Metro Vancouver events calendar for September 2017. Best festivals, concerts, fun things to do, free kids activities, street fairs, and Labor Day weekend events in Vancouver, BC.
September 1, 2017
Fri
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Trimble Park Playground
Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.
Vancouver | Trimble Park | 10:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Craft Beer Fest at The Fair
Craft Beer Fest will feature up to 30 craft breweries along with local wineries for guests to sample the diverse craft drafts and vinos being developed within the Lower Mainland’s backdoor.
Vancouver | PNE - Italian Gardens | 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Food / Wine
Canada 150. Richmond World Festival
Richmond World Festival celebrates the city’s cultural diversity though music, food, sport and art from around the world. The event will expand to two days in 2017
Richmond | Minoru Park | 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Family | Free
Shipyards Night Market
top by Shipbuilders’ Square for the Shipyards Night Market, where you will find fresh food, locally made products, musicians, art and entertainment.
North Vancouver | Shipbuilders' Square | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Market | Free
Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour
The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption
Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | History
Illumination Summer Night Market
Illumination Vancouver International Summer Night Market presents multiple types of attractions suitable for all ages. There are over 300 food and merchandise booths, and more than 20 events or performing shows every week
Richmond | RIchmond Night Market | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Guns N' Roses: Not In This Lifetime Tour
Featuring classic lineup members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan
Vancouver | BC Place | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Unbelievable! A Magical Experience
Back by popular demand featuring a brand new lineup of illusionists!
Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Show
Dance In Transit. Robson Square
If you think dancing isn't for you, you haven't tried it yet. If you can walk, you can dance. Dance in Transit is a street dancing festival-it's not about wearing special clothes or fancy shoes, it's about moving to music, one foot at a time
Vancouver | Robson Square | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Dance | Free
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
A Chorus Line
A darkened theatre, a gruelling audition and a ensemble of dancers praying for a job. Multi-award winning A CHORUS LINE tells the story of the gypsies of the Broadway stage.
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Summer Night Concerts at the Fair at the PNE: Rick Springfield
Rick Springfield at the Fair at the PNE
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Simon Patterson x John Askew at Celebrities
Two of Trance music's biggest talents Simon Patterson & John Askew join us on Friday, September 1st for 'Open Up' at StereotypeFridays
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Foolish - Every Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret
Every third Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret Platinum era hip hop and r&b (96-09’)
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music
September 2, 2017
Sat
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Farmers' Market
Burnaby's Farmers' Market is the place to find locally grown conventional and organic produce, prepared foods and crafts every Saturday from May 6 until October 28, 2017
Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market
The Color Run 5k Vancouver
Your dreams are about to get more colorful, Vancouver. Step into a world where anything is possible, unicorns are real, and foam clouds make everything better.
Surrey | Cloverdale Rodeo | 9:00 am to 12:00 am | Active Life / Health
Trout Lake Farmers Market
This is where you’ll find the vendors who have been doing it since the beginning; what started as 14 farmers ‘squatting’ at the Croatian Cultural Centre back in 1995 has grown into Vancouver’s most well-known and beloved market
Vancouver | John Hendry Park | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market | Free
UBC Farmer's Market
We'll be here with fresh tempeh right on UBC Farm
Vancouver | UBC Farm | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Music | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Lonsdale Artisan Farmers’ Market
We have been lucky in having some of the best organic and conventional farmers in B.C. attend the market plus great bakers, jam makers, honey gathers, and salsa makers.
North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
David Icke - World Wide Awake Tour
David Icke brings his World Wide Awake Tour to the Orpheum. After 15 years of waiting, David Icke's much anticipated return to Canada is finally happening in 2017
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Show
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
River District Farmers Market
This one-of-a-kind market is the only riverfront market in Vancouver. Come shop for fruits and vegetables, prepared foods, and handmade products produced by farmers and artisans
Vancouver | River District Vancouver | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Trimble Park Playground
Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.
Vancouver | Trimble Park | 10:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids
Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour
The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption
Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | History
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Downtown Eastside Women's Fair and Flea Market
Join us at our second annual Women's Summer Fair, promising a vibrant atmosphere, lively entertainment, and fun for all! Come by and show your support
Vancouver | 200 Block, Columbia St. @ Cordova St. | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Fair | Free
Canada 150. Richmond World Festival
Richmond World Festival celebrates the city’s cultural diversity though music, food, sport and art from around the world. The event will expand to two days in 2017
Richmond | Minoru Park | 11:00 am to 10:00 pm | Family | Free
First Saturday Open Art Studios - Meet Artists in their Studios
We are part of First Saturday Open Studios which means we throw open the doors of the studio on the First Saturday of each month.
New Westminster | 100 Braid St Studios | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
A Chorus Line
A darkened theatre, a gruelling audition and a ensemble of dancers praying for a job. Multi-award winning A CHORUS LINE tells the story of the gypsies of the Broadway stage.
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Theatre
Craft Beer Fest at The Fair
Craft Beer Fest will feature up to 30 craft breweries along with local wineries for guests to sample the diverse craft drafts and vinos being developed within the Lower Mainland’s backdoor.
Vancouver | PNE - Italian Gardens | 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Food / Wine
North Vancouver LoLo Food Tour
During the 2.5 hour tour, you will be able to learn about the historic ship building industry and early settlers to the area as you savor a delicious culinary experience. The tour includes 10 stops featuring 7 market vendors
North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay Market | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Food / Wine
Red Light Rendezvous. Sins of the City Walking Tour
Vancouver might have been founded on a barrel of whisky, but it was built on the brothels that lined the muddy streets of Gastown. Explore the history of Vancouver's sex trade with the Vancouver Police Museum's Red Light Rendezvous
Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm | History
Illumination Summer Night Market
Illumination Vancouver International Summer Night Market presents multiple types of attractions suitable for all ages. There are over 300 food and merchandise booths, and more than 20 events or performing shows every week
Richmond | RIchmond Night Market | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Decapitated & Thy Art Is Murder with Fallujah, Ghost Bath
Decapitated is a Polish death metal band formed in Krosno in 1996. The group comprises guitarist, founder and composer Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka, vocalist Rafał Piotrowski, drummer Michał Łysejko and bassist Hubert Więcek
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music
TAIWANfest: Kanpai, Japan! - Symphony Concert by Maestro Ken Hsieh & VMO
The Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra brings the sweet sounds of “Formosan Dance” to Vancouver.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Unbelievable! A Magical Experience
Back by popular demand featuring a brand new lineup of illusionists!
Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Show
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Dance In Transit. Robson Square
If you think dancing isn't for you, you haven't tried it yet. If you can walk, you can dance. Dance in Transit is a street dancing festival-it's not about wearing special clothes or fancy shoes, it's about moving to music, one foot at a time
Vancouver | Robson Square | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Dance | Free
A Chorus Line
A darkened theatre, a gruelling audition and a ensemble of dancers praying for a job. Multi-award winning A CHORUS LINE tells the story of the gypsies of the Broadway stage.
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Summer Night Concerts at the Fair at the PNE: The Gipsy Kings featuring Nicolas Reyes and Tonino Baliardo
The Gipsy Kings are a group of flamenco, salsa and pop musicians from Arles and Montpellier in the south of France, who perform in the Spanish language with an Andalusian accent
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
August Alsina - Don't Matter Tour 2017 with guests Rotimi & Tone Stith
Born and bred in New Orleans, R&B star August Alsina is eager to follow in the footsteps of the NOLA music legends that paved his way.
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Nite*Moves at the Biltmore Cabaret
House party jams for the young, restless, and bored Every Saturday at the Biltmore Cabaret with your resident DJ’s Can I Live Harvey Harvey ++ special guests
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music | Free
September 3, 2017
Sun
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Poirier Street Farmers Market
The Poirier Street Market hosts a diversity of vendors and products from May through October. Each week a wide variety of vendors gather to showcase their products – made, baked, grown, or raised in BC
Coquitlam | Dogwood Pavilion | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Market
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Kitsilano Farmers Market
Every Sunday from May - October, the parking lot of Kitsilano Community Centre bustles with 50+ farms and producers bringing Vancouver's west side the finest and freshest food in the city
Vancouver | Kitsilano Community Centre | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Ambleside Artisan Farmers' Market
We are very lucky to have such a great variety of organic and conventional farmers at this location. We also have a good selection of prepared foods including baking, syrups, jams, jellies, honey, salsas, anti pastas and much more.
West Vancouver | Ambleside Park | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Market
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Beer-unch! Long Table Craft Beer Tasting Meal
Sunday Brunch has never been so good. Meet new people and enjoy great food at this long table meal at Craft Beer Fest. Offered every Sunday during the Fair, this 4 course brunch will pair some of BC’s finest craft brews
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 11:30 am to 3:00 pm | Food / Wine
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
TAIWANfest: Hope Talk: Forgotten Legend: Bunya Koh
The heartbreaking tale of Bunya Koh is the story of a young musician and composer, a rising star in the midst of the Second Sino-Japanese War
Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Lecture | Free
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale
A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
Craft Beer Fest at The Fair
Craft Beer Fest will feature up to 30 craft breweries along with local wineries for guests to sample the diverse craft drafts and vinos being developed within the Lower Mainland’s backdoor.
Vancouver | PNE - Italian Gardens | 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Food / Wine
Summer Night Concerts: iHeartRadio Beach Ball - Sunday
iHeartRadio Canada is heading to Vancouver, bringing the hottest names in music directly to fans with the first ever iHeartRadio Beach Ball, taking place Sunday, September 3rd and Monday, September 4th at the Fair at the PNE
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 2:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Genre Workout by Instant Theatre
Explore the world of genre at Instant Theatre, with a new and different genre work out every month! Expand your skills and knowledge of tropes and forms as our instructors take you through a four hour workshop intensive
Vancouver | Instant Studios | 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Workshop
Lionel Richie: All The Hits with Very Special Guest Mariah Carey
Multi-platinum-selling artists, multiple Grammy Award®-winners and music icons, Lionel Richie and very special guest Mariah Carey announced today they will tour together for the first time ever on the ALL THE HITS TOUR
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Illumination Summer Night Market
Illumination Vancouver International Summer Night Market presents multiple types of attractions suitable for all ages. There are over 300 food and merchandise booths, and more than 20 events or performing shows every week
Richmond | RIchmond Night Market | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Market
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale
A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Unbelievable! A Magical Experience
Back by popular demand featuring a brand new lineup of illusionists!
Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Show
SJS Labour Day Boogie
Vancouver’s best night. DJs Marlon J. English and P-luv, alongside hosts Ariel Swan and Aaron Dudley, have built a recognizable brand, bringing together great people and music to match
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Justin Martin at Celebrities - Labour Day Long Weekend
Intrinsically involved with developing the unique sound of Dirtybird, Co-founder Justin Martin makes his return to Celebrities Nightclub for a special Labour Day Long Weekend performance on Sunday, September 3rd!
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
September 4, 2017
Mon
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Holiday Family Fun - Labour Day at Sunset CC
A day of fun for the family on your Statutory Holiday! Join us at Sunset Community Centre for playgym (including a bouncy castle), arts and crafts, games, and more!
Vancouver | Sunset Community Centre | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm | Family | Free
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. Opera & Arias: The Barber of Seville
The Barber of Seville, Rossini’s masterpiece of the comic opera stage, is one of the world’s most popular operas
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Opera
Craft Beer Fest at The Fair
Craft Beer Fest will feature up to 30 craft breweries along with local wineries for guests to sample the diverse craft drafts and vinos being developed within the Lower Mainland’s backdoor.
Vancouver | PNE - Italian Gardens | 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Food / Wine
Summer Night Concerts: iHeartRadio Beach Ball - Monday
iHeartRadio Canada is heading to Vancouver, bringing the hottest names in music directly to fans with the first ever iHeartRadio Beach Ball, taking place Sunday, September 3rd and Monday, September 4th at the Fair at the PNE
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 2:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Bard on the Beach Festival. Opera & Arias: The Barber of Seville
The Barber of Seville, Rossini’s masterpiece of the comic opera stage, is one of the world’s most popular operas
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Opera
Unbelievable! A Magical Experience
Back by popular demand featuring a brand new lineup of illusionists!
Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Show
September 5, 2017
Tue
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Male Caregivers' Social Club
Get support from your peers and experienced facilitators as you navigate the job search process and start building your career!
Vancouver | South Hill Neighbourhood Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Lecture | Free
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Simple Plan
Simple Plan is a Canadian rock band from Montreal, Quebec. No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls 15th Anniversary Tour With guests Courage My Love & Selfish Things
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 0:30 am | Music
YES with special guest Todd Rundgren
British prog rock legends Yes are back on tour, and yes, they're as sharp as ever, having just put the finishing touches on their 21st studio LP Heaven and Earth
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Celebs Tuesday
All year round, Tuesday at Celebrities are packed with party animals
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
September 6, 2017
Wed
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Secrets of Stanley Park - New Walking Tour
These are the secrets that lurk in the shadows, on the hidden trails, and in the swirling waters. The secrets you aren’t supposed to know. The secrets of Stanley Park.
Vancouver | outside the Aquarium entrance | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Exhibition
Main Street Station Farmers Market
Located just steps from Main St - Science World Skytrain Station at Main & Terminal, this convenient Wednesday farmers market is ideal for local food fans seeking an easy shop on their commute
Vancouver | 1100 Station Street | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Wine Wednesdays
Wine Wednesdays are an intimate pre-show wine tasting in the Bard Marquee presented by special guests. Enjoy a selection of wines from Sandhill, Red Rooster and more as you learn tasting etiquette from wine makers and industry experts
Vancouver | Vanier Park | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Food / Wine
Skillet with guests Art of Dying and Spoken
Skillet made headlines when their last album, Awake, became one of just three rock albums to be certified platinum in 2012, forming an improbable triumvirate with the Black Keys’ El Camino and Mumford & Sons’ Babel.
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Shylock
Meet Jon Davies, an actor and a Jew, condemned by his own community for his portrayal of the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show
September 7, 2017
Thu
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Downtown Farmers Market
The Downtown Farmers Market runs every Thursday, June 1 to October 5 on the Queen Elizabeth Plaza. Fresh produce and great food trucks!
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
The Vancouver Fringe Festival
The Vancouver Fringe Festival is an annual celebration of Theatre for Everyone! Event list for September 7, 2017
Vancouver | Various locations | 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Theatre
Lovely Lady Lump at Vancouver Fringe
Aussie Comic Laughs Cancer out of Town with Award-Winning Show. Lana Schwarcz teams up with Dense Breasts Canada to raise the roof and raise awareness at Vancouver Fringe Festival with Lovely Lady Lump.
Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 6:45 pm to 8:00 pm | Comedy
Reverend Horton Heat at the Commodore Ballroom
The Reverend Horton Heat is the stage name of American musician Jim Heath as well as the name of his Dallas, Texas-based psychobilly trio. Heath is a singer, songwriter and guitarist
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Shylock
Meet Jon Davies, an actor and a Jew, condemned by his own community for his portrayal of the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Theatre
Lewis Black & Kathleen Madigan: The 49th Parallel Tour
Popular worldwide on their own, Lewis Black and Kathleen Madigan team up for a night of hysterical comedy
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy
September 8, 2017
Fri
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre
The Vancouver Fringe Festival
The Vancouver Fringe Festival is an annual celebration of Theatre for Everyone!
Vancouver | Various locations | 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Theatre
Shipyards Night Market
top by Shipbuilders’ Square for the Shipyards Night Market, where you will find fresh food, locally made products, musicians, art and entertainment.
North Vancouver | Shipbuilders' Square | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Market | Free
Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour
The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption
Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | History
Future Bodies by the James Black Gallery
The James Black Gallery is proud to present studiomate Marissa Diamond's first solo show which investigates new ways of viewing the body by dismantling conventional beauty standards.
Vancouver | The James Black Galler | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Show
Illumination Summer Night Market
Illumination Vancouver International Summer Night Market presents multiple types of attractions suitable for all ages. There are over 300 food and merchandise booths, and more than 20 events or performing shows every week
Richmond | RIchmond Night Market | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
BC Lions vs Montreal Alouettes
The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team competing in the West Division of the Canadian Football League
Vancouver | BC Place | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports
Against Me! with Bleached & The Dirty Nil
Against Me! is an American punk rock band formed in 1997 in Gainesville, Florida by singer and guitarist Laura Jane Grace. Since 2001, the band's lineup has also included guitarist James Bowman
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Shylock
Meet Jon Davies, an actor and a Jew, condemned by his own community for his portrayal of the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show
An Evening with Daniel O'Donnell
An Evening with Daniel O'Donnell, popular Irish singer - Daniel burst into superstardom in the USA & Canada back in 2002 with his first ever PBS special
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Big Sugar
Big Sugar are a Canadian blues, reggae rock band. They were active from 1991 to 2004 and again since April 2010
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 11:50 pm | Theatre
Shaun Majumder
Shaun Majumder is a Canadian actor and comedian. He is best known for his role on This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy
Tigerlily - Celebrities
No stranger to the world stage, Aussie standout Tigerlily makes her return to Vancouver at StereotypeFridays
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Foolish - Every Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret
Every third Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret Platinum era hip hop and r&b (96-09’)
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music
September 9, 2017
Sat
Vancouver Whitecaps FC vs. Real Salt Lake
Vancouver Whitecaps FC will commence their seventh season in Major League Soccer when they host Real Salt Lake
Vancouver | BC Place | Sports
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Coquitlam Crunch Challenge
B3 Team Entered in the Coquitlam Crunch Challenge
Coquitlam | BodyByBrandt | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports
Bicycle Trek for Life & Breath 2017
Gear up for the 33rd Annual Bicycle Trek for Life & Breath in support of the BC Lung Association's fight against lung disease.
Surrey | Hazelmere Campground | 8:30 am to 5:00 pm | Active Life / Health
Farmers' Market
Burnaby's Farmers' Market is the place to find locally grown conventional and organic produce, prepared foods and crafts every Saturday from May 6 until October 28, 2017
Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market
2017 Bcabba Knight of Champions 3rd Annual
The 3rd annual Knight of Champions, a BCABBA sanctioned event, will take place on Saturday, September 9th, 2017. This is a tier 1 show in the open stream
Surrey | Pacific Academy | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Sports
Trout Lake Farmers Market
This is where you’ll find the vendors who have been doing it since the beginning; what started as 14 farmers ‘squatting’ at the Croatian Cultural Centre back in 1995 has grown into Vancouver’s most well-known and beloved market
Vancouver | John Hendry Park | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market | Free
UBC Farmer's Market
We'll be here with fresh tempeh right on UBC Farm
Vancouver | UBC Farm | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Music | Free
Firefighter's Family Fun Day
The Township of Langley Firefighters' Charitable Society will be at Krause Berry Farms September 9th. They will be serving fresh hot berry waffles and manning fun activities for the whole family
Langley | Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery | 9:30 am to 4:30 pm | Family | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Lonsdale Artisan Farmers’ Market
We have been lucky in having some of the best organic and conventional farmers in B.C. attend the market plus great bakers, jam makers, honey gathers, and salsa makers.
North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
River District Farmers Market
This one-of-a-kind market is the only riverfront market in Vancouver. Come shop for fruits and vegetables, prepared foods, and handmade products produced by farmers and artisans
Vancouver | River District Vancouver | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour
The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption
Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | History
Fleetwood Festival 2017
Join us for the 19th Annual Fleetwood Festival
Surrey | Fleetwood Community Centre | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free
Pie in the Plaza
Celebrate Agriculture Week with BC's largest blueberry pie!
Surrey | Central City Shopping Centre Plaza | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free
Surrey Fest Downtown - A Celebration of Community
Be part of the 19th Annual Community Festival. Plan your day to include a visit to Holland Park
Surrey | Holland Park | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Downtown Eastside Women's Fair and Flea Market
Join us at our second annual Women's Summer Fair, promising a vibrant atmosphere, lively entertainment, and fun for all! Come by and show your support
Vancouver | 200 Block, Columbia St. @ Cordova St. | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Fair | Free
Surrey Fest Downtown
A Celebration of Community (previously Whalley Festival) Annual Festival held in Downtown Surrey.
