District Local | Vancouver Events and Lifestyle
Celebrating Vancouver arts, culture, and lifestyle. The best events, restaurants, festivals, visual arts, performing arts, live music, comedy, and more.
Open Air Atelier is a live art competition and takeover that reimagines Gastown as an open-air art crawl. The event features emerging artists stationed throughout the neighbourhood, each creating original works in real-time while competing for the public’s vote. During these Sundays, visitors can experience art in all its forms,
Support Canadian artists and vendors in a marketplace for the curious, the macabre, and the magical—come explore the extraordinary! Featuring; Regal Beast Restorations Lemenz Nessy Naiad Punk Rock Pastries Pretty Dead Taxidermy Ghostly Vancouver Tours Simply Mean Hexum Designs Pretty But Odd Chrystal Raven Studios Mark of the Valkyrie Nomland
The must-attend show for West Coast Design will return to the Vancouver Convention Centre this September. Join North America's premier design platform, where visionary brands converge with an influential community of 25,000 discerning professionals and design enthusiasts. As Canada's definitive platform for contemporary design excellence, establish influential connections and your
Explore VFS’s state-of-the-art production training centre on September 27! Take the first step in your creative career by touring Vancouver Film School’s animation studios, film sets, green screen room, mocap volume, and more! From our award-winning industry production programs to our part-time online offerings, post-graduate degree options, and scholarship opportunities,
In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn the basics of screen printing, no experience required, just curiosity (and maybe an old shirt that needs a glow-up). We’ll bring the screens and all the gear, featuring Unchai’s designs (5+ designs to chose from). You just bring something you’d love to print on:
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.
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
Explore Yaletown as it becomes a living canvas of light, art, and story with "Sonder: Life in Lights." Inspired by the idea that every passerby has a complex inner life, this free, immersive installation invites you to discover glowing projections that tell subtle stories across the neighborhood's historic streets. Follow
SPACE, a disability arts nonprofit, is putting on a first-ever celebration of stuttering art at the Beaumont! Experience an incredible evening of music, stories, and film, and help us create a Vancouver that listens better to all voices. Featuring: MUSIC FROM LUKE WYLAND - musician who stutters and curator of
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents the world premiere of NDN Giver, from September 17, 2025 – January 25, 2026. Curated by the gallery’s Assistant Curator, member of the Tsiits Git’anee clan, and passionate Haida Nation scholar Amelia Rea in her solo curatorial debut, the exhibition examines reciprocity,
Real home advice from local trusted experts. Newly located at the Vancouver Convention Centre, visitors are invited to get inspired at the BC Home + Garden Show! Kortney Wilson, Home Network TV Host and Designer of Life Is Messy, leads this year’s premier lineup of local and national experts across
One More Life Gallery is starting 2026 off with a group exhibition featuring local Asian artists! This show is to celebrate our identity, culture, arts, heritage, and creativity, however they look and feel for each of us. As You Are: Celebrating Asian Artists at One More Life Gallery 2111 Main