October Events in Vancouver 2026
As the leaves begin to turn, Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley come alive with arts and culture, theatre, festivals, farm adventures, and seasonal events for everyone to enjoy. This month, Miss604 is a sponsor of the Canuck Place Gift of Time Gala on October 24th. Find this event and many more fun things to do around Vancouver listed below.
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October Events in Vancouver 2026
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- Thursday, October 1 to Sunday, October 4, 2026
- Monday, October 5 to Sunday, October 11, 2026
- Monday, October 12 to Sunday, October 18, 2026
- Monday, October 19 to Sunday, October 25, 2026
- Monday, October 26 to Saturday, October 31, 2026
Month-Long Events, Shows, Exhibitions
These events last for most of the month, or span multiple months.
Attractions:
- Burnaby Railway Miniature Train Rides (til Oct 12)
- Canyon Frights at Capilano Suspension Bridge (Oct 9 -Nov 1)
- Guildford Town Centre’s Secrets of the Haunted Bog (Oct 9-31)
- FlyOver Canada – HowlOver Canada (Oct 15-Nov 1)
- Vancouver Korean Book Festival (Oct 5-31)
- Fright Nights at Playland (Oct 7-31)
- Fall on the Farm in the Fraser Valley
- Astra Lumina in Stanley Park
- Halloween at Britannia: Monsters, Machines & Mischief
Tours:
Exhibits/Exhibitions:
- Ferry Building Gallery: Tāpis: A Love Letter to Our Dog Kin (til Oct 4)
- Lam Tung Pang’s Out of This World (Oct 24 -Jan 3)
- I Use My Haida Eyes: The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson (til Oct)
- James Harry: Eye Of The Ancestor (til Oct 18)
- Daphne Boyer Presents Li bootee mishiwayitay — The Beauty of It All (til Nov)
- 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
- I Use My Haida Eyes: The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson (til Oct)
- Cradled Origins at the Bill Reid Gallery (til Jan)
- Martin Bartlett: Begin Anywhere (til Feb)
- Bill Reid Gallery Presents Every River Has a Mouth (til 2027)
- Gulf of Georgia Cannery – Cannery REcollections (til 2027)
- Vancouver Art Gallery Presents Local Showcase Vancouver Now! (til May 2027)
- Gifts to be Shared, Protected, and Carried Forward at MONOVA (til Mar 2027)
- Tupananchiskama: Ancient Andean Cosmovision at MOA (til 2027)
- Becoming: The Art of Gu Xiong (til 2027)
- Chinese Canadian Museum A Soldier for All Seasons
- The Robot Zoo at Science World (Oct – Apr ’27)
- Highlights from the Collection – Vancouver Art Gallery (til Jan 2030)
Theatre & Dance:
- The Arts Club Presents: Heist (Sept 17-Oct 18)
- Studio 58 Presents: The Birds (Oct 8-18)
- The Cultch Presents: Job (Sept 29-Oct 11)
- Mary Shelley Meets A Monster (Oct 15-31)
- Mom’s the Word: Talkin’ Turkey (Oct 14-24)
- The Improv Centre
- The Effect (Oct 15-25)
- Touchstone Theatre: Vascular Necrosis – a Queer Zombie Love Story (Oct 7-18)
- Mitch & Murray Productions Presents: Mary Jane (Oct 23 – Nov 1)
- Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors (Oct 22-Nov 15)
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- Thursday, October 1, 2026
- Friday, October 2, 2026
- Vancouver Art Gallery Celebrates 95 Years
- First Free Friday Afternoon at Bill Reid Gallery
- Mystic Market
- Epidermis Circus (Surrey)
- ON UNCEDED TERRITORY Exhibition
- An Evening with Carole David and Daphne Marlatt
- Harvest Haus Oktoberfest
- Have a Senior Moment Festival
- VFS Inside the Craft: Making a Horror Scene
