Five Reasons Why Even Locals Should Head to the Visitor Centre This Summer

If you’re a Vancouverite planning a day of sightseeing around your home town, you might think that a trip to Tourism Vancouver’s Visitor Centre is about as useful to you as a chocolate teapot. You know where you’re going, and thanks to Google (and tourismvancouver.com), you can do all the research you need online, right? Not so fast!

Here are five great reasons to plan a trip to the Visitor Centre before you set out to see the sights.

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Five Reasons Why Even Locals Should Head to the Visitor Centre This Summer

Vancouver Civic Theatres Now Offering Self-Guided Tours of the Historic Orpheum

This summer Vancouver Civic Theatres (VCT) is offering self-guided tours of the Orpheum, one of the most beautiful concert halls in North America.

The Orpheum, a designated National Heritage Site, was built in 1927. The theatre hosts international musicians, concerts, and unique events, and is home to the beloved Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

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Vancouver Civic Theatres Now Offering Self-Guided Tours of the Historic Orpheum

This Crazy Show Explores Shifting Gender Identity through Dance in Vancouver

This Crazy Show By Noam Gagnon

This Crazy Show By Noam Gagnon

By Kendell Yan

Acclaimed visionary and subversive choreographer, performer, and Artistic Director of Vision Impure, Noam Gagnon is bringing his new work to the Global Dance Connection Series at the Scotiabank Dance Centre this fall. This Crazy Show premiered in Ottawa this past May and has been hailed as a tour de force of dazzling proportions that challenges the concepts of fixed identities with charm and fantasy.

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This Crazy Show Explores Shifting Gender Identity through Dance in Vancouver

Canada Day Fireworks at Canada Place, July 1st (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

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This award winning event, presented by the Port of Vancouver, is the largest Canada Day celebration outside our nation’s capital, Ottawa. Canada Day at Canada Place has been Vancouver’s premier event for 29 years, bringing communities together to share our special bond of living in one of the greatest country’s in the world and celebrating our freedom, values and diversity. Continue reading:
Canada Day Fireworks at Canada Place, July 1st (Free Ticket Giveaway!)