Gulf Islands
Festivals, Events and Attractions
The arts are large
part of island life. Galleries abound and studio tours are available on
most of the larger islands. Musicians, poets, dancers and performers take
the stage on islands venues ranging from Salt Spring's Artspring, to island
community centres, or local restaurants, bars and cafes. The quality of
the performances are often excellent and difficult productions are not
shied away from. Festivals include the large lamb barbecue on Saturna,
the Galiano Wine Festival, Gabriola's Sand Sculpture Competition and of
course the fall and harvest fairs at summers end on most of the islands.
Not surprisingly the areas market places are perhaps the biggest draw
on the islands, given the unique and varied items produced locally.
Salt
Spring Market Photo Gallery
- Adelaar
Ridge Cruises - Boat Cruises, Galiano Island
- ArtCraft
- Exhibit, Spring & Summer, Salt Spring Island
- ArtSpring
- Performing Arts Centre, Salt Spring Island
- Art
Galiano - A virtual Gallery, Galiano
- August
Harvest & Flower Show
(Galiano Chamber) - Galiano
- Big
Trees - The Big Trees of Salt Spring Island
- Dancing
Man - Music Festival, Gabriola Island
- Eco-Home
Tour - Salt Spring Island
- Fall
Fair - Salt Spring Island
- Flying
Dreams - Salt Spring Island
- Galiano
Art Gallery - Galiano Island
- Galiano
Museum and Archives
- Galiano Island
- Gabriola
Studio Tour - Thanksgiving, Gabriola Island
- Galiano
Saturday Market
(Galiano Chamber) - Summer,
Galiano
- Galiano
Wine Festival - August, Galiano Island
- Graffiti
Theatre - Salt Spring Island
- Island
Gourmet Safaris - Salt Spring Island
- Island
Wildlife Natural Care Centre - Salt Spring Island
- Mayne
Island Fall Fair
(Mayne Chamber) - August,
Mayne
- Mayne
Island Farmers Market
(Mayne Chamber) - Summer,
Mayne
- Music
Under the Stars
- Summer, Tree House Cafe, Ganges, Salt Spring Island
- Nature
Diver - Marine Life in the Gulf Islands Region
- Pender
Creatives - Pender Island Arts
- Pender
Islands Community Hall - Events Pender Islands
- Pender
Island Fall Fair
(Community Hall) - August
- Pender
Island Museum -
Pender Island
- PhotoSynthesis
- Island Photographers, Salt Spring Island
- Salt
Spring Apple Festival - Fall, Salt Spring Island
- Salt
Spring Archives - Salt Spring Island
- Salt
Spring Dollars - Salt Spring Island
- Salt
Spring Fibre Festival - In Praise of Hands, Salt Spring Island
- Salt
Spring Film Festival - Salt Spring Media Group
- Salt
Spring Folk Club - Salt Spring Island
- Salt
Spring Jazz Fest - Salt Spring Island
- Salt
Spring Saturday Market - Renown outdoor market, Salt Spring Island
- Salt
Spring Studio Tour - Salt Spring Island
- Saturna
Artists Open Studio Tour
(Saturna Tourism) - August
- Saturna
Lamb Barbeque - July 1, Winter Cove Park, Saturna Island
- Sporades
Tours - Eco Tours
- Stagecoach
Theatre School - Salt Spring Island
- Top
O' The Heap
- Labyrinth, Galiano Island
Vancouver
Island Festivals, Events and Attractions
- Alberni
Valley Museum - 4255 Wallace Street, Port Alberni
- Bard
to Broadway Theatre Society - Qualicum Beach
- BC
Aviation Museum
- Aviation Museum, Sidney
- BC
Forest Discovery Centre - 2892 Drinkwater Road, Duncan
- Bungy
Zone - Nanaimo
- Butchart
Gardens - Gardens, Sidney
- Butterfly
Gardens - Sidney
- Butterfly
World - Coombs
- Cadillac
Van Isle 360 - Nanaimo
- Campbell
River Museum - 470 Island Highway, Campbell River
- Centre
of the Universe - Astrophysics Observatory, 5071 West Saanich Road,
Central Saanich
- Chemainus
