The Vancouver International Jazz Festival is hosting a lineup of over 30 free and Pay What You Can (PWYC) shows this summer from June 19 to July 5, 2026 at venues across Vancouver and the North Shore.

Looking for a volunteer opportunity this summer? The Writers’ Exchange is a community that supports under-resourced kids and youth to build their confidence and get excited about reading, writing and their own potential.

The 14th annual Vancouver Art Book Fair (VABF) returns to the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre from May 15–17, 2026 with over 100 artists, galleries, and publishers coming together to celebrate art books.

5X Fest is Canada’s leading festival for Panjabi music and South Asian creative culture with events in Vancouver and Surrey this weekend.

Unison Festival celebrates music and community in Vancouver, bringing together over two dozen 2SLGBTQIA+ choirs and nearly 1,100 singers from across Canada for performances May 15–18, 2026.

There are so many events happening around Metro Vancouver this summer it’s hard to only feature a few, but we’ve done our best to showcase a variety of festivals with incredibly cool culture, food, and music elements this June to September.

Glitch Theatre, in partnership with the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, presents present Arc One, a live podcast recording experience showcasing the work of D/disability-identified artists. You can enter to win tickets!

There’s a new exhibition that just opened at the Surrey Art Gallery and it’s the first to focus on the art of Expo 86. On now until June 7, 2026 with free admission.

Visual artist and plant scientist Daphne Boyer presents Li bootee mishiwayitay — The Beauty of It All at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at UBC. This powerful exhibition weaves together Métis peoples’ traditional handwork, digital technologies, plant materials, and porcupine quills.

The Verses Festival of Words, presented by Vancouver Poetry House, is Canada’s largest spoken word festival happeing April 27 to May 2, 2026.