In this powerful display of healing and sovereignty, the Nuxalk Nation demonstrate their resurgence and return to Stl’mstaliwa—the full human experience.
In this powerful display of healing and sovereignty, the Nuxalk Nation demonstrate their resurgence and return to Stl’mstaliwa—the full human experience.
Museum of Anthropology
6393 N.W. Marine Drive
Step into the streets of Vancouver’s Chinatown through the lens of Fred Herzog. Vitality brings together a striking selection of Herzog’s photographs, capturing daily life in Chinatown, Strathcona, and along
Step into the streets of Vancouver’s Chinatown through the lens of Fred Herzog. Vitality brings together a striking selection of Herzog’s photographs, capturing daily life in Chinatown, Strathcona, and along historic Hastings St. from the 1950s to 1970s. Known for his masterful use of Kodachrome colour, Herzog documented the heyday of a neighbourhood in transformation —family-run shops, vibrant street scenes, and quiet moments of resilience and joy.
Each photograph is paired with personal and historical narratives uncovered by the Chinatown Storytelling Centre, adding new layers of meaning to Herzog’s iconic images. Scan QR codes throughout the exhibition to hear firsthand reflections that bring these moments to life.
Blending photography with storytelling, Vitality uncovers the hidden stories behind Herzog’s iconic images, offering a richer, more nuanced view of these historic neighbourhoods. By capturing the vitality, creativity, and resilience of the community during its heyday, this exhibition serves as a powerful reminder of what these neighbourhoods once were—and what they can become again.
Chinatown Storytelling Centre
Monsters in My Head is the first solo presentation in North America of work by Japanese artist Otani Workshop. The exhibition invites visitors into an enchanted dreamworld, where myths, memories
Monsters in My Head is the first solo presentation in North America of work by Japanese artist Otani Workshop. The exhibition invites visitors into an enchanted dreamworld, where myths, memories and materials come together to form a landscape—one that is strange, yet deeply familiar.
Entering the exhibition is like wandering into a forest of the imagination. Ceramic creatures in various scales and forms emerge from earthen mounds, tree stumps and scattered stones. The mazelike installation—constructed from materials foraged from local parks and forests—echoes Otani’s creative process, which transforms natural elements (clay, wood, flora) into figures brimming with presence and personality.
Visitors will encounter works inspired by the Pacific Northwest Coast, made during Otani’s Deer Lake Artist Residency at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in the summer of 2024. Other sculptures—produced in the artist’s studio on Awaji Island, situated on the Seto Inland Sea of Japan—draw on the deep traditions of ceramic-making but are shaped by his own intuitive experimentation. Ranging from human to animal-like figures, Otani’s ceramic works have a raw physicality, with textured and irregular surfaces, while his paintings capture more whimsical and adolescent sentiments of wonder, solitude, longing and hope.
Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby Street
MONOVA is looking at transportation on the North Shore through a historical lens with their latest exhibit: Are We There Yet? How did the early infrastructure decisions of almost a
MONOVA is looking at transportation on the North Shore through a historical lens with their latest exhibit: Are We There Yet? How did the early infrastructure decisions of almost a century ago shape our communities and how we move around today? The exhibit brings together rarely-seen archival materials dating back to the early 20th century, and tells a story of how communities were created on the North Shore, and with new roads and bridges, came more choices about where to live and work.
Museum of North Vancouver
115 Esplanade W, North Vancouver, BC V7M 0G7
Heather Woolley, an environmental designer and artist, finds inspiration in the West Coast’s landscapes. Her work fosters a dialogue between humanity and nature, emphasizing sustainability and community engagement. Central to Heather’s
Heather Woolley, an environmental designer and artist, finds inspiration in the West Coast’s landscapes. Her work fosters a dialogue between humanity and nature, emphasizing sustainability and community engagement.
Central to Heather’s practice is her passion project on rammed earth, where she explores the intersection of material technique, construction art, and sustainability. Through this endeavor, Heather aims to create enduring structures that harmonize with the environment while advocating for responsible building practices. Her goal is to inspire stewardship and sustainability in her viewers, promoting a deeper connection with the natural world.
Since 2011, Choi has been creating traditional Korean folk paintings, drawing inspiration from centuries-old techniques while also infusing them with her own creative expression. She primarily works with Oriental watercolour,
Since 2011, Choi has been creating traditional Korean folk paintings, drawing inspiration from centuries-old techniques while also infusing them with her own creative expression. She primarily works with Oriental watercolour, Mica Powder, and Hanji—a traditional Korean paper handmade from mulberry trees. She occasionally incorporates other traditional materials, such as Bunchae—a traditional Korean powdered pigment made by mixing finely ground natural or mineral pigments with animal glue— and Bongchae— a premium pigment made by mixing powdered pigments with animal glue and hardening the mixture into solid stick form.
The works featured in this exhibition reflect both homage and innovation. While rooted in the forms and motifs of traditional Korean folk painting, Choi’s works are not mere reproductions. Instead, she reinterprets and transforms these traditions, creating original pieces that embody both reverence and personal vision. Her goal is to highlight the enduring beauty and emotional depth of Korean folk art while bringing a fresh perspective that resonates with contemporary audiences.
Choi is particularly drawn to natural themes—peonies, birds, and other elements of the natural world—which are rich symbols in Korean culture.
Each piece is created through a meticulous process that may take up to six months, involving multiple stages: sketching, outlining, and layering of colours. Through this careful craftsmanship, Choi seeks to preserve the traditional while also exploring her own evolving artistic language.
