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Join Vancouver’s beloved Homecoming Candles for an intimate, hands-on workshop this fall. Over 90 minutes, you’ll learn the basics of fragrance blending, candle pouring, and hand-rolling beeswax tapers, leaving with custom candles to enjoy or gift. A perfect outing for friends, family, or creative team-building. Price: $105 per person Duration:
Let's get inspired by nature's beauty! This upcoming watercolour class will help you get comfortable with your tools, and then you'll practice applying all the skills you've learned to this painting of a winter bouquet. Let's enjoy getting to know one another while we paint away the afternoon! ✔️ Supplies
Mechanics of Music presents the Street Sessions this November — a free, all-ages community music series that turns Downtown New West into a musical gathering place. Each session features the Sound Playground, where visitors can try out guitars, drums, and ukuleles, followed by a Group Ukulele Lesson and an Epic
The Sky Hangar Winter Market transforms a spacious hangar into a holiday wonderland — filled with local makers, food trucks, festive treats, live music, and live tattoos. Family-friendly, dog-friendly, and bursting with holiday magic. $5 entry at the door, or grab a weekend pass exclusively online starting November 1st Come
The Cultch & Urban Ink present: The Mush Hole A theatrical dance performance about Canada’s first Indian residential school, The Mohawk Institute, a.k.a. The Mush Hole. From 1828 to 1970, State and Church systems worked to sever Indigenous children from their families, culture, and language. Through the eyes of two
The Glass City is a groundbreaking public art project in Vancouver that brings together the talents of visual artists. Join us for a mesmerizing public outdoor art exhibition by Painter8 at 1310 Adanac St (near Clark Drive). The Glass City elevates the visibility of Canadian visual artists by showcasing their
Join BC Achievement Foundation in celebrating the recipients of the 2025 Polygon Award in First Nations Art. Enjoy an evening of fine food and wine, inspiring short films sharing each awardee’s creative journey, and the award presentation honouring the creativity and cultural contributions of this year’s artists.
A West Van crew. An East Van gang. One wild holiday romance in the middle of a dance battle and a housing crisis. It’s East Van Panto: West Van Story – where love gets weird and the rent’s still too darn high! When a freak atmospheric tsunami strands West Van
Vancouver's Eastside opens up every November for the city's biggest artist studio tour. Over 500 artists in 70+ buildings across Strathcona, Railtown, and the False Creek Flats invite you into their creative spaces for four days of art, discovery, and direct connection with the people making it. You'll wander through
Eastside Arts Society (EAS) proudly supports the participation of more than 500 artists in its 29th annual Eastside Culture Crawl Visual Arts, Design & Craft Festival from November 20-23, 2025. The festival will welcome visitors into the studios and workshops of Eastside artists in more than 80 registered buildings across
re:Naissance is thrilled to present IndieFest: a performing arts festival reinvigorating traditional forms of storytelling with emerging technologies and experiential productions, taking place from Nov. 20-29 this fall. In its sixth year, IndieFest continues to expand artistic practice and nurture up-and-coming voices, bringing people together across mediums, sectors, and lived
Vancouver-based artist Thomas Anfield has found a perfect mix of tragicomedy, playfulness, and human truth in a subject he’s painted for over twenty years: the beloved Sock Monkey. In his latest exhibition, Sock Monkey Scenarios, Anfield explores the labyrinthine and tangled conditions of being human through these iconic, anthropomorphic figures.