Events
What to See at the 2024 Capture Photography Festival
In order to make the most of the festival over the week/weekend ahead, here are our top five picks to add to your itinerary.
Sign Us Up for ‘Bad Summer Camp’, June 14-16th!
The Bad Academy has brainstormed up their ideal adult summer camp scenario that factors in everything from bonfires, crafting, hiking, paddleboarding and lake dips, to morning sound bathing and yoga sessions, a cedar weaving workshop, and even a visit to Shady Hazel Farm.
Basta BBQ is Breaking the Barbecue Seal on Sunday, April 21st
Smell that? BBQ season is fast approaching, and the team behind Basta BBQ are primed to get grilling ASAP!
Hit East Van for the 2nd Annual Vancouver Brewers Fest, April 19-28th
Since a single person (and liver) can only handle so many beers and beer-drinking celebrations, some prioritizing is in order. Topping off our list of events is the imminent (and, in our opinion, non-negotiable) Vancouver Brewers Fest.
Embrace Spring with a Walking Tour of Mount Pleasant’s Boulevard Gardens
Saba Farmand, a local landscape architect and the person behind Blvd Gardens of East Vancouver, is back with his popular series of Earth Day Boulevard Garden Walking Tours, April 13th, 14th and 19th.
Turn Up for the Inaugural Tequila & Agave Festival, Vancouver!
Although the main Grand Tasting event is sold out, there are still several other opportunities to get in on the action. For your convenience, we've rounded up a list of the festival's satellite and industry-centred events - don't wait to grab your tickets!
Get Sorted with Tickets to BC Distilled Festival, Happening This Week
This year, the festival relocates to new digs at the Italian Cultural Centre, and features 30 of British Columbia's premier distilleries (as well as a selection of non-alcoholic options).
How ‘To Do’ the 2024 Capture Photography Festival, Scout-Style
When making your plan for this year's month-long festival (until April 30th), be sure to factor our five suggested exhibitions into your itinerary.
Snag Seats for the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival This Weekend
This year`s fest features is packed with creativity and conversational fodder, featuring over 30 short films divided between five themed programs screening over the course of two days, and book-ended by Opening and Closing & Awards.
Enjoy an Evening of Exceptional Japanese Sake at Burdock & Co, April 8th
The Main Street restaurant is shaking it up, shifting their focus from wine to their other long-term liquid infatuation - sake! - by welcoming multiple-award-winning Sohomare Sake Brewery for a five-course paired dinner.
Food Inc. 2 is Coming to VIFF Centre This April
Rally your troupe and snag tickets to a screening, April 12th through 22nd, for some serious 'food for thought'.
Engage Your Body and Brain with a Mount Pleasant Walking Tour This Spring
Break out your best walking shoes: local history-buff (and long-time Scout Contributor), Christine Hagemoen, is priming up for another series of on-foot tours through Mount Pleasant, with various dates scheduled throughout April and May...and spots are already filling up!
From Art Fairs to Gallery-Hopping: A Recap of 2024 LA Frieze Week
Be sure to save the dates for next year’s Frieze Art Fair (soon to be announced) so that you can plan your own art-filled experience; and, in the meantime, enjoy these highlights from this year's event.
Head to East Van for the Symmetric Allure Art Show, Kicking Off This Thursday
Forward-thinking, local non-profit arts organization, Outsiders and Others, has a new group art show going up on the walls of Alternative Creations Gallery & Studio this week, featuring six "artists who identify as outsider, self-taught, visionary, intuitive, and with disabilities".
Tickets Now On Sale for a Spring Seafood Feast at Farmer’s Apprentice, March 24th
This is your chance to familiarize your palate to a variety of lesser-known species from the sea in six flavourful, creatively executed courses.
Hit Container Brewing for One-Night-Only Table Service with PiDGiN
Everyone can use a dose of affordable, approachable fun right about now... Enter Chef Wes Young and the PiDGiN kitchen crew, who are carting their mobile commissary kitchen over to Container Brewing for a good-time party-time on March 26th...
Get Your Tickets for The Acorn + Pamplemousse Jus Brunch Before They Sell Out!
The Main Street restaurant and Summerland winery are banding together for a super special weekend service, coinciding with Pamplemousse's new Pet Nat release, March 30th and 31st only...
The St. Patrick’s Day Collab Between The Irish Heather + Mello Has Our Name on It
If you're the sort to write off St. Patrick's Day celebrations due to stereotypical associations with the messy, rowdy, green-beer-binge-drinking brand of partying - not so fast!
Get Schooled on International Cocktail Culture at Laowai
After an intense year of hands-on cocktail-related 'research', the team at this Chinatown speakeasy is primed to share their love of global cocktail culture with Vancouver via a bunch of boozy events (on their own stomping ground) as part of Vancouver Cocktail Week.
19 Years of Serving Big-Ass Burritos in Mt Pleasant: Get Down with Budgie’s at The Lido TONIGHT!
Before you dance the night away in a crowd of nice, fun-loving people, get to know your hostess and Budgie's founder, Macey Budgell, in this quick-and-dirty interview.
Fifth Annual ‘Frieze Los Angeles’ Takes Place Feb. 29th – March 3rd
Los Angeles, here we come! Here’s a run-down of what to expect from this year's 'Frieze Week'.
Get Into the Free Economy Spirit at The Burrow’s Brunch & Bazaar, Feb. 9th
This isn't your average brunch or shopping event: besides nourishing your body affordably and replenishing your closet (for free!), this is also the opportunity to find new homes for your old, gently used threads, have fun, and connect with other like-minded folks in the community.
Hit The Magnet for Their ‘Island Darlings’ Tap Takeover, Feb. 10th
A change of scenery is nice, but sometimes the turnaround is just too short to justify the ferry trip. This weekend, we recommend forgoing the hassle of logistics in favour of a one-stop Vancouver Island brewery tour at The Magnet.
Eight Lunar New Year Events for Health, Prosperity and Fun
From our calendar to yours comes this carefully considered agenda of cool things we are doing, wishing we could do, or conspiring to do in Vancouver for Lunar New Year 2024.
Seven Exhibitions to Check Out This February
From tucked away galleries to museum institutions, here are seven exhibitions to visit this month, highlighting a range of emerging and established artists in cool spaces.
From Foraging to Feasting: Here are Eight Unusual Valentine’s Day Ideas
Valentine's Day is about showing love and appreciation, not about how much you spend. If you still feel obligated to mark the day with some gift-giving, we suggest opting for something more experience-based or activity-oriented.
Set a Sweet New Precedent with a Dessert Tasting Menu by Chef Kenta Takahasi
If, like us, you’re someone who prefers to go against the grain by making new traditions, versus breaking old ‘bad’ habits, then consider snagging a ticket to one of the Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar Pastry Chef's upcoming events, kicking off next week.
An Inside Look at Three-Michelin-Star ‘Les Troisgros’
Attention local food-lovers and pleasure-seekers: if your movie-watching appetite is especially large, we recommend putting aside a chunk of time for one of VIFF's five scheduled showings of Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros this month - it's a veritable filmic feast!
