After Dark Events
Other Featured Events
Vagabond Players Presents: Mauritius
- October 3
- -6
- 8:00 pm
- Bernie Legge Theatre, Queen's Park
Mauritius is a dark comedy centered around Jackie, a 22-year-old woman who’s lived a sheltered life caring for her abusive mother who’s just passed after a long illness. She’s left a book of stamps which may or may not be valuable/fake, and may or may not legally belong to her older half-sister Mary, a sophisticated woman who’s been absent through the years of their mother’s illness. When Jackie makes a secret deal with shady characters, she unleashes deep resentment among all involved.
By Theresa RebeckDirected by Chris Schuessler
Tickets Required: Purchase via the Vagabond Players website
Purpose Independent Secondary School Showcase
- October 4
- 6:00 pm
- - 8:00 pm
- 502 Columbia St.
Purpose Independent Secondary School is excited to showcase our vibrant Fine Arts, Music and Film programs. Please join us in celebrating and appreciating the amazing work of our students from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.
Join us at 7pm for a mini film festival featuring short films created by Purpose students. Tours of the school will also be available.
Free. No Registration Required
Imagining new worlds: A spotlight on our favourite writers
- October 5
- 7:00 pm
- - 9:00 pm
- Wildfires Bookshop, 712B 12th Street
Books can transport us into different worlds, stories, and lives. What could our world look like if we took inspiration from the worlds created by some of our favourite writers? Join us for an interactive evening of imagining possibilities.
Free. No Registration Required
Opening Reception Heart of the Crawl
- October 3
- 6:30 pm
- - 8:30 pm
- The Gallery at Queen's Park
Join us at The Gallery at Queen’s Park to celebrate the official kick-off to the 21st annual New West Cultural Crawl.
The Heart of the Crawl exhibition features many of the crawl participants. This event is a great place to discover an impressive collection of New West artists and to plan your crawl route.
Free. No Registration Required
Arrieta Art Studio Poetry Floodlight
- October 5
- 6:00 pm
- - 9:00 pm
- 329 Columbia st. Suite 106
As part of the Poetry Floodlight Series, this event welcomes emerging and established poets to share their verses with the community.
Free. No Registration Required
Quality Time at Moodswing
- October 5
- 7:00 pm
- - 9:00 pm
- 655 Front Street
With an emphasis on interesting music in an open and inviting atmosphere, Quality Time is a night focused less on the perfect vinyl mix, but on presenting eclectic sounds pulled from left-field electronic, post-punk, dub, spiritual jazz, field recordings & found sounds in the warm environment of Mood Swing bar.
The quarterly event is meant to bring people together – over cocktails, natural wines and small plates, to actively engage with music beyond the boundaries of algorithms and features local vinyl DJs and engaging visuals.
A Decade: An Art & A Cappella Show
- October 2
- 7:30 pm
- - 9:30 pm
- Centennial Lodge, New Westminster
The 21st New Westminster Cultural Crawl kicks-off in a joint celebration with Braid Street Studios and Vocal Band Quayside Voices. Quayside and Braid both turn 10 this year!
Presented by Arts New West at Centennial Lodge in Queen’s Park, the concert celebrates performing and visual arts collaboratively by connecting artist works with the show set list.
Feature visual artists include Braid Street Studios founder Susan Greig, Fiona Tang and more.
New Westminster singer/songwriter Cheska Henson opens the show.
Tickets are limited, secure your seat now!
New West Cultural Crawl by Bike
- October 6
- -6
- 1:00 pm
- Century House, 620 Eighth Street New Westminster
Discover bike routes in Uptown New Westminster while cycling to venues participating in the New West Cultural Crawl.
Led by a trained HUB-New Westminster volunteer, the ride will visit Century House, the Free Little Art Gallery of New Westminster (815 Edinburgh Street), the Braid Street Studios (321 Sixth Street), The Gallery at Queen’s Park and the main branch of the New Westminster Public Library (716 Sixth Avenue).
Please be on time: the event leaves 5 minutes after the start time and involves some uphills. No one gets left behind.
Both human-powered and electric bikes are welcomed.
To get an idea of numbers, we are asking participates please register via Eventbrite.
This is a free event. Everyone is welcome.
Connections Cafe
- October 5
- -6
- 10:00 am
- - 2:00 pm
- Century House 820 8th St
Fuel up for your crawl adventure at Century House’s Connections Cafe.
While you are there, explore and shop handmade crafts made by seniors of Century House, and other artists in the community.
