Metro Vancouver events on December 7, 2018

Veronica Roth: Lost Stories Found

Veronica Roth is best known for her watercolour, ink, and chalk mixed media paintings on vintage and antique paper

North Vancouver | North Vancouver District Hall | 8:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

Christmas at Canada Place

Capture the spirit of the season with Christmas at Canada Place presented by the Port of Vancouver. Experience the nostalgic tradition of the Woodward’s Windows, Canada’s North light display, the Sails of Light, and the festive Avenue of Trees

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

Exhibition: Debbie Tuepah - Salish Sea, J35 Less 1

Debbie Westergaard Tuepah is a Surrey-based visual artist who uses primarily yarn, paint, found, and readymade objects to consider the conceptual and embodied experience of information in relation to contemporary issues and events

North Vancouver | City of North Vancouver Municipal Hall | 8:30 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Annual Anonymous Art Show

The North Vancouver Community Arts Council & CityScape Community Art Space are very excited to announce the 14th Annual Anonymous Art Show

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

VSO Tiny Tots: Holiday Hooray!

Let’s play in the snow! Sing-along to frosty favorites while you move-along with miniatures from The Nutcracker and other sparkly holiday classics. Accompanied by Trumpet, Trombone, and Tuba

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 10:00 am to 5:34 pm | Kids

Holiday Pizza Making Parties

Tis the season to celebrate with friends, family & coworkers. We have two great holiday menu options

Vancouver | Rocky Mountain Flatbread | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Food / Wine

Childish Gambino - Vancouver

GRAMMY, Golden Globe and Emmy-Award winning and multi-talented recording artist, actor, and producer Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino announced dates for his upcoming North American tour with special guest Rae Sremmurd

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 11:09 am to 11:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Christmas Market

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

Vancouver | Vancouver Christmas Market | 11:30 am to 9:30 pm | Family

Syrus Marcus Ware's 2068: Touch Change Exhibition

Beginning 50 years in the future, this new exhibition by Toronto-based artist Syrus Marcus Ware proposes an archive whose ‘holdings’ act as a meeting ground for artists and activists across time and space

Vancouver | grunt gallery | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Kameelah Janan Rasheed

The Contemporary Art Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in Canada by Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator Kameelah Janan Rasheed

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

2018 Heritage Christmas

Join us for some old-fashioned fun and spectacular light displays!

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

Lights at Lafarge 2018

It's back! Metro Vancouver’s largest, free outdoor lights display at Coquitlam’s Town Centre Park kicks off

Coquitlam | Lafarge Lake | 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Family | Free

MLA Garry Begg's Holiday Open House!

You are invited to MLA Garry's Begg's Holiday Open House! This is a free event, open to the public, and child-friendly.

Surrey | #201-15135 101 Ave | 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Party | Free

VanDusen Festival of Lights

Experience a magical winter wonderland with over one million lights decorating 15 acres of VanDusen Botanical Garden

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

Parkgate Winter Lights

Free community event with singing, crafts, photo fun, dinner and of course, lights to reflect the many ways our community celebrates the winter season

North Vancouver | Parkgate Plaza | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Family | Free

2018 Light Display

Make sure to come out December 1st for the first night of lights and bring your family and friends

Surrey | 15499 22ave | 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Family

Krampusmarkt

Krampus is coming..... to Strange Fellows Brewing! To light up the dark season, we have 3 days of old world-inspired festivities planned in celebration of our favourite baddie.

Vancouver | Strange Fellows Brewing | 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Party

Charity Christmas Lights 2018

The Christmas Lights for Charity will be illuminated and 100% of both the cash and food donations go in support of the Harvest Project, Shriners Care for Kids and BC Epilepsy Society

North Vancouver | Skyline Drive | 5:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Steveston's Winter Hayrides

Hop on board for this old-time favourite experience around Steveston Village that includes a sing-a-long and viewing of local, holiday displays

Richmond | Steveston Community Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Family

A Magical Christmas Yule Ball

An immersive theatre experience. A portal taking you from your world to a wizarding school hidden in the highlands of Scotland. A Yule Ball that you and all the other students will never forget

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Party

Warren Millers 69th Annual Ski & Snowboard Film “Face of Winter”

Watch as the world’s best skiers and riders cover ground in some of the most legendary destinations to honor a face that launched a thousand quips and got us all started on this long, crazy ride

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Film

Disney - Beauty and the Beast Jr.

