This Family Day weekend, the second BIG BANG Festival returns to the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre, for another day filled with musical adventures for young audiences. While BIG BANG Festival welcomes children from 5 years of age, this is no ordinary kids’ event. Founded in Belgium by Zonzo Compagnie 2010 and growing to nineteen cities around…
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The 41st JCC Jewish Book Festival connects Community & Authors
The 41st JCC Jewish Book Festival once again brings the community together with fascinating writers from across Canada, USA, Australia and Israel, February 21 to 26. Ahead of the Festival, the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver welcomes to pre-fest events; Open, Sesame!with cookbook author Rachel Simons on February 8 and Photography: Witness in Our Community…
Picks of the Week – January 14, 2026
Hard to believe the new year is already two weeks old, and we’re fully racing into another year full of fantastically, entertaining picks. Lights: Continuing to illuminate the dark winter nights, one of Metro Vancouver’s largest festive light displays, Lights at Lafarge keeps the illuminations on at Coquitlam’s Town Centre Park until February 16th. Bard: January…
2026 Advance Theatre Festival returns to the Shadbolt Centre for Arts
Burnaby’s Shadbolt Centre for the Arts once again welcomes the Advance Theatre Festival January 26 to 30. Co-presented by Ruby Slippers Theatre, the Shadbolt and Playwrights Guild of Canada, the innovative and inspiring festival, presents five new staged readings over five days all written and directed by female identifying and gender non-conforming artists who also…
Carousel Theatre for Young People brings its 1st Family Forward Festival to Family Day Weekend
This Family Day long weekend just got more fun as Carousel Theatre for Young People presents its 1st Annual Family Forward Festival. Families of all kinds are invited to gather on Granville Island from Saturday, February 14 to Monday, February 16 for a weekend of by-donation events, plays, documentaries, live music, drag, storytelling and dance parties,…
TINA: The Tina Turner Musical Lights Up The Victoria Stage
There’s only one and will ever be only one Tina Turner but TINA: The Tina Turner Musical, now playing at Victoria’s Royal Theatre, introduces the audience to the two women embodying the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Packed with hits, the jukebox musical, directed by Phyllida Lloyd with book by Katori Hall, Frank Ketelaar, and Kees Prins,…
The 8th Annual Matriarchs Uprising Festival celebrates dance by Indigenous Women
In partnership with The Dance Centre, O.Dela Arts presents the eighth annual Matriarchs Uprising Festival, February 16 to 21. The celebration of contemporary dance by Indigenous women from Canada and Australia, offers unique programs of live performance, along with artist-lead Talking Truths circle conversations, dance masterclasses, community workshops and the IndigiDance on Screen film series. Once again curated…