Wondering what’s there to do in Metro Vancouver this week? We’ve got you covered. From seasonal markets to walking through magical light displays, we list everything worth doing in the city this early holiday time.
22 Fun Things To Do in Metro Vancouver This Week
Bear Creek Lights
The beloved Bear Creek Lights event is back for its 13th year, lighting up the garden from November 7 to 21 (closed November 11 for Remembrance Day). This year’s edition brings an immersive one-kilometre walking path lined with dazzling light displays, a lighted tunnel, and interactive photo ops that highlight the natural beauty of the park. Whether you’re looking for a romantic stroll, a fun family outing, or just the perfect backdrop for your next post, this free event has you covered.
Bear Creek Park transforms after dark into a magical wonderland. Expect vibrant light displays, enchanted forest scenes, and a few surprises hidden along the trail. And yes, food trucks will be there serving warm drinks, mini doughnuts, and handheld bites, because no night walk is complete without snacks.
Booking free entry tickets in advance is highly recommended. Entry times are available every 30 minutes from 4:30 pm to 8:30 pm Sunday to Thursday, and 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm Friday to Saturday. While drop-in spots may be limited, planning ahead ensures you don’t miss out.
📅 Dates: November 7 to 21, 2025 (Closed November 11 for Remembrance Day)
🕓 Hours:
- Friday & Saturday: 4:30 pm – 9:00 pm
- Sunday to Thursday: 4:30 pm – 8:30 pm
📍 Location: Bear Creek Park, Surrey (13750 – 88 Ave)
🎟️ Tickets & More Info: FREE! Get your tickets now at surrey.ca or by phone at 604-501-5100
HollyDaze In The Heights
Austin Heights is about to flip the festive switch. HollyDaze in the Heights is back on Saturday, November 15, and it’s turning Ridgeway Avenue into a block party full of holiday magic, live entertainment, and epic eats. Whether you’re shopping local, bringing the fam, or just vibing with some cider in hand, this free community festival in Coquitlam is one you won’t want to miss.
This isn’t your average neighbourhood event. HollyDaze is bringing the goods with delicious eats from local restaurants, specialty food trucks, and even site-wide beer, cider, and wine. That means you can snack, sip, and shop your way through the night while catching a performance or two. The event is hosted by the Austin Heights Business Improvement Association (AHBIA) and is all about building community while having a great time. It’s already earned a “Best in the West” award from BIABC, and this year is shaping up to be even bigger, with more vendors, more space, and more activities.
📅 Date: Saturday, November 15, 2025
📍 Location: 1000 block Ridgeway Ave, Coquitlam, BC
🎟️ More Info: HollyDaze 2025
Our Connection To Hockey
Hockey is more than just a sport in Canada. It’s part of our culture, our history, and it’s played an important role in bringing people from all walks of life together under one game. The Museum of Surrey’s newest free exhibit is showcasing exactly that, highlighting the integral part hockey has played in Canada’s past and present. Excitingly, it also shines a light on Surrey’s local hockey heroes, as well as having plenty of interactive activities that will get the whole family hooting and hollering for a goal.
Visitors will have the chance to learn all about how hockey is part of the glue that keeps Canada together. Alongside the national icons on showcase, Surrey’s own athletes and game-changers will be under the same spotlight, as well as the untold stories of diversity in hockey. Women’s hockey, para hockey, and Punjabi broadcasters have all played some amazing parts in making the sport what it is today– especially locally.
📅 Date: October 16, 2025 – April 26, 2026
📍 Location: Museum of Surrey
🎟️ More Info: Our Connection to Hockey
Circle Craft Market
Circle Craft Holiday Market, the largest craft fair in Western Canada, returns for another year of seasonal delights!
The popular event is a great place to find handcrafted items and thoughtful holiday gifts for your loved ones. With over 300 artisans around the country, you’re certain to find what you’re looking for.
📅 Date: November 11 – 16, 2025
📍 Location: Vancouver Convention Centre West
🎟️ Tickets & More Info: Circle Craft Market
Metro Vancouver Croissant Crawl
For all the croissant lovers, this one’s for you. Grab your friends and fellow pastry enjoyers for a day (or days!) to remember. All you need to do is pick a route and then walk, bike, or drive from one limited edition croissant to the next. Over 30 vendors are participating in this year’s Croissant Crawl, so that means you’re absolutely spoiled for choice.