Indigenous Art in Cultural Spaces: A Round Table Discussion
- October 6
- 2:00 pm
- - 3:30 pm
- Ground Floor, Anvil Centre, 777 Columbia St.
Join artists, curators and supporters of the Downstream Where the Waters Mix exhibition.
Discuss the featured works and reflect on historic and working relationships between Indigenous artists and museums, galleries and cultural centres.
Free. Registration required: newwestcity.ca Course ID 215250
Making Shadow Puppets
- October 5
- -6
- 11:00 am
- - 4:00 pm
- Studio 413, Anvil Centre, 777 Columbia St.
Discover the wonders of shadow puppetry.
Bring your imagination and transform simple art materials into your own unique shadow characters.. Make your puppets come alive behind our shadow screen, take photos or videos to share, and then bring your shadow puppet home for more fun! All materials are provided.
Free. No registration required. Family-Friendly
A Love Ritual
- October 5
- -6
- 11:00 am
- - 5:00 pm
- Wildfires Bookshop, 712B 12th St.
A Love Ritual is a ritual-based workshop where you are invited to connect and expand on what love is and what it means for us at this time in the world. Through writing, altar creation, singing and other practices, we will look beyond romantic love and hold love up as radical and collective practices in the pursuit of liberation, justice and belonging.
The community altar from A Love Ritual will continue to grow during the Culture Crawl, where community members are invited to witness the altar as well as add to it with experiential and creative prompts.
Free. No registration required
Make Your Own Clay Ornament with Dana Keli Ceramics
- October 5
- -6
- 12:00 pm
- - 2:00 pm
- 824 Massey Street
Visit Keli in her compact home studio in Sapperton for a free workshop. Work alongside Keli and craft your own clay holiday ornament.
Free. No registration required
Public Art Tour
- October 6
- -6
- 10:00 am
- - 12:00 pm
- Anvil Centre, 777 Columbia St.
Join us for a walking tour of the public art in downtown New Westminster, led by local curator, Jas Lally. The tour will take place outdoors, rain or shine so please be prepared for the weather. Come for a stroll and learn about key public artworks in and around the Anvil Centre, downtown and along the riverfront. All are welcome but please note that the tour is aimed at an adult audience.
Free. Registration Required. Email publicart@newwestcity.ca to register.
This event is wheelchair-friendly
Photo: Ensemble by Karen Zalamea Photo Credit: Dennis Ha
Still Life Sketching with the Garden Gals
- October 5
- -6
- 11:00 am
- - 4:00 pm
- Anvil Centre, 777 Columbia Street
Still Life Sketching with the Garden Gals
Studio 411
Free. No registration required
Family Friendly
Join the gals for some still-life sketching from a floral display and create your own garden-inspired work of art. The program includes some art instruction and plenty of creative inspiration! Offered in partnership with the Garden Gals, a group of artists from the New Westminster Horticultural Society.
Free. No registration required.
Pottery Workshop
- October 5
- -6
- 11:00 am
- - 1:00 pm
- Palette Art Studio, 665 Columbia St.
Learn a new skill. Join other crawl visitors for a drop-in hand building pottery workshops.
Free. No Registration Required
Artist Meet and Greet
- October 6
- 2:00 pm
- - 4:00 pm
- 775 6th Street
Join the New Westminster Cultural Crawl at your friendly neighbourhood book & record shop! Groove Cat Books and Records is excited to showcase the works of local artists Blue Sky and Lynne Usher on Sunday, October 6, from 2-4 PM.
The artists will be on hand to discuss and sign their work. Groove Cat will serve light refreshments to guests.
Free. No registration required
Changing the Conversation – Artist Talk with PJ Patten
- October 6
- 2:00 pm
- - 4:00 pm
- Anvil Centre, 777 Columbia Street
Anvil Centre Community Art Gallery
Opening Reception from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Artist Talk at 2:30 PM
Join Changing the Conversation Artist in Residence, PJ Patten, as he shares insight on how the Community Art Gallery exhibition offers a platform for youth to share their stories, dreams, and perspectives around housing insecurities as well as his own lived experiences.
Changing the Conversation is a three-year project that examines how public spaces and public art can facilitate a healthier discourse about housing in the community.
By working with those that are either homeless, precariously housed, and working on the front lines of harm reduction and supportive housing, PJ hopes his contribution to the Changing the Conversation Exhibition as an opportunity to give those who might not be heard a chance to share their experiences from dealing with the housing crisis. Pieces shown in this exhibit were either created directly by people living and working in this growing problem or through collaboration with PJ.
