Weekend Events in Vancouver: Things to do May 12-14, 2023 (2024)

Your go-to list of weekend events in Vancouver each week, including Mother’s Day, festivals, markets, local attractions, and more!

Weekend Events in Vancouver
Things to do May 12-14, 2023

Friday, May 12, 2023

• Sponsored by Miss604:Summer at Burnaby Village Museum
• Krystle Dos Santos with Orchard Sky
• Vancouver Canadians Nooner at the Nat
• Big Band Swing Dance Featuring the Dal Richards Orchestra
• Ballet BC WAVE/S
• Mother’s Day Traditional Pow Wow at Trout Lake
• Shipyards Night Market
• Langley Craft Beverage Week
• útszan (to make better) at The Cultch
• Bring Back at 90s at the Improv Centre
• Verboden Festival at the Rickshaw
• DOXA Documentary Film Festival
• North Shore Zone Festival of Plays
• The Cultch Presents: Femme Festival
• Zee Zee Theatre Presents Unexpecting
• Crazy for You at the Massey Theatre

Saturday, May 13, 2023

• Sponsored by Miss604:Summer at Burnaby Village Museum
• Mother’s Day Pink Disco Party at Metropoils at Metrotown
• BC Distilled Festival
• Neighbourhood Craft Market in Squamish
• Mother’s Day Traditional Pow Wow at Trout Lake
• Duo Concertante (Rose Gellert Hall Series)
• Southridge Country Fair
• Langley Craft Beverage Week
• Cultural Sharing Saturday with Les George
• Birding with Me: Welcoming the 2SLGBTQ+ Community
• VBGA Plant Sale
• World Migratory Bird Day Guided Outing at Burnaby Lake
• Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day at Blackie Split
• Stanley Park Ecology Society Monthly Bird Count
• Burnaby Blooms Festival
• May Forest Bathing
• The Maple Leaf Singers
• Bring Back at 90s at the Improv Centre
• Cultivating Joyful Nourishment: Exploration of Poetry and Movement
• Mother’s Day Weekend at the Glades Woodland Garden
• Clayton Community Festival 2023
• Exhibition Tour with Charles Campbell
• Madagascar the Musical
• Ballet BC WAVE/S
• Glam-O-Rama Roller Disco
• Riley Park FarmersMarket
• Fort Langley Farmers Market
• Eastside Flea Every Weekend in May
• útszan (to make better) at The Cultch
• Verboden Festival at the Rickshaw
• DOXA Documentary Film Festival
• North Shore Zone Festival of Plays
• The Cultch Presents: Femme Festival
• Zee Zee Theatre Presents Unexpecting
• Crazy for You at the Massey Theatre

Sunday, May 14, 2023

• Sponsored by Miss604:Summer at Burnaby Village Museum
• Mother’s Day Weekend at the Glades Woodland Garden
• Mother’s Day Traditional Pow Wow at Trout Lake
• Birding the Fergus Biodiversity Preserve
• Birding with Me: Welcoming Women and Femmes
• Moms and Mimosas! a Mother’s Day Brunch & Comedy Show
• Mother’s Day Jazz Brunch
• VanCity Soul Skate
• Dead Poets Reading Series — May 2023
• Mother’s Day Brunch at VanDusen
• Langley Craft Beverage Week
• Chinese Music Ensemble: Spring Breeze
• Festival of Israeli Culture
• The Maple Leaf Singers
• Madagascar the Musical
• Mother’s Day High Tea
• Words and Borders: Common Threads of Migration and Resilience
• Coquitlam Farmers Market
• Kitsilano Farmers Market
• Eastside Flea Every Weekend in May
• útszan (to make better) at The Cultch
• Verboden Festival at the Rickshaw
• DOXA Documentary Film Festival
• North Shore Zone Festival of Plays
• The Cultch Presents: Femme Festival
• Zee Zee Theatre Presents Unexpecting
• Crazy for You at the Massey Theatre

Multi-Day Events & Activities

Attractions & Tours:

• Talaysay Tours: Spoken Treasures
• FlyOver Canada
• Jurassic World Tour Live(May 19-28)
• Miniature Burnaby Central Railway
• Forbidden Vancouver’s New Monumental Scandals Tour
• Nature’s Ninjas at the Vancouver Aquarium(until Sept)
• Capilano Suspension Bridge
• Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
• Science World
• Chilliwack Tulip Festival
• Abbotsford Tulip Festival
• Richmond Night Market

Exhibits:

• Raised in Chinatown(until May)
• A Genocide Laid Bare(until May 18)
• As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic(until May 14)
• Alex Sandvoss Exhibition in Coquitlam(until May)
• ECU Class of 2023 Exhibition(May 11 – Jun 25)
• Science World:Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity(until May 29)
• Rebecca Belmore –Hacer Memoriaat the Polygon
• A Small but Comfy House and Maybe a Dog(until Jun 11)
• Matriarchs Seen and Unseen(until Jun 25)
• The Bricktacular West Coast Modern Show(until Jul 31)
• All We Want is More: The Tobias Wong Project.(until Jul)
• The Children Have to Hear Another Story, Alanis Obomsawin(until Aug)
• Raeanne Schachter: Dames Women in the City(until Aug)
• Van Art Gallery:Marie Khouri – I Love(until Nov)
• Spirit Journeys: Walking with Resilience, Wellbeing & Respect
• Why Costume Collections Matter Exhibit at MOV(until Nov)
• Bright Futures at Bill Reid Gallery(until Jan)

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