A big weekend is looming with many making plans for St Valentine’s Day and Family Day, good thing there’s plenty to do in these picks of the week
Chocolate: Wrapping up Friday, the 15th Annual Hot Chocolate Festival brings the warmth of a flavourful cup of cocoa from 80+ vendors from White Rock to Whistler
Farce: Until February 15th, Metro Theatre presents Sinners, a rarely produced, delightful farce by Canada’s most-produced playwright, Norm Foster
Lafarge: Brighten up these cold, dark nights with Metro Vancouver’s largest free Winter light display, Coquitlam’s Lights at Lafarge with a glowing 1.2km trail around the lake continuing to be illuminated until late February.
Swashbuckle: Alexander Dumas’ The Three Musketeers swashbuckling good time of swords, romance and comedy comes to a close this Sunday, February 16, at the Arts Club Theatre Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage
Trust: Opening tonight, The Arts Club Granville Island Stage presentation of the Pulitzer Prize Winning Primary Trust, runs until March 2nd
Opera: Take off with Vancouver Opera’s production of Jonathan Dove’s Flight with two more performances February 13 and February 16
Jazz: The Shadbolt Centre for Performing Arts with Cellar Jazz present Valentine’s Jazz Evening with The Vancouver Jazz Orchestra playing the music of Dave Robbins Happy Faces on Friday February 14 in the Studio Theatre
Bolt: The Shadbolt Centre for Performing Arts with Cellar Jazz present the 5th Jazz at the Bolt, an annual Burnaby treasure is music festival that celebrates diversity, community, and jazz music.
Granny: Ruby Slippers Theatre presents The World Premiere of Grandma. Gangsta. Guerrilla. a hilarious and heartwarming tale by Abi Padilla at Presentation House Theatre February 13-16
Sweats: Thursday, Rogers Arena welcomes Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats with support from Charley Crockett to the stage
Singers: February 15th, The Anvil Theatre presents an evening with Juno Award-winning, multi-nominee singer, songwriter and speaker Kellylee Evans. with opening support by two-time Western Canadian award-winning singer, songwriter Krystle Dos Santos.
Concerts: Brightening up the winter nights, take in the sounds of Early Music Vancouver’s 2nd LUMEN Festival, a mini-festival of three concerts across the city between, February 14-16, 2025.
Women: The Firehall Arts Centre brings a slice of Canadiana to the stage with its presentation of Frances Koncan’s Women of the Fur Trade until February 23rd.
Wonderful: The Cultch is presenting the Vancouver Premiere of Ronnie Burkett’s Wonderful Joe, the renowned puppeteer takes audiences to another realm fully populated by a colourful community of characters, at the Historic Theatre until February 23rd.
Sounds: Music on Main and Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre welcomes The BIG BANG Festival, an adventurous music and sound festival for young audiences February 16th at The Roundhouse
Games: Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025, continues bringing together up to 550 competitors from up to 25 nations to compete in adaptive sports, including winter sports for the first time. The Closing Ceremonies take place Sunday February 16 with performers, Barenaked Ladies, Jelly Roll, War and Treaty.
Love: The Improv Centre on Granville Island is warming up for LOVE MONTH with Single, Not Single on Friday’s and Saturday’s throughout the month in addition to a host of other hilarious, heartwarming improv games and shows.
Aging: Until June 1st, MONOVA: Museum & Archives of North Vancouver presents the Feature Exhibit, Echoes of Memory: Featuring A Crow A Day, weaving together untold stories of aging, memory loss & dementia, and the power of community on our collective human experience
Canadian: On display until May 18, Griffin Art Projects presents a new group exhibition, Seriously? Comedy and Satire in Canadian Art 1970s–Now, the exhibition is guest curated by Melissa E. Feldman, the groundbreaking show challenges traditional perceptions of Canadian contemporary art.
Installation: Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre and Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art present The Biting School and battery opera’s TechniCowlour, an installation and performance exploring the intersections of mythology, memory, and sensory experience at Centre A, at 205-268 Keefer Street until March 15
Haida: Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents the Vancouver premiere of the retrospective exhibition Kihl ‘Yahda Christian White: Master Haida Artist from February 1, 2025 – February 1, 2026.