday at the Farm. Canada is turning 150 and we're celebrating like it's 1900 with a new two-day festival
Surrey | Stewart Farm House | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free
YVR Food Fest - Street Food Showdown
YYR Food Fest is back for a sixth year and happening over the Canada Day Long Weekend. Featuring new, expansive programming all weekend long at Vancouver’s premiere celebration of food, June 29 - July 3, 2017
Vancouver | Olympic Village | 11:00 am to 7:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
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
North Shore Jazz: Jennifer Scott
JUNO- and Jesse-nominated Scott regularly performs to festival audiences and sold-out stages, earning accolades for her velvety voice and daring song selection.
North Vancouver | Civic Plaza | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Music | Free
Canada 150: Cantonese Opera
Harmony Cultural Arts Society is a non-profit organization set up with the vision to promote and increase the community’s understanding and appreciation of Cantonese Opera
Richmond | Richmond Cultural Centre | 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Opera | Free
TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Mendham featuring the music of Josh Zubot
Mendham is a high-energy avant-jazz group led by violinist Joshua Zubot (Sam Shalabi, Lori Freedman). Melding swing, new music, free improv, speed metal, and noise, the Montreal group is known for its propulsive and beautifully ecstatic mayhem
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 1:30 pm to 2:45 pm | Music
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
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 | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Dance | Free
Million Dollar Quartet
Four Rock Legends, One Unbelievable Jam Session
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 3:45 pm | Music
Join Eid Joy!
Join us in celebrating Eid with your families at King George park. There will be tons of fun activities, outdoor games, arts and crafts, henna, prizes and much more
Richmond | Cambie Community Centre | 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Family | Free
TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Plimley/Reed/van der Schyff
Now Orchestra co-founding pianist Paul Plimley (Lisle Ellis, Joe McPhee, Scott Amendola) is a joyful tornado of avant-improvisation, modal melodic manipulations, and sharp neo-classicism
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 3:15 pm to 4:45 pm | Music
TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity
One of the most sought-after drummers in Norway’s burgeoning jazz and improvised music scene, Gard Nilssen has worked with Team Hegdal, Cortex, Bushman’s Revenge, and Puma
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 5:00 pm to 6:15 pm | Music
Parade. Canada150 Parade presented by Port of Vancouver
As the grand finale for our two-day celebration, join us for the Canada150 parade
Vancouver | West Georgia and Broughton Streets | 5:00 pm to 0:00 am | Family | Free
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
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
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
TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival Presents: Scott Hamilton featuring Rossano Sportiello & J.J. Shakur
Scott Hamilton is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, associated with swing (music) and mainstream jazz.
Vancouver | VSO School Of Music | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
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
Coastal Jazz: Brad Turner Quartet
Brad Turner is a Canadian jazz trumpeter and pianist who has won two Juno Awards and six Canadian National Jazz Awards for categories including Jazz Trumpeter of the Year, Jazz Composer of the Year, and Musician of the Year
Vancouver | Frankie's Jazz Club | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Queen + Adam Lambert at Rogers Arena
Back by popular demand, Queen + Adam Lambert will rock North America this summer with a highly-anticipated 25-city arena tour
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
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
TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: BassDrumBone
BassDrumBone is a trio that has wedded the uniquness of it's instrumentation with the singular personality of it's three members. A true collective, their music combines three distinct compositional and improvisational approaches with an exceptional music
Vancouver | The Ironworks | 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Music
TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival Presents: Scott Hamilton featuring Rossano Sportiello - Late Event
Scott Hamilton is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, associated with swing (music) and mainstream jazz.
Vancouver | VSO School Of Music | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Gerry Hemingway/Tony Wilson/John Gross
A meeting of three of North America's most captivating musicians. A longtime Anthony Braxton collaborator, American drummer Gerry Hemingway has been on the leading edge of creative music since the early '70s, working with John Butcher, Ellery Eskelin
Vancouver | The Ironworks | 11:58 pm to 1:30 am | Music
July 3, 2017
Mon
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
Canada 150: Our Home & Native Bloom
Throughout June, City Hall Plaza will blossom forth with a tribute to the biodiversity and beauty of Richmond’s native plants.
Richmond | Richmond City Hall | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family | Free
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
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
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City
The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Vancouver in the Seventies
Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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 6:00 pm | Family
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
YVR Food Fest: The Big Brunch
A unique event, and the first of it’s kind in Vancouver! A gigantic outdoor brunch that feature every conceivable type of delicious brunch fare from some of the city’s best restaurants and cafés
Vancouver | Olympic Village | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Food / Wine
Golden Spike Days: Yoga in the Park. Flow with Carmen
Join us for Free yoga in the park as part of Golden Spike Days at Rocky Point Park in Port Moody!
Port Moody | Golden Spike Days @ Rocky Point | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Robokids Coquitlam Summer Camp: 3D Modeling+Lego Wedo Robotics
Robokids - Intellectual Enrichment through Robotics. Enrich your child’s life and skills in mathematics, science and technology with active learning through robotics at a Robokids learning centre in 7 locations in BC
Coquitlam | 203-3025 Anson Ave | 12:30 am to 3:00 pm | Kids
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
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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
Tiger Army & Murder By Death with guest Tim Barry
Tiger Army is an American psychobilly band based in Los Angeles, California.
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
July 4, 2017
Tue
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
Canada 150: Our Home & Native Bloom
Throughout June, City Hall Plaza will blossom forth with a tribute to the biodiversity and beauty of Richmond’s native plants.
Richmond | Richmond City Hall | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family | 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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
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
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
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
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City
The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Vancouver in the Seventies
Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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 6:00 pm | Family
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
Self-guided tour of the Orpheum
Take a self-guided tour of Vancouver's historic Orpheum concert hallm and learn the Orpheum's surprising history.
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 11:30 am to 12:30 am | History
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
The Orpheum -Self-guided tour
Take a self-guided tour of Vancouver's historic Orpheum concert hallm and learn the Orpheum's surprising history.
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 12:45 am to 1:45 pm | History
Self-guided tour - of the Orpheum
Take a self-guided tour of Vancouver's historic Orpheum concert hallm and learn the Orpheum's surprising history.
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | History
Dems Abroad July 4 Potluck @Trout Lake
Whether you're letting your freak flag fly or simply looking for a great hang on July 4 with fellow US citizens in Vancouver, join us at Trout Lake picnic shelter next to the swimming beach at the south side of the park for the annual Democrats Abroad Van
Vancouver | John Hendry Park | 6:00 pm to 2:53 pm | Family | 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: 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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
Million Dollar Quartet
Four Rock Legends, One Unbelievable Jam Session
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm | Music
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
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
July 5, 2017
Wed
Vancouver Whitecaps FC vs. New York City FC
Vancouver Whitecaps FC will commence their seventh season in Major League Soccer when they host New York City FC
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
Canada 150: Our Home & Native Bloom
Throughout June, City Hall Plaza will blossom forth with a tribute to the biodiversity and beauty of Richmond’s native plants.
Richmond | Richmond City Hall | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family | 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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
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
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
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
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City
The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Vancouver in the Seventies
Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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 6:00 pm | Family
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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 4:15 pm | Musical
Million Dollar Quartet
Four Rock Legends, One Unbelievable Jam Session
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 1:30 pm to 3:15 pm | Music
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
Art At Work Writing Intensive Series: Artists’ Grants with Shaun Dacey
Richmond Art Gallery Director Shaun Dacey leads an overview of grant writing for artists and arts organizations. Session One presents an overview of writing for foundations, Provincial government grants, and Federal government grants in British Columbia.
Richmond | Richmond Cultural Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Workshop | Free
Body Circuit Bootcamp
Our Bootcamp fitness classes are the best in Surrey! Our classes are for women who want to achieve their goals, transform their bodies, feel better and more fit
Surrey | Fleetwood Park | 6:00 pm to 2:49 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
Yoga in the Park
Enjoy an all ages hour of yoga at Thompson Community Park
Richmond | Thompson Community Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Active Life / Health | 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: 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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
Million Dollar Quartet
Four Rock Legends, One Unbelievable Jam Session
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:15 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 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
Daniel Lanois
Daniel Roland Lanois is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. Daniel Lanois is a name that deserves to be mentioned alongside the finest sonic experimenters of the 20th century - and the 21st century too
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 0:30 am | Music
Nimbus Nights: Secondhand Habit with guests
Nimbus School of Recording & Media and The Roxy Cabaret Present... Secondhand Habit with John Hubcap & Officer Trip
Vancouver | The Roxy Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
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
July 6, 2017
Thu
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
Canada 150: Our Home & Native Bloom
Throughout June, City Hall Plaza will blossom forth with a tribute to the biodiversity and beauty of Richmond’s native plants.
Richmond | Richmond City Hall | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family | 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
The Bomb Shelter Comedy Open Mic
The Bomb Shelter Comedy Open Mic goes down every Thursday in The Comedy Basement at Goldies, and hosts a couple dozen comics from pro-level to first-timer!
Vancouver | Goldies Pizza | 9:30 am to 0:30 am | Comedy | 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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
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
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City
The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Vancouver in the Seventies
Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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 6:00 pm | Family
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
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
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
Music By The River
The Arts Council of New Westminster is thrilled to be partnering with Alex Jopson and the City of New Westminster to bring back the Music By The River concert series and arts festival to the beautifully unique Westminster Pier Park
New Westminster | Westminster Pier Park | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music | Free
Woodward's Community Singers 2017 Workshops
Everyone Deserves Music: Come Raise Your Voice With Us For A Dose Of Collective Joy!
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Workshop | Free
Indian Summer Festival 2017: Opening Gala
Opening Gala with Vikram Vij and special guests. One of the top 10 parties to look forward to!
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Festival
Sabrina Carpenter - The De-Tour with guests Alex Aiono and New Hope Club
Sabrina Ann Lynn Carpenter is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She had a recurring role as the young version of Chloe Goodwin in The Goodwin Games and starred as Maya Hart in the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World.
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Mi Casa in Vancouver
Mi Casa is a house band based in Johannesburg, South Africa and consisting of 3 members, Dr. Duda and pianist, J'Something, and Mo-T
Vancouver | Cabana Lounge | 7:00 pm to 2:00 am | 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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
Million Dollar Quartet
Four Rock Legends, One Unbelievable Jam Session
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm | Music
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
Just For Laughs & JFL NorthWest Present: Ron Funches: Funch-A-Mania
Ron Funches is a very funny stand-up comedian with a unique delivery and lovable demeanor. You just want to hug and squeeze him like a big stuffed bear
Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy
Jazz Waves: Mimosa
Vancouver quintet Mimosa draws on Jazz, Brazilian Sambas, French 60s pop and Cabaret music to concoct its own unique sound: gorgeous melodies, quirky lyrics, incredible groove and sky-high improvisations
West Vancouver | Silk Purse Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
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
La Luz with special guests
La Luz is a surf rock band from Los Angeles, California founded in 2012 consisting of Shana Cleveland, Marian Li Pino, Alice Sandahl, and Lena Simon
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Coastal Jazz: Matt Choboter Trio
The trio navigates original compositions and standard repertoire exploring varied rhythmic and harmonic frameworks.
