Happy New Year! We’ve made it to 2025!
Many of the festive season’s events wrap up this weekend before we begin a new year of new entertaining picks

Trees: Wrapping up today, January 1st, stroll the Canadian Trail West Promenade and North Point of Canada Place beneath the Sails of Light, take in the heritage Woodward’s Windows and the Avenue of Trees at Christmas at Canada Place
Vienna: Start the New Year with The Strauss Symphony of Canada featuring the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for Salute to Vienna New Year’s Concert, full of timeless music, dazzling costumes, and breathtaking dancing!
St Paul’s: Shining until January 3rd, the annual Lights Of Hope campaign bringing in much needed funds for the hospital. Stroll past, enjoy the lights, donate to Lights of Hope, Sponsor a Star, or purchase a Hope at Home Star.
Heritage: Until January 3, 2025, Burnaby Village Museum brings history to life with Heritage Christmas welcoming guests to wander the museum’s 10 acre venue taking in all the seasonal entertainment, demonstrations and activities, and traditional lights and decorations, stop to grab a bite at the new Mai’s Café
Captive: Something new to continue the festive season, The Royal Canadian Theatre Company’s annual holiday pantomime, Knotted: Rapunzel’s Story, comes to Massey Theatre January 3rd to 5th
Pucks: Rogers Arena starts the year with the Vancouver Canucks welcoming Nashville Predators on Friday January 3rd
Orphan: Gateway Theatre presents the Ovation Award Nominated Lionel Bart’s Oliver!, the award-winning musical adaptation of the classic Dickens novel, is on the Gateway Mainstage until January 4th
Bright: Until January 4, Bright Nights in Stanley Park remains open by donation to experience millions of lights twinkling throughout the plaza on foot. Food vendors offer selections of comfort food to enjoy as you stroll around the plaza taking a selfie with a firefighter, visit Santa’s workshop and enjoy the live entertainment.
Robin: Beautiful Trout Lake in East Van is the tranquil home to Robin Hood and the Merry-Thems but the dastardly Prince Ken has other plans—privatization! That’s the setting for Theatre Replacement’s East Van Panto: Robin Hood running to January 5, 2025 at The Cultch – York Theatre
Cinders: Laugh, sing, shout along to Metro Theatre’s Cinderella: A Traditional British Pantomime the annual family favourite panto comes to the stage for the 39th edition until January 5, 2025

Cirque: Cirque du Soleil ECHO the new and unique production, continues until January 5, 2025 under the Big Top at Concord Pacific Place
Hollywood: Capture your own Christmas scenes at a unique Hollywood-style film backlot as Martini Town Merry & Bright opens for the season tonight, bringing a winter wonderland straight out of a Hallmark Christmas movie until January 5th
Garden: More than one million lights adorn the magical 15 acre Van Dusen Festival of Lights, until January 5th, stroll along the lake trails to take in the Dancing Lights, wander through themed gardens, and explore the new interactive mycelium installation, and a display inspired by the Great Bear Rainforest of BC.
Lake: Continuing until January 12th, Lights by the Lake – Harrison Hot Springs’ enchanting holiday display transforms the 2km lakefront stroll into a magical world of lights highlighting the local wildlife and the elusive Sasquatch – wondrous weeping Christmas trees and old-fashioned lamp standards grace the village square Plaza, with custom built light displays.
Bridge: Until January 19, 2025, Canyon Lights at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park illuminates the park with hundreds of thousands of lights turn the coastal rainforest into a glittering fantasy forest, that you can walk high above on the transformed Treetops Adventure, and across the twinkling Cliffwalk.
Lafarge: Metro Vancouver’s largest free Christmas light display, Coquitlam’s Lights at Lafarge continues to illuminate the lake until late February, with the 1.2km trail glowing with even more lights, enjoy food vendors, arts activities, live entertainment and performances throughout the season.