It’s Turkey Lurky Time, Thanksgiving is upon is – get ready to get your fill of food, family and friends for the long weekend feastivities and entertainment!
Puppets: There’s just days before Metro Theatre’s production of the hilarious, raunchy, Tony-award winning Avenue Q, comes to a close! Catch the eclectic group of human and puppet neighbours who are all trying to find their way in the world before the curtain closes October 10
Or Fight: Local legends 54-40 makes their annual Thanksgiving visits to the Commodore Ballroom stage for two shows, October 9 and 10
Gravy: It’s another Friday night game for BC Lions as they host Ottawa Redblacks for the 4th annual Gravy Bowl game – arrive early for the Backyard Party starting at 4pm with $5 beers, music from DJ Physik and BC Lions President Duane Vienneau carving a turkey live on the plaza!
Films: Continuing until October 11, the 45th Vancouver International Film Festival fills city cinemas with over 160 film screenings of world class films, documentaries, creatives’ talks, workshops, and much more celebrations of celluloid.
Disney: The House of Mouse comes to Rogers Arena as the Disney Worlds Collide in the Disney Descendants, ZOMBIES & Camp Rock: Worlds Collide Concert Tour
Frights: Open October 9, until November 1, the family-friendly Halloween Spooktacular returns Canyon Frights at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park! Stoll spookily lit trails, experience playful scares and an eerie atmosphere as the park’s rainforest becomes a haunted wood – will you escape!?
Bball: The NBA comes to Rogers Arena as it hosts a game between Toronto Raptors & Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday afternoon at 3:30
KPop: South Korea girl group aespa bring their fourth live tour – Synk: Complaexity – to Rogers Arena in support of their Lemonade album.
Composer: October 8th at Vancouver Playhouse, the Vancouver International Film Festival presents An Evening with Mark Motherbaugh – an unforgettable evening of live music from the prolific film composer, founder and frontman of the legendary rock band DEVO.
Sufi: One of the most beloved voices in Punjabi music, Khan Saab brings an unforgettable night of soulful Sufi music to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on October 9
Deadly: It’s Dinner to Die For at The Improv Centre! Celebrating its 45th anniversary season, Deadly Dinner Party invites audiences to an extravagant feast of deadly laughter at the mansion of an eccentric millionaire – Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm until October 30.
Demon: The Firehall Arts Centre opens its 2026-2027 season with the Canadian premiere of Hideki Noda’s Red Demon from October 8 to 18. Produced by rice & beans theatre and Gokko Creative Society, the darkly funny play highlights humanity’s behaviour in moments of intercultural conflict – when a Spanish speaking Red Demon washed up on the shore of a Japanese-speaking village.
Thieves: Until October 18, on the Stanley BFL CANADA stage, The Arts Club Theatre Company presents the brilliant BC Premiere of Arun Lakra’ Heist, a spectacular, cinematic-style, crime-thriller delivering a truly unique theatre experience to audiences that you won’t want to miss.
Debut: The Cultch 53rd season is underway with Max Wolf Friedlich’s critically acclaimed play JOB, The Cultch’s Historic Theatre until October 11, with a new staging by the renowned Vancouver theatre company, The Search Party.
Gala: The 2026 Vancouver International Music Festival Gala Concert & Awards Ceremony takes place at The Orpheum on October 11, bringing together outstanding young musicians for an afternoon celebrating musical excellence, cultural diversity, and the next generation of artistic talent.
Local: Vancouver Farmers’ Markets continue to the end of October, bringing farm fresh bounty from local growers and makers, on Wednesdays Downtown at the Art Gallery, Thursdays at Olympic Village, Saturdays at Riley Park, Trout Lake & West End, and Sundays at Mount Pleasant & Kitsilano
Pet: On stage until October 18 at the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island, Dogfight: The Musical, the inaugural production from JBM Theatre tdhe newly launched musical theatre co-operative is dedicated to showcasing the Lower Mainland’s exceptional artistic talents.
Zombie: Witness the world premiere of Vascular Necrosis, by Jordyn Woods at The NEST Theatre from October 7-18. Five years after rising from the dead as a flesh-eating zombie, Penelope now, with the help of “de-necrotizers” – medication designed to suppress her zombie instincts — has been given a second chance to rejoin the living.
Feeling: October 8th, Toronto-based MICO’s Running From A Feeling Tour makes a stop at The Vogue Theatre.
Comedy: Catch laughs and South Asian stand-up comedian Gaurav Kapoor Live at Vogue Theatre on Sunday October 11th
Robes: Just a few more days are left to view the Museum of Anthropology at UBC’s I Use My Haida Eyes: The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson, on display in the Audain Gallery until October 12.
Sculpture: Until October 18, The Polygon Gallery shows James Harry: Eye Of The Ancestor – a
new sculpture by James Harry marking The Polygon Gallery’s seventh collaboration and co-commission with Burrard Arts Foundation. Eye of the Ancestor is a striking yellow cedar wooden sphere, carved with Coast Salish designs on the surface and holding a mirror-polished steel sphere inside.
Photography: Also at The Polygon Gallery, one of Canada’s most influential photographers, Greg Girard, is featured in the first-ever survey of his work, only on view until October 25.
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