Vancouver | Frankie's Jazz Club | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Beatlemania On Tour
Relive the heyday of the worlds favourite Pop act with Beatlemania On Tour, the complete live tribute show that recreates a true Beatles experience
Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
Snak The Ripper Live in Vancouver
Hebby D Entertainment Presents: Snak The Ripper Live in Concert with Special Guests Jaclyn Gee, JUNK, D-Rec
Vancouver | Red Room Ultra Bar | 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
Junior Reid Live in Vancouver at Ting
This will be Junior Reid's very first time in Vancouver! He'll be performing a full concert backed by K-Salaam (live production set) including a brand-new song (featuring Gramps Morgan from Morgan Heritage and produced by Beatnick & K-Salaam)
Vancouver | The Waldorf Hotel | 10:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music
July 7, 2017
Fri
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
Canada 150: Our Home & Native Bloom
Throughout June, City Hall Plaza will blossom forth with a tribute to the biodiversity and beauty of Richmond’s native plants.
Richmond | Richmond City Hall | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family | 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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
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
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City
The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Vancouver in the Seventies
Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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 6:00 pm | Family
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
FVDED In The Park 2017
#FVDED2017 July 7 & 8, Holland Park
Surrey | Holland Park | 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Walking Tour Vignettes
Travel back in time to the year 1917 with these walking tours. A narrator leads you though the streets of Steveston to see five short historical plays performed.
Richmond | Steveston Museum | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm | History
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
Shipyards Night Market
Stop 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
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
David Gogo Band
We return to this super cool venue !! Intimate and interactive, not a bad seat in the house !! Get your tickets now !!
White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
VSO Summer Concerts 2017 - Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions
This is the must-see video game concert of the year, giving fans and newcomers of all ages a chance to experience the evolution of the Pokémon franchise like never before
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 9:00 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
Summertime Blue & Brews
Don't miss this weekend of fabulous Blues and cool craft beer.
White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 7:00 pm to 7:00 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
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: 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
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
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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Musical
Million Dollar Quartet
Four Rock Legends, One Unbelievable Jam Session
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Music
Indian Summer Festival 2017: Parcels & Fugue States
Pasha Malla and Anosh Irani in conversation with Devyani Saltzman. Two award-winning Canadian writers discuss their most recent novels in this event hosted by Devyani Saltzman, Director of the Banff Centre’s Literary Arts program
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Lecture
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
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Mip Power Trio, The Slots, Cole Patenaude Band at LanaLou's
Find yourself welcomed by the sound of four good friends joining together in melodic and rhythmic harmony.
Vancouver | Lana Lou's | 9:00 pm to 2:54 pm | Music
Snak The Ripper Live in Concert!
Hebby D Entertainment Presents: Snak The Ripper Live in Concert with Special Guests Jaclyn Gee, JUNK, D-Rec
Chilliwack | Main Street Nightclub | 9:00 pm to 1:00 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
Guilty Pleasures at The Fox Cabaret
Guess who’s back, back again... The city's Funnest monthly dance party makes it's triumphant return to the Fox Cabaret.
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:02 am | 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
July 8, 2017
Sat
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
Canada 150: Our Home & Native Bloom
Throughout June, City Hall Plaza will blossom forth with a tribute to the biodiversity and beauty of Richmond’s native plants.
Richmond | Richmond City Hall | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family | Free
Carnaval Del Sol 2017
Carnaval de Sol is the biggest Latin festival in the Pacific Northwest. It will be 2 days of live music, art, dance, sports, and poetry in celebration of Latin American Culture.
Vancouver | Concord Pacific Place | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Family | Free
A Cultural Walking Tour: Punjabi Market & Chinatown
Get a lived sense of these two important Vancouver neighbourhoods, with experts who will introduce you to their streets, shops, heritage buildings, stories and characters.
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 9:00 am to 3:30 pm | Lecture
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
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
BC Open Presented by Innova
The 2017 BC Open is a Pro/AM A-Tier PDGA sanctioned event. AceRunners, Innova Champion Discs, along with the BC open organizing committee are very excited to make this annual local event an A-Tier this year
Langley | Langley Passive Park | 9:00 am to 8:00 pm | Sports
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
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
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
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 | 9:30 am to 11:30 am | Sports
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 | 9:30 am to 11:30 am | Sports
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
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
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
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
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
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City
The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Vancouver in the Seventies
Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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
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
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 6:00 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
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
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
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Exploring Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing
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 - BMO Mainstage | 11:00 am to 12:00 am | Lecture
Rockin' in the Park
Join us at Rockin' in the Park for free entertainment and loads of family fun!
Vancouver | Coal Harbour Park (above Coal Harbour Community Centre) | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Family | Free
Places For People Downtown: Coal Harbour
Join us at Places For People Downtown at Burrard Landing in Coal Harbour. Share your ideas, big and small, on how to improve public space downtown
Vancouver | 11:00 am to 3:00 am | Active Life / Health
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
Arbutus Greenway community celebration
Bring your family to celebrate the Arbutus Greenway with us. There are plenty of activites for everyone
Vancouver | Arbutus Greenway, next to William Mackie Park | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Family | Free
Family Picnic in Grandview Park
Did you know we’re updating and renewing Britannia Community Centre? How can we make sure that it’s an even better place for you and your kids in the future?
Vancouver | Grandview Park | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Family | Free
Farmhouse Fest 2017
Farmhouse Fest returns for a 3rd year at UBC Farm! Featuring saisons, sours, cider, and wild farmhouse ales from some of the best breweries locally and around the world
Vancouver | UBC Farm | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
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
The Vancouver Pro/Am & Expo 2017
All IFBB Divisions and the BCABBA BC Provincial Championships
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 11:00 am to 7:00 pm | Sports
Khatsahlano Street Party 2017
The best day of summer returns to West 4th Ave! The Khatsahlano Street Party is back with The Zolas, The Courtneys, D.O.A., Louise Burns Music + so much more!
Vancouver | West 4th Ave | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Family | Free
Downtown New Westminster Neighbourhood Party
Come and meet your neighbours at this fun and free event!
New Westminster | 205 Agnes Street | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Family | Free
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
Newton Days
Kicking things off with a Free pancake breakfast, the first Newton Days will feature: Science demonstrations with Science World, a kids zone with face painting, crafts and games, special performance by the Surrey Re-enactors and live music by Ranj Singh I
Surrey | Newton Wave Pool | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
Taco Fest 2017
Apocalypse Sunrise Productions Presents The 3rd Annual Vancouver Taco Fest! This year will be bigger and better then ever!!!
Burnaby | Swangard Stadium | 12:00 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine
Walking Tour Vignettes
Travel back in time to the year 1917 with these walking tours. A narrator leads you though the streets of Steveston to see five short historical plays performed.
Richmond | Steveston Museum | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | History
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
Summer Arts Carnivale at Killarney
In the spirit of diversity, cultural exchange, environmental stewardship, and community building we invite you to celebrate Canada 150+ with a Summer Arts Carnivale!
Vancouver | Killarney Community Centre | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
FVDED In The Park 2017
#FVDED2017 July 7 & 8, Holland Park
Surrey | Holland Park | 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Eastside Culture Crawl Brewery Tour & Fundraiser!
Join us for the second annual Eastside Culture Crawl Brewery Tour & Fundraiser and explore East Vancouver's craft breweries in support of the ECCS and its programming
Vancouver | 1000 Parker Street | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising
Million Dollar Quartet
Four Rock Legends, One Unbelievable Jam Session
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 3:45 pm | Music
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 2:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Musical
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
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
Opening Reception: The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian.
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm | Exhibition
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
IQ Mania
IQ 2000 Presents: Vancouver’s ultimate trivia championship: IQ Mania
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 6:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show
The Bills with Mildly Wild
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 0:00 am | Active Life / Health
Poppa Dawg
Kick off summer with the Blues & Brews Weekend! Rick ‘Poppa Dawg’ Halisheff has been a mainstay on the Canadian blues scene for almost 30 years now.
White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Evil Ebenezer Live In Vancouver
Final Boss Management, Stompdown Killaz, Ephin Apparel, Urban Revolution Canada & Phant Extracts Presents: Evil Ebenezer, special guest: Robbie G
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Dance In Transit. Queen Elizabeth Plaza
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 | Queen Elizabeth Plaza | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Dance | 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
Quintron & Miss Pussycat at Fortune Sound
Quintron and Miss Pussycat bring their genre-defying noise and “Swamp-Tech” dance music from New Orleans Saturday July 8th for the early show with guests
Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Breath Empowerment and Healing Sound Journey with Matthew Kocel
A note from Matthew: The Breath Empowerment is one of the most intensely powerful breathing practices I have ever found.
North Vancouver | Maa Yoga Studio | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health
Historama: Philippine History in Songs, Dances, & Re-enactment
Presented by: Philippine Society of BC
Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
Summertime Blue & Brews
Don't miss this weekend of fabulous Blues and cool craft beer.
White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 7:00 pm to 7:00 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
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: 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
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
Spatial Poetics XVI: KIYO 生き残り
The Powell Street Festival Society in association with the O k’inādās Collective present: Spatial Poetics XVI: KIYO 生き残り Honouring the living memory of invisible lives
Vancouver | Vancouver Buddhist Temple - Jodo Shinshu Tradition | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
Shawn Mendes: Illuminate World Tour
Shawn Peter Raul Mendes is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He attracted a following in 2013, when he began posting song covers on the popular video sharing application Vine
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Jazz Waves: Double Helix
Guitar duo Double Helix. brothers Tony & Peter Chotem, play mesmerizing free form jazz
West Vancouver | Silk Purse Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
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
D-Rail, Electrojets, The Tarleks at Lana Lou's
Thats right kids 3 Vancouver Punk Bands Dawntown on a hot summer night hey ho lets go see ya there
Vancouver | Lanalou's Rock n Roll Watering Hole | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Flamenco Rosario: Fin de Fiesta
Flamenco Rosario is proud to present Fin De Fiesta at the Vancouver Playhouse. The performance features Professional Training Program graduates with guests from the flamenco school, Centro Flamenco
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Musical
Million Dollar Quartet
Four Rock Legends, One Unbelievable Jam Session
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 9:45 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
Indian Summer Festival 2017: Here is Where We Meet with L. Subramaniam & Ernie Watts Quartet
Two Grammy award-winning giants come together in a rare concert that brings the best of classical Indian music and jazz to Vancouver
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Erato Ensemble: Homegrown
Erato Ensemble: Homegrown a 10th Anniversary Celebration at the Annex. Vancouver's professional art-song ensemble
Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 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
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Comedy Basement at Goldies f. Patrick Maliha
The Comedy Basement Pro/Am Showcase features Vancouver's funniest professional & up-and-coming stand up comics every Saturday at Goldies!
