Laugh It Out at The Improv Centre

A former courthouse holding the world's largest Emily Carr collection, and free from 4 to 8pm on the first Friday of every month.

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

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

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

Over 40 local artisans inside Shaughnessy's Edwardian Hycroft mansion for four days. You'll arrive like a royal on a walkabout and leave like someone who actually has to pay.

Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form is on the Chinese Canadian Museum's second floor through August 15, 2027, and for once nobody will tell you to put the comic down.

Thirty live shows a year in a 486-seat suburban theatre that makes a proper night out cost less than you'd spend on regret.

Free Diwali celebration at the Roundhouse in Yaletown: live South Asian music, dance performances and a warm cup of chai, festive attire welcome.

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

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

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

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

A lit suspension bridge, glowing treetop walkways and an illuminated Cliffwalk, which gives two people three separate chances to find out who was bluffing about heights.

A flying-saucer building in Vanier Park filled with neon signs, 1950s living rooms, and the city's own messy, fascinating story.