- BC Culture Days Events
- VIFF Vancouver International Film Festival
- Metro Vancouver Croissant Crawl
- Langley City Culture Days
- Saturday, October 3, 2026
- Miss604 Event: Book Signing at the White Rock and South Surrey Culture Crawl
- Girls and STEAM Summit at Science World
- First Saturday Open Studios
- ON UNCEDED TERRITORY Exhibition
- All Hallows Eve Craft Market
- Harvest Haus Oktoberfest
- Locality Brewing Fall Market
- Harvest Days at VanDusen Botanical Garden
- Nature Tales in Stanley Park
- Public Disco Festival (North Vancouver)
- Tatakizome on a Tote Bag Workshop (West Vancouver)
- Natural Dye and Shibori (West Vancouver)
- Little Mountain Gallery – The Dark and Dirty Show
- Butterfly Run Vancouver
- VFS Inside the Craft: Making a Horror Scene
- VFS Acting Program Live Audition
- Intro to Ukelele Workshop
- Metro Vancouver Croissant Crawl
- Vancouver Film School Open House
- TEAL Charitable Foundation Gala
- Step Up for Ostomy (North Vancouver)
- Pianist Ian Parker with Brooklyn Wood, Violin & Albert Seo, Cello
- Opening Reception: Fiona Huang – Free in the Chaos (Richmond)
- Artist in Residence Showcase with James Groening (Surrey)
- Walks with History: Shipyards (North Vancouver)
- Textile Dye Garden Open House (Surrey)
- Once Upon A Time Gala (Surrey)
- 5th Annual International Sikh Research Summit (Surrey)
- White Rock & South Surrey Culture Crawl (Surrey)
- Have a Senior Moment Festival
- BC Culture Days
- Langley City Culture Days
- Riley Park Farmers Market
- Trout Lake Farmers Market
- West End Farmers Market
- VIFF Vancouver International Film Festival
- Sunday, October 4, 2026
- ON UNCEDED TERRITORY Exhibition
- Harvest Days at VanDusen Botanical Garden
- Blue Violin (North Vancouver)
- Pay What You Can Day at MONOVA (North Vancouver)
- Step Up for LGH (West Vancouver)
- RIOT: Vancouver Sketch Comedy
- Nature Tales in Stanley Park
- Bacon & L’eggs All-Ages Drag Brunch
- VFS Inside the Craft: Making a Horror Scene
- Metro Vancouver Croissant Crawl
- 5th Annual International Sikh Research Summit (Surrey)
- White Rock & South Surrey Culture Crawl (Surrey)
- Have a Senior Moment Festival
- BC Culture Days Events
- Langley City Culture Days
- Mount Pleasant Farmers Market
- White Rock Farmers Market
- VIFF Vancouver International Film Festival
- Monday, October 5, 2026
- Tuesday, October 6, 2026
- Wednesday, October 7, 2026
- Thursday, October 8, 2026
- Friday, October 9, 2026
- Whistler Outdoor Festival
- Halloween Hunt in City of Lougheed (Burnaby)
- Queer Confidential (Burnaby)
- BC Lions Game
- Phantasmagoria Nights: Vintage Horror Projection Show (Coquitlam)
- ACTORS with Sacred Skin, MØAA and DJ Evilyn 13
- Palestine Comedy Club
- Music BC ARC Showcase
- VIFF Vancouver International Film Festival
- Saturday, October 10, 2026
- Harvest Days at VanDusen Botanical Garden
- Global Dance Festival 2026 – Fusion of Diversity (Surrey)
- Variety Vault: Unlocked – An Adult Variety Show
- Intro to Ukelele Workshop
- River Basin Days (Coquitlam)
- Palestine Comedy Club
- 31st Annual Fort Langley Cranberry Festival
- “The Power of Portraits” Tour and Talk with Gu Xiong
- Whistler Outdoor Festival
- Riley Park Farmers Market
- Trout Lake Farmers Market
- West End Farmers Market
- VIFF Vancouver International Film Festival
- Sunday, October 11, 2026
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More October Events in Vancouver 2026
