Vancouver’s 30 Best Family-Friendly Places to Explore the Arts: Other Cool Places
This is it, the final six nominees for the best family-friendly places to explore the arts in Vancouver. See the previous posts for more on festivals and theatres, museums and galleries, performing arts, and visual arts. Get ready to vote next week for your favourite, as we continue the search for our readers’ top pick!
- Blue Egg Studios
- Granville Island
- Place des Arts
- Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
- Vancouver Police Museum
- West End/Coal Harbour Community Centres
Blue Egg Studios
Blue Egg Studios trains children and adults in singing, dancing and acting. Sign up for private or group singing lessons, develop your family’s talents in contemporary, hip hop, ballet, jazz or tap dance, or find their inner thespian.
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Granville Island
The nominations said it all: “Their mandate has always been to support the arts and culture in the city. It has something for everyone, from kids (Arts Umbrella and the water park/kids Market), to the young adult (Emily Carr University), to parents and Grandparents, with open artist workshops, theaters and live music playing in the streets.”
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Place des Arts
Place des Arts is a non-profit arts centre and music school in Coquitlam with an aim to inspire the artist in everyone. Lessons include a wide range of musical instruments as well as dance, drama, voice, visual arts, fibre arts, pottery and creative writing, for students from preschoolers to adults.
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Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
Theatre, arts programs, and festivals – oh my! The Shadbolt Centre in Burnaby’s Deer Lake Park is a venue for all sorts of arts exploration for children and adults. Besides lineup of great local and national performances, classes include literary arts, visual arts, ceramic arts, theatre, music, and dance. Check out the Youth Arts Council if your children want to get even more involved in the arts in their community.
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Vancouver Police Museum
Wait, what? A police museum as a family-friendly arts destination? Consider this: some kids are drawn to the more, er, visceral aspects of art. The Vancouver Police Museum — housed in a heritage building downtown — does maggot art as part of their spring break entomology program, and has a forensic art facial recognition station.
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West End/Coal Harbour Community Centres
Your local community centre is a great place to start exploring the arts, with most offering programs in all kinds of artistic endeavours for people of all ages. The West End Community Centre Association earned their nomination by providing stellar programs for preschoolers, children and preteens, and teens as well as adults, from recycled art to pottery to drumming to glee club.
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Thanks, Diane, for including Place des Arts! Although we’re very well known in the Tri-Cities area for quality arts education, we really appreciate that you’re letting your readers in other municipalities know about us.