Mid-Autumn Moon Festival Events Around Vancouver
Join local organizations and attractions in celebrating tradition, art, and culture during Mid-Autumn Moon Festival events around Metro Vancouver. Share food, admire the full moon, light lanterns, eat mooncakes.
Mid-Autumn Moon Festival Events Around Vancouver
The Mid-Autumn Moon Festival honours the full harvest moon as a symbol of peace, prosperity and togetherness. It occurs on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, which happens sometime between mid-September and early October. This is when the moon is at its fullest after the autumnal equinox. It is a popular, happy time of year when families gather to share food, admire the full moon, light lanterns and eat mooncakes.
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
- Dates: Saturday, October 4 – Sunday, October 5, 2025
- Location: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden (578 Carrall St, Vancouver)
- Tickets: Available online now
- Details: Experience the magic of Mid-Autumn in a way that engages all five senses. Enjoy the sounds of live Guzheng performances and traditional Cantonese opera, indulge in the fragrant scents of osmanthus incense along the pathways, taste mooncakes and handmade traditional candies, and explore hands-on traditional crafts throughout the Garden.
Chinese Canadian Museum
- Dates: Saturday, October 4 – Sunday, October 5, 2025
- Location: Chinese Canadian Museum (51 E Pender St, Vancouver)
- Tickets: Included with museum admission
- Details: Enjoy a short presentation on mooncakes’ history and cultural meaning, followed by a trilingual storytime featuring Mooncakes Mean Family by Chinese Canadian author Benson Shum. After story time, enjoy samples of this beloved treat. There will be a Mid-Autumn edition of our Curators and Crafts program, where we pair curator tours of our exhibitions with drop-in crafts inspired by the show. Design your own UFO spaceship lantern, inspired by Ming Wong’s Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies from Dream Factory: Cantopop Mandopop 1980s–2000. Open to all ages; while supplies last.
Gateway Theatre in Richmond
- Dates: Sunday, October 5, 2025
- Location: Minoru Chapel and Gateway Theatre
- Tickets: Available online now
- Details: The afternoon begins with a beautiful concert by mezzo-soprano singer, Renee Fjardo, in the Minoru Chapel. The performance will feature beloved Disney, Broadway and movie musical favourites, including “Let It Go” from Frozen and “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters, along with songs from Moana, Mulan, Wicked and The Sound of Music. After the performance, families head back to Gateway Theatre’s lobby for a lantern-making craft while enjoying complimentary mooncakes courtesy of Anna’s Cake House.
Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site
- Dates: Saturday, October 4 – Sunday, October 5, 2025
- Location: Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site (5180 Westwater Dr, Richmond)
- Tickets: Free admission
- Details: Drop in to the Chinese Bunkhouse for free, family-friendly crafts: Make your own paper red lantern, a symbol of good fortune, light, and prosperity; Create a mooncake out of playdough. Mooncakes pastries are a symbol of the moon and are shared to express love and good wishes.
SVNH (South Vancouver Neighbourhood House)
- Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2025
- Location: South Vancouver Neighbourhood House (6470 Victoria Dr, Vancouver)
- Ticket: Free admission
- Details: Enjoy mooncake tasting, music and entertainment, a paper rabbit craft, lantern riddles, a raffle draw and more.
Lansdowne Centre
- Dates: Saturday, October 4 – Sunday, October 5, 2025
- Location: Lansdowne Centre (5300 Number 3 Rd, Richmond)
- Tickets: Free admission
- Details: Join the fun in a magical lantern tunnel and test your wits with a Riddle Game; for $5 or with the purchase of any item at the HanFu Booth, enjoy a 15-minute session trying on beautiful traditional Hanfu attire; donate to the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation and have your photo taken by a professional photographer at the serene Lotus Pond (until October 7); shop the Artisan Market (October 4-5); enjoy hands-on arts and crafts activities (October 4).
Mackin House – Coquitlam Heritage
- Dates: Saturday, October 4, 2025
- Location: Mackin House (1116 Brunette Ave, Coquitlam)
- Tickets: Free, no registration required
- Details: Enjoy performances, mooncake tasting, crafts, and demos. It all starts with a lion dance, followed by Silk Road Music, mooncake making demos, Appare Yosakoi, and more.
Henderson Place Mid-Autumn Market
- Dates: Saturday, October 4 – Sunday, October 5, 2025
- Location: Henderson Place (1163 Pinetree Way #2000, Coquitlam)
- Tickets: Free admission
- Details: Stop by the pop-up market, catch a wishing plate DIY workshop, share moments at the Wall of Wishes, and light up the night with lanterns, laughter, and love.