Vancouver | Goldies Pizza | 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy
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
Taco Fest 2017 after-party with the Food and guests the Furniture
The Rickshaw and Taco Fest - Vancouver present: The official Taco Fest 2017 after-party featuring The Food with guests The Furniture
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 10:00 pm to 1:00 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
July 9, 2017
Sun
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
Carnaval Del Sol 2017
Carnaval de Sol is the biggest Latin festival in the Pacific Northwest. It will be 2 days of live music, art, dance, sports, and poetry in celebration of Latin American Culture.
Vancouver | Concord Pacific Place | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Family | 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
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
BC Open Presented by Innova
The 2017 BC Open is a Pro/AM A-Tier PDGA sanctioned event. AceRunners, Innova Champion Discs, along with the BC open organizing committee are very excited to make this annual local event an A-Tier this year
Langley | Langley Passive Park | 9:00 am to 8:00 pm | Sports
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
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
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
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
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
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City
The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Vancouver in the Seventies
Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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 6:00 pm | Family
19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
HCI International 2017, jointly with the affiliated Conferences, held under one management and one registration, will take place at Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, Canada, under the auspices of 15 distinguished international boards.
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture
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
The Vancouver Pro/Am & Expo 2017
All IFBB Divisions and the BCABBA BC Provincial Championships
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Sports
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
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
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
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
Renewable City: Car Free Day on the Drive
Learn more about how creating safer walking and cycling supports our Renewable City Strategy. Ask questions and share your ideas on how we can create a future without fossil fuels
Vancouver | 12:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family
Annual BazaQ at Spanish Banks
The Annual Summer Potluck BazaQ at Spanish Banks
Vancouver | Spanish Banks | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Music | 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
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
Million Dollar Quartet
Four Rock Legends, One Unbelievable Jam Session
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 3:45 pm | Music
Watch Mexico vs El Salvador Game on Big Screen in Gastown
Watch Mexican Soccer Games on a big screen at the Mexican Food Restaurant La Casita Gastown in Vancouver, BC.
Vancouver | La Casita Gastown | 6:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Sports
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
Free VSO symphony at the park
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performs its annual free outdoor concert showcasing the beauty of Burnaby’s Deer Lake Park
Burnaby | Burnaby’s Deer Lake Park | 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
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
Stage Supreme Never Say Goodbye 2017 Concert
Presented by Felix Mar
Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Show
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: 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
Coastal Jazz: Barry Greenfield
Barry Greenfield (vocals, songwriter, percussion, and guitars), Jon Tobin (vocals, and grand piano) and Lori Greenfield (vocals)
Vancouver | Frankie's Jazz Club | 8:00 pm to 10:30 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
July 10, 2017
Mon
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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
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
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City
The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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
Vancouver in the Seventies
Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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 6:00 pm | Family
19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
HCI International 2017, jointly with the affiliated Conferences, held under one management and one registration, will take place at Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, Canada, under the auspices of 15 distinguished international boards.
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture
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
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
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
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
Robokids Coquitlam Summer Camp: 3D Modeling+Lego Wedo Robotics
Robokids - Intellectual Enrichment through Robotics. Enrich your child’s life and skills in mathematics, science and technology with active learning through robotics at a Robokids learning centre in 7 locations in BC
Coquitlam | 203-3025 Anson Ave | 12:30 am to 3:00 pm | Kids
Zumba on the Plaza
Free Zumba classes Mondays on the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza at 5:30 pm.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm | Active Life / Health | 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
Indie Monday Film Series: Moonlight
Can’t find the films you’re itching to see in the local movie theatre? Looking for more than the same old Hollywood Blockbusters? Tired of overpriced popcorn?
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Film
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. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Presents: Classical Masters
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and conductor William Rowson perform some of the most beautiful Classical music ever written
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
Beach Fossils With Guests She-Devils and Ablebody
Beach Fossils are an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2009. The group currently includes Dustin Payseur, Jack Doyle Smith and Tommy Davidson
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:59 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
July 11, 2017
Tue
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City
The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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
Vancouver in the Seventies
Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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 6:00 pm | Family
19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
HCI International 2017, jointly with the affiliated Conferences, held under one management and one registration, will take place at Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, Canada, under the auspices of 15 distinguished international boards.
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture
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
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
Self-guided tour of the Orpheum
Take a self-guided tour of Vancouver's historic Orpheum concert hallm and learn the Orpheum's surprising history.
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 11:30 am to 12:30 am | History
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
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
The Orpheum -Self-guided tour
Take a self-guided tour of Vancouver's historic Orpheum concert hallm and learn the Orpheum's surprising history.
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 12:45 am to 1:45 pm | History
Self-guided tour - of the Orpheum
Take a self-guided tour of Vancouver's historic Orpheum concert hallm and learn the Orpheum's surprising history.
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | History
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
Gardening for Salmon and Birds
Native plant species provide valuable habitat for salmon and birds! Wondering how plants in your yard can help salmon?
Vancouver | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Workshop
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: 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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
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
Nite Jewel With guests Geneva Jacuzzi and Harriet Brown
Singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, on tour to support her latest release "Real High"
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:30 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
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Vancouver - Evo Summer Cinema - The Goonies (1985)
The Evo Summer Cinema Outdoor Movie Series in Stanley Park is back! Brought to you by Evo Car Share and FreshAirCinema.
Vancouver | Ceperley Meadow - Second Beach in Stanley Park | 9:15 pm to 11:00 pm | Film | Free
Celebs Tuesday
All year round, Tuesday at Celebrities are packed with party animals
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
July 12, 2017
Wed
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
Know Show Summer 2018
The KnowShow provides a perfect platform for industry leading brands and Canadian retailers to connect and do this business.
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Lecture
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City
The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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
Vancouver in the Seventies
Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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 6:00 pm | Family
19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
HCI International 2017, jointly with the affiliated Conferences, held under one management and one registration, will take place at Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, Canada, under the auspices of 15 distinguished international boards.
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture
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
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
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
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
Self-guided tour of the Orpheum
Take a self-guided tour of Vancouver's historic Orpheum concert hallm and learn the Orpheum's surprising history.
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 11:30 am to 12:30 am | History
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
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
The Orpheum -Self-guided tour
Take a self-guided tour of Vancouver's historic Orpheum concert hallm and learn the Orpheum's surprising history.
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 12:45 am to 1:45 pm | History
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 4:15 pm | Musical
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
Self-guided tour - of the Orpheum
Take a self-guided tour of Vancouver's historic Orpheum concert hallm and learn the Orpheum's surprising history.
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | History
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
Art At Work Writing Intensive Series : Artists’ Grants with Shaun Dacey
Richmond Art Gallery Director Shaun Dacey leads an overview of grant writing for artists and arts organizations. Session One presents an overview of writing for foundations, Provincial government grants, and Federal government grants in British Columbia.
Richmond | Richmond Cultural Centre | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Workshop | Free
Lansdowne Centre Starlight Cinema Drive-In: Beauty and the Beast
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
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
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
Indian Summer Festival 2017: In Between Worlds with MG Vassanji
MG Vassanji’s work has focused on liminal states, where his characters are players in the ‘battlefield of history’. Vassanji’s many award-winning novels bring alive the angst faced being in a constant state of exile
Burnaby | Ismaili Centre Burnaby | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Lecture
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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
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
Phantom of The Opera in Vancouver
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical
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 Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Unwrapping Culture. Edge Off 3
Unwrapping Culture brings together two exceptional male dance artists: Canada’s own Alvin Erasga Tolentino, and Pichet Klunchun, an outstanding exponent of the Thai classical dance style of Khon, who is known internationally for contemporizing this ancien
Vancouver | KW Production Studio | 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance
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
July 13, 2017
Thu
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
Know Show Summer 2018
The KnowShow provides a perfect platform for industry leading brands and Canadian retailers to connect and do this business.
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Lecture
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
The Bomb Shelter Comedy Open Mic
The Bomb Shelter Comedy Open Mic goes down every Thursday in The Comedy Basement at Goldies, and hosts a couple dozen comics from pro-level to first-timer!
Vancouver | Goldies Pizza | 9:30 am to 0:30 am | Comedy | 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
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City
The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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
Vancouver in the Seventies
Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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 6:00 pm | Family
19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
HCI International 2017, jointly with the affiliated Conferences, held under one management and one registration, will take place at Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, Canada, under the auspices of 15 distinguished international boards.
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture
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
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
Summer Music Vancouver. Mendelssohn in the Morning
The two morning performances at Ryerson United Church and Christ Church Cathedral will feature the Attacca Quartet in Mendelssohn’s youthful and passionately romantic work, his String Quartet No.2
Vancouver | Dunbar Ryerson United Church | 10:30 am to 12:00 am | Music
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
Jazz Waves: Jacqueline Allan
Special Thursday morning Jazz Waves concert! Jazz favourites with dynamic singer Jacqueline Allan and her talented band; guitarist Ron Thompson & pianist Ken Dalgleish
West Vancouver | Silk Purse Arts Centre | 10:30 am to 11:00 am | Music
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
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
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
Phantom of The Opera in Vancouver
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Musical
Cheyenne "Lost Streams" Mural Painting
It's time to add more colour to our community! Join us as we work to paint a mural on Cheyenne Ave by the Cheyenne Community Gardens. The mural will be painted over the lost streams of Still Creek
Vancouver | Cheyenne Ave | 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Music By The River
The Arts Council of New Westminster is thrilled to be partnering with Alex Jopson and the City of New Westminster to bring back the Music By The River concert series and arts festival to the beautifully unique Westminster Pier Park
New Westminster | Westminster Pier Park | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music | Free
Steveston's Summer Fun Community BBQ
Join us for a FREE BBQ, games, activities and entertainment for Steveston's Summer Fun Community BBQ held at Steveston Park
Richmond | Steveston Park | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Family | Free
Summer Music Vancouver. Music Talks: June Goldsmith and Jamie Parker on Brahms' Piano Music
Join musician, founder and longtime artistic director of Music in the Morning, the inimitable June Goldsmith, in conversation with pianist Jamie Parker as they reflect on the life and music of Johannes Brahms
Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Music
Indian Summer Festival 2017: Dying Words
Disappearing and threatened languages. One language dies every 14 days. By 2100, nearly half of the 7,000 languages that are spoken on earth will have most likely disappeared
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Lecture
Woodward's Community Singers 2017 Workshops
Everyone Deserves Music: Come Raise Your Voice With Us For A Dose Of Collective Joy!
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Workshop | 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
VSO Summer Concerts 2017: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ In Concert, part of the Harry Potter™ Film Concert Series
CineConcerts is inviting fans back to the Wizarding World for an evening of music and magic in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ In Concert
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
Roxy Launch Project 2017
The Roxy Cabaret, Nimbus School of Recording and Media, and Do604 are looking for local artists and bands to compete in the 2017 Roxy Launch Project
Vancouver | The Roxy Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Colin Linden
Colin Linden is a genuine renaissance man of roots music.
White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 7:00 pm to 9:15 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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
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
Watch Mexico vs Jamaica Game on Big Screen in Gastown
Watch Mexican Soccer Games on a big screen at the Mexican Food Restaurant La Casita Gastown in Vancouver, BC.
