January
Jan 15 - Mar 12 Kamloops –Kamloops Art Gallery hosts Bob Boyer: His Life’s Work
Jan 15 - Mar 12 Kamloops –Kamloops Art Gallery hosts Mike Andres McLean, Range: Mountain National Park
Jan 21-29 Prince George – Coldsnap Festival 2011
Jan 29 - Feb 5 Prince George – Prince George Francophone Winter Festival
February
Feb 4 Prince George – Mr. Prince George Pageant
Feb 4-20 Prince George – Snow Daze Winter Festival
Feb 5 Kamloops – Winter Landscapes & Ice Flows Nature Photography Tour
Feb 6 Prince Rupert – 52nd Annual All Native Basketball Tournament
Feb 10 Valemount – Valemount Winter Festival
Feb 24 - Mar 13 Kamloops – Strikes for Tykes
Feb 25 - Mar 13 Prince George – Winterlicious
Feb 26 Prince Rupert – Celtic Night
Feb 27 - Mar 19 Kamloops – Kamloops Festival of the Performing Arts
March
Mar 4-7 Prince Rupert – Career Resource Centre & the Edge Job Fair
Mar 5 Prince Rupert – 20th Annual Children’s Festival
Mar 7 Kamloops – Wilson House Gallery hosts solo exhibit by Jeanne Wood
Mar 8 Kamloops – Canadian & International Film Festival presents One Big Hapa Family
Mar 8-12 Prince Rupert – Senior Men’s Hockey Coy Cup Championships
Mar 9 Kamloops – Canadian & International Film Festival Presents Small Town Murder Songs
Mar 9 Kamloops – Richard Margison Recital with Kinza Tyrell
Mar 10 Kamloops – Canadian & International Film Festival presents Made in Dagenham
Mar 10-13 Kamloops – 15th Annual Kamloops Cowboy Festival
Mar 11-13 Kamloops – 6th Kamloops Women’s Hockey Spring Fling Tournament
Mar 12 Kamloops – Kamloops Symphony Presents Similia
Mar 12 Stewart – Mount Raine Figure Skating Club Carnival
Mar 12-13 Kamloops – 5th Annual Spring Antiques & Collectibles Sale
Mar 13 Kamloops – Hike for Hunger
Mar 26-28 Haida Heritage Centre (QCI) – Haida Gwaii Film Festival
Mar 18-20 Kamloops – Kamloops
Mar 18 - Apr 23 Haida Heritage Centre (QCI) – All Islands Art Show Boat Show
Mar 19-20 Kamloops – Canadian Indoor Masters Athletic Championships
Mar 26 Prince Rupert – Skating Club Ice Gala
Mar 26 - May 8 Kamloops – William Perehudoff Art Exhibit
April
Apr 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 Prince George – Star Gazing
Apr 2 Kamloops – 6th Annual House & Home Residential Construction Trade Show
Apr 2 Kamloops – Kamloops Symphony presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Apr 6-10 Kamloops – Kamloops International Bantam Ice Hockey Tournament
Apr 7-15 Kamloops – Kamloops Wine Festival Consumer Tasting
Apr 8-9 Prince George – The Heritage Film Festival
Apr 9 Prince George – Prince George Symphony Orchestra presents: Lapp it Up!
Apr 13 Kamloops – Riverdance
Apr 15-17 Kamloops – Kamloops Home & Leisure Show
Apr 16 Kamloops – Regional Synchro Championships
Apr 16-17 Kamloops – The Magic of Water Nature Photography Tour
Apr 18 - May 23 Kamloops – The Kamloops Arts Council presents the Downtown Artwalk
Apr 22-25 BC Wildlife Park – Easter Eggs-citement
Apr 23-24 Kamloops – Race the Ranch
Apr 24 Merritt – Easter Eggstravaganza
Apr 27 Prince George – DJ Tiesto
Apr 27 - May 3 Prince George – Community Speech & Drama Festival of Prince George
Apr 29 - May 1 Prince George – Canadian Home Builders Show
Apr 29 - May 1 Smithers – 2011 Northwest Trade Expo
May
May 1 Vanderhoof – Wild Goose Chase
May 1-31 Merritt – Valley Visual Arts Show
May 7 Kamloops – 27th Annual Old Time Fiddle Contest
May 8 Prince George – Prince George Symphony Orchestra presents: Baroque Bouquet
May 13-14 Vanderhoof – Chamber of Commerce Trade Show
May 13-15 Merritt – High School Rodeo
May 14-15 Prince George – Relay for Life
May 18 Kamloops – International Museums Day
May 20-22 Prince George – Hixon Bluegrass & Country Music Festival
May 21-23 Falkland – 93rd Annual Falkland Stampede
May 21-23 Masset – Masset Harbour Days
May 22 Prince George – BCCF Chorfest 2011: O is for Opera
May 27-29 Walk of Stars Gala
May 28-29 Prince George – Railway & Forestry Museum Annual Yard Sale
May 28-29 Valemount – High School Rodeo
June
Jun 3-5 Kamloops – 23rd Annual HOG Charity Poker Run
Jun 4-8 Kamloops – Performing Arts BC Provincial Festival
Jun 5 Prince George – YMCA Healthy Kids Day
Jun 5 Vanderhoof – Hooterville Hoot, Classic Car Show
Jun 9-12 Prince Rupert – Sea Fest
