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TOMORROW'S THE DAY! Trolley Days: Heritage in Motion is here.Join us at the Shipyards and catch our amazing performers! ...
06/05/2026

TOMORROW'S THE DAY! Trolley Days: Heritage in Motion is here.

Join us at the Shipyards and catch our amazing performers! Whether's its music, dance, theatre, there's something to enjoy for everyone. 🎭🎶✨

Choose a trolley ride for a memorable experience of the North Shore history, grab something to eat from our curated food trucks, and make a day of it with our family-friendly activities.

The festival is free to attend, but the trolley rides require tickets. Head out to the link in our bio 🔗 to learn more and grab your tickets!

North Vancouver District

06/04/2026

🔊Meet Alexine McLeod!
Alexine McLeod is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores perception, spirituality, and lens-based technologies. Since completing her BFA at Emily Carr University (2016) and MFA at the University of Guelph (2020), she has created immersive installations and lightboxes using found materials and projected light. Experimenting with the curiosities inherent in seeing through the lens of photography, her work layers colour, shadow, and form to explore optical dynamics between colour, space and surface. McLeod’s recent light-based imagery invites viewers into active looking, where vibrant obstructions and spatial compressions reveal depth in the periphery.

Tomorrow is the final day to visit the exhibition! Experiments in Photography: Image & Object is part of the Capture Photography Festival.
Curated by Avery Hannig

Videography by Peter Trudolubovs

Meet our performers for Trolley Days: Heritage in Motion! 🎭🎶✨Slide 1: The Tracks Home is a new performance by Ashley Cho...
06/04/2026

Meet our performers for Trolley Days: Heritage in Motion! 🎭🎶✨

Slide 1: The Tracks Home is a new performance by Ashley Chodat and Kelsey Ranshaw, created for Trolley Days: Heritage in Motion. Ashley is a theatre artist, writer, and educator with award-winning works featured in festivals like the Vancouver Fringe. She holds a BFA in Applied Theatre from UVic. Kelsey is a Vancouver-based performer and drama educator with training from UBC and Red Deer College. With a background in ballet, she focuses on physical theatre and often incorporates clowning into her creative work.

The Tracks Home will be performed multiple times during the day on Saturday and Sunday, June 6-7.

Slide 2: Teal Scout (Natūmahkā) is a Blackfoot and Duwamish drum keeper, singer, and cultural facilitator whose work centers around community wellness. Known for sharing drum teachings across the Northwest, Teal blends traditional knowledge, contemporary mentorship, and a deep commitment to helping people reconnect with identity, strength, and belonging.

Teal Scout (Natūmahkā) will perfrom on Sunday, June 7, between 3-4 PM.

To enhance your festival experience, grab your tickets for our Trolley Tours, and hop on our heritage-style trolleys to arrive at Shipyards in style! Routes, tickets, and more details available on the website. Link in bio 🔗

NEW QUEST ALERT! 📣 Play the quest and win our $450 price package sponsored by !Complete the new and featured *Art Crawl...
06/03/2026

NEW QUEST ALERT! 📣 Play the quest and win our $450 price package sponsored by !

Complete the new and featured *Art Crawling Quest* (in the Lower Lonsdale neighbourhood) between June 3, 2026, and June 30, 2026, to be automatically entered to win a prize package kindly donated by this month's sponsor

Prize Package includes:

4 x admission tickets to Capilano Suspension Bridge Park

1 x $150 Gift Card to CliffHouse Restaurant

Total package value of $450

Make a day of it! Complete the quest while checking out Trolley Days at the shipyards this coming weekend.

Terms and conditions apply.

This Saturday, June 6th, Darryl Klassen will take over the stage at Shipyards! Join us at 11 am to catch the performance...
06/03/2026

This Saturday, June 6th, Darryl Klassen will take over the stage at Shipyards! Join us at 11 am to catch the performance and celebrate the opening of Trolley Days. 🎶🎹✨

Darryl is a local songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His primary instruments are a banjo and acoustic guitar. His music is a ragtag collection of songs about boats, trains, coffee, love, old cowboys, and some foot-stomping guitar and banjo instrumentals that he coins “Highbrow Hillbilly”. Darryl has performed at markets, festivals and other events throughout the greater Vancouver area for many years. He has recorded and produced 3 cds as either a solo artist, or with his band ‘JD Miner’.

Darryl will perform on Saturday, June 6, between 11 AM - 12 PM.
📍Shipyards, North Vancouver

To enhance your festival experience, grab your tickets for our Trolley Tours, and hop on our heritage-style trolleys to arrive at Shipyards in style! Routes, tickets, and more details available on the website. Link in bio 🔗

Meet our performers for Trolley Days: Heritage in Motion! 🎶👀✨Spakwus Slolem, (translated,”Eagle Song Dancers), are membe...
06/01/2026

Meet our performers for Trolley Days: Heritage in Motion! 🎶👀✨

Spakwus Slolem, (translated,”Eagle Song Dancers), are members of the Squamish Nation. Geographically located in what is called the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Their traditional territory being of Vancouver, North Shore, Howe Sound and up to the Whistler area. The Skwxwu7mesh people have utilized and lived on the lands & waters for over 10,000 years. Having history traced back to the Great Flood and the Ice Age.
Spakwus Slolem is honoured to present their Skwxwu7mesh traditional songs & dance and share its history with the attendees.