📅 Date: November 1 – 16, 2025
📍 Location: Various locations across Metro Vancouver
🎟️ More Info: Metro Vancouver Croissant Crawl 2025
Arts Club Theatre Company: DISNEY’S FROZEN
Disney’s FROZEN has touched the hearts of children of all ages, including adults, since the film’s release in 2013, followed by the Broadway premiere of the musical in 2018. This production promises to reawaken the wonder and magic within us all. Families, fans of the film, theatregoers, and newcomers alike will adore this show. Experience the magic of the beloved animated movie and revel in show-stopping favourites such as “Let It Go,” “For the First Time in Forever,” and “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” and delight in enchanting new ones.
📅 Date: October 30, 2025 – January 4, 2026
📍 Location: Stanley BFL Canada Stage
🎟️ Tickets & More Info: Disney’s FROZEN in Vancouver
O Christmas Tea: A British Comedy ON TOUR
Rich in wordplay, comic physicality, and cleverly crafted interactive elements, O Christmas Tea: A British Comedy is uproarious fun, yet it is the duo’s boundless imagination and endearing chemistry that provide the real magic and heart of this play. Hailed as “a child’s imagination on steroids” by London Free Press and “a masterpiece of physical comedy” by Theatre In London, critics rave for the charismatic James & Jamesy. A must-see performance on the international comedy circuit, this unstoppable duo is regarded as “one of the most popular fringe duos ever” (CBC).
📅 Date: November 12 – December 30, 2025
📍 Location: Various theatres across the Lower Mainland
🎟️ Tickets & More Info: O Christmas Tea: A British Comedy
This Is Our Youth
Railtown Actors Studio Lab presents This Is Our Youth, a raw and nostalgic coming-of-age story set in 1980s New York City. The play explores youth, friendship, and identity at a time when everything feels uncertain. Beneath the era’s haze of rebellion and confusion, This Is Our Youth captures the timeless feeling of pressure to grow up before you’re ready. For today’s audiences, it’s a vivid reminder of how those restless years echo across generations.
📅 Date: November 12 – 16, 2025
📍 Location: Studio 16 Theatre
🎟️ Tickets & More Info: This Is Our Youth, presented by Railtown Actors Studio Lab
Indigenous Partnerships Success Showcase
The Indigenous Partnerships Success Showcase (IPSS) is an annual event responding to the growing demand for practical guidance on how First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities and their enterprise partners can work together, in common purpose, for shared success. This year, the event will welcome 180 delegates to the IPSS 2025 executive leadership summit. The IPSS is your chance to see how leading-edge relationships between Indigenous business and corporate Canada are making reconciliation a reality for the whole nation.
📅 Date: November 13, 2025
📍 Location: Vancouver Convention Centre West
🎟️ Tickets & More Info: Indigenous Partnerships Success Showcase 2025
BC Water Bikes Fall Rides
Vancouver’s BC Water Bikes is keeping the season alive a little longer, offering the chance to explore False Creek on their unique water bikes every Saturday and Sunday through October.
This is your last chance to get out on the water before winter hits, and it’s not an experience you’ll want to miss. The bikes are incredibly stable, so you won’t get wet, and they make for a relaxing, scenic ride unlike anything else in the city.
Their popular sunset rides are especially breathtaking this time of year. Picture yourself pedalling across calm water with a hot drink in hand, taking in golden hour views of the Vancouver skyline and the changing fall colours. Whether you’re looking for a unique date idea or just want to enjoy some peaceful time outdoors, this activity is a standout fall tradition in the making.
Availability is very limited as the season winds down, so be sure to book your spot early.
📅 Date: Weekends through October (from 2 pm Saturdays & Sundays)
📍 Location: BC Water Bikes, False Creek, Vancouver
🎟️ Tickets & More Info: bcwaterbikes.com
Artemis Space Adventure With LEGO® Bricks
Produced by Flying Fish and supported by Science World, kids can go in their own galactic adventure with this space-themed exhibition. Guests will be able to enjoy hands-on engineering challenges and workshop stations that are inspired by the creative problem-solving that real astronauts have to do.
📅 Date: June 26, 2025 – April 6, 2026
📍 Location: Science World
Timebomb Trading Winter Warehouse Sale
Timebomb Trading’s famous Winter Warehouse Sale is back! They’re clearing out samples from past-seasons products to make room in their warehouse, and it all has to go. From samples, odd-sizes, one-offs, and rare pieces, there’s a bit of everything you can find at this sale. Do note that the event is cash-only with an ATM on-site, so you can top off your wallet if you want to make the most of the discounts.
📅 Date: November 14 – 16, 2025
📍 Location: 8067 North Fraser Way, Burnaby
🎟️ More Info: Timebomb Trading Winter Warehouse Sale
STOMP, The London Sensation
STOMP, the London percussion sensation, returns to Vancouver for four performances only at Queen Elizabeth Theatre! The performers “make a rhythm out of anything we can get our hands on that makes a sound,” says co- founder/director Luke Cresswell. A unique combination of percussion, movement and visual comedy, STOMP has created its own inimitable, contemporary form of rhythmic expression: both household and industrial objects find new life as musical instruments in the hands of an idiosyncratic band of body percussionists.
