Metro Vancouver events on January 24, 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

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

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

PuShFestival 2024: Same Difference

A fascinating mixed media performance installation utilizing mirrors, projections, neon lights and video, inviting you into an ever-shifting environment to consider identity, immigration and belonging

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

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

Salish Singing and Drumming Workshop

You’re invited to join us on Wednesday, January 24th for Salish Singing and Drumming! This is a free workshop with Russell Wallace, a composer, producer, and traditional Lil’wat singer

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Workshop | Free

Full Moon Women's Circle

Full Moon Women's Circle: Breathwork, Movement, Meditation, Sound Bath/ Sound Healing, Reiki, Partner Work, Journaling & more

Vancouver | Mandala Studio & Creative Space | Workshop

MRG Live presents May Erlewine With Noah Derksen and R.O. Shapiro

May Erlewine is an American musician from Big Rapids, Michigan. She writes songs, sings and plays the guitar, piano, and violin

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Harlem Globetrotters 2024 World Tour

The Harlem Globetrotters 2024 World Tour is an experience like no other. Ball spinning that defies gravity, innovative dunks and new on-court characters guaranteed to energize the action and bring the laughs

Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

PuSh Festival 2024: Adam Tendler: Inheritances

Celebrated contemporary pianist Adam Tendler performs 16 original compositions in a bold, intimate meditation on inheritance and legacy

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

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

The Cultch and DanceHouse Present: The Mirror by Gravity & Other Myths (Australia)

The corporeal glory of bodies, full of sweat, heat and power, forms the heart of The Mirror, the newest work from Gravity & Other Myths, the company that brought you Backbone and A Simple Space

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts