Calendar of Events

A shopping extravaganza featuring Asian traditional handicrafts and fashionable gifts.  Tempt your taste buds with ethnic snacks. A shopping experience like never before. The street market contains booths with different merchandises on sale including artistic handicrafts, creative gifts & decors, modern electronics, fashionable clothes, popular music CD, VCD, DVD, and deliciou...

Vive les voyageurs Winter Festival January 28-29 Historic Boot Camp & Historic Half Marathon February 18-19 Spring Break March 10-25 Easter Egg Hunt April 8; Easter Egg Hunt 1 pm Victoria Day May 21 Learn to Camp Weekend June 16 (pre-registration required) Aboriginal Day at Fort Langley June 23 Canada Day July 1 Parks Day July 21 The 2012 Prospera Valley Granfondo July 22 Ride into History Jul...

Two dynamic evenings of dance, music and theatre celebrating art for social change. All proceeds will go to LEAP, an organization providing educational opportunities to Palestinian refugee youth in Lebanon. Featuring work by Heather Laura Gray, Anne Cooper, Cast, Resounding Scream Theatre, Mr. Fantastik, and more! Free goodies/appetizers will be on hand, and drinks available to purchase.  Th...

High Society Music and lyrics by Cole Porter Book by Arthur Kopit The swellegant screwball musical Snappy dialogue and Cole Porter tunes—such as “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” and “True Love”—abound in this sparklingly funny musical, based on The Philadelphia Story. Wealthy socialite Tracy Lord is planning a lavish second wedding, but which man will she ...

When rocks are sliced into thin sections - thinner than a human hair - they show some amazing colours under polarized light. This exhibit with beautiful close-up photographs will explore the little known world of rock thin sections. A stunning display for rock and art enthusiasts!

For more information, please visit http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/courses. Nearly a Century -- BC Native Plants Education and Research at UBC Botanical Garden Monday, February 13, 2012 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM UBC Botanical Garden, Reception Center, 6804 SW Marine Drive $5 at the door (free for UBC students)   Botanical Watercolour Course Friday & Saturday, March 3 & 4, 201...

Check out the theme party of the summer! Don your finest Art Deco finery, feathers, and accessories, and dance and drink the night away and celebrate the fashion and culture of the 20s and 30s. Special performances by Maria in the Shower, The Creaking Planks, specialty cocktails, and more! For more information visit http://museumofvancouver.ca/programs/calendar

Shelter from the Storm May 31-June 9, 2012 This piece questions our notion of courage and cowardice in this story of a Vietnam draft dodger who takes in a traumatized young American soldier who has deserted his post in Iraq. A Touchstone Theatre, the Playwrights Theatre Centre and Firehall Arts Centre Co-Production Written by Peter Boychuk Directed by Katrina Dunn Dramaturgy by Martin K...

Basement Bhangra $15 (19+, no minors) Friday, June 8th, 9:00 pm to late - W2 Media Café, Woodward's THE CITY OF BHANGRA FESTIVAL WOULDN'T BE COMPLETE WITHOUT AN OPPORTUNITY TO DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY! Bhangra parties are renowned for their raucous energy and infectious rhythms. Bhangra fans and dance enthusiasts alike will be delighted to know that we will be hosting two nights ...

  Bhangra Village Free with registration Friday, June 8th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm - SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS, LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS AND "MASTERS' CLASSES" LED BY ACCLAIMED BHANGRA PRACTITIONERS, WILL HAVE YOUTH PERFORMERS AND INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTARS DISCUSSING AND COLLABORATING IN THE PERFORMANCE OF BHANGRA. This one-day event is an opportunity for inc...

The Italian Cultural Centre, in parnership with other organization such as the Consulate General of Italy, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada-West and Friends of Ferrari, will present many events and celebrations!

An outdoor installation by Gordon Halloran Exhibition: June 1 - July 31 Opening: Saturday, June 16, 2:30 pm (Artist in attendance) The Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden is pleased to host a new outdoor art installation Lotus In Motion, The Colour of Life by Gordon Halloran. The artist has created multiple paintings of various sizes in the shape of a lily pad, whose bold, colourful patte...

