Vancouver’s Eastside Arts District invites audiences to experience the creative resilience of the visual arts community during the newly expanded 24^th annual Eastside Culture Crawl, taking place across two consecutive weekends.

A highlight of Vancouver’s arts and cultural calendar, the Eastside Culture Crawl offers unparalleled access to visual artists practicing a bevy of different art forms, including painting, sculpture, pottery, photography, jewelry, glass art, furniture, and more.

Eastside Culture Crawl 2020

When: November 2-9, 12–15 and November 19–22, 2020
Where: In-person at various Eastside locations between Columbia St, First Ave, Victoria Drive, and the waterfront

Through an enhanced digital presence and customizable Crawl engagement, both long-time fans and first-time visitors across the Pacific Northwest—and beyond—can now experience an even more intimate, exclusive connection with artists and their art.

The 17^th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival has a cornucopia of cultural events and artistic activities to enjoy, with more than 100 events scheduled over 12 days throughout the Downtown Eastside and online. From online programming and pop-up outdoor events including music, stories, poetry, and ceremony, to films, readings, forums, workshops, discussions, art talks, history talks and visual art exhibitions. 

Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival

When: October 28 to November 8, 2020
Where: Throughout the Downtown Eastside (outdoors) and online
Tickets: Available online soon

The 2020 Festival theme, This Gives Us Strength, resonates today as the community copes with a worldwide pandemic, physical distancing, ongoing displacement, the fentanyl crisis, and the raw realities of bigotry and systemic racism.

The festival takes strength from the compelling creativity of Downtown Eastside-involved artists and residents who illuminate the vitality, relevance and resilience of the Downtown Eastside community and its diverse and rich traditions, knowledge systems, ancestral languages, cultural roots and stories.

Our outdoor art museum, the Vancouver Biennale hosts #ArtProject2020 this fall, pushing the boundaries of public art with a week-long online art and technology expo, curated by artist Jessica Angel and powered by blockchain-based marketplace Ephimera.

Vancouver Biennale Hosts #ArtProject2020

When: November 11 to 15, 2020
Where: Online here. Reserve a spot and see the speaker list and schedule as they are updated. Trilingual programming in English, Spanish, and Chinese will be available.

#ArtProject2020 is a virtual art and technology expo exploring digital art and the newest technologies shifting the art world. This event is free to attend and those without previous exposure to the field will benefit most. Everyone is welcome.

“I feel like we have somewhere to be,” John said to me as I stepped out of my slippers and told him to stay in bed a little longer. I plucked my mask from the mantel above the fireplace and headed out the door.

I squished some hand sanitizer out of the dispenser in the hall and called the elevator while I looked out over valley of green and gold treetops. My goal was to help John relax, and the Fairmont Chateau Whistler was the perfect place to do so.

The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC welcomed back its main stage concert programming digitally this season, with a handful of 100 per cent online performances called the Dot Com Series.

Dot Com Series from The Chan Centre

• $0 – Supported Ticket (single show)
• $10 – General Admission Ticket (single show)
• $20 – Supportive Ticket (single show)
• $50 – General Digital Subscription (six shows)
• $100 – Supportive Digital Subscription (six shows)
• Learn about supportive tickets and subscriptions here and purchase tickets online here