Choi began her artistic journey in community art classes, initially painting as a hobby. Over time, her dedication and talent led her to participate in various competitions and exhibitions.
Experience a three-channel video installation, created by LA based multidisciplinary artist Justen LeRoy that speaks to Black environmentalism, Black resistance, and Black liberation.
Experience a three-channel video installation, created by LA based multidisciplinary artist Justen LeRoy that speaks to Black environmentalism, Black resistance, and Black liberation.
Surrey Art Gallery
13750 88 Ave
The You Are Here exhibit presents the original artwork selected for the 2026 You Are Here Fundraising Calendar. Artists submit artworks of places that are recognizably in North Vancouver or
The You Are Here exhibit presents the original artwork selected for the 2026 You Are Here Fundraising Calendar. Artists submit artworks of places that are recognizably in North Vancouver or West Vancouver. The 2026 You Are Here Calendar features Mount Seymour, Lonsdale Quay, Whytecliff Park, Seaview Trail, Horseshoe Bay, Grand Boulevard, Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve Gazebo, Lighthouse Park, Spirt Trail, Deep Cove and The Shipyards. This calendar is a fundraiser for the North Shore Culture Compass, a free online map featuring arts, heritage, and stories of the North Shore.
North Vancouver District Public Library, Lynn Valley Branch
1277 Lynn Valley Rd
This exhibition marks the solo curatorial debut of BRG’s Assistant Curator, Amelia Rea (Haida). Centered on the act of gift-giving within potlatch traditions, it explores reciprocity and the evolution of this
This exhibition marks the solo curatorial debut of BRG’s Assistant Curator, Amelia Rea (Haida).
Centered on the act of gift-giving within potlatch traditions, it explores reciprocity and the evolution of this practice over time. Featuring work by multiple artists and select pieces from Amelia’s personal collection, the exhibition showcases contemporary potlatch gifts such as prints and mugs, alongside archival records of historical potlatches.
Bill Reid Gallery
639 Hornby Street
What happens when textiles are used as canvas both foreground and background—when softness is not just material, but metaphor? Propellor Studio is proud to present A Soft Geometry, a solo exhibition
What happens when textiles are used as canvas both foreground and background—when softness is not just material, but metaphor?
Propellor Studio is proud to present A Soft Geometry, a solo exhibition by Vancouver-based artist Tristesse Seeliger, on view from September 19 to November 12, 2025.
This new body of work explores the intersection of weaving and contemporary abstraction, where traditional textile techniques are transformed into visual language—both structured and intuitive, deliberate and expressive.
Propellor Studio & Gallery
1247 Cartwright St, V6H 4B7
Revealing over a decade of research and visits with collectors from British Columbia and internationally, The Collectors presents Christos Dikeakos’ photo-portraits of collectors with their collections from
Revealing over a decade of research and visits with collectors from British Columbia and internationally, The Collectors presents Christos Dikeakos’ photo-portraits of collectors with their collections from across the spectrum. Artists, patrons, curators, writers and art lovers alike, these stunning portraits reveal the inside world of collectors and their collections, providing a close view of the relations to the objects that have held their fascination. Working in collaboration with the support of photographer Barrie Jones, these precise and carefully ordered images reveal intimacy, desire and wonder–and bring the collectors, whose efforts support artists, museums, gallerists and arts ecologies and ultimately audiences–from behind-the-scenes into the fore.
Griffin Art Projects
1174 Welch St
Edge Effects features a combination of new commissioned works and projects never before seen by audiences in Canada, such as Liz Magor’s still poignant Blue Students/Alumnos en azul (1997). Originally
Edge Effects features a combination of new commissioned works and projects never before seen by audiences in Canada, such as Liz Magor’s still poignant Blue Students/Alumnos en azul (1997). Originally commissioned by INSITE97, the public project centred on photographic portraits of students from the School of Creative and Performing Arts in San Diego, California, and the Preparatoria Federal Lázaro Cárdenas in Tijuana, Mexico, that were placed throughout both cities. The film negatives were pressed with paper covered in iron salts, which converted into positive blue images as they were exposed to sunlight. By the end of the installation period, only a few portraits had not been completely obscured, with the artist stating that the legibility of the images represented the power of circumstance and chance that governs people’s lives.
Photo credit: Jin-me Yoon, video still from As the Crane Flies Bunker (Sonic Transformations), 2025. 4K and thermal 3-channel video installation with sound, sandbags, netting, and wood. 15:05 minutes, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist.
Gibson Art Museum
Across successive bodies of collage works, Anna Binta Diallo has portrayed complex interconnections between human activity and the natural world. These series began with Wanderings, which analysed folk stories and
Across successive bodies of collage works, Anna Binta Diallo has portrayed complex interconnections between human activity and the natural world. These series began with Wanderings, which analysed folk stories and the tales that structure a society’s perception of the world. Gathering visual material from scientific, literary, and historical sources, Diallo applied a diasporic and cross-cultural approach as she constructed various folkloric motifs and archetypes. Continuing from Wanderings, her Voyageur/Almanac works expanded into ecology, speculating on how different mythologies and folklores across cultures might inform our coexistence with various forms of life, and broaden environmental awareness.
Predictions, the newest iteration of this project, extends Diallo’s work into the study of forecasts – scientific and otherwise. With visual references to geology, earth science, mapping, weather events, and topography, the artist has researched data pertaining to astronomical cycles, calendars, tide tables, and farmer’s almanacs of the past and present. Her latest works ask: What was projected into the future by past peoples? What has come true? What hasn’t? What could?
