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Wellness Travel BC
Vancouver
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April 11, 2025
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April 11, 2026
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Find more info on upcoming events at wellnesstravelbc.com.   Be sure to subscribe to the Wellness Travel BC newsletter to keep up-to-date with wellness-focused events in British Columbia and elsewhere! Read more...
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Bill Reid Gallery I Public Programs

Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
Vancouver
Date:
July 23, 2025
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December 31, 2025
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Discover Indigenous Northwest Coast art and culture through our public programs. We offer a diverse array of events for all ages, including artist talks, hands-on workshops, storytelling, panel discussions, and more. Learn More Read more...
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NDN Giver

Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
Vancouver
Date:
September 27, 2025
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February 22, 2026
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Bill Reid Gallery presents: NDN Giver NDN Giver explores the layered meanings within both everyday and extraordinary gifts that circulate through the potlatch. Blankets, coppers, canoes, prints, mugs, trade beads and devil’s club strung into necklaces all become carriers of law, memory, and relation to one another. The title NDN Giver reclaims a phrase rooted in colonialism that mocked Indigenous generosity. In reality, Read more...
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Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama

Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver
Date:
October 3, 2025
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February 22, 2026
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“In looking back, I think the best work I did was of the people.” —Tamio Wakayama Enemy Alien is the first major solo exhibition and retrospective of works by documentary photographer Tamio Wakayama. His career, spanning over fifty years, began with his photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in the southern United States. Wakayama documented many of the social justice movements Read more...
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Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama

Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver
Date:
October 3, 2025
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February 22, 2026
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Enemy Alien is the first major solo exhibition and retrospective of works by documentary photographer Tamio Wakayama. His career, spanning over fifty years, began with his photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in the southern United States. Wakayama documented many of the social justice movements and countercultures of the 1960s and 70s. His work tells stories of community, joy and resistance Read more...
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Family Search-and-Find Activity: Emily Carr

Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver
Date:
October 8, 2025
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January 4, 2026
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Embark on a fun, self-guided search-and-find adventure in Emily Carr: Navigating an Impenetrable Landscape. Follow the clues to discover artworks throughout the exhibition—look closely, observe the details and enjoy exploring together! DOWNLOAD NOW Admission to the Gallery is always FREE for children and youth aged 18 and under. Children 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Interested in what Read more...
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PHOTOGraphie Festival

PHOTOGraphie Festival
Vancouver
Date:
October 16, 2025
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October 26, 2025
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October 16 – Free Photo Walk: Creative Photography with your Camera Phone – Photo Walk with Jamie Poh. Learn to transform everyday moments into art with just your phone. Tips, settings and editing apps shared on this beginner friendly photowalk. Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/creative-photography-with-your-camera-phone-jamie-poh-4310-0021-tickets-1732188064129 October 22 – Free Photo talk: Local Wildlife with Jason Kazuta & Beau Photo – Jason Read more...
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Verdi’s Rigoletto | Vancouver Opera

Verdi’s Rigoletto | Vancouver Opera
Vancouver
Date:
October 25, 2025
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November 2, 2025
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RigolettoBy Giuseppe VerdiSung in Italian with English Titles October 25 – November 2, 2025Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver⏱️ Approx. 2 hrs 30 min (incl. intermission) A father’s desperate love. A duke’s corruption. A jester’s revenge. Verdi’s Rigoletto unfolds as a gripping tale of power, betrayal, and tragedy—brought to life by director Glynis Leyshon and conductor Jacques Lacombe. Featuring baritone Michael Chioldi Read more...
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Museum of Vancouver Events

Museum of Vancouver
Vancouver
Date:
October 31, 2025
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February 5, 2026
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From artist talks and curatorial tours to workshops and performances, the Museum of Vancouver offers special events and programs for children and adults. Programming includes everything from Indigenous artisans, cultural celebrations, 2SLGBTQ+ content, civic engagement, food and gardening, crafting, film screenings, poetry readings, and more! Visit museumofvancouver.ca/events-programs to see what’s coming up at the MOV! Read more...
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Vancouver Art’s District – Self Guided Tour

