Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend Events June 6-8, 2025
This weekend in Metro Vancouver the event list is heating up with markets, festivals, live music, community BBQs, free activities, and more. From Car Free Day in Newton, to an Indigenous Market in New West, and the BC Lions Kick-Off party Downtown, there’s no shortage of events and fun things to do as summer approaches. Find these activities and any more events listed below:
Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend
Events June 6-8, 2025
- Friday, June 6, 2025
- First Friday Free Afternoon Admission:
- Vancouver Bandits Basketball (Langley)
- West Vancouver Community Cultural Fest at Ambleside
- Seniors Tea & Tour (Surrey)
- Rainbow Rodeo – Honky-Tonk Dance (Langley)
- Connaught Heights Elementary Summer Jam (New Westminster)
- Lord Tweedsmuir Spring Carnival (New Westminster)
- The Dance Centre: Company 605 + The Human Expression
- Let’s Hear it For Yaletown – Free Live Music
- Beethoven’s Ninth: “Ode to Joy”
- Screening: Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again
- Just Kidding Comedy at Fable Diner & Bar
- Londre Vancouver Warehouse Sale
- ITSAZOO and Pacific Theatre Present Meeting
- Richmond Night Market
- Shipyards Night Market
- Rumble Theatre – Tremors Festival
- Saturday, June 7, 2025
- Indigenous Artisans Market at Bill Reid Gallery
- Indigenous Market at New West Craft
- Car Free Day Surrey
- BC Lions Kick-Off with Snoop Dogg
- Burnaby Heights Hats Off Day
- Open House at the Vancouver Maritime Museum
- A Day of Joy for the Writers’ Exchange!
- West End Community Clean-up and BBQ
- Mechanics of Music Festival (New Westminster)
- Screening: Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again
- Buzz About Bees Workshop (New Westminster)
- A Night at the Movies with VanCity Harmony (New Westminster)
- Shuffle ‘n’ Blues (Vancouver)
- Beaded Earrings with Sheila Lowe (Surrey)
- West Vancouver Community Cultural Fest at Ambleside
- From the Ground Up Consumer Show
- Goh Ballet Les Saisons Fantastique
- Chigiri-e Japanese Paper Art
- Give a Breath 5k
- Coquitlam Heritage Spring Craft Saturdays
- The Dance Centre: Company 605 + The Human Expression
- Doors Open Richmond
- Green Timbers Open Forest (Surrey)
- Seniors Community BBQ (Surrey)
- ITSAZOO and Pacific Theatre Present Meeting
- Beethoven’s Ninth: “Ode to Joy”
- Vancouver Heritage Discovery Day
- Rumble Theatre – Tremors Festival
- Richmond Night Market
- Trout Lake Farmers Market
- Riley Park Farmers Market
- West End Farmers Market
- Playland
- Sunday, June 8, 2025
- Vancouver Whitecaps FC vs Seattle
- Valley GranFondo
- Fair in the Square – Victory Square
- Doors Open Richmond
- Abbotsford Canucks Western Conference Final Game 6
- Summer Farm Tours in Richmond
- Book Talk with Karen Harmon (North Vancouver)
- Screening: Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again
- Craft in the Garden
- Beach BioBlitz for World Oceans Day
- Rumble Theatre – Tremors Festival
- Richmond Night Market
- Mount Pleasant Farmers Market
- Playland
Month-Long Events & Activities
These events last for most of the month, or span multiple months.
Attractions and Tours
- Attractions:
- Chinese Canadian Museum
- Vancouver Ice Cream Festival (til Aug)
- Junction Public Market Downtown (all summer)
- Summer at Burnaby Village (til Sept 1)
- Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
- Vancouver’s Natural History Museum at UBC
- Vancouver Murder Mysteries
- Museum of Anthropology
- Britannia Mine Museum
- Tours:
Exhibits/Exhibitions
- Echoes of Memory: Featuring A Crow A Day (til Jun)
- Mary Sui Yee Wong Exhibit at Richmond Art Gallery (til Jun)
- Ferry Building Gallery – Frozen in Time (til Jun 1)
- Burnaby Art Gallery – Golden Hour (Jun 13-Aug 31)
- 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
- Chief Dan George – Actor and Activist (til Sept)
- Polygon Gallery: Star Witnesses (til Sept 28)
- Nuxalk Strong – First Exhibition of its Kind at the Museum of Anthropology
- The Work of Repair: Redress & Repatriation at the Museum of Vancouver
- Gulf of Georgia Cannery – Cannery REcollections (til 2027)
- Chinese Canadian Museum “A Soldier for All Seasons
Theatre, Movies, Shows
- The Improv Centre
- Queer Arts Festival (June 6-28)
- Bard on the Beach 2025 Season (June-Sept)
- Pacific Theatre Presents: Meeting (May 14-June 7)
- Dancing on the Edge Festival (June 12-21)
- Theatre Under the Stars Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Legally Blonde
- The Arts Club Presents: Waitress (June 12-Aug 3)
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