Presented by Olé Cocktail Co.
📍 City Centre Artist Lodge — 2111 Main Street
🗓️ Saturday, July 18, 2026 | 4:00–10:00pm
🎟️ Ticketed / 19+
Public Disco returns to City Centre Artist Lodge for another summer on our favourite Main Street dance floor. This transformed motel courtyard has become one of Vancouver’s most iconic open-air venues, and in our tenth year, we’re back as long as we can be.
For 2026 we’re featuring headlining sets from Musclecars and DJ Heather, with local support from Luke Mckeehan and Lerma. The programming moves through house, techno, and the deeper currents of underground electronic music.
This is one of two ticketed 19+ events in our 2026 Summer Block Party series presented by Olé Cocktail Co. Capacity is limited.
ARTISTS
Musclecars
NEW YORK, NY
DJ HEATHER
CHICAGO, IL
Luke McKeehan
VANCOUVER, BC
LERMA
VANCOUVER, BC
CURATION
OUR JULY BLOCK PARTY IS Curated by Max Ulis, AN ARTIST whose work has long shaped Vancouver’s underground. His approach centres the roots of dance music while focusing on selectors who understand how to carry a dance floor for an extended session.
For City Centre Artist Lodge, the programming follows that sensibility, bringing together artists with a shared taste in house music, bringing you a natural flow and build of energy from early evening into night.
Max’s curation reflects years of involvement across the local scene and festival circuit, with a focus on artists who carry the culture forward while keeping the floor welcoming and engaged.
THE VENUE
A former roadside motel reworked into an open-air courtyard in Mount Pleasant, where balconies, railings, and concrete edges frame a compact but high-energy dance floor. Once home to Vancouver Mural Festival programming, City Centre Artist Lodge carries that lineage forward, now in its fifth year as one of Vancouver’s most distinct summer venues, intimate and enclosed, operating in a temporary window ahead of redevelopment.
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Public Disco 10-Year Merch Collection on sale at the Public Disco Pop-Up Shop
Food by Tacofino & Nami Vietnemese
Main Bar Presented by Olé Cocktail Co. & 604 Now
Dinosour Bar Presented by Phillips Brewing
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Presented by Evo Car Share
Ticketed & 19+
Park your Evo for free at city meters, residents-only, and permit-only spots within the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood
Bike & scooter share within a 1-minute walk
No outside alcohol permitted, bag checks on entry
Free water on site, empty water bottles allowed
Re-entry may be limited to manage capacity
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Event located on slanted concrete & asphalt
Wheelchair accessible washroom available
Picnic tables for seating & umbrellas for shade
Lower stimulation zones with less or no direct music
For accessible pricing or tickets, contact nick@publicdisco.ca
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Public Disco is committed to creating a safer, inclusive dance floor for everyone.
Respect personal space. Look out for one another.
Harassment, discrimination, or violence will not be tolerated.
Harm reduction team on site.
Read full Code of Conduct → publicdisco.ca/code-of-conduct
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Public Disco reclaims public space for dance music, creating inclusive environments where people gather and connect. Rooted in the underground culture that shaped house and disco, we bring artist-led dance floors into the open, accessible, community-driven, and grounded in place.
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At Public Disco Society, we recognize that our events and gatherings primarily take place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Additionally, we acknowledge that we are sometimes contracted to host events on Indigenous lands outside of these territories. We honor and respect the Indigenous peoples who have stewarded these lands for generations and continue to do so today.
We acknowledge that the land on which we operate, celebrate, and build community is stolen land. Our events and parties are held in public spaces that have been home to Indigenous Nations long before the arrival of settlers. As team members, it is our responsibility to tread softly on the land and respect it, always leaving the spaces we occupy better than how we found them. We encourage all members of our community to take this acknowledgment to heart, reflect on its significance, and actively engage in respectful and meaningful actions that support Indigenous sovereignty and rights.
Public Disco Society is dedicated to making this acknowledgment a living practice, ensuring that it informs and enriches all our activities and interactions.
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