Surrey | Holland Park | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Festival | Free
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Future Bodies by the James Black Gallery
The James Black Gallery is proud to present studiomate Marissa Diamond's first solo show which investigates new ways of viewing the body by dismantling conventional beauty standards.
Vancouver | The James Black Galler | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Show
Vancouver Labour History Walking Tours
Vancouver has a rich and diverse labour history. This guided tour invites you to visit sites of significance to workers' heritage and working class struggle that commemorate the importance of labour unions, individuals, collective actions and much more
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | History
Public Disco Vol 4 with DJ Heather
The first season of Public Disco comes to a close with one more free open air pop-up party, this time at the vibrant Jim Deva Plaza!
Vancouver | Jim Deva Plaza | 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music | Free
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale
A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
North Vancouver LoLo Food Tour
During the 2.5 hour tour, you will be able to learn about the historic ship building industry and early settlers to the area as you savor a delicious culinary experience. The tour includes 10 stops featuring 7 market vendors
North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay Market | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Food / Wine
Open House by Rusart Fine Arts Co.
RUSART school invites everyone to spend a few hours with our team of professional artists, magicians, chess players and actors
New Westminster | Rusart Fine Arts Co. | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Family | Free
Red Light Rendezvous. Sins of the City Walking Tour
Vancouver might have been founded on a barrel of whisky, but it was built on the brothels that lined the muddy streets of Gastown. Explore the history of Vancouver's sex trade with the Vancouver Police Museum's Red Light Rendezvous
Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm | History
The Vancouver Fringe Festival
The Vancouver Fringe Festival is an annual celebration of Theatre for Everyone! Event list for September 9, 2017
Vancouver | Various locations | 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Theatre
Illumination Summer Night Market
Illumination Vancouver International Summer Night Market presents multiple types of attractions suitable for all ages. There are over 300 food and merchandise booths, and more than 20 events or performing shows every week
Richmond | RIchmond Night Market | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Jen Kirkman - The "All New Material, Girl" Tour 2017
Jen Kirkman is a stand-up comedian and a New York Times Bestselling Author. Her first book, “I Can Barely Take Care of Myself (Tales of a Happy Life Without Kids)” hit shelves in April 2013
Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale
A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Luminary Festival
It's a special, sparkling end-of-summer festival - illuminate yourself with costume and lights, and create a lantern to light the way!
Delta | Sunstone Park | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival
Perturbator at Rickshaw Theatre
Electronic music producer. Son of Nick Kent
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
The Quiz Show
One of Canada’s comedic treasures, Graham Clark, and co-producer Chris Bentzen are pleased to announce the return of “The Quiz Show”
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Show
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 11:50 pm | Theatre
Salsa Cruises Fiesta Blanca
Join us as we celebrate our 17th season of the highly anticipated Salsa Cruise Series aboard the largest cruising vessel, MV Britannia commencing Sunday
Vancouver | Summer Salsa Cruise Series | 8:30 pm to 0:30 am | Dance
Lovely Lady Lump at Vancouver Fringe
Aussie Comic Laughs Cancer out of Town with Award-Winning Show. Lana Schwarcz teams up with Dense Breasts Canada to raise the roof and raise awareness at Vancouver Fringe Festival with Lovely Lady Lump.
Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy
Dariush: Live in Vancouver
Brace yourself Vancouver! Don't miss another spectacular performance by ’The Legend' at the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Dariush Eghbali will perform mega-hits from his highly celebrated career
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 9:00 pm to 11:55 pm | Music
BOT at DeepDownInside
With his unique style of futuristic techno and unorthodox club rythms, Italian DJ/Producer BOT join us at MIA on Saturday, Sept 9th, with Sivz & SARA SUKKHA
Vancouver | MIA Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
DJ Heather - 20 Years in Vancouver #909
20 years on from her first appearance in Vancouver, the Chicago legend returns for another go on the decks
Vancouver | Open Studios | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Nite*Moves at the Biltmore Cabaret
House party jams for the young, restless, and bored Every Saturday at the Biltmore Cabaret with your resident DJ’s Can I Live Harvey Harvey ++ special guests
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music | Free
September 10, 2017
Sun
Bicycle Trek for Life & Breath 2017
Gear up for the 33rd Annual Bicycle Trek for Life & Breath in support of the BC Lung Association's fight against lung disease.
Surrey | Hazelmere Campground | 8:30 am to 5:00 pm | Active Life / Health
Poirier Street Farmers Market
The Poirier Street Market hosts a diversity of vendors and products from May through October. Each week a wide variety of vendors gather to showcase their products – made, baked, grown, or raised in BC
Coquitlam | Dogwood Pavilion | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Market
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Kitsilano Farmers Market
Every Sunday from May - October, the parking lot of Kitsilano Community Centre bustles with 50+ farms and producers bringing Vancouver's west side the finest and freshest food in the city
Vancouver | Kitsilano Community Centre | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Ambleside Artisan Farmers' Market
We are very lucky to have such a great variety of organic and conventional farmers at this location. We also have a good selection of prepared foods including baking, syrups, jams, jellies, honey, salsas, anti pastas and much more.
West Vancouver | Ambleside Park | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Market
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Scotiabank & BC SPCA Paws for a Cause 2017 at Stanley Park
On September 10th 2017, the Scotiabank & BC SPCA Paws for a Cause Flagship walk is back!
Vancouver | Landmark & Historical Place | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Active Life / Health
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
23rd Annual Metro Vancouver Feast of Fields
Feast of Fields is a four hour wandering gourmet harvest festival that highlights the connections between farmers and chefs, field and table, and between farm folks and city folks
Langley | Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Food / Wine
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
The Vancouver Fringe Festival
The Vancouver Fringe Festival is an annual celebration of Theatre for Everyone! Event list for September 10, 2017
Vancouver | Various locations | 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Theatre
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Illumination Summer Night Market
Illumination Vancouver International Summer Night Market presents multiple types of attractions suitable for all ages. There are over 300 food and merchandise booths, and more than 20 events or performing shows every week
Richmond | RIchmond Night Market | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Market
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Thundercat
Stephen Bruner, better known by his stage name Thundercat, is an American multi-genre bass guitarist, producer and singer from Los Angeles, California
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music
September 11, 2017
Mon
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
The Vancouver Fringe Festival
The Vancouver Fringe Festival is an annual celebration of Theatre for Everyone! Event list for September 11, 2017
Vancouver | Various locations | 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Theatre
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Shylock
Meet Jon Davies, an actor and a Jew, condemned by his own community for his portrayal of the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show
September 12, 2017
Tue
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Advance Theatre: New Works By Women. Aiming To Float
At a pain clinic, a new and uncooperative patient clashes with her exercise therapist. Faced with crises of physical and emotional pain, together they discover the possibility of love
Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 1:30 pm to 2:50 pm | Theatre
The Vancouver Fringe Festival
The Vancouver Fringe Festival is an annual celebration of Theatre for Everyone! Event list for September 12, 2017
Vancouver | Various locations | 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Theatre
Male Caregivers' Social Club
Get support from your peers and experienced facilitators as you navigate the job search process and start building your career!
Vancouver | South Hill Neighbourhood Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Lecture | Free
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Shylock
Meet Jon Davies, an actor and a Jew, condemned by his own community for his portrayal of the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Theatre
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
The Sound of Music - National Tour
The Hills are alive! A brand new production of The Sound Of Music, directed by three-time Tony Award® winner Jack O’Brien, is coming to your town.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical
Mac DeMarco With Guests The Garden
Canadian singer-songwriter and musician, on tour to support his latest release “This Old Dog”
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Celebs Tuesday
All year round, Tuesday at Celebrities are packed with party animals
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
September 13, 2017
Wed
Vancouver Whitecaps FC vs. Minnesota United FC
Vancouver Whitecaps FC will commence their seventh season in Major League Soccer when they host Minnesota United FC
Vancouver | BC Place | Sports
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre
Advance Theatre: New Works By Women. Zahgidiwin/Love
In the not-so-distant postcolonial future, a young Anishinaabe woman embarks upon a journey through time and space to rediscover the truth about love, living her best life, and growing up as fabulously as possible amidst the intergenerational trauma of cu
Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm | Theatre
Secrets of Stanley Park - New Walking Tour
These are the secrets that lurk in the shadows, on the hidden trails, and in the swirling waters. The secrets you aren’t supposed to know. The secrets of Stanley Park.
Vancouver | outside the Aquarium entrance | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Exhibition
Main Street Station Farmers Market
Located just steps from Main St - Science World Skytrain Station at Main & Terminal, this convenient Wednesday farmers market is ideal for local food fans seeking an easy shop on their commute
Vancouver | 1100 Station Street | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market
Lovely Lady Lump at Vancouver Fringe
Aussie Comic Laughs Cancer out of Town with Award-Winning Show. Lana Schwarcz teams up with Dense Breasts Canada to raise the roof and raise awareness at Vancouver Fringe Festival with Lovely Lady Lump.
Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm | Comedy
The Vancouver Fringe Festival
The Vancouver Fringe Festival is an annual celebration of Theatre for Everyone! Event list for September 13, 2017
Vancouver | Various locations | 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Theatre
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls at the Commodore Ballroom
Francis Edward "Frank" Turner is an English folk singer-songwriter from Meonstoke, Hampshire.
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Theatre
The Sound of Music - National Tour
The Hills are alive! A brand new production of The Sound Of Music, directed by three-time Tony Award® winner Jack O’Brien, is coming to your town.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical
Mac DeMarco With Guests The Garden
Canadian singer-songwriter and musician, on tour to support his latest release “This Old Dog”
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
September 14, 2017
Thu
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Downtown Farmers Market
The Downtown Farmers Market runs every Thursday, June 1 to October 5 on the Queen Elizabeth Plaza. Fresh produce and great food trucks!
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre
Advance Theatre: New Works By Women. The Long Call
The Long Call is a multimedia tale of Holly, a former exotic dancer and mature recent university grad, whose life dream is to free captive orangutans into the wild
Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre
The Vancouver Fringe Festival
The Vancouver Fringe Festival is an annual celebration of Theatre for Everyone! Event list for September 14, 2017
Vancouver | Various locations | 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Theatre
Acting Against Racism: Strategies for Moving Forward
Have recent national and international events made you feel uncertain or helpless about what you can do to prevent racist or discriminatory behaviour on the North Shore?
