Metro Vancouver events on October 1, 2016

1st Annual National Seniors Day Conference

Be a part of Surrey's first National Senior's Day Conference and join free workshops that benefit seniors

Surrey | Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre | 8:30 am to 4:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Knit City - A Modern Fibre Event

2016 marks the 5th anniversary of Knit City! Yay!

Vancouver | PNE Forum | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Workshop

Burnaby Artisan Farmers' Market

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

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

Farmers’ Market: Trout Lake

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

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

Lonsdale Artisan Farmers' Market: North Vancouver

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

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

The 2016 Big Draw Vancouver: WE Are A Camera ​

Join with artist Val Nelson to create a spectacular 135-foot long collaborative drawing exploring contour and motion, the individual and the ensemble.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Workshop | Free

The 2016 Big Draw Vancouver: Roundhouse Community Centre

The BIG DRAW, a world-wide drawing festival is coming to Vancouver! This global event works to reconnect EVERYONE on the planet with the power and pleasure of drawing.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Culture Days in Canada. Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Join us and celebrate Culture Days in Canada in Burnaby.

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Deconstructing Learning through the Arts: A Participatory Drawing Lab

This ArtStarts’ family event fuses science, social studies, creative innovation and technology all linked by drawing as a versatile and accessible artistic medium.

Vancouver | ArtStarts | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Workshop | Free

Keith Langergraber: Betrayal at Babylon

Join us at the Burnaby Art Gallery for the new art exhibit from Keith Langergraber.

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Visual Arts

Community Garden Build!

We're building our new garden, and we invite you to join us!! Join us as we build a new educational, healing, community growing space from the ground up

Vancouver | West 57th & East Boulevard | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Nature / Animals

The Yoga Expo

Unlimited yoga classes & workshops. Immerse yourself in practices of yoga, meditation, & mind-body awareness throughout this all-day event.

Vancouver | East Exhibition Hall A - East Building | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Community Market at Loutet Farm

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

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

Farm Gate Sale

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

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

Guided Nature Walks. Crescent Park

Get to know Surrey's nature parks through a series of free guided walks this October!

Surrey | Crescent Park | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Nature / Animals | Free

People, Parks, and Dogs: Langara open house

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

Vancouver | Langara Clubhouse | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Nature / Animals

Water's Edge Day

Celebrate everything that makes our shoreline spectacular at Vancouver’s 3rd annual Water’s Edge Day.

Vancouver | Vancouver Maritime Museum | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free

Cloudscape Big Draw Comics Jams

Join Cloudscape Comics at Memorial South Park Fieldhouse, and we’ll show you the hilarious and imaginative world of comic jamming!

Vancouver | Memorial South Park Fieldhouse | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Fall tree sale

Fruit, flowering, shade and conifer trees for $10 each. This event is part of our Vancouver Tree Week initiatives supporting our Urban Forest Strategy.

Vancouver | Hillcrest Community Centre | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals

Public Art Walking Tour Yaletown - False Creek

Join an experienced tour guide for a free 75 minute walking tour of public art. This annual tour gives visitors and locals an opportunity to experience a sampling of what Vancouver’s Public Art Program has to offer.

Vancouver | Yaletown - False Creek | 10:30 am to 11:45 am | Visual Arts

The 2016 Big Draw Festival at Coal Harbour Community Centre

Collaborate to create the universe! Make planets/stars and celestial bodies using a diversity of drawing materials, then put on a blindfold and pin them up on the Ultimate Universe wall

Vancouver | Coal Harbour Community Centre | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Workshop | Free

The 2016 Big Draw Festival: Embodied Mapping

Join Artist Lexie Owen at the West End Community Centre to work on a large scale community driven embroidered map of the neighbourhood.

Vancouver | West End Community Centre | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm | Workshop | Free

Art on the Spot - Body as Site

Body as Site: A dance installation event with Donna Redlick

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

The Vancouver Police Museum: Vice Dice Opium Pipes

Walk the beat and see what it was like to be a cop over a century ago, when Vancouver was a seething hub of sex, drugs, corruption and organised crime.

Vancouver | The Vancouver Police Museum | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm | Exhibition

The 2016 Big Draw Festival at Kitsilano Community Centre

For centuries, shields have shared stories of family histories and person achievement. Join us to learn about the secret symbols and colour codes of medieval shield designs.

Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Workshop | Free

The 2016 Big Draw Vancouver - Create a Shield!

