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...

Book by Kevin Del Aguila Music and lyrics by Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker Conceived by Marc Kessler and Ken Davenport BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! The sinfully funny musical The Altar Boyz are bringing their Raise the Praise tour back to Vancouver in the summer of 2012! Matthew, Mark, Luke, Juan, and Abraham can sing and dance with the best of them, and these heartthrobs want to praise...

Xanadu Book by Douglas Carter Beane Music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar You have to believe it's magic! Take a magical ride to a world where fantasy, romance, and shiny satin jumpsuits reign! A beautiful Greek muse descends from Mount Olympus in an impenetrable disguise of leg warmers and an Aussie accent to help mortal Sonny realize the greatest artistic achievement of all time: ...

From local legends to world champions, the BBQ Champs pits the best of the best against each other in heated BBQ competitions all weekend long. Come down and see the pros in action, ride the mechanical bull, sample some of the best BBQ you will ever eat, or just relax on Whistler's sunniest patio. For the event schedule, check out http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/todo/events/detail/bbqchamps/ind...

Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden is excited to present Misao Miriam Batts' solo exhibition during August, 2012. Miriam is a well-known artist across Canada. Her masterpieces range from magnificent mountain paintings to adorable doll creations. With a passion for Chinese brush paintings and for nature, Miriam produces paintings with a natural peacefulness, featuring landscape elements suc...

August Exhibition at Uno Langmann Limited Fine Art: From Ship to Shore: Marine Paintings 19th and 20th century artists set out to capture the adventure and excitement of life at sea with their detailed paintings of sailing ships on the open water and coming into port.  Marine pictures were used as records of life at sea and were often done for the captain of the ship in commemorati...

Following the groundbreaking exhibition Time Warp: Contemporary Textiles of the Northwest Coast presented by the Bill Reid Gallery in 2010-11, the Gallery is please to introduce Kwakwaka'wakw-Haida textile artist Meghann O'Brien and her first solo international exhibition: Journeying Into Form: The Mountain Goat Wool Project. Curated by the artist under the guidance of Martine Reid, Bill Re...

Kitsilano Showboat is a live performing arts theatre located on the shores of Kitsilano Beach. Every Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat at 7pm until August 17, 2012. Weather Permitting. Celebrating 77 years of entertainment. Check out http://www.kitsilanoshowboat.com for more information.

Enjoy the warmth of our Aboriginal Summer Village and join the excitement in 2012. Klahowya Village in Vancouver's Stanley Park is an authentic Aboriginal tourism experience like no other you've seen. We welcome you to visit, celebrate and experience our vibrant culture through song, dance, art and cuisine! More information will be available soon at http://www.aboriginalbc.com/klahowya-village/&...

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:...

Movies Under the Stars is back this year! Join us on Saturday, August 4, 2012 at Holland Park to watch a featured movie! The featured movie will be Toy Store 3. This is a great event for all ages, so be sure to come out and enjoy the last movie of the adventures of Woody and the other toys! The best part is that the event is absolutely FREE! Fun activities start at 5pm and the movie starts at dusk...

This August, bring your out-of-town guest to the MOV and you'll get in for free. It's a 2-for-1!  Show your ID with your local address (anywhere in Greater Vancouver) and your guest's out of town ID, and one of you gets in for free.   You get to be a great host, while picking up on local history tidbits to impress future guests with. For more information contact MOV at 604.736.4...

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 ...

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 ...

Following the riot on June 15, 2011 after the Vancouver Canucks lost game seven of the Stanley Cup finals, broken windows on downtown businesses were hastily boarded up with sheets of plywood. The day after the riot fans and others met to clean up the city and began to leave messages on the boards - condemning the violence and looting, professing their love for the city, and stating “this i...

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...

For the last four years, the Sculptors’ Society of British Columbia has held their summer show in the open air, surrounded by the natural beauty of the garden. The experience of walking through the various shapes and forms presented in stone, wood, clay, mixed media and bronze, makes one realize that though history mankind has created objects for pleasure and also to pass on ideas, beliefs a...

Templeton Secondary School is holding a Sports Day Fundraiser on Saturday, August 4th at 2PM and everyone is welcome to join in! This retro-themed day will be jam-packed with old school relays, tug-o-wars and sponges. Not only will this be a day of fun friendly competition, winning team takes home a prize! For registration and more information visit http://louisahe.com/sample-page/

This summer, Olympians won’t be the only gold medalists: at Summer TheatreSports®, the audience chooses a new improv comedy champion at every show! Teams of Vancouver’s hottest improvisers compete for laughs from the audience at this summer-themed improv show -- you’ll see why The Improv Centre carries the torch as Vancouver’s most popular improv comedy venue. Put on ...

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...

FREE for the whole family! This summer, young castaways brave the forces of nature and enchantment! Carousel Theatre’s Teen Shakespeare Program conjures up a classic tale of fate, magic and imagination in The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Duke Prospero and his daughter Miranda are exiled to a remote island. With the aid of his slave Caliban and the sprite Ariel, Prospero summons a tempest...

Thanks to the ongoing support of our sponsors and the City of Vancouver the Vancouver Fireworks Festival Society is pleased to announce the Celebration of Light will be back in 2012 on the following nights: Saturday July 28th Vietnam Wednesday August 1st Brazil Saturday August 4th Italy Now is your chance to start planning your trip to Vancouver for 2012 or plan some special occasions around...

Theatre Under the Stars presents its 66th season:  two award-winning family musicals, performed at Malkin Bowl in beautiful Stanley Park! For full details visit http://www.tuts.ca/.   TITANIC: A NEW MUSICAL Book by Peter Stone and Music by Maury Yeston Directed and Choreographed by MAX REIMER Music Direction by KEVIN MICHAEL CRIPPS AND THE MUSIC MAN  ...