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Costumes on, treat bags ready! Bring your little ghosts, superheroes and favourite characters to Willowbrook Shopping Centre for Halloween trick-or-treating on Saturday, October 31, 2026, from 2 to 4 p.m. Start at the Concierge Desk, where the first 1,000 children in costume will receive a complimentary loot bag. Then follow
Spend Halloween with BOOM! Pro Wrestling! We Want Candy! brings costumes, candy and live professional wrestling to East Vancouver. Wear a costume and cheer on a night of big personalities and hard-hitting action, headlined by Amira vs. Brady Malibu & Slamela Anderson in a 2-on-1 handicap match for the Malibu
Celebrate 30 years of the Eastside Culture Crawl at the 2026 Preview Exhibition, P.A.R.T.Y. – Pushing Art diRectly To You, from November 5–28, 2026 at the Eastside Arts Society (716 E. Hastings St). For the first time, 75 juried artists come together under one roof at the Society's own space,
BC Achievement Foundation will celebrate the recipients of the 18th annual Indigenous Business Award at the Indigenous Business Award Gala, on November 4, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver. This year's theme, Looking Forward, celebrates the vision and determination of Indigenous business leaders building a better future for generations to
Presented by The Cultch Produced by Tentacle Tribe (Montreal) Transcending the boundaries between street and contemporary dance in a unique signature, DIRT is a striking piece for five virtuoso performers. Through its raw expression, this creation is a critique of humanity’s conquering relationship with the planet. The quintet mixes puppets
Born in Seoul and raised in Queens, Min Jin Lee is the preeminent author of the Korean diaspora. A masterful storyteller who illuminates the complexities of identity, migration, and belonging with great empathy, her novels have been recognized with some of the highest honours in the literary world. Lee made
Come wander among the pots. This November, the Burnaby Potters’ Guild opens its shelves for our annual Holiday Ceramic Sale, a weekend filled with things made slowly, thoughtfully, and by hand. Come find wobbly little creatures, beautiful vessels, curious forms, favourite mugs, one-of-a-kind treasures, and all the wonderful surprises that
Discover how an invasive plant can be transformed into handmade paper! In this hands-on workshop, you’ll use freshly harvested reed canary grass to make paper pulp from scratch. Learn about the ecology of introduced grasses and how to identify them while exploring the process of cutting, blending, and boiling plant
The Shoe Project is back in Vancouver, sharing the written and spoken voices of immigrant and refugee women. Through a pair of shoes, participants tell personal stories of migration, identity, courage and belonging. Through live storytelling, audiences are invited to listen, connect and experience these powerful stories of life in
Delhi 2 Dublin’s 20th anniversary world tour brings a new age of musical and cultural fusion through Subcontinental Pop, where sounds from across cultures meet in a unified, energizing mix that unites dance floors worldwide.
After hugely successful runs in both Ottawa and Toronto, Pacific Theatre is honoured to bring Ins Choi’s Son of a Preacherman back to Vancouver this fall, running Tuesday, November 10 to Saturday, November 14 at The Revue Stage on Granville Island, before heading to Kamloops’ Sagebrush Theatre from November 18
SIGMA ACAPELLA is a daring original musical that stares down cultural division and stereotypes in a vibrant exploration of our differences, and what brings us together as humans. With the backdrop of a university setting and told through soaring music, SIGMA ACAPELLA tells the story of opposing forces finding common