- Monday, October 12, 2026
- Tuesday, October 13, 2026
- Queer Confidential (Port Moody)
- Wednesday, October 14, 2026
- Thursday, October 15, 2026
- Vancouver Horror Show Film Festival
- Movie at the Museum: Dante’s Inferno (1911)
- Vancouver Fall Home Show
- Vancouver Public Library: Dolly-Palooza
- VFS Foundation Visual Art & Design Program Preview
- Chan Centre Insights – An Evening with Zadie Smith
- Global Journeys, Coast Salish Roots—an Illustrated Talk with Xwalacktun (West Vancouver)
- Live Graphic Novel Drawing Show
- Mushroom Stamp-Making: Linocut Workshop
- K-Story Hunters: Experiencing the Sounds of Korean – An Interactive Reading Theatre
- Austerity Tours Offered by Museum of Vancouver
- Friday, October 16, 2026
- Vancouver Horror Show Film Festival
- Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival
- A History of Motown (North Vancouver)
- Yupi! Latin American Arts Family Festival
- Autumn Art Show and Sale (Burnaby)
- Off the Shelf Poetry Reading Series: Jordan Abel & Cecily Nicholson
- Phantasmagoria Nights: Vintage Horror Projection Show (Coquitlam)
- Vancouver Fall Home Show
- VFS Exclusive ADVANCED Scene Study with Gil Bellows
- Cayford Gala Starlight & Stories
- A Workshop with PARK Ju-hyun Making Silkscreen Postcards
- MetroCon – Horror-Themed FanCon (Burnaby)
- Saturday, October 17, 2026
- VOTE in the Vancouver Civic Election
- Harvest Days at VanDusen Botanical Garden
- Phyllis & Mimi’s Multiverse After Dark
- Does It Snack?
- Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival
- Nature Tales in Stanley Park
- A Night of Italian Opera
- Tasting Your Way Through the Hive (New Westminster)
- Yupi! Latin American Arts Family Festival
- Murder at the Museum: A Killer Comedy Whodunnit
- Anvil Theatre Presents Bury the Hatchet (New Westminster)
- Vancouver Fall Home Show
- VFS Exclusive ADVANCED Scene Study with Gil Bellows
- Intro to Multi-Colour Woodcuts with Richard Tetrault (West Vancouver)
- Community Tree Planting (Surrey)
- MetroCon – Horror-Themed FanCon (Burnaby)
- Canadian Steam Comedy (Delta)
- Vancouver Horror Show Film Festival
- Small File Media Festival
- Sunday, October 18, 2026
- Harvest Days at VanDusen Botanical Garden
- Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival
- Bingo Night for the Cats – A Surrey CATS Fundraiser
- Birds of a Feather: Ducks and Fall Flocks
- Nature Tales in Stanley Park
- Jenie Gao on Business Basics and Art Ethics for Artists (Richmond)
- MetroCon – Horror-Themed FanCon (Burnaby)
- VFS Exclusive ADVANCED Scene Study with Gil Bellows
- Yupi! Latin American Arts Family Festival
- Vancouver Writers Festival
- Spirits, Spells & Cocktails @ D6 Bar & Lounge
- GAME CHANGER – Free Drag Bingo & Trivia
- Vancouver Horror Show Film Festival
- Vancouver Fall Home Show
- Small File Media Festival
- Mount Pleasant Farmers Market
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- Monday, October 19, 2026
- Tuesday, October 20, 2026
- Vancouver Writers Festival
- Fraser River Hall of Fame (New Westminster)
- Art Café: Hiding in Plain Sight (West Vancouver)
- Wednesday, October 21, 2026
- Downtown Vancouver Farmers Market
- Vancouver Writers Festival
- CIFF Chilliwack Independent Film Festival
- Creatures of the Night in Stanley Park
- Critical Hit Show: A #DNDLive Improvised Epic Fantasy Spooktacular
- Portrait Sketching with Elmira (West Vancouver)
- The Gender Blender – Trans, Non Binary & Gender Diverse Meet Greet
