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Visit British Columbia and you’ll be amazed by the number of fascinating cities and towns within our borders.  With a land mass that’s nearly four times the size of the United Kingdom, many British Columbians have only just begun to explore the breadth of this incredible province.  Now, more than ever, is the time to #ExploreBC and see what the buzz is really about.  Discover Art News profiling British Columbian towns and regions in our Art-BC Community Newsletter.  These profiles offer insider details on the unique features, artists and stops, sharing the authentic community experiences that make each community unique.

British Columbia is a province of exceptional beauty, spanning from coastal beaches to the Canadian Rockies.  Along our shores, forests, lakes, grasslands and inland deserts are the over five million residents that call this province home.  This landscape, its inhabitants and its history form the backbone of BC Arts & Culture.  This land has been home to indigenous cultures since time immemorial, forming a deep relationship with nature and surrounding nations.  From humble beginnings, each one of our 162 municipalities also informs the diverse collage of BC heritage.

Today, each town and city in BC has their own unique makeup.  Though continually shifting, our communities are created by a culture of landscape, history, climate and crucially, people.  Join us in our Quarterly celebration of the many artisans and artists, as well as museums, cultural enterprises and more that make British Columbia the best place in which to live or to visit.

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Northern BC and Haida Gwaii Arts Councils and Cultural Centres to Visit

January 02, 2026 -

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Art Galleries of Vancouver and the Coastal Mountains: Community Art Spaces & Cultural Centres

December 29, 2025 -

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Christmas Markets in North Vancouver: Festive Holiday Shopping & Events

December 18, 2025 -

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Explore Museums and Heritage Sites in Northern BC: Cultural Treasures of Canada’s Northwest

December 12, 2025 -

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Kootenay Museums & Heritage Sites: Explore BC’s Mountain History

December 05, 2025 -

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Discover Thompson Okanagan Museums and Heritage Sites from Kamloops to Barkerville

November 28, 2025 -

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Indigenous Museum Experience on Vancouver Island: A Journey Through First Nations Art and Culture

November 21, 2025 -

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Fraser Valley Museums & Fraser Canyon Heritage: Discover BC’s Interior Cultural Treasures

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Explore BC Museums: A Guide to Coastal Heritage Sites from Whistler to the Sunshine Coast

November 07, 2025 -

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Discover Vancouver Island Museums: A Complete Guide to Heritage Sites and Cultural Treasures

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Exploring the Skeena River Cultural Corridor: Northern BC’s Journey Through Art, History & Indigenous Heritage

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Unique BC Art Events & Hidden Festivals Worth the Trip

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Female Artists in BC: Leaders, Innovators & Icons

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September 29, 2025 -

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Art Studio Tours in BC: The Complete 2025 Guide

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Public Art in BC: 8+ Must-See Public Art Tours Across the Province

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Top Art Classes and Workshops in BC

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Top 12 Places to Celebrate Indigenous History Month in British Columbia

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Art of the Getaway: The Top 3 Seaside Getaways on the Salish Sea

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Top Arts + Cultural Experiences in the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast

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North Shore Public Art Trail

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Northern BC | Learn about the Gitxsan

April 12, 2024 -

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6 Top Things to Do in Princeton

August 24, 2023 -

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Explore Sunshine Coast Art Scene

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Two Day Arts & Culture Itinerary in Comox Valley

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Top Things to do in Cowichan Valley

June 10, 2023 -

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Things to do in Fraser Valley

June 03, 2023 -

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Cultural Northern BC Road Trip: Prince George to Fort St. John

May 26, 2023 -

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Cultural Road Trip Through North West British Columbia

May 06, 2023 -

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Road Trip Planner through the Central Cariboo

April 29, 2023 -

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Kootenay Lake Road Trip

April 24, 2023 -

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Autumn Okanagan Road Trip

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Arts Education in BC: Workshops, Classes and Experiences

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Vancouver Island Arts + Culture Road Trip

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British Columbia Road Trip Ideas

July 30, 2022 -

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How to explore the art scene in BC

June 06, 2022 -

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Why Celebration of Lights in Vancouver is a great cultural event in BC

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Culturally Curious? Some of the many Cultural Venues In British Columbia Worth a Visit!

May 02, 2022 -

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Your Guide To Finding Original Artwork In British Columbia!

