As February moves along we find Lunar New Year festivities filling out the picks of the week.
Chocolate: Keep sipping until February 14th, the 14th Annual Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival continues with over 100 locations offering 160 flavours spanning 10+ neighbourhoods across Greater Vancouver.
Comedy: Best known for its classic 1964 adaptation starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day. Metro Theatre transports you to 1960s with the sweet and silly romcom Send Me No Flowers onstage until February 24th.
Opera: The Vancouver Opera season continues with a dazzling production of Gaetano Donizetti’s classic comic opera, Don Pasquale February 10, 15 & 18 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Dates: Whether it’s a first date, your anniversary, or a night out with your loved one, let The Improv Centre turn your Wednesdays into Date Night with the performers celebrating dating, relationships, and everything between in a night full of laughs about love!
Singles: Friday and Saturday nights throughout February, Single, Not Single, finds The Improv Centre performers exploring the ups and downs of relationships and the lack thereof.
Green: February 8th, Rogers Arena welcomes City And Colour with Nathaniel Ratecliffe & The Night Sweats plus Rudy Waters
Home: The BC Home & Garden Show takes over BC Place Stadium February 8-11 with everything you need for this spring’s renewal projects
Taste of Chinatown: The Vancouver Chinatown Foundation presents Taste of Chinatown, a three-day festival, February 9-11, celebrating the Lunar New Year featuring culinary delights, walking tours, special promotions at merchants around the neighbourhood, illuminating lights and lanterns, and exciting prize draws.
Parade: The 50th anniversary Spring Festival Parade celebrating the Year of the Dragon will be held on February 11, 2024, getting underway at 11am at the Millennium Gate in Chinatown before proceeding along East Pender Street, Gore Street, and concluding at the intersection of Keefer Street and Carrall Street, expect thousands to line the streets to watch the parade festivities.
Choir: Sing the praises until February 25, as the The Arts Club Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, Choir Boy makes a joyful noise in this coming of age story with gospel hymns.
Hop: Anvil Theatre presents Hannah Moscovitch’s multi-awards winning Bunny, Thursday, February 8 to Sunday, February 18, a dive into societal inhibitions, desire, and sex.
Books: Returning for its 39th year, the JCC Jewish Book Festival runs February, 10-15, with events around Metro Vancouver.
Lantern: Lunar Fest 2024 brings craft workshops, arts market, artists talks, Dragon dancing, entertainment, lanterns celebrations pop up all around the city over the next two weekends; February 10-11 and February 17-18, with the LunarFest concert taking place February 13 at The Orpheum Theatre.
Flame: Gateway Theatre in Richmond welcomes The Flame: Lunar New Year Edition for one night only, February 10th, a special performance of the popular storytelling series.
Ballet: Saturday, Canada’s favourite redhead dancer her way on to the Massey Theatre stage in Ballet Jörgen’s Anne of Green Gables the Ballet. The full-length ballet features musical arrangements from Anne of Green Gables – The Musical.
Cohen: Celebrate the legendary musicians works with the audience favourite, Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen continues at Firehall Arts Centre until Sunday, March 3, 2024.
Revenge: At The Cultch Historic Theatre until February 18th, Juliet: A Revenge Comedy finds the famous lovestruck teen stuck in an endless loop of turning a dagger on herself, so she tears herself from the fabric of her tragedy in search of a reason for her untimely demise, along the way, Juliet recruits a team of the Bard’s most famous female characters
Wild: The wild rumpus returns to Presentation House Theatre encouraging the littlest theatregoers and their favourite grown-ups to let their wild side out with Where The Wild Things Are onstage until February 11
Lacrosse: The NLL Vancouver Warriors play host to Saskatchewan Rush at Rogers Arena on February 10th
Gallery: Until May 12th, the Vancouver Art Gallery features the exhibition, Rooted Here: Woven from the Land, a celebration of the profound work of four local Salish weavers. As well, Denyse Thomasos: just beyond, a career retrospective honouring the late Trinidadian-Canadian artist, Denyse Thomasos in on display until March 24th.
Exhibition: Until March 31, Richmond Art Gallery (RAG) presents acclaimed Chinese artist Shen Xin’s first show in Canada: but this is the language we met in…, and a group exhibition Let the real world in, featuring works from an international line up of artists; Kirsten Leenaars, Yaimel López, Zaldívar, Yoshua Okón, and Wapikoni Mobile.
Clutesi: Until January 2025, the Bill Reid Gallery for Northwest Coast Arts celebrates Tseshaht artist George Clutesi’s body of work in a year-long retrospective exhibition