Surrey Civic Theatres—Main Stage and Studio Theatre at Surrey Arts Centre and Centre Stage at Surrey City Hall—presents an eclectic blend of professional theatre, music, dance, comedy, and even magic as part of the Surrey Spectacular Season. There’s nothing like live—you won’t have to talk yourself off the couch for Read more [...]

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Instructor: Deborah Chaney workshop class/subject: acrylics, mixed media, painting, abstract. Sessions: vary – depends on package Fee: $375/4 classes,  $495/6 classes, $595/8 classes Have you always wanted to create art for your own home? But not sure where to start or how to make it look cool? This is your opportunity Read more [...]

Instructor: Deb Chaney, Artist Workshop class/subject: acrylics, mixed media, abstract, landscape, painting Sessions: 12 Fee: $125/month drop in, or $100/month subscription member price Receive inspiration, instruction, guidance and support in a safe and fun small group environment to help you achieve your painting and creative goals. Learn what you want Read more [...]

Call For Entry to all Visual Artists. The Chilliwack Visual Artists Association is issuing this Call For Entry as an invitation to visual artists or art groups to submit entries for juried exhibitions to be held at O’Connor Group Art Gallery in Chilliwack during the 2019 and 2020 calendar years. Read more [...]

If you’d like to taste the very best of what Salt Spring has to offer, nothing compares to the mix of creativity, hand-made art and world-class craftsmanship that you can enjoy on the island’s famous Studio Tour. The Studio Tour makes it possible for you to watch artists while they Read more [...]

Shipyards Night Market | Every Friday May 4 – September 28 | Shipbuilder’s Square, Lower Lonsdale, North At the Shipyards Night Market you will find fresh food and locally made products from over 100 vendors, musicians, art and entertainment. The festivities in the Shipbuilder’s Square kick off at 5pm on Friday nights. On Read more [...]

2018 marks the beginning of a new year at the O’Keefe Ranch, as well as the centenary of the close of the First World War. Cornelius O’Keefe and his late wife, Mary Ann, contributed three sons to the war, as well as a grandson. The war, as a major fixture Read more [...]

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival’s 29thseason runs from June 6 to September 22, 2018 in modern theatre tents in a spectacular waterfront setting in Vancouver’s Vanier Park. A powerhouse classical production of Macbeth opens the season on the BMO Mainstage. It plays in repertory with the delightful romantic comedy Read more [...]

Originally from Victoria, BC, Jeff Ladouceur is a prominent figure within Canada’s tradition of contemporary drawing. His world is populated by a slowly morphing cast of old-timey comic-inspired characters: droopy elephants, big-nosed salesmen, and bubble babies rendered with a dizzying level of detail. He has shown internationally for many years, Read more [...]

The Kamloops Museum and Archives presents: RUIN & RENEWAL FIRE ON THE INTERIOR PLATEAU, a new exhibition. June 15 – September 29, 2018 This exhibition explores our relationship with fire through an evolution of ideas, including the way we manage it today, with an emphasis on local practices. Arriving just prior Read more [...]

Grief Work/Hope Work, Watersheds, Rising Tides and Skinboats: Connecting Ecology, Community, Science and Art | Opening reception will be on June 30, 1:00 -3:00 pm | Admission is free This series of drawings, paintings, artist books, maguettes, sculptures and soundscapes, which draw analogies between human bodies and bodies of water, and Read more [...]

A subtly sweet and highly fragrant musical blend Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble with Jodi Proznick (bass), Bill Coon (guitar), James Danderfer (clarinet/sax) Saturday, June 30, 2018, 7:30 pm Doors and Tea Tasting, 6:30pm Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 578 Carrall St. Vancouver Tickets at the door or online Read more [...]

In honour of Canada 150, Richmond Canada Day will be the ultimate birthday bash with a street festival in Steveston Village incorporating the much beloved Steveston Salmon Festival, ship boarding, free concerts, food trucks and a brilliant fireworks display to light up the night.

Theatre Under the Stars presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella and 42nd Street: July 4 – August 18, 2018   Theatre Under the Stars invites audiences to have a ball this summer with Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella and 42nd Street, July 4 – August 18, 2018 (performances alternate evenings) at Stanley Park’s picturesque Malkin Bowl. A beloved Vancouver Read more [...]

For over 4 decades the Harrison Festival of the Arts has presented the best in Canadian and International performing and visual arts in a setting free of large crowds, long lineups and high ticket prices. The Festival is an event the whole family can enjoy featuring music from all corners Read more [...]

