BC Events

What’s Your Risk of Heart Disease? London Drugs Pharmacists Now Offering Critical Healthy Heart Screening To help British Columbians take control of their own heart health and learn about heart disease prevention, pharmacists at London Drugs in Westbank are offering a Healthy Heart Clinic, on Thursday, April 16th 2018, from 10:00 – 1:00. The statistics...

Sunday September 9th 11:00am – 6:00 pm at Ambleside Park, West Vancouver. Salmon BBQ, Dining/Beverage Garden, Stewardship Exhibits, Kids Park, 14K Run, Coho Swim, Tent-Talks with environmental seminars and Main Stage with The Hot Mammas, Soulmates, Stonebolt and featuring “The Fab Fourever” Beatles tribute band. Free event to raise funds for salmon conservation initiatives and...

Adapted Yoga Kelowna is run by the Cerebral Palsy Association of BC and offers a safe, calm environment for youth and adults over the age of 15 with physical disabilities to practice meditative breathing and movement. Please note that participants who may require substantial physical or behavioral support may be asked to attend alongside a...

Dance Without Limits is offered by the Cerebral Palsy Association of BC and provides a safe, active environment for children and youth ages 5-15 with various disabilities to have fun while exploring dance, creative movement and games. Please note that participants who may require substantial physical or behavioral support may be asked to attend alongside...

Join music, dance and shadow puppet master Sutrisno Hartana in hands-on workshops exploring the instruments of Alligator Joy, a bronze gamelan from Central Java. Discover the intricate layering of rhythmic patterns, improvisation and performance rules for each instrument to create ensemble-based music of infinite depth and shimmering beauty. Limited enrollment; to register, email newmusicadmin@front.bc.ca

Treat yourself to a break during this hectic time of year and sit down for Christmas Tea at the museum! Seated at festively decorated tables set amongst the museum’s collections, sip tea, enjoy delicate finger sandwiches and sample decadent desserts. Join in a Christmas sing-along with the dynamic duo of Sally Evans and Molly Boyd,...

Ring in the Lunar New Year at events across Vancouver and Richmond this February! Enjoy a Spring Festival parade through Chinatown full of colour and dance, walk along the lantern-lit paths of Dr. Sun Yet-Sen Garden, and have your fortune told by a feng shui master at the River Rock Casino Resort. Just a few...

The Vancouver Maritime Museum proudly presents Cory Trépanier’s INTO THE ARCTIC Exhibition – Opening January 26, 2018. This exhibit encompasses over 50 Arctic oil paintings and 3 films from Trepanier’s 4 Arctic expeditions to the furthest reaches of the Canadian North. Its wilderness is so remote and untouched that many of its landscapes have never...

Presentation House Theatre (PHT) and Mexico’s famed Marionetas de la Esquina present the Canadian premiere of award-winning playwright Amaranta Leyva’s enchanting puppet show, Sleeping Beauty Dreams, at Presentation House Theatre from January 26 to February 4, 2018. Co-directed by Lourdes Pérez Gay and Kim Selody, Sleeping Beauty Dreams re-imagines the famous princess as an overprotected...

Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, is shaken to her moral core when she suspects that young Father Flynn is having an inappropriate relationship with a male student. A Pulitzer Prize-Winning play that was adapted in to an award-winning film featuring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman, the play explores the delicate tension between perception...

Gallery 7 Theatre presents Doubt, A Parable by John Patrick Shanley Sister Aloysius is shaken to her moral core when she suspects a priest in her school is having an inappropriate relationship with a male student. A Pulitzer Prize winning drama that explores the delicate tension between perception and reality. Runs January 26 & 27,...

In a small town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, there is a bar called Mama Nadi’s. As a vicious civil war drags on, young women find their way to Mama’s, and to safety – of a kind. Nadi both protects and profits off the bodies of women who have become casualties of violence, ensuring...

