Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend Events May 23-25, 2025
This weekend in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley has music, markets, and more! Find the full list of events and fun things to do in Vancouver this weekend below:
Friday, May 23 | Saturday, May 24 | Sunday, May 25
Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend
Events May 23-25, 2025
- Friday, May 23, 2025
- Made in the 604 Summer Night Market
- Richmond Night Market
- Graham Clark’s 24-Hours of Stand-Up (Vancouver)
- Come From Far Far Away (Vancouver)
- An Evening with Niall Harbison + Jann Arden
- Nouvelle Scène Series: Cameron Crozman & Meagan Milatz (Vancouver)
- rEvolver Theatre Festival (Vancouver)
- Firehall Arts Centre Presents: Inner Elder (Vancouver)
- Shipyards Night Market (North Vancouver)
- Fleurs de Villes Downton Abbey, presented by Oakridge Park
The Vancouver International Children’s Festival is May 26 – June 1, 2025. Tickets are on sale now.
- Saturday, May 24, 2025
- Day of Music with the VSO – Free! (Vancouver)
- Jazz Big Bands at the Heritage Building Peace Arch Park
- Tatkaar: A Kathak Workshop & Performance Experience (Coquitlam)
- Paul Pigat & Cousin Harley (Vancouver)
- Screening: Something Better Change (+ Joey Keithley Q&A) (Vancouver)
- Jazz Café featuring the Jazz Vikings (Burnaby)
- Hummingbird Banding (Port Coquitlam)
- New Westminster’s 155th May Day
- Penjing Exhibition & Sale (Vancouver)
- Come From Far Far Away (Vancouver)
- New Westminster Hyack Parade
- BMO Day of Music (Vancouver)
- Murder is a Drag (Vancouver)
- Graham Clark’s 24-Hours of Stand-Up (Vancouver)
- Steeped in Time: A Tea History & Chinese Tea Ceremony (Vancouver)
- African Music & Dance From Ghana (Vancouver)
- Mayhem – A Drag Theatre Production (Vancouver)
- For the Love of Tap – Tap Day Celebrations (Vancouver)
- Trout Lake Farmers Market
- Riley Park Farmers Market
- West End Farmers Market
- Richmond Night Market
- Beyond Impossible: Navigating Stigma Through Stories of Strength (Vancouver)
- Burnaby Central Railway Miniature Train
- rEvolver Theatre Festival (Vancouver)
- Firehall Arts Centre Presents: Inner Elder (Vancouver)
- Fleurs de Villes Downton Abbey, presented by Oakridge Park
- Sunday, May 25, 2025
- Braided Spirits Featuring Notorious Cree (Surrey)
- Spring Strings at VanDusen Botanical Garden
- Spot Prawn Festival (Vancouver)
- Elektra Women’s Choir – Legacy (Surrey)
- Lynn Headwaters Wilderness at Your Doorstep (North Vancouver)
- For the Love of Tap – Tap Day Celebrations (Vancouver)
- Birds in the Breeze – Barnet Marine Park (Burnaby)
- Tour: Secrets of Southeast Mount Pleasant
- Penjing Exhibition & Sale (Vancouver)
- Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble – Breath of Joy
- A Whole New World Concert (North Vancouver)
- Mount Pleasant Farmers Market
- Richmond Night Market
- Burnaby Central Railway Miniature Train
- rEvolver Theatre Festival (Vancouver)
- Firehall Arts Centre Presents: Inner Elder (Vancouver)
- Fleurs de Villes Downton Abbey, presented by Oakridge Park
Month-Long Events & Activities
These events last for most of the month, or span multiple months.
Attractions and Tours
- Attractions:
- Tours:
Exhibits/Exhibitions
- Science World: Extreme Sports Beyond Human Limits (til May 19)
- Seriously? Comedy and Satire in Canadian Art 1970s–Now (til May 18)
- Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Tranquility Of Communion (til May 25)
- The Art of Banksy Without Limits (til May 25)
- Framed Narratives: A Carol Shumas Retrospective (til May 4)
- Echoes of Memory: Featuring A Crow A Day (til Jun)
- SPECTACLE: A National Geographic Exhibition (til May 15)
- Mary Sui Yee Wong Exhibit at Richmond Art Gallery (til Jun)
- Ferry Building Gallery – Frozen in Time (til Jun 1)
- VALUE: Rebecca Belmore at the Museum of Anthropology (til Oct)
- Vitality: Iconic Images, Hidden Stories (til Dec)
- Christian White Master Haida Artist at the Bill Reid Gallery
- Emily Carr: Navigating an Impenetrable Landscape
- Nuxalk Strong – First Exhibition of its Kind at the Museum of Anthropology
- Gulf of Georgia Cannery – Cannery REcollections (til 2027)
Theatre, Movies, Shows
- The Improv Centre
- Carousel Theatre Presents Stuart Little (Apr 23-May 11)
- Warrior Festival at The Cultch (til May 11)
- Royal City Musial Theatre Presents Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 (Apr 25 – May 11)
- West Side Story at the Granville Island Stage (May 8-24)
- Pacific Theatre Presents: Meeting (May 14-June 7)
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