Metro Vancouver events on January 26, 2024
January 26, 2024
Fri
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
Pacific Agriculture Show
The Pacific Agriculture Show will showcase the latest and most innovative equipment and technology for the agriculture industry
Abbotsford | Tradex - Trade & Exhibition Centre | 9:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition
VMAA – Evolving Spaces: Transitional in Nature
We are celebrating a decade of the Vancouver Metal Arts Association and we are very excited to invite you to our biennial Juried Exhibition at the Craft Council of British Columbia
Vancouver | Craft Council of BC Shop & Gallery | Visual Arts
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
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
Choir Boy By Tarell Alvin Mccraney
The Hit Coming-of-age Play Threaded With Rapturous Gospel Hymns
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
PuSh Festival 2024: Deciphers
An interrogation of the complexities of understanding and language in a mesmerizing work embracing elements of Chinese Folk Dance, Brazilian dance styles and inked paper
Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance
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
Align Entertainment Presents: Beauty And The Beast
The Broadway musical
Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical
Vetta Chamber Music Presents Concert Three - Music for the Heart
From Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet to the Armenian composer Babajanian to the great Brahms, this piano trio program will speak directly to the heart
Vancouver | West Point Grey United Church | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music
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
Intersecting Orbits: Michael Morris and Joan Balzar Opening Reception
Join us in person for the opening reception of Intersecting Orbits: Michael Morris and Joan Balzar with collectors Rahmi Emin and Shawn Macmillan
North Vancouver | Griffin Art Projects | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Exhibition
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
Snowed in Comedy Tour presents Dan Quinn, Pete Zedlacher, Erica Sigurdson, Paul Myrehaug
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
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy
Paint Night Social with Laura at Roots & Wings Distillery
Join Us for a Winter Wonderland Paint Night
Langley | Roots and Wings Distillery | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts
The Rogue Folk Club presents The Faux Paws and The Unfaithful Servants
THE FAUX PAWS are a triangle band in a land of circles. Musically impossible to describe, they don’t even fit into todays often hyphenated-genre world
Vancouver | Mel Lehan Hall at St. James | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
David Francey
David Francey's music is often described as “the people’s music”
Burnaby | James Cowan Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 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
The Commodore Ballroom: THE TREWS
The Trews Present: House of Ill Fame 20th Anniversary Tour
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:50 pm | Music
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
PuSh Festival 2024: Club PuSh
Get ready for an electrifying night at Club PuSh
Vancouver | Performance Works | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Festival
Non-Stop Disco Party
Join us for an evening of vintage dance music as we put four to the floor in tribute to disco glamour from the 70s-00s with DJs Loose Joints
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Party