Metro Vancouver events on October 26, 2018

Youth Speak Up

If you're age 13-18 or in grade 8-12, join us at City Hall for a day of workshops and activities to discuss community topics that are important to you and your community

Surrey | Surrey City Hall | Kids | Free

Kevin Schmidt - exhibition

Kevin Schmidt is a British Columbia–based artist whose multidisciplinary practice embodies the do-it-yourself sensibilities of an amateur inventor

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

Ayumi Goto & Peter Morin: how do you carry the land? - exhibition

Ayumi Goto & Peter Morin: how do you carry the land? is an exhibition that presents the performance art and ongoing collaborations of Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin

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

4th Annual Scarecrow Festival

Art's Nursery's 4th Annual Scarecrow Festival is a fun, family-friendly community event in support of three local charities: OWL (Orphaned Wildlife) Rehab Society, Inclusion Langley Society, and The Versatiles

Surrey | Art's Nursery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free

Diwali in B.C.

An annual multicultural, multi-disciplinary, inclusive festival which aims to showcase artists from diverse backgrounds and different abilities to celebrate the festival of lights during the annual Indian New Year

Vancouver | Various venues across British Columbia | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Festival

VanDusen Glow in the Garden

VanDusen Glow in the Garden invites you to join us this Halloween season for an adventure through a whimsical garden with curious twists and magical moments from the classic tale Hänsel and Gretel

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

ABRA Cadabra: A Tribute to ABBA

The Music of ABBA & Elton John come to the Bell Performing Arts Centre on October 26, 2018 with the premier ABBA tribute 'ABRA Cadabra', and 'The Piano Man', a tribute to Elton John

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Family Nights in Cloverdale. Halloween Pumpkin Carving

Looking for plans on Friday nights? Join us for an evening filled with family-fun at recreation facilities in Cloverdale!

Surrey | Cloverdale Recreation Centre | 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Family | Free

Japanese Poets North of the 49th

Come and join the Tasai Collective as they present their third annual poetry event, ‘Japanese Poets North of 49th’

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Performing Arts

Fort Langley's Grave Tales

Join our expert storytellers for a two- or three-hour program of spine-chilling stories, as you walk through the Fort Langley village at night.

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 6:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Books

Haunted Halloween

Visit our spooky Halloween Haunted Houses and enjoy trick or treating, crafts, and other fun activities!

Vancouver | Sunset Community Centre | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Kids

GSBC presents Navratri Celebration 2018

GSBC is pleased to be hosting three days of Navratri on October 12, 13 and 17, 2018. Our Senior Ladies Cooking Team will be preparing a full Gujarati meal and pooja will be performed by our esteemed Shri Pundit Sharadbhai Shastri

Surrey | Riverside Signature | 6:30 pm to 1:00 am | Party

Me Love Bingo! Trick and Treat Episode!

We're baaaaack! Me Love Bingo! returns to Russian Hall for a frightfully fun night, all in support of Theatre Replacement! We take the ol' timey game of luck, and amp it up to 11!

Vancouver | Russian Hall | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Motown Show & the Hitsville USA Band

During the 1960's, Motown Records achieved spectacular success with a sound that transformed America

White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Actors with special guests Creux Lies and Melted Mirror

Jacknife Sound Presents an early evening of post-punk goodness at the Fox Cabaret and you're invited!

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Dance

88rising: 88 Degrees & Rising Tour

88RISING 88 Degrees & Rising Tour: Featuring Rich Brian, Joji, Keith Ape, Higher Brothers, KOHH, Niki, August 08, Don Krez

Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Halloween Mystery Nights

Solve a murder mystery on the streets of Gastown this Halloween season. Sign up in teams of 2-5 players to play Vancouver Mysteries game Crime in Downtown and compete for prizes

Vancouver | Vancouver Mysteries | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

Rahul Subramanian & Kunal Kamra Stand Up comedy

LOL Stars “Rahul Subramanian” & “Kunal Kamra” are going to take over Vancouver for the first time to bring to you an unforgettable evening full of laughter

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

Julianne Chapple: Suffix

Julianne Chapple’s strikingly original work interweaves movement, sound, lighting and film, probing the edges of the body’s mobility to the point of abstraction, and creating surreal imagery

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Dance

Fright Night On The Fraser

Join us this Halloween for great music, and prizes & giveaways for best costumes! Fright Night on the Fraser is a famous Paddlewheeler Riverboat Tours tradition

New Westminster | Paddlewheeler Riverboat Tours | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Party

Tinder Tales Live in the Comedy Basement at Goldies

Professional/Amateur Daters, Storytellers, Comedians & everyday people confess their most outrageous and hilarious Tinder Tales and other dating fails live on stage

Vancouver | Comedy Basement at Goldies | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

Arsenic and Old Lace

Part of the Royal Canadian Theatre Company Tour. A classic black-comedy and a Broadway hit starring Boris Karloff before it was adapted for film with Cary Grant

Surrey | Surrey Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Spirit of Hungary - 1848

The Hungarian National Dance Ensemble (Magyar Nemzeti Táncegyüttes), in its original form, was established in 1949 and has been touring the World with significant success

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe

A pack of teenage girls prepares for battle on the soccer field. Who will come out on top?

