Weekend Events in Vancouver Things to do November 3-5, 2023

This weekend in Vancouver there are two big playoff games at BC Place, a free light and art installation festival around downtown, Diwali events, theatre, and much more! Find these activities and many more things to do around Vancouver this weekend listed below:

Friday, November 3rd | Saturday, November 4th | Sunday, November 5th

Weekend Events in Vancouver
Things to do November 3-5, 2023

Friday, November 3, 2023

• 20th Annual DTES Heart of the City Festival
• The Wizard of Oz on Granville Island
• Vancouver Art Gallery Free First Friday Nights
• Bear Creek Park Lights
• Gifts of the Cosmos
• Diwali in Coquitlam
• Music on Main’s 2023 Modulus Festival
• Ballet BC: Here
• FactualWEST
• Gulf of Georgia Cannery Haunted Sea
• Lumière Festival Around Downtown Vancouver
• The Birds and the Bees
• Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing: Ways of Being and Seeing

Saturday, November 4, 2023

• Planting Event in Stanley Park
• First Saturday Open Studios
• New West PechaKucha Volume #32 – A Night of Discovery
• Parkcrest WinterFest Market
• Sharing Culture: Coast Salish Wool Weaving with Jordan Dawson
• Grey Cup Playoffs: BC Lions v Calgary Stampeders
• Fraser Valley Writers Festival
• Spirit of Tradition – An Evening of Sitar and Tabla
• Beyond Fibre Annual Artisans’ Sale
• River Basin Days – Kanaka Creek
• FactualWEST
• Glow Party Skate Night – All Ages
• Your Body Is a Revolution by Tara Teng
• Still Creek Festival
• Franchise Canada Show Vancouver
• 20th Annual DTES Heart of the City Festival
• Children’s Dance Party at Bear Creek Lights
• Surrey Self-Reliance Fair
• Music on Main’s 2023 Modulus Festival
• Art Show and Pre-Holiday Sale
• Gulf of Georgia Cannery Haunted Sea
• Girls and STEAM at Science World
• Chinatown Cleanup
• Ballet BC: Here
• The Wizard of Oz on Granville Island
• Bear Creek Park Lights
• Lumière Festival Around Downtown Vancouver
• Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing: Ways of Being and Seeing

Sunday, November 5, 2023

• MLS Playoffs: Whitecaps FC vs LAFC
• 20th Annual DTES Heart of the City Festival
• The Wizard of Oz on Granville Island
• Diwali Surrey Downtown
• Vancouver Art Guild Salon
• Beyond Fibre Annual Artisans’ Sale
• Franchise Canada Show Vancouver
• Music on Main’s 2023 Modulus Festival
• Bear Creek Park Lights
• Gulf of Georgia Cannery Haunted Sea
• Lumière Festival Around Downtown Vancouver

Multi-Day Events & Activities

Attractions & Tours:

• Talaysay Tours: Spoken Treasures
• The Monumental Scandals Tour
• FlyOver Canada
• Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
• James Cameron – CHALLENGING THE DEEP (til Jan 1)

Exhibits:

• Deer Lake Gallery: Communal Poetry Machine, Allison Chow (Oct 7 – Nov 12)
• Dreamscapes: Paintings by Li Tung and Lan Yao (Oct 18-Nov 22)
• Intimacy and Distances, Maiko Jinushi (til Nov 10)
• SHIFT: Ecologies of Fashion, Form and Textile (Sept 16 – Dec 10)
• Surrey Art Gallery: Swapnaa Tamhane: No Surface is Neutral (Sept 23 – Nov 26)
• Van Art Gallery: Parviz Tanavoli: Poets, Locks, Cages (til Nov 19)
• Van Art Gallery: Emily Carr: A Room of Her Own (Sept ’24)
• Richmond Art Gallery: Sonja Ahlers Classification Crisis til Nov 5)
• Spirit Journeys: Walking with Resilience, Wellbeing & Respect
• Surrey Art Gallery: Kampala to Canada (til Jan)
• Bright Futures at Bill Reid Gallery (til Jan)
• Britannia Mine Museum: Ore & Orcas (til Feb)
• Land of Thundering Snow (til Apr)

Theatre, Movies, Music:

• Chutzpah! Festival (Nov 2-23)
• How Black Mothers Say I Love You (Nov 2-12)
• South African Film Festival (Nov 2-12)

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