West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Bishop Briggs at The Vogue Theatre
Westward Music Festival 2017 Presents: Bishop Briggs with Youngblood
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Shylock
Meet Jon Davies, an actor and a Jew, condemned by his own community for his portrayal of the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Theatre
SZA with guests Smino and Ravyn Lenae at the Commodore Ballroom
SZA is one of the redefining voices of today’s contemporary music era first breaking into the music scene in 2012 with her first critically acclaimed EP, See.SZA.Run.
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Taeyang - White Night 2017 World Tour
Kpop star Taeyang brings is White Night World Tour to Vancouver
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
The Sound of Music - National Tour
The Hills are alive! A brand new production of The Sound Of Music, directed by three-time Tony Award® winner Jack O’Brien, is coming to your town.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical
Lovely Lady Lump at Vancouver Fringe
Aussie Comic Laughs Cancer out of Town with Award-Winning Show. Lana Schwarcz teams up with Dense Breasts Canada to raise the roof and raise awareness at Vancouver Fringe Festival with Lovely Lady Lump.
Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 10:20 pm to 11:50 pm | Comedy
September 15, 2017
Fri
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Advance Theatre: New Works By Women. Anywhere But Here
A darkly comic, magic realist play that centres around the quest for home. A family of four Chilean refugees drive a mint condition, hot pink 1950s convertible through the Arizona desert, en route to Chile, which, according to the father, is paradise
Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Theatre
The Vancouver Fringe Festival
The Vancouver Fringe Festival is an annual celebration of Theatre for Everyone! Event list for September 15, 2017
Vancouver | Various locations | 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Theatre
Shipyards Night Market
top by Shipbuilders’ Square for the Shipyards Night Market, where you will find fresh food, locally made products, musicians, art and entertainment.
North Vancouver | Shipbuilders' Square | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Market | Free
Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour
The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption
Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | History
Lovely Lady Lump at Vancouver Fringe
Aussie Comic Laughs Cancer out of Town with Award-Winning Show. Lana Schwarcz teams up with Dense Breasts Canada to raise the roof and raise awareness at Vancouver Fringe Festival with Lovely Lady Lump.
Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 6:45 pm to 8:00 pm | Comedy
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Pup & Touche Amore with guests Brass
Westward Music Festival 2017 Presents: PUP & Touche Amore with Brass and guests at The Vogue Theatre
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Venom INC with Goatwhore, Toxic Holocaust & guests
Venom are an English heavy metal band formed in 1979 in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Taeyang - White Night 2017 World Tour
Kpop star Taeyang brings is White Night World Tour to Vancouver
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Shylock
Meet Jon Davies, an actor and a Jew, condemned by his own community for his portrayal of the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
The Sound of Music - National Tour
The Hills are alive! A brand new production of The Sound Of Music, directed by three-time Tony Award® winner Jack O’Brien, is coming to your town.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 11:50 pm | Theatre
Netsky DJ Set at Celebrities
Considered a cornerstone in the world of Drum and Bass, Netsky makes his return to Vancouver for a high-tempo DJ set
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Leave Us Lost by Orien Events
Where are we? We’re in that far away place your mind escapes to when the music is good, the people are great, and the atmosphere is even better. That’s where we are - come join us.
Vancouver | The Beaumont Studios | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Foolish - Every Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret
Every third Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret Platinum era hip hop and r&b (96-09’)
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music
September 16, 2017
Sat
Vancouver Whitecaps FC vs. Columbus Crew SC
Vancouver Whitecaps FC will commence their seventh season in Major League Soccer when they host Columbus Crew SC
Vancouver | BC Place | Sports
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Farmers' Market
Burnaby's Farmers' Market is the place to find locally grown conventional and organic produce, prepared foods and crafts every Saturday from May 6 until October 28, 2017
Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market
Trout Lake Farmers Market
This is where you’ll find the vendors who have been doing it since the beginning; what started as 14 farmers ‘squatting’ at the Croatian Cultural Centre back in 1995 has grown into Vancouver’s most well-known and beloved market
Vancouver | John Hendry Park | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market | Free
UBC Farmer's Market
We'll be here with fresh tempeh right on UBC Farm
Vancouver | UBC Farm | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Music | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Lonsdale Artisan Farmers’ Market
We have been lucky in having some of the best organic and conventional farmers in B.C. attend the market plus great bakers, jam makers, honey gathers, and salsa makers.
North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
Cloverdale Market Days
Come to the open air festival along 176 street, between 56a and 58 ave. See vendors, local artisans, entertainment, face painting and food trucks
Surrey | Along 176 street, between 56a and 58 avenue | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
River District Farmers Market
This one-of-a-kind market is the only riverfront market in Vancouver. Come shop for fruits and vegetables, prepared foods, and handmade products produced by farmers and artisans
Vancouver | River District Vancouver | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour
The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption
Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | History
Kensington Prairie's 7th Annual Fall Fair
Join us to celebrate fall and all of its seasonal offerings!
Surrey | Kensington Prairie Recreation Centre | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free
Olde Harvest Fair
Harvest some fun at this fall event. Since the first annual fall fair held in 1888, Surrey residents have marked the harvest with a bounty of food, neighborly competitions and music.
Surrey | Stewart Farm House | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Downtown Eastside Women's Fair and Flea Market
Join us at our second annual Women's Summer Fair, promising a vibrant atmosphere, lively entertainment, and fun for all! Come by and show your support
Vancouver | 200 Block, Columbia St. @ Cordova St. | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Fair | Free
Pirates at the Cannery!
Pirates (the friendly kind!) will be invading the Cannery once again, on Sept. 16, in celebration of Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Richmond | Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family
Market Mexico - Free Outdoor Pop-Up Event
An immersive Mexican cultural experience, in the heart of downtown Vancouver. One day only
Vancouver | UBC Robson Square | 11:30 am to 11:55 pm | Food / Wine | Free
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Advance Theatre: New Works By Women. Women Of Papiyek
Generations of European and Indigenous mixed race families lived in Papiyek (now called Brockton Point in Stanley Park) before being evicted from their homes and forced to re-locate
Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm | Theatre
Art Talks. Surrealism now and then
Surrealism is one of the most interesting and mysterious art movements. Paintings look like puzzles, and every time you'll find something new.
New Westminster | Rusart Fine Arts Co. | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Visual Arts
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale
A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
The Sound of Music - National Tour
The Hills are alive! A brand new production of The Sound Of Music, directed by three-time Tony Award® winner Jack O’Brien, is coming to your town.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Musical
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
North Vancouver LoLo Food Tour
During the 2.5 hour tour, you will be able to learn about the historic ship building industry and early settlers to the area as you savor a delicious culinary experience. The tour includes 10 stops featuring 7 market vendors
North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay Market | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Food / Wine
Red Light Rendezvous. Sins of the City Walking Tour
Vancouver might have been founded on a barrel of whisky, but it was built on the brothels that lined the muddy streets of Gastown. Explore the history of Vancouver's sex trade with the Vancouver Police Museum's Red Light Rendezvous
Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm | History
The Vancouver Fringe Festival
The Vancouver Fringe Festival is an annual celebration of Theatre for Everyone! Event list for September 16, 2017
Vancouver | Various locations | 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Theatre
Indian Summer Festival 2017: Dinner By Starlight
Indian Summer’s annual ‘Dinner by Starlight’ is one of the most anticipated events in Vancouver and acts as a fundraiser for the Indian Summer Arts Society
Vancouver | Secret | 6:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Festival
Shaggy (Early Show) with special guests Mostly Marley at the Commodore Ballroom
Melo Productions is pleased to welcome Shaggy with special guests Mostly Marley
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale
A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
ReSounding Dunbar Ryerson Fundraising Concert
Four of Vancouver’s foremost classical music ensembles – The Postmodern Camerata, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Vancouver Orpheus Male Choir, and the Vancouver Youth Choir – are performing at Dunbar Ryerson United Church on September 16th
Vancouver | Dunbar Ryerson United Church | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
The Sound of Music - National Tour
The Hills are alive! A brand new production of The Sound Of Music, directed by three-time Tony Award® winner Jack O’Brien, is coming to your town.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 11:50 pm | Theatre
Two Years Deep - DeepDownInside 2 Year Anniversary
Pushing the deepest rhythms & grooves in house music to the forefront, Vancouver's premiere underground night, returns as we celebrate our 2 Year Anniversary
Vancouver | MIA Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music | Free
Paul Oakenfold at Celebrities
Arguably the godfather of electronic music and culture, Paul Oakenfold joins us on Saturday, September 16th with UNIONdjs & Luke Boyle-Stafford
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Nite*Moves at the Biltmore Cabaret
House party jams for the young, restless, and bored Every Saturday at the Biltmore Cabaret with your resident DJ’s Can I Live Harvey Harvey ++ special guests
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music | Free
Shaggy (Late Show) with special guests Mostly Marley at the Commodore Ballroom
Melo Productions is pleased to welcome Shaggy with special guests Mostly Marley
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 11:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music
September 17, 2017
Sun
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Vancouver Gift Expo
This is your chance to see Canada’s top wholesalers displaying new & unique products for your Fall and Winter selling seasons
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Poirier Street Farmers Market
The Poirier Street Market hosts a diversity of vendors and products from May through October. Each week a wide variety of vendors gather to showcase their products – made, baked, grown, or raised in BC
Coquitlam | Dogwood Pavilion | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Market
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Kitsilano Farmers Market
Every Sunday from May - October, the parking lot of Kitsilano Community Centre bustles with 50+ farms and producers bringing Vancouver's west side the finest and freshest food in the city
Vancouver | Kitsilano Community Centre | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market
Playland at the PNE
Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Ambleside Artisan Farmers' Market
We are very lucky to have such a great variety of organic and conventional farmers at this location. We also have a good selection of prepared foods including baking, syrups, jams, jellies, honey, salsas, anti pastas and much more.
West Vancouver | Ambleside Park | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Market
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. Free Flamenco Class
Welcome to the 25th Anniversary edition of the Vancouver International Flamenco Festival!
Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 11:00 am to 12:00 am | Festival | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Medicine Wheel Ceremony
People from varying backgrounds and spiritual traditions are invited to gather to celebrate the beginning of a new season in a beautiful outdoors setting
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Nature / Animals
Lovely Lady Lump at Vancouver Fringe
Aussie Comic Laughs Cancer out of Town with Award-Winning Show. Lana Schwarcz teams up with Dense Breasts Canada to raise the roof and raise awareness at Vancouver Fringe Festival with Lovely Lady Lump.
Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 1:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Comedy
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
The Sound of Music - National Tour
The Hills are alive! A brand new production of The Sound Of Music, directed by three-time Tony Award® winner Jack O’Brien, is coming to your town.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Musical
Cave Paintings: Rebecca Chaperon Exhibition Reception
Selected new works from Rebecca Chaperon's new series called Cave Paintings.
North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Curatorial tour with Kimberly Phillips
Join CAG Curator, Kimberly Phillips for a guided tour of the current exhibitions: Gordon Bennett 'Be Polite' and Levine Flexhaug 'A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings'
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
The Verona Quartet
The Vancouver Recital Society presents the Verona Quartet in an afternoon concerta at the Vancouver Playhouse
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music
The Vancouver Fringe Festival
The Vancouver Fringe Festival is an annual celebration of Theatre for Everyone! Event list for September 17, 2017
Vancouver | Various locations | 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Theatre
Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya Ghoshal is acknowledged as India’s finest singer and with four National awards, six Film Fare awards & nine South Film Fare awards, she’s also one the busiest bollywood singers in the world.
Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Gov’t Mule Revolution Come… Revolution Go Tour
Westward Music Festival 2017 Presents: Gov’t Mule with guests.
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. Open Studio Showing
Welcome to the 25th Anniversary edition of the Vancouver International Flamenco Festival!
Vancouver | Centro Flamenco Studio, Artistic Creative Residency | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival | Free
Marshall Crenshaw y Los Straitjackets
Marshall Crenshaw y Los Straitjackets combines the shared sensibilities of a pop-rock maestro & a band of guitar-wielding masked marauders.
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure
Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
The Sound of Music - National Tour
The Hills are alive! A brand new production of The Sound Of Music, directed by three-time Tony Award® winner Jack O’Brien, is coming to your town.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical
夢中的額吉 來自草原的呼喚 Mother In My Dream - Call From The Prairie
Mother In My Dream - Call From Prairie features Nair Band (Chinese Mongolian Band) and renowned singer Uudam. On Sep 17, 2017, they will both perform live at the River Rock Show Theatre
Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
Corbin & Shlohmo With Guest D33J
Henry Laufer, better known by his stage name Shlohmo, is an American electronic musician from Los Angeles, California. He is a founding member of the Los Angeles electronic music collection WeDidIt. He has collaborated with How to Dress Well
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
September 18, 2017
Mon
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Vancouver Gift Expo
This is your chance to see Canada’s top wholesalers displaying new & unique products for your Fall and Winter selling seasons
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Planning New West: A History and Future of Urban Development in New Westminster
The museum’s latest exhibition explores why the city is shaped the way it is; the grand visionary plans and the reality of what happened
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
September 19, 2017
Tue
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Planning New West: A History and Future of Urban Development in New Westminster
The museum’s latest exhibition explores why the city is shaped the way it is; the grand visionary plans and the reality of what happened
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Male Caregivers' Social Club
Get support from your peers and experienced facilitators as you navigate the job search process and start building your career!
Vancouver | South Hill Neighbourhood Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Lecture | Free
Fowl Play
In search of odd behavior and even odder people
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Theatre
Theatre series: End of the Rainbow
End of The Rainbow is a true account of the twilight of an all too mortal goddess on the eve of her destruction and is revealing in a way seldom found in the tabloids
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Celebs Tuesday
All year round, Tuesday at Celebrities are packed with party animals
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
September 20, 2017
Wed
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Rebecca Chaperon - Cave Paintings. Exhibition
Rebecca Chaperon’s paintings act as a means of storytelling, where surreal landscapes populated by mysterious figures meet flat geometry, with emotive undercurrents.
North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Planning New West: A History and Future of Urban Development in New Westminster
The museum’s latest exhibition explores why the city is shaped the way it is; the grand visionary plans and the reality of what happened
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Oktoberfest at Marpole Community Centre
Come celebrate Oktoberfest! Join us as we celebrate Oktoberfest in our community with entertainment by Oktoberfest Enterprises and a traditional lunch paired with beer tasting!
Vancouver | Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre | 12:00 am to 2:30 pm | Food / Wine
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre
Secrets of Stanley Park - New Walking Tour
These are the secrets that lurk in the shadows, on the hidden trails, and in the swirling waters. The secrets you aren’t supposed to know. The secrets of Stanley Park.
Vancouver | outside the Aquarium entrance | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Exhibition
Main Street Station Farmers Market
Located just steps from Main St - Science World Skytrain Station at Main & Terminal, this convenient Wednesday farmers market is ideal for local food fans seeking an easy shop on their commute
Vancouver | 1100 Station Street | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market
Welcome to Coquitlam 2017
The Coquitlam annual event is geared to residents who are new to Coquitlam or Canada, but anyone who is interested in learning more about their City is encouraged to attend
Coquitlam | Coquitlam City Hall | 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Lecture | Free
Vancouver Labour History Walking Tours
Vancouver has a rich and diverse labour history. This guided tour invites you to visit sites of significance to workers' heritage and working class struggle that commemorate the importance of labour unions, individuals, collective actions and much more
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | History
Fowl Play
In search of odd behavior and even odder people
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Mura Masa
Get lovesick with mura masa as he returns to Vancouver for a special All Ages show at The Vogue Theatre
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Theatre
Theatre series: End of the Rainbow
End of The Rainbow is a true account of the twilight of an all too mortal goddess on the eve of her destruction and is revealing in a way seldom found in the tabloids
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
Kali Uchis With Guests Phony Ppl
Karly Loaiza, better known as her stage name Kali Uchis, is a Colombian-American singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, and fashion designer from Alexandria, Virginia
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
The Dance Centre presents Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY
The Dance Centre presents the Global Dance Connections series: Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY - Saudade
Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts
Flamenco Festival. Mixed Bill: Calle Verde feat. Christina Tremblay (Quebec)
Mixed Bill: Christina Tremblay (Quebec) with local favourites Calle Verde (Vancouver) opening the evening
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Dance
September 21, 2017
Thu
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Farmers' Market
Burnaby's Farmers' Market is the place to find locally grown conventional and organic produce, prepared foods and crafts every Saturday from May 6 until October 28, 2017
Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Tania Willard: dissimulation
This exhibition presents multidisciplinary work by artist/curator Tania Willard (Secwépemc Nation), alongside her collaborators Gabrielle Hill, Peter Morin, her family, home community and Secwépemc lands and territories
Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Rebecca Chaperon - Cave Paintings. Exhibition
Rebecca Chaperon’s paintings act as a means of storytelling, where surreal landscapes populated by mysterious figures meet flat geometry, with emotive undercurrents.
North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Home: Grown
Home: Grown is a retrospective of Hilary Morris 30 years of painting in Vancouver, reflecting on its transformations and how the city has shaped, and been shaped by, its many communities
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Planning New West: A History and Future of Urban Development in New Westminster
The museum’s latest exhibition explores why the city is shaped the way it is; the grand visionary plans and the reality of what happened
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Downtown Farmers Market
The Downtown Farmers Market runs every Thursday, June 1 to October 5 on the Queen Elizabeth Plaza. Fresh produce and great food trucks!
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
Discover Dance! Historical Performance Ensemble
Our popular noon series offers informative and inspiring shows by BC-based dance companies which combine performance, question-and-answer sessions with the artists, and sometimes even audience participation
Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Dance
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre
Cosmic Nights: Saturnalia
The incredible 20 year Cassini mission to Saturn is finally ending so let's honour it by having a party! In ancient Roman times they honoured the deity Saturn with a celebration called Saturnalia...
Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
Fowl Play
In search of odd behavior and even odder people
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Tributaries: Video Screening by Emilie Crewe
As part of the Canada 150 anniversary, the City of New Westminster will be bringing together a collection of cultural projects centered on the concept of “Home”.
New Westminster | Fraser River Discovery Centre | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Missing Stories of World War 1: Discovering the South Asian Voices Missing from Imperial History, by Steven Purewal
Coquitlam Heritage Speaker Series: History of South Asian Imperial Citizens as Indo-Canadian Pioneers and their contributions as Defenders of the Crown
Coquitlam | Coquitlam Public Library – City Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Lecture
Golden Lotus
Commissioned by the 39th Hong Kong Arts Festival and adapted from the 17th century Chinese erotic novel Jin Ping Mei, the ballet Golden Lotus returns after a three-year prohibition throughout Mainland China
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Theatre
New Works Season Launch
New Works is proud to launch our 20th season by featuring three duets by six talented female dance artists: Zhara Shahab and Katie Lowen; Erika Mitsuhashi and Francesca Frewer; Jessica Wilkie and Laura Avery
Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts
Theatre series: End of the Rainbow
End of The Rainbow is a true account of the twilight of an all too mortal goddess on the eve of her destruction and is revealing in a way seldom found in the tabloids
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
The Dance Centre presents Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY
The Dance Centre presents the Global Dance Connections series: Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY - Saudade
Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts
Flamenco Festival: Liándola by Fin de Fiesta
Fin de Fiesta Flamenco is a vibrant music and dance ensemble comprised of award-winning artists from Europe and North America
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Dance
Live at the 'Bolt: The Fever Cabaret
Join us as Shadbolt presents Live at the "Bolt: The Fever Cabaret". The Fever Cabaret...Join us for a fun filled evening of music, humor and passion!
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
September 22, 2017
Fri
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Burnaby 125 Weekend of Fun
Happy 125th Burnaby! Join us Sep 22-24 for events and activities happening all weekend long!
Burnaby | 8:00 am to 11:00 pm | Family
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Tania Willard: dissimulation
This exhibition presents multidisciplinary work by artist/curator Tania Willard (Secwépemc Nation), alongside her collaborators Gabrielle Hill, Peter Morin, her family, home community and Secwépemc lands and territories
Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Vancouver Greek Food Festival
Please join us at the 40th Annual Vancouver Greek Food Festival!