The stage musical presentation of Beauty and the Beast Jr. presented by the Children's Theatre of Richmond

Vancouver | The Norman Rothstein Theatre | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Theatre

Royal City Youth Ballet: The Nutcracker

Experience the magic of The Nutcracker this holiday season with RCYB’s full length ballet, featuring a cast of 100+ dedicated and enthusiastic dancers, under the artistic direction of Dolores Kirkwood, OBC

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance

East Van Panto: Wizard of Oz

Poor Dorothy! When a pipeline bursts, Dorothy and Toto are flung to the magical Land of Oz, aka Nanaimo and Hastings

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

Content Warning: Fanfiction Deathmatch - Lord of the Rings!

A dozen of Vancouver’s most stellar talents take the stage to explore never-seen-before unscripted content

Vancouver | XYYVR | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

Blind Tiger Comedy: Babies ft. Sketch 4

Blind Tiger Comedy is back with a very good comedy show that will give you hope for the future of humanity

Vancouver | Little Mountain Gallery | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

A Charlie Brown Holiday Double Bill by Carousel Theatre for Young People

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Christmas on stage together in a double bill Recommended for Ages 3 yrs and older. Great for the whole family!

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Kids

pARTy@PdA! Festive Felting

Get a kick start on the holiday celebrations with this fun and crafty event! In a social and relaxed atmosphere, learn basic techniques of wet felting from our community engagement specialist and fibre artist Catherine Dumaine

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts

North Vancouver Community Players: Treasure Island By Peter Zednik

Festive Family Fun written and directed by Peter Zednik, High jinks on the high seas! Help our hero Jim Hawkins race Long John Silver to the secret treasure

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

Ballet BC presents Royal Winnipeg Ballet: Nutcracker

Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet captures the imagination with this uniquely Canadian retelling of the beloved holiday classic, Nutcracker

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Dance into Christmas

New Westminster Symphony and Richmond Academy of Dance presents: Dance into Christmas

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Welsh Men's Choir - Sounds of Christmas

Vancouver Welsh Men's Choir annual Christmas Concert. There could not be a more magnificent way to get into the spirit of the season than with the resonant and inspirational sound of dozens of male voices in glorious chorus

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

The Hip Show 10th Anniversary!

The Hip Show have established themselves as the Canada's most authentic sounding, looking and entertaining Tragically Hip tribute band

Surrey | Donegal's Irish House | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

Vagabond Players: Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red is going to visit her sick Grandmother but it's going to take an adventure through the river and over the woods to get there... or something like that

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

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by Ron Reed

A magical re-imagining of C.S. Lewis’s classic tale of hope, change, and sacrifice in a world where it is always winter and never Christmas

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

Pi Theatre presents: Hir by Taylor Mac

Audiences around the world are celebrating Taylor Mac’s timely and darkly comedic interpretation of the classic dysfunctional family—one that’s both conventional in its domestic setting and incendiary in its vibrant theatricality

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 8:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Theatre

Hir at the Annex

Pi Theatre will be producing the Canadian premiere of Taylor Mac's Hir at The Annex

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

God is a Scottish Drag Queen: A Christmas Special

God, dressed in a floral power suit, comes down to skewer everything from fruit cake to Boxing Day in an all new and special holiday addition!

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Arts Club Theatre Company: Blind Date

Starring Tess Degenstein. One actor. One audience member. One blind date.

Vancouver | Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley

The festive Pride and Prejudice follow-up

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

Diwali in BC - Bombay Black By Anosh Irani

The lives of an Indian exotic dancer and her embittered mother are altered when a blind stranger visits them. Poetic, mythic, and brave, Anosh Irani’s 2006 multiple Dora Award-winning Bombay Black is a searing play set in the bitter reality of India

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

Disney's Beauty and the Beast

The beloved fairy-tale musical. Discover the magic behind the castle walls in this brilliant adaptation of the Academy Award–winning animated film

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

From New York: Nick Hempton

A swinging, soulful, CD release! Straight from the jazz organ rooms of Harlem, veteran New York saxophonist Nick Hempton is bringing the blues, boogaloos, and shuffles of Jimmy Smith, Stanley Turrentine, and Sonny Stitt to Vancouver

Vancouver | Frankie's Jazz Club | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Blind Tiger House Teams: I Think Post Malone is Santa Claus?

Blind Tiger Comedy shows are excellent comedy shows, plain and simple

Vancouver | Little Mountain Comedy Department | 8:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Comedy

RED XMAS PARTY @Red Room 14th Edition

Red Xmas Parties @ Red Room

Vancouver | The Red Room | 9:00 pm to 3:00 am | Party

Hark! A Stone's Throw Christmas Show

Stone’s Throw Productions is thrilled to announce its first-ever vintage-inspired Christmas variety show, Hark!

Vancouver | Pacific Theatre | 9:45 pm to 11:30 pm | Performing Arts