The Firehall Arts Centre is proud to produce and present the Canadian premiere of Australian playwright Patricia Cornelius’ provocative play SHIT from Saturday, January 27 to Saturday, February 10, 2018. Named Australia’s most unapologetic playwright, Cornelius’ SHIT examines the lives of three incarcerated underclass women in a manner unseen on most theatre stages. SHIT asks...

Exhibition: Feb 2-10 Opening: Feb 1, 7pm Performance: Feb 8, 8pm Composer Juliet Palmer transports listeners into the acoustic poetry of the body’s interior in her new performance installation Inside Us. Vocal soundscape combines with diagnostic ultrasound recordings, giving voice to the rhythms of the circulatory and respiratory systems. Attentive listening dissolves notions of scale...

Align Entertainment presents the romantic & hilarious Broadway hit, Legally Blonde, the musical adaption of the 2001 blockbuster film, Feb. 2 – 17, 2018 at the Michael J Fox Theatre. Join a fabulous cast of local theatre luminaries in this bright and boisterous celebration of beauty that embraces brains. Nominated for seven Tony Awards, Legally...

A fun-filled eating contest organized by the Edmonton Chinatown Multicultural Centre during their Lunar New Year Extravaganza 2018 at the Mayfield Toyota Ice Palace at West Edmonton Mall. We are aiming to introduce the traditional Chinese Festive foods and snacks of Lunar New Year to Edmontonians and to promote the value of precious resources of...

Age-old entertainments —sitting around the fire, telling tales— can take on ever-new faces. Young acoustic power trio Ten Strings and a Goat Skin from Canada’s Prince Edward Isle know this, transforming tradition with vigour, curiosity, and sparks of goofy humour. They’re inviting a new circle of listeners Auprès du Poêle (“around the woodstove”; released June...

Treat your beloved to our special Romance Week (February 6 -14) featuring three hilarious new shows, Love Unscripted(an improvised rom-com), Love Matches (classic TheatreSports with a romantic twist), and Red Hot Improv (xxx-rated hilarity). ‘Climaxing’ in a special event on February 14th – My Funny Valentine, hosted by Cupid himself.

Treat your beloved to our special Romance Week (February 6 -14) featuring three hilarious new shows, Love Unscripted(an improvised rom-com), Love Matches (classic TheatreSports with a romantic twist), and Red Hot Improv (xxx-rated hilarity). ‘Climaxing’ in a special event on February 14th – My Funny Valentine, hosted by Cupid himself.

The House of Yes exists somewhere between “Long Day’s Journey into Night” and “The Addams Family.” This dark comedy follows a damaged family when the introduction of a stranger forces its secrets to crawl into the light. Starring Tom Belding, Missy Cross, Marc LeBlanc, Mattie Shisko and Savonna Spracklin. Directed by Matt Fentiman. “…A fascinating...

Beware the Jabberwock! Such is the frantic warning inscribed to us in the strange and ancient poem known as Jabberwocky… but what monster does it actually mean? Join us on the journey of a young male hare – weighed down by the pressure to grow up and slay the Jabberwock, whatever that may be. Is...

As most of us are realizing more deeply, we are living in challenging times. We see the effects of climate change, violence around the world and displacement of families and populations due to political chaos and war. We hear of ever hardening points of view, human rights abuses and discrimination. We long to find ways...

Shopping malls become a portal into surreal worlds that carry the nuanced stories of loss and resilience from the Chinese diaspora. This multimedia performance investigates malls as racialized spaces of cultural creation and clash where fashion, food, and commodity tether communities to a vital sense of home. Ground-breaking Vancouver interdisciplinary artists collaborate with Governor General’s...

Zee Zee Theatre presents the 10th anniversary remount of the heartrending one-man show My Funny Valentine, February 7 – 18, 2018 at The Dance Centre. Hailed as “exceptionally beautiful” (Vancouver Courier), this Jessie-nominated work was written in response to the tragic 2008 murder of Lawrence King, a 15-year-old shot by his male classmate after asking him...