Metro Vancouver events on December 8, 2018

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

Breakfast with Santa

Join us for a delicious pancake breakfast, visit with Santa & Special Musical guest the Smile Band bringing festive entertainment

North Vancouver | Parkgate Community Centre | 9:00 am to 5:12 pm | Family

Breakfast with Santa. South Surrey

Take your picture with Santa and join him for breakfast and a variety of Christmas themed activities!

Surrey | South Surrey Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 12:00 am | Family

Coquitlam Christmas Farmers Market

Join us for our Christmas Farmers Market to shop for unique and beautifully handcrafted local products including jewelry, woodwork, beauty products, pottery, baked goods, and more!

Coquitlam | Poirier Sport & Leisure Complex | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Market | Free

Breakfast with Santa. Cloverdale

Take your picture with Santa and join him for breakfast and a variety of Christmas themed activities!

Surrey | Cloverdale Recreation Centre | 9:30 am to 11:00 am | Family

Breakfast with Santa. Fleetwood

Take your picture with Santa and join him for breakfast and a variety of Christmas themed activities!

Surrey | Fleetwood Community Centre | 9:30 am to 11:00 am | Family

Cookies & Carols

It's that time of year! Join us for a special holiday morning with your family and enjoy cookie decorating, hot chocolate, caroling, crafts and more

North Vancouver | Lynn Valley Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Family

Winter Gift Gallery

Meet the artists and enjoy homemade holiday baking We have assembled a wonderful group of artists to help inspire your holiday shopping.

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

Maan Farms Christmas Market

The Annual Christmas Market is back with Three! That's right Three Weekends of fun this year!!

Abbotsford | Maan Farms Country Experience & Estate Winery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Market

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

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:34 pm | Kids

Got Craft? Holiday Edition

Vancouver’s largest indie craft fair returns to East Vancouver with 80 local artists, makers, and small shops!

Vancouver | Maritime Labour Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Fair

Holiday Card Workshop

Young artists will learn the fundamentals of printmaking in this linocut inspired workshop

North Vancouver | Maplewood House | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Workshop

2018 Weirdos Holiday Market

The Weirdos Holiday Market unites Vancouver’s most outlandish local artists and vendors to showcase an eclectic array of all things unusual, unique, and out of this world

Vancouver | The Hall | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Market

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 | 11:00 am to 12:45 am | 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

Saturday Morning Brunch Cartoons - Samurai Jack

Why have a regular ol' brunch when you could have an AMAZING BRUNCH accompanied by your favourite cartoons!

Vancouver | Storm Crow Alehouse | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Food / Wine

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

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 | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Clown Gym - Work it Out

This Is For Conditioning! Work Your Clown Muscles! Get Your Weekly Work Out Play Out Here With Us

Vancouver | Dusty Flower Shop | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Comedy

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

Coquitlam Youth Orchestra Concert

The Coquitlam Youth Orchestra is giving a Holiday Concert at the Evergreen Cultural Centre featuring Mozart and Chopin Piano Concertos, Classical Masterpieces, and Seasonal Favourites!

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Music

Holiday Decor Workshop

Celebrate the season by making your own seasonal decor and art projects. A variety of local artists will be instructing in a variety of media.

Vancouver | Britannia Community Services Centre | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Workshop

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 | 12:00 am to 11:00 pm | Party

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 | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Dance

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 | 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Dance

2018 Heritage Christmas

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

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

Holiday Baking Time by Presentation House Theatre

Follow our favourite doughy characters through holiday baking mischief. Bun and Bap invite young audience members to become bakers and join in the sugary joy

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 1:00 pm to 2:20 pm | Theatre

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 | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Theatre

Vagabond Players: Little Red Riding Hood By Alex Ross & Jeremy Heynen

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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

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 | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre

The Arts Club Theatre Company. Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley

The festive Pride and Prejudice follow-up

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre

Theatre Replacement. 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

The Arts Club Theatre Company: 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre

Pi Theatre presents: Hir

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 | 3:00 pm to 5:00 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 | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre

North Vancouver Community Players: Treasure Island

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 | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm | Theatre

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ballet BC presents RWB: Nutcracker

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

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 6:30 pm to 9:30 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

Fancy Fancy Ball

Tis the season to dress in your festive best and come to the fanciest ball of them all! You are invited to the Fancy Fancy Ball a fundraiser for New(to)Town Collected hosted by June Fukumura, Anjela Magpantay, Davey Calderon, and Avyen von Waldenburg

Vancouver | Green House Studio | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Christmas by Candlelight

Come celebrate Christmas with the voices of Pardalis Studio and Müzewest Concerts!

Vancouver | Spirit of Life Lutheran Church | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Sleepy Gonzales with Black Pontiac

Sleepy Gonzales is an Indie band from a tiny basement in Surrey onto stages around Vancouver. Their sound could be described as suburban sadness drenched in reverb. Or dreamlike melodies backed by raw, tired energy.

Vancouver | The Roxy Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Lions Gate Sinfonia - A Sinfonia Family Christmas: Traditional with a Twist

The fabulous and versatile Vancouver quartet Van Django will join LGS for our traditional, fun, and familiar Sinfonia Family Christmas

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Rock-n-Soul Christmas

The Legends of Rock n’ Roll presents the music of world-class tribute acts performing a collection of hit songs from the greatest Rock’n’Soul artists of all-time… together with the Legends all-star band featuring “Mr Sax” Johnny Ferriera!

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

Drunk Movie Day Presents: Straight to DVD

Little Mountain Gallery: Drunk Movie Day presents: Straight To DVD, a night filled with scenes from movies that do not exist

Vancouver | Little Mountain Gallery | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

Gord Grdina NYC Quartet

Gord Grdina has been in so many bands, duos, recording gigs, and sideman projects that The Georgia Straight says a flow chart of his musical activities would establish degrees-of-separation connections between everyone from Miles Davis to Dan Mangan

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | 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

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

Carolling with Carousel

A Holiday Fundraiser in Support of Carousel Theatre for Young People. A fun event for the whole family

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Vancouver International Puppet Festival: Triple XXXmas Puppet Cabaret

Leave the kids at home and get ready for a night to remember. You've never seen a holiday show quite like this. A fun-filled evening during which you can expect the unexpected

Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:30 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

Comedy Basement Showcase Saturdays - Stand-up Comedy Pro/Am

The Comedy Basement Saturday Showcase features a new and specially curated lineup of Vancouver's funniest pro & up-and-coming stand-up comedians every Saturday night at Goldies Pizza!

Vancouver | Comedy Basement at Goldies | 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy

Fiesta Africana

Fiesta Africana is back for one last month ! DJ Marc Fournier & master drummer Yoro Noukoussi are inviting you to this classic Vancouver dance party featuring the best in new and vintage African, Latin, Brazilian and tropical dance music!

Vancouver | The Backstage Lounge | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Dance

Soda Fountain - Sketch Comedy

Soda Fountain (Graeme Achurch and Nathan Hare) bring you a brand new sketch comedy show every month

Vancouver | Little Mountain Gallery | 10:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Comedy