Metro Vancouver events on January 20, 2024

The 14th Annual Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival

Home of the Original Hot Chocolate Festival, we are excited to announce 12 new vendors this year and have over 160 flavours spanning 10+ neighbourhoods across Greater Vancouver

Vancouver | Vancouver Metro Area | 6:00 am to 11:59 pm | Food / Wine

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2024

Canada’s largest food and drink celebration returns for its 22nd year with more restaurants than ever before!

Vancouver | 6:00 am to 11:59 pm | Food / Wine

Welcome to the Robson Square Ice Rink!

This winter, renew a classic Vancouver tradition and enjoy some old-fashioned fun. Robson Square’s outdoor skating rink is open, so celebrate winter in style with skating in the heart of downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | Robson Square Ice Rink | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Family | Free

Vive les Voyageurs Festival at Fort Langley

Tap your feet to the beat of French-Canadian music at Fort Langley National Historic Site’s annual Vive les Voyageurs Festival. Enliven your senses with the traditional foods, music and culture of the 19th-century French-Canadian and Métis fur traders

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

Street Food City in Downtown Vancouver

Vancouver's original street food festival is back for its 12th year outside the Vancouver Art Gallery

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery North Plaza | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

Two-Spirit Beading with Oliver McDonald

Join us for an in-person beading workshop and learn how to make your own beaded pendant! Two-spirit artist Oliver (he/they) will teach participants the basics of flat-stich beadwork

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm | Workshop

Canyon Lights

Explore an Enchanting Winter Wonderland

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

Ken Foster Art Show at Off the Rails Brewing

A few beautiful Ken Foster paintings that are being prepared for sale at the free admission art show at Off the Rails brewing in January

Vancouver | Off the Rails Brewing | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

PuSh Festival 2024: Dear Laila

In this award-winning, immersive installation, participants experience a model of the artist’s childhood home in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, Damascus

Vancouver | Boca del Lupo's Studio: The Fishbowl on Granville Island | 12:20 am to 7:20 pm | Festival

PuSh Festival 2024: Returns

Artist Nellie Gossen disassembles and reassembles retail clothing over 30 days in a fascinating, inherently political artistic enquiry combining dance, labour and garment fabrication

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival | Free

Ice Skating to the North Vancouver’s Shipyards Rink

North Vancouver’s impressive 12,000 square foot skating rink in The Shipyards is set to open again this December and it’s free for all

North Vancouver | The Shipyards | 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Family | Free

PuSh Festival 2024: asses.masses

asses.masses is a custom-made video game about labour, technophobia and sharing the load of revolution, designed to be played from beginning to end in a live theatre

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Performing Arts

PuSh Festival 2024: Ramanenjana

Reality and speculation, ecstatic motion and fascinating research combine in this captivating docufiction performance about a dance that made history

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 2:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

PuSh Festival 2024: Sound of the Beast

Sharing an urgent, subversively funny perspective on injustice, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard spits rhymes like fire in the face of oppression

Vancouver | Revue Stage | 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Beneath Springhill: The Maurice Ruddick Story

A powerful story of a Canadian hero, told through song like never before

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Wishing Tree Lighting Ceremony

Come and celebrate the opening of Shine Bright New West, with a lighting ceremony for the Wishing Tree in Moody Park!

New Westminster | Moody Park | 3:00 pm to 11:50 pm | Family

Shine Bright Downtown

Celebrate the holidays in New Westminster’s historic Downtown with lighting installations for folks from all backgrounds

New Westminster | Hyack Square and throughout Downtown | 4:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Family

Lights at Lafarge

Produced by the City of Coquitlam and presented by Coquitlam Centre, Lights at Lafarge is Metro Vancouver’s largest free outdoor winter lights display

Coquitlam | Lafarge Lake at Town Centre Park | 4:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Family | Free

Burnaby’s Holiday Light Displays

Enjoy Burnaby’s bright lights this holiday season! From Burnaby’s parks and public spaces to your own front yard, the city is sure to be decked out in a joyous celebration of light, colour and festive spirit for the holidays

Burnaby | 5:00 pm to 7:00 am | Family | Free

The Invitation By Luminesque Dance

This original stage show is a once-in-a-lifetime sensual experience… and YOU’RE INVITED.

Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

Art Battle Vancouver

Come and be a part of our Saturday event filled with live art and an electrifying atmosphere!

Vancouver | The Red Room | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Visual Arts

Whisky and Chocolate Pairing Evening

Join Us for a Decadent Evening of Whisky and Chocolate Pairing at Roots and Wings Distillery with Emkao Foods!

Langley | Roots and Wings Distillery | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Food / Wine

The Commodore Ballroom: Khanvict + Raaginder: The Arrival Tour

Asad Khan, better know as Khanvict, is a Pakistani-Canadian musician, producer, and DJ, based in Surrey, British Columbia

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Dromedary Productions Presents Band Together: Bc Children's Hospital Fundraiser

Brass Camel, Bend Sinister, Uncle Strut, Spendo, Bleako's Nuclear Disco, & Tess Anderson

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 0:00 am | Charity / Fundraising

Push Festival 2024: Lorenzo

An unflinching documentation of the reality of caring for an aging loved one, Ben Target’s LORENZO interweaves melancholy and hilarity in a heartfelt ode to what it means to love

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 8:15 pm | Theatre

That Was Then by Kate MacColl

A New Canadian Musical

Vancouver | The NEST | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Firehall Arts Centre: Pants

Solo dance-theatre (stand-up comedy with dance breaks) by veteran dance artist Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Dance

We Are The Night Saturdays [latin | Reggaeton]

Vancouver Latin Saturday is happening at Studio Nightclub with Dj Cachete, Rumpus, Rico and Luis playing the best Latin, Brazilian and Top 40’

Vancouver | Studio Nightclub | 9:30 pm to 3:30 am | Dance