Jun 10-11 Merritt – Mountain Trial Car Rally
Jun 10-12 Valemount – Valemount
Jun 11 Kitimat – Bull-O-Rama
Jun 11 Merritt – Relay for Life
Jun 12 Merritt – Merritt Country Run
Jun 12 Prince George – Annual Family Heritage Day
Jun 18 Queen Charlotte (QCI) – 103rd Annual Hospital Day
Jun 18 & 25 Prince George – PGARA Hit to Pass Extravaganza
Jun 19 Prince George – Father’s Day Show & Shine
Jun 19 Prince George – Annual Bob Harkins Fishing Derby
Jun 20 Merritt – Aboriginal Day
Jun 25-26 Fraser Lake – White Swan Music Festival
Jun 26 Kamloops – Basic Portraiture Nature Photography Tour
Jun 30 Fraser Lake – Miss Fraser Lake Pageant
July
Jul 1 Canada Day Celebrations – in communities across the nation
Jul 1 Kamloops – Art in the Park
Jul 1 Prince George – Dominion Day
Jul 1-3 Fraser Lake – Mouse Mountain Days/Homecoming
Jul 1-3 Smithers – Midsummer Music Festival
Jul 1-4 Stewart – International Days
Jul 2 Kitimat – Dragon Boat Festival
Jul 2 Kitimat – Kitimat Hill Climb
Jul 7-10 Merritt – Merritt Mountain Music Festival
Jul 8-9 Prince George – BMO Kidz Art Dayz
Jul 8-10 Fraser Lake – Rose Prince Pilgrimage
Jul 9 Prince George – PGARA: Hornets, MST Carrier Mini Stocks, Richmond Steel Street Stocks
Jul 9-10 Valemount – Canoe Mountain Rodeo
Jul 10 Prince George – Dog Expo
Jul 15-17 Prince George – Friends of Thomas Days
Jul 16 Skidegate – Totem to Totem
Jul 16-17 Skidegate – Skidegate Days
Jul 17 Prince George – Kidz Carnival
Jul 20 - Aug 6 Kamloops – X Fest 2011
Jul 22-24 Burns Lake – Grassy Plains Blue Grass Country Jamboree
Jul 29-31 Kamloops – Kamloopa Pow Wow
Jul 29 – Valemount – Robson Valley Cage Fighting Championship
Jul 29 - Sep 6 Kamloops – Kamloops Arts Council Presents the North Shore Artwalk
Jul 30-31 Valemount – Northwest Mud Bog
Jul 31 - Aug 1 Prince George – Homestead Days
August
Aug 1 Prince George – BC Day
Aug 1 Tlell – Tlell Fall Fair
Aug 5-7 Tlell – Edge of the World Music Festival
Aug 5-14 Kamloops – 2011 Western Canada Summer Games
Aug 7 Prince George – Razzle Dazzle Do
Aug 10-14 Prince George – 99th Annual Prince George Exhibition
Aug 12-14 Stewart – Stewart Annual Bear Festival
Aug 13-14 Prince George – PGARA Invitational
Aug 16-20 Merritt – BC Ambassador’s Compeition
Aug 19-21 Valemount – Robson Valley Music Festival
Aug 19-21 Burns Lake – Big Pig Mountain Bike Festival
Aug 22 Prince George – Pigeon Race (PGSO)
Aug 27 Prince George – PGARA Hit to Pass
September
Sep 3-4 Nicola Valley – Nicola Valley Professional Rodeo
Sep 3-4 Nicola Valley – Nicola Valley Fall Fair
Sep 3-4 Valemount – Valemount Marina Fishing Derby
Sep 3-5 Barriere – North Thompson Fall Fair Rodeo
Sep 3-5 Kitimat – Kitimat Fish Derby
Sep 4-5 Prince George – Summer Harvest
Sep 9-11 Burns Lake – Lakes District Fall Fair
Sep 10 Valemount – Mount Robson Marathon
Sep 12 Prince George – POPS in the Park
Sep 25 Prince George – BC Rivers Day
October
Oct 1 Prince George – Mennonite Fall Fair
Oct 1-2 Kamloops – Fall Colours & Large Skies Nature Photography Tour
Oct 1-2 Merritt – Pacific Forest Car Rally
Oct 10 Prince George – Thanksgiving Celebration
Oct 22 Prince George – Hallowe’en Havoc
Oct 22 Prince George – Spooktacular
Oct 29 Prince George – Halloween Haunt
Oct 29-30 Prince George – Artisans of the North Craft Fair
Oct 31 Fraser Lake – Halloween Party at White Swan Park
Oct 31 Vanderhoof – Great Pumpkin Walk
Oct 31 Barkerville – Ghostly Halloween Town Tour
November
Nov 1 Prince George – Rotten Pumpkin Toss
Nov 4-6 Prince George – Studio Fair
Nov 11 Fraser Lake – Remembrance Day Ceremonies at the Cenotaph
Nov 11 Prince George – Remembrance Day Ceremonies
Nov 12 Prince George – Snowflake Square Dance
Nov 18-19 Kamloops – Kamloops Art Councils Writers Fair
Nov 21 - Jan 1 Prince George – Prince George Northern Lights Festival
Nov 23 Prince George – Gordon Lightfoot Concert
Nov 25-26 Merritt – Merritt Country Christmas
December
Dec 1 Prince George – Candy Cane Lane Light Up
Dec 2 New Hazelton – Winter Fest
Dec 2 Vanderhoof – Parade of Lights & Midnight Madness
Dec 2-3 Prince Rupert – Winterfest
Dec 9 - Jan 2, 2012 The BC Wildlife Park – 14th Annual Wildlights Festival
Dec 10-12 Barkerville – Barkerville’s Old Fashion Christmas
Dec 30 Prince Rupert – Annual Christmas Carol Sail Pass
