Events @ The Point!
Click on an event below to learn more or purchase tickets. Most of our events are at our location on Alta Lake, and are full of wonderful people and arts. We’d love to see you here!
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Polka & Pilsner!
Get ready to dance, dine, and delight in a night of Czech culture! After the incredible success of our 2019 event, Polka & Pilsner returns to The Point Artist-Run Centre at 6pm on Friday, November 15th, 2024. We’ve teamed up with the Czech community and the Multicultural Society to bring you an evening full of lively polka music, dance, and authentic Czech food.
Community Jazz & Blues Jam!
JAM! BLUEGRASS! Whether you’ve come before or this is your first time, you’re welcome. Beginner friendly. Don’t play but want to listen? Also fantastic.
Community Bluegrass Jam!
JAM! BLUEGRASS! Whether you’ve come before or this is your first time, you’re welcome. Beginner friendly. Don’t play but want to listen? Also fantastic.
Sunday Concert Series: Greg Kelley / Aude Ray
Come on down to enjoy Double bill featuring Aude Ray’s entrancing originals in English and French and Greg Kelly’s folk roots rock storytelling. $15. Children & youth free.
Flag Stop on the Coast Heritage Playhouse Gibsons, BC
Flag Stop on the Coast
Fresh off the heels of the Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival in Whistler, the Point Artist-Run Centre brings two new plays to the beautiful Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons, BC. Comedy meets technology as playwrights Alan Forsythe and Stephen Vogler delve into the shaky ground of crypto currency and AI.
Heritage Playhouse, Gibsons, BC
Friday, August 23. Doors 7:30PM. Show 8PM
Tickets $20 advance / $25 at the door (Available August 2, 2024)
Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival at The Point
Take in the show with a spectacular dinner or arrive for the entertainment alone. Have a drink from Harrop’s Bar and enjoy the roving entertainers before the premieres of two new plays on the floating stage, “Crypto Caper” by Alan Forsythe, and “Aye Aye AI” by Stephen Vogler. Then move inside the lodge to dance to Vancouver’s veteran pop punk rockers Pointed Sticks.
$30 Show Only; $55 with Dinner; $55 with Veggie Dinner Option
Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival at The Point
Take in the show with a spectacular dinner or arrive for the entertainment alone. Have a drink from Harrop’s Bar and enjoy the roving entertainers before the premieres of two new plays on the floating stage, “Crypto Caper” by Alan Forsythe, and “Aye Aye AI” by Stephen Vogler. Then move inside the lodge to dance to the roots rock reggae of Lil’wat band The Spiritual Warriors.
$30 Show Only; $55 with Dinner; $55 with Veggie Dinner Option
Flag Stop Festival at Florence Petersen Park - Evening
The evening begins at 6PM with a welcome ceremony from the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Ambassadors. The beer and wine garden and food vendors are open as DJ Vinyl Ritchie heats up the park with his eclectic 45s. Vancouver writer and theatre artist Cecilia O’Day delivers a preview of her one-woman Fringe monologue Young Widow, and Brandon Barrett returns from Victoria with his latest stand-up offering. Then Comedian Sarah Carson Ford returns to her hometown with a comedy set honed in New York.
Vancouver’s sweet dance party orchestra Balkan Shmalkan will get everybody moving on the grass, and the night wraps up with stellar hometown rockers Introduce Wolves.
Flag Stop Festival: Pop-Up Performance Bike Ride
POP-UP PERFORMANCE BIKE RIDE from Florence Petersen Park to The Point. Evan Kinsella & The Tide, ALGN Dance, Brandon Barrett, and the Papa Josh Trio.
Start at Florence Petersen Park at 5PM with live music, and ride your bike to The Point with stops for dance, comedy and more live music.
Sunday Concert Series: Archie Peters / Sheri Marie Ptolemy / Austin Ross
Come on down to enjoy Lil’wat slide blues guitarist Archie Peters, AND Pemberton singer songwriter Austin Ross. Two great artists on one beautiful afternoon by the lake. Tickets online, $15. 12 and under free :)
Sunday Concert Series: Doc Fingers & Tom Keenlyside
Come enjoy the boogie-woogie, jump/swing and bop piano sounds of Doc Fingers, with Tom Keenlyside on sax, clarinet and flute. Tickets online, $15. 12 and under free :)
Sunday Concert Series: The New (Courageous) Mountain Rangers
Are you yearning for some hard driving bluegrass, latin jazz, Texas swing, maybe a Ween cover, and plenty of originals?! Come on down for The Courageous Mountain Rangers. Tickets online, $15. 12 and under free :)
Trio Elysium – Songs for a Summer Evening
Come enjoy the music of Trio Elysium, featuring Alison Hunter (harp), Anne-elise Keefer (flute), Jeanette Bruce (voice). Come on down! Tickets available online, $15.