Vancouver | La Casita Gastown | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Sports
Summer Music Vancouver: Brahms at Pyatt Hall
Music in the Morning's Summer Music Vancouver festival presents Brahms at Pyatt Hall with a free pre-show talk at the Annex
Vancouver | Vancouver Symphony School of Music | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
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
Phantom of The Opera in Vancouver
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical
Indian Summer Festival 2017: A Muse of Fire
Speaking of art born of war, the novelist Kamila Shamsie writes “In the ugly moments of history - times of conflict, war, oppression or censorship - two questions are provoked over and over: what is good art in such times? And what good is art in response
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Lecture
Coastal Jazz: Jenny Xu Trio
Canadian jazz pianist, Jenny Xu, pays tribute to the music of the fiery, one-of-a-kind Chick Corea, 22-time Grammy Award winning artist best known for his collaborations with Miles Davis, Return to Forever and his ‘Akoustic’ and ‘Elektric’ Band
Vancouver | Frankie's Jazz Club | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
The Avalanches with guest Hubbz at the Commodore Ballroom
The Avalanches are an Australian electronic music group, formed in Melbourne in 1997. They are known for their two studio albums, Since I Left You and Wildflower, as well as their live and recorded DJ sets
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes at the Railway!
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes is an American blues musician & proprietor of the Blue Front Cafe, the oldest surviving juke joint in Mississippi
Vancouver | Railway Stage & Beer Café | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | 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
Unwrapping Culture. Edge Off 3
Unwrapping Culture brings together two exceptional male dance artists: Canada’s own Alvin Erasga Tolentino, and Pichet Klunchun, an outstanding exponent of the Thai classical dance style of Khon, who is known internationally for contemporizing this ancien
Vancouver | KW Production Studio | 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance
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
July 14, 2017
Fri
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
40th Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival
Vancouver Folk Music Festival's 40th anniversary takes place this year! We're planning something extra special for this milestone. Stay tuned...
Vancouver | Jericho Beach Park | 9:00 am to 11:00 pm | Music
Know Show Summer 2018
The KnowShow provides a perfect platform for industry leading brands and Canadian retailers to connect and do this business.
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Lecture
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City
The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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
Vancouver in the Seventies
Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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 6:00 pm | Family
19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
HCI International 2017, jointly with the affiliated Conferences, held under one management and one registration, will take place at Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, Canada, under the auspices of 15 distinguished international boards.
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture
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
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
Summer Music Vancouver.. Mendelssohn in the Morning
The two morning performances at Ryerson United Church and Christ Church Cathedral will feature the Attacca Quartet in Mendelssohn’s youthful and passionately romantic work, his String Quartet No.2
Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral Vancouver | 10:30 am to 12:00 am | Music
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
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
Gathering of Canoes
This summer, you are invited to witness a traditional landing of the Pulling Together Canoe Journey.
Vancouver | Vanier 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
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
NEC Graduation Ceremony
We are proud to honour this year's NEC Graduates at the Musqueam Cultural Centre
Vancouver | Musqueam Cultural Centre | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Family | Free
BCFSN 19th Annual Gathering
Come join movers and shakers, pollinators and connectors, convenors and change makers, thought leaders, and folks who are new to food systems change for this year’s 19th Annual BCFSN Annual Gathering
Vancouver | UBC Farm | 1:00 pm to 1:00 pm | Nature / Animals
Walking Tour Vignettes
Travel back in time to the year 1917 with these walking tours. A narrator leads you though the streets of Steveston to see five short historical plays performed.
Richmond | Steveston Museum | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm | History
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
Shipyards Night Market
Stop 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
Indian Summer Festival 2017: I See the Promised Land
I See the Promised Land: A blues-based performance of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King by Arthur Flowers
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Festival
Thompson Community Picnic and Youth Show Off
Join Thompson Community Association members to help celebrate the summer season with free games, activities, community booths and entertainment
Richmond | Thompson Community Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Night Moves - The Music of Bob Seger
Don’t miss the Night Moves Show, starring Dan Hare and his All Star band in a stunning re-creation of Bob Seger performing his greatest hits and favorites.
White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 6:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Film
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
Music in the Park at Maple Grove Park
Join us for live music at Maple Grove Park. Musician: Alexander Flock
Vancouver | Maple Grove Outdoor Pool | 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Music
Pottery and Wine Night
Explore the possibility and magic of the Pottery Studio. Our WPG instructor, Cheryl will be leading the night as you have the opportunity to hand build and try your hand on the wheel.
Vancouver | Aberthau Mansion | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Food / Wine
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
This Is Our Youth
Newly formed Vancouver theatre company, Midtwenties Theatre Society, is proud to present their first offering to the Vancouver arts community, This Is Our Youth
Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre
VSO Summer Concerts 2017: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ In Concert
CineConcerts is inviting fans back to the Wizarding World for an evening of music and magic in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ In Concert
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 9:45 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
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
Wine & Whiskers
Join us for an evening of wine and whiskers. Not only will it be an enjoyable evening, you’ll also be helping the animals in our care
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Food / Wine
Melvins - Vancouver
Metal legends (the) Melvins return to Venue with support from Spotlights
Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 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
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
Summer Music Vancouver: Brahms at Pyatt Hall
Music in the Morning's Summer Music Vancouver festival presents Brahms at Pyatt Hall with a free pre-show talk at the Annex
Vancouver | Vancouver Symphony School of Music | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Musical
Marvelous Mid Month Party
Rockers Jason Camp and the Posers with Dub Jackson Band who hail from HAIDA GWAII joined by NANAIMO's sensations The Daisy Stranglers all give er" on this mid summer's night PARTEEE with none other than The Shit Talkers!
Vancouver | SBC Restaurant | 8:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music
Phantom of The Opera in Vancouver
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical
Indian Summer Festival 2017: Graphically Speaking
Art, sex, politics and surviving these times - this is what forms the nucleus of Molly Crabapple’s work, whether in the burlesque scene, the trial in Guantanamo Bay or the war zones of Syria.
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Lecture
The Small Glories
Folk powerhouse pair The Small Glories are Cara Luft & JD Edwards, a dynamic duo planted on the Canadian Prairies.
Langley | Bez Arts Hub | 8:00 pm to 11:00 am | 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
Katchafire with guest Ivy Terra
Katchafire are a New Zealand roots reggae band from Hamilton
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Unwrapping Culture. Edge Off 3
Unwrapping Culture brings together two exceptional male dance artists: Canada’s own Alvin Erasga Tolentino, and Pichet Klunchun, an outstanding exponent of the Thai classical dance style of Khon, who is known internationally for contemporizing this ancien
Vancouver | KW Production Studio | 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance
Richmond: City Centre Community Centre presents Moana (2016)
City Centre Community Centre is coming back to Garden City Community Park to bring the community a free, fun, family evening.
Richmond | Garden City Community Park | 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Film | Free
Los Duendes & Coco Jafro at The Railway Club
The dynamic duo of Los Duendes & Coco are throwing an epic summer dance party at The Railway Club! Afro-Beat, Funk, Soul, Latin, Salsa, Cumbia, Psychadelic Fusion
Vancouver | Railway Stage & Beer Café | 9:00 pm to 1:00 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
Denzel Curry at Happy Ending Fridays
Carol City rapper and 2016 XXL Freshman, Denzel Curry returns to Happy Ending Fridays July 14th with residents Rico Uno & LeChance
Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 10:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music
Dusky - Celebrities
The gold standard for house and techno, Dusky joins us at StereotypeFridays!
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Tantalus Labs presents Club Med
It’s official, Vancouver’s dope baby Tantalus Labs is federally licensed in the weed game. To show our love to all of you supporters and beautiful citizens of Vancouver, we are throwing a rager.
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | 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
July 15, 2017
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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
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
40th Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival
Vancouver Folk Music Festival's 40th anniversary takes place this year! We're planning something extra special for this milestone. Stay tuned...
Vancouver | Jericho Beach Park | 9:00 am to 11:00 pm | Music
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
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
Cheyenne Lost Streams Mural Painting
It's time to add more colour to our community! Join us as we work to paint a mural on Cheyenne Ave by the Cheyenne Community Gardens. The mural will be painted over the lost streams of Still Creek
Vancouver | Cheyenne Community Gardens | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | 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
2017 July Labour Market Cafe
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 | 9:20 am to 2:00 pm | Lecture | Free
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
Eat from Your Garden Year Round
If you want to grow food beyond the fall harvest, now is the time to plan and begin planting! Learn what to grow and when to sow your winter garden and how to prevent common problems that the winter garden faces.
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:30 am to 12:30 am | Nature / Animals
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
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
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
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
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
Indian Summer Festival 2017: Morning Raga
Morning Raga features a music performance by celebrated sitarist Mohamed Assani, accompanied by tabla player Amarjeet Singh
Burnaby | Ismaili Centre Burnaby | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Music
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
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
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City
The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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
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
Vancouver in the Seventies
Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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 6:00 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
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
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
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
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Exploring Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice
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
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
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
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
Newton Days
Kicking things off with a Free pancake breakfast, the first Newton Days will feature: Science demonstrations with Science World, a kids zone with face painting, crafts and games, special performance by the Surrey Re-enactors and live music by Ranj Singh I
Surrey | Newton Wave Pool | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
Thunderbird Sharing Ceremony
The Thunderbird Sharing Ceremony is a Coast Salish Canoe Landing Ceremony adn Free Community Celebration Performance. Experience a collaborative performance with Aeriosa Dance and Spakwus Slulem/Eagle Song at its heart.
Vancouver | Stanley Park | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Family | Free
Walking Tour Vignettes
Travel back in time to the year 1917 with these walking tours. A narrator leads you though the streets of Steveston to see five short historical plays performed.
Richmond | Steveston Museum | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | History
BCFSN 19th Annual Gathering
Come join movers and shakers, pollinators and connectors, convenors and change makers, thought leaders, and folks who are new to food systems change for this year’s 19th Annual BCFSN Annual Gathering
Vancouver | UBC Farm | 1:00 pm to 1:00 pm | Nature / Animals
Frottage
Take a handful of objects – Canadian coins, textured paper, wood and more – lay it down on a table and lay a piece of paper over top. Use crayons and pencils to make colourful rubbings.
