The annual Fort Langley Cranberry Festival returns Saturday, October 6, 2018 celebrating the harvest and history of the cranberry in the region.

Fort Langley Cranberry Festival

Where: Fort Langley Village (free) & Fort Langley Historic Site (free for the day)
When: Saturday, October 6, 2018 from 10:00am to 4:00pm
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Join over 60,000 other people from all over the region for this community celebration. The Cranberry Festival market in the village will have over 70 vendors along with a pancake breakfast at 8:00am to kick off the festivities for the day. Continue reading this post ⟩⟩

The Vancouver Alpen Club is hosting its annual Oktoberfest spanning three consecutive weekends in October this year.

The Vancouver Alpen Club has been the home of Oktoberfest in Vancouver for over 30 years, serving up traditional Bavarian cuisine and partnering up with three German breweries Pfungstaedter, Krombacher and of course Erdinger, the world’s largest wheat beer brewery, founded in 1886. Continue reading this post ⟩⟩

This year’s Stanley Park Halloween Ghost Train theme is the Jack O’ Lantern’s journey through the Dark Forest. You’re invited to join Jack on his journey as his lantern casts a light on floating druids, a 12-foot monster, and creatures barely human.

Stanley Park Halloween Ghost Train

Explore the Haunted Maze/Little Monsters Maze, crafts and movies, exhibits by the Stanley Park Ecology Society, the pumpkin patch, and food vendors Insomniac’s Coffee, The Praguery, Kobachi Kart, Jack O’s Café & Canteen. Continue reading this post ⟩⟩

Some are unlucky at love. Others are just plain inept. The latter populate writer-director Bruce Sweeney’s heartfelt farce that delivers finely tuned dysfunction while featuring copious local haunts and a surplus of skeletons in closets.

“TIFF kind of ties me up in knots and VIFF kind of unloosens those knots,” writer and director Bruce Sweeney told me over the phone from his cabin this summer, ahead of the busy film festival season. His latest work, Kingsway premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month and it will soon screen at Vancouver’s festival.

Kingsway by Bruce Sweeney

Named after a storied thoroughfare that crosses cities and in parts almost seems to intersect with itself, Kingsway, the namesake of Sweeney’s film, also serves as a metaphor. “A loose metaphor for relationships,” he says. “You think you’re going one way and you end up going another.” Continue reading this post ⟩⟩

“A Conversation with Ellen” is coming to Rogers Arena on October 19, 2018, and Metropolis at Metrotown has tickets to give away to the biggest Ellen fans in the city! Metropolis at Metrotown is looking for energetic, hilarious, and daring contestants who would love to go see Ellen Degeneres live.

Play Your Way to Ellen at Metropolis at Metrotown

Where: Metropolis at Metrotown’s Atrium and Grand Courts
When: Sunday, September 30, 2018. Check-in 12:00pm. Compete 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Admission: Free to participate, free to watch!

Inspired by The Ellen Show, Ellen fans can compete on September 30, 2018 in Play Your Way to Ellen at Metropolis at Metrotown’s Grand Court. 90 lucky contestants will be randomly selected and have the opportunity to play in a series of games to win one of five Ellen Prize Packages. Each Ellen Prize Package includes two tickets to see “A Conversation with Ellen” (each package valued over $600). Continue reading this post ⟩⟩