Diallo envisions her own imaginative set of predictions, proposing infinite loops of imagery that can be re-interpreted multiple times, in different cycles. She integrates nonlinear and even nonverbal storytelling, suggesting both new and ancient notions of narrative formed by images in relation. Through layering flora, fauna, human connection to land, and the cosmos, Diallo imagines speculative paths that our ecological and cultural landscapes might follow, and the unexpected constellations of meaning that can guide us through uncertain times.
The Polygon
101 Carrie Cates Court
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents the world premiere of NDN Giver, from September 17, 2025 – January 25, 2026. Curated by the gallery’s Assistant Curator, member of
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents the world premiere of NDN Giver, from September 17, 2025 – January 25, 2026. Curated by the gallery’s Assistant Curator, member of the Tsiits Git’anee clan, and passionate Haida Nation scholar Amelia Rea in her solo curatorial debut, the exhibition examines reciprocity, identity, and the evolving practice of gift-giving within potlatch traditions. Bringing together contemporary potlatch gifts such as prints and mugs alongside archival records of historical potlatches, NDN Giver features select pieces from Amelia’s personal collection as well as works by artists from communities across the coast, including the Haida and Heiltsuk Nations. For admission information and complete event details, visit: billreidgallery.ca
Bill Reid Gallery
639 Hornby Street
Phantom Scripts revisits three works by Geoffrey Farmer from the Audain Art Museum’s Permanent Collection — Vampire Archive, November 22, 1974 (2010 – 2025), The Politics of Appearing (2012 –
Phantom Scripts revisits three works by Geoffrey Farmer from the Audain Art Museum’s Permanent Collection — Vampire Archive, November 22, 1974 (2010 – 2025), The Politics of Appearing (2012 – 2025), The Good Sweeper (2017 – 2025)— reframing them through newly composed scripts, annotations, and didactic texts authored by the artist. The texts function as interjections — speculative, contextual, poetic — that reexamine and complicate the earlier works. In doing so, Farmer explores how art can be returned to, re-read, and re-situated under shifting historical and ethical awarenesses.
This exhibition is a return — not only to Farmer’s past works, and to the evolving conditions in which they are understood. Phantom Scripts highlights the artist’s curiosity to revisit the assumptions, forms, and the silences embedded in his earlier productions, treating the past not as fixed, but as an unsettled field of interpretation and implication. Early aesthetic elements remain — vivid, disorienting, alive — but are now considered by the artist within a broader awareness of colonial entanglements and queer disidentification, foregrounding the role of the museum not as neutral host, but as a site of complicity, memory, and potential transformation.
Audain Art Museum
4350 Blackcomb Way
Charles Atlas (b. 1949, St. Louis, MO) has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1970s. In 2024, the ICA Boston presented About Time, the first U.S.
Charles Atlas (b. 1949, St. Louis, MO) has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1970s. In 2024, the ICA Boston presented About Time, the first U.S. museum survey devoted to Atlas’ work. Other recent solo exhibitions include The Mathematics of Consciousness, a 100-foot long video installation commissioned by Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (2022); Charles Atlas: Ominous, Glamorous, Momentous, Ridiculous, Fondazione ICA Milano, Italy (2021); and Charles Atlas: The past is here, the futures are coming and The Kitchen Follies, The Kitchen, New York (2018). Atlas’ work is included in the permanent collections of major institutions worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Modern, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich; and De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands. In 2024, Atlas’ archive was acquired by The Getty Research Institute.
Contemporary Art Gallery
555 Nelson Street
For more than ten years now, the paintings of Sojourner Truth Parsons have trafficked in the saturated and sensorial. Plumbing the space between abstraction and legibility, feeling and form, the
For more than ten years now, the paintings of Sojourner Truth Parsons have trafficked in the saturated and sensorial. Plumbing the space between abstraction and legibility, feeling and form, the language of Parsons’ work is an intuitive one. Building depth through accretion, collapsing interior and exterior realms, and traversing a shifting set of references — from the history of dance to the Gee’s Bend quilts of Alabama to her garden in the Catskill Mountains — her paintings give shape to intensities both atmospheric and embodied.
Louise brings together a selection of works produced by the Vancouver-born, New York-based artist over the past several years, surveying the dexterity of her movement between figuration and form and her canvases’ elemental approach to sensation, texture and tone. Titled after the work of poet Louise Glück — known for her decades-long meditation on the illusions and agonies of the self — the exhibition traces the enduring emotional registers, both individual and collective, that occupy Parsons’ time in the studio: desire, loss, isolation, redemption, resurgence.
Contemporary Art Gallery
555 Nelson Street
Kintsugi, the Japanese art of “golden joinery,” is a 500-year-old tradition of repairing broken ceramics with natural Urushi lacquer and powdered gold. Rather than disguising damage, it highlights it—honoring imperfection
Kintsugi, the Japanese art of “golden joinery,” is a 500-year-old tradition of repairing broken ceramics with natural Urushi lacquer and powdered gold. Rather than disguising damage, it highlights it—honoring imperfection and the passage of time.
Vancouver-based artist Naoko Fukumaru draws on this ancient practice as both a craft and a meditative process. Through her work, she offers a powerful metaphor for personal healing: like broken pottery, our cracks can become part of our story—transformed, illuminated, and made beautiful.
