Celebrate the Year of the Horse at Lansdowne Centre with a lively, family-friendly Lunar New Year event filled with culture, energy, and festive fun for all ages. The celebration opens with a high-energy Dragon Dance, filling the space with festive excitement and auspicious New Year blessings. Join the interactive Fire
The Chinese Canadian Museum in Vancouver is welcoming the Year of the Horse with a two-day Lunar New Year celebration packed with hands-on workshops, live audio theatre, curator tours, and family-friendly activities. The festivities run February 21 and 22 at the museum’s home in the historic Wing Sang Building in
Dancers of Damelahamid presents the 19th annual Coastal Dance Festival, honouring Indigenous stories, song, and dance from across Canada and around the world, on stage March 3, 2026 at the Anvil Centre in New Westminster, and from March 4-8, 2026, at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC in Vancouver.
Entering its 21st year, the Gender Equity in Media Festival (GEMFest), formerly Vancouver International Women in Film Festival (VIWFF), showcases an impressive line-up of short and feature-length films (narrative, documentary, experimental and animation) by established and emerging women and gender diverse filmmakers from around the world.
The Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival is bringing the flavour back to UBC for two delicious midweek days! Enjoy 22 premium food trucks serving everything from street tacos and gourmet burgers to artisan ice cream and global eats — plus shop 20+ local artisan vendors at the BC Shop Local
The Sound of Dragon Society presents the 7th annual Sound of Dragon Music Festival on April 2 to 5, 2026. As Vancouver’s biennial celebration of Asian sounds, the festival redefines Chinese music with ground-breaking cross-cultural programming, presenting Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra (Taiwan), PhoneNX Ensemble (Toronto), 88 Strings, Vancouver Erhu
As part of the 2026 Sound of Dragon Music Festival, Strum, Bow, Roar presents three Vancouver ensembles: 88 Strings, Vancouver Erhu Quartet, and Multicultural Wind Ensemble. While using instruments within the same family, either plucked, bowed, or wind, they bring together musicians and traditions from different cultures. Reflecting Canada’s multicultural
The 2026 Sound of Dragon Festival’s closing concert Encounter: Taiwan/Toronto/Vancouver is planned for Saturday, April 4, at 8:00 pm at The Annex, 823 Seymour Street, Vancouver. This concert brings together visiting musicians from Taiwan’s Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra and Toronto’s PhoeNX Ensemble to collaborate with Vancouver musicians. In addition,
The 2026 Verses Festival of Words is thrilled to return from April 27–May 2, 2026, at Chill X Studio. This year’s theme, Intimate Dialogues, examines how we share connections, consume content, and whisper resilience in the face of global silencing and genocide. The programming focuses on gathering, community, shared learning,
Vancouver Art Book Fair is back this year at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre from May 15–17, 2026. This year’s edition features roughly 80 tables and more than 100 exhibitors, with new participants from across British Columbia and beyond. This year’s program is produced in collaboration with Emily
Head down to Granville Island for the Vancouver International Children’s Festival May 25 to May 31 and enjoy spectacular performances from around the globe for kids and families of all ages! The 2026 Festival will feature circus arts, puppetry, theatre, dance, and music shows plus lots of arts activities created
Dancing on the Edge, recognized as Canada’s longest-running contemporary dance festival, presents its 38th annual festival, featuring a dynamic lineup of established and emerging dancemakers at the Firehall Arts Centre, SFU Woodward’s, and The Dance Centre, on stages June 4 to 13, 2026. Spotlighting a wide range of eclectic world