Fests

Programming includes world premieres from Chimerik 似不像 and rice & beans theatre, BOGOTÁ by Andrea Peña & Artists, and beyond

The local artist is appearing at Dance in Vancouver with his latest piece, which requires a new garment to be made for every performance

Annual holiday market to feature textile, ceramic, jewellery, print, apothecary, and homeware goods, plus food and drink vendors

The Cinematheque’s annual screen trip to Europe spans silly, Estonia-set The Invisible Fight, Finland’s unsettling 1980s teen drama Light Light Light, and more

The pilot project means five artists who are unable to open their studios to the public get to participate in the annual arts extravaganza

Linda Suffidy, Tristesse Seeliger, Helen Alex Murray, and Aurora Caher work across mediums to produce works with distinctive style

Three Vancouver artists working in different media talk about finding inspiration in the culinary world

Running December 4 to 8, fest to feature Ben Affleck-helmed Unstoppable, Queer with Daniel Craig and Jason Schwartzman, and September 5 with Peter Sarsgaard

Strength and vulnerability meet in new work inspired by the choreographer-dancers’ mothers and grandmothers

Festival co-curated with The Cultch’s Heather Redfern features the workshop premiere of Payette’s musical On Native Land, plus a new choral composition

Performance at Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival sees artists break away from traditional gendered movements and costumes

This year’s multi-venue show is based on the theme of “green”

Savannah Walling and Terry Hunter, who founded the fest 21 years ago, are handing over the reins after this year

Cabaret-style festival co-curated by Corey Payette and Heather Redfern features an electrifying fusion of theatre, music, drag, circus, and more

La Llorona is an evening of puppetry, music, dance, and a Mexican folk tale

There’s music, dance, theatre, and more in honour of October 31 and November 2

An online Silent Auction and the ever-popular Art Roulette offer vital support to the festival while celebrating Eastside artists

Vancouver Cantonese Opera production at the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival honours the late Wah-Kwan Gwan

Juno Award-winning group weaves doo-wop, R&B, country, and blues with themes of social justice and human dignity

Appearing at Vancouver Writers Fest, the designer talks about a 40-year career that set the stage for today’s explosion of Indigenous fashion

Michael Wex’s uproarious show combines 1930s cabaret songs, original comedy sketches, Yiddish adaptations of international hits, and vaudeville classics

Vancouver Moving Theatre’s 21st-annual fest includes a tribute to Theatre in the Raw’s late artistic director Jay Hamburger, Day of the Dead celebrations, and more

Foodtrucks, music, and a market at the Roundhouse, with additional events in Coquitlam on October 18 and in Surrey on October 20

Tickets are now available for a conversation with bestselling mystery novelist Nita Prose, dramatic readings of songs from film soundtracks, and beyond

Acclaimed multimedia storytelling performance invites locals to respond to the prompt, “Who has power over you and what do you want to say to them?”

Lively, detective-like documentary reveals how Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw and Yup’ik ceremonial masks found their way into the hands of Surrealist masters—and new attempts to repatriate them

At VIFF, she dramatizes ex-boyfriend Chester Brown’s graphic novel about his explorations in hiring sex workers—while still living with the then-VJ

Special programming at several local venues is in place on and around September 30

The Chef & the Daruma gets to the heart of the acclaimed culinary artist’s inspirations

Vancouver Island’s Ari Kinarthy wrote the score and stars in a screening event that memorializes his life