Get Lost in the Vancouver Art Gallery

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

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.

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

A 1929 Granville Street ballroom with a dance floor literally built on tires, and Billboard's vote for one of North America's most influential clubs.

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.

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

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.

Five nights of genre cinema in downtown Vancouver: premieres, special effects, creature features, and a 19th anniversary Trick 'r Treat screening with the film's director.

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

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

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

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.

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