The highly-anticipated Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival returns with picnics, workshops, art, poetry, and and plenty of photo ops from March 26 to April 28, 2025.
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Events
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Yaletown Pop-Up
Dates: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 from 11:30am to 2:00pm
Location: Bill Curtis Square (1198 Mainland St, Vancouver)
Kick off the 2025 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival season at the free Yaletown Pop-Up with live music and performers while appreciating the springtime blossoms.
Vancouver’s Iranian Visual Arts (VIVA) Alliance announces the launch of new venue, Media Res Gallery, with the opening of an exhibition by Hangama Amiri.
Photo: Installation view of Henna Night/Shabe Kheena at the David B. Smith Gallery (Denver, CO). Courtesy of the artist and Cooper Cole, Toronto.
Media Res Gallery
Media Res Gallery spans the entire fourth floor of a newly constructed building in the Railtown neighbourhood. The light-filled space is divided into three areas: a 1,800-square-foot main gallery for primary use, a smaller hallway gallery reserved for more intimate exhibitions, and a studio space. The studio currently contains VIVA Alliance’s offices and has designated space for collaborating artists and residents. The space is designed to provide artists with individual work areas as well as a hub for meetings, workshops, lectures, and community-focused programming.
Do not be alarmed if you see soldiers carrying rifles in Stanley Park this weekend. The HMCS Discovery will be conducting NATO’s Exercise Steadfast Defender, focused on security operations training, during the weekend of March 15-16, 2025 on Deadman Island [Source].
HMCS Discovery – Miss604 Rebecca Bollwitt photo
Military Exercise in Stanley Park This Weekend
The public may notice CAF members with unloaded service rifles at the entrance gates of HMCS Discovery on Deadman Island. Sounds from the firing of blank ammunition may also be heard throughout the duration of the exercise; however, no live ammunition will be used at any time.
Join Stanley Park Ecology educator Julia Taylor for a special tour of the Stanley Park heron rookery and learn all about how these beautiful and large birds navigate the canopy, build their nests, and raise their fledglings.
Heron Colony Tour in Stanley Park
Dates: Saturday, March 22, 2025 10:30am to 11:45am
Location: Nature House on Lost Lagoon (near Alberni and Chilco)
The Stanley Park heron colony is the largest urban colony of Pacific Great Blue Herons in North America. Every spring, Pacific Great Blue Herons take to over a hundred nests on the edge of Downtown Vancouver to raise their young, and they’ve been doing so for more than a century.
Heron in Stanley Park – Miss604 Rebecca Bollwitt photo
The BC Entertainment Hall of Fame (BCEHOF) invites nominations for its 2025 StarWalk and StandingOvations inductions until April 14, 2025. The hall of fame honours over 300 inductees who have made a significant contribution to the performing arts, film and television, and radio broadcast arenas in the province.
Nickelback – Photo by Quinn Bender for the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame
2025 Nominations Open BC Entertainment Hall of Fame
Nominations to the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame can be made until April 14, 2025 by a group of individuals on behalf of a nominee who has made a significant contribution to the performing arts, film & television, and radio broadcast arenas in British Columbia.
