Metro Vancouver events on January 30, 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

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

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

JP Saxe - A Grey Area Tour With Justin Nozuka

Jonathan Percy Starker Saxe, known professionally as JP Saxe, is a Canadian musician and singer

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

Theatre Replacement and Company 605: Hold On Let Go. Part 2

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

Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival

PuSh Festival 2024: DARKMATTER

DARKMATTER transcends dimension and form, moving with otherworldly intensity through a collision of gritty physicality and metaphysical possibility to reimagine the way we look at our own and other bodies.

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance

Friends Of Chamber Music Present: Goldmund Quartet

Our first performance from this talented German ensemble. Expect an evening of elegance, beauty, and some artistic fire

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music