Respecting traditional materials and methods, Fukumaru also pushes the boundaries of kintsugi through instinctive, innovative techniques. Her approach redefines what restoration can mean—bridging history and emotion in work that is both raw and radiant.
This exhibition invites viewers to reflect on what it means to be beautifully broken—and to find strength and beauty in the imperfect.
Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Center
6688 Southoaks Crescent, V5E 4M7
The Spaces of the Everyday exhibition came about after a thoughtful conversation with Erin McSavaney in which the role of architecture in painting first drew the curator’s attention to his
The Spaces of the Everyday exhibition came about after a thoughtful conversation with Erin McSavaney in which the role of architecture in painting first drew the curator’s attention to his practice. His depictions of houses and urban architecture offer a visually striking and intellectually provocative intersection of two historically divergent painting modes. McSavaney’s works are rendered with photographic precision—indeed, he uses a camera as a kind of sketchbook—evoking the immersive quality of high realism; meanwhile, at times, hard-edge abstraction takes over the subject matter as scenes are disrupted—sometimes subtly, sometimes boldly. Each of these traditions embodies a distinct discourse of image-making.
West Vancouver Art Museum
680 17th Street, V7V 3T2
Arts Whistler’s latest gallery exhibit celebrates the deep and undeniable attraction of these mountains—the kind of terrain that has inspired obsession for 60 years. From vast alpine bowls to legendary
Arts Whistler’s latest gallery exhibit celebrates the deep and undeniable attraction of these mountains—the kind of terrain that has inspired obsession for 60 years. From vast alpine bowls to legendary couloirs, endless groomers to iconic terrain parks, Whistler Blackcomb’s landscape is unmatched in scale, variety, and raw beauty.
This anniversary exhibit honours six decades of mountain culture, community, and adventure. It traces how these peaks have shaped—and been shaped by—those drawn to them, then, now, and for years to come.
Maury Young Art Centre
4335 Blackcomb Way
Some extraordinary places in nature evoke an immediate, almost spiritual connection. The natural honeycomb sandstone formations known as Tafoni, found along the shorelines of many Gulf Islands in British Columbia,
Some extraordinary places in nature evoke an immediate, almost spiritual connection. The natural honeycomb sandstone formations known as Tafoni, found along the shorelines of many Gulf Islands in British Columbia, are among these places.
Edges is an exhibition featuring the work of five women artists — a painter, a photographer, a potter, a sculptor, and a poet/dancer — from across Canada’s east and west coasts and regions in between. Though coming from different disciplines and backgrounds, each artist has, by chance, encountered the Tafoni formations and found deep inspiration for their creative practices in these erosion-sculpted coastal forms.
Cityscape Community ArtSpace
335 Lonsdale Ave
One More Life Gallery presents Spooky Postcard Show 2! It’s time for all things spooky, creepy, crawly, and hauntingly to come out and play! 🌕🦇🐈⬛👻 Spooky Postcard Show 2 features 50
One More Life Gallery presents Spooky Postcard Show 2! It’s time for all things spooky, creepy, crawly, and hauntingly to come out and play! 🌕🦇🐈⬛👻
Spooky Postcard Show 2 features 50 artists and their postcard-sized artworks of what’s been haunting them! Oh, wait, there are even Tiny Haunts, which are super small but spooky original artworks by our artists, all priced at $25. Show on display until November 15
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Spooky Postcard Show 2 at One More Life Gallery
2111 Main St, Vancouver
Opening Weekend Information
Friday, October 24th – 7 pm – 11 pm
🎃 Opening reception, artists in attendance
🎃 Snack and beverage bar
🎃 Costumes welcome and encouraged
Saturday, October 25th – 12 pm – 5 pm
🎃 Artist market featuring artists from our show!
🎃 Free postcard workshop for kids from 1 pm to 4 pm. Drop in style. While supplies last. Activity hosted by the Post A Letter Social Activity Club
One More Life Gallery
This exhibition highlights a vital current in contemporary artmaking today: the intersection between visual art and dance. Named for the process whereby a body comes into awareness of itself in
This exhibition highlights a vital current in contemporary artmaking today: the intersection between visual art and dance. Named for the process whereby a body comes into awareness of itself in space, Kinesthesia brings together an eclectic gathering of artists and groups whose respective practices acknowledge and celebrate the human body’s many ways of being in movement.
Kinesthesia includes visual artists, choreographers, dance collectives, and other performers from across the worlds of dance and art in Canada. Throughout their respective practices, visitors will experience extraordinary artworks that foreground the unique wisdom of bodily experience. The exhibition includes a vibrant variety of media, including sculpture, painting, textile, photography, film, and virtual reality. Combined, the array of work on display reflects ongoing conversations in the fields of dance and live artmaking, speaking to critical topics such as embodiment, choreography, healing, ritual, performance, and transcendence. Drawn from across the country, selected artists include All Bodies Dance, ĀNANDAM dance theatre, Justine A. Chambers, Fran Chudnoff, Brendan Fernandes, Ronald Li, Tanya Linklater, Lucy M. May, Dana Michel, Maisie O’Brien, Evann Siebens, and Sarah Nash Wong.
In all of their work, these artists, dancers, and performers present powerful models for the ways that a human body can present itself in space, whether as the grieving embodiment of inherited trauma, or the wisdom of healing; as an expression of the ways a body can query the paradigms of public space, and unpack their unspoken logics; as sites for both the enactment and subversion of choreographed movement; or as the presentation of alternative modes of identity. Dance relentlessly proposes and then enacts its own possibilities, in movement.