Vancouver | Hellenic Community of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Canada Golden Maple Film Festival: Shortlisted Film Screenings. Wolf Warriors 2 (战狼2）
Kick off the fall entertainment season by seeing some of the films - ranging from action to romantic comedy to thrillers - shortlisted for the 2017 Canada Golden Maple Film Festival
Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Festival
Rebecca Chaperon - Cave Paintings. Exhibition
Rebecca Chaperon’s paintings act as a means of storytelling, where surreal landscapes populated by mysterious figures meet flat geometry, with emotive undercurrents.
North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Planning New West: A History and Future of Urban Development in New Westminster
The museum’s latest exhibition explores why the city is shaped the way it is; the grand visionary plans and the reality of what happened
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Canada Golden Maple Film Festival: Shortlisted Film Screenings. Tea Robber (茶盗)
Kick off the fall entertainment season by seeing some of the films - ranging from action to romantic comedy to thrillers - shortlisted for the 2017 Canada Golden Maple Film Festival
Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 1:00 pm to 2:50 pm | Festival
Vancity Women's Expo + Pop-Up
Vancity's freshest women's event held at the Cloverdale Agriplex and Showbarn! Including a full women's expo & a pop-up market!
Surrey | Vancity Women's Expo | 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health
Shipyards Night Market
top by Shipbuilders’ Square for the Shipyards Night Market, where you will find fresh food, locally made products, musicians, art and entertainment.
North Vancouver | Shipbuilders' Square | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Market | Free
Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour
The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption
Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | History
Carnival Skate
Join us for fun carnival games both on and off the ice! Grab your skates and drop-in for some fun, family skating this fall for all ages and abilities
Surrey | Cloverdale Arena | 6:15 pm to 7:45 pm | Family
BCIBN Grand Diwali Gala 2017
The Annual BCIBN 2017 Grand Diwali Gala. An evening full of entertainment by three famous artist groups, food by world famous chefs and powerful business networking
Vancouver | Fairmont Waterfront | 6:30 pm to 1:45 pm | Festival
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Dead Meadow with Guests
Dead Meadow's unique marriage of dreamy riffs and guitar-fuzz bliss, combined with singer Jason Simon's high-pitched melodic croon have won over psychedelic pop/rock and stoner rock fans alike
Vancouver | The Cobalt | 7:00 pm to 6:18 pm | Music
Navratri Vancouver
NAVRATRI - Vancouver's largest and longest running garba celebration! Join us for Raas, garba, aarti, prasad and traditional Gujarati hindu religious puja, song, dance, culture and food!
Surrey | Riverside Signature Hall | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Performing Arts
Hello Again: A Fresh Start for Parents and their Adult Children
Father-and-son Gabor and Daniel Maté lead this candid and probing inquiry into what it means to outgrow and transform past-based dynamics in adult parent-child relationships
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Lecture
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale
A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Golden Lotus
Commissioned by the 39th Hong Kong Arts Festival and adapted from the 17th century Chinese erotic novel Jin Ping Mei, the ballet Golden Lotus returns after a three-year prohibition throughout Mainland China
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance
Live at the 'Bolt: The Fever Cabaret
Join us as Shadbolt presents Live at the "Bolt: The Fever Cabaret". The Fever Cabaret...Join us for a fun filled evening of music, humor and passion!
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
Allan Rayman - Hotel Tour with guests
Allan Rayman is a singer/songwriter signed to Communion Records, an indie label based in Brooklyn, NY. He has released two albums: Hotel Allan and Roadhouse 01 as well as two singles, "Much Too Much" and "All at Once"
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
The Vancouver Chamber Choir. Heritage: Singing Canada’s Choral Songs
Canada’s choral music has always been one of the Vancouver Chamber Choir’s specialties. In this concert, we celebrate Canada’s 150th Anniversary and conductor Jon Washburn’s 50th year in Vancouver with a great panorama of Canadian repertoire
Vancouver | Dunbar Ryerson United Church | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Theatre series: End of the Rainbow
End of The Rainbow is a true account of the twilight of an all too mortal goddess on the eve of her destruction and is revealing in a way seldom found in the tabloids
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Time Tracks: The VSO’s Season Opener
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra's opening weekend features works by music director Maestro Bramwell Tovey, John Adams and Tchaikovsky
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Music
Surrey Celebrates Canada 150. Oh, Canada, We Sing For Thee!
Internationally acclaimed Canadian songbird Leisa Way has created magic with this concert that celebrates the songwriters and artists that give our great country its heart and soul.
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
BC Lions vs Hamilton Tiger-Cats
The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team competing in the West Division of the Canadian Football League
Vancouver | BC Place | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Sports
Goldfrapp
Electronic music duo from London, on tour to support their latest release “Silver Eye”
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 11:50 pm | Theatre
The Dance Centre presents Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY
The Dance Centre presents the Global Dance Connections series: Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY - Saudade
Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts
Flamenco Festival: Nuevo, New, Nouveau by Flamenco Rosario
Flamenco Rosario in collaboration with Musical Director Victor Kolstee, will be presenting a set of new choreographies by Karen Lugo and Rosario Ancer, in which they deconstruct the art form and challenge the way we perceive flamenco
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Dance
Screening of Youth Digital Art Projects
Youth from Chuck Bailey's skate park and gym programs and the City’s Community Art Program will premier videos they have made. Surrey Art Gallery’s Art Together participants will also screen their film graffiti project made with mentoring artist Alex MacK
Surrey | Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre | 8:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
НАША - Если Вам Немного За 30! Супердискотека
Хотим предложить вашему вниманию НАШУ долгожданную вечеринку с суперхитами 80-х, 90-х и нулевых!!!
New Westminster | Magnetiq Club Lounge | 9:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music
Markus Schulz at Celebrities
Fusing the musical identities of progressive, house & trance into his own creative, now inimitable hybrid sound, Markus Schulz makes his return to Vancouver
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Foolish - Every Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret
Every third Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret Platinum era hip hop and r&b (96-09’)
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music
September 23, 2017
Sat
Vancouver Whitecaps FC vs. Colorado Rapids
Vancouver Whitecaps FC will commence their seventh season in Major League Soccer when they host Colorado Rapids
Vancouver | BC Place | Sports
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Burnaby 125 Weekend of Fun
Happy 125th Burnaby! Join us Sep 22-24 for events and activities happening all weekend long!
Burnaby | Cameron Recreation Complex | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free
Color Vibe 5k - Vancouver/Tri-Cities
The Color Vibe 5k is coming to Vancouver/Tri-Cities on 23 September for our 2017 Good Vibes Tour and we don’t want you to miss out on any of the fun!
Coquitlam | Town Centre Park | 9:00 am to 11:00 am | Active Life / Health
Vancouver 55+ Lifestyle Show
Come soak in the Inspiration at our 2017 Vancouver 55+ Lifestyle Show.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm | Show | Free
Trout Lake Farmers Market
This is where you’ll find the vendors who have been doing it since the beginning; what started as 14 farmers ‘squatting’ at the Croatian Cultural Centre back in 1995 has grown into Vancouver’s most well-known and beloved market
Vancouver | John Hendry Park | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market | Free
UBC Farmer's Market
We'll be here with fresh tempeh right on UBC Farm
Vancouver | UBC Farm | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Music | Free
Hello Again: A Fresh Start for Parents and their Adult Children
Father-and-son Gabor and Daniel Maté lead this candid and probing inquiry into what it means to outgrow and transform past-based dynamics in adult parent-child relationships
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 9:30 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Tania Willard: dissimulation
This exhibition presents multidisciplinary work by artist/curator Tania Willard (Secwépemc Nation), alongside her collaborators Gabrielle Hill, Peter Morin, her family, home community and Secwépemc lands and territories
Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition
Lonsdale Artisan Farmers’ Market
We have been lucky in having some of the best organic and conventional farmers in B.C. attend the market plus great bakers, jam makers, honey gathers, and salsa makers.
North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Vancouver Greek Food Festival
Please join us at the 40th Annual Vancouver Greek Food Festival!
Vancouver | Hellenic Community of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Vancity Women's Expo + Pop-Up
Vancity's freshest women's event held at the Cloverdale Agriplex and Showbarn! Including a full women's expo & a pop-up market!
Surrey | Vancity Women's Expo | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Active Life / Health
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Works by Vicky Earle
Inspired by plant species found at the Bloedel Conservatory, “Duets” is a visual exploration of unique symbiotic relationships unfolding every day in rainforests around the world
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition
Canada Golden Maple Film Festival: Shortlisted Film Screenings. Planning of be in Love (小阴谋大爱情)
Kick off the fall entertainment season by seeing some of the films - ranging from action to romantic comedy to thrillers - shortlisted for the 2017 Canada Golden Maple Film Festival
Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 10:00 am to 11:30 am | Festival
Rebecca Chaperon - Cave Paintings. Exhibition
Rebecca Chaperon’s paintings act as a means of storytelling, where surreal landscapes populated by mysterious figures meet flat geometry, with emotive undercurrents.
North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
River District Farmers Market
This one-of-a-kind market is the only riverfront market in Vancouver. Come shop for fruits and vegetables, prepared foods, and handmade products produced by farmers and artisans
Vancouver | River District Vancouver | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Planning New West: A History and Future of Urban Development in New Westminster
The museum’s latest exhibition explores why the city is shaped the way it is; the grand visionary plans and the reality of what happened
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour
The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption
Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | History
Apple Fest at Darts Hill Garden
Enjoy apple activities and fall festivities at Darts Hill Garden Park
Surrey | Darts Hill Garden Park | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Korean Community Day
Free event with tons of give-aways and free gifts! Entertain your kids with family fun at the K-Day Kid zone with exciting games, delicious treats, and story telling from Cameron Library!
Burnaby | 4501 North Rd | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
Downtown Eastside Women's Fair and Flea Market
Join us at our second annual Women's Summer Fair, promising a vibrant atmosphere, lively entertainment, and fun for all! Come by and show your support
Vancouver | 200 Block, Columbia St. @ Cordova St. | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Fair | Free
RiverFest
Celebrate Rivers Day overlooking the mighty Fraser River with artisans, interactive exhibits & activities, food, music & workboat parade
New Westminster | Westminster Quay Boardwalk | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Festival | Free
Vancouver Puppet Theatre at RiverFest
The FRDC is proud to present two puppet shows by the Vancouver Puppet Theatre as part of RiverFest’s Family Fun Zone.
