Metro Vancouver events on February 1, 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

Vancouver International Boat Show

Western Canada’s largest floating boat show returns to Granville Island and BC Place this year.

Vancouver | BC Place | 8:00 am to 8:00 pm | Exhibition

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 | 10:00 am to 5:30 pm | Visual Arts

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

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

UBC Opera: Cendrillon

Long before Disney’s Cinderella, there was Massenet’s Cendrillon

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

Push Festival 2024: Nomada

Nomada Combines Contemporary Mexican Indigenous Dance, Aerial Performance And Set Design Into A Physical And Spiritual Act Of Renewal

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 2:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

PuSh Festival 2024: The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes

Deeply original and audaciously witty, this staged community hall meeting probes human rights, disability advocacy and AI

Vancouver | York Theatre | 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

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 | 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival | Free

MENA 5: Award Ceremony

The Awards Ceremony caps off MENA 5 by recognizing this year’s programming highlights. Join us for an afternoon of food, music, and a celebration of MENA 5’s best films!

Vancouver | VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre | 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Art Workshops: Colour Explosion with Mary Hay of Artmania

Join Mary Hay, painter & director of Artmania, for a fun workshop where you will learn how to create your own paintings at home

West Vancouver | Harmony Room (downstairs), The Music Box | 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Workshop

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

Ponytails

A dreamy night to remember with live music from Vancouver’s finest local talents Ponytails, Club Sofa and The Moonlight Years

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

Queer>>Forward Afterparty

As we celebrate the close of our 5th film festival program, we invite you to dance with us at our Queer>>Forward Afterparty that will be featuring an all Queer SWANA lineup of local DJ’s and supporting dancers

Vancouver | The Cobalt | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Party