Along with objects and installations, Kinesthesia features a series of live performance works. These include an excerpt from Montreal-based choreographer Lucy M. May’s The Conditions; a dance battle with Funk’N’Sole Street Dance Society; an interpretation of Toronto-based ĀNANDAM dance theatre’s Ephemeral Artifacts sculptural installation; a staging of Vancouver and Surrey-based Justine A. Chambers’ and Simran Sachar’s Today is the evening to strike lightning / Aaj To Bijiliyan Girane Ki Shaam Hai; and a rendition of Montreal-based live artist Dana Michel’s durational work MIKE. For more details about these performances, visit our Events section.
Surrey Art Gallery
13750 88 Ave
For twenty-two years, the Heart of the City Festival has been grounded in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and focused on listening and learning from the community’s cultural practices. The Festival works
For twenty-two years, the Heart of the City Festival has been grounded in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and focused on listening and learning from the community’s cultural practices. The Festival works with, for, and about the Downtown Eastside community to carry forward our community’s stories, ancestral memory, cultural traditions, lived experiences, and artistic processes to illuminate pathways of resilience.
This year’s Festival invites artists, neighbours, and audiences to reflect on what it means to live with dignity – on unceded land and with each other. Dignity in Community honours the everyday and extraordinary ways people care for each other, resist displacement, and make space to belong. We celebrate the strength and creativity found in our connections and imagine what is possible when dignity is a shared foundation for us all.
The 2025 Festival features over 100 events at over 40 local venues, including music, stories, poetry, theatre, ceremony, films, dance, readings, forums, workshops, discussions, gallery exhibits, art talks, history walks, and more!
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
France is one of the most concentrated places in the world for outsider artists and we want to share some of them with you! This exhibition features 4 self-taught artists that
France is one of the most concentrated places in the world for outsider artists and we want to share some of them with you!
This exhibition features 4 self-taught artists that currently work and live in France. These artists are Anouk Rugueu, Foued Mokrani, Dominique Lemoine and MAÏ.
A love story, a historical epic and a celebration of Métis song and dance, You Used To Call Me Marie… paints the story of Marie Callihoo through generations and time.
A love story, a historical epic and a celebration of Métis song and dance, You Used To Call Me Marie… paints the story of Marie Callihoo through generations and time. We follow Iskwewo, Napew and Mistatim (‘horse’ in Michif) in eight intertwined stories of love and resilience as the Métis nation emerges across the plains. As we experience the love stories of Alberta’s Metis women through the fur trade, governance in the 1930s and into the present day, we witness generations of Callihoo women unfold. You Used To Call Me Marie… is an intimate story that is robust in scope, featuring era-spanning dance and live music that ranges from French fiddle to contemporary country.
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
6450 Deer Lake Avenue
The season opens with TRILOGY, introducing a world premiere from an emerging voice, a poetic revival from the company’s Artistic Director, and the return of a worldwide hit featuring a
The season opens with TRILOGY, introducing a world premiere from an emerging voice, a poetic revival from the company’s Artistic Director, and the return of a worldwide hit featuring a monumental cast. Experience a new creation from Italian choreographer Sofia Nappi, Medhi Walerski’s SWAY, and Shahar Binyamini’s 50-dancer BOLERO X.
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
630 Hamilton St
We who have known tides begins from a poetic inquiry that seeks to understand what it means to exist at the edges of the Pacific Ocean. We who have known
We who have known tides begins from a poetic inquiry that seeks to understand what it means to exist at the edges of the Pacific Ocean. We who have known tides is an examination that unveils the ways in which the ocean and living in proximity to it has shaped the work of Indigenous artists, as well as their relation to territories across land and water, and their connections to communities that have witnessed the tides change for thousands of years. Drawn predominantly from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s permanent collection, this exhibition asks us to consider where we are on a deeper level, looking to the ocean as a way of understanding how this place is ever changing.
Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby Street
The Ocean Film Festival Canada is back in 2025, celebrating 3 incredible years of inspiring, educating, and protecting our oceans. This annual event, which has touched lives
The Ocean Film Festival Canada is back in 2025, celebrating 3 incredible years of inspiring, educating, and protecting our oceans.
This annual event, which has touched lives across 14 countries, will tour Canada starting in April, bringing the captivating beauty of the underwater world to audiences in BC, and soon nationwide.
Centennial Theatre
2300 Lonsdale Ave
The internationally celebrated Modulus Festival returns this November, inviting audiences to experience bold ideas, powerful stories, and genre-defying performances that go beyond traditional concerts. Recognized as one of Canada’s most
The internationally celebrated Modulus Festival returns this November, inviting audiences to experience bold ideas, powerful stories, and genre-defying performances that go beyond traditional concerts. Recognized as one of Canada’s most important new music events, this year’s biennial festival embraces an interdisciplinary approach, combining music, visual arts, immersive installations, and participatory experiences that highlight the vibrancy of Vancouver’s creative community.
From November 7–10, 2025, the festival offers four days of transformative performances, interactive textile crafting sessions, and collaborative projects that encourage audiences to imagine and build the future together. This year, the festival emphasizes connection, co-creation, and reflection, providing both intimate and large-scale experiences for audience members.
