Catch a Band at Lucky Bar

Emily Carr's 1864 yellow Italianate childhood home in James Bay, tours by donation, and Dallas Road is right down the street.

Seven galleries, an 1889 mansion, twenty thousand works, and a Japanese garden with a real Shinto shrine waiting out back.

Victoria's 162-seat black box runs touring theatre, dance and spoken word, and becomes three Fringe shows in one night every summer.

An 18-hole haunted-house mini-golf course downtown with rocking chairs, transforming portraits, and a private ping pong lounge for the rematch.

Touring stand-ups every weekend, fifty wing flavours, and enough shared laughter to make date-night chemistry look effortless, in Victoria's longtime comedy bar.

Downtown's most licensed way to throw sharp metal at things, with a scoreboard that'll tell you everything you need to know.

Canada's narrowest street, three feet wide at points, once a gambling den, now vintage records and ice cream.

Nearly forty pinball machines, beer, and pizza in Chinatown, where competitive instincts emerge one quarter at a time.

Victoria's downtown climbing warehouse where the staff are famously patient and nobody looks graceful for the first twenty minutes.

Stand a foot away from an actual Emily Carr for free, then quietly reconsider your salary when you see the price tags.

A 225-seat restored 1940s movie palace doing Chekhov like it's urgent, which it turns out, it is.

Amanda Marshall at the Royal Theatre on a Friday. Your weekend plan, handled.

One of Canada's largest university art collections, free to walk through, in a calm room on Yates Street.

Free live music every night inside one of Victoria's most gorgeous rooms, in the old Bank of British Columbia, until 1am.