This summer Canada, and Vancouver, is hosting the FIFA Women’s World Cup and with just 50 days to go the excitement is building. Leading up to kickoff on June 6th, Canadians can get up close and personal with the FIFA Women’s World Cup™ trophy ahead of the largest live spectator sporting event in our country’s […]

Canstruction, a design/build competition now in its 13th year, returns to Downtown Vancouver as engineers and architects bring their interpretation of this year’s theme “Fact or Fiction” to life using canned goods. Imagine an 8 foot tall Sasquatch, a giant optical illusion or huge talking watermelon built with thousands of cans of food! After the […]

EAT Vancouver, the largest festival of its kind in Canada, returns to BC Place — and beyond — April 26th to May 3rd. This 13th annual gastronomic feast for the senses features an expanded eight-day program with more than 35 collaborative workshops, dinners and events taking place throughout Vancouver before culminating in a three-day show […]

The Wild About Vancouver Outdoor Education Festival kicks off a week of free, public events today that offer practical ways to get children (and adults) outdoors more regularly. Running from April 16th to April 22nd, events include beach walks, workshops, gardening sessions, kite flying, farm tours and more. Wild About Vancouver Outdoor Sign up or […]

Record Store Day is a unique celebration of independent businesses that reaches every single continent (except Antarctica) bringing together nearly 1,400 record stores around the world with the people who love them. On Saturday, April 18, 2015, many Vancouver area record stores will participate in this global event. Photo credit: Chris Frewin on Flickr This […]