• IDENTICI? Book Launch, Artist Talk, Workshop and Exhibition by Alice Cao

    Lipont Gallery 4211 No. 3 Road, Richmond

    Lipont Gallery is proud to collaborate with Vancouver-based artist Alice Cao to present a series of events celebrating her new wordless picture book, IDENTICI?. This program includes an exhibition, an artist talk, an exhibition, and a hands-on creative workshop designed for art lovers and families alike. Book Signing + Artist

  • Meet the Illustrator – Dawn Lo

    One More Life Gallery 2111 Main St., Vancouver

    One More Life Gallery Presents: Meet the Illustrator, featuring the talented artist and illustrator Dawn Lo. Join us for our next free-to-attend Meet the Illustrator series, featuring illustrator Dawn Lo. This event invites audiences of all ages to experience how art and storytelling come together through picture book illustration, whether

  • Giant Silent Reading Party

    Vancouver Public Library 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

    Are you feeling a little lonely and finding it hard to connect with community in Vancouver? The Vancouver Public Library is hosting a giant silent reading party to get ready for Spring. Our "silent reading party" at the library is a social space where patrons can sit together and read

    Free
  • A Reading of the Play El Terremoto by Christine Quintana

    Vancouver Public Library 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

    Touchstone Theatre and Neworld Theatre present a reading of Christine Quintana's play El Terremoto (directed by Daniela Atiencia). Twenty years have passed since the three Jurado sisters lost their parents, and life just seems to continue on in their East Vancouver home. A birthday party, a failed proposal, and a

    Free
  • Human Library®

    Richmond Public Library 100-7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, Canada

    Join us for our 4th annual Human Library® event and challenge your own prejudices and stereotypes to broaden your understanding. Connect in-person with people who might not normally cross your path. Check out a volunteer Book for 20 minutes to hear about their lived experiences and ask questions.

    Free
  • The Unreliability of Memory: A Writer’s Perspective with Denise Chong

    Chinatown Storytelling Centre - 168 E Pender St. 168 E Pender St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1T5, Vancouver

    Join author Denise Chong, best known for her family memoir, The Concubine’s Children, for a conversation on the writer’s use of the tool of memory: powerful, but also fickle and unreliable. Q&A moderated by Lucie McNeill, former CBC Radio current affairs host in Vancouver, and a freelance journalist in China.

    $15
  • Pretendianism

    Vancouver Public Library 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

    Esteemed novelist Joseph Boyden, acclaimed film director Michelle Latimer and former University of Saskatchewan professor Carrie Bourassa have all made front-page news in recent years for the same reason: each is alleged to have been a “pretendian.” The term “pretendian” has come to refer to someone who claims distant Indigenous

    Free
  • Pelmet and Sables

    Vancouver Public Library 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

    Pelmet and Sables is a play by Cee Peal that is in its early developmental stages of production. Two non-human characters, Pelmet and Sables, cannot die because they are not living, but they keep trying to kill each other on their journey to find out what death is, what life

    Free
  • Vancouver Art Book Fair

    Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver

    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

    Free
  • Gathering Our Breath: A Community Anthology Book Launch

    Museum of Vancouver 1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver, Canada

    On Sunday, May 17, 2025, the community is invited to gather at the Museum of Vancouver for the launch of Gathering Our Breath, a collaborative grief anthology created in the wake of the Lapu Lapu Day tragedy on April 26, 2025. The event runs from 1:00 to 3:30 PM and

    Free
  • The Flash of Fireflies: Writing the Short Story

    Vancouver Public Library 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

    Celebrate short story month with four talented fiction writers, Alix Ohlin, Andrea Routley, Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, and Shashi Bhat, in conversation with local author Jen Currin about the art and craft of this wily and often misunderstood genre. Alix Ohlin's most recent book, the story collection We Want What We

    Free
  • Wearing the Cheongsam

    Chinese Canadian Museum 51 E Pender St, Vancouver

    The cheongsam (Cantonese for “long dress”), or qipao (Mandarin for “banner robe”) is an internationally recognized symbol of Chinese cultural identity and femininity. Originating as a combination of Han and Manchu clothing styles and later influenced by Western fashion, the garment carries layered meanings across generations and diasporas. For Canadian-born

    $15