Visit Carousel Theatre for Young People’s website for a selection of storytelling and craft video. Once recorded, videos remain onsite: Storytime Saturday Watch out for some of your favourite performers from award-winning CTYP shows, reading stories just for you! Randi Makes… Explore new ideas through crafts, baking, art history, science, writing, theatre and more with […]
Arts Club Theatre is excited to offer four audio plays in their new series, Listen to This. Each entertaining, thought-provoking work is created by a Western Canadian Playwright who is affiliated with their Emerging Playwrights’ Unit or Silver Commissions Project. Visit www.artsclub.com for information on how to purchase. Unexpecting February 10 – September 15 Married […]
Plays2Perform@Home is a script “Box Set” that can be ordered online and delivered to your home (mail order theatre) or picked up from The Fishbowl on Granville Island in Vancouver. Boca del Lupo commissioned four playwrights to pen scripts to be performed around the dinner table, picnic blanket or campfire this summer. Working with Valerie […]
We dedicate this years festival To Victor, With Love The Vancouver International Flamenco Festival’s 31st edition proudly announces its 2021 lineup of local and national flamenco artists September 4 – 26. The 2021 Festival will feature live & live-streamed performances, with both ticketed and FREE events. We are excited to present our all-Canadian lineup of […]
“No Children Will Be Forgotten” is a weekend-long fundraiser, exhibit, and art show hosted by Indigenous artist D’Arcy Basil and CMHC-Granville Island, September 25 & 26, 2021. The art exhibit, with silent auctions on both days, will be held from 10am to 6pm in the new Hives for Humanity parklet, in front of co-host, i.e. […]
The Granville Island Turkey Trot Kids Run invites kids to experience race day excitement. This run inspires kids to get moving, make healthy choices, and feel confident. Each child receives fun race bonuses, including a RUNVAN® race wrap and a $25 gift card from Rackets & Runners valid on a minimum $75 spend. Race 2.5KM, […]
Enjoy a walk around Granville Island and discover seven bus shelter-sized comics drawn by BC comic artists. Each comic tells one stand-alone story from a Vancouver citizen, their experience of the pandemic, and looks at how we can connect and find solace with others, and imagine a more resilient and compassionate future. The comics will […]
The creative community who lives in the DTES experiences the highest statistical rates of economic, health, and social challenges of any community in the country. However, the DTES also has the distinction of being informally recognized as the most artist-rich neighbourhood in Canada. The DTES Small Arts Grants Program reveals the diverse cultures and creative […]
Greenpeace is an organization that started in 1971 in Vancouver, and this year marks its 50th anniversary. A champion for all issues environmental, from nuclear weapons, to endangered species, to climate change, and more, Greenpeace is still active in protecting the planet and its inhabitants from destruction. To commemorate their anniversary, an outdoor gallery of […]
Fruits of My Labour will present new works in an installation of fruit shaped jewellery objects, made from decorative plastic fruit covered in recycled swimsuit lycra, displayed on mirrored surfaces. Documentation of the process, including deconstructing the clothing, creating the jewellery, and placing it on the body will be part of the installation (through sound […]
For the third consecutive year, Latincouver will celebrate Latin American Heritage Month in BC, and we are excited to say that Granville Island will be playing host to many events this year, including the art exhibition Perceptions of Mother Earth and Altar des Muertos in Ocean Artworks. Learn about and enjoy Latin American history and […]
Día de Muertos is a remembrance celebration of our dearly departed, the Altar de Muertos being the most important element. We are teaming up with Granville Island and setting up a beautiful altar commemorating this beautiful tradition celebrated in some Latin American Countries like Mexico, Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Peru. The public will be able […]
Words shape our world: they can delight, inspire, provoke, comfort and unite—as do the authors, journalists and poets who wield them. The Vancouver Writers Festival, which runs from October 18 to 24, encourages readers of all ages to explore the power of storytelling, and books, through dozens of events with local and international writers. This […]
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.