Theatre - Theatre, Chemainus
- Comox
Airforce Museum - Aviation Museum, Comox
- Cougar
Annie's Garden - Tofino
- Courtenay
Museum - Museum, 207 Forth Street, Courtnay
- Cumberland
Museum - Museum, 2680 Dunsmuir Avenue, Cumberland
- Cycling
Solutions
- Cycling
Vancouver Island
- Esquimalt
Navel and Military Museum - Historic Museum, Esquimalt
- Filberg
Festival of Arts - 61 Filberg Road, Comox
- Gilda's
Theatre - Theatre, 1370 Island Highway, Campbell River
- Gulf
Island Cruising - Cruise, Sidney
- Hornby
Festival - Hornby Island, Discovery Islands
- Horne
Lake Caves - Caves, Horne Lake Caves Provincial Park
- Island
Cruising Yacht Charters - Sailing, Sidney
- Islands Folk Festival
- Summer, Duncan - Cowichan Folk
Guild
- Island
Music Festival
- July, Courtenay, Vancouver Island
- Lady
Winspear Centre at Sanscha - 2243 Beacon Avenue, Sidney
- Marine
Ecology Station - Aquatic Research Centre, Sidney
- Milner
Gardens - Gardens, Qualicum
- Music
by the Sea
- Music Festival, Bamfield, Vancouver Island
- Nanaimo
Aquatic Centre - Aquatic Centre, 741 Third Street, Nanaimo
- Nanaimo
Casino (Great Canadian Casinos) - Nanaimo
- Nanaimo
Dragon Boat Festival - Nanaimo
- Nanaimo
Marine Festival & Bathtub Race - Nanaimo
- Nanaimo
District Museum - Museum, 100 Cameron Road, Nanaimo
- North
Island Wildlife Recovery Centre - Errington
- Old
School House Arts Centre - 122 Fern Road West, Qualicum Beach
- Parksville
Beach Festival - Sand Sculpture Competition, Parksville, Vancouver
Island
- Qualicum
Beach Museum - 587 Beach Road, Qualicum
- Ripetide
Lagoon - Nanaimo
- Sanscha
- Theatre, Sidney
- Saanich
Commonwealth Pool - 4636 Elk Lake Drive, Saanich
- Saanich
Fair - Saanich Peninsula
- Saanich
Historical Artifacts Society - 7321 Lochside Drive, Saanichton
- Sandown
Park - Harness Racing, North Saanich
- Scratch
Patch and Mineral World - 9891 Seaport Place, Sidney
- Sidney
Museum - Museum, Sidney
- Sidney
Maritime Museum - 9801 Seaport Place, Sidney
- Sook
Fine Arts Show
- Sooke, Vancouver Island
- Stinking
Fish Studio Tour - Summer, Metchosin & East Sooke, Vancouver
Island
- Swiftsure
- Racing under sail, Juan de Fuca Straight
- Theatre
BC's Mainstage - Theatre, Nanaimo
- Times
Colonist 10k
- Tofino
Botanical Gardens - Botanical Gardens, Torino, Pacific Rim
- Tofino
Workshop for the Arts - Tofino, Pacific Rim
- U'mista
Cultural Centre - Alert Bay
- Undersea
Gardens - Aquatic Centre, Victoria
- Vancouver
Island Adventure Games - Nanaimo
- Vancouver
Island Children's Festival - Nanaimo
- Vancouver
Island Exhibition - Nanaimo
- Victoria
Bug Zoo
- Victoria
Ska Festival
- Music Festival, Victoria
- Victoria
Whisky Festival
- Western
Speedway - 2207 Millstream Road, Langford
- Whiskey
Creek Music Festival - Music Festival, Oceanside Vancouver Island
Victoria
- Abkhazi Gardens
- 1964 Fairfield Road, (250) 598-8095, Victoria
- Art
Gallery of Greater Victoria - 1040 Moss Street, Victoria
- Bastion
Square Public Market - Bastion Square, Victoria
- Ballet
Victoria Society - 108 - 733 Johnson Street, Victoria
- Belfry
Theatre - 1291 Gladstone Avenue, Victoria
- Beacon
Hill Children's Farm - Petting farm, Victoria
- Bike
to Work Victoria
- Butchart
Gardens - Victoria
- Centre
of the Universe - 5071 West Saanich Road, Victoria
- Chemainus
Theatre Festival - Victoria
- Comedy
Celler - 759 Yates Street, Victoria
- Craigdarroch
Castle - 1050 Joan Crescent, Victoria
- Dream
Baloon Adventures - 4997 Prospect Lake Road, Victoria
- Esquimalt
Navel and Military Museum - Historic Museum, Victoria
- Emily