Vancouver Arts District – Self Guided Tour
Vancouver
Date:
October 31, 2025
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December 31, 2025
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Welcome to the Vancouver Art Walk, an initiative designed to showcase the remarkable galleries and art spaces in the Vancouver Arts District. Our mission is to collaborate with commercial and non-profit galleries and creatives to provide visitors with an exceptional and well-curated tour that can be enjoyed at their own pace. Our carefully crafted map presents a selection of the most Read more...
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Deep-Seated Histories: Chairs from the Collection | Museum of Vancouver

Museum of Vancouver
Vancouver
Date:
October 31, 2025
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January 1, 2026
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Featuring 150 chairs from the Museum of Vancouver (MOV) collection, Deep-Seated Histories: Chairs from the Collection provides a glimpse into Vancouver’s cultural, social and industrial evolution. You’d be surprised to learn how this lowly piece of furniture can tell stories about notable Vancouverites and the City’s shifting thoughts on work, leisure, design, and neighbourhoods over time. Expect to see Seraphim Read more...
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Emily Carr: Navigating an Impenetrable Landscape

Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver
Date:
October 31, 2025
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January 25, 2026
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When Emily Carr (1871–1945) wrote about landscape paintings—her own and those of others—she would sometimes describe how an eye might move through the imagined space in the work. It is striking, then, that so many of her own paintings create an experience of dense, impenetrable forest that confounds such forward movement. In many cases, the viewer is tantalized with the Read more...
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Kihl ‘Yahda Christian White: Master Haida Artist I Bill Reid Gallery

Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
Vancouver
Date:
October 31, 2025
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February 5, 2026
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Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents: Kihl ‘Yahda Christian White: Master Haida Artist This landmark exhibition celebrates 50 years of work by renowned Haida artist Kihl ‘Yahda, Christian White. Curated by Sdahl Ḵ’awaas, Lucy Bell, it features highlights from Christian’s career alongside pieces by his apprentices. Known for his masterful argillite carvings, jewelry, and monumental works, Christian began Read more...
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We who have known tides

Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver
Date:
November 7, 2025
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April 12, 2026
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We who have known tides begins from a poetic inquiry that seeks to understand what it means to exist at the edges of the Pacific Ocean. We who have known tides is an examination that unveils the ways in which the ocean and living in proximity to it has shaped the work of Indigenous artists, as well as their relation to territories across Read more...
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OPUS Workshops

Opus Art Supplies – Workshops & Classes
Vancouver
Date:
December 31, 2025
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May 20, 2026
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Our Workshops & Classes listings are a great way to find creative courses offered throughout British Columbia.  opusartsupplies.com/resources/events Resources for the Creative Individual Art Materials, Digital Printing, and Picture Frames Videos, Demonstrations, Workshops, and Community Events Friendly and Knowledgeable Staff Locations across BC plus a National Mail Order Service Opus Art Supplies are available at these BC Locations: Read more...
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PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
Vancouver
Date:
January 22, 2026
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February 8, 2026
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PuSh International Performing Arts Festival returns January 22 – February 8, 2026. Over the last two decades, the PuSh Festival has grown to become Vancouver & the Lower Mainland’s signature, mid-winter cultural event, delivering audacious, innovative, contemporary works of live performing arts by acclaimed local, national, and international artists. Tickets go on sale when the full line-up is announced on November 20, 2025! Read more...
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West of Main Artwalk

Artists in Our Midst
Vancouver
Date:
May 30, 2026
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May 31, 2026
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The community is invited to fill their weekend with art May 30 & 31st. Private art studios and pop-up artist venues will be open across Vancouver’s west side during the Open Studio Tour & Sale open daily 11-5. From internationally recognized artists to some of the city’s emerging talent, this free event is a unique opportunity to explore and engage with artists Read more...
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Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Vancouver International Jazz Festival
Vancouver
Date:
June 19, 2026
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July 1, 2026
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Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Vancouver International Jazz Fest, June 20th to July 1st, featuring 187 performances with pay-what-you-can and ticketed events, plus 50 free shows from downtown to Granville Island and the North Shore. Headliners include the Bill Frisell Trio with Thomas Morgan & Rudy Royston and the Richard Bona Asante Trio.  Don’t miss opening weekend’s free Downtown Read more...
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Vancouver Folk Music Festival