Latincouver, the Latin American Plaza of B.C., is proud to celebrate the 10th anniversary of *Carnaval del Sol*, the biggest Latin American Festival in the Pacific Northwest, on Saturday and Sunday, July 7 and 8 at Concord Pacific . Carnaval del Sol is the peak of Latin American Week, which begins on Wednesday, June Read more [...]

Bowen Island Artists Guthrie Gloag and Di Izdebski will showcase their artworks in benefit of the conservation organization Pacific Wild. This show will feature sculptures of coastal animals, and landscape and wildlife acrylic paintings and will explore the delicate balance of British Columbia’s coastal ecosystems. This exhibit runs July 11 Read more [...]

do it Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist | July 14 – September 02, 2018 | OPENING RECEPTION Wednesday, July 18, 6:30-8:30pm do it began in Paris in 1993 as a conversation between curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier. They were curious to see what would happen if Read more [...]

The Mission Folk Music Festival celebrates a landmark 30 years of music in beautiful Fraser River Heritage Park July 20- 22.  Staged in one of BC’s loveliest parks, the family friendly festival is renowned for its mix of accessibility and easy-going comfort, affordability and small-town friendliness, shaded day stages and Read more [...]

Adventure to the end of the Sunshine Coast and on over to Texada Island for the 2018 bi-annual Artist Studio Tour. Visit the 21 island artists in their 13 studio and public space locations as they showcase their work, demonstrate their techniques and expound on their inspiration. See the works Read more [...]

Set among the stately trees and gardens of the Filberg Heritage Lodge and Park in Comox on the east coast of Vancouver Island the Filberg Festival is truly a unique event. Wander through the grounds surrounded by beautiful gardens, rustic out-buildings and magnificent views of Comox Harbour and the Beaufort Read more [...]

Harmony Arts Festival | August 3-12, 2018| West Vancouver Waterfront The Harmony Arts Festival is the North Shore’s premiere summer event – visit the various seaside venues and experience the sights and sounds and of this award-winning 9-day festival, celebrating its 28th season. This festival is a celebration of music, Read more [...]

Changing the way art is seen in our city. | August 6, 2018 – August 11, 2018 Vancouver Mural Festival is organized by Create Vancouver Society, a Registered Non-Profit dedicated to artistic and cultural development in the Lower Mainland. Through the creation of permanent large-scale public murals, we provide a Read more [...]

The New West Cultural Crawl is a two-day visual arts and cultural festival that celebrates and presents New Westminster’s creative character and diversity. A cultural experience that exists throughout the city’s neighbourhoods. Discover our historical heritage and the ‘New’ New West. New Westminster has a fantastic artistic landscape that continues Read more [...]

Bring the family and enjoy the beauty that is Fraser Lake. Come join us as we celebrate with music, food, visual art, and artisan displays. Our annual Fraser Lake Festival of the Arts will feature an art gallery, fabric arts, memory canvases, photography, glass, metal, and wood creations; also, First Read more [...]

Beyond Dreams features the work of Bowen Island artists Andrea Klann and Bill Hoopes. These oil paintings, gouached paintings, drawings on paper, and small sculptural pieces explore the intersection of realism and the imagined in the context of the dream. Join us Saturday, August 18 for the opening reception, 6-8pm, Read more [...]

Our thirteenth year finds us celebrating Canada’s 150th birthday by featuring Canadian composers and Canadian artists. The 2017 three-day ticketed concert series presents a chance to hear outstanding Chamber Music in an intimate ocean side venue. Our audience favourites, internationally known Canadian artists James Campbell and The Gryphon Trio are Read more [...]

Canadian master printmaker Anna Wong (1930-2013) was born and raised in Chinatown in Vancouver, BC. In her early twenties, Wong worked as a seamstress at her family’s business, Modernize Tailors. After graduating from the Vancouver School of Art with a degree in Creative Printmaking, she studied Chinese brush painting in Read more [...]

The City of Richmond is inviting the world to the party with its largest multicultural festival. The Richmond World Festival, presented by Coast Capital Savings, celebrates the City’s significant cultural diversity found throughout the local community. This free event features a four stages with a diverse line-up of international and Read more [...]