Carr House - 207 Government Street, Victoria
- Government
House Gardens - 1401 Rockland Avenue, Victoria
- Great
Canadian Beer Festival - 202 - 941 Esquimalt Road, Victoria
- Hatley
Castle - 2005 Sook Road, Victoria
- Horticulture
Centre of the Pacific - 505 Quale Road, Victoria
- ICA
Folkfest - 930 Balmoral Road, Victoria
- Imax
- 675 Belleville Street Victoria
- Interpid
Theatre - 201 - 1110 Government Street, Victoria
- Jazzfest
International - Victoria
- Maple
Leaf Adventures - Sailboat Charters, Victoria
- Maritime
Museum of British Columbia - 28 Bastion Square, Victoria
- Miniature
World - 649 Humbolt Street, Victoria
- Naval
and Military Museum - CFB Esquimalt, Esquimalt
- Pacific
Opera Victoria - 1316B Government Street, Victoria
- Pacific
Undersea Gardens - 490 Belleville Street, Victoria
- Pride
Week Victoria
- Royal
British Columbia Museum
- 675 Belleville Street, Victoria
- Royal
& McPherson Theatres Society - 805 Broughton Street, Victoria
- Royal
London Wax Museum - 470 Belleville Street, Victoria
- Royal
Victoria Marathon - 185 - 911 Yates Street, Victoria
- Salmon
Kings - Victoria Hockey
- Save
on Foods Memorial Centre - Entertainment & Sports, 1925 Blanchard
Street, Victoria
- Symphony
Splash - Victoria Harbour
- TerrifVic
Jazz Party - 545 Superior Street, Victoria
- Times
Colonist 10k
- Victoria
Bug Zoo - 631 Courtney Street, Victoria
- Victoria
Cycling Festival
- Victoria
Dragon Boat Festival - 32079-3651 Shelbourne Street, Victoria
- Victoria
Festival of Wine, Music & Food - 4 - 750 Pemberton Road, Victoria
- Victoria
Flower & Garden Show - 2005 Sooke Road, Victoria
- Victoria
Harbour Ferries
- Victoria
Harbour
- Victoria
Independant Film and Video Festival - Victoria
- Victoria
International Walking Festival
- Victoria
Jazzfest - Victoria
- Victoria
Operatic Society - 10 - 744 Fairview Road, Victoria
- Victoria
Salsa - More Hockey
- Victoria
Shamrocks - Lacrosse
- Victoria
Ska Festival
- Music Festival, Victoria
- Victoria
Symphony - 846 Broughton Street, Victoria
- Victoria
Tall Ships - 28 Bastion Square, Victoria
Vancouver
- Alliance
for the Arts
- Arts
Club Theatre Company - Granville Island & Stanley Theatre, Vancouver
- B.C.
Place Stadium - Vancouvers main sport stadium and popular event
venue as well as home to the B.C. Lions CFL football team.
- BC
Sports Hall of Fame and Museum
- Ballet
British Columbia - 677 Davie Street, West End Vancouver
- Bard
on the Beach Shakespeare Festival - Festival, Vancouver
- Bloedel
Conservatory - 33rd Avenue (Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver
- Bowen
Island Children's Festival - Festival, Bowen Island, West Vancouver
- Brockton
Point Cricket Club - Brockton Point, Stanley Park
- Burnaby
Village Museum - Museum, 6501 Deer Lake Road, Burnaby
- Canada
Day Celebrations at Canada Place - Festival, Downtown, Vancouver
- Canada
Day Celebrations at Granville Island - Festival, Granville Island,
Vancouver
- Caribbean
Days Festival - Festival, Vancouver
- Capilano
Suspension Bridge - Attraction, 3735 Capilano Road, North Vancouver
- Carousel
Theatre - Theatre, Vancouver
- Car
Free Day Vancouver
- Celebration
of Light - Festival, Fireworks Competition - July and August View
it from English Bay, Jericho or Kitsilano Beach
- Centre
in Vancouver for the Performing Arts - Performing Arts, Venue, Vancouver
- Christmas
at Canada Place - Festival, Vancouver
- Cloverdale
Rodeo - Rodeo, Cloverdale
- Dance
Centre - Dance, 677 Davie Street, Vancouver
- Dancing
on the Edge - Festival, Dance, Vancouver
- Dr.
Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden - 578 Carrall Street, Chinatown,
Vancouver
- DuMaurier
International Jazz Festival
- Easy
Park - - Cleaver Site! - Parking Location and Rates in Vancouver
- English
Bay - West end (not West Vancouver) beach, shopping, dining and
nightlife
- Festival
Vancouver - Festival, Music, Vancouver
- Find
Family Fun - This is a great site!
- Firehall
Arts Centre - 280 East Cordova, Vancouver
- Gallery
- Centre for the Performing Arts, Artisan Square, Bowen Island
- Gastown
- Original site of the city. Shopping and dining.
- Gastown
- Again!
- Granville
Street
- General
Motors Place - Popular sport and event venue and home to the Natioanal
Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks!
- Granville
Island Model Ships Museum - 1502 Duranleau Street, Granville Island,
Vancouver
- Granville
Island Model Trains Museum - 1502 Duranleau Street, Granville Island,
Vancouver
- Granville
Island Museums
- Granville
Mall - What can we say.
- Granville
Island - Shopping, Restaurants and Nightlife - Great patios on a
sunny day!
- Grouse
Mountain - Take the sky ride up a few hours before dusk (have supper
if you like) and take it back down when the city is a blanket of lights
after dark - WoW!
- Gulf
of Georgia Cannery - National Historic Site, 12138 4th Avenue, Richmond
- Harbour
Centre Tower - Downtown, Spectacular view of the city and surroundings
- The
Heights Performance Centre
- Hoarse
Raven Theatre - 1160 Rossland Street, Vancouver
- H.R.MacMillan
Space Centre - 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver
- Hyak
Festival - Festival, New Westminster
- IMAX
Theatre - Canada Place, Downtown, Vancouver
- Jericho Beach
Web Cam - Quiet beach in the Point Grey area
- Kits
Days - Festival, Kitsilano, Vancouver
- Movie
Listings - Listings, times and more from Film-Can.com
- Movie
Listings - Listings, times and more from MyBC.com
- Museum
of Anthropology - UBC, Vancouver
- Music
in the Morning - 125 East Fourth Avenue, Vancouver
- New
Performance Works - 677 Davie Street, Vancouver
- Opheum
Theatre - 865 Seymour Street, Downtown, Vancouver
- Outdoor
Adventure Sports Show - Vancouver
- Pacific
National Exhibition - 2901 East Hastings Street, PNE, Vancouver
- Pacific
Theatre
- Park and Tillford
Gardens 333 Brooksbank Avenue, North Vancouver
- Playhouse
- 160 West 1st Avenue, Vancouver
- Playland
- Amusement Park, PNE, Vancouver
- Queen
Elizabeth Theatre - 649 Cambie Street, Vancouver
- Port
of Vancouver
- Prospect
Point - Stanley Park
- Robson
Street - West end (not West Vancouver) shopping, dining and nightlife
- Roedde
House Museum - 1415 Barcley Street, Vancouver
- SeaVancouver
- Festival, Vancouver
- Science
World - Fun with Science, 1455 Quebec Street, Vancouver
- Slam
City Jam - Skateboarding, Vancouver
- Stanley Park
- A piece of paridise in the city. Beaches and hiking, biking, runninng
or roller blading along the best introduction to the city - the seawall!
- Stanley
Park - That's two times.
- Stanley
Park - That's three times! Just can't get enough of a good thing,
eh!
