Mother’s Day Weekend and we find plenty of picks to entertain your mum and everyone in the family!
Pucks: Round 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs find Vancouver Canucks playing host to Edmonton Oilers for Game 1 & 2 at Rogers Arena May 8 and 10
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
Femme: The Cultch’s Femme Festival wraps up with an Urban Ink production of Homecoming, the story of three generations of Filipina women hop between an ocean and time, memory and dreams at the Historic Theatre until May 12th
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
Reading: May 9th to 11th, Realwheels Theatre presents three bold and original scripts-in-development as part of their play reading series, Zombies, Mannequins, and Talking Heads.
Dance: The Firehall Arts Centre brings Fujiwara Dance Inventions’ dance-theatre production, Eunoia to the stage from Wednesday, May 8 to Saturday, May 11.
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.
Nanny: Practically perfect in every way, the Royal City Musical Theatre’s production of Mary Poppins flies into the Massey Theatre until May 12.
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
Punk: Canadian Punk Rock legends D.O.A. play the Commodore Ballroom on Saturday May 11th with support from Dead Bob & WAIT//LESS
Ballet: May 9, 10, 11 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Ballet BC presents For Ever, a full evening of premieres choreographed by Artistic Director Medhi Walerski to close out the season.
Docs: The 23rd edition of DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Western Canada’s largest documentary film festival, continues screening around the city until May 12, 2024.
Comedy: Just For Laughs presents Michelle Wolf It’s Great To Be Here tour at the Vogue Theatre on May 10th (postponed from Fall 2023)
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.