It’s a busy weekend for events in Vancouver, with festivals theatre, soccer, dance, workshops, and more! Saturday is International Women’s Day and we have a lineup of events here. Find these events and many more fun things to do around Metro Vancouver listed below:

Friday, March 7 | Saturday, March 8 | Sunday, March 9

Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend
Events March 7-9

• Friday, March 7, 2025
  • Taste of the Tri-Cities
  • CelticFest Vancouver
    • 2nd Annual Great Irish Soda Bread Bake-off
  • Fall for Strathcona Group Exhibition
  • GEMFest – Gender Equity in Media Society Vancouver
  • Festival du Bois 2025 (Coquitlam)
  • Vancouver Opera – The Garden of Alice (Free)
  • VSO Pops Uptown Nights (Vancouver)
  • Coastal Dance Northwest Coast Indigenous Performing Arts Festival (New West/Vancouver)
  • Celebrating International Women’s Day: High Tea with Mayor Brenda Locke (Surrey)
  • Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers Story (West Vancouver)
  • Girls and STEAM: From Curiosity to Career on Int’l Women’s Day (Vancouver)
  • Pacific Theatre: Things I Hide From Dad (Vancouver)
  • YSL Make Me Blush Pop-up at the Met (Burnaby)
  • Ramadan Fest (Surrey)
  • Hadestown: Teen Edition (Vancouver)
  • Ballet BC – Zenith (Vancouver)
  • Chor Leoni – PopCappella 3D (Vancouver)
  • pARTy@PdA: Mixed Media Self-Portrait (Coquitlam)
  • Mamma Mia! at the Massey Theatre (New Westminster)
  • MashUp: Activism Pins (Coquitlam)
  • Vancouver Cocktail Week

The Two-Spirit Program at Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC) is leading the charge to name Thursday, March 20, 202 (the spring equinox) Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ Celebration and Awareness Day in Canada.

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The Lamplighter in Gastown, Vancouver’s oldest pub, is celebrating its 100th birthday on March 20th with a ceremony and concert, and we’re all invited to the party.

Vancouver’s Oldest Pub Turns 100

• Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025 8:00pm to 2:00am
• Location: The Lamplighter Public House (92 Water St, Vancouver)
• Tickets: Available online now

A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held from 3:00pm to 5:00pm with the mayor and other local dignitaries. The anniversary party will kick-off at 6:00pm with headliners Black Pontiac, and DJ Krisp Kutz following the show to keep the good times rolling until late into the night. 

YWCA Metro Vancouver has announced the 105 nominees, across 12 categories, for the 42nd Women of Distinction Awards, presented by Scotiabank. Tickets for the awards gala April 28th are now on sale.

Nominees | Connecting the Community

The YWCA Women of Distinction Awards celebrate individuals and organizations whose outstanding contributions foster the well-being, strength and future of our community. As a signature fundraising event, the Awards not only highlight the nominees’ achievements but also unite our diverse community in a shared mission to empower and uplift one another.

This summer, the Bard on the Beach 2025 season will include four dynamic productions including Much Ado About Nothing, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again], and The Dark Lady.

Bard on the Beach 2025 Season

• Dates: June to September
• Tickets: Individual tickets will go on sale Wednesday, April 9, 2025.
  • 2025 Bard Premium and Regular Flex and Season Packs are now on sale! All Packs include one ticket for each production; seat selection opens in 2025, before the general public can purchase tickets.