Sunday Concert Series: Giddy-up Go Daddy!
Come enjoy the music of Giddy-up Go Daddy! Alt Country to Rock, Folk to Funk, Jam Bands to Bluegrass. Get in touch with yer inner hillbilly. Tickets available online, $15.
BLUEGRASS JAM with Host Band
JAM! BLUEGRASS! Whether you’ve come before or this is your first time, you’re welcome. Beginner friendly. Don’t play but want to listen? Also fantastic.
9th Annual Winter Carnival at The Point
From 12-4PM, enjoy all-ages activities including snow sculpting and ice dancing competitions, DJ Ira Dance Party (1PM), curling and shinny (ice permitting), costumed characters, live campfire music from Greg Kelly and Thomas Studer, tickle trunk with winter costumes (or bring your own), and scrumptious lunch and hot and cold drinks available from the Cypress Point Café and Harrop’s Bar. What a great way to spend BC Family Day!
9th Annual Winter Carnival at The Point
Featuring East Vancouver’s C.R. Avery & the Storm Collective, local accordion maestro Thomas Studer, followed by the annual Winter Art Auction. A hearty winter feast will be served up by one of the Point’s guest chefs, and Harrop’s Bar will be open for libations.
All Original Orphans' Winter Feast
Formerly held on Thanksgiving, the All Original Orphan’s Winter Feast features a traditional turkey (or veggie) dinner with all the fixings and two smoking original music acts.
Jazz Jam with Host Band
The Point’s Jazz Jam is hosted by four local musicians, Brett Florio on guitar, Rajan Das on upright bass, Bob Miller on saxophone and Jim Brown on drums. Various levels of musicians are welcome to sit in, share their knowledge and learn from others.
Drop-in by Donation
BLUEGRASS JAM with Host Band
The Point’s Bluegrass Jam features a three-piece host band with Mike Grenzer on guitar and mandolin, Brett Florio on guitar and dobro, and Rajan Das on upright bass. All levels welcome.
Drop-in by Donation
Double Header! Aude Ray & Big Love
Come on down to enjoy the wonderful Aude Ray, AND the Big Love band with special guest Murray Hunt. Two great artists on one beautiful afternoon by the lake. Tickets online, $15. 12 and under free :)
Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival
The Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival at The Point, from 6-10pm! Featuring the theatre premieres:
“Your Truly, Kay” by Karen McLeod
“Bloppera” by John McGie
Live Music by Garret T. Willie
SOLD OUT!
Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival
The Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival moves to The Point Artist-Run Centre, from 6-10:30PM! Featuring the theatre premieres:
Comedian Sarah Carson Ford
“Your Truly, Kay” by Karen McLeod
“Bloppera” by John McGie
Live Music by Emily Molloy and Pistol Whip the Devil
Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival
The Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival comes to the Florence Petersen Park, from 6-10pm! Featuring…
Walk in the Woods with Jacques Lalonde
Balkan Shmalkan
Laugh Out Live! Comedy Variety Show
Introduce Wolves
Advance Tickets $20+GST – Children 12 & under free
Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival
The Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival comes to the Florence Petersen Park, from 6-10pm! Featuring…
DJ Foxy Moron
Travis the Magician
Vinyl Ritchie
Laugh Out Live!
Dustin Bentall & The Blue Wranglers
Advance Tickets $20+GST – Children 12 & under free
Austin Ross & Archie Peters
Come on down to enjoy Lil’wat slide blues guitarist Archie Peters, AND Pemberton singer songwriter Austin Ross. Two great artists on one beautiful afternoon by the lake. Tickets online, $15. 12 and under free :)
Doc Fingers & Tom Keenlyside
Come enjoy the boogie-woogie, jump/swing and bop piano sounds of Doc Fingers, with Tom Keenlyside on sax, clarinet and flute. Tickets online, $15. 12 and under free :)
The Courageous Mountain Rangers
Are you yearning for some hard driving bluegrass, latin jazz, Texas swing, maybe a Ween cover, and plenty of originals?! Come on down for The Courageous Mountain Rangers. Tickets online, $15. 12 and under free :)
Trio Elysium – Songs for a Summer Evening
Come enjoy the music of Trio Elysium, featuring Alison Hunter (harp), Anne-elise Keefer (flute), Jeanette Bruce (voice). Come on down! Tickets available online, $15.
Kera Willis + Cricket & Claw
Come enjoy singer-songwriter Kera Willis accompanying poetic lyrics with guitar, banjo and mandolin. Also… Fiddle/Banjo duo Katherine Fawcett and Andrea Purton share their love of traditional old-time, bluegrass and fiddle tunes. Tickets $15 online.