- Thursday, October 22, 2026
- Friday, October 23, 2026
- School’s Out Drop-in: STEAM (Surrey)
- BC Lions Game
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Hosted by Dandy)
- FBG Portrait Award Gala (West Vancouver)
- Haunted Village at Burnaby Village Museum
- Vancouver Writers Festival
- Vancouver Balboa Mini Fest
- DanceHouse Presents ODE
- Saturday, October 24, 2026
- VOTE in the BC Provincial Election
- Sponsored by Miss604: Canuck Place Gift of Time Gala
- Pop-up Recycling Event and Halloween Free Swap Tent
- ISU Short Track World Tour
- Vancouver Opera Presents Tosca
- Opening Reception: Lam Tung Pang’s Out of This World (Richmond)
- Vancouver Writers Festival
- Witches’ Night Out (Surrey)
- DanceHouse Presents ODE
- Nightshade Market : Witches Harvest A Samhain Artisan Market
- Ghostly Galleries at MONOVA (North Vancouver)
- Intro to Ukelele Workshop
- Movie Sing Along – The Nightmare Before Christmas (North Vancouver)
- Terrell Edwards: A Night of Motown (New Westminster)
- Metro Vancouver Black Business Expo 2026 (Surrey)
- Family Halloween Event at Newton Seniors Centre (Surrey)
- BOO-seum Halloween Party (Surrey)
- Day of the Dead at Lougheed (Burnaby)
- Tim Burtons Funeral – A Naturally Freaky Cabaret
- Vancouver Balboa Mini Fest
- Riley Park Farmers Market
- Trout Lake Farmers Market
- West End Farmers Market
- Sunday, October 25, 2026
- Vancouver Rise vs Calgary
- Mount Pleasant Farmers Market
- Chinatown Book Launch with Kathryn Lennon, Donna Seto & Alyssa Sy de Jesus
- ISU Short Track World Tour
- Day of the Dead at Lougheed (Burnaby)
- LCMS Celli Reunion (Langley)
- Kids Soccer Event at BC Place
- Nightshade Market : Witches Harvest A Samhain Artisan Market
- Ghostly Galleries at MONOVA (North Vancouver)
- Vancouver Balboa Mini Fest
- Kaleidoscope Drag Brunch & More
- Vancouver Writers Festival
- Monday, October 26, 2026
- Tuesday, October 27, 2026
- Wednesday, October 28, 2026
- Thursday, October 29, 2026
- The Rocky Little Shop of Horrors Sing Along
- Beaded Pin-Making Workshop (North Vancouver)
- Creatures of the Night in Stanley Park
- Shani Mootoo: Reading & Launch
- Twisted Tales: A Live Haunted Radio Play (Maple Ridge)
- Gibson Art Museum Teen Hangout (Burnaby)
- Spellbound: A Witches + Warlocks Halloween Dinner in Burnaby
- Friday, October 30, 2026
- Sensory Friendly Trick or Treating (Surrey)
- Central Spark Burnaby Halloween Festival
- Halloween Sip n’ Strum (New Westminster)
- Big Ideas: The Future of Aging
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Hosted by Dandy)
- Science World After Dark Halloween Edition
- Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
- Hastings Moonrise Halloween Party w/ Blue Jay Valley, Pugamaru, RaRas
- Rocky Horror Picture Show at Clayton Community Centre (Surrey)
- The Queer Beaver – The new Lesbian Lounge
- Saturday, October 31, 2026
- Adopt a Catch Basin: 10th Birthday Party
- Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
- Halloween at the Polygon (North Vancouver)
- Halloween Hologram Zoo
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – A Staged Reading
- Making monsters in watercolour with Megan Majewski (West Vancouver)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Hosted by Dandy)
- Halloween Spooktacular in Yaletown
- Intro to Ukelele Workshop
- Riley Park Farmers Market
- Trout Lake Farmers Market
- West End Farmers Market
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