As the fog clears up, this weekend is a great time to get out into the city and check out all the things to do in Metro Vancouver. Check out the delicious foodie events, grab your family for some fun, and be sure to tell all your friends that this weekend is going to be one to remember.

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Featured Events

New year, new me, as they say, and Whistler is taking that to heart! From January 25 to February 1, 2026, everyone’s favourite mountain destination is hosting a reimagined, refreshed, and revitalized Pride Festival, underscoring Whistler as an inclusive winter destination where community and adventures come together.

The festival offers plenty of fun for everyone with its free and low-barrier events, alongside some ticketed experiences. This ensures that absolutely everybody gets to have a blast on the mountain. Visitors can expect both national and local performers that will be bringing the festival to life, highlighting the depth and diversity of LGBTQIA2S+ talent. This includes DJs, drag performers, and hosts at après and nightlife programming.

📅 Date: January 25 – February 1, 2026

📍 Location: Whistler

🎟️ Tickets & More Info: Whistler Pride Festival

Festivals and Exhibitions

2026 MENA Film Festival

Join the 7th edition of MENA Film Festival! Screening in Vancouver January 15 – 23, MENA 2026 presents over 40 shorts and features from everywhere MENA/SWANA folks are found. The expanded Opening Ceremony opens at the Vancouver Playhouse and regular screenings return to their longtime home at VIFF Centre! Can’t join in-person? With a few exceptions, all in-person films will be streaming online until January 30!

📅 Date: January 15 – January 24, 2026

📍 Location: VIFF Centre

🎟️ Tickets & More Info: 2026 MENA Film Festival 

PuSh Festival 2026

PuSh International Performing Arts Curating Festival returns to Vancouver from January 22 to February 8, 2026. For two and a half weeks, PuSh Festival invites audiences to discover innovative contemporary works of live performances by local, national and international artists. The Festival lineup is dedicated to inspired risk-taking and dynamic interdisciplinary collaboration featuring visionary works from 17 countries. This includes 6 world premieres, 1 North American premiere, 4 Canadian premieres, 5 Western Canadian premieres and 4 Vancouver premieres.

📅 Date: January 22 – February 8, 2026

📍 Location: 600 Hamilton Street, Vancouver

🎟️ Tickets & More Info: PuSh Festival 2026

Anthem Home Show

Anthem Home Show is here to offer real insights, real experts, and real opportunity. This event is your chance to feel confident about your next move and get hands-on guidance from home, financial, and legal experts. Expect games, giveaways, refreshments – and homes worth getting to know.

📅 Date: January 24, 2026

📍 Location: Anthem Discovery Centre

🎟️ More Info: Anthem Home Show 2026

For The Family

Museum of Surrey Presents: 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

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

Pacific Agriculture Show

This January, the largest agricultural exhibition in Western Canada is coming to Abbotsford— the Pacific Agriculture Show! Join thousands of local farmers and more than 300 exhibitors to learn about the latest in BC farming. Bring the family out and enjoy the petting zoo, face painting, a photo booth, airbrush tattoo artists, vintage farm equipment museum, monster tractors, and so much more! All are included with the price of admission, and children under 14 are free!

📅 Date: January 22 – 24, 2026

📍 Location: Tradex

🎟️ Tickets & More Info: Pacific Agriculture Show 2026 at Tradex

Cineplex $3.99 Saturdays and $5 Tuesdays

From January 20 to February 24, you can grab a General Admission ticket to a Cineplex showing for only $5 on Tuesdays. You’ll also be able to get a small bag of popcorn similarly for $5, making Tuesdays at Cineplex the perfect opportunity to save and have fun at the same time. Cineplex is also offering $3.99 films on Saturdays all January at select theatres! This month, you’ll be able to watch a new movie every week without breaking the bank.

📅 Date: January 1 – February 24, 2026

📍 Location: Various Cineplex theatres

🎟️ More Info: Cineplex $3.99 Saturdays and $5 Tuesdays

Food Experiences

The Winter Lodge at Stanley’s

This winter, Stanley’s Bar & Grill is transforming into Stanley’s Winter Lodge – a cozy, mountain-inspired holiday pop-up tucked beneath the trees, where lanterns glow, snowflakes twinkle, and mulled wine meets cabin-warm comfort. Think fireside dining, cozy winter flavours, twinkle-lit lodge vibes and playful touches like DIY s’mores – all without leaving the city. Inside you can expect twinkling snowfall, alpine-inspired details, and a warm, woodsy ambience – designed to feel like a mountain lodge after a day in the snow.

