Metro Vancouver events on December 7, 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

Make It Vancouver

Vancouver’s largest independent art, fashion & craft extravaganza is back for 4 days! Mark your calendar for December 7-10!

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Fair

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

CAG Thursday Lunch Time Tours

Join CAG Visitor Coordinator, Julia Lamare on the first Thursday of every month for a FREE lunch hour tour of the current exhibitions.

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:30 am to 1:00 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

Holiday Open House

We are excited to host a Holiday Open House to say thank you to our neighbours, partners, sponsors, members, and volunteers for your support all year long.

North Vancouver | CityScape Community Art Space | 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Party

Kurios 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 | 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm | Show

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

Celebrate Christmas at Newlands. Dickens Buffet

The halls are decked with boughs of holly & the menus trimmed with holiday tradition. Join in the “Spirit of Christmas” at Newlands. Join us for this holiday family favorite!

Langley | Newlands Golf & Country Club | 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Food / Wine

Gingerbread House Making & Holiday Community Decorating

Decorate a gingerbread house to take home! Holiday songs, movies, cookies and hot chocolate will also be enjoyed during this gathering

Vancouver | Creekside Community Recreation Centre | 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm | Family

Winter Hayrides

Up to 170 vendors all with home-made crafts, baking, jewellery, "foodie" items and more. This is a fun event ideal as a pre-Christmas event and great shopping. Concession stand available with yummy treats

Richmond | Steveston Community Centre | 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Family

Celebration 2017: Families, Inclusion, Community

You are invited to attend plan's Celebration 2017: Families, Inclusion, Community! This will be a gathering to celebrate all that our inclusive communities have accomplished this year

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Party | Free

Winter Gathering

Join us for an evening of music, dance and spoken word by local performers including Roxanne Charles and more. Light refreshments will be served

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising

PJ Masks Live! Time To Be A Hero

Entertainment One and Round Room Presents are proud to announce that ‘PJ Masks Live! Time to Be a Hero,’ a brand-new, fully immersive musical production, will take to the stage at Queen Elizabeth Theatre

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Show

Speed For Need

Help put food on someone’s table, and Fast Track will put you in the driver’s seat! Please bring a non-perishable donation for the Sources Langley Food Bank and receive a free race on us!

Langley | Fast Track Indoor Karting | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

The Irreplaceables Tour Featuring the Girls from DanceMoms; Via, Kendall, Chloe, Kalani

As seen on the hit show Dance Moms, The Irreplaceables bring their world-class talent and larger-than-life personalities to major cities across North America

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Intro to Stained Glass

Learn how to make a stained glass sun catcher using the copper foil method

Vancouver | MakerLabs | 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Workshop

Visit with Santa

Join us for a festive night of Christmas crafts and seasonal activities

Burnaby | Willingdon Community Centre | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Kids

Royal City Rotary presents: Redbull Media House - The Art Of Flight

It's back on the bug screen where it belongs. The film that broke all the rules, all the records and redefined what was possible in an action cinema!

New Westminster | Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Film

In Conversation: Jann Arden

Join award-winning, multi-platinum selling, Canadian recording artist, Jann Arden as she discusses her new book, Feeding My Mother: Comfort And Laughter In The Kitchen As My Mom Lives With Memory Loss

Vancouver | Indigo Granville | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Books

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

Community Naloxone Training

Kickstand will be hosting a naloxone training night for volunteers and community members. This event will be faciliated by Karmik!

Vancouver | Kickstand | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Archiving Activism

Join us for an engaging panel discussion that will explore one of the central tenants of MOV's City On Edge exhibition: archives and their historically rich relationship to activism

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

artBAR: Drink & Design with Sandra Taylor

Join us for an evening of fine arts and wine. All Art evenings are led by professional artists and include supplies or instruments and a complimentary glass of wine! Our bar is open for the duration of these evening events

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts

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

Doctor of Oz: A Self-Help Panto!

Seasonal fun for the children. Dorothy travels over the mountains to the Magical Land of Oz, the land of self-help.

North Vancouver | The Theatre at Hendry Hall | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Family

Artist Salon with Barbara Meneley

The Richmond Art Gallery presents a monthly program for artists to connect, network and learn from each other

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Live at the Gallery - Seasonal Celebration

We wish to invite you to join us to celebrate all our successes in the past year. We welcome all members, friends, family, partners & sponsors to this evening of fun, food and amazing music

Burnaby | Deer Lake Gallery | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Party | Free

Canucks vs. Flyers at Rogers Arena

Vancouver Canucks vs. Philadelphia Flyers

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

Joyful Rebellion Winter Concert Vol. 2

Season's Greetings! Joyful Rebellion Choir welcomes you to our 2nd Annual Winter Concert!

Vancouver | St. Helen's Anglican Church | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

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

A Rock'n'Roll Christmas. The Killer, Cash and the King

Tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Onegin

The hit musical as immersive as love itself

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

An Awkward Family Holiday

Oh, those Awkward Family Holiday gatherings. Everybody has them. But wouldn’t they be so much better if they included delicious food, a cash bar, raffle prizes, a silent auction, and cabaret performances from Awkward alumni??

Vancouver | CBC Studio 700 | 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising

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

Bah Humbug! by SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol comes to life in modern-day east Vancouver under the direction James Fagan Tait, Jessie Award-winning actor, playwright, and director

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Mrs. Smith's Scottish Christmas Extravaganza

A message from Mrs. Smith: All my life people have approached me for advice, I just seem to be one of those people. “Julie,” they say.

Vancouver | XYYVR | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

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

A Twin Kennedy Christmas

Meet Twin Kennedy: an identical twin country/roots duo from Victoria, BC. With Carli on guitar and vocals, and Julie on fiddle and vocals, these sisters have been described as “Nothing Short of Awesome!” (Cashbox Magazine)

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’s timeless classic where miser Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of the holidays

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Grizzly Bear

​Grizzly Bear perform in support of their new release Painted Ruins at the Orpheum

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

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

Sleeping Beauty

The classic fairytale comes to life as a brand new, fun for all ages, non-traditional pantomime!

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

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

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

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

Big Madge + Guests

Vancouver Ska band composed of students at Capilano U; specializing in good times and ska-ing your socks off.

Vancouver | The Railway Stage & Beer Café | 9:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music

MudFunk

Mud Funk is a 9-piece funk/soul ensemble hailing from Vancouver, BC. They are uniquely a West Coast take on classic and contemporary R&B, funk, soul and neo-soul grooves

Vancouver | Guilt & Company | 9:30 pm to 0:30 am | Music