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Celebrating Vancouver arts, culture, and lifestyle. The best events, restaurants, festivals, visual arts, performing arts, live music, comedy, and more.
It’s 1975 and the Diamond Disco is all abuzz as it’s time for their annual disco-til-you-drop-a-thon. Everyone is ready to boogie to the max to win a MAJOR cash prize…but this disco might be their last! This whodunnit is full of hilarious hijinks inspired by your suggestions. In fact…YOU might
Celebrate Vancouver PRIDE with the Man in the Pink Hat on the Really Gay History Tour! Drag kings, two spirit warriors, and queer church ministers, this walking tour is a celebration of the unsung heroes who forever changed the social fabric of our city. Sundays at 10 a.m. + Extra
You're invited to Rocky Mountain Flatbread for a Family Halloween Dinner. A two-course dinner with lots of spooktacular activities for the kids including A Drinks & Potions Trolley, Halloween Pizza Making, and Face Painting with Living Magic. P.S. Halloween Costumes Very Encouraged!
Join Doaa Magdy, filmmaker and founder of Vancouver’s first BIPOC horror film festival, Horror in Seconds, and Kayla Black, an emerging filmmaker, as they screen footage they have prepared for the upcoming festival and discuss their filmmaking process. You are also encouraged to attend Doaa’s 60 Second Horror Filmmaking workshop
Introducing Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours' latest experience, The Monumental Scandals Tour. Explore downtown Vancouver’s most famous heritage buildings as you discover the scandals that hide behind their walls. 10 a.m. Tues, Thurs, Sat, & Sun. Tickets $29/$32. Visit forbiddenvancouver.ca to book your tickets!
Dare enter Vancouver's Haunted (Brew) Hosue maze through 10,000 sq ft of dark brewery corners creeping with live ghouls, undead brewers, and jump scares that’ll leave you fearing for your life! STRANGE DEAD FELLOWS HAUNTED BREWHOUSE is a spine-tingling experience at Strange Fellows Brewing, taking place from October 27th to 31st. Step
Join BC Achievement Foundation in celebrating the recipients of the 2023 Indigenous Business Award. The spectacular evening will include fine food and wine, live entertainment, and more in celebration of contributions of extraordinary Indigenous businesses and entrepreneurs across BC. By recognizing outstanding people and businesses, the IBA gives voice to
In-theatre and online features, documentaries and shorts show casing select works from South African's film industry. Be sure to catch our opening film Rise: The Story of Siya Kolisi.
Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing: Ways of Being and Seeing is a cultural gathering regarding the impact of human-made environmental destruction on Mother Earth that invites Knowledge Keepers to share stories as activists and academics to bear witness. Let the community hold us all together as we walk towards what climate justice and
Audiences won’t want to miss London-based pianist, composer, and technologist Zubin Kanga when he plays electrifying music by some of the hottest names of the global new music world: Alexander Schubert, Laura Bowler, Luke Nickel, and Zubin Kanga himself. How does a pianist “play the internet”? Alexander Schubert’s WIKI-PIANO.NET is
Witness the forging of new melodic paths with a night of energetic musical discovery. When improvising chamber jazz ensemble and Vancouver-based collective SICK BOSS takes to the stage, it’s sure to leave you inspired. Their Modulus Late Night Concert is the vinyl release event for their second album, BUSINESSLESS, a
Composer Jennifer Butler writes music for the people she loves. She works with quiet and fragile sounds juxtaposed with loud, forceful moments, layered textures, and silence. Her Modulus Festival concert celebrates the release of Butler’s new album, a collection of achingly beautiful music written for – and performed by –