5 Unmissable Vancouver Events for Lunar New Year

Photo: Metropolis at Metrotown

With the Year of the Dragon set to commence on February 10, 2024, it’s time to gather friends and family to celebrate the prosperity of the next year. As a bustling hub of the province—and the nation’s—Asian Canadian communities, Vancouver has a wide range of family-friendly activities for making this Lunar New Year special.

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5 Unmissable Vancouver Events for Lunar New Year

Revitalizing Vancouver’s Chinatown: A Cultural, Retail, and Dining Destination

Chinatown Gate. Entrance to Chinatown on Pender St; Photo: Destination Vancouver/Nelson Mouellic

Dating back to 1886, Vancouver’s Chinatown has a rich history and continues to be an extremely important neighbourhood within the city. In the last few years, Chinatown has taken on even more life with the opening of new restaurants, shops, and cultural institutions.

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Revitalizing Vancouver’s Chinatown: A Cultural, Retail, and Dining Destination

A Conversation with Carol Lee: Vancouver’s Landmark Chinatown Storytelling Centre

Photo: Tara Lee

For Carol Lee, the new Chinatown Storytelling Centre embodies the narratives of the Chinese Canadians who worked, played, ate, and built strong community ties in the vibrant historical neighbourhood. “Chinatown holds a place in the hearts of so many Vancouverites,” she says. Lee, Chair of the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation, has her own personal connections to the area. Her grandfather opened a dry goods and furnishing store there in 1921, she went to Chinese school in Chinatown as a child, and she and her family celebrated countless family occasions over delicious food at nearby restaurants.

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A Conversation with Carol Lee: Vancouver’s Landmark Chinatown Storytelling Centre

#LoveVancouver Neighbourhoods: Marpole & Chinatown

Our next two neighbourhoods in our #LoveVancouver Neighbourhoods Series may look very different from street-view, but they share equally important roles in the diverse cultural makeup of our city. Marpole sits on the southern edge of Vancouver along the Fraser River just before the bridge to the airport and the rest of the world, while Chinatown has long been a lively convergence of trade, political and cultural activity in its historic pocket of downtown.

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#LoveVancouver Neighbourhoods: Marpole & Chinatown

New Satellite Exhibition in Chinatown Exploring Chinese Immigration in BC

The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) proudly present A Seat at the Table: Chinese Immigration and British Columbia in Chinatown, a temporary exhibition that is now open to the public.

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New Satellite Exhibition in Chinatown Exploring Chinese Immigration in BC

[CLOSED] WIN TICKETS to an exclusive Dim Sum Chinatown Tour

Win tickets to intimately explore Historical Chinatown (and its food) as part of an exclusive tour by Canadian Craft, only offered during Dine Out Vancouver Festival. Continue reading:
[CLOSED] WIN TICKETS to an exclusive Dim Sum Chinatown Tour

Live the Limetown Life in Vancouver

Lia Haddock, investigative reporter for American Public Radio, stumbles on the story of a lifetime when she investigates the disappearance of more than 300 people at a neuroscience research facility in Tennessee. Chances are, you’ve already listened to her harrowing tale on hit podcast Limetown, which skyrocketed to number-one downloaded podcast on iTunes just two months after release.

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Live the Limetown Life in Vancouver