Happy May Day! Whether you’re dancing around the Maypole or celebrating worker and labour movements to celebrate the start of the month, there’s plenty to do to keep you entertained this week.
Youth: Some Assembly Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of I Know Your Secret written & directed by Valerie Methot in collaboration with Diverse Metro Vancouver Youth and Artists running May 1 – 4 at Roundhouse Performance Centre
Kicks: Vancouver Whitecaps FC will celebrates its 50th anniversary with a match against Austin FC on Saturday May 4 at BC Place
Sexy: Vancouver playwright Michele Riml’s Sexy Laundry continues to bring its hilarious bedroom antics to the Arts Club Theatre Granville Island stage until May 12th
Pops: Do some time travelling back to the Roaring Twenties as The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Pops presents Prohibition – The Music of Moulin Rouge, Boardwalk Empire and more!
Strings: The acoustic chamber folk group, Raine Hamilton String Trio performs at the Anvil Theatre, in New Westminster, Saturday, May 4.
Jazz: The Shadbolt Centre’s James Cowan Theatre welcomes incomparable vocal jazz performer Emilie-Claire Barlow and her band playing tunes from the American Songbook on Friday May 3rd
Rap: Tonight at Rogers Arena, 21 Savage brings his American Dream Tour to town with support from Nardo Wick, and 21 Lil Harold.
Rock: The legendary Pearl Jam brings its Dark Matter World Tour to Rogers Arena for two shows, May 4 and 6 supported by Deep Sea Diver
Market: The 2024 Richmond Night Market, North America’s Largest Night Market, themed ‘Summer Sweet Dragon’ join hundreds of vendors, just one block from Bridgeport SkyTrain Station is open each weekend at until October 14
Nanny: Practically perfect in every way, the Royal City Musical Theatre’s production of Mary Poppins flies into the Massey Theatre until May 12.
Opera: There’s just three mores chances with a few tickets left, to catch Vancouver Opera‘s sensational and most successful production of Bizet’s Carmen on May 2, 4 and 5 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Moonlight: Metro Theatre brings its 2024 season to a close with Moonlight & Magnolias on until May 18 – taking a comical look behind the scenes at the development of classic film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind
Taco: Vancouver Foodster’s 11th Annual Vancouver Best Taco Challenge is off and running until May 26, 2024 at restaurants and food trucks all over Metro Vancouver, visit, taste and vote for your favourite.
Femme: The Cultch’s Femme Festival continues the world premiere of Neworld Theatre’s Fat Joke, by Cheyenne Rouleau, in association with Rumble Theatre, until May 5 at the Vancity Culture Lab. Joining the festival this week, three generations of Filipino women hop between an ocean and time, memory and dreams in Urban Ink’s world premiere of Homecoming,
Dance: At The Annex on Thursday, Time Will Tell Arts Society, presents the Naadaleela Ensemble’s “The Last Dance”, with music composed by Amir Eslami featuring choreographers/dancers Fereshteh Zakeri (Iran), Ashvini Sundaram (India), and Chengxin Wei (China) fusing Persian, Indian, Taiwanese, and Chinese traditional music and dance
Riot: Part of Capture Festival, Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia, a survey exhibition of the feminist art collective, at The Polygon Gallery running until June 2, 2024.
Comedy: Pi Theatre’s Provocateurs Series, present Pi’s Phucking Phunny Celebration of Comedy on Saturday, May 4 at Little Mountain Gallery in Gastown. An evening of three parts; early stand-up shows, curated and hosted by local comedian and actor Kwasi Thomas. Ryan Williams headlines a feature show with support from Gavin Clarkson and Katie-Ellen Humphries. Then a late-night improv show curated and hosted by Vancouver-based actor, improvisor, musician and playwright Jeff Gladstone, featuring Tightrope Impro Theatre.
Blooms: The first ever Harrison Tulip Festival is now blooming, bringing the biggest and most beautiful bounty of bulbs to the Fraser Valley, until May 5th
Heritage: Odd Meridian Arts’ 2nd ahmm (Asian Heritage Month at Morrow) festival, running May 1-31, makes its mark with a series of intimate events at Odd Meridian’s cultural space, Morrow
Docs: DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Western Canada’s largest documentary film festival, returns for its 23rd edition, screening May 2 to 12, 2024.