BC Events

The Polygon Gallery: Martine Gutierrez – ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS | July 12 - Sep 29

The Polygon Gallery presents the Canadian premiere of ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS, Martine Gutierrez’s first major solo show in Canada. The exhibition features 17 self-portraits in which Gutierrez transforms herself into a pantheon of influential heroines who have become legendary through depictions in art history, pop culture, and religion. Her exquisite transformations into Ardhanarishvara, Cleopatra, the Virgin...

Get outdoors with your friends and family to enjoy a picnic meal together. Learn about City of Surrey services, enjoy fun park activities and celebrate summer! Picnics run Thursday evenings from 5:30-7:30pm.

Curated by Alison Powell The word stélmexw in the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh language has been historically translated as a noun, “human being.” However, recent discussions among Elders and knowledge keepers found this translation to be inaccurate. It is now widely understood as “being human,” a verb signals the privilege and responsibility that comes along with active participation...

On now until October 1 | Across BC

Celebrate nature’s golden beauty with the reimagined Botanica Sunflower Festival, located in Chilliwack, BC and home to the famous Tulip Festival. Take in unique floral displays and enjoy acres of blooms, showcasing more than 40 unique varieties of sunflowers along with delightful surprises waiting to be discovered. Visit the Farm Store featuring local products from...

Metro Theatre’s Season 62 is bigger and better than ever! Our Back To The Future Season runs September 13, 2024 – May 31, 2025. Tickets and Season Subscriptions are available to purchase on metrotheatre.com now! Join us for our opening show of the season, the award-winning THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG. THE PLAY THAT GOES...

Labyrinth best describes the work as each piece has a detail or texture that will move your eye through the art like a maze. This is a drawing show! An exhibition showcasing over 25 one-of-a-kind artworks; a progression of Chrissy’s abstractions, over the last decade. Chrissy graduated now over 20 years ago from Concordia University...

Fortunately, they got away! Unfortunately, they’re lost! Fortunately, if they work together, they will be safe! Unfortunately, something has gone seriously wrong! Fortunately, “endlessly inventive” improviser David C. Jones is here to create a potentially saucy and curiously deadly adventure WITH YOUR HELP! Captain Harry Derriere has been asked to steal a star ship from...

New-on-the-scene Vancouver theatre collective presents its inaugural production: “A Man Walks Into a Bar” by Rachel Blair, presented by Curious Cats Theatre Collective, at the Vancouver Fringe Festival, 2024 Curious Cats Theatre Collective presents its inaugural production, “A Man Walks Into a Bar” by Rachel Blair, Finalist for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding...

September 5 – Kelowna | September 10 – Vancouver | September 13 & 14 – Burnaby | September 18 – Victoria

Chris and Pete invite you to feel Every Feeling: a musical sketch comedy show that speaks to the rollercoaster ride of this pretty little thing we call life. Friendship, family, anxieties, niceties, catholic guilt, indian guilt, nothing is off limits. SHOW TIMES thu, sep 5 – 5pm sun, sep 8 – 6pm mon, sep 9...

September 5 to 15 | Granville Island and various locations in Vancouver

Have you ever felt lost in a labyrinth of existential questions, fears, and possibilities? Have you ever questioned your place as an artist in this ever so uncertain world? Have you ever wondered if your houseplants are trying to kill you in your sleep? Portraits of Solitude is a one act absurdist dramedy about Amara,...

Exciting Event at Vancouver Fringe Festival: Kim McVicar Returns to Perform at The Revue Stage! We’re thrilled to announce that Canadian comedian Kim McVicar is coming back to her hometown to perform at the upcoming Vancouver Fringe Festival! Now based in the U.S., Kim has made a name for herself internationally and was recently named...

The crooner who defined crooners — up close and personal. A Musical Biography lovingly told from his humble beginnings on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour through the Columbia and Capital years, all the way to his years with Reprise records and his final recordings spanning six decades of a singular vocal sensation never before or...

“SOLD! Off to the American Dream!” Freedom, but at what cost? A Palestinian immigrant and her family find more freedom in the US than expected. A true-life storytelling show written and performed by Laila Lee. In this one-woman show, Laila brings to light her experiences growing up Muslim in the American South, how she discovers...

The Filipino son of New Zealand comedy brings his latest show CHAMPORADO back to Vancouver for his Vancouver Fringe Festival debut. What actually matters in life? What should we really care about? And what do these questions have to do with a breakfast chocolate rice pudding? New Zealand-Filipino comedy veteran James Roque serves up an...

iuvenis Productions presents: The Law of Gravity by Olivier Sylvestre, translated by Bobby Theodore In an exploration of gender, adolescence, and queer masculinity, 14-year-olds Dom and Fred meet one night on a hill overlooking a bridge connecting Not-The-City to The City: a place where anyone can be anything they want. Together they find refuge and...

September 6 to 8 | Vancouver Convention Centre

The Pigeon and The Dove: A History of Hatred & Love is a powerful new lo-fi folk opera (and potential podcast) about Pigeons! Well, really, it’s about housing insecurity and the many roads one can take to end up on the street. A mix of comedy, social justice, and dark yet danceable tunes. But really…it’s...

September 6 & 7 | Various Times | VIFF Centre, Vancouver

This full-length contemporary dance work from Montreal choreographer Johanne Gour is an absorbing meditation on our fickle physical body, and the ways in which it works as we expect and ways in which it doesn’t. (Jen Zoratti – Winnipeg free press, July 24, 2024.) In My toes striving till the tips of your fingers, As...

Qi Pao is a short play about a young mixed Asian girl who must confront her full Chinese and White self in order to feel whole. It’s a play about self-love, self- acceptance and understanding. TOTALLY 80s is a comedy about a 15 year old girl in 1984 London who is trying to work up...