Metro Vancouver events on January 28, 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

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

Gung Haggis Fat Choy 2024

Join us for an afternoon of intercultural fusion at Gung Haggis 2024 with food, music, and poetry!

Vancouver | Floata Seafood Restaurant | 11:30 am to 2:30 pm | Food / Wine

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

Fiore Films Presents Invisible No More

Q&A Book Signing with Dr. Gabor Maté. Hosted/Performance by Trevor Hurst from Econoline Crush

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Lecture

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

Art Workshops: Abstract Textured Beach Painting with Tracey Hayes

Create an abstract beach painting using a palette knife, and master the art of building texture

West Vancouver | The Music Box (Upstairs Studio) | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Workshop

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

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

A Conversation in the Coffeehouse - Haunting the Coffeehouses Specters in Palestine

For our concluding event, join us at Delany’s Coffeehouse to collectively explore the vibrant coffeehouse culture in Palestine

Vancouver | Delany's Coffee House | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Align Entertainment Presents: Beauty And The Beast

The Broadway musical

Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

Canvas painting for kids - Kitty Cat

Kids will love painting this design - Kitty Cat

Surrey | Artistic Edge Dance Studio | 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm | Visual Arts

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 | Pyatt Hall | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music

Goldberg Variations

Sarah performs Bach’s formidable Goldberg Variations at the Evergreen Cultural Centre

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Music

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

The Sunday Service at Fox Cabaret

The Sunday Service is LIVE at the Fox Cabaret! Nothing has felt this normal in years!

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

Descent January Goth Party at the Red Room Vancouver

As the moon rises on the 28th of January, 2024, the Red Room in Vancouver transforms into a realm where the nocturnal spirits come to play

Vancouver | Red Room | 9:00 pm to 1:00 am | Party