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

VSO Masterworks Gold: Featuring violinist Scott St. John

The great Canadian violinist Scott St. John makes a welcome return to the VSO to perform the lush and moving Korngold Violin Concerto

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre: The Ones We Leave Behind

From the writer of the smash-hit Dirty Old Woman, comes a new play about the redemptive power of human connection

Vancouver | Historic Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Theatre

The Piano Teacher

Erin, a concert pianist, hasn’t touched a piano since her husband died. As Elaine, a piano teacher, gently reacquaints Erin with her instrument, other life changes follow. A simple update to Erin’s home, for instance, brings the unexpected companionship o

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Brunch: A Comedy Show - Are We Goth Now?

Kerri Donaldson & Allie Entwistle present Brunch: A Comedy Show. An improv and sketch comedy show brought to you by two women who never had an "edgy" phase & spent too many years shopping at Gap Kids

Vancouver | Little Mountain Gallery | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

BusyBody by Metro Theatre

Metro Theatre is excited to bring BUSYBODY written by Jack Popplewell and directed by Rebecca Walters. In this brilliant crime comedy, cleaning lady Lily Piper finds the dead body of Richard Marshall, her own employer

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

The Calendar's Halloween Party 19+

Calling all the party animals who are ready to go full send this spooky season. Something mysterious is coming to our campus pub. Something so eerie and unnerving it will stop you in your tracks

Vancouver | Koerner's Pub on UBC Campus | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Party

Company Wang Ramirez (France): Borderline

Gravity turns elastic in Wang Ramirez’s sensational new work Borderline that combines b-boy dance battles with the soaring movement of Wuxia martial arts, to trace a line between chaos and control

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Ghostly New Westminster Tour

Join us in BC's original capital for a spine-tingling journey through history and the paranormal

New Westminster | Hyack Square | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm

Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player

If you want to hear brilliant piano music and laugh yourself silly at the same time, David Scheel’s hit show is a must-see

Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

The Nightmare Before Christmas Live in Concert at the Rio

The Nightmare Before Christmas Live in Concert features some of Vancouver's finest musical theatre talent in a two night only staged concert with musical direction and arrangements by Matt Grinke, and costume design by Shayan Naziripour

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Surrey Little Theatre: Beer for Breakfast

A group of middle-aged buddies reunite for a "guys' weekend" in a snowed-in cabin to eat chili, drink beer, and relive the good old days. Despite divorce, unemployment, and a stroke, spirits are high until Jessie, the wife of absent friend Adrian, shows u

Surrey | Surrey Little Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Goosebumps - An Evening With R.L. Stine

Come out and celebrate the world renowned author behind the Goosebumps books and many more scary titles. This event will start off with a lecture from R.L. about his life and career, followed by an audience Q&A

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Books

Arts Club Theatre Company: Sweat

See all sides in this powerful examination of a community that is formed and dissolved amidst the changing landscape of America

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

Vagabond Players: The Haunting of Hill House

Cut off from the outside world by its remote location and shunned by all who know its forbidding and sinister reputation, Hill House has remained empty and silent except for the daily visits of its grumbling caretaker, Mrs. Dudley

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

Kill Me Now by Brad Fraser

Jake is a single dad and cares for his teen son Joey, who has as a severe disability. Handling Joey’s puberty is hard enough, but when Jake develops a serious medical condition, he becomes the one to rely on the people around him

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

The Shakespeare Show

10th Anniversary Production of one of Monster Theatre's most revered plays

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:50 pm | Theatre

Halloween in Havana Mangos

Halloween in Havana

Vancouver | Mangos Lounge | 9:00 pm to 3:00 am | Party

BANNERS

with guests The Brummies

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:55 pm | Music

Cirque Noir gets Freaky 2018 - Halloween at Imperial

Now in it's 7th year, Cirque continues to be Vancouver's most sought after nightlife event on Halloween weekend

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 9:00 pm to 2:00 am | Dance

Scream: A Haunted Halloween Party

This Halloween, AMS Events has you sorted with the largest Halloween party UBC has ever seen. We’re taking over the Nest for the multistage event of your worst nightmares

Vancouver | AMS Student Nest | 9:00 pm to 2:00 am | Dance

Suffix - Julianne Chapple

Julianne Chapple’s strikingly original work interweaves movement, sound, lighting and film, probing the edges of the body’s mobility to the point of abstraction, and creating surreal imagery

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Dawn of The Dead Halloween inside 90%90's Fridays

We’re going back into time with this popular old school brand; 90%90’s which of course is a focus on 90’s however this night will also feature music from the early 2000’s, maybe more than just 10%.

Vancouver | Library Square Public House | 9:30 pm to 2:00 am | Party | Free

House Of Balloons Halloween Massive

Featuring clowns in action with DJs Physik, Hypnotiq & Firespin playing nothing but the best in Hip-Hop, Rap, Trap & Remixes along with stimulating Halloween visuals on Vancouver's largest visual display system

Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 9:30 pm to 3:00 am | Party

Sexy Halloween by Cabana Lounge

On Friday October 26th we're inviting you to join us for a night where we celebrate the naughty side of Halloween! Use your imagination and show us what Sexy Halloween means to you

Vancouver | Cabana Lounge | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Party

Mr. Terror’s Drive-In of Blood

Join us for a night of giggles and ghouls as we improvise back to back vintage horror movies inspired by masters of the macabre Vincent Price, Elvira, and Christopher Lee

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 10:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Theatre