For centuries, shields have shared stories of family histories and personal achievement. Join us to learn about the secret symbols and colour codes of medieval shield designs.

Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Workshop | Free

The 2016 Big Draw Festival. Vancouver Art Gallery: Mechanical Marks

Join the Gallery’s Art Educators as we experiment with a range of simple yet dynamic mechanical drawing machines and robots.

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Workshop | Free

Culture Days in Canada at Burnaby Village Museum

Join us and celebrate Culture Days in Canada in Burnaby.

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free

The 2016 Big Draw Festival.​ Contemporary Art Gallery: Walking a Line

This fall the CAG is hosting Community, Collaboration and Pedagogy, a studio course with Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Workshop | Free

Big Draw Vancouver: Life Drawing with Dancers in QET lobby

Life Drawing with Dancers, Vancouver Civic Theatres with Arts Umbrella presents the Big Draw

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Dance | Free

Harvest Haus

Harvest Haus - a gluttonous and gratifying mini Munich festival on the Plaza of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Plaza | 12:30 am to 10:30 pm | Food / Wine

Vancouver International Film Festival: Maudie

Vancouver International Film Festival 2016, some of the best cinema from around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Film

Behind the Scenes Tour at Arts Factory

Join us for a behind the scenes tour of the Arts Factory!

Vancouver | The Arts Factory | 1:00 pm to 1:45 pm | Visual Arts

Genders West Conference

Our 3rd Annual Diverse Genders and Sexual Orientation Conference!

West Vancouver | Gleneagles Community Centre | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Lecture

Public Art Walking Tour Burrard Corridor - Downtown

Join an experienced tour guide for a free 75 minute walking tour of public art.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm | Visual Arts | Free

The 2016 Big Draw Festival at Dunbar Community Centre

A FREE, all ages, all people welcome event on Saturday October 1st! Join Madame Beespeaker as we create drawings of bees in a collaborative process.

Vancouver | Dunbar Community Centre | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Workshop | Free

The 2016 Big Draw Festival: Kerrisdale Community Centre

A chance encounter with blind contour drawing - drawing without looking at or lifting your pencil from the paper.

Vancouver | Kerrisdale Community Centre | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Workshop | Free

The 2016 Big Draw Festival. Walking, Looking, Drawing: Micro Macro Perspectives

For the Big Draw event, Urban Animal Agency member Genevieve Robertson is pleased to welcome guest artist Lucie Chan, who's drawing practice engages drawers of all ages and abilities.

Vancouver | Stanley Park | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Workshop | Free

BC Hop Fest 2016

BC Hop Fest is a unique annual event that brings together the best of British Columbia's rapidly growing craft breweries and hop products of all kinds.

Abbotsford | Kinloch Farms | 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Food / Wine

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum Reopens

Families find out where their food comes from as we unveil a fresh new theme at the Kids Gallery

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Kids | Free

GardenSmart: Grow Your Own Mushrooms

Are you fascinated by fungi? Grow Your Own Mushrooms!

North Vancouver | Loutet Farm | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Workshop

Culture Days Activities

Get your culture on with interactive visual and performing arts activities at Guildford Town Centre

Surrey | Guildford Town Centre | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Kids

Newton Harvest Celebration

Get into the season and stop by the Newton Harvest Celebration!

Surrey | Newton Seniors Centre | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Family | Free

Behind the Scenes Tour at Arts Factory

Join us for a behind the scenes tour of the Arts Factory!

Vancouver | The Arts Factory | 2:00 pm to 2:45 pm | Visual Arts

The 2016 Big Draw Festival: Picture a Story. Vancouver Public Library

Celebrate The Big Draw at the Vancouver Public Library Downtown, in the Children’s Library.

Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Workshop | Free

Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

Five actors play over 40 comical characters, filling the stage with suspects, allies, and heirs in this zany whodunit based on the Arthur Conan Doyle classic.

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Theatre

The Flick

A Close-Up On Three Cinema Misfits

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 2:00 pm to 5:15 pm | Theatre

Pacific Theatre presents: A Good Way Out

Joey is a hardworking mechanic who operates as the front man for a biker gang. He joined for protection, but a few bad decisions have him looking for an escape that may not exist.

Vancouver | Pacific Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Theatre

Guided Nature Walks. Elgin Heritage Park

Get to know Surrey's nature parks through a series of free guided walks this October!

Surrey | Elgin Heritage Park | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Public Art Walking Tour Gastown - Chinatown (Mandarin)

Join an experienced tour guide for a free 75 minute walking tour of public art.

