Bard on the Beach

Vancouver's answer to the Vegas Sphere: a 360 dome at the Space Centre where Pink Floyd, blue whales and the cosmos wrap the entire ceiling in 10K and Dolby Atmos, watched flat on your back from a reclining seat.

Vancouver's 1981 indie record shop, where the bins reveal more about a person than any dating app ever will.

Towering totem poles against sea and forest, a half-price Thursday, and the trip to UBC that's actually worth it.

& Juliet at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Thursday October 1.

& Juliet on Friday. shakespeare's version where juliet gets the last word.

& Juliet takes the shakespeare thing and makes it actually fun saturday.

& Juliet at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Sunday October 4.

The largest Emily Carr survey in over twenty years fills the Vancouver Art Gallery with her swirling BC forests and coastlines.

Suzhou artisans, no nails, Ming Dynasty methods, and National Geographic's vote for the world's top city garden, in Chinatown.

A fully improvised whodunit at the Improv Centre on Granville Island: an eccentric millionaire's dinner party ends in murder, and the cast makes up the suspects, motives and killer fresh every night.

Four women navigate hot flashes and hormones through song on September 22.

& Juliet on Tuesday. shakespeare but make it pop.

Shakespeare's teenage heroine gets a second act on Wednesday, September 30.

Ten days of world cinema downtown, from festival-circuit premieres to local debuts, with a walkable spill of late dinners and drinks to argue about them.