Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend Events Oct 2-4
This weekend around Vancouver you can enjoy some free admission at local galleries, markets, fun runs, culture days workshops, concerts and more events all around the region.
This Saturday is a very busy day for events but it would be great to see you at the White Rock South Surrey Culture Crawl! I’ll be at Black Bond Books in Semiahmoo Shopping Centre doing book signings of FREECOUVER alongside a lineup of awesome local authors.
Events on: Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend Events Oct 2-4
- Friday, October 2, 2026
- Vancouver Art Gallery Celebrates 95 Years
- First Free Friday Afternoon at Bill Reid Gallery
- Mystic Market
- Black Spaces Summit & Symposium
- 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
- Vancity Card Show
- 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
- Advance Voting – City of Vancouver
- 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
- Vancity Card Show
- 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
- Burnaby Railway Miniature Train Rides
Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend Events
- 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)
- XO Fibre Festival (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
- Vancity Card Show
- 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
- Burnaby Railway Miniature Train Rides
View the full October event list for Vancouver to plan the rest of your month.
Month-Long Events, Shows, Exhibitions
These events last for most of the month, or span multiple months.
Attractions:
- 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)
- The Count Quackula Scavenger Hunt (Tues-Sun in October)
- 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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