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Vancouver's Chinatown in British Columbia

Vancouver’s Chinatown is a distinctive historic neighborhood that has evolved into a contemporary cultural mecca. This vibrant area is known for its renowned restaurants, captivating murals, and traditional storefronts interspersed with trendy coffee shops and artist studios.

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A Wok Around Chinatown

Vancouver
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A Wok Around Chinatown The Adventure begins at the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden (Rated by National Geographic as the #1 Urban Garden), then winds through diverse specialty shops and merchants featuring products from crispy skin ducks, barbequed meats, live seafood, delicate pastries, teas, herbal remedies & cookware supplies. Bring your appetite… a delicious dim sum lunch is an Read more...
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Chinese Canadian Museum

Vancouver
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The Chinese Canadian Museum is located in the historic Vancouver Chinatown. Housed inside the oldest brick building in Chinatown, this museum is the first of its kind and honours the history, contributions, and heritages of Chinese Canadians while elevating and engaging with voices and communities across the country. The museum is open from Wednesday to Sunday from 10 A.M. to Read more...
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Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver
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Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden is a registered museum and one of Vancouver’s top tourist attractionsn located near Vancouver’s Chinatown. It is a unique venue for cultural programming and events, including guided tours, concerts, festivals, exhibitions, receptions, and educational programs. This Ming Dynasty-style garden-home is the first among its kind to have been built outside of China, and continues Read more...

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Dream Factory: Cantopop Mandopop 1980s-2000 | Chinese Canadian Museum

Chinese Canadian Museum
Vancouver
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May 28, 2025
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July 19, 2026
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Welcome to Dream Factory — where pop stardom, migration, and music history collide. This bold, genre-defining exhibition celebrates the golden age of Cantopop and Mandopop — the iconic sounds that took Asia by storm and sparked a global music revolution. On view from May 28, 2025 at the Chinese Canadian Museum, Dream Factory dives into two unforgettable decades of pop — from idol fandoms 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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Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama | Vancouver Art Gallery

Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver
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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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Parallax(e): Perspectives on the Canada–U.S. Border | The Reach Gallery

The Reach Gallery Museum
Abbotsford
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October 8, 2025
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May 30, 2026
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Canada and the United States have immense powers over people and legal rights. Yet they are not the first or only nations in these lands. What do we really know about the history of the 49th parallel? How was it visualized and carved into the landscape over a century and a half ago? What perspectives are lost when we look Read more...
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Beautifully Broken

Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre
Burnaby
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October 14, 2025
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February 21, 2026
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Beautifully Broken – Kintsugi by Naoko Fukumaru Oct 14, 2025 – Feb 21, 2026 TUE-SAT 10AM-5PM admission by donation Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC Kintsugi, the Japanese art of “golden joinery,” is a 500-year-old tradition of repairing broken ceramics with natural Urushi lacquer and powdered gold. Rather than disguising damage, it highlights it—honoring imperfection Read more...
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Beautifully Broken – Kintsugi by Naoko Fukumaru | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre

Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre
Burnaby
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October 14, 2025
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February 21, 2026
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Kintsugi, the Japanese art of “golden joinery,” is a 500-year-old tradition of repairing broken ceramics with natural Urushi lacquer and powdered gold. Rather than disguising damage, it highlights it—honoring imperfection and the passage of time. Vancouver-based artist Naoko Fukumaru draws on this ancient practice as both a craft and a meditative process. Through her work, she offers a powerful metaphor for personal healing: Read more...
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Woven Pathways: Fashion and Cultural Continuity | Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre in Whistler

Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre in Whistler
Whistler
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October 18, 2025
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April 5, 2026
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Connected through waters and shared territory, this exhibit features Squamish and Lil̓wat fashion and accessory designers with guest artists from the Northwest Coast. Through contemporary expression, Indigenous designers represent their identities rooted in lineage, land, and culture, shaping the future of fashion. Featuring works selected by Guest Curator Rebecca Baker-Grenier, an Indigenous Designer of Kwakiutł and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh ancestry. Join us on Read more...
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ORE & ORCAS | Britannia Mine Museum

Britannia Mine Museum
Britannia Beach
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October 20, 2025
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February 28, 2026
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October 20, 2025- February 28, 2026. After exploring the underground and the award-winning BOOM! show, you can journey to the Terra Lab to explore this dynamic temporary exhibit. Explore how copper contamination impacted the marine food chain from plankton to predators, and learn how remediation efforts now protect this ecosystem. This unique display includes specimens from the Howe Sound ecosystem, Read more...
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