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,…
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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…
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…
Discover ENEMY LINES at Firehall Arts Centre until May 9
Opening last night, May 8, Mayumi Lashbrook’s Enemy Lines brings down the curtain on Firehall Arts Centre’s season with just three more performances, Thursday, Friday and Saturday night at 7:30pm The performance mixes dance and multi-media, with a biographical look back at the trials and trauma of her Japanese immigrant great-grandmother Tsuyako Sumioka’s early life…
Picks of the Week – May 6, 2026
If you weren’t celebrating Cinco de Mayo too hard yesterday, there’s plenty of activities and entertainment to keep moving through these picks of the week Princess: Carousel Theatre for Young People presents Western Canadian Premiere of a new adaptation of The Paper Bag Princess, by Alissa Watson, based on Robert Munsch and directed by Kathleen Duborg, at the Waterfront Theatre…
Michelle Leone Huisman turns waste into art with new exhibition – Vapes & Butts
This week, Gallery 881 welcomes a new exhibition, Vapes & Butts, from acclaimed Vancouver-based photographer Michelle Leone Huisman. On display May 6 to June 6, Vapes & Butts, is a compelling new body of work that transforms the discarded remnants of contemporary life into images of haunting beauty and permanence. Made up of 22 richly layered, lysergic…