Free Contemporary Art at Richmond Art Gallery

Port Moody's only free public gallery, housed in two heritage buildings that make the romance look effortless.

Hop a SeaBus, land at a sawtooth-roofed gallery by the Shipyards, and redirect your donation budget straight to the patio beer next door.

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.

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.

A free contemporary gallery on the third floor of the Anvil Centre, programming international artists who work in light, sound and code.

A warm 200-seat theatre in Port Moody's Newport Village, with dinner steps away and acoustics regulars actually brag about.

A free guided walking tour of five site-specific dance performances up through the Central Library, ending on the rooftop garden, one weekend in September.

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

A former courthouse holding the world's largest Emily Carr collection, by-donation Tuesdays and free every first Friday of the month.

A moving museum of Japanese-Canadian history with real artifacts and oral histories, plus a tranquil Japanese garden with a pond and maples.

An intimate downtown gallery for Haida master Bill Reid and contemporary Indigenous artists, where the jewellery cases invite actual leaning-in.

thursday night you'll both pretend to understand experimental film.

A 1927 gilded dome in Vancouver, home of the Vancouver Symphony, and the most beautiful room you'll be seen in all year.