This weekend in Vancouver enjoy some plum blossoms, CelticFest Vancouver festivities, and Spring Break activities which will be getting underway. Find these events and more fun things to do listed below:

Friday, March 14 | Saturday, March 15 | Sunday, March 16

Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend
Events March 14-16

• Friday, March 14, 2025
  • Taste of the Tri-Cities
  • CelticFest Vancouver
    • Cooking Demonstration at CelticFest with Chef Donal Hughes,
    • Comedy Night – Aaron McCann and Friends
    • CelticFest Vancouver: St Patrick’s Day Ceilidh
  • Fall for Strathcona Group Exhibition
  • St Pat’s House Party: An EDM + House Night (Vancouver)
  • Twilight in Concert at the Orpheum in Vancouver
  • Vancouver Warriors vs Toronto Rock
  • Surrey Steps Up
  • Vancouver St. Patrick’s Day Bar Crawl Party
  • Resilience of the Aging Brain: An SFU Open House (Surrey)
  • Lucky Tides, After Hours at the Vancouver Aquarium
  • Terminal City Tabletop Convention (Vancouver)
  • YSL Make Me Blush Pop-up at the Met (Burnaby)
  • Western Gold Theatre: A Classic Farce Double Bill (Vancouver)
  • Punkstravaganza VIII Night One (Vancouver)
  • BC Home + Garden Show (Vancouver)

Do not be alarmed if you see soldiers carrying rifles in Stanley Park this weekend. The HMCS Discovery will be conducting NATO’s Exercise Steadfast Defender, focused on security operations training, during the weekend of March 15-16, 2025 on Deadman Island [Source].

Military Exercise in Stanley Park This Weekend

The public may notice CAF members with unloaded service rifles at the entrance gates of HMCS Discovery on Deadman Island. Sounds from the firing of blank ammunition may also be heard throughout the duration of the exercise; however, no live ammunition will be used at any time.

Join Stanley Park Ecology educator Julia Taylor for a special tour of the Stanley Park heron rookery and learn all about how these beautiful and large birds navigate the canopy, build their nests, and raise their fledglings.

Heron Colony Tour in Stanley Park

• Dates: Saturday, March 22, 2025 10:30am to 11:45am
• Location: Nature House on Lost Lagoon (near Alberni and Chilco)
• Tickets: Available online now

The Stanley Park heron colony is the largest urban colony of Pacific Great Blue Herons in North America. Every spring, Pacific Great Blue Herons take to over a hundred nests on the edge of Downtown Vancouver to raise their young, and they’ve been doing so for more than a century.

The BC Entertainment Hall of Fame (BCEHOF) invites nominations for its 2025 StarWalk and StandingOvations inductions until April 14, 2025. The hall of fame honours over 300 inductees who have made a significant contribution to the performing arts, film and television, and radio broadcast arenas in the province.

2025 Nominations Open BC Entertainment Hall of Fame

Nominations to the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame can be made until April 14, 2025 by a group of individuals on behalf of a nominee who has made a significant contribution to the performing arts, film & television, and radio broadcast arenas in British Columbia.

Canadian Independent Bookstore Day (CIBD) returns in communities across the country on Saturday, April 26th. Readers are invited to shop local and visit independent bookstore for a day of contests, giveaways, and in-store events.

Canadian Independent Bookstore Day in Vancouver

Many independent bookstores will celebrate the day in their own creative ways, ranging from the creation of local indie maps and events, to scavenger hunts, contests, and displays. With more than 300 indie bookstores and counting across Canada, you can find stores in your area online.