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...

On August 19th celebrate all things garlic with the 4th annual Garlic Festival, supporting The Sharing Farm Society.  Join other garlic-lovers for a day on the farm at Richmond’s Terra Nova Rural Park, learning about garlic in all its shapes and forms. This year’s festival will feature cooking demonstrations, live music, activities for kids and even garlic ice cream!  Admiss...

Anime Revolution is a brand new three-day convention located in Vancouver, catering to a wide range of activities, exhibits, panels, and performances. These include art, animation, comics, costuming, cultural displays, dance, gaming, musical performances, and others.  Their goal is to provide people of all ages with entertainment, education, and cultural exchange. For more information visit...

Crankworx showcases Whistler as the ultimate downhill biking playground by combining stunt sessions and speed events with the world's best mountain bikers competing for cash and prizing. The event line-up also includes an outdoor expo, pro riding demonstrations, free music and entertainment. Aug 10: Fat Tire Crit (Whistler Olympic Plaza) Aug 11: Canadian Open Enduro Aug 11: Dual Speed & Style...

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...

GOOD TIMBER - Songs & Stories of the Western Logger August 7 to 19 A The Other Guys Theatre Production Based on the logger poetry of Robert E. Swanson, the Bard of the Woods, this amazingly talented ensemble has created a show of songs and stories played against a multi-media backdrop of rarely-seen archival imagery.

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...

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:...

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...

  MUSICFEST 2012 Public onsale: May 31st, 10:00 am For a complete Festival events listing, please check the MusicFest Vancouver website. Please consider making a donation to MusicFest! Please note that Tickets Tonight does not sell the following MusicFest series: CBC Plaza Series; Inside the Music Series; Early Music Series; Cellar Series. ODLUM BROWN OPENING CONCERT More info . ....

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...

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 Fair at the PNE features live shows for kids and families, daily concerts, cultural programming, the beloved Superdogs, mini donuts and Crazy Dogs, the PNE Prize Home and unique international and local shopping at the Marketplace. Come experience the best part of summer at the Fair at the PNE!  Located just 10 minutes from downtown Vancouver at Hastings and Renfrew.  Open daily.&nb...

Vancouver Heritage Foundation presents: 4pm plaque presentation with guest speakers including: Geoff Meggs, Michael Kluckner, Bruce MacDonald and Sean McEwen ReTHINK housing proposal for Delamont (lead architect for Mole Hill). 1950s themed afternoon celebration 12-6pm, music and food! Fun for all ages. All are welcome! For more information please visit: http://vancouverheritagefoundation.org/...

For 11 days each August, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival brings the very best in queer independent cinema from around the world to Vancouver. As the city's second largest film festival, we privilege creative innovation and audience experience. Each summer, this celebrated event brings people together to watch incredible films, talk to filmmakers and artists, engage in scintillating discussions...

Sunday August 19, 2012 110km (see route map) Riders must be 18 Years + Location: Queen Elizabeth Park 6:45am - Late Registration 7:00am - Registered Riders Arrive 7:10am - Opening Remarks 7:15am - Start The VANCOUVER TOUR de BIENNALE brings Italian cycling culture to the most beautiful city in the world. Join pros and cycling enthusiasts on a 110 KM self-paced urban ride that will ta...

Yaletown’s Outdoor Movie Night will return along with the Roundhouse Picnic in the park on August 19th, 2012. This event requires good weather, & has a rain out date on August 26. Check out this outdoor event in David Lam Park, as a classic movie is played on a huge outdoor screen on Sunday evening. This event always brings in thousands of friends into David Lam park! Be sure to arrive e...