Events in Vancouver

MAXguide.org is Metro Vancouver’s web-based arts and culture regional calendar, promoting a range of cultural and artistic events in the Metro Vancouver region. Event listings are posted for free by arts and culture organizations, individuals, publicists and select businesses. Find or post great performances and inspiring exhibitions. Use MAXguide to discover and explore new neighbourhoods in the region. MAXguide features a Read more...

THE IMITATION GAME: VISUAL CULTURE IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The Imitation Game surveys the extraordinary uses (and abuses) of artificial intelligence (AI) in the production of modern and contemporary visual culture around the world. The exhibition follows a chronological narrative that first examines the development of artificial intelligence, from the 1950s to the present, through a precise historical Read more...

We have 8 Artist Studios at Pacific Arts Market and this is a great opportunity to visit them and meet the artists. We are thrilled to now be a part of First Saturday!! We have 8 Artist Studios at Pacific Arts Market and this is a great opportunity to visit them and meet the artists. First Saturday is a public Read more...

The award winning improv comedians are back with a new show, more moves and even quicker wits. A SHOW FOR ALL GENDERS… 19+ ONLY WARNING! No extreme nudity, just extreme hilarity. A fictitious male stripper troupe (played by a cast of some of Canada’s best improvisational comedians) performs a sexylarious improv comedy show. They try to be sexy… it just Read more...

Culture Days is a national celebration of arts and culture. At the end of each September, millions of people attend thousands of participatory arts and culture events across the country. Culture Days programs invite the public to get hands-on and behind-the-scenes to highlight the importance of arts and culture in our communities. In BC, artists, cultural organizations, and municipalities host Read more...

Young artists are invited to show their work in a pop-up gallery at their local Opus during our Annual Opus Kids’ Art Exhibit, with proceeds from the event going support visual art programs in local schools. Kids create their artwork – in any medium – throughout August and September, then return it to Opus Art Supplies and join us in Read more...

21st Annual Chutzpah! Festival – November 4 to 24 Vancouver, B.C. – The Chutzpah! Festival returns with an exciting lineup of performances, all available online, with special opportunities to attend intimate shows live streamed from the stage of the Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre. 2021 marks the celebration of Chutzpah’s 21st milestone year of presenting Vancouver audiences with new and Read more...

The Dance Centre presents Corporeal Imago: Throe Thursday-Saturday November 17-19, 2022 | 8pm Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St, Vancouver Tickets $34/$25 Brought together while performing with Cirque du Soleil, choreographers Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes formed Corporeal Imago (Ci) to explore the intersection of aerial acrobatics, contemporary dance, and visual theatre. Throe explores our interdependence in an inhospitable world where our existence Read more...

The Dance Centre presents Arash Khakpour and Emmalena Fredriksson: You Touch Me Thursday-Saturday December 8-10, 2022 | 8pm Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St, Vancouver Tickets $34/$25 You Touch Me weaves an intricate web of duets within an ensemble of people who grew up far from here – and far from each other. Using dance and text, their encounters investigate notions of Read more...

The Dance Centre presents Hillel Kogan: We Love Arabs Thursday-Saturday April 13-15, 2023 | 8pm  Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St, Vancouver Tickets $34/$25 April 14 performance in French | Presented with Théâtre La Seizième We Love Arabs dives into the toughest of questions – how can we co-exist within conflict? Somewhere in Tel Aviv, a Jewish choreographer enlists an Arab dancer Read more...

Oppenheimer Park and surrounding areas. Powell Street Festival is one of the largest and the longest-running community arts festivals in Canada, located in Vancouver’s historic Japanese Canadian neighbourhood, Paueru Gai – today known as the Downtown Eastside. The Powell Street Festival Society also offers year-round programs, and collaborates with local organizations, artists, and communities. The Powell Street Festival is the Read more...