📅 Date: November 19 – February 1, 2026 (Open Wednesday – Sunday, 12:00pm to 8:00pm)

📍 Location: Stanley’s Bar & Grill

🎟️ More Info: Stanley’s Winter Lodge 2025 – 2026

Greater Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival 2026

Back for its 16th season, the Greater Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival is inviting everyone to enjoy a hot cup of cocoa all throughout B.C.. With 100 vendors, 234 different flavours, and 168 locations, you’re sure to be spoiled for choice when it comes to selecting your next drink. These won’t be your average hot chocolates, too. The festival offers unique twists on their cocoas, assuring that your cocoas are always packed with creativity.

📅 Date: January 17 – February 14, 2026

📍 Location: Various locations throughout Greater Vancouver

🎟️ More Info: Greater Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival 2026

Street Food City 2026

Returning once more, it’s Street Food City 2026! This fan-favourite event will take place over four delicious days at xʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énk Square (the north plaza of the Vancouver Art Gallery, on West Georgia Street between Hornby and Howe Streets). With a rotating lineup of food trucks, you’ll never be short of treats to try. They’ve got crispy handhelds, plant-forward bites, and tons of sweets. The changing vendors means that your palette will always have something new to taste.

Ice Skating

North Vancouver Shipyard’s Ice Rink

North Vancouver’s Shipyards Ice Rink is returning for another season! This massive, 12,000-square-foot outdoor rink will officially open on November 28, 2025—marking the first day to lace up and enjoy this free winter activity. The popular rink, located in Lonsdale’s waterfront district, gives skaters a chance to glide under a retractable roof with stunning city views. Whether it’s a rainy day or a crisp evening, the rink’s unique design makes it a must-visit winter experience.

📅 Date: November 28, 2025 until March 2026

📍 Location: Shipyards District

🎟️ More Info: Shipyards Ice Rink 2025-2026

Robson Square Ice Rink

This winter, strap on some skates and frolic in one of Vancouver’s most beloved ice rinks. Enjoy the downtown vibes as you glide along the ice with your friends, date, or whoever you like skating with. This Robson Square Ice Rink has always been a popular spot for holiday shoppers. Conveniently located in the centre of downtown, it is an outdoor rink with a glass ceiling that beautifully lights up for the festive season. It provides guests a unique experience, skating around while taking in the hustle and bustle of the busiest time of year. Nothing sings Christmas quite like it.

📅 Date: December 1, 2025 – February 28, 2026

📍 Location: Robson Square

🎟️ More Info: Robson Square Ice Rink

Skating at Surrey Civic Plaza

This winter, enjoy free ice skating at a new covered outdoor rink at Surrey Civic Plaza from December 1, 2025 to February 16, 2026. Conveniently located beside Surrey Central Skytrain station with underground parking available, enjoy a bright and festive atmosphere with family and friends, and relax with hot beverages and snacks available for purchase from the on-site café. Bring your own skates, or rent them for $5 a pair. Helmets are free to rent and required for kids 12 and under. School and private groups can reserve the rink for groups of up to 80 people on select mornings.

📅 Date: December 1, 2025 – February 16, 2026

📍 Location: Surrey Civic Plaza

🎟️ More Info: Free Skating At Surrey Civic Plaza

Drag

Recess: All Grown Up & Nightcap: 90’s Night

From the duo who brought you the sold out “Simpsons, The Unofficial Drag Comedy”, Glitter Trash Productions returns with RECESS! All Grown Up! The Unofficial SCANDALOUS Drag Comedy! Come to The Upstairs Legion Lounge with Burna Dart as Gretchen Grundler and Glimmer as Spinelli, along with their classmates to see whatever happened to them and their schoolyard counterparts in a drag show parody of “where are they now?” And to cap off the night, you can also take part in NIGHTCAP! This is a late-night, all 90s drag show with complete 90s theming. Relive the good ol’ days with performers who were actually alive in the 90s!

📅 Date: January 23, 2026

📍 Location: Upstairs at the Legion Lounge

🎟️ Tickets & More Info: RECESS! All Grown Up and NIGHTCAP! 90s Night

Murder is a Drag: Killer Birthday

Murder is a Drag: Killer Birthday is a murder mystery set at a surprise birthday party and the fourth (and final?) chapter in the wildly successful Murder is a Drag series. Get out your party dress because you are invited to this Killer Birthday party! But be warned, there WILL be a murder. Interact with the suspects, solve a puzzle, collect clues and help our detective solve the murder! Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind experience only available in Vancouver. It’s a musical murder mystery show with clues, puzzles, prizes and drag performances!

📅 Date: January 22 – February 8, 2026

📍 Location: 111 West Hastings Street, Vancouver

🎟️ Tickets & More Info: Murder is a Drag: Killer Birthday

Sports

Get front-row seats to the best adrenaline-pumping games that Metro Vancouver has to offer!

🏒 Vancouver Canucks

• January 23: vs. New Jersey Devils
• January 25: vs. Pittsburgh Penguins

📍 Location: Rogers Arena

Metro Vancouver is always here to make sure your weekend is packed with things to do. From good eats to family-friendly fun, you’re always having a good time in the city.

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