EVENTS
MashUp: Trading Card Making
Spend an evening in our museum and relax by making your own art trading cards to trade, give away, or keep for yourself. Art trading cards are a movement of creating miniature pieces first started in 1997 when Swiss artist Vanci Stirnemann invited guests to create mini art cards to trade with him, it’s now practiced around the world! All Ages. All materials provided.
(Mackin House at Coquitlam Heritage 1116 Brunette Avenue Coquitlam, British Columbia, V3K 1G2, Apr. 16-17)
Earth Day: Salve Making & Invasive Tea Workshop
Make salve, drink tea and learn about local ecosystems surrounding the Museum and beyond. For this special Earth Day workshop, participants will collectively make a pot of salve from locally harvested Lemon Balm. As the salve simmers, attendees will sample a variety of teas made from invasive plants and “weeds” that call the Lower Mainland home while learning about their histories and stories. All materials will be provided, and each participant will be sent home with a tin of salve made in the workshop. This event is not suited for individuals who have or suspect they have thyroid troubles.
Tickets: $25 General Admission, $20 Students/Seniors/Members, $18 Self-Identifying Indigenous (plus, fees and taxes)
(Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut Street, Apr. 18)
Yoga at the Museum of Vancouver
Start your Sunday with an awe-inspiring view as the backdrop to a Hatha yoga session. This gentle, slower-paced practice focuses on physical postures and breathing, offering a restorative experience alongside views of Vanier Park, English Bay, and the North Shore Mountains. Participants are asked to bring their own yoga mats, and admission to the Museum of Vancouver is included with each ticket.
(Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut Street, Apr. 19–May 24)
Vancouver Poetry House's Verses Festival of Words
The 2026 Verses Festival of Words is thrilled to return from April 27–May 2, 2026 at Chill X Studio. This year’s theme Intimate Dialogues examines how we share connections, consume content, and whisper resilience in the face of global silencing and genocide. The programming focuses on gathering, community, shared learning, and amplifying voices in solidarity. Highlights include the return of the annual Canadian Individual Poetry Slam (CIPS), taking place over three nights and featuring a performance by Spin El Poeta. This year’s Oral Traditions, an international Indigenous Poetry Slam, will be co-produced by Derek Edenshaw, Native Hip Hop Society, Franz Seachel, and Enabling Arts Society. Other festival favourites coming back include Famous Last Words from Death Rides a Unicorn, a hilarious evening of poetry games featuring some of Canada’s favourite personalities. Mashed Poetics is one of the city’s longest running showcases that combines poetry with live music — an ensemble of Canada’s favourite poets create and perform poems inspired by musical hits performed by the Mashed Poetics cover band led by Spillious the Ridiculous.
(Chill X Studio 2270 Manitoba St Vancouver, BC V5Y 1K6 Apr. 27–May. 2)
Jazz On A Beam Of Light
Classic film scholar and musical hepcat Michael van den Bos hosts a rhythmic retrospective revue of all that jazz in the movies. From the hot ’n’ swinging to the cool ’n’ mellow, he takes you on a jump ’n’ jive journey through the many styles and representations of jazz on film, featuring vintage performance clips by some of the most important names in jazz history, from Louis Armstrong to Fats Waller and more, all projected on the big screen. In the lively lingo of Cab Calloway, you’ll reap this righteous riff, bop bop!
(Massey Theatre / Eighth & Eight Creative Spaces, 735 Eighth Avenue, New Westminster, BC, May 7)
Movie Singalong: The Sound of Music
PHT’s Movie Singalong returns with The Sound of Music, the 1965 film musical starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Audiences are invited to sing along to well-known songs like “Do-Re-Mi,” “My Favorite Things,” and “Edelweiss” during this special screening of the classic adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical.
(Presentation House Theatre, May 16)
