Family life in Vancouver, by age

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Family life in Vancouver, by age

What's on in Vancouver for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kids and teens — sorted by age, dated, and pulled from the town's real event feed.

Family life in Vancouver, by age

Family life in Vancouver, sorted the way parents actually search: by how old your kid is. Vancouver's feed carries 1318 family listings in total, 1043 of them dated in the next 60 days. The busiest family venues in the feed right now are Central Library (159) and West Point Grey Branch (68). Pages with their own age sections: baby, toddler, preschool, kids, teens.

Start with the age pages if one fits — they're filtered hard, only real dated listings — or scan everything coming up below. If a band doesn't have a page yet, it's because the feed doesn't have enough dated listings for that age to fill one honestly, and we'd rather say that than pad it.

By age — pick your stage

Baby (0–1) — 303 dated listings in the next 60 days, including Baby Stay and Play.

Toddler (1–3) — 334 dated listings in the next 60 days, including Family Stay and Play.

Preschool (3–5) — 306 dated listings in the next 60 days, including Family Stay and Play.

Kids (5–12) — 103 dated listings in the next 60 days, including Write Now for Tweens: Online.

Teens (13–18) — 70 dated listings in the next 60 days, including Reading Buddies: Teen Training Session.

Coming up for families in Vancouver

Every family listing in the feed with a date in the next 60 days, soonest first — all ages together.

Baby Stay and Play

Wed, Oct 7 · 11:00 AM · Champlain Heights Branch
Baby Stay and Play in Vancouver
Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Baby Stay and Play is on Wednesday, Oct 7 at Champlain Heights Branch, Vancouver. Good one for the kids.

The regular rhythm

The standing weekly fixtures behind the dated list — the rhythm family life in Vancouver actually runs on.

Wednesdays — Board Game Social at Britannia Branch · 23 sessions in the feed, next Oct 7, then Oct 14.

Thursdays — Baby Stay and Play at Firehall Branch · 21 sessions in the feed, next Oct 7, then Oct 8.

Thursdays — Babytime at Firehall Branch · 20 sessions in the feed, next Oct 7, then Oct 8.

Thursdays — Babytime at Kitsilano Branch · 19 sessions in the feed, next Oct 14, then Oct 15.

Fridays — Baby Stay and Play at Central Library · 27 sessions in the feed, next Oct 7, then Oct 9.

Fridays — Babytime at Central Library · 25 sessions in the feed, next Oct 14, then Oct 16.

Saturdays — Family Storytime at Central Library · 27 sessions in the feed, next Oct 11, then Oct 14.

Saturdays — Family Stay and Play at West Point Grey Branch · 21 sessions in the feed, next Oct 7, then Oct 10.

Good to know

Free, as marked in the feed: Hebrew story time and breakfast, 04. Storytime with Willie Poll - LIVESTREAM, 20. Storytime with Friends - LIVESTREAM, 39. Meet My Family - LIVESTREAM. Those listings carry a free tag in Vancouver's own event data — everything else here, check the listing link for the price before you promise anyone.

Drop-in or sign up? The listings that call themselves drop-in: Teen Drop-In.

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Common questions

What's on for families in Vancouver?

The feed lists 1043 dated family listings in the next 60 days across all ages — the Coming up section shows the soonest, and the age pages filter them down.

Why doesn't Vancouver have a page for my child's age?

An age page only ships when the feed has at least 5 dated listings (or 3 regular programs) for that age in the next 60 days. Below that we'd be padding — so the band rides on this hub, with its real count shown, until the listings catch up.

How do I hear about registration dates in Vancouver?

The signup above: tell us the ages in your house and the programs you care about, and we flag registration windows for this town before they open — swim lessons and camp sign-ups especially.

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File:Orpheum Theatre from the front of the stage (24712477885) — photo via Wikimedia Commons

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