Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend Events Mar 6-8
This weekend in Vancouver we have festivals of film and dance, comedy, music, and some fast-paced rugby action. On Friday, don’t miss the cauldron lighting at Jack Poole Plaza in honour of the Milan Cortina Paralympic Games. Find all of these events and more fun things to do around the city right here:
Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend Events Mar 6-8
- Friday, March 6, 2026
- Gender Equity in Media Festival GEMFest Vancouver
- Paralympics Cauldron Lighting 4pm – 6pm
- Coastal Dance Festival Honouring Indigenous Stories, Song, and Dance
- The Lantern City
- Chor Leoni PopCapella
- Album Release Concert – The Fugitives
- Bard on the Beach Fabric and Costume Sale
- Taste of the Tri-Cities Self-Guided Celebration of Local Dining
- Drag Fight Club: Spring Break Brawl
- Yuk Yuk’s Surrey Stand-Up Comedy Shows
- Homecumming in Vancouver
- Workout for Women’s Day Sessions
- First Impressions Theatre Presents Art
- Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
- 37th Annual Festival du Bois (Coquitlam)
- BC Sport & Wilderness Show (Abbotsford)
- Vancouver International Dance Festival VIDF
- Saturday, March 7, 2026
- Gender Equity in Media Festival GEMFest Vancouver
- Coastal Dance Festival Honouring Indigenous Stories, Song, and Dance
- Rugby Sevens in Vancouver at BC Place
- LMCA’s Toys, Comics & Collectibles Show
- Yuk Yuk’s Surrey Stand-Up Comedy Shows
- Celtic Fest at Museum of Surrey
- Gathered Vintage Market
- First Impressions Theatre Presents Art
- Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (Surrey)
- Riley Park Winter Farmers Market
- Chor Leoni PopCapella
- Scaup Zone and Scoter Friends: Ducks and Other Waterbirds
- The Lantern City
- Taste of the Tri-Cities Self-Guided Celebration of Local Dining
- Workout for Women’s Day Sessions
- Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
- 37th Annual Festival du Bois (Coquitlam)
- BC Sport & Wilderness Show (Abbotsford)
- Vancouver International Dance Festival VIDF
- Sunday, March 8, 2026
- Coastal Dance Festival Honouring Indigenous Stories, Song, and Dance
- Gender Equity in Media Festival GEMFest Vancouver
- Anh and Chi 10th Anniversary & Fundraiser
- Rugby Sevens in Vancouver at BC Place
- Vancouver Recital Society Presents Leonkoro Quartet
- Poetry Reading: Steven Seidenberg & Danielle LaFrance
- Hatha Yoga at the Museum
- Kitsilano Winter Farmers Market
- TEDxUBC
- Family Art Party (Surrey)
- BC Sport & Wilderness Show (Abbotsford)
- The Lantern City
- Taste of the Tri-Cities Self-Guided Celebration of Local Dining
- Workout for Women’s Day Sessions
- Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
- Vancouver International Dance Festival VIDF
Month-Long Events, Shows, Exhibitions
These events last for most of the month, or span multiple months.
Attractions:
- Vancouver Cherry Blossom Food Festival (Mar 20 to May 3)
- Hoppy Heights at Capilano Suspension Bridge (Mar 14-Apr 6)
- Bite of Burnaby (til Apr)
- The Dome Vancouver
Exhibits/Exhibitions:
- Living with Long COVID at the MOV (til Mar)
- Between Memory and Light by Rachel Nixon and Lorna Carmichael (til Mar 25)
- Tania Willard: Photolithics at the Polygon (Mar 7-May 24)
- Burnaby Art Gallery: Bobbie Burgers: Assembly (til April 19)
- Capilano University’s IDEA School of Design Exhibition (til Mar 29)
- Entangled Territories – Tibet Through Images at the MOA (til Mar 29)
- Artemis Space Adventure with LEGO® Bricks (til Apr)
- We who have known tides: Indigenous Art from the Collection (til Apr)
- Embodied Conversations: The Lillian and Billy Mauer Collection (til May 10)
- Bill Reid Gallery: Blossoming (til May 24)
- Nuxalk Strong – First Exhibition of its Kind at the MOA
- The Suitcase Project at Museum of Vancouver (til Nov)
- That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature (til Nov 8)
- The Work of Repair: Redress & Repatriation at the MOV
- Bill Reid Gallery Presents Every River Has a Mouth (til 2027)
- Gulf of Georgia Cannery – Cannery REcollections (til 2027)
- Tupananchiskama: Ancient Andean Cosmovision at MOA (til 2027)
- Chinese Canadian Museum A Soldier for All Seasons
- MOA presents Jaad Kuujus: Everyone Says I Look Like My Mother (til Mar)
Theatre:
- The Arts Club Presents: The Golden Anniversaries (til Apr 12)
- The Arts Club Presents: Dial M for Murder (til Mar 8)
- The Cult Presents: Warrior Festival (til Mar 29)
- Firehall Arts Centre Presents: House of Folk: A Lost Canadian Folk Show (til Mar 8)
- The Cultch Presents: People, Places, Things (Mar 10-22)
- The Cultch Presents: Horse of Jenin (Mar 22-29)
- UBC Theatre: Pyper (Mar 11-28)
- Firehall Arts Centre Presents: Canadian Psycho (Mar 31-Apr 12)
- Bobbie Burgers: Assembly at the Burnaby Art Gallery (til Apr 19)
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