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Family | 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
VSO Summer Concerts 2017: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ In Concert
CineConcerts is inviting fans back to the Wizarding World for an evening of music and magic in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ In Concert
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Music
Phantom of The Opera in Vancouver
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Musical
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 2:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Musical
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
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
This Is Our Youth - presented by Midtwenties Theatre Society & Red Gate Arts Society
Newly formed Vancouver theatre company, Midtwenties Theatre Society, is proud to present their first offering to the Vancouver arts community, This Is Our Youth
Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Theatre
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
New West Craft Summer Night Market
The New West Craft Summer Night Market returns on Saturday
New Westminster | River Market at Westminster Quay | 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Market | 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
ECCW Ballroom Brawl VIII
Quickly becoming one of the Commodore Ballroom’s hottest regular events, the Elite Canadian Championship Wrestling returns with Ballroom Brawl VIII
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports
This Is Our Youth
Newly formed Vancouver theatre company, Midtwenties Theatre Society, is proud to present their first offering to the Vancouver arts community, This Is Our Youth
Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre
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
Jaymes Young - Feel Something Tour
Jaymes Young is an American musician whose debut album, Dark Star EP, was released September 9, 2013. In 2013 he was signed to a recording contract with Atlantic Records and toured with the trip hop trio London Grammar
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
南浦樂苑主辦 南浦仲夏樂繽紛 粵劇粵曲匯演
Presented by: Chris Mok and the Southern Sea Music Studio
Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
TD Concerts at the Pier - R&B Allstars
On Saturday, July 15, grab your lawn chair and head up to the Five Corners business district for special night of live music … for free!
White Rock | White Rock Pier | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free
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
Skales "The Never Say Never Gut Tour" Vancouver
Skales With Local Supporting Acts: Kevin Ohìo & Kester Ohio Kessy, Ndidi Cascade & Oluwa Toni. Hosted by Mufaro R. Mbudzi Music by OGA Rossco + Mario Davis
New Westminster | Heritage Banquet Hall | 7:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music
Indian Summer Festival 2017. Closing Night: 5x15 (Includes Constellations)
ISF2017 Closing Night kicks off at 7:30pm with our favourite speaker series, 5x15, followed by 'Constellations' featuring a mix of musical delights from 9:30pm onwards
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Festival
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
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
Jazz Waves: The Kristian Braathen Trio
Smooth & sophisticated jazz with The Kristian Braathen Trio featuring drummer Kristian Braathen, bassist Jodi Proznick & pianist Miles Black
West Vancouver | Silk Purse Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
Summer Music Vancouver. Reich at the Roundhouse
Vancouver’s Roundhouse will be the scene of a contemporary evening anchored by the presentation of the groundbreaking work of art from celebrated composer, Steve Reich
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
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
Perfume Genius with guests serpentwithfeet
This is an American rock ‘n’ roll album by big American pop star Perfume Genius
Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:50 pm | Music
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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Musical
Phantom of The Opera in Vancouver
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical
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
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
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
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
The Psychic Alliance + Melted Mirror (Calgary)
Lust For Life and BeatRoute Magazine present The Psychic Alliance "Mixing mind-altering psychedelia-lite with carnivalesque pop guaranteed to leave you with a sugar hangover, the Psychic Alliance seems to have come from another time and place
Vancouver | Railway Stage & Beer Café | 9:00 pm to 1:00 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
Jerry Folk - Celebrities
Known for his endlessly energetic rhythms, Norwegian Jerry Folk joins us at CelebsPlayhouse
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
Indian Summer Festival 2017. Closing Night: Constellations
Indian Summer Festival’s closing night is the place to be on a summery Saturday as you join an art party that combines a constellation of musical stars, visual art, festival artists and special guests
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 11:30 pm to 5:35 pm | Festival
July 16, 2017
Sun
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
Indian Summer Festival 2017: Free Programming
Every year we lovingly curate an offering of free programming, including art experiences, workshops and talks with international and local artists
Vancouver | Metro Vancouver | 8:00 am to 11:59 pm | Festival | 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
40th Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival
Vancouver Folk Music Festival's 40th anniversary takes place this year! We're planning something extra special for this milestone. Stay tuned...
Vancouver | Jericho Beach Park | 9:00 am to 11:00 pm | Music
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City
The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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
Vancouver in the Seventies
Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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 6:00 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
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
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
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
2017 HUB Member Appreciation Picnic
Are you a HUB Cycling Member or HUB volunteer? If so, please join us on Sunday July 16 for our annual appreciation picnic!
Vancouver | Stanley Park - Second Beach | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm | Family
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
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
BCFSN 19th Annual Gathering
Come join movers and shakers, pollinators and connectors, convenors and change makers, thought leaders, and folks who are new to food systems change for this year’s 19th Annual BCFSN Annual Gathering
Vancouver | UBC Farm | 1:00 pm to 1:00 pm | Nature / Animals
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
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
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
This Is Our Youth - presented by Midtwenties Theatre Society & Red Gate Arts Society
Newly formed Vancouver theatre company, Midtwenties Theatre Society, is proud to present their first offering to the Vancouver arts community, This Is Our Youth
Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Theatre
Multilingual Tours - Mandarin and Spanish
Join artist Tommy Ting for a tour of the current exhibitions in Mandarin. Join artist Guadalupe Martinez for a tour of the current exhibitions in Spanish.
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Exhibition
Watch Curaçao vs Mexico Game on Big Screen in Gastown
Watch Mexican Soccer Games on a big screen at the Mexican Food Restaurant La Casita Gastown in Vancouver, BC
Vancouver | La Casita Gastown | 5:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Sports
Summer Night Cruise on the M.V. Brittania
Sights, Sounds, Tasty Flavours & Dancing on the High Seas Federico's Annual Cruise is back!!
Vancouver | Federico's Supper Club | 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Dance
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
This Is Our Youth
Newly formed Vancouver theatre company, Midtwenties Theatre Society, is proud to present their first offering to the Vancouver arts community, This Is Our Youth
Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals at the Commodore Ballroom
Benjamin Chase "Ben" Harper is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live performances, and activism
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | 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
Phantom of The Opera in Vancouver
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical
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
Matchbox Twenty & Counting Crows: A Brief History Of Everything Tour
Matchbox Twenty is an American rock band, formed in Orlando, Florida, in 1995. The group currently consists of Rob Thomas, Kyle Cook, Brian Yale, and Paul Doucette
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra in Vancouver!
Caravan World Rhythms & Julio Montero present Montreal’s Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra: an explosion of music and dance, circus and imagination.
Vancouver | Caravan World Rhythms | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show
July 17, 2017
Mon
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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
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
Spirit Song Summer Theatre Training
Workshops for Improvisation, Acting, Radio Production, Singing, Movement and More!!
Vancouver | Native Education College | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Workshop | Free
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 6:00 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
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
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
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
Zumba on the Plaza
Free Zumba classes Mondays on the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza at 5:30 pm.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 5:30 pm to 6:30 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 | Sports
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
This Is Our Youth
Newly formed Vancouver theatre company, Midtwenties Theatre Society, is proud to present their first offering to the Vancouver arts community, This Is Our Youth
Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre
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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
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
July 18, 2017
Tue
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
Walk Vancouver: Move for Health
Celebrate Move for Health Day at Dunbar Community Centre. Participate in a series of pop-up walking events we will have throughout the spring and summer
Vancouver | Dunbar Community Centre | 9:30 am to 11:30 am | Active Life / Health
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 6:00 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
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
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
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
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
Curator Talk - Peter White on Levine Flexhaug
Join us for a special curator's talk and screening with Peter White
Vancouver | The Cinematheque | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture | Free
Jazz Jam with Cory Weeds
Join us at the Shadbolt for a jazz jam session! Hosted by Cory Weeds, the Jazz Jam features a stellar lineup of local jazz musicians in an improvised evening of music
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 6:00 pm to 8:00 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
J.Cole - 4 Your Eyez Only at Rogers Arena
4 Your Eyez Only is the fourth studio album by American hip hop recording artist J. Cole.
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:00 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 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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
The Drums
The Drums return to Vancouver with guests
Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Royal Headache with Fashionism, Needles//Pins and Guests
Royal Headache is an Australian punk rock and garage band from Sydney. The band was formed in 2008. The band is composed of Tim "Shogun" Wall, Lawrence "Law" Hall and Gabrielle de Giorgio
Vancouver | The Cobalt | 8:00 pm to 1:56 pm | Music
Phantom of The Opera in Vancouver
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical
Bats in the Belfry(MTL) and Old.Soul.Rebel at Slickity Jim's
Three piece all female folk trio Bats in the Belfry is on tour from Montreal and ready to rock Vancouver! We are excited to say we're playing with some mesmerizing locals, Old.Soul.Rebel!
Vancouver | Slickity Jim's Chat 'N Chew! | 8:00 pm to 7:44 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
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Vancouver - Evo Summer Cinema - Toy Story
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
Celebs Tuesday
All year round, Tuesday at Celebrities are packed with party animals
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
The Late Late Show with Scotty Hills
Juno nominated Soul/Folk artist Scotty Hills makes his debut at Guilt and Company
Vancouver | Guilt & Company | 10:30 pm to 0:30 am | Music
July 19, 2017
Wed
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 6:00 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
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
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
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
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
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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 4:15 pm | Musical
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
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
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
Creations from the Apothecaries' Garden
The Apothecaries’ Garden was the corner-store of old. In this class we will explore a multitude of household products you can create from plants in your garden such as herbal tea blends, syrups, tinctures, household cleaners and first aid products
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Food / Wine
Lansdowne Centre Starlight Cinema Drive-In: Sing
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
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
This Is Our Youth
Newly formed Vancouver theatre company, Midtwenties Theatre Society, is proud to present their first offering to the Vancouver arts community, This Is Our Youth
Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre
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
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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
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
Phantom of The Opera in Vancouver
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical
Bingo For Life
Presented by Celebrities & Vancouver Friends For Life Society. This weekly extravaganza is filled with brilliant prizes, cheap drinks and snappy drag queens! Hosted by the lovely Del Stamp & friends
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
The Psychedelic Furs with special guests Robyn Hitchcock
The Psychedelic Furs are an English rock band founded in London in February 1977. Led by singer Richard Butler and his brother Tim Butler on bass guitar, the Psychedelic Furs are one of the many acts spawned from the British post-punk scene
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 0:30 am | 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
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Bats in the Belfry
This three-piece lady string band can be a little tricky to fit in a box. Folk and blue grass are terms that just don't cut it when you're hit with the mixture of punk influences and pop sensibilities that make their music shine
Vancouver | The Roxy Cabaret | 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
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
July 20, 2017
Thu
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 6:00 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
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
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
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
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
Central Business District Walking Tour
An hour-long tour of public plazas, parks, and streetscapes of the Central Business District. We're looking for input on how to deliver exceptional, vibrant, and memorable public spaces in the downtown peninsula as part of the Places for People Project
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 12:30 am to 1:30 pm | Active Life / Health | 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
Dreamland Fantasy by the James Black Gallery
Starchild Stela’s Dreamland Fantasy is a multidisciplinary sensorial experience that invite the viewer to make themselves at home and feel nostalgic, in a sweet, ethereal kind of way
Vancouver | The James Black Gallery | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Visual Arts
Music By The River
The Arts Council of New Westminster is thrilled to be partnering with Alex Jopson and the City of New Westminster to bring back the Music By The River concert series and arts festival to the beautifully unique Westminster Pier Park
New Westminster | Westminster Pier Park | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music | Free
Audrey's Art Bar by Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery
Resident Artist Audrey Burm provides step-by-step instruction and demonstrates techniques students can creatively use on future projects. Guests enjoy a glass of our award winning wine and large farm style cheese board.
