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41st Vancouver Fringe Festival!
September 4th - 14th
Since 1985! With 87 shows, returning Kids Fringe, and a brand-new comedy series in partnership with Little Mountain Gallery, there’s so much fun in store this year.
We can’t wait for you to get your hands on the festival guide and start circling your must see shows! A huge thank you to Lydia Avsec from Co-Pilot Designs for another incredible cover. This year’s artwork captures the spirit of Fringe: bold, surreal, and bursting with possibility.
Info & Tickets: HERE!
The 37th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (@queerfilmfest) invites you to celebrate stories from queer past, present, and future! Experience 100 films from 25 countries, created by 2SLGBTQIA+ storytellers and inspiring Vancouver audiences.
September 11-21, 2025 in-person
September 22-28 online BC-wide
Discover stories for us, by us. Featuring parties, performances, and industry events. Get your tickets (sliding scale $7-$19) now at queerfilmfestival.ca!
September 16 at 10am - Tickets for 2025 Festival go on SALE!
Including Special Events with Chris Hadfield (November 15) and Margaret Atwood (December 9)
The 38th annual Festival is fast approaching, and once again, we are gearing up to welcome you back to Granville Island for a week of exceptional books, ideas, and dialogue. Our wide range of programming will highlight some of the most relevant issues of the current moment, celebrate the beauty of craft, and inspire the reader in all of us. Read on to learn about the program and how to buy tickets—along with an exciting opportunity to enter our new Writing contest with Peliplat!
Check out the Line Up, Tickets & Details: HERE!
Free Workshop - BC Cultural Days Info Session!
North Delta Centre for the Arts
Monday, Sept 29 - 11am – 3pm
Do you have a story to tell but aren’t sure how to bring it to the screen?
Whether you’re a student, youth, or just starting out in film, this free BC Culture Days session is your chance to get real feedback from filmmakers, scriptwriters, and industry professionals.
Come workshop your draft, spark new ideas, and discover opportunities to grow as a storyteller.
Details to Register HERE!
We’re gearing up for the Crazy8s 2026 Season, and we know you’re as excited as we are! Submissions for Crazy8s 2026 open in September: Watch for updates in early September on our website and social channels for the latest information on submission guidelines, the free online info session, and more!
crazy8sfilm.com
Both National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day are on September 30
The day honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools is a vital component of the reconciliation process.
Orange Shirt Day is an Indigenous-led grassroots commemorative day intended to raise awareness of the individual, family and community inter-generational impacts of residential schools, and to promote the concept of “Every Child Matters”. The orange shirt is a symbol of the stripping away of culture, freedom and self-esteem experienced by Indigenous children over generations.
Details & Resources HERE!
Having a Senior Moment Festival Oct 3 - 11th, 2025
Western Gold’s HAVE A SENIOR MOMENT FESTIVAL is an event that turns the notion of “have a senior moment” (normally understood as a moment of forgetfulness, a foolish mistake, or a lack of understanding based on age) on its head!
A multi-disciplinary series of events and gatherings showcasing the performing arts for old folx and/or by old folx, HAVE A SENIOR MOMENT FESTIVAL provides a gathering place for young, old, and those in between. The festival includes theatre, works in development, music, creative workshops, artist salons and more—all celebrating the notion that Creativity Has No Expiry Date!
Event Details & Tickets HERE!
SCRIPTS & SIPS
Saturday, October 11th, 3:00 – 6:00 PM
Part of Western Gold Theatre's Have a Senior Moment Festival, in partnership with Curious Cats Theatre Collective
Grab a beverage, get social, and be the first to hear cold readings of excerpts from new scripts. Wanna be an actor? Lend your talents by signing up to be a cold reader. It’s fun, informative, and informal. Followed by feedback from established and published playwrights.Pay-What-You Decide
3:00 PM: Mix and mingle. COLD CASTING BEGINS.
3:30 PM SCRIPT READINGS, FEEDBACK & TALK-WITH
Lend us your chops! Sign up to be a reader!
Vancouver Int’l Film Festival 2025
Oct 2 - 12th, 2025
The annual Vancouver International Film Festival showcases exceptional cinema in one of the world’s most beautiful cities. Our spectacular 2025 roster will include some of the best cinema from around the globe, talks, conferences, live performances and other unique events that celebrate film and film culture.
Subscribe to VIFF NEWS to be the first to receive the latest festival news.
Info & Details HERE!
This info session is the perfect warm-up for the Sundar Prize Storyteller’s Contest under our new Luminaries Program – submit by Oct 28, 2025 for a chance to win the following:
First Place: $300
Second Place: $200
Third Place: $100
Plus a ✨ filmmaker mentorship! ✨
LEARN MORE HERE!
Somewhere in the back of your closet gathering dust and turning yellow with age is comedic gold: those old journals, poems, and essays you wrote as a teenager when you thought you could do no wrong. If you were to read them today you’d probably cringe at your former feelings . Now, imagine sharing them in front of an audience (or live streamed to the Internet). That’s exactly what happens at Teen Angst Night.
The show will be back in late September/ October. On pause due to summer in Vancouver!
Want to be a reader for the Fox Cabaret shows?
More infomation HERE!
Thanks to all who Participated in our 2025 Event!!
Run N Gun is Vancouver's wildest filmmaking competition. Established in 2015, over 1100 films have been created through Run N Gun (& our sister competitions Shits N Giggles, Blood N Guts & Vancouver Quarentine Performance Project), and it has become the biggest filmmaking event Vancouver has to offer!
Run N Gun website HERE!
Next Celluloid Social Club Event - TBD
Celluloid Supper Club, presented in association with Celluloid Social Club and Shamshiri Caveman Restaurant.
Keep in touch with local screenings happening online at our FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/18306091376
https://celluloidsocialclub.com/
Ongoing Resources & Friends…..
Gender Equity in Media Society Vancouver (GEMS) is a member-based organization committed to furthering gender equity in film and television. Previously named Women in Film and Television Vancouver (WIFTV), GEMS incorporated in 1989 as a not-for-profit society registered in British Columbia.
By addressing systemic barriers, GEMS works towards supporting more inclusive, representative media.
The Genre Film Lab / Coffee Chats - past chats available to view online!
gemsvancouver.org
BIZ Books
Your online source for film, television, and theatre books. We invite you to browse through our online store where you will find thousands of titles. Let’s make your creative dreams come true!
Sign up for our newsletter with notices of sales, workshops, blogs & special events at bizbooks.net
GVPTA is a non-profit charitable organization whose membership includes theatre companies, theatre makers and artists, and other organizations and individuals that support theatre. We provide services, promotion of member news and community events, opportunities to connect and network, and hold an annual theatre conference.
Show Listings Here!
First Saturday Open Studios
First Saturday is a public monthly artist-run open-studio event in Vancouver, North Vancouver, New Westminster, Victoria & the Gulf Islands. Each month a new artist opens their doors to the public to share their work & chat…
Website & details here!
For Reviews of local & international performances & arts events, Colin Thomas [award winning playwright, Theatre Reviewer & Critic for almost four decades] offers thoughtful & insightful gems to consider in the world of theatre & art. Highly recommend!