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews
This exhibition explores one of the most intense and productive chapters in the professional life of American photographer Lee Miller. Between 1932 and 1945 Miller was simultaneously a renowned portrait
This exhibition explores one of the most intense and productive chapters in the professional life of American photographer Lee Miller. Between 1932 and 1945 Miller was simultaneously a renowned portrait photographer running her own studio in New York (1932—1934), a photographer for perfume and cosmetic brands in advertising (1932—1945), and a fashion photographer and war correspondent for the British edition of Vogue (1939—1945). This short time span encompasses a rich history in which the photographer moved between and linked her various practices. Miller’s diverse professional activities, and the ease with which she stepped from one context to another, reveal a photographer whose work was defined primarily by its exchange and commercial value. Lee Miller: A Photographer at Work reveals the inner dynamics of managing a photography career amid the myriad challenges facing professional women at the time. The exhibition offers a rich and complex portrait of this important figure, previously known best for her collaboration with American artist Man Ray and her close ties to the Surrealist movement of the 1920s.
The Polygon
101 Carrie Cates Court
Within The Mould, Against the Grain establishes itself as a case study on the genealogies and emergence of Black culture from within the Continent ( Africa) and across the diaspora. Utilizing
Within The Mould, Against the Grain establishes itself as a case study on the genealogies and emergence of Black culture from within the Continent ( Africa) and across the diaspora.
Utilizing Deforrest Brown Jr’s seminal text (Assembling A Black Counter-Culture) and Stuart Halls’s assertions on Black popular culture and identity as conceptual points of departure, this exhibition investigates the similarities, differences and connections that exist between instances of Black cultural production that have emerged from the Western Black diaspora as well as the Continent. Though united under the shared identity marker of “Black”, each one holds nuance based on separate histories, traditions, material conditions and varying stakes.
Through an intimate coalescing of lens-based works, schematics and sonic installations works, exhibiting artists Tati Au Miel, Odartey Aryee, Deforrest Brown jr, and Isabel Okoro expand on existing theoretical and conceptual frameworks that consider Black artists as knowledge keepers and producers, insisting that Black cultural identity, like Black cultural production, is a robust and complex process of both becoming and being that is ongoing.
Exploring themes like traditional spirituality, embodied knowledge, the limits of representation, global Black identity, and the tensions between appropriation, commercialization, and Black cultural production, this exhibition exemplifies the politics of style and oppositionality that position Black cultural production as existing against the grain, despite the hegemonic forces that attempt to dilute and subvert its potential.
The Black Arts Centre
The exhibition brings together artists Mike McNeeley, Chuck Melnychuk, and Sandrine Umuhoza in collaboration with WePress Community Arts Space. Their works reflect on lived experiences and social conditions of Vancouver’s
The exhibition brings together artists Mike McNeeley, Chuck Melnychuk, and Sandrine Umuhoza in collaboration with WePress Community Arts Space. Their works reflect on lived experiences and social conditions of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and South—narratives that also hold relevance with communities in Surrey.
Aligned with WePress’ commitment to working with those most impacted by systemic injustice, Practices of Care grew from community workshops centering immunocompromised and disabled participants. These workshops focused on expressions of collective care, with McNeeley, Melnychuk, and Umuhoza contributing as peer workers. In these roles, they offered guidance, shared knowledge, and helped cultivate a supportive space grounded in accessibility.
Developed alongside the exhibition, descriptive and extend labels will provide visual details of the artworks, creating an inclusive experience that supports deeper engagement and understanding. Altogether, Practices of Care reflects a collaborative and creative process, highlighting how art can serve as a tool for community connection and transformative dialogue.
Surrey Art Gallery
13750 88 Ave
Get into the festive season. Discover a delightful array of handcrafted treasures at our holiday market. With over 35
Get into the festive season. Discover a delightful array of handcrafted treasures at our holiday market. With over 35 talented artisans showcasing their unique creations, you’re sure to find the perfect gift for everyone on your list.
Confederation Seniors' Centre
Launched in 2001, The Chutzpah! Festival brings world-renowned dance, music, theatre, and comedy to Vancouver. Looking
Launched in 2001, The Chutzpah! Festival brings world-renowned dance, music, theatre, and comedy to Vancouver.
Looking through a lens of Jewish experiences, stories, and values in all their richness and diversity, creating unforgettable and unique experiences for audiences throughout the Lower Mainland.
Various location in Vancouver
716 E Hastings St
Get festive and shop local at The Polygon Gallery Holiday Shop. Once again, we’re transforming our main floor retail space into a festive holiday experience and shopping
Get festive and shop local at The Polygon Gallery Holiday Shop. Once again, we’re transforming our main floor retail space into a festive holiday experience and shopping destination. Beautifully decorated and carefully curated, The Holiday Shop offers unique gifts by independent makers and artists.
The Polygon
101 Carrie Cates Court
An extended presentation of the Audain Art Museum’s Permanent Collection, From Sea to Sky celebrates the collection’s evolution from its inception in 2016 to the present. Built on the generous
An extended presentation of the Audain Art Museum’s Permanent Collection, From Sea to Sky celebrates the collection’s evolution from its inception in 2016 to the present. Built on the generous donation of over 200 works by Founders Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa, the AAM’s Acquisition Committee has since guided the holding’s expansion through purchase, commission, and donation, to almost 300 outstanding pieces representing the art of British Columbia. Carving, painting, and photography serve as the pillars of the collection, featuring notable works by artists active from the mid-nineteenth to early twenty-first century. Such a display offers a unique visual evocation of the cultural differences that continue to shape BC’s socio-political identity.
