Metro Vancouver events on October 9, 2025

Vancouver Fall Food Fest 2025

Welcome to the 3rd Annual Fall Food Fest — Vancouver’s Coziest Food Crawl!

Vancouver | 6:00 am to 11:50 pm | Food / Wine

Fall At The Farm At Maan Farms In Abbotsford

Make Magical Memories this season at Maan Farms! Stroll through Canada’s first-of-its-kind Forest Pumpkin Patch featuring our NEW Pumpkin House and 15 more photo ops, meet our furry friends, and enjoy 11 exciting attractions in Barnyard Adventureland

Abbotsford | Maan Farms | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

Culture Days - Yuanji Dancing - Try-it - 55+

Experience a guided mixture of choreographed dance, meditation and qigong originating from Taiwan. Registration required

Richmond | Seniors Centre - Minoru Centre for Active Living | Dance | Free

Timeless Tales: Trailblazing Phyllis Munday

Celebrate Women's History Month by joining us for a presentation about Phyllis Munday

North Vancouver | MONOVA: Museum of North Vancouver | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Exhibition

Burnaby Halloween Festival 2025: The Halloween Hunt

Get ready for a spooktacular adventure the whole family can enjoy! This free, family-friendly Halloween experience invites children and their caregivers to explore the shopping centre on a thrilling hunt for seasonal surprises

Burnaby | The City of Lougheed Shopping Centre | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family | Free

Exhibition Abbas Akhavan: One Hundred Years.

Taking up notions of suspended time, Abbas Akhavan’s exhibition One Hundred Years contends with temporal halting and how time is represented in narrativized spaces

Vancouver | Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Burnaby Halloween Festival 2025: Halloweeks at The Amazing Brentwood

Get ready for Halloweeks at The Amazing Brentwood, the ultimate Halloween festival for families! From October 6th to 31st, the entire centre transforms into a spooky celebration filled with festive fun, entertainment, and community activities for all ages

Burnaby | The Amazing Brentwood | Family | Free

Bill Reid Gallery: Exhibition. NDN Giver

This exhibition marks the solo curatorial debut of BRG’s Assistant Curator, Amelia Rea (Haida)

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition. Otani Workshop: Monsters in My Head

Monsters in My Head is the first solo presentation in North America of work by Japanese artist Otani Workshop

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

The Bog at Riverside Cranberry Farm: Cranberry Bog Tours and The Cranberry Plunge Experience

Our 2025 cranberry harvest is looking to be as stunning as ever! We hope you have the chance to make it out to our working family farm this year

Langley | The Bog at Riverside Cranberry Farm | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Nature / Animals

Culture Days Workshop: Silent Writing Workshops

Join NVRC Artist Resident, Erin MacNair, and other North Shore writers for a silent write-in at the Delbrook Art Studio room, Thursdays 10:00am –1:30pm.

North Vancouver | Delbrook Community Recreation Centre | Workshop | Free

VIFF Vancouver International Film Festival 2025

Join Us in Celebrating Our 44th Festival

Vancouver | different places | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Film

Signals Creative Tech Expo presented by VIFF and DigiBC

Vancouver’s premiere creative tech expo returns as an essential destination for storytelling with immersive and interactive technology

Vancouver | DigiBC Creative Tech Studio | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Culture Days: Richmond Arts Coalition's "From Fray to Feather - Part 1" Youth Art Exhibition

From Fray to Feather - Part 1 is an exhibition of collaborative art in progress - created by students in Richmond working with local printmaking artist Mika Imada

Richmond | Richmond Cultural Centre Annex | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Burnaby Halloween Festival 2025: Exit Burnaby Halloween Special

This Halloween season, step beyond the veil and into four bone-chilling escape experiences where horror lurks in every shadow and jump scares are guaranteed.

Burnaby | Exit Burnaby | 12:00 am to 11:00 pm | Party

Exhibition: Indigenous Symbols and Signifiers

Top (L-R): Jazmine Andrew, Riannon Wesley, Robyn Adams. Bottom (L-R): Koyah Morgan-Banke, Brittney Townrow, Kineena Kang

Vancouver | Hatch Art Gallery, Floor 2, AMS Nest | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Canada Super 60 Cricket at BC Place

Canada's premier cricket event at the iconic BC Place Stadium. Mark the dates – because this October, cricket writes a new chapter in Canada

Vancouver | BC Place | 1:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports

The Nightmare Bar - Vancouver

The Nightmare Bar Comes to Vancouver! We are an immersive event platform that transforms the darkly whimsical into an unforgettable nightlife experience

