Mid-May with a long weekend ahead, and summer is just a month away, with the picks of the week heating up too
Pucks: Round 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs returns to Rogers Arena as Vancouver Canucks play host to Edmonton Oilers for Game 5 tomorrow evening.
Heritage: Odd Meridian Arts’ 2nd ahmm (Asian Heritage Month at Morrow) festival, running until May 31, makes its mark with a series of intimate events at Odd Meridian’s cultural space, Morrow
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.
Penguin: Carousel Theatre for Young People, Vancouver International Children’s Festival, and Zee Zee Theatre present the world premiere of Vancouver playwright Dave Deveau’s The Papa Penguin Play May 15 to June 2 at Granville Island’s Waterfront Theatre
Play: A true sign of the pending Summer season, Playland opens this weekend and select days in May and June to join in the thrills and excitement
Moonlight: Continuing until May 18th, Metro Theatre season closing show Moonlight & Magnolias takies a comical look behind the scenes at the development of classic film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind
Ignite: From May 13-18, The Cultch’s Youth Panel presents the 23rd IGNITE! Festival, taking over The Cultch’s Historic Theatre and Vancity Culture Lab with youth-led programming and new works from local emerging playwrights and multidisciplinary artists.
VR: Maamawi: Together through the Fire is a deeply immersive and transformative experience that melds Anishinaabe cultural narratives, particularly the 7 Fires prophecies, with cutting-edge digital storytelling techniques; eight in-person audience members are welcomed to an interactive experience, as well as 25 remote online VR users will join in May 17 & 18 at Animatrik Studios in Burnaby, BC
Home: Fresh from its run in The Cultch Femme Festival, Homecoming by Kamila Sediego moves to Evergreen Cultural Centre, from May 14-18, 2024
Reunion: On stage for the first time since meeting in an improv class in 1988, actor/improviser/comedians Rebecca Northan, Roman Danylo and Peter, reunite in the CLASS OF ’88 at Tightrope Theatre for a two-night only, on May 17 and June 8, time-warping audiences back to the rise of 80s music, 80s hair, and classic 80s improv.
Blue: MRG Live presents Canadian singer-songwriter Charlotte Day Wilson’s Cyan Blue Tour at Vogue Theatre May 17th
Music: Egyptian-French multi-instrumentalist, live artist and producer, ASH brings the Self Discovery Tour to the Commodore Ballroom May 18th
Paws: May 18 and 19, based on the Nickelodeon animated preschool series, PAW Patrol Live! “Heroes Unite” is coming to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, already expanded to 5 PAW-some shows
Improv: With a special opening night tomorrow, The Improv Centre on Granville Island takes audiences to Camp What’s-It-Called for its feature summer show on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm
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
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.