From Sea to Sky showcases familiar masterpieces alongside newly acquired and previously archived works of art. These pieces by artists from the province, and those inspired by local environs, are all housed in Patricia and John Patkau’s stunning example of contemporary West Coast architecture. Among the active carvers and photographers of note are Robert Davidson, Dempsey Bob, Jeff Wall, Jin-Me Yoon and Stan Douglas, while paintings by Emily Carr, AY Jackson and BC Binning add a historical dimension to this sweeping display. Works acquired from Karin Bubaš, Rebecca Belmore, and Russna Kaur are indicative of a mid-point in their respective careers and each have also been featured in solo exhibitions at the Museum.
Audain Art Museum
4350 Blackcomb Way
Lumiere is a series of public artworks inspired by light and artistic expression Various small and large-scale illuminated artworks and light-based projections, accompanied by dynamic performances will enliven downtown Vancouver this
Lumiere is a series of public artworks inspired by light and artistic expression
Various small and large-scale illuminated artworks and light-based projections, accompanied by dynamic performances will enliven downtown Vancouver this November.
Various location in Vancouver
716 E Hastings St
The first solo-exhibition by Marika Swan, A Circle Strong Enough to Carry Both Sides explores her deeply woven understandings of the nature of duality held in all things. In elaborate,
The first solo-exhibition by Marika Swan, A Circle Strong Enough to Carry Both Sides explores her deeply woven understandings of the nature of duality held in all things. In elaborate, large-scale imagery, Swan depicts truths about the human experience through playful imaginings of spiritual realities. Using an emotional visual language entirely her own, Swan’s woodblock printmaking is informed by the rich philosophical and carving traditions of her Nuu-chah-nulth lineage. Introduced to printmaking as a tool for political organizing, her work speaks to the challenges and world we must face now. As the only public art museum dedicated to collecting works on paper, the Burnaby Art Gallery is honoured to host this exhibition, which features new works alongside Swan’s extensive portfolio.
Burnaby Art Gallery
6344 Deer Lake Avenue
Find one-of-a-kind Japanese-inspired gifts at the Nikkei Craft Fair. This beloved event showcases the creativity and talent of local artisans, offering a diverse selection of handcrafted goods.
Find one-of-a-kind Japanese-inspired gifts at the Nikkei Craft Fair. This beloved event showcases the creativity and talent of local artisans, offering a diverse selection of handcrafted goods.
Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Center
6688 Southoaks Crescent, V5E 4M7
Impetus is an interdisciplinary installation that explores identity, digital existence and cultural preservation through the meeting points of classical Thai dance, Voguing, w*acking and new media. At the heart of
Impetus is an interdisciplinary installation that explores identity, digital existence and cultural preservation through the meeting points of classical Thai dance, Voguing, w*acking and new media. At the heart of the work are two 16 x 16 x16 LED matrix cubes: one manufactured, embodying a digital record of movement, the other hand soldered, symbolizing presence beyond what is seen and the hidden labour behind technology. Together, they aim to reveal and explore how cultural and human experiences are fragmented, mediated, and constrained within digital and non digital systems.
Visitors are welcome to drop in at any time and stay as long as they wish. The installation runs on a 10-minute loop. Capacity in the space is limited. Depending on attendance, there may be a short wait.
Scotiabank Dance Centre
677 Davie St
Each November—for 29 years and counting—the Eastside Arts Society [EAS] has produced the Eastside Culture Crawl Visual Arts, Design & Craft Festival, in which artists in Vancouver’s Eastside open their
Each November—for 29 years and counting—the Eastside Arts Society [EAS] has produced the Eastside Culture Crawl Visual Arts, Design & Craft Festival, in which artists in Vancouver’s Eastside open their studios to the public. The event is focused on the area bounded by Columbia St., 2nd Ave., Victoria Dr., and the Waterfront, and involves painters, jewellers, sculptors, furniture makers, weavers, potters, printmakers, photographers, glassblowers— ranging from emerging artists to those internationally established.
This open artist studio event, along with workshops, demonstrations exhibits and artist talks, increases understanding and appreciation of the many varied visual art practices in our cities Eastside. The Crawl, as it is affectionately known, is an accessible and fun experience for art lovers and first time visitors alike. The Eastside Arts Society is a registered charity that develops and produces some of Vancouver’s most innovative and cherished programming for contemporary visual arts. Now in its 29th year, the EAS is embarking on a number of new initiatives to ensure that Art Happens Here, on Vancouver’s Eastside, for decades to come.
Various location in Vancouver
716 E Hastings St
The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC presents the world premiere of Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images, on display from November 20, 2025 to March 29, 2026. Curated by Dr.
The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC presents the world premiere of Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images, on display from November 20, 2025 to March 29, 2026. Curated by Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura, in collaboration with Tibetan-Canadian community members and artists, the bilingual exhibition explores Tibet’s rich cultural heritage alongside its current political context, through the lenses and voices of the Tibetan diasporic community. The exhibition features photography, letters, objects, and belongings from MOA’s archives alongside contemporary contributions from Tibetan-Canadian artists: Lodoe Laura will have several works on display, alongside the screenings of two short films from filmmaker Kunsang Kyirong, whose work was recently screened at the Toronto and Vancouver International Film Festivals. MOA will celebrate the opening of Entangled Territories on November 20, 6–9pm, with free museum admission for all. To learn more about the exhibition, as well as ancillary events, visit moa.ubc.ca
Museum of Anthropology
6393 N.W. Marine Drive
Oasis of Abstraction brings together the work of Nova Scotia–based painter Samantha Battaglia and Ontario artist Lawrence Morton. Battaglia’s fractured geometric abstractions evoke shifting architectural and landscape forms, while Morton’s
Oasis of Abstraction brings together the work of Nova Scotia–based painter Samantha Battaglia and Ontario artist Lawrence Morton. Battaglia’s fractured geometric abstractions evoke shifting architectural and landscape forms, while Morton’s luminous colour fields unfold as meditative horizons. Together, their works create an oasis within abstraction—a space of balance and stillness where form and atmosphere converge, inviting the viewer to pause, reflect, and breathe.
