Arts & Culture
Sep 10-20 · 3pm-11pm dailyVancouver Fringe Festival
Eighty-plus unfiltered indie shows across Granville Island, most of them an hour or less, so you can see two in a night and argue about them over a waterfront drink.
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Arts & Culture
Sep 10-20 · 3pm-11pm dailyEighty-plus unfiltered indie shows across Granville Island, most of them an hour or less, so you can see two in a night and argue about them over a waterfront drink.
Bard on the Beachshakespeare
theatre
waterfront
Bard on the Beach
Shakespeare in a tent by the water at Vanier Park, running all summer.
$$ · 3h
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Theatre Under the Starsmusical
outdoor
theatre
Theatre Under the Stars
Broadway musicals under the open sky at the Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park.
$$ · 3h
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Immersive Shows at The Domeimmersive
360
reclining
Immersive Shows at The Dome
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.
$$ · 1h
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Trace Japanese-Canadian History at the Nikkei Centrethoughtful
quiet
cultural
Trace Japanese-Canadian History at the Nikkei Centre
A moving museum of Japanese-Canadian history with real artifacts and oral histories, plus a tranquil Japanese garden with a pond and maples.
$ · 1½h
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Dig the Crates at Zulu Recordsindie
musical
low key
Dig the Crates at Zulu Records
Vancouver's 1981 indie record shop, where the bins reveal more about a person than any dating app ever will.
$ · 1h
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Stand Under the Totems at the Museum of Anthropologycultured
awe inspiring
indigenous art
Stand Under the Totems at the Museum of Anthropology
Towering totem poles against sea and forest, a half-price Thursday, and the trip to UBC that's actually worth it.
$$ · 2½h
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Burnaby Blues and Roots Festivalblues
outdoor concert
deer lake
Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival
Spread a blanket on the Deer Lake festival lawn, share a beer-garden pint, and let live blues drift over the water as the sun drops.
$ · 3½h
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Emily Carr: That Green Idealemily carr
art gallery
exhibition
Emily Carr: That Green Ideal
The largest Emily Carr survey in over twenty years fills the Vancouver Art Gallery with her swirling BC forests and coastlines.
$$ · 1½h
Open this idea →Every September the Vancouver Fringe takes over Granville Island's theatres, back rooms, and pop-up stages with uncurated, unjuried performance: comedy, one-person plays, dance, the genuinely strange. Shows run about sixty minutes and cost little, so the whole date is picking two wildly different things and comparing notes between them. The 2026 festival runs September 10 to 20. Buy a membership button once, then individual tickets per show.
3pm - 11pm
