January is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month – and, as we start a new year, it’s a great time to think about what we want the future to look like for people living with dementia. Full details
Saturday January 23rd, 2021
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January 21 to March 13 | Participating Grocery Stores in BC | Full details
STRIDE Burnaby Arts Festival is your connection to local arts and culture. Running from January 16 – 30, 2021 STRIDE offers educational, entertaining and provocative virtual programs plus safe ‘in-real-life’ experiences all designed to renew our connections with the arts and with each other. Burnaby is a creative and connected community abuzz with art and… Full details
ENTRE A: FIRECRACKER CONTINUES IN 2021 Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art continues with FIRECRACKER , an online art sale featuring the works of more than 20 artists. 50% of the proceeds will go towards Centre A, and the rest goes to the artists. Available NOW until February 2021 Buy art at… Full details
On now until Wednesday, February 24 | Purchase your Pink Shirt Day 2021 at London Drugs | Full details
The 11th annual Vancouver Short Film Festival is launching online via Eventival Virtual from January 22—24, 2021. Join us for three days of the best short films BC has to offer! Film Programmes will also be available up to 7 days after their weekend premiere. About VSFF: The Vancouver Short Film Festival (VSFF) is committed… Full details
Jan-March Exhibitions at Place des Arts January 22 – March 18, 2021 1120 Brunette Avenue, Coquitlam | 604.664.1636 | placedesarts.ca Visit Place des Arts to view three new exhibitions in a variety of mediums with work from local artists: – Capturing Moments: Chronicling Our Lives, various mediums curated by the Coquitlam Heritage Society – Into… Full details
International Concert Zoom Series with world-renowned performers! Visit http://www.chw.ca/lightupthenight for more info, and to register. Full details
Dance Centre Artist-in-Residence Shay Kuebler (Radical System Art) teams up with tap dancer Danny Nielsen for Figure Eights, a work which highlights the classic performing arts format of the duet. The work looks to reference the influence and impact of the past, seeing that this history is rooted in us and how we can move… Full details
This FREE webinar is for parents, grandparents, and teachers regarding how to keep their children safe while online. With CoVid 19, our children are at home more, not meeting up with friends, and therefore on their devices more and exposed to dangers online. Subjects covered: -How pornography changed when it went online and it’s effects… Full details
Join us for the launch of a new monthly virtual tour series at MOV. This first event will give you the opportunity to tour our newest feature exhibition, A Seat at the Table: Chinese Immigration and BC, from the comfort of your home. Led by the MOV Education team, Bérangère Descamps and Charlotte Chang, the… Full details
Guest Curator: Karen Tam “Whose Chinatown? Examining Chinatown Gazes in Art, Archives, and Collections,” brings together an art history of Chinatowns and their communities by historical and contemporary Canadian artists such Emily Carr, Unity Bainbridge, Yucho Chow, Fred Herzog, Paul Wong, Mary Sui Yee Wong, Morris Lum, and aiya哎呀, among others. Drawing from private collections… Full details
The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC presents the Amir Amiri Ensemble in a digital production, available online from January 29, 2021. Tehran-born, Montreal-based Amir Amiri’s relationship to the santur is spiritual, almost symbiotic, as he calls upon centuries of tradition with an instrumental voice fluent in the musical dialects of the here… Full details
Coldsnap 2021 Coldstream (a livestream festival) The Coldsnap elves have been hard at work assembling an amazing roster of artists that will perform live in Prince George from January 29 to February 6, 2021. We will present two artists per night, starting at 7:30 pm PST, while our Coldsnap for Kids concert on Sunday, January… Full details
St. Brigid’s Festival Vancouver is a week-long online free festival featuring academic, cultural and wellness sessions dedicated to celebrating women through the medium of Ireland’s mythical matriarchal figure Brigid. Despite Brigid’s origins in mythology and religion, this festival is non-religious. All are welcome. Festival Director Maura De Freitas said, “St. Brigid’s Festival Vancouver is an… Full details
The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC announces the powerful group exhibition A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake, February 11 to September 5, 2021. The exhibition coincides with the 10th anniversary of the 2011 triple disaster that saw a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown hit the… Full details
