http://www.granvilleisland.com/files/pdf/prog06web.pdf

(or
http://www.granvilleisland.com/en/node/467
which is a webpage containing a link to the PDF)

There’s the usual buskers, and many artists’ galleries, studios and workshops will be open plus a few open houses, craft demonstrations, information displays, an art contest, and other stuff. I’m not going to type in the contents of the PDF here; please read it yourself.

I don’t know if my pointing to the Granville Island BC Day activities comes in time for you, but hope you find something interesting to do for the holiday.

An all events calendar is hard, really hard. There is the info out there, but so much of it is, not hidden, but not distributed, and sometimes in an inconvenient form (q.v. the Granville Island PDF). So often, it has to be searched for, mined, scavenged, and really, who wants to do that?

It’s because there isn’t anything like such a site that I went about compiling my own list of events on the weekend, for my personal use, which I subsequently decided to make into a metblog entry, in the belief that it might be of use to others too. I restricted it to ‘large’ festivals in the end; not wanting to fill the list with small or niche-interest events.

Most events I heard of from non-Internet sources in the first place–personal contact with people organizing or participating, tv, flyers, printed events listings–and then had to search out their websites myself to get more info.

Anyway, to reiterate, there isn’t an all event calendar around that I know of, nothing even slightly close. It wouldn’t be a trivial task to produce one. Also, should it really be all events? Should an event be left off the list if it’s too special-interest? And who would decide that?