Vancouver | the Chinatown Memorial Monument | 2:30 pm to 3:45 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Glen Pine Culture Days Open House

Join us in these activities and raise your awareness about arts and culture in our community! Hands-on and interactive activities with the Glen Pine 50 Plus Society groups and clubs.

Coquitlam | Glen Pine Pavilion | 3:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Behind the Scenes Tour at Arts Factory

Join us for a behind the scenes tour of the Arts Factory!

Vancouver | The Arts Factory | 3:00 pm to 3:45 pm | Visual Arts

The Vancouver Police Museum: Red Light Rendezvous

Take a walk on the West Coast's wild side with The Vancouver Police Museum's Sins of the City tours.

Vancouver | The Vancouver Police Museum, Chinatown, Railtown | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Stranger to Hard Work

The Firehall Arts Centre is pleased to open its 34th season with the work of one of Canada’s fiercest and funniest females, Cathy Jones. A Canadian cultural icon, Jones returns to the stage with her third one-woman show, Stranger To Hard Work

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 4:00 pm to 5:45 pm | Show

NBA Canada Series 2016: Toronto Raptors Toronto Raptors vs. Golden State Warriors

The National Basketball Association (NBA) will host the fifth annual NBA Canada Series in Vancouver.

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 4:30 pm to 5:00 pm | Sports

Vancouver International Film Festival: Maudie

Vancouver International Film Festival 2016, some of the best cinema from around the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Film

Rob London and The Ragged

Robert London & The Ragged are a Toronto based indie / blues, rock trio.

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

Richmond Night Market

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

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

Lande Cabaret: It's a Good Day

Lande Cabaret presents: It's a Good Day featuring the music of Peggy Lee at the Annex

Vancouver | Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm | Show

Vancouver TheatreSports League presents Trump Card - Winner Takes All

VTSL ups the ante with its own improvised election - who's going to win it... will it be the joker?

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm | Show

Helen & Edgar

A story of Savannah told by celebrated raconteur Edgar Oliver

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:35 pm | Theatre

Jo Koy Live

Jo Koy is an American stand-up comic. He is currently touring as a headliner, and performs in clubs and theaters, across the country.

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

Five actors play over 40 comical characters, filling the stage with suspects, allies, and heirs in this zany whodunit based on the Arthur Conan Doyle classic.

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Theatre

the Comedy MIX presents Headliner: Paul Myrehaug

Paul began his comedy career in Alberta Canada and now is an internationally toured comedian with appearances on television, radio, festivals and world renowned comedy competitions.

Vancouver | the Comedy MIX | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

The Flick

A Close-Up On Three Cinema Misfits

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 11:15 pm | Theatre

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust: A Vancouver Celebration

Last year’s re-imagining of the Rolling Stones’ Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! featuring some of Vancouver’s best musicians was such a hit that we had to do an encore.

West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre Grosvenor Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Studio 58/Langara College presents: Angels In America

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play in 1993, Angels In America has become a seminal work of the North American canon.

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:10 pm | Theatre

Pacific Theatre presents: A Good Way Out

Joey is a hardworking mechanic who operates as the front man for a biker gang. He joined for protection, but a few bad decisions have him looking for an escape that may not exist.

Vancouver | Pacific Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Theatre

Despina Vandi

2016 North American Tour

Vancouver | Hellenic Community Center | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Music

VSO Musically Speaking: Bohemian Rhapsody

An evening of lush classical music by Dvořák, Brahms and Enescu with violinist Arnaud Sussmann and Cristian Macelaru conducting the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

Vancouver | Orpheum Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:10 pm | Music

Stranger to Hard Work

The Firehall Arts Centre is pleased to open its 34th season with the work of one of Canada’s fiercest and funniest females, Cathy Jones. A Canadian cultural icon, Jones returns to the stage with her third one-woman show, Stranger To Hard Work

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Show

GTA with Sleepy Tom & Team Ezy

Heavy hitters WE ARE GTA return Saturday, October 1st at Celebrities Nightclub alongside Sleepy Tom & Team EZY for the 'Good Times Ahead' tour!

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

the Comedy MIX presents Headliner: Paul Myrehaug

Paul began his comedy career in Alberta Canada and now is an internationally toured comedian with appearances on television, radio, festivals and world renowned comedy competitions.

Vancouver | the Comedy MIX | 10:30 pm to 0:30 am | Comedy