As we move into November, the transition from Spooky Season to the Holiday Season begins with many entertaining events coming up
Heart: There’s a few more days to catch the 22nd Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, before it closes November 8, themed Dignity in Community, the 2025 Festival honours the everyday and extraordinary ways people in the DTES community care for each other, resist displacement, and make space to belong
Photo: Jan Gates
Music: Music On Main presents four days of great performances with the return of Modulus Festival, from November 7-10 at venues around the city.
Transform: November 6-8 is the first weekend of Urban Ink’s Sixth TRANSFORM Festival presented in collaboration with The Cultch, at Vancouver Playhouse. curated by Urban Ink Artistic Director Corey Payette, it’s the biggest and boldest TRANSFORM Festival yet.
Pucks: Vancouver Canucks take to the ice twice this week, tonight vs Chicago Blackhawks and Saturday vs Columbus Blue Jackets
Longhouse: Wrapping up November 9th the Richmond Art Gallery presents a new solo exhibition by Manuel Axel Strain that celebrates the cedar longhouse as an important architectural form and philosophical framework that reflects the collectivist and relational values of their ancestors and communities.
Effect: November 7- 23, at Progress Lab, Rumble Theatre & ITSAZOO presents The Effect an immersive, fly-on-the-wall co-production from Emmy Award winner Lucy Pebble, taking a look inside a clinical trial where two volunteers test a dopamine-regulating drug under observation; as doses rise and attraction intensifies, the line between authentic feeling and chemical manipulation blurs.
Artists: Following an opening night reception on November 7, the Federation of Canadian Artists Studio on Granville Island presents Art Salon 2025, November 8-9, a group exhibition revives the spirit of the great European art salons, bringing together a selection of Vancouver’s fine art artists who work within the Federation Studios
Tour: Arts Club On Tour visits the Shadbolt Centre for Arts in Burnaby with You Used To Call Me Marie… an epic Métis love tale by playwright Tai Amy Grauman, herself a Métis Cree with ties to Haudenosaunee voyageurs, who shares Callihoo lineage with the subject of the play.
Cold: The Arts Club Theatre Company delivers audiences a holiday gift with the blockbuster Disney’s Frozen; The Broadway Musical now playing until January 4 at the Stanley BFL Canada Stage.
Dance: Sunday, The Shadbolt Centre for Arts welcomes Ballet BC Annex a project led by the junior troupe of Canada’s leading contemporary dance company, bringing professional performances of contemporary dance to BC audiences.
Rock: Thursday night, country-rocker Eric Church’s Free The Machine Tour makes a stop at Rogers Arena with support from Charles Wesley Godwin
Writers: Western Gold Theatre brings Gertrude and Alice to the PAL Studio Theatre, November 5-23, the story sees Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas recount their forty-year relationship; their famous salons where the who’s who of artists gathered, including expatriate writers Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson and Ezra Pound; and Alice’s devotion to Gertrude’s genius.
Country: Saturday and Sunday, The Commodore Ballroom welcomes country singer-songwriter Wyatt Flores with support from Noah Rinker
Glitch: November 7-23 the newly renamed Glitch Theatre (formerly Realwheels Theatre) present its first production, Faye’s Room, a moving exploration of neurodivergent solidarity, intergenerational bonds, and internalized ableism.
Culture: Eastside Arts Society’s Eastside Culture Crawl 2025 Preview Exhibition featuring juried works from 78 artists at Pendulum Gallery, The Cultch Gallery, and Alternative Creations Gallery from November 6-30.
Nuxalk: Ongoing at MOA is the world premiere of Nuxalk Strong: Dancing Down the Eyelashes of the Sun, on display until January 5, 2026.
NDN: Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents the world premiere of NDN Giver, a look at consider how the act of giving is tied to identity, responsibility, resistance, and renewal, curated by the gallery’s Assistant Curator Amelia Rea in her solo curatorial debut, the exhibition runs until January 25, 2026.
Photo: Take a glimpse through the lens of an iconic 20th century photographer as The Polygon Gallery presents Lee Miller: A Photographer at Work (1932–1945) on display from November 7, 2025 to February 1, 2026
Haida: Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents the Vancouver premiere of the retrospective exhibition Kihl ‘Yahda Christian White: Master Haida Artist running until February 1, 2026.
Gallery: The Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum – The Gibson – Simon Fraser University’s new culture hub – features an inaugural group exhibition, Edge Effects, showcasing 15 acclaimed Canadian artists until February 15, 2026
Alien: The Vancouver Art Gallery presents Enemy Alien the first major solo exhibition and retrospective of works by documentary photographer Tamio Wakayama, on display until February 22, 2026,
Transport: MONOVA’s Feature Exhibit ‘Are We There Yet? The Sustainable Transportation Journey’ exploring the ever-evolving landscape of urban transportation in North Vancouver until March 1, 2026