Langley | Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery | 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts
Yaletown Walking Tour
A two-hour tour of public plazas, parks, and streetscapes of Yaletown. We're looking for input on how to deliver exceptional, vibrant, and memorable public spaces in the downtown peninsula as part of the Places for People Project
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Woodward's Community Singers 2017 Workshops
Everyone Deserves Music: Come Raise Your Voice With Us For A Dose Of Collective Joy!
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Workshop | Free
Celebrate Summer Love at After Hours
Celebrate Summer Love at our next adults-only After Hours here at the Vancouver Aquarium.
Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
TD Concerts at the Pier - Eagle Eyes
Grab your lawn chair and head down to the pier for another summer of live music!
White Rock | White Rock Pier | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free
Happy Hour with Ballet BC Dancers
This year CAG Young Patrons are hosting a series of Happy Hours where we partner with other Vancouver organizations and individuals. This month we are partnering with dancers from Ballet BC where they will be performing in our space
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
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
Jazz Waves: The Sojourners
2014 Western Canadian Music Award winning Gospel superstars The Sojourners return for a thrilling concert guaranteed to bring the house down!
West Vancouver | Silk Purse Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
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
Phantom of The Opera in Vancouver
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical
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 New Groovement at The Railway Club
Mr Boom Bap presents: Boogie Nights ft. The New Groovement from Victoria BC
Vancouver | Railway Stage & Beer Café | 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
July 21, 2017
Fri
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
2017 Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Don’t Give Up!
We warmly invite you to attend this year’s three-day convention presented by Jehovah’s Witnesses
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture | 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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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
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
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
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
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
26th Annual Sandcastle Competition
Get out your buckets, shovels and sunscreen ready for our 26th Annual Sandcastle Competition. A day of sand, sun, fun, adventure and prizes awaits you as you build sandcastle, sea serpents, mermaids and more. Let your creativity run wild!
Vancouver | Spanish Banks West | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Visual Arts
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
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
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
HUB Cycling Bike to Shop Days
An entire weekend of bikes, shopping, prizes, and discounts. Support local vendors while contributing to Metro Vancouver's bike community
Vancouver | Metro Vancouver | 11:00 am to 6:00 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
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
Dreamland Fantasy by the James Black Gallery
Starchild Stela’s Dreamland Fantasy is a multidisciplinary sensorial experience that invite the viewer to make themselves at home and feel nostalgic, in a sweet, ethereal kind of way
Vancouver | The James Black Gallery | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Visual Arts
A free workshop presentation of '1 Hour Photo' Friday July 21
You’re invited to attend a sneak peek of '1 Hour Photo' on Friday July 21
Vancouver | The Cultch | 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Workshop | Free
Walking Tour Vignettes
Travel back in time to the year 1917 with these walking tours. A narrator leads you though the streets of Steveston to see five short historical plays performed.
Richmond | Steveston Museum | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm | History
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
Shipyards Night Market
Stop 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
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
Music in the Park at Maple Grove Park
Join us for live music at Maple Grove Park. Musician: Alexander Flock
Vancouver | Maple Grove Outdoor Pool | 6:30 pm to 7:30 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
This Is Our Youth
Newly formed Vancouver theatre company, Midtwenties Theatre Society, is proud to present their first offering to the Vancouver arts community, This Is Our Youth
Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre
Mad Alchemy Caravan ft. LSD & The Search For God
Psychedelic rock show featuring multiple bands and visuals by The Mad Alchemy Liquid Light Show!
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 4:08 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
BC Lions vs Winnipeg Blue Bombers
The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team competing in the West Division of the Canadian Football League
Vancouver | BC Place | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports
MR.Boogie Woogies
Hard drivin’, old school Rhythm & Blues, complemented by some killer Boogie Woogies, by the fastest, flashiest, piano-thumping boogie man from the Netherlands. Yes, that’s right
White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music
Playland Nights
Every Friday in July enjoy evenings dedicated to adults-only, complete with beer, wine, food, midway games and of course, Playland’s exhilarating rides.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show
Les Contes d’Hoffmann
In a crowded tavern, the poet Hoffmann, urged on by his fellow drinkers, recounts the stories of his wildest, most outrageous loves and losses
Vancouver | York Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre
The Little Mermaid Jr. -The Musical
Journey "under the sea" with Ariel and her aquatic friends in this enchanting show based on one of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories.
West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:10 pm | Musical
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
Cor Flammae: Et Amor
Back for a fourth fierce summer, Vancouver’s chorus of queer classically trained singers presents Et Amor
Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 7:08 pm | Music
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
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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Musical
Phantom of The Opera in Vancouver
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical
Power Bottom
Pwr Bttm is a queer punk band consisting of Ben Hopkins and Liv Bruce. The band was formed at Bard College where Bruce and Hopkins bonded over a mutual interest in bringing elements of performance and drag artistry into DIY culture
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Sports with guests Yeek
Oklahoma dream pop band Sports began playing together in grade school, cycling through different names until deciding to adopt a cheeky moniker after their self-described lack of athleticism
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Magic Giant
Magic Giant is an American indie folk band formed in Los Angeles, California in early 2014. The group consists of Austin Bisnow, Zambricki Li and Zang
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | 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
Michael Jackson History Show
Showtime Australia presents this spectacular music tribute and full-scale stage production honouring the one and only King of Pop, Michael Jackson
Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
North Vancouver: Family Movie Night - The Secret Life of Pets
Bring your family down to North Vancouver Library Civic Plaza for a night packed with family fun. The movies will be shown on a big outdoor screen at sunset
North Vancouver | North Vancouver City Library - Civic Plaza | 9:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Film | Free
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
Drezo - Celebrities
Representing the darker and more imaginative side of house music, Drezomakes his return to Vancouver
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Darius in the Celebrities Underground
Drawing influence from funk and disco, Roche Musique's own Darius brings the groove to the Celebrities Underground
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 2:00 am | 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
July 22, 2017
Sat
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
2017 Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Don’t Give Up!
We warmly invite you to attend this year’s three-day convention presented by Jehovah’s Witnesses
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture | 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
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
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
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
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Surrey Fusion Festival
Surrey's Fusion Festival is truly the ultimate celebration of music, food and culture, bringing together many distinct cultural heritages represented by ethnic groups and service clubs within our community.
Surrey | Holland Park | 11:00 am to 10:00 pm | Festival | 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
HUB Cycling Bike to Shop Days
An entire weekend of bikes, shopping, prizes, and discounts. Support local vendors while contributing to Metro Vancouver's bike community
Vancouver | Metro Vancouver | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health | 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
West End Walking Tour: Denman and Davie Street
A two-hour tour of public plazas, parks, and streetscapes of the West End. We're looking for input on how to deliver exceptional, vibrant, and memorable public spaces in the downtown peninsula as part of the Places for People Project.
Vancouver | West End Community Centre | 11:00 am to 1:00 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
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
Newton Days
It's the final Newton Days of July! Did you miss Studio Seventy Three last week? They're back with more of their wonderful crafts. The kids zone is expanding to include henna, and the Taste of Heaven is back with more of their delicious hot dogs!
Surrey | Newton Wave Pool | 12:00 am to 3:39 pm | Family | Free
NWA at Uptown Live
Join artists from the New West Artists at Uptown Live for a fun interactive community art activity!!
New Westminster | New West Artists | 12:00 am to 8:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Walking Tour Vignettes
Travel back in time to the year 1917 with these walking tours. A narrator leads you though the streets of Steveston to see five short historical plays performed.
Richmond | Steveston Museum | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | History
Canada 150+. The Drum is Calling Festival
Immerse yourself in this nine-day festival of Indigenous and diverse arts and culture
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival
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
Gone Country #5 ~Here for the Cure~ Presented by Twins Cancer Fundraising
Get out those daisy dukes and cowboy boots! We are back at it again July 22, 2017 for the 5th annual Gone Country ~ Here for the Cure~ Cancer Fundraiser.
Surrey | Cloverdale Millennium Amphitheatre Park | 2:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising
Phantom of The Opera in Vancouver
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Musical
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 2:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Musical
The Little Mermaid Jr. -The Musical
Journey "under the sea" with Ariel and her aquatic friends in this enchanting show based on one of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories.
West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 2:00 pm to 4:10 pm | Musical
Art + Place - Presented by the NVCAC
Presented by the North Vancouver Community Arts Council ART+PLACE will celebrate Canada's 150th through visual art and dance, to inspire an awareness of the place where we live and foster a sense of belonging
North Vancouver | Waterfront Park | 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm | Dance | 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
Granville Street Walking Tour
A one-hour tour of public plazas and streetscapes of Granville Street. We're looking for input on how to deliver exceptional, vibrant, and memorable public spaces in the downtown peninsula as part of the Places for People Project.
Vancouver | Vancouver City Centre Station | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Lecture | 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
This Is Our Youth - presented by Midtwenties Theatre Society & Red Gate Arts Society
Newly formed Vancouver theatre company, Midtwenties Theatre Society, is proud to present their first offering to the Vancouver arts community, This Is Our Youth
Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Theatre
The Drum is Calling Film Series: Colonization Road
Colonization Road a film by director Michelle St. John part of The Drum is Calling Festival. Immerse yourself in this nine-day festival of Indigenous and diverse arts and culture
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 4:20 pm | Festival | Free
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
Canada 150+. The Drum is Calling Film Series: Elder in the Making
Elder in the Making a film by director Chris Hsiung with Co-Producer Cowboy Smithx part of The Drum is Calling Festival. Immerse yourself in this nine-day festival of Indigenous and diverse arts and culture
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 5:30 pm to 7:40 pm | Festival | Free
Big Little Lions with Ben Beveridge Trio
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 | Active Life / Health
Cinema Under the Stars by Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery
Honey I Shrunk the Kids. Join us for 'a movie under the stars on the giant screen in the new Fresh Family Fun field. The movie is inluded for free with your admission to the field where kids and parents can play together.
Langley | Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Film
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
This Is Our Youth
Newly formed Vancouver theatre company, Midtwenties Theatre Society, is proud to present their first offering to the Vancouver arts community, This Is Our Youth
Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre
Dance In Transit. Jim Deva Plaza
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 | Jim Deva Plaza | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance | 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
Michael Jackson History Show
A musical tribute and live concert experience that journeys through Michael Jackson’s vast and incredible catalogue of work including his beginnings as a member of the Jackson 5
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Eagle Eyes - The Music Of the Eagles
'Eagle Eyes' are a tribute to one of the most legendary rock & roll bands of all time - ‘The Eagles’.
White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music
Les Contes d’Hoffmann
In a crowded tavern, the poet Hoffmann, urged on by his fellow drinkers, recounts the stories of his wildest, most outrageous loves and losses
Vancouver | York Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre
Dreamland Fantasy by the James Black Gallery
Starchild Stela’s Dreamland Fantasy is a multidisciplinary sensorial experience that invite the viewer to make themselves at home and feel nostalgic, in a sweet, ethereal kind of way
Vancouver | The James Black Gallery | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Visual Arts
The Little Mermaid Jr. -The Musical
Journey "under the sea" with Ariel and her aquatic friends in this enchanting show based on one of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories.
