Carousel Theatre for Young People will present the 1st Annual Family Forward Festival over the Family Day long weekend, running Saturday, February 14 through Monday, February 16, 2026. The new initiative will take place across multiple venues on Granville Island and is designed as a celebration of family in all its forms. The Festival will […]
TESTO celebrates transitions, testosterone and the edges of drag–a chaotic, heartfelt, and hilariously unhinged deep dive into the mess of becoming. Here, performance and reality blur until what’s made-up somehow feels truer than truth. Expect moustache meals, dykey desires, and a choreography of guttural sexuality that pinches at the dull flesh of everyday life until […]
Kamwe Kamwe (One by One) is a force of movement and song—a meeting of ancestral rhythm and contemporary resistance. On a sand-covered stage, four Zimbabwean dancers move through a terrain of poles, elastics, and projected images, their bodies speaking what history has silenced. Echoes of those disappeared through colonial and ongoing violence are carried in […]
PuSh returns to Vancouver from January 22–February 8, 2026 with 25 works of audacious, innovative, and contemporary live arts by visionary artists from near and far. Explore thefull lineup and get tickets at pushfestival.ca.
The Perelandra Project is a science fiction interdisciplinary dance and theatre show featuring feminist and decolonial themes. Inspired by the novel "Perelandra" by CS Lewis this story follows an Englishman in the 1940's who is sent to the Planet Venus by God to fight in a holy war only to discover that this world still […]
Welcome to the what if world of passionate young poet and player William Shakespeare. Lee Hall’s stage adaptation of the Academy Award®-winning 1998 film, written by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman, imagines the life and love of the world’s most famous playwright near the beginning of his career, during the creation of what would become […]
The Federation of Canadian Artists invites the public to celebrate over 80 years of creativity at A Legacy of Art and Vision on October 30, 2025, at Performance Works on Granville Island. This special evening will feature live music, captivating painting demonstrations, a curated fine art exhibition, and opportunities to bid in a silent auction […]
The Vancouver Fringe is an annual non-curated performing arts Festival. This year the Vancouver Fringe Festival runs on Granville Island and Gastown, for over 11 days from September 4 to 14, 2025. This year’s Fringe features 87 shows with more than 668 performances across 19 venues, with performers from Canada, the US, Mexico, the United […]
Head down to Granville Island for the Vancouver International Children’s Festival May 26 to June 1 and enjoy spectacular performances from around the globe for kids and families of all ages! The 2025 Festival features circus arts, puppetry, theatre, dance, and music shows plus lots of arts activities created just for children. Each show ticket […]
Raise a glass to the art of storytelling and fine whisky! Every year, the Vancouver Writers Fest presents Whisky & Words, an extraordinary whisky-tasting event you won’t want to miss. Delight in unlimited pours of exceptional whiskies from around the world alongside artisanal craft spirits and local brews. Indulge in mouthwatering bites and explore rare […]
Singer, songwriter, producer, visual artist, and writer Neko Case has long been revered as one of music’s most influential artists. In The Harder I Fight the More I Love You, Case brings her trademark candor and precision to a memoir that traces her evolution from an invisible girl “raised by two dogs and a space […]
OUT — Ray Young (UK) DANCE, THEATRE Canadian Premiere Presented with the frank theatre co. OUT is a defiant challenge to the status quo that bravely carves out a new kind of space, reclaiming and celebrating our queer future. This performance dances in solidarity alongside global 2SLGBTQIA+ movements, breaking down violent histories to imagine something […]