Welcome to Lake Country ArtWalk The Interior’s Largest Arts Festival September 8 & 9, 2018 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For two days every September, the Lake Country Community Complex transforms into a festival of creativity. ArtWalk attracts over 7000+ attendees and features displays of visual and performing arts from 200+ Okanagan Read more [...]

Home Made Home by Germaine Koh | September 15th – November 4, 2018 Home Made Home is a creative enterprise, led by artist Germaine Koh, to design and build innovative and ecologically-friendly small buildings and dwellings for modest living. Our mission is to develop well-crafted and thought-provoking structures that not only Read more [...]

Culture Days is a collaborative, Canada-wide volunteer movement to raise the awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of all Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities. The first annual Culture Days event swept across more than 700 Canadian cities and towns during the last weekend of September 2010, Read more [...]

Richmond offers more free, interactive cultural activities over the national Culture Days weekend than any other place in BC. Express your love of culture by participating in one of dozens of activities offered by local artists, designers, crafters, writers and other creative people. Explore Richmond’s heritage sites, learn a new Read more [...]

This year the Sunshine Coast’s leading edge arts and cultural festival celebrates fifteen years with Homegrown. Featuring fifteen events over fifteen days, the festival will honour over 85 local Sunshine Coast artists and performers, presenting four major performance events, an “EarthArt” curated art exhibition, a “Homegrown Heroes” heritage exhibit, plus a Read more [...]

The Sunshine Coast Art Crawl is a self directed art adventure held over 3 days,  from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day.. Travel along the entire Sunshine Coast Highway from Langdale to Earls Cove or Earls Cove to Langdale. It is a chance to meet the artists in their studios and experience Read more [...]

Vancouver’s North Shore Craft Beer Week | October 19-26 | Breweries across the North Shore Toast the North Shore’s legendary past in brewing and our bright future with a week of celebrations. The North Shore has a rich history of craft brewing having been home to Canada’s first ever microbrewery Read more [...]

The Jane Austen Classic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Adapted by Tom Wood | November 9 & 10, 13 – 17, 2018 @ 7:30pm | Matinees: Nov. 10 & 17 @ 2:00 PM | Abbotsford Arts Centre, 2329 Crescent Way, Abbotsford With her daughters reaching marriageable age and the family finances running dangerously thin, Mrs. Bennet endeavours Read more [...]

Celebrating 25 Years ! The Christmas holidays begins with the Kris Kringle Craft Market.  Come be part of the merry making at the 25th annual Christmas extravaganza – November 15. 16, 17 and 18  at Beban Park Social Centre. This year, like every year, there will be a wide variety of Artisans to offer Read more [...]

A Classic Comedy About Family BEAU JEST by James Sherman | January 25 & 26, Jan 30 – Feb. 2 & Feb. 6 – 9, 2019 @ 7:30 PM | Matinees: Jan. 26, Feb. 2 & Feb. 9 @ 2:00 PM | Abbotsford Community Arts Addition, 2329 Crescent Way, Abbotsford All Sarah’s parents Read more [...]

Coldsnap is a unique, multi-day music festival that draws people together on cold winter nights. Each year musicians from around the world come to Prince George for a week of lively entertainment. Daily concerts feature performers from a wide variety of genres, including indie rock, jazz, Celtic, traditional folk, hip-hop, Read more [...]

Richmond’s annual Family Day festival of creativity for kids features interactive workshops and activities led by professional artists. Pre-register for one of dozens of Creativity Classes or drop in to take in staged performances and hands-on Imagination Stations taking place on Monday, February 18, 2019.

Held every February at Beban Auditorium, 2300 Bowen Road, Nanaimo Celebrate Good Times at the Maple Sugar Festival du Sucre d’Érable! Join in the joie de vivre and indulge in an annual February weekend of food, fun, and music at Nanaimo’s Beban Auditorium! Decadent toffy on snow, delicious French Canadian Read more [...]

An Ageless Favourite JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT Lyrics by Tim Rice | Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber | March 22 & 23, 26 – 30, 2019 @ 7:30 PM | Matinees: March 23 & 30 @ 2:00 PM | Abbotsford Arts Centre, 2329 Crescent Way, Abbotsford  This favourite musical extravaganza Read more [...]

The 15th annual Richmond Maritime Festival returns in 2018 to celebrate the cultural and historical significance of Steveston’s waterfront at the Britannia Heritage Shipyards National Historic Site. The Richmond Maritime Festival is a free, family-friendly event that includes educational and interactive activities, as well as an artisan market and live Read more [...]