Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day created for reflecting on what it means to live on stolen lands and for learning what reconciliation with the Indigenous people of Canada actually looks like. In Vancouver and the surrounding areas, it’s a day to support Indigenous businesses, artists, and communities by seeing a show, shopping local, checking out an exhibit, and much more.
Here are just a handful of ways to observe National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in and around Vancouver this year.
Following a sold-out world premiere in January 2024 at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, Touchstone Theatre presents Women of the Fur Trade, which has its first Western Canadian stop in Vancouver on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. Written by Frances Končan and directed by Renae Morriseau, the project is a lively historical satire of survival and cultural inheritance through the lens of the Canadian fur trade.
When: Until Oct. 4, 2025
Time: Showtimes at 2 p.m., 4 p.m., and 7:30 p.m.
Where: 6354 Crescent Rd., UBC
Cost: $13 to $45 per person
Museum of North Vancouver (MONOVA) is hosting a special celebration led by the museum’s Indigenous Cultural Programmers, Jordan Dawson & Tsawaysia Spukwus. Visitors of all ages are welcome to take part in hands-on activities, crafts, and games designed to inspire meaningful dialogue. This will include orange rock decorating, keychain making, a scavenger hunt, and much more.
When: Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025
Time: 11 a.m.
Where: 115 West Esplanade, North Vancouver
Cost: Pay-what-you-can
NDN Giver is the solo debut of the Bill Reid Gallery’s Assistant Curator, Amelia Rea of the Haida Nation. The collection of works explores the layered meanings within everyday and extraordinary gifts that circulate through the potlatch: blankets, canoes, prints, mugs, and beads, to name a few.
When: Saturday, Sept. 27 to Feb. 22, 2026
Time: Noon to 3 p.m. on opening day
Where: 639 Hornby St.
Cost: Free admission on opening day, or $13 per adult for gallery admission
Hosted by Ts’msyen/Nisga’a cultural self-care and wellness brand, Sisters Sage, this pop-up market will showcase a wide variety of local Indigenous businesses, from Massy Books to Jada Creations to Salmon N’ Bannock Bistro.
When: Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025
Time: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Where: 1312 Kingsway
Cost: Free admission
“Surviving to Thriving” is this year’s theme at the 5th Annual Orange Shirt Day B.C. Lions Game at BC Place. This means that the team will don special Orange Shirt Day jerseys on the field, which will be raffled off in support of the Orange Shirt Society and the Indian Residential Schools Survivors’ Society (IRSSS).
The club will also present a $20,000 cheque to the Orange Shirt Society and host hundreds of Residential School survivors and their families.
The game will take place on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, against the Toronto Argonauts.
When: Friday, Sept. 26, 2025
Time: 7 p.m.
Where: 777 Pacific Blvd.
Cost: $24+
This free, all-ages event focuses on building a better community through art, celebrating local Indigenous artists and educators, Christine Mackenzie and Noca Weipert. There are two hands-on workshops to choose from, and both require online registration ahead of the event.
When: Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025
Time: Workshops from 1 to 2:30 p.m. and 3 to 4:30 p.m.
Where: 1120 Brunette Ave., Coquitlam
Cost: By donation
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