Vancouver | Alibi Room | 1:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Party

Metro Theatre: Lend Me a Tenor

Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor is a fast-paced farce of love, lies, and high notes gone wildly wrong

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

Presentation House Theatre: Lasa ng Imperyo/A Taste of Empire

This adaptation of Jovanni Sy’s A Taste of Empire reimagines this acclaimed play through a fresh female perspective. As the dish is brought to life, so too are the stories embedded within its ingredients

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Coquitlam Heritage - October Book Club: The Finder

Join us for our October book discussion of The Finder by Will Ferguson. Featuring a variety of people, places, and things, the novel follows different characters as they encounter the figure known as the Finder and explore the stories of lost objects

Coquitlam | Coquitlam Heritage Society | Books | Free

Live at Studio 58 – The Time Machine

Based on the classic science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, the world premiere of The Time Machine is a riveting voyage through time to the year 802,701

Vancouver | Studio 58, Langara College | 2:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

The Cultch Presents Wolf

Circus with fangs. WOLF. A gasp-inducing acrobatic thrill ride

Vancouver | York Theatre | 2:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Performing Arts

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North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Something May Come Down on You – Live at Studio 58. Risky Nights (Fall Edition)

An original production created with and performed by fourth term students

Vancouver | Live at Studio 58 in room A010 | 2:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Hidden Wonders Speakeasy Magic Experience

Hidden Wonders is a speakeasy-style performance venue hidden behind a fake business facade in New Westminster’s historic downtown.

New Westminster | Hidden Wonders Showroom | 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

Culture Days: Inay Film Screening and Discussion

Join us for a film screening and panel discussion of the film Inay (2024). From the 1990s, the Live-In Caregiver Program attracted thousands of Filipino women to Canada as migrant workers, enabling them to send money back home and gain permanent residency

Richmond | Richmond Public Library (Brighouse Branch) | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Film | Free

Vancouver Sake Fest '25

Sake Fest returns to Vancouver for another exceptional celebration of Japanese sake and culture, showcasing a wide range of styles and flavour profiles.

Vancouver | Coast Coal Harbour Vancouver Hotel by APA | Food / Wine

Fright Nights in Vancouver

Don’t you DARE miss Vancouver’s scariest Halloween experience – The Largest Haunt in Western Canada We’ve been waiting for you. Something nightmarish is lurking in the dark

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 6:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Party

Culture Days. DelecTABLE: Burnaby's Food Journeys, Curator’s Tour & Talk

Join Burnaby Village Museum’s Curator, Jane Lemke, and Assistant Curator, Kate Petrusa, for an engaging tour and discussion of our new exhibit, DelecTABLE: Burnaby’s Food Journeys

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Halloween Fright Festival

Maan Farms' Scariest Corn Maze in Canada returns with reimagined haunts, new scares, and an elevated midway experience

Abbotsford | Maan Farms | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Family

Rock 101 Presents: Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon. Shows at the Space Centre

Pink Floyd: The Dark Side Of The Moon — Official 50th Anniversary Immersive Experience

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Culture Days. Richmond Improv Presents: Try it out!

Come join us for our Try Improv Series, where we will be hosting beginner improv workshops.

Richmond | Thompson Community Centre Annex | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Workshop

Pumpkins After Dark 2025 - Burnaby

Pumpkins After Dark is Canada’s award-winning outdoor Halloween event. Featuring over 10,000+ hand-carved pumpkins, this one-of-a-kind walk-through experience is the must-see event of the fall season

Burnaby | Swangard Stadium & Central Park | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Family

Burnaby: A Perfectly Reasonable Night of Comedy

Step out of the house for an unforgettable evening with Peter Oldring and Pat Kelly (CBC Radio’s This is That) as they reunite with Carolyn Taylor (Baroness von Sketch Show)

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | Comedy

Early Music Vancouver - Beethoven & Haydn: Consone Quartet

Artists: Consone Quartet – Agata Daraškaite and Magdalena Loth-Hill, violins; Elitsa Bogdanova, viola; George Ross, cello

Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

The Improv Centre: Blockbuster

Have you ever thought you could write a movie better than the actual writer could? Get your chance!

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Global Dance Connections series - The Dance Centre Presents: Co.ERASGA

A visionary world premiere from Co.ERASGA, Eternal Gestures is a trilogy of evocative solo works commissioned Salish-based choreographers Starr Muranko, Michelle Olson and Margaret Grenier, and performed by Artistic Director Alvin Erasga Tolentino

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance