HOLIDAY 2025 — Articles

Vancouver 2025 holiday markets offer artful alternatives to mass-produced gifts

From the Toque Craft Fair to The Polygon’s Holiday Shop, events offer unique finds such as Vancouver Special–shaped tree decorations and soy-sauce-bottle-shaped earrings

ART & DESIGN, HOLIDAY25Janet SmithNovember 20, 2025POLYGON, Polygon Gallery, Western Front, Place des Arts, HOLIDAY 2025, Holiday 2025

Chez Nous: Christmas With Elektra transports audiences to a cozy Canadian home for the holidays

Artistic director Cassie Luftspring has curated a program of Elektra favourites, new commissions, and pieces with personal meaning

MUSICJanet SmithNovember 20, 2025Elektra, ELEKTRA, Cassie Luftspring, Morna Edmundson, HOLIDAY 2025, Homepage feature

Holiday shows 2025: Stir’s ultimate guide to Vancouver’s merriest performances and events

The local arts and culture scene has bright gifts in store this season, from music by candlelight to wintry ballets

MUSIC, HOLIDAY25, FESTS, DANCE, THEATREJanet SmithNovember 18, 2025Holiday 2025, Elektra, ELEKTRA, Elektra Women's Choir, Vancouver Welsh Men's Choir, Vancouver Men's Chorus, Vancouver Bach Choir, Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs, Blueshore at CapU, BlueShore at CapU, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts, Evergreen Cultural Centre, musica intima, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Orpheum Theatre, Chor Leoni, CHOR LEONI, Christmas with Chor Leoni, Vancouver Cantata Singers, Massey Theatre, Winter Harp, Anvil Theatre, Bard on the Beach, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, Music On Main, Krystle Dos Santos, FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre, HOLIDAY 2025, Arts Club Theatre Company, Arts Club, Metro Theatre, Centennial Theatre, Theatre Replacement, the Cultch, THE CULTCH, The Cultch, East Van Panto, WONDERHEADS, The Improv Centre, Gateway Theatre, Pacific Theatre, The Gingerbread Men, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Nutcracker, Ballet BC, BALLET BC, Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA, Goh Ballet, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver Christmas Market, VanDusen

Playwrights Pedro Chamale and Marcus Youssef joyfully throw jabs in all directions in East Van Panto: West Van Story

Duo complicates East-West rivalries and draws on everything from Shakespeare to Gen Alpha slang in a music- and dance-filled installment of the Theatre Replacement tradition

THEATREJanet SmithNovember 14, 2025The Cultch, THE CULTCH, York Theatre, Theatre Replacement, Jp, Homepage feature, HOLIDAY 2025

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