Metro Vancouver events on January 23, 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

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

Theatre Replacement and Company 605: Hold On Let Go. Part 1

Welcome to HOLD ON LET GO, an annual festival of contemporary performance work by Vancouver and Canadian artists.

Vancouver | 12:00 am to 10:00 pm | Festival

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: 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

Mean Girls at Queen Elizabeth Theatre

Direct from Broadway, Mean Girls is the hilarious hit musical from an award-winning creative team, including book writer Tina Fey, composer Jeff Richmond, lyricist Nell Benjamin and original director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

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

Machine Head

Machine Head is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California. The band was formed in 1991 by vocalist/rhythm guitarist Robb Flynn, who remains the only original member of the band

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 5:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

MRG Live Presents: DJ Shadow - Action Adventure

With Holly

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

PuSh Festival 2024: BLOT – Body Line of Thought

We are sweat, muscle and microbiome. Dancers, salt and bacteria combine to redefine how we see our physical selves and, in turn, our interconnectedness.

Vancouver | Left of Main | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Dance

Snowed In Comedy Tour: Dan Quinn, Erica Sigurdson

The Snowed In Comedy Tour has turned into a Canadian success story, celebrating its fifteenth year. It has now grown to become the biggest comedy tour in Canada

Chilliwack | Chilliwack Cultural Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

The Heat: An International Improv Comedy Showcase

The Improv Centre is bringing improv troupes from around the world to perform for Vancouver audiences!

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 0:50 am | Performing Arts

PuSh Festival 2024: because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it)

With his semi-improvisational, trance-like movement renowned across the globe, Rakesh Sukesh explores racism, representation and their effects on body, mind and our relationship to art.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance