The 15th Vancouver Chinatown Night Market Date: May 14 to Sep. 5, 2010. Every Fri., Sat. & Sun. Time: 6:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Venue: Keefer St. / Main St. (Between Main & Columbia St.)
A shopping extravaganza featuring Asian traditional handicraft, fashionable gifts & tempt your taste buds with ethnic snacks. A shopping experience like never before - on every Fri., Sat. & Sun. The street market contains booths with different merchandises on sale including artistic handicrafts, creative gifts & decors, modern electronics, fashionable clothes, popular music CD, VCD, DVD, delicious snacks & ethnic food…etc
The 520-seat Mainstage tent offers two productions performed in repertory from early June through late September. The Mainstage tent is open-ended so that the actors perform against a spectacular backdrop of mountains, sea and sky - a highlight of the Bard experience.
Family festivals at Canada Place, Granville Island and other locations throughout the Lower Mainland.
What: Canada Place has always been a hot spot for Canada Day--it co-produces the Burrard Inlet Fireworks that are Number 5 on this list--but this is only the second year they're extending the festivities with a parade and street festival. When: Street Festival: 10am - 7pm; Parade starts at 7pm Where: Street Festival at Canada Place; Parade starts at the corner of Georgia Street & Broughton Street.
What: Granville Island's huge Canada Day celebration includes a Parade, a Truly Canadian Pancake Breakfast, an official Canada Day Ceremony, live jazz, performers, False Creek Ferry Ballet, and MELA!, a South Asian cultural extravaganza of song, traditional dance, Bollywood fashions, mouth-watering food, and more. When: 7am - midnight Where: Granville Island
What: Cap off your Canada Day celebrations with this pyrotechnic extravaganza! Happening in Burrard Inlet, the 4th annual Fireworks Show will be visible from Downtown, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, and Vancouver's west side. When: 10:30pm - 11pm Where: Vancouver Downtown and west side
Each July, the Trinidad & Tobago Cultural Society of BC presents the Caribbean Days Festival. This event draws a crowd of exuberant fun-lovers to North Vancouver's Waterfront Park for a weekend of parading, dining and dancing in the sunshine.
This is a weekend of tropical rhythm, cuisine, carnival and culture as only the Caribbean can offer. Over the years, the Festival has grown into the largest Caribbean event on the local calendar—and with thousands of attendees it is the largest single-weekend cultural event in BC, period.
The BC Cultural Crawl The BC Cultural Crawl is a self-guided tour of community-initiated events: music, theatre and dance performances, visual arts, festivals, museum and heritage exhibitions, culinary arts, community art walks and more.
Your self-guided exploration of supercultural British Columbia begins here. Browse August-long events, local cultural crawls, and community art walks. Download itineraries, maps and find all of the resources you need to plan your own exploration on www.art-bc.com.
The Vancouver Pride Society has adopted a three-year theme of Educate, Liberate, Celebrate - focusing on one of the three elements each year. In 2010, we focus on Liberate and what it means to be free.
Pride celebrations across the country have become a gathering of people from all walks of life. At Pride, our diversity is celebrated openly, and people can express themselves freely without fear of retribution. In Canada, we have fought many battles on our road to equality, and we have achieved many of our legal rights. Yet, transgender people are still not protected under our laws, and we still have a long way to go before we conquer homophobia.
Explore extraordinary music! That’s MusicFest Vancouver's invitation to you, as it brings you its annual feast of classical, jazz and world music presentations.
Each year for two weeks in August, concert venues throughout Vancouver play host to unforgettable musical experiences that bring enthusiastic and adventurous music lovers together with some of the most talented artists in the world. Whether you’re a knowledgeable and demanding consumer of musical performance, or a relative newcomer to a particular musical scene, the festival opens its doors and its heart to you and draws you into its vibrant milieu.
Two weeks, 50 events and diverse musical repertoire that spans both the centuries and the planet: MusicFest Vancouver offers you a one-of-a-kind opportunity to experience the broadest range of live music performed with passion, skill and creativity.
The annual mid-summer celebration of Asian Canadian arts, history and culture in Vancouver, Canada. The Festival features dance, music, theatre, exhibits, sumo matches, martial arts, crafts and delectable foods.
The Abbotsford Airshow began in 1962... and in the following years showed continuous growth and eventually, the Abbotsford Airshow has become the largest airshow in Canada.
VANCOUVER QUEER FILM FESTIVAL Satisfy your cravings with cool documentaries, spicy international films, sizzling parties, mouth-watering performances and delicious flirting at the 22 nd Vancouver Queer Film Festival from August 12-22. Vancouver's second largest film festival brings film lovers and filmmakers together to celebrate the best of independent queer cinema.
The Vancouver International Fringe Festival is North America’s most international Fringe Fest and BC’s largest theatre festival. Every year the Fringe delivers an eclectic mix of theatrical offerings consisting of over 400 performances by more than 65 different groups over 11 days. Some of our venues include Vancouver’s best theatres, such as the Granville Island Stage, Performance Works, and the Waterfront Theatre, all situated in the unique setting of Granville Island. The Vancouver International Fringe Festival was voted Vancouver’s Best Arts Festival for five years in a row by Georgia Straight readers.
The 29th Vancouver International Film Festival takes place September 30 to October 15. Film submission information is available here. The 2010 site goes online late summer. Please check occasionally for updates.
Directors Sharon Bayly, Peter Hall and Marietta Kozak of Mortal Coil head up this year's crew of actors, dancers, stilt performers and puppeteers bringing demons from all corners of the world's folklore to life. Don't worry, though—even as you venture through the Mouth of Hell and travel to the Underworld, you'll be out of harm's way in the safety of the Ghost Train...trust us! Mwahahahahahaha!
Your donation to the Lights of Hope fundraising campaign funds greatest needs at St. Paul’s Hospital, helping support inspired care, research and teaching.
Now in its 12th year, St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation’s Lights of Hope campaign has raised more than $12 million for St. Paul’s Hospital.
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