We have have passed spooky season and look ahead to the festive season, in transition we find another exciting selection of great entertainment picks.
Photo: David C Cooper
Heart: The 2026 Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival wraps up this Saturday, November 7, celebrating the city’s east side neighbourhood’s art, culture and community.
Crackers: Until November 14, celebrate the holidays early as Nuncrackers at Metro Theatre welcomes back the Little Sisters of Hoboken (Nunsense) for a holy, jolly holiday variety show with spirited musical numbers, tap-dancing nuns, and plenty of seasonal cheer
Fangs: Sink your fangs into the fabulously funny and camp, Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors scaring up laughs at The Arts Club Theatre Company’s Lindsay Family Stage at Granville Island until November 14
Touring: The Mom’s are back in town! Mom’s the Word: Talkin’ Turkey, the hilarious and heartwarming holiday favourite from the Moms Collective is on tour with The Arts Club, stopping November 5-6 at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
Crawl: Eastside Arts Society celebrates the 30th annual Eastside Culture Crawl Visual Arts, Design & Craft Festival from November 19–22, but before it opens visit the Culture Crawl’s 2026 Preview Exhibition, P.A.R.T.Y. – Pushing Art diRectly To You, from November 5–28 which brings 75 juried artists together under one roof, honouring the resilience, longevity, and evolution of the artists who shape the Eastside’s creative community.
Festival: The 26th Chutzpah! Festival continues until November 15 with an incredible lineup of performances showcasing music, theatre, comedy, dance, and storytelling presentations by local, national and international artists through a multicultural Jewish lens.
Jazzy: English singer-songwriter Sienna Spiro brings her smooth jazz-soul-pop stylings to The Vogue Theatre for a two-night stand, November 4 and 5
Tallest: Friday November 6, Swedish singer-songwriter known as The Tallest Man On Earth plays the Commodore Ballroom with support from Andrea Von Kampen
Cabaret: Friday at The Vogue Theatre, feel The Love Tour: An All-New Countess Cabaret Starring Luann de Lesseps – famed for her run as one of the original Real Housewives of New York.
Movement: November 4-8, The Cultch Historic Theatre stage welcomes the bold, inventive, and original, DIRT, from Montreal’s Tentacle Tribe, known for pushing the boundaries of contemporary dance, fusing hip-hop, breaking, popping, martial arts, and contemporary movement.
Stone: November 7th, The Shadbolt honours Remembrance Day by welcoming Meadows of Stone, a new Canadian musical inspired by true events from WWI, in 1918, when two Canadians, a VAD nurse and a bandmaster meet amid the chaos of World War I.
Rock: November 5 starts off a run of big concerts at Rogers Arena, famed alt-rock act The Smashing Pumpkins bring their The Rats In A Cage Tour featuring two distinct sets celebrating the 30th anniversary of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness as well as nearly 40 years of “unruly hits & dark treasures”
Pop: November 6, Teddy Swims The Ugly Tour brings the artist’s anything but ugly vocals to Rogers Arena, performing with Freak Freely, and supported by Allen Stone and MarcLo
Acapella: November 7, let the festive feelings takes over as Pentatonix Christmas in the City Tour hits Rogers Arena, highlighting hits from their eighth holiday album Christmas in The City
Awards: Today, BC Achievement Awards presents its 18th annual Indigenous Business Award Gala at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, recognizing the eight 2026 award recipients
Kids: The Polygon Gallery hosts KIDS FIRST on the first Saturday and Sunday of the month with a day of art-making and fun with projects geared towards children ranging in age from 5 to 12 years old but welcoming all ages to get creative
90s: White Rock’s Nomad Gallery presents 90’s Mixtape, a new exhibition by Vancouver-based contemporary artist Olivier Salvas, drawing on the colour, energy and cultural memory of the 1990s, with opening reception on November 6, then on display until November 19
Photos: Until March 14, 2027 The Polygon Gallery welcomes Catherine Blackburn + Jeneen Frei Njootli: Traces brings together the the photographic work of Dënes??inë? artist Catherine Blackburn, and Vuntut Gwich’in artist Jeneen Frei Njootli.
Mouth: Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presentsthe world premiere of Every River Has a Mouth: the visual languages that connect us, guest curated by Snuneymuxw artist Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun, on display until February 14, 2027
Climate: On display until March 20, 2027 at The Reach Gallery Museum in Abbotsford –Interglacial, is a stunning new exhibition from Vancouver-based environmental artist and activist Desirée Patterson. The exhibition examines the present moment as a critical point in history, as global climate change puts the future well-being of our planet at risk