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Your personal ads, set to music, streamed to your living room. The revolutionary show that brought us all joy and inspiration in tough times last Fall is back! Welcome back the cast of wild and wacky characters from the Craigslist community as they attempt to buy and sell online, all the while longing and searching… Full details
Wild Salmon Wednesday, February 10, 2021. 10:00 am to 11:00 am Take a virtual adventure with Take a Stand: Youth for Conservation. Explore the pristine forests, oceans and coastline of the Great Bear Rainforest and Sea of British Columbia, and learn about our vital foundation species – wild salmon. Come full circle to the city… Full details
LunarFest Celebrations is going virtual with the theme – Family is everything! We need to be with our families now more than ever – and that always comes with fun stories to share! Join our local community in taking a digital stroll through our virtual art gallery, storytelling, and a virtual hot pot dinner where… Full details
The artwork of six local artists light up downtown Vancouver this winter in a lantern exhibition What does family mean to you? Six local artists explore their connections to loved ones through a lantern exhibition, weaving colours and familiar shapes to express from the heart in the ways they know best. See the dazzling Lantern… Full details
See the artwork of celebrated BC artist Susan Point and her family of artists Thomas Cannell, Kelly Cannell, and Summer Cannell at the Coastal Lunar Lanterns at Jack Poole Plaza this winter! Against the backdrop of the North Shore, eight brilliant lanterns featuring their colourful artwork weave the visual stories of the nature that surrounds… Full details
One of contemporary Latin music’s most expressive voices, Magos Herrera joins forces with the dizzyingly eclectic string quartet Brooklyn Rider—violinists Johnny Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen, violist Nicholas Cords, cellist Michael Nicolas, and percussionist Mathias Kunzli—for Dreamers, a project that celebrates music as a political act by imaginatively reinterpreting gems from the Ibero-American songbook alongside new… Full details
In a FREE Facebook Watch online event created for youth audiences, renown folklore and preeminent fairy tale expert Jack Zipes will exhume and examine the importance of little-known tales from the first half of the twentieth century. With the goal of, as he describes it “unburying and reinvigorating dead fairy tales and their creators”, the… Full details
Learn how to sketch with confidence with Emma FitzGerald, author and illustrator of Hand Drawn Vancouver. Explore how drawings can be a prompt for storytelling and get inspired to go outside to sketch your favourite neighbourhood spots or local heritage buildings and places! Emma will also share tips for drawing on location, including intimidating architecture. Full details
The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC presents prolific composer, erhu player, and vocalist Lan Tung in a digital production, available online from February 26, 2021. Lan Tung “sits at the crossroads between East and West, innovation and tradition” (La Scena Musicale). For this program, she will perform two world premieres for erhu… Full details
Uplifting, crushing, transcendent, and human. The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC presents Shane Koyczan in a digital production, available online from March 12, 2021. Arguably Canada’s best-known spoken word artist, Koyczan’s performances combine electric narratives and spellbinding stage presence. Wherever he puts his seemingly boundless energy, Koyczan “is at the heart of… Full details
Red Shirt Day is a day when people across Canada come together and wear red in schools, workplaces and spaces everywhere in order to create a visible display of solidarity for people and families living with disabilities, as well as to demonstrate their support and commitment for accessibility and inclusion of people with disabilities in… Full details
50% FESTIVAL + 50% MUD RUN = 100% AWESOME! Rugged Maniac is like recess for grown-ups, except our playground has a 3-story water slide, trampolines, and a fire jump, and there’s a huge festival right in the middle of everything with a DJ and plenty of beer! Sounds amazing, right?! Here’s how it works: THE… Full details
Can you believe it’s been 50 (51) years since we graduated from West Van Senior Secondary? We want to catch up with you and other classmates to find out what’s been happening in your life over these years. Please mark your calendar for the weekend of September 18th 2021 We will be holding our 50th… Full details