- Stanley
Park Horse Drawn Tours - Stanley Park, Vancouver
- Stanley
Park Pavillion
- Storyeum
- 142 Water Street, Gastown, Vancouver
- Theatre
Under the Stars
- Theatre, Vancouver
- Ticketmaster
- Canada
- Tour
de Gastown - Bicycle Race, Sports, Gastown, Vancouver
- UBC
Botanical Garden - 6804 South West Marine Drive, Vancouver
- UBC
Museum of Anthropology - 6393 North West Marine Drive, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Aquarium Marine Science Centre - Stanley Park, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Art Gallery - 750 Hornby Street, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Canucks - Professional Hockey in Vancouver
- Vancouver
Cantata Singers
- Music, 1254 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Chamber Choir - Music
- Vancouver
Chamber Music Festival - Festival, Music, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Chinatown Festival - Festival, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Dragon Festival - Festival, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Folk Music Festival - Music, Festival, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Francophone Festival - Festival, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Fringe Festival - Festival, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Half Marathon - Marathon, Sports, Stanley Park, Vancouver
- Vancouver
International Children's Festival - Festival, Vancouver
- Vancouver
International Jazz Festival - Festival, Vancouver
- Vancouver
International Marathon - Marathon, Sports, Vancouver
- Vancouver
International Mountain Film Festival - Festival, Film, Juried mountain
films, slideshows by special guests (climbers, mountain bikers, skiers
and explorers of national and international significance), the Mountain
Photo Competition and Exhibition, the Krankenstein2 Rock Climbing Competition
and more sporting events. Check www.vimff.org for details and ticket
information.
- Vancouver
Lookout - Attraction, 555 West Hastings, Downtown, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Maritime Museum - Museum, Located just beside Kits Beach, 1905 Ogden
Avenue, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Museum - 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Opera - 845 Cambie Street, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Pride Week - Festival, Vancouver
- The
Vancouver Playhouse - Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company
- Vancouver
Queer Film and Video Festival - Festival, Film, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Recital Society - 873 Beatty Street, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Sun Run - Marathon, Sports, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra - 601 Smithe Street, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Theatre Sports League - 1601 Johnston Street, Vancouver
- Vancouver
Ticketmaster - Vancouver
- Vancouver
Whitecaps - Professional Soccer
- Vandusen
Botanical Gardens - 5251 Oak Street, Vancouver
- Winterruption
- Granville Island, Vancouver
- Yaletown
Summer Celebration - Festival, Yaletown, Vancouver
Coast and
Mountains - Vancouver, Whistler & Surroundings
- Abbotsford International
Airshow - August, Abbotsford,
Fraser Valley, Vancouver
Coast and Mountains, British Columbia
- Art
Gallery in the Park - New Westminster
- BC
Museum of Mining - Britania Beach
- Burns
Bog - 10,000 acres and over 200 species of birds, Delta
- Canadian
Museum of Flight and Transportation
- Capilano
Suspension Bridge - North Vancouver
- Cultural
Crawl - New Westminster
- Delta
Arts Council
- Find
Family Fun - This is a great site!
- Fraser
River Art School & Gallery
- The
Greater Vancouver Zoo - Aldergrove
- Harrison
Festival of the Arts
- Hyak
Festival - New Westminster
- Langley
Centenial Museum - Fort Langley
- Maurice
Young Millennium Place - Whistlers Show Venue
- Minter
Gardens
- Mountainview
Conservation & Breeding Centre - Langley
- New
Westminster Museum and Archives
- Parks BC
- Events listings
- Playdium
- Reacreation and amusment centre, Eaton Centre Metrotown, Burnaby
- Presentation
House Gallery - North Vancouver
- Qway-Aathia's
Native Art Gallery
- Raymond
Burr Performing Arts Centre
- Reifel
Bird Sanctuary - Delta
- Return
of the Osprey - Birding, North Vancouver, June
- The
Samson V - New Westminster
- Show
and Shine - Antique Cars, New Westminster
- Thunderbird
Equestrian Show Park - Langley
- Vancouver
Paddle Wheeler - River Boat Tours on the Fraser River, New Westminster
- Westcoast
Railway Heritage Park - Squamish
- Whistler
Arts Festival
- Whistler
Film Festival
- Whistlers
Food and Wine Celebration
- Whistler
Museum
- Whistler
Skateboard Camp
- Whistler
Writers Festival
- World
Snowboard Championships
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