Vancouver Folk Music Festival
Vancouver
Date:
July 17, 2026
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July 19, 2026
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Thank you for an incredible weekend of global sounds, homegrown stars, and three days of music by the beach at the 48th annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival! VFMF is the ultimate summer weekend escape — where musical borders dissolve and the beach becomes the backdrop for the best in contemporary folk music. Highlights include Bab L’ Bluz, Elisapie, The Heavy Read more...
Events in Vancouver

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Wellness Travel BC Events

Wellness Travel BC
Vancouver
Date:
April 11, 2025
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April 11, 2026
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Find more info on upcoming events at wellnesstravelbc.com.   Be sure to subscribe to the Wellness Travel BC newsletter to keep up-to-date with wellness-focused events in British Columbia and elsewhere! Read more...
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Bill Reid Gallery I Public Programs

Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
Vancouver
Date:
July 23, 2025
-
December 31, 2025
No Reviews
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Discover Indigenous Northwest Coast art and culture through our public programs. We offer a diverse array of events for all ages, including artist talks, hands-on workshops, storytelling, panel discussions, and more. Learn More Read more...
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NDN Giver

Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
Vancouver
Date:
September 27, 2025
-
February 22, 2026
No Reviews
Favorite
Bill Reid Gallery presents: NDN Giver NDN Giver explores the layered meanings within both everyday and extraordinary gifts that circulate through the potlatch. Blankets, coppers, canoes, prints, mugs, trade beads and devil’s club strung into necklaces all become carriers of law, memory, and relation to one another. The title NDN Giver reclaims a phrase rooted in colonialism that mocked Indigenous generosity. In reality, Read more...
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Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama

Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver
Date:
October 3, 2025
-
February 22, 2026
No Reviews
Favorite
Enemy Alien is the first major solo exhibition and retrospective of works by documentary photographer Tamio Wakayama. His career, spanning over fifty years, began with his photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in the southern United States. Wakayama documented many of the social justice movements and countercultures of the 1960s and 70s. His work tells stories of community, joy and resistance Read more...
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Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama

Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver
Date:
October 3, 2025
-
February 22, 2026
New
No Reviews
Favorite
“In looking back, I think the best work I did was of the people.” —Tamio Wakayama Enemy Alien is the first major solo exhibition and retrospective of works by documentary photographer Tamio Wakayama. His career, spanning over fifty years, began with his photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in the southern United States. Wakayama documented many of the social justice movements Read more...
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Family Search-and-Find Activity: Emily Carr

Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver
Date:
October 8, 2025
-
January 4, 2026
No Reviews
Favorite
Embark on a fun, self-guided search-and-find adventure in Emily Carr: Navigating an Impenetrable Landscape. Follow the clues to discover artworks throughout the exhibition—look closely, observe the details and enjoy exploring together! DOWNLOAD NOW Admission to the Gallery is always FREE for children and youth aged 18 and under. Children 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Interested in what Read more...
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PHOTOGraphie Festival

PHOTOGraphie Festival
Vancouver
Date:
October 16, 2025
-
October 26, 2025
New
No Reviews
Favorite
October 16 – Free Photo Walk: Creative Photography with your Camera Phone – Photo Walk with Jamie Poh. Learn to transform everyday moments into art with just your phone. Tips, settings and editing apps shared on this beginner friendly photowalk. Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/creative-photography-with-your-camera-phone-jamie-poh-4310-0021-tickets-1732188064129 October 22 – Free Photo talk: Local Wildlife with Jason Kazuta & Beau Photo – Jason Read more...
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Verdi’s Rigoletto | Vancouver Opera

Verdi’s Rigoletto | Vancouver Opera
Vancouver
Date:
October 25, 2025
-
November 2, 2025
New
No Reviews
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RigolettoBy Giuseppe VerdiSung in Italian with English Titles October 25 – November 2, 2025Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver⏱️ Approx. 2 hrs 30 min (incl. intermission) A father’s desperate love. A duke’s corruption. A jester’s revenge. Verdi’s Rigoletto unfolds as a gripping tale of power, betrayal, and tragedy—brought to life by director Glynis Leyshon and conductor Jacques Lacombe. Featuring baritone Michael Chioldi Read more...
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