Events Calendar

This exhibition brings the extraordinary and timely art of Wael Shawky to the west coast for the first time. Featuring a video installation accompanied by related drawings and sculptures, Shawky’s work explores the real and imagined histories of the Arab world, posing timely questions about truth and myth.

Admissions is by donation

Gallery Hours: 10am – 5pm Tuesday – Sunday (closed Monday)

Photo: Wael Shawky, Al Araba Al Madfuna III, 2016, video still (detail), courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut/Hamburg

Tuesday – Sunday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Open late! Thursdays in December until 8:30 p.m.

FREE ADMISSION

Meet the artists and enjoy homemade holiday baking while you shop.

We have assembled a wonderful group of artists to help inspire your holiday shopping. Buy from local artists and help support the arts in your community. From scarves to paintings, jewelry to pottery, we have your holiday gifts here – along with the perfect card to place on top!

Great gifts by local artists:

Lea Abubo, Kristian Adam, Adele Maskwa-Iskwew Arseneau, ArtPen Studios, Billy Would Designs, Megan Bennett,Katy Biele, Chi Cheng Lee, Tony Chotem, Kirsten Chursinoff, Liz De Beer, Carolyn Di Pasquale, Karole Doucette, Matthew Freed, Connie J Goldhawke, Suzanne Goodwin, Jodi Heinhorst, Beryl Hickinbottom, Heather Johnston, Himali Kuwabara, Sonya Labrie, Joan Leslie, Barb Matthews, Hilary Morris, Emilie Nunez, Tamara Phillips, Sarah Ronald, Minori Takagi, Tannis Turner, Liane McLaren Varnam, Christine Waldie, We Mumble, Kate Whitehead

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Celebrate Canyon Lights, A Winter Festival November 22, 2019 to January 26, 2020. Re-capture the feeling of wonder and excitement of the holiday season and be amazed by the hundreds of thousands of lights throughout the park. The suspension bridge, Treetops Adventure, Cliffwalk, the rainforest and canyon are transformed into a world of festive lights and visual enchantment.

Once again the 30-ton Douglas firs of Treetops Adventure will receive star treatment. Treetops Adventure is a series of seven suspension bridges attached to eight 250 years old Douglas-firs with viewing platforms, reaching up to 110 feet above the forest floor. These magnificent Douglas firs will be lit above and below the collars, making these trees the eight tallest Christmas trees in the world!

Back by popular demand, go on a Snowy Owl Prowl, decorate gingerbread cookies (by donation)  and sing-along carols with the holiday band.

Dundarave Festival of Lights

November 30, 2019 – December 21, 2019 

The annual Dundarave Festival of Lights kicks off with a Christmas tree decorating beach party on November 30. On the four Saturdays leading up to Christmas, stop by for an afternoon of free concerts to spark your Christmas spirit. The official lighting of the Festival’s Christmas tree forest takes place at dusk. The Christmas trees will remain on display until after the New year.

Dundarave Christmas Fair

November 30 – Noon to Dusk
Enjoy a festive afternoon of free concerts in the Festival’s Longhouse and the Dundarave Nativity Pavilion. The magic happens at dusk with the official lighting of the Festival’s Christmas tree forest. Psst… there are rumours of a visitor from Whoville, rare sightings of the Grinch Who Saved Christmas.  Keep an eye out for him in Dundarave.

Dundarave Nativity & Paddle Songs

December 7 – Noon to Dusk
The Dundarave Festival brings you Christmas as you’ve never seen it before, fabulously festive and absolutely free in the Festival Longhouse and Nativity Pavilion.  Surrounded by a forest of Christmas trees, the only one like it in coastal British Columbia, you and everyone you love can connect with the bright spirit of the season as we approach the longest night of the year.  From the ground breaking music of local songwriters to the ancient songs the ancestors of the Squamish Elders sang on these shores for thousands of generations, the Dundarave Nativity & Paddle Songs brings you a loving Christmas.

World Christmas

December 14 – Noon to Dusk
The World Christmas, unique to the Dundarave Festival of Lights, celebrates the richness of Canada’s cultural diversity.  From the Francophone roots of our country, to the heat of Mariachi and foot stomping Celtic chords, the World Christmas brings you the season as you may have never seen it before.  Set in our bright forest of Christmas trees, this afternoon of fabulously festive and absolutely free concerts speaks to the true spirit Christmas: a season of mirth, music and joy that leaves no one out in the cold.  Watch this space for a taste of what you’ll find.

Christmas Wassail & Bonfire

December 21 – Noon to Dusk

For more information on the 2018 Dundarave Festival of Lights visit www.dundaravefestival.com

Now a time-honoured tradition as part of Grouse Mountain’s Peak of Christmas celebration, Breakfast with Santa will be featured in Lupins Café and Altitudes Bistro. Families can enjoy a delicious breakfast buffet, visit with Santa Claus, partake in face painting and enjoy a magic show!