Celebrate arts, culture and heritage in your community through free and interactive events from September 20 to October 13!

Culture Days is Canada’s largest public participation campaign for the arts, and North Vancouver Recreation & Culture is offering activities for all ages. There’s a free event for everyone! Take a dance class, explore your creative side with a painting class or Coast Salish weaving workshop, or go behind the curtain on a backstage tour of the Centennial Theatre.  

Check out our scheduled events below or visit the Culture Days webpage to learn about all the exciting events happening on the North Shore.  

Arts & writing

September 21 | 9 am – 12 pm    Facial planes - acrylic painting
John Braithwaite Community Centre, 19+ years

September 21 | 1 pm – 3 pm   Facial skin tones – acrylic painting
John Braithwaite Community Centre, 19+ years

September 22 | 10 am – 12 pm    Paper sculptures
Lions Gate Community Recreation Centre, 8-12 years

September 25 | 6 pm – 8 pm   Youth culture day workshop – tiny explosions: writing flash fiction
Delbrook Community Recreation Centre, 10-18 years

September 27 | 5 pm – 7 pm   Loosen up with acrylic paint
John Braithwaite Community Centre, 19+ years

October 4 | 5 pm – 7 pm   Acrylic painting - lighten up
John Braithwaite Community Centre, 19+ years

October 6 | 1 pm – 3:30 pm   Hand-building clay haunted plate
Delbrook Community Recreation Centre, 8-12 years

October 8 | 1 pm – 2:30 pm  Origami Workshop
Harry Jerome Community Recreation Centre

Textiles  

September 23 | 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm   Needle felted mushrooms – felted mushroom books
Ron Andrews Community Recreation Centre, 6+ years

September 24 | 7 pm – 8 pm  Coast Salish wool weaving workshop
Delbrook Community Recreation Centre, 8+ years

October 9 | 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm   Wool felted beads workshop
Memorial Community Recreation Centre

Dance & movement  

September 22 | 3 pm – 5 pm   Forest movement practice
Ron Andrews Community Recreation Centre

September 23 | 6 pm – 7 pm   Bollywood dance class
Lynn Valley Village Community Complex, 8+ years

September 26 | 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm   All Bodies Dance
John Braithwaite Community Centre

October 6 | 1 pm – 2 pm   Line dancing workshop
Memorial Community Recreation Centre

Film & performance

October 9 | 7 pm – 8:30 pm   Latinx-Canadians: 50 Years of Uninterrupted Generations (film and live performance)
Centennial Theatre

Tours  

October 2 | 5 pm – 6:30 pm   Public art tours at The Shipyards in North Vancouver
Shipyards, 11+ years

October 5 | 11 am – 12:30 pm   Public art tours at The Shipyards in North Vancouver
Shipyards, 11+ years

October 8 | 11 am – 12 pm   Centennial Theatre backstage tour
Centennial Theatre, 12+ years

October 10 | 3 pm – 4 pm   Centennial Theatre backstage tour
Centennial Theatre, 12+ years