New Westminster | Fraser River Discovery Centre | 11:15 am to 3:45 pm | Kids | Free
Carnival Skate
Join us for fun carnival games both on and off the ice! Grab your skates and drop-in for some fun, family skating this fall for all ages and abilities
Surrey | North Surrey Arena | 12:00 am to 1:30 pm | Family
Canada Golden Maple Film Festival: Shortlisted Film Screenings. The soul of exploring virgin territory (荒冢行)
Kick off the fall entertainment season by seeing some of the films - ranging from action to romantic comedy to thrillers - shortlisted for the 2017 Canada Golden Maple Film Festival
Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 12:00 am to 2:00 pm | Festival
Fall Carnival by New Westminster Montessori Society
Come one, come all--Fall Carnival is just around the corner!
New Westminster | Lower Hume Park Sapperton | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
Bobs & LoLo at RiverFest
Join four-time Juno nominated musical duo Bobs & LoLo for two complimentary concerts at 12pm and 2:30pm!
New Westminster | RiverFest NewWest | 12:00 am to 3:30 pm | Kids | Free
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Amazing Mudder
It's time to show how amazing you are! Teens join us for this fun event! New! Amazing Mudder
Burnaby | Summit Youth Centre | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Kids | Free
Surrey Celebrates Canada 150. Surrey Youth Fest
Surrey Youth Fest is the City's largest free youth event of the year. You'll find lots of fun activities for everyone.
Surrey | Guildford Recreation Centre | 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Festival | Free
Lucille Johnstone Work Boat Parade presented by Ledcor
Everyone loves a parade - but this isn't your ordinary parade!! The Annual Lucille Johnstone Work Boat Parade presented by Ledcor is a huge crowd please and one of the highlights of RiverFest
New Westminster | RiverFest NewWest | 1:00 pm to 1:45 pm | Family | Free
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
North Vancouver LoLo Food Tour
During the 2.5 hour tour, you will be able to learn about the historic ship building industry and early settlers to the area as you savor a delicious culinary experience. The tour includes 10 stops featuring 7 market vendors
North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay Market | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Food / Wine
Canada Golden Maple Film Festival: Shortlisted Film Screenings. Along the god mountain (磕着长头转神山)
Kick off the fall entertainment season by seeing some of the films - ranging from action to romantic comedy to thrillers - shortlisted for the 2017 Canada Golden Maple Film Festival
Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 2:40 pm to 4:00 pm | Festival
Theatre series. End of the Rainbow
End of The Rainbow is a true account of the twilight of an all too mortal goddess on the eve of her destruction and is revealing in a way seldom found in the tabloids
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Theatre
Exhibition tour with Nigel Prince
Join CAG Director, Nigel Prince for a guided tour of the exhibition Gordon Bennett 'Be Polite' on its closing weekend
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Red Light Rendezvous. Sins of the City Walking Tour
Vancouver might have been founded on a barrel of whisky, but it was built on the brothels that lined the muddy streets of Gastown. Explore the history of Vancouver's sex trade with the Vancouver Police Museum's Red Light Rendezvous
Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm | History
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
TroyBoi
Troy Henry, known as TroyBoi, is an electronic music artist who has produced and remixed tracks for rap, R&B, and pop artists in addition to releasing work under his own name
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Navratri Vancouver
NAVRATRI - Vancouver's largest and longest running garba celebration! Join us for Raas, garba, aarti, prasad and traditional Gujarati hindu religious puja, song, dance, culture and food!
Surrey | Riverside Signature Hall | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Performing Arts
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing
The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Golden Lotus
Commissioned by the 39th Hong Kong Arts Festival and adapted from the 17th century Chinese erotic novel Jin Ping Mei, the ballet Golden Lotus returns after a three-year prohibition throughout Mainland China
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance
Live at the 'Bolt: The Fever Cabaret
Join us as Shadbolt presents Live at the "Bolt: The Fever Cabaret". The Fever Cabaret...Join us for a fun filled evening of music, humor and passion!
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
Theatre series: End of the Rainbow
End of The Rainbow is a true account of the twilight of an all too mortal goddess on the eve of her destruction and is revealing in a way seldom found in the tabloids
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica by Four Cellos
Plays Metallica by Four Cellos is the debut album by Finnish metal band Apocalyptica, released in 1996.
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Time Tracks: The VSO’s Season Opener
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra's opening weekend features works by music director Maestro Bramwell Tovey, John Adams and Tchaikovsky
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Music
The Sadies With Guests
Canadian rock band returns to Vancouver, on tour to support their latest release "Northern Passages".
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Debra DiGiovanni
Debra DiGiovanni is a Canadian stand-up comedian of Italian descent originally from Tillsonburg, Ontario
Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 11:50 pm | Theatre
The Dance Centre presents Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY
The Dance Centre presents the Global Dance Connections series: Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY - Saudade
Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts
Flamenco Festival: La Moneta - Muy Especial
The Vancouver International Flamenco Festival is pleased to present dancer/choreographer Fuensanta "La Moneta" from Spain
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Dance
Sacha Robotti: Sloth Acid Tour
Responsible for delivering some superbly meticulously produced techno tracks, Dirtybird's Sacha Robotti brings the 'Sloth Acid' Tour to MIA on Saturday, Spetember 23rd with guest RYBO for a special edition of #DeepDownInside
Vancouver | MIA Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Dada Life at Celebrities
Go bananas with Swedish duo Dada Life as they make their return to Vancouver with DJs Yurie & Johnny Jover
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Brennan Heart at Harbour Event Centre
Fabian Bohn known by his stage name Brennan Heart is a Dutch DJ and producer of Hardstyle
Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Nite*Moves at the Biltmore Cabaret
House party jams for the young, restless, and bored Every Saturday at the Biltmore Cabaret with your resident DJ’s Can I Live Harvey Harvey ++ special guests
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music | Free
September 24, 2017
Sun
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Walk for Reconciliation - Latinos in BC
We as a community representing Latinos in Vancouver and British Columbia want to encourage other communities to come forward and join hands spreading out the message that we are one
Vancouver | Cambie St. and Georgia St. | 9:00 am to 3:30 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
World Rivers Day at Still Creek
Still Moon Arts Society and Evergreen are partnering once again for World Rivers Day 2017. World Rivers Day is a global celebration of water and rivers around the world that was started in British Columbia
Vancouver | Renfrew Ravine Park Labyrinth | 9:00 am to 11:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free
Poirier Street Farmers Market
The Poirier Street Market hosts a diversity of vendors and products from May through October. Each week a wide variety of vendors gather to showcase their products – made, baked, grown, or raised in BC
Coquitlam | Dogwood Pavilion | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Market
Walk for Reconciliation and Expo
People from all cultures, communities, ages, abilities, and faiths are invited to join the second Walk for Reconciliation and first-ever Reconciliation Expo
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 9:30 am to 3:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Tania Willard: dissimulation
This exhibition presents multidisciplinary work by artist/curator Tania Willard (Secwépemc Nation), alongside her collaborators Gabrielle Hill, Peter Morin, her family, home community and Secwépemc lands and territories
Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Vancouver Greek Food Festival
Please join us at the 40th Annual Vancouver Greek Food Festival!
Vancouver | Hellenic Community of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Kitsilano Farmers Market
Every Sunday from May - October, the parking lot of Kitsilano Community Centre bustles with 50+ farms and producers bringing Vancouver's west side the finest and freshest food in the city
Vancouver | Kitsilano Community Centre | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market
Vancity Women's Expo + Pop-Up
Vancity's freshest women's event held at the Cloverdale Agriplex and Showbarn! Including a full women's expo & a pop-up market!
Surrey | Vancity Women's Expo | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Active Life / Health
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Medicine Wheel Garden Build
This event takes place on unceded and occupied In celebration of Wild Salmon and Indigenous Food Sovereignty come join the Cedar Cottage Food Network in creating a medicine wheel garden in Trout Lake Park
Vancouver | Trout Lake Community Centre | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Free
Introduction to Bird Watching
Join VanDusen’s long-time birding guide, Jeremy Gordon, for the basics on bird watching
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Nature / Animals
Works by Vicky Earle
Inspired by plant species found at the Bloedel Conservatory, “Duets” is a visual exploration of unique symbiotic relationships unfolding every day in rainforests around the world
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition
Rebecca Chaperon - Cave Paintings. Exhibition
Rebecca Chaperon’s paintings act as a means of storytelling, where surreal landscapes populated by mysterious figures meet flat geometry, with emotive undercurrents.
North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Planning New West: A History and Future of Urban Development in New Westminster
The museum’s latest exhibition explores why the city is shaped the way it is; the grand visionary plans and the reality of what happened
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Ambleside Artisan Farmers' Market
We are very lucky to have such a great variety of organic and conventional farmers at this location. We also have a good selection of prepared foods including baking, syrups, jams, jellies, honey, salsas, anti pastas and much more.
West Vancouver | Ambleside Park | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Market
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Creative Moves: Yoga & Dance
Join Anvil Centre faculty Carolina Bergonzoni for a FREE creative movement workshop!
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 11:00 am to 12:00 am | Dance | Free
World Rivers Day by Burnaby Village Museum & Carousel
Join us for a free family-friendly celebration of our rivers and waterways.
Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Family | Free
RiverFest
Celebrate Rivers Day overlooking the mighty Fraser River with artisans, interactive exhibits & activities, food, music & workboat parade
New Westminster | Westminster Quay Boardwalk | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Festival | Free
Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. Flamenco For Children
Welcome to the 25th Anniversary edition of the Vancouver International Flamenco Festival!
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | Festival | Free
Resisting CanLit: West Coast Indigenous Writers
Panel discussion in Peter Kaye Room at VPL as part of Word Vancouver 2017
Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 11:55 am to 12:45 am | Lecture | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Heritage Craft: Architectural Cross Stitch
Join us at Irving House for a day of architecture, heritage and craft!
