The Surrey Fusion Festival, BC’s largest multicultural celebration, returns this summer to Holland Park on July 20th and 21st bringing with it a splash of international flavours and music. Photo credit: John Bollwitt for Miss604 Last year saw over 100,000 people flood the grounds for this free festival that boasts dozens of pavilions representing various […]

Stanley Park is 125 years old this year and to celebrate, the Vancouver Park Board is hosting a weekend of festivities in Vancouver’s Crown Jewel. On Saturday August 24th and Sunday August 25th, everyone is invited to a party in the park. Highlights of the event include free family entertainment, performing and visual arts, interactive […]

Hat Off Day in Burnaby Heights is the event of the year for local merchants as they take their “hats off” to the community members, shoppers, and residents of the area in celebration of their patronage. This day-long street party that stretches as far as the eye can see along Hastings as up to a […]

EAT! Vancouver will be filling BC Place Stadium with foodies, chefs, culinary experts, consumers from Friday, May 24th to Sunday, May 26th. Features of Canada’s largest consumer food, beverage and cooking festival include spotlights on local restaurants, celebrity guests, wine and beer, cooking classes, and more. Festival Features Food Network Celebrity Stage: Catch Chuck Hughes […]

The Surrey Arts Centre and Bear Creek Park will once again be home to the Surrey Children’s Festival this year, from May 23rd until May 25th. Rain or shine, there are indoor and outdoor stages and performances for children of all ages. Line-Up Festival hours are 9:00am to 2:30pm Thursday and Friday, and 10:30am to […]

Despite the fog and rain, Vancouver Farmers Markets are still going strong this winter as they setup every Saturday outside Nat Bailey Stadium. For the month of February they’ll be trying something new by adding a Food Truck Festival – doubling their regular number of food trucks. Visitors are invited to vote on their favourite […]

Grab your best girlfriends and head to wine country in Osoyoos as they host Champagne & Stockings, the ultimate holiday getaway. Photos courtesy of Spirit Ridge Vineyard and Resort. Happening November 23rd to November 25th, 2012 at Spirit Ridge Vineyard and Resort, Champagne & Stockings will feature fabulous wines, mouth-watering meals from Chef Dave Ryan, […]

The Surrey Tree Lighting Festival is set for Saturday, November 24, 2012 and it will be filled with activities and entertainment to ring in the holiday season. This free family festival will run from 12:00pm to 8:00pm at the Central City Plaza where the tree be lit at 6:15pm. Come throughout the day to catch […]

The Vancouver Writers Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with its biggest line-up to date on Granville Island from October 16th to 21st, 2012. Over the course of six days the festival will host 77 events with a variety of panel discussions, interviews, musical collaborations, and more. Events Event categories include Biography/Personal Experience, […]

It will be a weekend of books, magazines, story-telling, and “literary mayhem” when the 18th annual Word on the Street Festival comes to the Vancouver later this month. The three-day festival starts on Friday, September 28, 2012 at Banyan Books & Sound and at Historic Joy Kogawa House. On Saturday there are events at the […]