The Vancouver 2010 Cauldron will be symbolically lit Friday (February 4) in honour of Tean Canada's effort at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing.

The sculptural assembly of Olympic torches was first lit by former NHL star Wayne Gretzky at the start of Vancouver's 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

The cauldron, which will be lit at 6 p.m., is located at Jack Poole Plaza, next to the downtown Vancouver Convention Centre.

It will also be lit at the same time on March 4 to mark the opening of the 2022 Paralympic Winter Games.

In a February 3 release, the Vancouver Convention Centre and the B.C. Pavilion Corporation (PavCo), the provincial Crown corporation that owns and operates the convention centre and B.C. Place, stated that both facilities would be lighting their exteriors in patriotic colours.

The convention centre's district markers and the cauldron itself will glow red and white, and B.C. Place will display the same colours in featuring a maple leaf illumination.