Metro Vancouver events on February 2, 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

The 2024 Fraser Valley Home & Backyard Living Expo

The 2024 Fraser Valley Home & Backyard Living is back and packed with all of the latest trends for your home and backyard

Abbotsford | Tradex | 10:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Love Lights at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park

Calling romantics of all ages! Take your date night to new heights with Love Lights, a love song of magical illuminated displays that take you through the entire Park

North Vancouver | Capilano Suspension Bridge Park | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Active Life / Health

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

Vancouver Challenge Cup 2024: 10th Anniversary!

It's the 10th Anniversary of the Vancouver Challenge Cup and we're back at the Hellenic Centre!

Vancouver | Hellenic Community of Vancouver | 11:30 am to 5:00 pm | Dance

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

Vancouver Taboo Everything To Do With Sex Show / iWell Expo 2024

The Taboo Everything To Do With Sex Show provides an upscale adult playground dedicated to enhancing lifestyles, encouraging romance, personal betterment and all things Taboo

Vancouver | 1:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show

Where the Wild Things Are

The wild rumpus is back! Jump right in and help Max transform his bedroom into the many landscapes of his adventures. Sail along together to the land of the Wild Things!

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Performing Arts

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

Send Me No Flowers

George Kimball is a healthy middle-aged man with a beautiful home and a happy marriage. The problem? He is a raving hypochondriac!

Vancouver | Metro Theatre | 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Align Entertainment Presents: Beauty And The Beast

The Broadway musical

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

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

Staged Reading: Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project - Carmen Aguirre

Join us on February 2 at 4:00 pm for a special glimpse into a new play-in-progress by Electric Company Theatre Core Artist Carmen Aguirre Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project

Vancouver | The Norman Rothstein Theatre | 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Colin James & The Little Big Band: 30th Anniversary

Colin James is a Canadian blues rock singer and songwriter

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 10:59 pm | Music

MRG Live and Timbre Concerts present: Cold War Kids - 20 Years Tour With Hovvdy

Cold War Kids is an American indie rock band from Long Beach, California. Band members are Nathan Willett, Matt Maust, David Quon, Matthew Schwartz, and Joe Plummer

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

Ubc Department Of Theatre And Film: Tomorrowlove by Rosamund Small

Out of Rosamund Small’s collection of fifteen playlets, we have selected six to share: Office Friends, Tell Me You Hate Me, Perfect, Reeseman, Eight Legs Two Hearts, Take This Soul

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Push Festival 2024: PLI

A circus artist moves through an entirely paper set—like a vast, changing playground—in a visually stunning and philosophical ode to transformation

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | Performing Arts

Kate McGarry and Keith Ganz with CapU Jazz Ensembles

Grammy-nominated duo shares inventive reworkings of classics with CapU Jazz ensembles large and small

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Party Rock: A Tribute to the 2010s

A night of the best dance, pop, hip hop and indie sleaze of the decade that just happened with Bryan Sea (Common People DJs) + guests!

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Party