📅 Date: November 14 – 16, 2025
📍 Location: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
🎟️ Tickets & More Info: STOMP
Nikkei Craft Fair
This November, step into the Nikkei Craft Fair for a world of unique, Japanese-inspired artistry! For those who love local makers and handcrafted, curated gifts, this is the place to be. From jewelry to textiles, from pottery to gourmet treats, this fair has it all. You can expect an amazing showcase of creativity and talent from artisans, offering a diverse selection of goods all made by hand.
📅 Date: November 15 – 16, 2025
📍 Location: Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre
🎟️ Tickets & More Info: Nikkei Craft Fair 2025
The VIMFF 2025 Fall Series
The 2025 VIMFF Fall Series is here! Step into the theatre and into the mountains. Each night, the Fall Series brings together jaw-dropping films, guest speakers, door prizes, and the energy of a community that lives for adventure. From ski lines to climbing walls, biking epics to cultural journeys, these shows are the pulse of mountain life.
📅 Date: November 12 – 19, 2025
📍 Location: Various locations across Vancouver
🎟️ Tickets & More Info: VIMFF Fall Series 2025
Shipyards Christmas Market
Shipyards Christmas Market opens November 28 with skating, music, mulled wine, and Vancouver’s best pork hock — all with no admission fee! This winter, a brand-new free-entry Christmas market is bringing holiday magic to North Vancouver’s waterfront, and it’s headlined by one of the city’s most beloved holiday food vendors: Haxen Haus. For a Christmas market with all the fixings of a classic holiday celebration, head over to Shipyards Christmas Market!
📅 Date: November 28 – December 24, 2025
📍 Location: The Shipyards
🎟️ More Info: Shipyards Christmas Market 2025
Vancouver Christmas Market
The Vancouver Christmas Market is one of the best ways to kick off the holiday season. This super-popular annual event has everything you’d ever want out of a Christmas market, including a massive tree, tons of food, and lots of shopping.
📅 Date: November 13 – December 24, 2025
📍 Location: Jack Poole Plaza
🎟️ Tickets & More Info: Vancouver Christmas Market
The Christmas Store At Potters
Everyone knows it’s the most wonderful time of the year when a garden store transforms into Western Canada’s largest Christmas store. At a sprawling 28,000 square-feet, the iconic store has something for everyone on your “nice” list.
📅 Date: November 1 – December 24, 2025
📍 Location: 19158 48th Avenue, Surrey
🎟️ More Info: Christmas Store at Potters
Portobello West Holiday Market
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Yaletown’s own pop-up holiday market has wares for anyone looking for fashion, jewelry, art, home décor, skincare, pet accessories, gourmet treats, wine & spirits and more! Explore a curated selection of quality goods from over 69 local BC makers, including talented artists, designers, and creators.
📅 Date: November 15 – 16, 2025
📍 Location: Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
🎟️ Tickets & More Info: Portobello West Holiday Market
Deer Lake Winter Festival
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Come celebrate crafts, community, and creativity at this vibrant winter market! The annual event showcases over 40+ local BC artisans and their marvelous works. Included in the seasonal market are glass blowers, sculptors, and pâtissiers, to jam makers, jewelers, fashion designers, and many more.
📅 Date: November 14 – 16, 2025
📍 Location: Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
🎟️ More Info: Deer Lake Winter Festival
Cineplex Family Favourites
Cineplex is offering $3.99 movies this November! All of this is done through Cineplex’s Family Favourites program. These films are meant for everybody, and are especially good for families. The showings are occasionally swapped out for different ones and are also dependent on which location you go to. You can check below for all the details.
📅 Date: various dates throughout November
📍 Location: various Cineplex locations in Metro Vancouver
🎟️ Tickets & More Info: Cineplex Family Favourites
Sports in Metro Vancouver This November
Winter’s almost here, so you know what that means. Get ready as some seasons are wrapping up while others are just getting into the thick of it!
🏒 Vancouver Canucks
- November 11: vs Winnipeg Jets
📍 Location: Rogers Arena
🎟️ Tickets & More Info: https://www.nhl.com/canucks/
This week is all about getting in those early holiday memories. Make sure your days are holly and jolly by hitting up some festive markets, checking out some winter plays, and enjoying everything that Metro Vancouver has to offer.
Want even more things to do? Check out our 604 Now Events Calendar to keep your plans looking fresh.
