Find your way down to the Public Market Courtyard on select days to meet the educators from Vancouver Island’s The Raptors and their feathered friends.
Comedy, drama, musicals, clowns, political satire – mix all those tasty flavours together and you get the Vancouver Fringe Festival! With 101 shows to choose from, you’re bound to find a live performance to suit your taste this September. Plus there’s free live music every night at the Phillips Fringe Bar, located at Ocean Artworks. […]
Go on a Date with Culture and enjoy a variety of live events, demonstrations, food, and the best of local artists! An array of local artists will be sharing demonstrations of their craft with visitors, surrounded by music, food, and a great cultural atmosphere on the iconic Granville Island. A Date with Culture includes a […]
Get ready to MAKE art with us! MAKE is teaming up with Craft Council of BC for a weekend of art and fun, and you can find us at the Chain & Forge on Granville Island. Come be part of a Date With Culture! Choose from an assortment of original MAKE designs that you can […]
Vancouver Skateboard Coalition and Granville Island presents All Aboard, a two-day family friendly celebration of skateboard community and culture. All Aboard will bring together diverse community groups within Vancouver including all-women’s skateboard organizations, adult beginner skateboarders, children groups, and the LGBTQ skateboarding community. All Aboard is also a pilot project for a covered mini-ramp that […]
Following the extremely successful All Aboard skateboard festival, The Vancouver Skateboard Coalition in partnership with Granville Island, present a pilot project for a covered mini-ramp that demonstrates the need for a publicly accessible, dry, well-lit, safe and fun skateboard facility in Vancouver during winter months. It is staffed by Vancouver Skateboard Coalition volunteers and is […]
Join and witness large-scale woodcuts make their mark under a steamroller’s pressure! Eight different artists participated in September’s A Date with Culture 2019 celebration, each of them creating and carving their own 4’ x 8’ wood panel to print. Now they’re getting ready to print the full edition of all the panels – it doesn't […]
The dance of the sun and earth has inspired celebrations of the human spirit, expressed through art and music, throughout the ages. Honouring many cultural traditions, the Annual Winter Solstice Lantern Festival illuminates the longest night of the year with the singing drumming, music and dancing of peoples from around the world! Activities take place […]
The 58th annual Vancouver Boat Show runs from February 5 to February 9. The show will include more than 250 exhibitors, providing boat enthusiasts with a first look at the 2020 boating season’s premiere boat models and accessories, and include over 125 presentations and workshops led by boating experts. Visit www.vancouverboatshow.ca for the full schedule.
The Annual Plywood Cup fundraising event has always drawn a crowd in the past, but since current circumstances prevent crowds, Plywood Cup has gotten creative: where traditionally there are multiple 4-member teams building vessels using 3 sheets of plywood in just 90 minutes with only some nails, a hammer, duct tape, and a hand saw. […]
Arts Umbrella On Screen is a one-day, exclusive screening of a series of films by the Arts Umbrella Dance Company. Created in lieu of live performances at the Vancouver Playhouse […]
CMHC-Granville Island would like to acknowledge that we are located on the traditional territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations.