Eagle Song Dancers will open the second day of the festival on Sunday, June 7, at 11 AM.
📍Shipyards, North Vancouver

To enhance your festival experience, grab your tickets for our Trolley Tours, and hop on our heritage-style trolleys to arrive at Shipyards in style! Routes, tickets, and more details available on the website. Link in bio 🔗

Meet our performers for Trolley Days: Heritage in Motion! 🎶🎹✨Led by songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Alison Jenkins, Lit...
05/30/2026

Meet our performers for Trolley Days: Heritage in Motion! 🎶🎹✨

Led by songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Alison Jenkins, LittleFox is reinventing Chamber Folk, blending roots-y banjo, fiddle, and mandolin with haunting strings, woodwinds, and pedal steel guitar. Layered atop lush harmonies, Jenkins' vocals alternate between whiskey-soaked and angelic in the space of a heartbeat. While her recordings are an intimate showcase of Jenkins's songwriting prowess, LittleFox's live shows bring unmatched passion and energy to any stage.

Little Fox will perform on Saturday, June 6, between 3-4 PM.
📍Shipyards, North Vancouver

To enhance your festival experience, grab your tickets for our Trolley Tours, and hop on our heritage-style trolleys to arrive at Shipyards in style! Routes, tickets, and more details available on the website. Link in bio 🔗

Song: Desire Lines by Alison Jenkins

Meet our performers for Trolley Days: Heritage in Motion! 🎶🎹✨Image 1: JAZZILLION is a Vancouver-based creative collecti...
05/27/2026

Meet our performers for Trolley Days: Heritage in Motion! 🎶🎹✨

Image 1: JAZZILLION is a Vancouver-based creative collective dedicated to writing, rehearsing and performing original jazz tunes. With three horns and a full rhythm section, they are inspired by traditional melodies and rhythms, but their purpose is to create something new. Performing in a variety of styles including post bop, soul jazz funk, and latin. They field three horns – trombone, trumpet and tenor sax – and a full rhythm section, they’re a fun band with something for everyone!

Jazzillion will perform on Sunday, June 7, between 2-3 PM.

Image 2: Pooneh Alizadeh (Mehrbanoo) .pooneh is the award-winning artistic director of the Academy of Middle Eastern Dance, AMED Dance Academy, established in 2004. Blending Middle Eastern folk and Ballet to create a colourful Middle Eastern fusion, authentic feeling and modern flair in every performance.
pooneh will perform on Saturday, June 6, between 1-2 PM.

Image 3: The Perambulating Pink Pied Piper (also known as Dodgy Frank Wimberley / Francis Buchanan) has, since Covid, been wooing the North Shore with the dulcet and delightful tunes on his bagpipes. His regular Friday 5pm parade from Central Lonsdale to Lower Lonsdale has become a resounding success, heralding the arrival of the weekend and letting the community know to stop work, shut the computer down and grab a beverage of choice. The Perambulating Pink Pied Piper is bagpiping his way on the Grand Cycle Tour across Canada, while raising funds for youth bagpipers and poetry in Vancouver.

The Perambulating Pink Pied Piper will be performing on Sunday, June 7, between 4-5 PM.

To enhance your festival experience, grab your tickets for our Trolley Tours, and hop on our heritage-style trolleys to arrive at Shipyards in style! Routes, tickets, and more details available on the website. Link in bio 🔗

05/27/2026

🔊Meet artist Steven Cottignham .obj !

Steven Cottingham‘s practice critically examines the influence of emerging image technologies through case studies including bodycams, surveillance advertising, military simulation software, and Al in prisons. Cottingham’s films and artwork have recently been presented at Dazibao (Montreal, 2025), Center for Performance Research (New York, 2024), Wil Aballe Art Projects (Vancouver, 2023), The 8th Floor (New York, 2023), Catriona Jeffries (Vancouver, 2023), ENTRE (Vienna, 2023), Natalia Hug Galerie (Cologne, 2022), and Artists Space (New York, 2022). He has undertaken residencies with the Canadian Forces Artist Program (2024-2025) and the Whitney Independent Study Program (New York, 2021- 2022), and is currently based in Vancouver.

Steven is part of the Experiments in Photography: Image & Object , on view in CityScape Gallery until June 5th.
Experiments in Photography: Image & Object is part of the .
Curated by

Videographer .ca

Meet our performers for Trolley Days: Heritage in Motion! 🎶🎹✨Image 1: The Indigenous Women Rise Drum Group Indigenous Wo...
05/26/2026

Meet our performers for Trolley Days: Heritage in Motion! 🎶🎹✨

Image 1: The Indigenous Women Rise Drum Group Indigenous Women Rise Society is proud to represent First Nations and Metis women from across Turtle Island and honoured to share good medicine with community through the drum and song. Meeting since 2018 in Vancouver, BC, what started as a few women grew to 20+ participants.

The Indigenous Women Rise will perform on Sunday, June 7, between 1-2 PM.

Image 2: Celebrating Irish dance on the North Shore since 2003, O’Connor Irish Dancers offers classes for all ages, from tots to adults, at all levels, from recreational dancers to World Championship qualifiers. The dancers perform throughout the year, and are delighted to be part of Trolley Days this June.

O’Connor Irish Dancers will perfrom on Sunday, June 7, between 2-3 PM.

Image 3: Lola Whyte, also known as Woman Who Sings with the Clouds, is a q***r Plains Cree First Nations recording artist based in Vancouver, BC. Originally a professional dancer, Lola transitioned from the entertainment industry to the music industry in 2015 with the creation of the Canadian band, Old Soul Rebel. Her sound is a combination of electronic pow wow music, rock n’ roll, and acoustic interludes.

Lola will perfrom on Saturday, June 6, between 4-5 PM.

To enhance your festival experience, grab your tickets for our Trolley Tours, and hop on our heritage-style trolleys to arrive at Shipyards in style! Routes, tickets, and more details available on the website. Link in bio 🔗

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