RSVP Opening Reception November 22nd, 3-6pm
Exhibition runs November 21st – December December 7th
Ashdale Art Gallery
#113 - 175 West 3rd Street
Celebrate the holiday season at Festive Village with presenting partner Concord Pacific. Experience the special atmosphere of festive lights and traditional decorations to get you into the holiday spirit. Gate admission is
Celebrate the holiday season at Festive Village with presenting partner Concord Pacific. Experience the special atmosphere of festive lights and traditional decorations to get you into the holiday spirit.
Gate admission is free. View the full schedule of events.
Please note that during times of high attendance, entry onto the site may be limited to ensure the safety of our visitors and staff. Updates will be posted on this webpage and on our social media.
Bring your family and friends to experience the wonder of Festive Village. It’s the perfect way to celebrate the holiday season and create lasting memories.
November 22-December 15, 2025
December 16, 2025-January 2, 2026
Please note: Last admission into the Museum is 30 minutes before closing.
https://www.burnabyvillagemuseum.ca/EN/main/what-s-on/heritage-christmas.html
Burnaby Village Museum
Ancestral Echoes celebrates the dynamic wisdom of dance traditions. The afternoon begins with an activation of the sculptural installation Ephemeral Artifacts, choreographed by Toronto-based artist Brandy Leary in the Gallery space, examining
Ancestral Echoes celebrates the dynamic wisdom of dance traditions. The afternoon begins with an activation of the sculptural installation Ephemeral Artifacts, choreographed by Toronto-based artist Brandy Leary in the Gallery space, examining the dancing body as a vessel of inherited knowledge. Then, Justine A. Chambers and Simran Sachar’s Today is the evening to strike lightning / Aaj To Bijiliyan Girane Ki Shaam, a powerful invocation of dancing mothers and bodily reclamation, will be performed in the Studio Theatre. The symposium concludes with a group conversation about dance, memory, scoring, and the intersection between museum spaces and performance.
Surrey Art Gallery
13750 88 Ave
Step into the world of the Salish Wool Dog, a small, long-haired dog known by Coast Salish peoples for its wool, an essential part of weaving and cultural traditions. This
Step into the world of the Salish Wool Dog, a small, long-haired dog known by Coast Salish peoples for its wool, an essential part of weaving and cultural traditions. This event highlights Indigenous knowledge through research, storytelling and film.
The event will have the first Canadian public screening of the new short film on the history and legacy of the woolly dog—Threads that Bind: The Story of the Coast Salish Woolly Dog, by Kirk French—as well as a talk with Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa, co-author of the book The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog.
A panel discussion of Indigenous knowledge keepers and weavers will delve into the cultural role of the woolly dog, the impacts of colonization, and current efforts to share this history.
The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog books and related items will be available for purchase with a signing to follow.
Museum of Vancouver
1100 Chestnut Steet, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9
The legendary Student Art Sale returns, teaming up once again with the Indigenous Winter Market for an unforgettable celebration of art, design, and creativity! Explore one-of-a-kind and limited-edition works crafted
The legendary Student Art Sale returns, teaming up once again with the Indigenous Winter Market for an unforgettable celebration of art, design, and creativity! Explore one-of-a-kind and limited-edition works crafted by ECU’s talented emerging artists, designers, and Indigenous creators. From bold prints to handcrafted ceramics, original paintings, sculpture, and wearables to innovative design pieces — there’s something for everyone.
Emily Carr University
The Clayton Coffee House is a new performance opportunity for both aspiring and established poets, spoken-word artists, novelists, musicians, improvisers or comedians to share their work with the community.
The Clayton Coffee House is a new performance opportunity for both aspiring and established poets, spoken-word artists, novelists, musicians, improvisers or comedians to share their work with the community.
Performing Arts Studio at Clayton Community Centre
The Arts Whistler Holiday Market returns for two days of festive cheer and artisan shopping on November 29 & 30. With more than 65 talented makers from the Sea to
The Arts Whistler Holiday Market returns for two days of festive cheer and artisan shopping on November 29 & 30. With more than 65 talented makers from the Sea to Sky and across BC – plus the inspiring young entrepreneurs of Bratz Biz – Whistler’s largest artisan market is the perfect place to discover unique, handcrafted gifts. Celebrate local creativity, soak up the holiday spirit, and find that special something made with heart.
Westin Resort & Spa Whistler
4090 Whistler Way
Celebrate the season at this free family friendly event. Inside Edmond’s Community Centre, enjoy a visit with Santa, and have fun making holiday crafts with your kids.
Celebrate the season at this free family friendly event.
Inside Edmond’s Community Centre, enjoy a visit with Santa, and have fun making holiday crafts with your kids.
Edmonds Community Centre
