Lumière Festival Lights Up Downtown Vancouver This Fall

Jim Deva Plaza, Photo: Lumière Festival

Lumière Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary with an annual five-day program that promises to enliven Downtown Vancouver through light, art, and performances from November 2 to 6. A free series of interactive and accessible public art installations, Lumière brightens the city during the darkest season with over thirty illuminated artworks, light-based projections, dynamic performances, and interactive workshops planned.

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Lumière Festival Lights Up Downtown Vancouver This Fall

Experience ‘Space Explorers: The Infinite’ Without Leaving Earth

Astronaut Joseph R. Tanner, Photo: NASA/Space Explorers: The Infinite

The countdown is on until the immersive, NASA-inspired Space Explorers: The Infinite extended reality (XR) experience comes to Vancouver to mesmerize audiences at the Rocky Mountaineer Station from November 15 to January 14. This interstellar rollercoaster of an interactive exhibition lets visitors delve into the mysteries of space without leaving Earth.

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Experience ‘Space Explorers: The Infinite’ Without Leaving Earth

Tour Vancouver’s Art Scene at the Eastside Culture Crawl

Georgia Art Studios, Photo: Joshua Wright/Eastside Culture Crawl

Discover new art and artists during the 27th annual Eastside Culture Crawl from November 16 to 19 (with events and exhibitions starting in late October). The festival invites audiences to explore artistic offerings from nearly 450 participating artists across four days, many different studios, and a variety of events to make visual art, design, and crafts more accessible to the public.

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Tour Vancouver’s Art Scene at the Eastside Culture Crawl

Get Literary at the Vancouver Writers Fest on Granville Island

Ashley Spires, Photo: Roaming the Planet/VWF

The annual week-long Vancouver Writers Fest (VWF) welcomes over 125 esteemed authors and acclaimed writers from around the world across 85+ events to Granville Island and schools around the Lower Mainland from October 16 to 22. Spanning bestselling fiction and award-winning non-fiction, the festival celebrates the finest in Canadian and international literature.

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Get Literary at the Vancouver Writers Fest on Granville Island

10 Ways to Get Spooky This Halloween in Vancouver

Forbidden’s Lost Souls of Gastown Tour

The ghosts and goblins are set to haunt Vancouver this month in the lead-up to Halloween. Here are 10 ideas for having a playfully scary time around the city:

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10 Ways to Get Spooky This Halloween in Vancouver

Get Excited for the Vancouver Canucks’ 2023/24 NHL Season

Elias Pettersson, Photo: Canucks

The Vancouver Canucks‘ upcoming 2023/24 NHL season is almost here, as things kick off next month after a long off-season of retooling and changes for the hockey club in their quest to return to the Stanley Cup playoffs.

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Get Excited for the Vancouver Canucks’ 2023/24 NHL Season

Run Away to Cirque du Soleil’s ‘KoozÃ¥’ Circus Act

Charivari, Photo: Matt Beard & Bernard Letendre/Cirque du Soleil

Cirque du Soleil‘s thrilling international production KoozÃ¥ comes to Concord Pacific Place in False Creek this fall from October 21 to December 31. Get swept away under the Big Top to a whimsical world packed with wondrous characters, daring acrobatics, mischievous clowns, lavish costuming, colourful sets, and a powerful live score.

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Run Away to Cirque du Soleil’s ‘KoozÃ¥’ Circus Act