The 16th annual Hot Chocolate Festival is underway now, warming hearts and cups around the region until February 14, 2026. Cafes from Nanaimo to Langley, bake shops from Sea Island to Squamish, bistros from Burkeville to Burquitlam are serving cozy cups of comforting cocoa at over 100 locations in 234 creative variations of the sumptuous hot chocolate….
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Art & Cuisine Pair Perfectly with PuSh Festival and Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2026
Experience a feast for the senses as both Dine Out Vancouver Festival (January 21-February 8) and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (January 22-February 8) begin this week, bringing the city world-class performing arts and a bounty of prix fixe menus. To take advantage of both festivals to make your date nights special, here’s few PuSh Festival performances with nearby…
BIG BANG Festival Comes Back for Family Day Weekend
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…
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,…