Metro Vancouver events on December 6, 2017

Christmas at Canada Place

Capture the spirit of the season at Canada Place! Join us in celebrating the 30th annual Christmas at Canada Place presented by the Port of Vancouver

Vancouver | Canada Place | 8:00 am to 11:00 pm | Family

BC Dairy industry Conference 2017

Now in its 9th year, the BC Dairy Industry Conference has become the most anticipated event of the year for dairy farmers and industry affiliates alike

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Lecture

Free Ice Skating at Robson Square

This winter, renew a classic Vancouver tradition and enjoy some old-fashioned fun

Vancouver | Robson Square | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Anonymous Art Show 2017 at the CityScape Community Art Space

The North Vancouver Community Arts Council & CityScape Community Art Space are very excited to announce the 13th Annual “Anonymous Art Show”

North Vancouver | CityScape Community Art Space | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Timberline Country Christmas 2017

Country Christmas is a unique-yet traditional-family-oriented Christmas experience complete with lit trees, interactive scenes, and music

Maple Ridge | Timberline Ranch | 9:00 am to 12:00 am | Family

Peak of Christmas at Grouse Mountain

Our annual holiday festivities begin Friday, November 24th and run through January 7th. This year, wrap yourself in the magic of a white Christmas

North Vancouver | Grouse Mountain Resort | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Family

Holiday Traditions Start At Vancouver Aquarium

Delight in Scuba Claus visits, magical aquatic displays, and special seasonal activities at Vancouver Aquarium this holiday season where you’ll create and continue traditions, making memories that will last a lifetime

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium in Stanley Park | 9:30 am to 6:00 pm | Nature / Animals

Sylvia Tait: Journey

Join us at the Burnaby Art Gallery for the exhibit of the renowned Canadian painter and printmaker Sylvia Tait

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

ArtRich 2017

The Gallery will host a juried exhibition organized by the Richmond Arts Coalition (RAC). ArtRich 2017 will feature artworks by local and regional visual artists from the Lower Mainland

Richmond | Richmond Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

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

Crimson: Modern Culture through Artists’ Eyes

In collaboration with the Battle of the Brush, the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden presents Crimson: Modern Culture through Artists’ Eyes, a two-phrase exhibition that shows the collective work of sixteen Vancouver-based artists

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

Bottoms Up: The Cultures of Drink in the Royal City

A look at New Westminster’s saloons, breweries, distilleries, afternoon teas, soda fountains and other drinking habits, places and stories

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Canyon Lights by Capilano Suspension Bridge Park

In response to popular demand, the 12th season of Canyon Lights at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park has been extended. From November 23 to January 28 the park is alive with lights, lights and more lights!

North Vancouver | Capilano Suspension Bridge Park | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Christmas Market

A beloved holiday tradition for locals and visitors alike, the 8th Annual Vancouver Christmas Market returns to its expansive seaside home at Jack Poole Plaza (at the Olympic Cauldron)

Vancouver | Vancouver Christmas Market | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Family

Celebrate Christmas at Newlands. Nutcracker Lunch Buffet

The halls are decked with boughs of holly & the menus trimmed with holiday tradition. Join in the “Spirit of Christmas” at Newlands.

Langley | Newlands Golf & Country Club | 11:30 am to 2:00 pm | Food / Wine

Lumiere 2017

This winter, experience Lumière… an annual event inspired by light and artistic expression, driven by community and connection.

Vancouver | English Bay and Jim Deva Plaza | 12:00 am to 11:00 pm | Festival | Free

Dundarave Festival of Lights 2017 at Dundarave Park

The annual Dundarave Festival of Lights at Dundarave Park

West Vancouver | Dundarave Park | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Family | Free

Exhibition: Andrew Dadson

The Contemporary Art Gallery will present the most comprehensive exhibition to date of work by Vancouver-based artist Andrew Dadson. Although receiving great commercial attention and critical acclaim, Dadson has rarely shown in public institutions

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

Memory - History - Story Exhibition

This year’s teaching exhibition is a celebration of the first people of our country. Memory - History - Story is an exploration of our indigenous artists, their perspectives and voices, through the lens of Indigenous principles of learning.

North Vancouver | Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Worlds of Wonders

Worlds of Wonder is an exhibition that will be held at the Deer Lake Art Gallery featuring the works of Nancie Green, Lynne Fahnestalk

Burnaby | Deer Lake Gallery | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Heritage Christmas

A Season of Old-fashioned Fun and Spectacular Light Displays

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 1:00 pm to 5:30 pm | Family | Free

The Day Before Christmas By Stacey Kaser and Alison Kelly

Surviving The Perfect Holiday Disaster

Vancouver | Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre | 1:30 pm to 3:45 pm | Theatre

Onegin by Amiel Gladstone and Veda Hille

The hit musical as immersive as love itself

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Performing Arts

Minoru Chapel Opera Series: City Opera Vancouver’s Come Sing With Us! Matinee concerts

Minoru Chapel Opera Series will return this fall.

Richmond | Minoru Chapel | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Opera

Festival of Lights Photography Workshop

Develop your night time photography skills and have fun playing with light in the sparkling beauty of VanDusen’s Festival of Lights

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 3:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Workshop

VanDusen Festival of Lights 2017

Experience VanDusen Festival of Lights, a magical winter wonderland with over one million lights decorating VanDusen Botanical Garden open from December 1, 2017 to January 7, 2018

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

CAG Artist Talk - Andrew Dadson

Join artist Andrew Dadson for a free walking tour as he introduces the themes and ideas present in the exhibition - Site For Still Life

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Naughty or Nice Paint Night

Naughty or Nice? Never painted before? That's Okay! 99% of the people that paint with me has never painted before! Come join the fun!

