Love Month ticks closer to Valentine’s Day, and plenty of opportunities for Date Night activities in the picks of the week. Chocolate: Continuing until February 14, the 13th annual Greater Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival is brewing up and a bigger and better festival than ever, with visions of hot chocolate flavours from cafes, bakeries and eateries to…
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Gateway Theatre Continues Its 2022-2023 Season
After a successful holiday run of its brilliant production of Anne of Green Gables: The Musical, Gateway Theatre has announced remainder of their 2022-2023 season of in-person artistic offerings and new audio plays. To start the year, Gateway Theatre is launching a free audio plays series, A Year of Blessings, where young audiences and their…
Picks of the Week – November 9, 2022
This week, please take a moment to honour the fallen as we highlight Remembrance Day concerts around the region, along with plenty of other picks of the week. Ceremonies: While many November 11th Remembrance Ceremonies are again by invitation, Vancouver’s Victory Square and Victoria’s service at the BC Legislature will be broadcast live on Global…
5 Last-Minute Halloween Treats and Tricks
We have just a week left before the ghosts and ghouls rise for Halloween hauntings, let’s have a look at some spots to scare up some fun in these last few days. Eerie Illusions: Burnaby Village Museum is getting a little spooky for a family-friendly event, with a murder of talking crows, photo-bombing ghouls, ghost…
Spring Into Art with Vancouver Art Gallery Spring Break
With the start of Spring Break, Family-friendly activities abound to keep the kids entertained. This week Vancouver Art Gallery’s Spring Into Art, virtual spring break programming encourages imaginations to run wild until Marc 19th. Each day of the week, the program features a new online artmaking sessions, each one focuses on ways to express…
Welcome Chinese New Year of the Ox with Social Distance
This Friday February 12th, the Chinese New Year festival gets underway as we welcome the Year of the Ox. Celebrating the start of the new year in the traditional Chinese – Lunar Calendars. Beginning with the new moon, the Spring Festival starts with New Year’s Eve and concludes with the Lantern Festival on the 15th…
Discover Shadow Puppetry with Gateway Theatre
Lunar New Year is coming soon, with pandemic restrictions keep us at home, many will be looking for family activities to keep them entertained. Gateway Theatre is using the occasion to celebrate one of the oldest puppetry traditions in the world, Chinese shadow puppetry! With its origins in the Han Dynasty, shadow puppetry remains one of the…