The Chinatown Storytelling Centre is a small museum in the heart of Vancouver's historic Chinatown that gathers and shares the stories of Chinese Canadians, from the first immigrants who arrived in the nineteenth century to the communities of today, through personal accounts, photographs, artefacts and multimedia displays. Opened in 2021, the centre was created to preserve and pass on a history that had often gone untold, presenting the experiences of the men who came to work in the gold fields.....

In the heart of Vancouver's Chinatown lies the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, the first authentic full-scale classical Chinese scholar's garden built outside China, a walled enclosure of ponds, pavilions, rocks and plants that recreates the tranquil retreats favoured by the cultivated elite of the Ming dynasty. Opened in 1986 and named after the revered figure regarded as the father of modern China, who visited Canada in his years of revolutionary activity, the garden was a remarkabl.....

The dance floor sits where the dim sum carts of Ming's once rolled - one of Chinatown's most storied restaurants became one of Vancouver's most influential clubs. Fortune Sound Club, upstairs at 147 East Pender Street in a 1921 building, opened in 2009 when promoters Garret "GMan" Louie and Rob Rizk of Blueprint Events converted the former Ming's Restaurant space into a 450-capacity room built around a custom Funktion-One sound system. Fortune arrived as Chinatown's reinvention was beginning an.....

The largest free-span timber roof on the planet now arcs over Hastings Park - Vancouver built its first major new amphitheatre in six decades and crowned it in wood. The Freedom Mobile Arch, at 2901 East Hastings Street on the Pacific National Exhibition fairgrounds, opened on 5 June 2026, replacing the humble PNE Amphitheatre - a "temporary" structure from the 1960s that had somehow served for sixty years. Revery Architecture's design is the headline: a mass-timber canopy of roughly 900 tons o.....

Led Zeppelin used it as a North American base of operations in the early 1970s, Jimi Hendrix played it nine months after it opened, and the Canucks called it home for a quarter century. The Pacific Coliseum, at 100 North Renfrew Street on the Pacific National Exhibition grounds in Vancouver, opened on 8 January 1968 and remains the city's hardest-working arena. The building is a piece of 1960s Formalism: architect W.K. Noppe's circular bowl with its distinctive ring of white panels cost 6 milli.....

Nirvana, roller derby, Stanley Cup-era hockey and a wartime chapter the city still reckons with have all passed under one Art Deco roof at Hastings Park. The PNE Forum at 2901 East Hastings Street, on the Pacific National Exhibition grounds in East Vancouver, is a 45,000-square-foot exhibition and concert hall built in 1931 and owned by the City of Vancouver. Architect H. H. Simmons designed the building - originally the Automotive and Ice Rink Building - in cast-in-place concrete with Art Deco.....

Red Truck Beer Company is a craft brewery and event venue in Vancouver, British Columbia that combines brewing operations with a taproom, food truck, and outdoor event space. The brewery hosts live music events, comedy nights, trivia, and private functions alongside its craft beer program, making it one of Vancouver's more distinctive beer-and-entertainment destinations. Vancouver's craft beer scene has exploded in recent years, and Red Truck has been part of that growth since its founding. The.....

The Shaw Brothers built it to premiere kung fu films in North America; the punk bands arrived four decades later. The Rickshaw Theatre at 254 East Hastings Street in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside opened on 29 October 1971 as the Shaw Theatre - the west coast hub of Sir Run Run and Runme Shaw's Hong Kong movie empire, screening 12 Gold Medallions on opening night. The theatre was the crown of the Shaws' 230-cinema chain outside Asia, fitted with the era's most modern equipment - a 10,000-square-.....

The bar with Vancouver's best tagline - "Don't be a dick" - holds down the corner where Mount Pleasant meets Strathcona. The American at 926 Main Street opened in 2016 in the voluminous room that spent 2011 to 2015 as the live venue The Electric Owl, revived after a year dormant by Ezra Kish, Patryk Drozd and Simon Fallick, the team behind the Cobalt across the street. The concept is a full-service neighborhood public house wearing several hats at once: lively bar, arcade, live music venue and .....

When a developer moved on the building in 2018, Kevin Smith played benefit shows and the neighborhood ran a thirty-hour telethon - that is how East Vancouver keeps a theatre. The Rio at 1660 East Broadway opened on April 7, 1938 with a James Cagney double bill at 25 cents a ticket, promoted as Vancouver's finest suburban theatre. The house ran films for seventy years - including spells as the Golden Princess and Golden Star serving Chinese-language audiences - until Corinne Lea took over in 200.....