January 2026: Fun Local Events to Check Out✨

At each CMVan event, the 30-second pitch segment gives audience members a chance to step on stage and spotlight upcoming local creative events happening around the city.

We send out a more detailed newsletter with the below events to our mailing list once a month. Subscribe to receive the next one. 

Check out what’s coming up this January:

1. Support the next tour of Beauty and the Beast: My Life (email  joanmcneil17@gmail.com to learn more)
2. Creative Forces Feature: Sirish Rao (read it here)
3.  2026 Strategic Planning Workshop (Jan 12 or 13)
4. Bodwell High School Open House (Jan 15 or Feb 13)
5. Held in Common: Paintings of Place & Shared History (Jan 15-25)
6. Likemind Vancouver, Coffee and Conversation (Jan 16)
7. Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network: Staying Connected Call (Jan 21)
8. Self-Publishing Off the Amazon Path (Jan 22)
9. Painting Workshops: Acrylic and Pastels (Jan 24th)
10. Connect+Reflect: A CM Mixer on January’s Theme, Koorsoo (Jan 28)
11. An Intimate Evening with Laura Roy: Live at Gallery @ Artech (Feb 6)
12. That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature (Opening Feb 6th)
13. First Saturday: Visit artist's where they work  (Feb 6)
14. Recognize Remarkable: BC Achievement Foundation (nominate by Feb 15th)
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The next CMVan event is happening on February 6th
and will be featuring the award-winning singer/songwriter and performer Krystle Dos Santos. Get your ticket here.