Langley | Zealous Art | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: A YMCA Annual Campaign Movie Fundraiser

Join us for a special screening of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial at the Rio Theatre! All funds raised through ticket sales will go to the YMCA’s Annual Campaign, supporting children and families in need in our local community

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Film

Italian baking 101

Knowing how to bake a cake from scratch is an essential life skill, at least for Italians! In this 2-class workshop, Alice - cake lover and baker from Italy - will share with you some of her favorite Italian pastry recipes

Vancouver | Il Centro Italian Cultural Centre | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Cooking

Art Gallery - Opening Reception

Domestic Savages. Featuring collages by Dominique Norville & Jane Stanier

Vancouver | Britannia Community Services Centre | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Exhibition

Good Lovelies Holiday Special at The Wise Hall

The Vancouver Folk Music Festival Society, in partnership with National Arts Centre and The Wise Hall, present: An Evening with the Good Lovelies Holiday Special

Vancouver | The Wise Hall & Lounge | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Book Launch by Dr. Harry Stefanakis, Psychologist

We are delighted to be hosting the book launch event for Core Living. Dr. Harry Stefanakis, the book’s author will present at this free event

Vancouver | CityU Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Books | Free

Free Sahaja Yoga Meditation Classes in Burnaby

Classes consist of instructions on how to meditate, information on Sahaja Yoga Meditation as well as meditation sessions. Classes are free and open to newcomers of all ages and newcomers are welcome to join at any time

Burnaby | 5707 Gilpin St | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Winter Concert

Burnaby South Secondary Music Department

Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Christmas Dinner Fraser River Cruises

Spread your holiday cheer and join Paddlewheeler Riverboat tours for our Christmas Dinner Cruises. Delicious seasonal meal consists of carved turkey, creamy mashed potatoes, smooth gravy and all the fixings

New Westminster | Paddlewheeler Riverboat Tours | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Food / Wine

Theatre Replacement - East Van Panto: Snow White & the Seven Dwarves

The Panto is back with an outrageous take on Snow White

Vancouver | York Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

Minoru Chapel Opera Series: City Opera Vancouver’s Come Sing With Us! Evening concerts

Minoru Chapel Opera Series will return this fall.

Richmond | Minoru Chapel | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Opera

JI Chai Celebration

Presented by the Jewish Independent, the Joseph & Rosalie Segal Family and the Chutzpah! Festival the JI Chai Celebration honours 18 community movers, shakers, thinkers, doers and all-around awesome people

Vancouver | The Norman Rothstein Theatre | 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Party

O Christmas Tea: A British Comedy

London’s 3-time Impresario award-winning comedians James & Jamesy present their outrageously funny and brilliantly inventive Christmas comedy O Christmas Tea

West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Onegin

The hit musical as immersive as love itself

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

The Day Before Christmas

Surviving The Perfect Holiday Disaster

Vancouver | Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:45 pm | Theatre

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

The beloved fairy-tale musical returns. "Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme.” Can Belle teach the Beast to love, before it is too late?

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Musical

Kurios - Cabinet of Curiosities by Cirque du Soleil

Step into the curio cabinet of an ambitious inventor who defies the laws of time, space and dimension in order to reinvent everything around him. Suddenly, the visible becomes invisible, perspectives are transformed, and the world is literally turned upsi

Vancouver | Concord Pacific Place | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Show

SHINY

SHINY is a multidisciplinary performance that explores and challenges the beauty standards enforced upon women through mass media

Vancouver | Left of Main | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

Leif Vollebekk

Singer-songwriter from Montreal, on tour to support his latest release “Twin Solitude”

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

The Killers

The Killers are an American rock band formed in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2001 by members Brandon Flowers and Dave Keuning. Mark Stoermer and Ronnie Vannucci, Jr. would complete the current lineup of the band in 2002

Vancouver | Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Center | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Almost, Maine by John Cariani

A charming, almost-magical tapestry of the joys and perils of romance, set in one night in a small town in Maine

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

Little Dickens: The Daisy Theatre

In Ronnie Burkett’s Little Dickens, the cast of The Daisy Theatre take on the beloved holiday classic, A Christmas Carol, in the merriest marionette mash-up ever

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Jann Arden Christmas with the VSO

Jann performs with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Canada’s beloved pop diva Jann Arden brings her sensational voice and warm, witty personality to this Holiday-season extravaganza!

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

How Star Wars Saved My Life

How Star Wars Saved My Life is an empowering true story of courage from an adult survivor of childhood sexual and physical abuse from priests

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

House Party - An Open Improv Jam

Instant Theatre proudly presents House Party! An open improv jam where students, performers, and brand new audience members can perform together!

Vancouver | Instant Studio | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Party | Free

You Are It - with Deb Williams and Carmen Aguirre

Williams makes friends with people on the bus and invites them home for dinner; Aguirre claims that she would literally kill spill blood if a sister asked her to do it.

Vancouver | The Fishbowl | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Realistic Joneses

Two couples, both named Jones, face the confounding business of being alive. As one character says, ‘This was fun. I mean, not fun, but definitely some other word.’

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Franz Ferdinand With guest Sally Dige

Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish rock band, formed in 2002 and based in Glasgow.

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music