West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:10 pm | Musical
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 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
Et Amor: CCC
Back for a fourth fierce summer, Vancouver’s chorus of queer classically trained singers presents Et Amor
Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral Vancouver | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
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
Jazz Waves: Mike Allen Quartet
One of Canada’s premiere jazz saxophonists, Mike Allen closes out Jazz Waves 2017 with a night of exciting music!
West Vancouver | Silk Purse Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
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
Phantom of The Opera in Vancouver
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical
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
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 Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Red Hot Tropical Boat Cruise
Red Hot Tropical Boat Cruise With music from Daddy Mikey
Vancouver | MV Brittania | 8:44 pm to 0:30 am | Marine
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
Fehrplay - Celebrities
Dubbed the savior of Progressive, Fehrplay joins us at CelebsPlayhouse!
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Empyreal Transmissions Vol.1: ASC, C_Olvrin, Searching, LVT
Debuting a series of local events which transcend the boundaries of ordinary nightlife experiences
Vancouver | Red Gate Arts Society | 10:00 pm to 4:00 am | Music
Big Easy Funk Ensemble
The Big Easy Funk Ensemble celebrates the amazing variety of music that has grown out of New Orleans
Vancouver | Guilt & Company | 10:00 pm to 1:00 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
July 23, 2017
Sun
Vancouver Whitecaps FC vs. Portland Timbers
Vancouver Whitecaps FC will commence their seventh season in Major League Soccer when they host Portland Timbers
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
2017 Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Don’t Give Up!
We warmly invite you to attend this year’s three-day convention presented by Jehovah’s Witnesses
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture | 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
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
Farmer's Feast by Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery
Sample fresh, local & delicious food from farms & vendors in your community. No tickets required for entry!
Langley | Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery | 9:00 am to 11:00 am | Food / Wine | Free
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 6:00 pm | Family
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
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
Surrey Fusion Festival
Surrey's Fusion Festival is truly the ultimate celebration of music, food and culture, bringing together many distinct cultural heritages represented by ethnic groups and service clubs within our community.
Surrey | Holland Park | 11:00 am to 10:00 pm | Festival | Free
Bubble Party! by Kids Market, Granville Island
Bubble, bubbles, and more bubbles!!!! Come party with some bubbles. We'll be outside from 11-3 seeing who can blow the biggest bubbles.
Vancouver | Kids Market | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free
HUB Cycling Bike to Shop Days
An entire weekend of bikes, shopping, prizes, and discounts. Support local vendors while contributing to Metro Vancouver's bike community
Vancouver | Metro Vancouver | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health | 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
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
Caribbean Days Family Boat Cruise
Kicking off our annual Summer Series of Events is the Family Boat Cruise, held the weekend before Caribbean Days Festival
Vancouver | Harbour Cruises Marina | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Canada 150+. The Drum is Calling Festival
Immerse yourself in this nine-day festival of Indigenous and diverse arts and culture
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival
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
Phantom of The Opera in Vancouver
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Musical
Maple Grove Day
Let's enjoy a summer afternoon together with games, water safety activities, arts & crafts and much more!
Vancouver | Maple Grove Outdoor Pool | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health
This Is Our Youth - presented by Midtwenties Theatre Society & Red Gate Arts Society
Newly formed Vancouver theatre company, Midtwenties Theatre Society, is proud to present their first offering to the Vancouver arts community, This Is Our Youth
Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Theatre
Tour in Spanish
Join artist Guadalupe Martinez for a tour of the current exhibitions in Spanish.
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Exhibition
Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids
Do you still have any of your childhood or teenage writing? Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids is an open-mic evening of book reports, poetry, diary entries, letters from camp, etc. — all read out loud by adults to a room full of strangers
Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 6:30 pm to 10:15 pm | Comedy
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
This Is Our Youth
Newly formed Vancouver theatre company, Midtwenties Theatre Society, is proud to present their first offering to the Vancouver arts community, This Is Our Youth
Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 7:00 pm to 9:00 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
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
Phantom of The Opera in Vancouver
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical
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
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
July 24, 2017
Mon
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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
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
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
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 6:00 pm | Family
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
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
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
Canada 150+. The Drum is Calling Festival
Immerse yourself in this nine-day festival of Indigenous and diverse arts and culture
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival
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
Zumba on the Plaza
Free Zumba classes Mondays on the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza at 5:30 pm.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm | Active Life / Health | 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
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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
Neil Diamond: 50th Anniversary Tour
Grammy Award winner and Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Member, Neil Diamond, will celebrate his unparalleled career spanning 50 years with a world tour.
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 8:00 pm to 11:00 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
Scott Verbeek Quintet
Scott Verbeek is an up and coming guitarist out of Vancouver. Scott’s confident and creative approach to Funk and Jazz has to be experienced live
Vancouver | Guilt & Company | 9:30 pm to 0:30 am | Music
July 25, 2017
Tue
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
Slimy Science
From boogers to toe jam, we dissect the engrossing science of our bodies. Don a lab coat and safety goggles to investigate our gooey insides in this slimy, crusty camp.
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 6:00 pm | Family
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
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
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
Canada 150+. The Drum is Calling Festival
Immerse yourself in this nine-day festival of Indigenous and diverse arts and culture
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival
Renfrew Ravine North Community Art Tour and Maintenance
Renfrew Ravine is filled with hidden artistic gems, come attend this event to learn about neighborhood history, and help us maintain some of the existing art
Vancouver | 3900 Renfrew Street | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Visual Arts | 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
The Little Mermaid the Musical
The show is a musical inspired by Andersen's tale "The Little Mermaid". Join your children's favorite mermaid on a fantastic journey underwater!
Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Show
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
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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
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
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Bob Dylan & His Band
Bob Dylan is an American poetic songwriter, singer, painter, writer, and Nobel prize laureate. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Vancouver - Evo Summer Cinema - National Lampoon's Vacation
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
Alita Dupray
An evocative and moving chanteuse possessed of an uncanny ability to conjure another time, spirit, mood, and place back by a hard groovin dynamic, and soulful band
Vancouver | Guilt & Company | 9:30 pm to 0:30 am | Music
Celebs Tuesday
All year round, Tuesday at Celebrities are packed with party animals
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
July 26, 2017
Wed
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
Slimy Science
From boogers to toe jam, we dissect the engrossing science of our bodies. Don a lab coat and safety goggles to investigate our gooey insides in this slimy, crusty camp.
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 6:00 pm | Family
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
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
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
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
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
Canada 150+. The Drum is Calling Festival
Immerse yourself in this nine-day festival of Indigenous and diverse arts and culture
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 4:15 pm | Musical
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
Summer Fun Nights 2017 - July 26
Celebrate Canada 150 with our annual Summer Fun Nights series.
Richmond | King George Park | 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Family | Free
Lansdowne Centre Starlight Cinema Drive-In: Jurrasic Park
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
Learn Chinese, Make Thai Chicken Satays with Roasted Pork Neck and 2 special...
You will blow your friends and family away if you can make these 2 classic Thai dishes for them! Well here's your chance to learn how to make SouthEast Asian food at your own home while picking up some basic Chinese words and phrases!
Vancouver | The True Nosh Kitchen | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
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
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
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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
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
Bruno Mars: 24K Magic World Tour
Grammy Award winner and world-renowned, multi-platinum selling singer/songwriter/producer/director/musician, Bruno Mars, revealed details behind his massive upcoming global headline tour - The 24K Magic World Tour
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Bingo For Life
Presented by Celebrities & Vancouver Friends For Life Society. This weekly extravaganza is filled with brilliant prizes, cheap drinks and snappy drag queens! Hosted by the lovely Del Stamp & friends
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 8:00 pm to 10:30 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
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
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
July 27, 2017
Thu
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
Salt Spring Island's Best
Sightsee and taste the best Salt Spring has to offer with a mix of nature, creativity and fresh food on the island's best of the best!
Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 7:30 am to 6:45 pm | Active Life / Health
The Power of Success - Live with Tony Robbins
One Day Mega Event where you will get training on Sales & Marketing, Negotiating, Personal Development, Business, Money, Motivation, and so much more!
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:30 am to 5:30 pm | Business / Finance
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
Slimy Science
From boogers to toe jam, we dissect the engrossing science of our bodies. Don a lab coat and safety goggles to investigate our gooey insides in this slimy, crusty camp.
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 6:00 pm | Family
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
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
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
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
Canada 150+. The Drum is Calling Festival
Immerse yourself in this nine-day festival of Indigenous and diverse arts and culture
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival
Music By The River
The Arts Council of New Westminster is thrilled to be partnering with Alex Jopson and the City of New Westminster to bring back the Music By The River concert series and arts festival to the beautifully unique Westminster Pier Park
New Westminster | Westminster Pier Park | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music | Free
Behind the scenes tour with Jas Lally - Gordon Bennett
Assistant Curator, Jas Lally offers an evening behind the scenes guided tour of the current exhibition 'Be Polite' by Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Coal Harbour Walking Tour
A two-hour tour of public plazas, parks, and streetscapes of Coal Harbour. We're looking for input on how to deliver exceptional, vibrant, and memorable public spaces in the downtown peninsula as part of the Places for People Project
Vancouver | Hornby Plaza | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Active Life / Health | 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
TD Concerts at the Pier - Led Zepagain
Grab your lawn chair and head down to the pier for another summer of live music!
White Rock | White Rock Pier | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free
Early Show: Hunter
Hailing from Southern New Hampshire, Hunter is a dynamic four piece alternative rock band defined by their energetic live performances and unique songwriting style
Vancouver | Guilt & Company | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
Canada 150+. The Drum is Calling Film Series: Redx Talks
The Drum is Calling Festival: Redx Talks an evening of short presentations by speakers, Immerse yourself in this nine-day festival of Indigenous and diverse arts and culture
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival | 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 | 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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
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
Bruno Mars: 24K Magic World Tour at Rogers Arena
Grammy Award winner and world-renowned, multi-platinum selling singer/songwriter/producer/director/musician, Bruno Mars, revealed details behind his massive upcoming global headline tour - The 24K Magic World Tour
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Sarah Jane Scouten
Sarah Jane Scouten - Canadian country-folk musician
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:30 am | Music
Coastal Jazz: Quatuor Andre Lachance
Fresh off of the 2017 release of their first CD The Orange Challenge, Quatuor Andre Lachance plays modern original jazz compositions and improvisations, based in acoustic and electric jazz as well as progressive rock, pop, and ambient electronic textures
Vancouver | Frankie's Jazz Club | 8:00 pm to 10:00 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
Secret Circle with Antwon, Wiki & Lil Ugly Mane in Vancouver
Secret Circle is a shadowy supergroup made up of Antwon, Wiki, and Lil Ugly Mane. Underground hip hop/cult icon Lil Ugly Mane will also be making his long awaited Vancouver debut for what is sure to be the rarest of occasions
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
July 28, 2017
Fri
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
Slimy Science
From boogers to toe jam, we dissect the engrossing science of our bodies. Don a lab coat and safety goggles to investigate our gooey insides in this slimy, crusty camp.