Mexico Fest 2012 encompasses 11days of art exhibit, music, culinary celebration, a gala dinner, a golf tournament and the 5th edition of the Fiesta Mexico Independencia. This year's focus will be on the beautiful Banderas Bay and the preferred tourist destinations of Western Canadians: Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit. The Fiesta Mexico Independence will be on Saturday September 8th from 12:...

Visitors will get a glimpse of Vancouver's big city lights of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s in this exhibition of the MOV's neon sign collection. The remarkable signs, some lit for the first time since they were rescued from the junk yard, are accompanied by the tale of how the city went through a war of aesthetics that resulted in a transition of the very way Vancouver imagines itself. In this ...

Celebrate Friday night at the Party to Conquer Cancer! This event is taking place tonight at the Shark Club downtown (180 West Georgia Street, near BC Place).  Doors open at 8pm.  Here's your chance to have a fun time while supporting a great cause! For just a $10 donation, you get entry to this event and a drink.  Ticket sales will benefit the BC Cancer Foundation.  If 50 p...

The Peggy Lee Band performs original music with intensity, emotion and beauty at the intimate Ironworks on the evening of Friday, June 8. New compositions by leader and cellist Peggy Lee will be presented alongside favourite repertoire written for this octet of fantastic Vancouver musicians. For more information on the band and on the event, check out http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/24911...

Get ready for another season full of fun as Playland opens for the 2012 season! This year you'll get a full season of ATMOSFEAR as well as all your favourite rides like the classic wooden roller coaster, the Corkscrew, Revelation, Hellevator and Drop Zone. And don't miss all the midway games and your favourite foods like cotton candy and mini-donuts. If you don't have your season pass yet, visit ...

For 15 years, Rogers Arena has been thrilling and entertaining fans. For 15 years, our Vancouver Canucks have battled on the ice in the race to capture the title of Stanley Cup Champions. For 15 years, we have staged the best entertainment the music industry has to offer. We have opened our doors and welcomed over 21 million people. We have even reveled in Olympic gold when the Canadian women's a...

The SONGFIRE Festival of Song will present over 20 concerts and theatrical presentations of Art Song. Performed by our internationally acclaimed VISI Faculty, talented emerging artists, and special guests, these concerts are sure to entertain and inspire. For more information or to buy tickets please click on the titles below: Friday, June 8 @ The Orpheum Annex  Playing With Fire ...

Truffles Café at VanDusen Botanical Garden is now serving a ‘proper' Afternoon Tea complete with three-tier tray of goodies, ceramic tea pots and cups, organic and private label teas.

This exhibition documents the last remaining fluent speakers of the Haida language and explores the three remaining dialects found in Alaska, Old Massett and Skidegate through portraits taken by Vancouver-based photographer Farah Nosh over the last eight years and interviews with the last fluent speakers in these communities. These men and women (the youngest is now 65 years old) who grew up w...

The power of story comes from everything that makes us feel wonderfully human: the (he)art of telling, the (he)art of listening, and the (he)art of sharing. Communities come together this year from June 8 – 10 to celebrate storytelling, with the opening gala hosted at the Garden on the evening of Friday June 8. In the Sun Yat-Sen Garden’s Hall of a Hundred Rivers, we invite you to re...

The Dance Centre presents the Global Dance Connections series Barbara Bourget A Simple Way World premiere Thursday-Saturday June 7-9, 8pm Post-show artist talkback June 8 Co-presented with Kokoro Dance in partnership with The Dance Centre’s Artist-in-Residence program A major presence on the Vancouver dance scene, Kokoro Dance's Artistic Director, Barbara Bourget, brings fifty year...

It's trial by fire and the stakes have never been higher, as Vancouver TheatreSports presents its hot new parody, Dragons' Improv Tank. This hilarious parody features a fire-and-brimstone panel of Improv Dragons, hardened veterans of the improv world. They're here for one reason, and one reason alone: to find the next big improv game. Improv Inventors who think they've got what it takes pitch...

 Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration Society presents HSBC CITY OF BHANGRA 2012 For a complete listing and updates, check out the HSBC City of Bhangra website Festival Pass $80 $150 Value! In addition to access to five ticketed events and all eight free events, you receive some great perks! Festival Pass Benefits: • Priority access to all venues - no reservati...