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Your Guide To British Columbia’s Theater Scene

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Never Been To Fringe Festival? This Is What You’re Missing!

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Some of Many Talented Artists In British Columbia

April 20, 2022 -

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Arts & Cultural Centers In British Columbia You Must Visit!

March 28, 2022 -

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Do You Know These Amazing Local Artists?

February 23, 2022 -

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Your Guide To British Columbia’s Art Scene

February 10, 2022 -

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May 28, 2021 -

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Guest Blog: Pretty Things | by Rodrigo Sarrat-Cave

May 14, 2019 -

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March 01, 2019 -

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Guide to the Cowichan Arts Scene

September 14, 2018 -

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July 25, 2018 -

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May 17, 2018 -

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Art of the Tour: Studio Tours & Cultural Crawls

April 27, 2018 -

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Creative Communities Feature: Haida Gwaii & Prince Rupert

April 20, 2018 -

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Art of the Getaway: Design Your Own Adventure Using Art-BC.com!

April 13, 2018 -

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Art of the Getaway: Cultural Tours

March 23, 2018 -

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Creative Communities Feature: Vernon BC | PART 2

March 17, 2018 -

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Creative Communities Feature: Vernon, BC

March 10, 2018 -

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February 24, 2018 -

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Art-BC’s List of the Best Places to Visit in Parksville!

February 15, 2018 -

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Evening Events in the City of Coquitlam: February 2018

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Experience Downtown Vancouver’s Creative Scene

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Best Things to do in New West!

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What the World Needs Now is Art.

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Women in Red – Interview with Elaine Brewer-White

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Blogger Alert: Jay Minter

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Culture as an Economic Engine: We Break it Down for You

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VDA is Wishing You the Best in 2017.

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The Historic Patricia Theatre

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Find the Awesome in Kootenays this Holiday Season

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Anne Nelson knows Powell River

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Upcoming Community Events

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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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Written in Clay

Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver
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May 25, 2025
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January 4, 2026
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Written in Clay: From the John David Lawrence Collection “I have grown to know why I have a philosophy about ceramics. It’s taking one object, one substance that you’ve been familiar with all your life and making it into something else.” —John David Lawrence Written in Clay presents a history of ceramics made in British Columbia told through the collection of Read more...
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To Be Something More | Kelowna Art Gallery

Kelowna Art Gallery
Kelowna
Date:
August 23, 2025
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February 1, 2026
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To Be Something More marks the latest chapter in Sandeep Johal’s ongoing exploration of women’s resilience. Through painting, collage, textiles, and a large-scale immersive mural, Johal uses her signature Indo-folk feminine aesthetic to confront the harsh realities of the female experience while infusing her work with vibrant colour, joy, and beauty. This new body of work celebrates the strength, endurance, and Read more...
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NDN Giver

Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
Vancouver
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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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Upcoming Events | Tourism Nanaimo

Tourism Nanaimo
Nanaimo
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October 1, 2025
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May 29, 2026
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Embrace the eclectic energy of Nanaimo at our Bathtub Races, a thrilling tribute to our marine heritage, or get lost in the magic of our Lantern Festival, join the city in colour for our Pride Festival, Jazz fest and more. Every season brings something new and exciting, ensuring that no two visits to Nanaimo are ever the same. Here’re Upcoming Read more...
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Brackendale Eagle Festival

Explore Squamish And the Squamish Adventure Centre
Squamish
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October 1, 2025
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January 30, 2026
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Squamish is a bird watcher’s paradise. In the winter months, as the eagles gather en masse, it is truly a sight to behold. Every fall, Squamish becomes home to one of North America’s largest congregations of wintering Bald Eagles ((Haliaeetus leucocephalus). In the first 3 weeks of October, 10,000 salmon make their annual journey upstream to spawn, attracting over 1,300 Read more...
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Geoffrey Farmer: Phantom Scripts

Audain Art Museum
Whistler
Date:
October 2, 2025
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February 2, 2026
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Phantom Scripts revisits three works by Geoffrey Farmer from the Audain Art Museum’s Permanent Collection — Vampire Archive, November 22, 1974(2010 – 2025), The Politics of Appearing(2012 – 2025), The Good Sweeper (2017 – 2025)— reframing them through newly composed scripts, annotations, and didactic texts authored by the artist. The texts function as interjections — speculative, contextual, poetic — that 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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