The May long weekend has come and gone, and unlike parts to the East who experienced snowy long weekends, here on the snowless West Coast it moved us into (unofficial) Summer season Improv: Who couldn’t use a laugh at the end of the work week? Find plenty of guffaws with The Improv Centre’s show Exploration Blank – a rotating,…
Pacific Theatre reveals its All-Canadian 2026/27 Season
Pacific Theatre (PT) has announced its 2026/2027 season, debuting its new home at the Revue Stage on Granville Island with a season of bold and compelling works. The season begins on the road with Pacific Theatre’s first national tour of Ins Choi’s award-winning Son of a Preacherman, which premiered at its long-time former 12th Avenue home stage in April…
Western Gold Theatre presents David French’s Salt-Water Moon
Western Gold Theatre’s production of David French’s Salt-Water Moon opens this week, running May 21 to June 7 at PAL Studio Theatre. The time is 1926, the place, the front porch of a home in the tiny Newfoundland outport of Coley’s Point. It’s a splendid moon-filled night as Mary Snow (played by Dolores Drake), a lovely…
Vancouver International Children’s Festival celebrates its 49th year of live family entertainment
The 49th Annual Vancouver International Children’s Festival returns from May 25 – May 31, bringing Granville Island an exciting week of world-class theatre, music, dance, circus, puppetry and storytelling. The 2026 lineup features 14 professional performing artists from as far-reaching as Italy, Denmark and South Korea. With 80 scheduled performances, The Festival offers families looking to…
Web Summit 2026 Wraps With Big Numbers
As Web Summit Vancouver begins its final day, this year’s success has built of the strong foundations of year one. Web Summit 2026 has welcomed 20,235 attendees, 1,197 startups, and 768 investors from over 100 countries to the Vancouver Convention Centre. The North American edition of Web Summit’s global tech series saw a 13% increase over last year’s investor…
Picks of the Week – May 13, 2026
The Victoria Day May Long Weekend brings the unofficial start to summer in BC bringing along plenty of entertaining picks of the week Summit: The 2nd Web Summit Vancouver is underway, until tomorrow packing the Vancouver Convention Centre with hundreds of organizations, start-ups, investors, with speakers, roundtables, and fireside chats bringing the the latest in…
MOA presents the World Premiere of — I Use My Haida Eyes: The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson
The Museum of Anthropology at UBC (MOA) presents the world premiere of I Use My Haida Eyes: The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson, on display in the Audain Gallery from May 14 to October 12. MOA Curator, Pacific Northwest + Contemporary Indigenous Art –Jordan Wilson (no relation to the artist) curates the exhibition featuring an epic collection of…