APR-OCT 2026 | Arthur Erickson Foundation offers tours of the Erickson House & Garden on specific days each month from April to October; or year-round by special arrangement.
$20
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This August, Arthur Erickson Foundation bid a sad farewell to several majestic native Pacific Dogwoods in the Arthur Erickson Garden. To honour the memory of these trees, the AEF invites wood artists, wood turners, and wood carvers to select sections of the harvested Erickson dogwood for their artistic projects. Dogwood sections will be made available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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SEPT 10–OCT 23, 2026 | Originally from Seabird Island, BC, and with roots in the Nlaka'pamux and Stó:l? Nations, Ovila Mailhot represents his culture and community with the ancestral elements of Coast Salish art. In these two animations of the sun and of the thunderbird, he expresses traditional teachings through the fluid lenses of movement and memory rooted in the visual heartbeat of his home territory. 30 minutes after sunset until midnight.
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SEPT 17–27, 2026 | Design Vancouver Festival is a citywide, community-driven festival hosted by Vancouver’s architecture and design community. Through open studios, walking tours, talks, exhibitions, and gatherings, DVF invites the public to experience design up close and connect with the spaces, practices, and people shaping the city.
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This year marks the 40th anniversary of Expo 86, offering an opportunity to look back at the World Fair that helped reshape Vancouver. Featuring vintage posters, archival photographs, souvenirs, and other ephemera, this exhibition invites visitors to revisit the sights, experiences, and memories of Expo 86. Four decades later, much of the Expo site has been transformed, but its legacy remains woven into Vancouver’s landscape and into the memories of those who were there.
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SEPT 24–27, 2026 | The Interior Design Show Vancouver takes place over 4 days at the Vancouver Convention Centre West. It is the Pacific region's premier showcase for contemporary design, architecture, furniture, and sustainable innovation, bringing together thousands of design professionals, makers, and enthusiasts.
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SEPT 25, SEPT 26–27, OCT 3–4, 2026 | Curated by Nolan Talbot Kelly and Annaka Hoelk, Obj:Obj presents a cross-section of Vancouver’s contemporary furniture, lighting and objects. The show gathers independent studios working across varied materials and design practices, using the curatorial format of pairing objects to explore a core theme. This year they're partnering with Uncommon Cave gallery to pair each submitted object with something from their collection – ranging from collectible contemporary design to antiques – creating narratives that tie Vancouver’s design scene to a wider context of design and objects throughout history.
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Green Over Gray: Emilio Ambasz closes out the Design Vancouver Festival 2026. Supported by Architecture and Design Film Festival. Discover the groundbreaking green architecture movement through the visionary projects of Emilio Ambasz, a pioneer in the debate on climate impact. This documentary delves into Ambasz’s four-decade journey, showcasing his transformative impact on the connection between humanity and nature.
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A keynote talk tracing Omar Gandhi Architects’ evolution from site-sensitive coastal homes to ambitious civic architecture for communities. Presented by Design Victoria with Gabriel Ross.
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Join INFORM at their 50 Water Street showroom for a special speaker event with architect, Paul Merrick. Merrick will draw on key projects and experiences from his storied career to shed light on the role of the architect and the potential for architecture to enrich our life's journey, sometimes against all odds. Arrive at 5:00 PM for light refreshments. The talk starts at 6:00 PM and will be Live Streamed.
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Urbanarium with UBC SALA present the next City Debate. Should new sources of funding be identified to pay for infrastructure and amenities? Or should we reduce our expectations for what services we expect in our cities? THE DEBATERS: Share the Load – Lilian Chau (CEO, Entre Nous Femmes Housing Society) and Stephen Rouse (Founder, Common Sense Economics); Cut the Bloat – Rob Bruno (EVP, Polygon Homes Ltd) and Wendy Waters (Real Estate Research Specialist). MODERATED by Tsur Somerville (Professor, UBC Sauder School of Business).
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Chris T Cornelius is a professor at the University of New Mexico and the founding principal of studio:indigenous. He will deliver this year's UBC SALA Paul Sangha Lecture.
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In 1976, more than 2,000 delegates from 130 countries gathered in Vancouver for the first United Nations Conference on Human Settlements — the largest UN conference of its time. Half a century after the Vancouver Declaration first established adequate housing as a basic human right, UBC and UN-Habitat return to the city where it began — to take stock of what cities have become, and to chart what they must become next. Join us for a 2-day, interactive symposium that will bring together urban planners, policymakers, international NGOs, Habitat ‘76 participants, UBC students and faculty researchers working on housing and sustainable urban development solutions.
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Common?Matter is a botanical installation exploring common ground, materiality & the act of making space. Created by 5 floral designers through an exchange of ideas, materials & individual gestures, the work brings separate elements together to form a temporary architecture. Developed as part of Flower Club International‘s October FLOWERTHON, hosted at field & onto in Vancouver. Featuring work by: Karly Paranich, Richelle Greabeiel, Sofiia Melehanych, Tanya Mishyna, and Young Kim.
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Music performance and panel discussion with artist Xania Xin Laka, panelists Matt Corlett, Clinton Cuddington, Steve DiPasquale, Nick Milkovich, Mira Young, and moderator Matthew Soules.
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Sounds Like a Whisper is a confluence of six artists, DAKOTA BURPEE, EMILIE FANTUZ, JENNILEE MARIGOMEN, RICHELLE GREABEIEL, SAMANTHA DICKIE, and SARAH DELANEY, investigating the delicate act of seeing the unseen. Each artist was invited to create work that reveal what is overlooked, erased, or deliberately concealed. Through material research, their artworks explore their own engagement with the visible, the hidden, and the ephemeral. This exhibition acknowledges environmental temporality and fragile boundaries between intertwined states of being.
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