The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC and Musqueam present the 5th annual Come Toward the Fire Festival, a celebration of Indigenous cultures, creativity, and community. Running September 18 to 20 at the Chan Centre and venues across the UBC campus, on the unceded Musqueam territory Named BC Live’s 2025 Festival of the Year, this year’s festival is the…
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Ahoy! The 23rd Annual Richmond Maritime Festival Sails Back to Steveston.
The City of Richmond welcomes the 23rd Annual Richmond Maritime Festival back to the Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site, August 22–23. The family-friendly festival highlights the rich maritime legacy of Steveston through two-days of nautical-themed activities, workshops, puppet shows, and music. With water being focal point of Steveston’s history the festival brings out an array of beautifully…
Picks of the Week – August 5, 2026
As we move into August and roll toward the peak of summer entertainment, there’s more picks of the week on deck Drinks: From August 6 to 30, Vancouver Foodster Ice Summer Drink Challenge helps you chill out through the peak of the season as participating cafes are mixing up their best iced summer drinks to complete for…
Chill Out with Vancouver Foodster Iced Summer Drink Challenge from August 6-30
When summer warms up, drinks cool down! From August 6 to 30, Vancouver Foodster Ice Summer Drink Challenge arrives to help you chill out over the peak of the season. Throughout August participating cafes are mixing up their best iced summer drinks to complete for the title of Vancouver Foodster’s Best Summer Drink. No matter which…
Picks of the Week – July 29, 2026
Somehow, in the blink of an eye, the August BC-Day Long Weekend is upon us, bringing with it a host of entertaining picks to full your weekend Pyrotechnics: A long-time Vancouver summer tradition is back, albeit in a new abbreviated format, with Summer Lights in English Bay, a free, one-night fireworks event taking place on…
Provence Marinaside’s Annual Tomato Festival Celebrates the Flavour of Summer
Spain has the famed La Tomatina festival, New Orleans has the Creole Tomato Festival and Vancouver has its annual Tomato Festival at Provence Marinaside to celebrate the plump, juicy fruit. August is peak tomato season in BC, a time when the vibrant, flavour-packed produce is primed for every plate. Fresh-picked from the vine, sliced…
Bard on the Beach Launches Late Night Levity with Bard After Dark in August
While the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival season continues with Merry Wives of Windsor and Macbeth on the BMO Mainstage and Antigone and Goblin: Oedipus on the Douglas Campbell Theatre, in Senákw/Vanier Park. Now, something new joins the Season, as Bard After Dark enters the Douglas Campbell Theatre, with four performances on August 7, 14, 21, and…