Rather than filling stockings with more stuff, why not stuff them with experiences instead! Dine Out Vancouver Festival, Canada’s largest food and drink celebration, returns for its 23rd year with more restaurants than ever before! This season, diners can enjoy 19 days of feasting fun from January 22 to February 9, 2025 featuring the largest…
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Picks of the Week – December 18, 2024
With just one week until Christmas and there’s still plenty of festive activities to entertain in the picks of the week! Orphan: For it’s annual holiday extravaganza, Gateway Theatre presents Lionel Bart’s Oliver!, the award-winning musical adaptation of the classic Dickens novel, is on the Gateway Mainstage until January 4th Sugar Plum: Goh Ballet’s The Nutcracker annual production returns…
Cinderella: A Traditional British Pantomime with a Modern Twist at Metro Theatre
Metro Theatre invites you to the King’s Christmas Ball in Cinderella: A Traditional British Panto until January 5, 2025. For its 39th year, Metro Theatre welcomes the holidays with the can’t-miss family favourite event onstage for another season of screaming, shouting, singing and scenery-chewing hi-jinx. Written and directed by the acclaimed Shel Piercy, with choreography…
Lionel Bart’s Oliver! Steals The Stage at Gateway Theatre
Consider yourself part of the family as Gateway Theatre presents Lionel Bart’s Oliver! The Musical for its annual holiday production! On the mainstage until January 4, 2025, this epic musical fills the Gateway Theatre with it’s scale. Freely adapted from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Lionel Bart created the long running 1960 stage musical and acclaimed…
Six Bakeries To Save Sugar & Sweat With Sweet Seasonal Collections For 2024
Is a flurry of flour in your future? Rushing to get your Christmas baking prepared and ready for the big day can be stressful and time consuming. Save your valuable time and effort and leave the baking to someone else. Vancouver has a whole host of bakeries to help you get your Christmas Cookies, Fruitcakes,…
10 Sporting Events in 2025 To Fill A Fan’s Stocking
The Vancouver sport scene will welcome a few high profile events over the next couple years, while tickets are not yet on sale for the big one – FIFA 2026 – there’s plenty of events to treat your sports fan this Christmas. PWHL Takeover Tour finds Toronto Sceptres VS Montreal Victoire play a neutral-site regular…
Picks of the Week – December 11, 2024
It might take a while for the city to come down from the vibrant buzz of the Eras Tour, there’s still plenty of entertainment in the city to pick from this week. Panto: It’s a beautiful day in Trout Lake for Robin Hood and the Merry-Thems but the dastardly Sheriff has other plans—privatization! That’s the setting…