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 6:00 pm | Family
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
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
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
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
Canada 150+. The Drum is Calling Festival
Immerse yourself in this nine-day festival of Indigenous and diverse arts and culture
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival
Walking Tour Vignettes
Travel back in time to the year 1917 with these walking tours. A narrator leads you though the streets of Steveston to see five short historical plays performed.
Richmond | Steveston Museum | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm | History
Pool, Park & Picnic Shabbat!
Shabbat in the Park - Relive Camp!
Richmond | Beth Tikvah Congregation Richmond | 4:45 pm to 7:30 pm | Family | 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
Shipyards Night Market
Stop 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
Current: A Pacific Northwest Feminist Electronic Art Symposium
Current is a multidisciplinary, intersectional, music and electronic art symposium working with women and non-binary artists in Vancouver and the Pacific Northwest
Vancouver | VAL Villa | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
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
Music in the Park at Maple Grove Park
Join us for live music at Maple Grove Park. Musician: Alexander Flock
Vancouver | Maple Grove Outdoor Pool | 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Music
Canada 150+. The Drum is Calling Film Series: From Oral to Written
The Drum is Calling Festival: From Oral to Written an evening of short talks by indigenous authors. In partnership with the Vancouver Writers Fest. Immerse yourself in this nine-day festival of Indigenous and diverse arts and culture
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Festival | 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
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
Playland Nights
Every Friday in July enjoy evenings dedicated to adults-only, complete with beer, wine, food, midway games and of course, Playland’s exhilarating rides.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show
Movie in the park at Kensington Park
Join us for a family movie in Kensington Park when it gets dark. There will be a musical performance prior to the movie that begins at 7 pm
Vancouver | Kensington Park | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Family
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
Ed Sheeran
Edward Christopher "Ed" Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter. He was born in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
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
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
Chase Rice
Chase Rice an American country music singer and songwriter. He co-wrote the single "Cruise" performed by Florida Georgia Line
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Musical
Lil Pump
Rapper Lil Pump was born Gazzy Garcia in Miami, Florida in 2000.
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 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
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Mooshy Face - VanDriver - The 80th Action
Not Yer Buddy Presents Mooshy Face, vanDriver and The 80th Action. Vancouver band
Vancouver | LanaLou's | 8:30 pm to 11:59 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 | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy
World Wave
Oga Rossco and Owabowa present: A night of beats, bass, and rhythms from around the world in the downstairs Project Space of Fortune Sound Club
Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 10:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music
Feed Me - Celebrities
Revered for his ability to deliver chart-topping floor-killers, Feed Me joins us at StereotypeFridays alongside No Mana!
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Subversive presents: NEEL - Voices from the Lake
Neel is a techno favourite in Vancouver thanks to some raucous past performances, so don't miss another chance to see this usually reserved techno artist throw down in a big way
Vancouver | Open Studios | 10:00 pm to 0:05 am | Music
Trilojay
Introducing, the three Jays. Jay Leonard Juatco, Jay Esplana and Jason Nickel, three of Vancouver’s most talented and energetic performers
Vancouver | Guilt & Company | 10:00 pm to 1:00 am | 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
July 29, 2017
Sat
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
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
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
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
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
2017 July Labour Market Cafe
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 | 9:20 am to 2:00 pm | Lecture | Free
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
Maple ridge - Pitt Meadows Country Festival
We're invited to join the golks in Maple Ridge to celebrate their annual free country festival. Parade around the grounds in the sun and bring some Carnie love to the country.
Maple Ridge | Albion Fairgrounds | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Festival | 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
CS & Melo Productions - Caribbean Days Parade 2017
CS and Melo Productions are celebrating Caribbean culture together for the 30th anniversary of Caribbean Days!
North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay Market | 10:00 am to 9:22 pm | Festival | Free
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
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
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
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
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
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: Chinese Art & Cultural Festival
Celebrate the History of Chinese Canadians in Richmond. Richmond Chinese Community Society (RCCS) is organizing a Chinese art and cultural event in Richmond to celebrate the history of Chinese Canadians in Richmond on July 29, 2017
Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Family
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
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
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
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
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
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 6:00 pm | Family
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
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
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
White Rock Princess Party-8th Annual
White Rock's Biggest Magical Party!!!!! Your child's face will light up as they visit a land of make believe including a playdate & performance with 6 Fairy-tale characters including Queen Elsa, Princess Anna, Cinderella, Prince Charming & Moana
White Rock | Centennial Arena | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Kids
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
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
Concord Pacific's 5th Annual Seawall Challenge - Family Challenge
Join us for the 5th annual Concord Pacific's Seawall Challenge!
Vancouver | Concord Pacific's Seawall | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
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
Current: A Pacific Northwest Feminist Electronic Art Symposium
Current is a multidisciplinary, intersectional, music and electronic art symposium working with women and non-binary artists in Vancouver
Vancouver | VAL Villa | 12:00 am to 11:30 pm | Music
Family Day - Landscapes
On the last Saturday of each month, the CAG invites all ages to drop-in for short exhibition tours and free art-making activities that respond to our current exhibitions
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Walking Tour Vignettes
Travel back in time to the year 1917 with these walking tours. A narrator leads you though the streets of Steveston to see five short historical plays performed.
Richmond | Steveston Museum | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | History
Canada 150+. The Drum is Calling Festival
Immerse yourself in this nine-day festival of Indigenous and diverse arts and culture
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 2:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Musical
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
Food Truck Concert Street Party
The Downtown New West BIA is excited to announce the 5th annual Columbia StrEAT Food Truck Fest presented by Save-On-Foods!
New Westminster | Chop Shop New West | 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Dance
Columbia StrEAT Food Truck Fest
The Downtown New West BIA is excited to announce the 5th annual Columbia StrEAT Food Truck Fest presented by Save-On-Foods!
New Westminster | Downtown New Westminster | 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival
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
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
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
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
Vancouver: Mount Pleasant Park Festival presents Moana
Mount Pleasant Community Center is coming back to Mount Pleasant Park to bring the community a free, fun, family evening.
Vancouver | Mount Pleasant Park | 6:00 pm to 11:00 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
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
Northlane & Intervals with special guest Invent, Animate
Northlane are an Australian metalcore band from Sydney, formed in 2009.
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Crystal Shawanda - Fish Out of Water Tour
Crystal Shawanda has amassed an impressive array of awards and accolades with thousands of concerts across North America under her belt and a remarkable recording pedigree
White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 7:00 pm to 8:30 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
Ignite the Night - Outdoor Dance
Hot Music, Hot Night at our 30th Anniversary Waterfront Party with Mostly Marley!!! , Phase III Steel Band, NastyJag Sound and Horace Hoppa McEachron (DJ Hoppa)!!!
North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay Market | 7:30 pm to 1:00 am | Music
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
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Musical
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
Pickwick with Rich Hope & Cobra Ramone!
Seattle R&B indie rock band, Pickwick, returns to the Rickshaw with their exhilarting new album "LoveJoys".
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Night Nation Run - Vancouver
The Night Nation Run is the World’s first Running Music Festival. A musical voyage filled with live music, lights, lasers, all set to the latest in Electronic Dance Music. Run, walk, skip or dance your way through this electrifying adventure with music
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Active Life / Health
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Money's Red & White B-Day Bash
Hi-Rollerz Promotions & Matrixx Sounds Presents Money Mikes Red & White Birthday Party Bash..
Surrey | Surrey Legion Hall | 9:00 pm to 2:00 am | Dance
Lost Kings - Celebrities
LA-based genre-bending duo Lost Kings make their return to Celebrities
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Honda Celebration of Light - Japan - Akariya Fireworks
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
July 30, 2017
Sun
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
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
Maple ridge - Pitt Meadows Country Festival
We're invited to join the golks in Maple Ridge to celebrate their annual free country festival. Parade around the grounds in the sun and bring some Carnie love to the country.
Maple Ridge | Albion Fairgrounds | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Festival | 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
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
Anime Evolution 2017
This is our annual convention called Anime Evolution, run by our non-profit organization the Vancouver Anime Convention Society
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 10:00 am to 6:30 pm | Exhibition
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 6:00 pm | Family
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
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
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
AOS FEST Vancouver
A Workshop like No other!
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 11:30 am to 4:00 pm | 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
ShootingStars at Mirai Maid Cafe
We will be performing during Mirai Maid Cafe, at Anime Evolution!
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 12:30 am to 4:45 pm | Dance
Meditation classes last Sunday of each month
I will be offering mediation classes the last Sunday of each month. Sessions are 90 minutes long. Students will learn the basics of meditation and its purpose(s)
Langley | 200th st and Hwy#1 | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Active Life / Health
Canada 150+. The Drum is Calling Festival
Immerse yourself in this nine-day festival of Indigenous and diverse arts and culture
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival
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
Regeneratus Exhibition Reception
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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
Sunday afternoon tours
Last Sunday of every month with Jocelyn Statia. Join CAG Visitor Coordinator, Jocelyn Statia for a tour of the current exhibitions.
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Queers & Beers: PRIDE Edition!
Your offically-unofficial kick off to PRIDE week begins here! Come get it started with rad beers and fellow queers at everyone’s favourite hangout party.
Vancouver | The Cobalt | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
Current: A Pacific Northwest Feminist Electronic Art Symposium
Current is a multidisciplinary, intersectional, music and electronic art symposium working with women and non-binary artists in Vancouver and the Pacific Northwest
Vancouver | VAL Villa | 6:00 pm to 9:00 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
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
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000 live on stage at the Orpheum, a Netflix revival of the cult comedy
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 9:15 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
Anime Evolution. A New World: intimate music from Final Fantasy Concert
Anime Evolution 2017 presents “A New World, intimate music from Final Fantasy” a 30th anniversary celebration of Final Fantasy
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
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
Why Don’t We with Special Guests
A band like no other on the pop landscape, Why Don’t We brings together five supremely talented singer/songwriters who have each built up a passionate following all on their own
Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 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
Guilt & Co. Live feat. Mazacote
Mazacote is a west coast latin dance band, playing horn-driven New York salsa dura and beats from Colombia, Puerto Rico and Cuba
Vancouver | Guilt & Company | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
July 31, 2017
Mon
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
Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver
This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.
North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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
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
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
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 6:00 pm | Family
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
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
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
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
Zumba on the Plaza
Free Zumba classes Mondays on the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza at 5:30 pm.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm | Active Life / Health | 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
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
Indie Monday Film Series: Arrival
Can’t find the films you’re itching to see in the local movie theatre? Looking for more than the same old Hollywood Blockbusters? Tired of overpriced popcorn? Join us on Monday evenings
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Film
Aldous Harding
An artist of rare calibre, Aldous Harding does more than sing; she conjures a singular intensity. Her body and face a weapon of theatre, Harding dances with steeled fervor, gnashing like a Banraku puppet
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music