Vancouver Convention Centre

The new addition to the Vancouver Convention Centre, now known as the West Building, opened to the public on April 4, 2009. It effectively tripled the capacity of the convention centre. The West Building features a "living roof" with native plants, and an apiary. The building recently served as the International Broadcast Centre for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The living roof, seawater heating and cooling, on-site water treatment and fish habitat built into the foundation of the West Building make it one of the greenest convention centres in the world. The Centre recycles an average of 180,000 kilograms of materials annually, nearly half of the total volume of waste generated.

Olympic and Paralympic Cauldron

In a celebration of the 2010 Winter Games, the Olympic and Paralympic Cauldron will become a permanent landmark on the Vancouver waterfront through a legacy partnership announced between Terasen Gas Inc. and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC). The cauldron, which VANOC designed and fabricated, is located on the west side of the International Broadcast Centre at Jack Poole Plaza at 1055 Canada Place.

This legacy will ensure the cauldron, lit at the conclusion of the spectacular Olympic Opening Ceremonies by Canadian hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, will be a lasting reminder of the Games.

Canada Line

At a length of nearly 19 km, the Canada Line is an automated rail-based rapid transit service connecting Vancouver with central Richmond and the Vancouver Airport -- linking growing residential, business, health care, educational and other centres in the region -- and adding transit capacity equivalent to 10 major road lanes. The Canada Line connects with existing rapid transit lines at Waterfront Station and major east-west transit services, creating an enhanced transit network to serve the region.

Richmond Olympic Oval

The Richmond Olympic Oval officially opened its doors December 12, 2008 and recently was home to long track speed skating during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. * Post-Games, the Oval will become an international centre of excellence for sports and wellness. The Oval’s flexible design will allow it to be used for a wide variety of different sport and community uses.

In typical use, the Oval’s main activity floor will have three primary activity areas offering ice, hardwood courts and an indoor track area. This will offer a full range of training and competitive opportunities for both summer and winter sports, ranging from developmental and recreational to elite level sport.

Free Admission to the Vancouver Art Gallery

February 12 - 28, 2010

Thanks to the support of the Province of British Columbia , admission to the Vancouver Art Gallery will be free from Feb 12th to 28th 2010 providing visitors with full access to the gallery’s fantastic programming, exhibitions and the BC Pavilion on the forth floor of the gallery during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

WinterFest at Lonsdale Quay Market

February 12 - 28, 2010

An inaugural 17-day celebration of Winter spirit. Join the excitement at the City of North Vancouver's Celebration Place. WinterFest will include live concerts featuring local talent, multi-cultural performances, interactive dance classes and performances, live Games viewing on large screens, food fair and community market featuring local artisans and crafters, kid's entertainment and local community displays. Supported by Vancouver's North Shore Tourism Association and the North Shore Spirit of BC, and benefiting the BC Cancer Foundation.

The Canada Show: The Complete History of Canada in One Hour

February 22 - 27, 2010

This February, just in time for the 2010 Olympics, Monster Theatre will bring back its longest running and most celebrated creation, THE CANADA SHOW for a special one-week run as part of Granville Island’s Winterruption Festival. In an action-packed sixty minutes, Monster Theatre takes you on a hysterically historical joy ride through 50,000 years of Canada. Through physical comedy, puppetry, and an original live score, THE CANADA SHOW reveals parts of our history few knew existed!

Full Circle First Nations Performance presents the 9th Annual Talking Stick Festival

February 21 - 28, 2010

The 9th annual Talking Stick Festival is a week long celebration of First Nations performance and the flag ship event for Full Circle: First Nations Performance. Over the course of 8 days, in venues across the city, the Aboriginal community gathers to partake in a series of music, dance, writing, and performance events. The participating artists are drawn from as far as Newfoundland, Yukon Territories, New Zealand and as near as Vancouver’s community centres.

Loverboy @ Commodore Ballroom

January 9, 2010

The Canadian rock group is straight from the stampede—and the 1980's. Hit numbers like "Loving Every Minute of it" and "The Kid Is Hot Tonight" has been heard on all your parent's classic stations across the U.S. and Canada. So yes, they are old(er), were rejected from major U.S. labels in the past—and yet still they are making music, and this makes them iconic rock legends, in Canada.

Switchfoot @ Commodore Ballroom

January 13, 2010

The Beautiful Letdown, Switchfoot's debut album for Columbia Records, was issued during the spring of 2003. It represented the quartet's full evolution toward a more accessible mainstream sound and eventually earned double platinum sales, due in no small part to the success of "Dare You to Move" and "Meant to Live." Supported by frequent tour dates, the album hit number one on Billboard's Christian Albums chart and peaked at 16 on the Top 200. Switchfoot then returned in September 2005 with their fifth album, Nothing Is Sound, which marked the band's first Top Ten entry on the Top 200 (the album debuted at number three).

Motley Crue @ GM Place

January 24, 2010

Mötley Crüe announced today the “The Dead Of Winter” Canadian tour. Fueled by the success of their annual summer festival tour, Crüe Fest, “The Dead Of Winter Tour” will hit 10 cities across Canada in January and February of 2010.

Mötley Crüe recently returned to the top of the charts with Saints of Los Angeles, their first new studio album with the original line-up -- Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars, Tommy Lee and Vince Neil -- in a decade and the ninth studio album in their career.

Ice Skating @ Robson Square

If you grew up in Vancouver, you may remember skating at downtown Vancouver's answer to the outdoor ice rink at New York City's Rockerfeller Center: The Robson Square ice rink. True, the Robson Square rink was covered--by a clear (and now iconic) dome--but it still had a unique feel as a place to skate deep in the heart of urban Vancouver, surrounded by the energy and pulse of the city.

And now it's back. November 23 was the grand (re)opening of the newly updated Robson Square Ice Rink, re-christened (temporarily) GE Plaza Ice Rink. The GE Plaza Ice Rink is open to the public from 9am - 9pm daily, and it's FREE. So you can skate your heart out! Don't worry if you need skates; rentals are available for $3.

PuSh | International Performing Arts Festival

January 20 - February 6, 2010

The annual PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is Vancouver’s mid-winter performing arts festival, presenting acclaimed local, national and international artists and their work.

One of Vancouver’s signature events, the PuSh Festival is produced over three weeks each January, with groundbreaking work in the live performing arts. PuSh expands the horizons of Vancouver artists and audiences with work that is visionary, genre-bending, multi-disciplined, startling and original.

PuSh is much more than an annual cultural feast for Vancouver: it is a broker of International partnerships, a meeting place for creative minds, a showcase of Canada’s best and an incubator of brilliant new work. PuSh puts Vancouver on the world stage and brings the world to Vancouver.