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The Midlife Symposium returns Saturday, October 17th. An inspiring afternoon of expert-led conversations, evidence-based education, wellness experiences, and meaningful connection, all designed with women in midlife in mind. This year, you’ll also be able to choose the breakout sessions that matter most to you and create your own symposium experience. Best
Join us for an intimate early evening of 8½ curious snacks, 10 strangers and a long table full of conversation. We’ll taste some surprises and sample a few familiar favourites. You may question what exactly is a snack along the way. Snacks included (obvs) but no snack expertise needed. Curiosity
Ashdale Gallery presents Love is Love, an exhibition celebrating the extraordinary multi-decade career and visionary practice of Two-Spirit Plains Cree artist George Littlechild. Love is Love offers a powerful window into a lifetime dedicated to reclamation, storytelling, and visual resistance. A Sixties Scoop survivor who painstakingly scoured national archives to
Stand-up comedy meets Polynesian dance at Ohana Comedy Show! Ohana Comedy Show brings together hilarious stand-up comedy and vibrant Polynesian dance performances for a one-of-a-kind night of live entertainment at China Cloud Studios. Hosted by Yumi Nagashima (Just For Laughs, Comedy Central, CBC’s The Debaters), the October lineup features headliner
The Firehall Arts Centre presents Hideki Noda’s Red Demon, October 8–18, 2026, directed by Mayumi Yoshida and produced by rice & beans theatre and Gokko Creative Society. This darkly funny, thought-provoking play follows a mysterious outsider who washes ashore and is feared by a community unable to understand him. With
The team: four brilliant thieves—the conman, the hacker, the cat burglar, the muscle—and the mastermind who brought them together. The target: a multimillion-dollar ruby. The plan: orchestrate the perfect crime. But when the job goes awry, will a daring second-chance scheme put them back on top? As the stakes rise,
A Comedy Show Funeral for Embarrassing Stories Are you ready for an eerily hilarious night of second-hand embarrassment? Hear true cringeworthy tales from stand-up comedians that are then distilled down by improv comedians. Finally, our death doula will complete the ritual to lay these stories to rest--never to haunt the
Everyone knows the story: a vampiric count, a kidnapped young lady, and a brave hero to save the day. But this time around, the hero’s a coward, the lady yearns for adventure, and the count is…a cake-baking dreamboat? This Dracu-larious adaptation of the gothic classic gleefully turns the tale on
Climb BC Place stands with WWF-Canada on October 24th and be part of something spectacular! You can register to climb as an individual or with a team of friends, family, colleagues, or fellow students. Choose the single bowl (~3,000 steps up and down) or round the stadium twice with the
Join us ahead of Halloween for a special spooky guided tour of Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form, led by Education and Public Programs Manager Rosalie Gunawan. Discover the comic artists across Asia who bring the supernatural to life, and explore how mystical beasts, legendary creatures, and folklore ghosts
It's tiiiiiiiimmeeee! For Spooky Postcard Show's return! Watch out for all those spooky, creepy, crawly, and haunting nightmares that come out to play! Spooky Postcard Show 3 features 50 artists and their postcard-sized artworks of what’s been haunting them! Oh wait, we've also got our Tiny Haunts section, featuring super
Under the direction of Isabel Leong, Vancouver’s Ghibli Jazz Orchestra is composed of 18 musicians who combine their love of Studio Ghibli films & video games with a deep reverence of the big bands of the 1940s. Their repertoire consists of compositions by Joe Hisaishi featured in Studio Ghibli films