New Westminster | Irving House | 12:00 am to 1:30 pm | Visual Arts
Gordon Bennett - Be Polite
The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings
A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug ...
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Grand Opening of the Fraser Mills Station & Mackin House's 108th Birthday Party
All Aboard! Coquitlam Heritage will be offering tours of the Fraser Mills Train Station and Mackin House during this family friendly event
Coquitlam | Mackin Park | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free
Ageless Dancers
Join Anvil Centre faculty Carolina Bergonzoni for a FREE dance workshop!
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 12:15 am to 1:30 pm | Dance
Burnaby 125 Weekend of Fun
Happy 125th Burnaby! Join Party at the Pool
Burnaby | Eileen Dailly Leisure Pool & Fitness Centre | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Family
Carnival Skate
Join us for fun carnival games both on and off the ice! Grab your skates and drop-in for some fun, family skating this fall for all ages and abilities
Surrey | Surrey Sport & Leisure Arena | 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm | Family
Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. La Moneta Flamenco Workshops
Welcome to the 25th Anniversary edition of the Vancouver International Flamenco Festival! The 2017 Flamenco Festival guest artists, Fuensanta “La Moneta” will be holding workshops at the Centro Flamenco studio
Vancouver | Centro Flamenco | 1:00 pm to 4:48 pm | Workshop
Learn Thai Massage in 5 sessions
The ancient practice of Thai Massage is an effective way to deepen your yoga practice, connect with your body and increase your capacity to give and receive
Vancouver | Unity Yoga | 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Active Life / Health
Sunday afternoon tours
Last Sunday of every month with Jocelyn Statia. Join CAG Visitor Coordinator, Jocelyn Statia for a tour of the current exhibitions.
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Lil Yachty Teenage Tour
Lil Yachty Teenage Tour
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Thee Oh Sees with guests Arrington de Dionyso
Thee Oh Sees is an American garage rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1997. The band currently consists of primary songwriter and core member John Dwyer, alongside Tim Hellman, Dan Rincon and Paul Quattrone
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Flamenco Festival: La Musica Del Flamenco
La Musica Del Flamenco hosted by Victor Kolstee (Guitar)
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance
September 25, 2017
Mon
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Active Aging Week®
Join us for Active Aging Week®, special events and activities all week long!
Burnaby | 8:45 am to 5:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Planning New West: A History and Future of Urban Development in New Westminster
The museum’s latest exhibition explores why the city is shaped the way it is; the grand visionary plans and the reality of what happened
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Works by Vicky Earle
Inspired by plant species found at the Bloedel Conservatory, “Duets” is a visual exploration of unique symbiotic relationships unfolding every day in rainforests around the world
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition
Rebecca Chaperon - Cave Paintings. Exhibition
Rebecca Chaperon’s paintings act as a means of storytelling, where surreal landscapes populated by mysterious figures meet flat geometry, with emotive undercurrents.
North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
The Legendary Boney M: Featuring Liz Mitchell original lead singer
Take a journey back in time to enjoy Boney M's disco hits of the 70's and 80's
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Lang Lang! with the VSO. The Emperor Piano Concerto
The hottest classical pianist of our time, Lang Lang returns to the Orpheum with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:10 pm | Music
Sheer Mag With Guests Tony Molina & BB
Punk band from Philadelphia, on tour to support their debut release "Need To Feel Your Love"
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Future Islands
Future Islands is an American synthpop band based in Baltimore, Maryland, and signed to 4AD, currently comprising Gerrit Welmers, William Cashion, and Samuel T. Herring
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Vagabon
From NYC indie rock singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, on tour to support her debut release "Infinite Worlds"
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
September 26, 2017
Tue
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Planning New West: A History and Future of Urban Development in New Westminster
The museum’s latest exhibition explores why the city is shaped the way it is; the grand visionary plans and the reality of what happened
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Tania Willard: dissimulation
This exhibition presents multidisciplinary work by artist/curator Tania Willard (Secwépemc Nation), alongside her collaborators Gabrielle Hill, Peter Morin, her family, home community and Secwépemc lands and territories
Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Works by Vicky Earle
Inspired by plant species found at the Bloedel Conservatory, “Duets” is a visual exploration of unique symbiotic relationships unfolding every day in rainforests around the world
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition
Rebecca Chaperon - Cave Paintings. Exhibition
Rebecca Chaperon’s paintings act as a means of storytelling, where surreal landscapes populated by mysterious figures meet flat geometry, with emotive undercurrents.
North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Brain and Body Workout for Boomers and Beyond
This class, designed by Kinesiologists and Occupational Therapists, is an evidence-based program to improve both physical and brain conditioning
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:30 am to 11:30 am | Active Life / Health
Afternoon Delight: Tribute to the Beatles
Afternoon Delight, a tribute to The Beatles, starring The Mop Tops
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 11:30 am to 3:00 pm | Show
Live Music at the Shadbolt. A Little Lunch Music
A Little Lunch Music Series features noon-hour concerts by a variety of local musicians in all genres of music including jazz, classical, pop and folk
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Music | Free
Reconciliation in Action: Drive the Change
Join us for the 3rd Annual Reconciliation in Action: Drive the Change Community Celebration at Britannia Community Centre!!
Vancouver | Britannia Community Services Centre | 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
The Talking, Thinking, Dancing Body
The Talking, Thinking, Dancing Body (TTDB) is a facilitated conversation about aesthetics, context and artistic process. Initiated in 2012 by Lee Su-Feh, it encourages speaking about performance from an awareness of our bodies as well as the world it live
Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Lecture | Free
Getting Through Cold Season
Want to educate yourself on natural remedies for sore throats, plugged noses, and coughs? Join our workshop to create mint shower buddies, elderberry cough syrup, and throat lozenges
Coquitlam | Coquitlam Heritage Society | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Active Life / Health
Live Music at the Shadbolt. Jazz Jam
A Little Lunch Music Series features noon-hour concerts by a variety of local musicians in all genres of music including jazz, classical, pop and folk
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music | Free
Evening Delight: Tribute to the Beatles
Evening Delight, a tribute to The Beatles, starring The Mop Tops
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Stuff You Should Know
Stuff You Should Know is the award-winning podcast hosted by Chuck Bryant and Josh Clark
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show
An Evening with Dr. Gabor Maté - The Myth of Normal: Depression, Anxiety and Addictions from a New Perspective
A renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics
Delta | South Delta Secondary School | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Theatre
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Janet Jackson: State of the World Tour
Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley - Stony Hill Fall Tour
Damian “Jr Gong” Marley, once known as the “The Youngest Veteran” by his fellow artists, is now an elder in the game who’s not afraid to speak his mind out ofrespect for the musicand culture he loves—and for the divine spirit of humanity in all of us.
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music
Celebs Tuesday
All year round, Tuesday at Celebrities are packed with party animals
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
September 27, 2017
Wed
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
LCPN Networking Event
We are pleased to invite you to our next Business Breakfast event in Vancouver. This is a great opportunity to meet people and create new connections
Vancouver | La Terrazza Restaurant and Lounge | 7:30 am to 9:30 am | Business / Finance
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Planning New West: A History and Future of Urban Development in New Westminster
The museum’s latest exhibition explores why the city is shaped the way it is; the grand visionary plans and the reality of what happened
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Tania Willard: dissimulation
This exhibition presents multidisciplinary work by artist/curator Tania Willard (Secwépemc Nation), alongside her collaborators Gabrielle Hill, Peter Morin, her family, home community and Secwépemc lands and territories
Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Works by Vicky Earle
Inspired by plant species found at the Bloedel Conservatory, “Duets” is a visual exploration of unique symbiotic relationships unfolding every day in rainforests around the world
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition
Preschool Storytime: Nature’s Stories for Young Children
Takes place on the 4th Wednesday of each month from 10:00 to 10:45 am and includes reading, action songs and a craft project
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 10:45 am | Kids | Free
Rebecca Chaperon - Cave Paintings. Exhibition
Rebecca Chaperon’s paintings act as a means of storytelling, where surreal landscapes populated by mysterious figures meet flat geometry, with emotive undercurrents.
North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Gentle Yoga - Fall
Start your day with this gentle yoga practice; relieve tension held in hips, spine and shoulders to deeply relax your body
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:15 am to 11:30 am | Active Life / Health
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Bears, Bikes and Backcountry
Get outside and have fun! Learn about hiking and biking on local trails and bear safety
Coquitlam | Coquitlam Public Library | 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Secrets of Stanley Park - New Walking Tour
These are the secrets that lurk in the shadows, on the hidden trails, and in the swirling waters. The secrets you aren’t supposed to know. The secrets of Stanley Park.
Vancouver | outside the Aquarium entrance | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Exhibition
Main Street Station Farmers Market
Located just steps from Main St - Science World Skytrain Station at Main & Terminal, this convenient Wednesday farmers market is ideal for local food fans seeking an easy shop on their commute
Vancouver | 1100 Station Street | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market
Vance Joy with guests Amy Shark and Chappell Roan
James Gabriel Keogh, better known as Vance Joy, is an Australian singer-songwriter. He signed a five-album deal with Atlantic Records in 2013
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
The Flame: York Theatre 2017 Edition
Vancouver’s preeminent True Storytelling series The Flame returns to the York Theatre for an unforgettable evening of poignant and hilarious true tales told live on stage
Vancouver | York Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Theatre
Feasting on Famine
The Firehall Arts Centre is thrilled to kick off its 35th anniversary season with the world premiere of Shay Kuebler’s Feasting on Famine
Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
GoldLink - At What Cost North American Tour
GoldLink returns to Vancouver with his At What Cost North American Tour at The Commodore Ballroom with guests
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Indoor Vertical Gardens
Explore living walls, window farms, and other vertical systems that add plenty of greenery to your home or office without taking up much space
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:30 pm to 12:30 am | Nature / Animals
Goldie - Vancouver
Metalheadz fans unite for the long awaited return of DNB pioneer & UK legend Goldie making his long awaited return to Vancouver
Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
September 28, 2017
Thu
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Farmers' Market
Burnaby's Farmers' Market is the place to find locally grown conventional and organic produce, prepared foods and crafts every Saturday from May 6 until October 28, 2017
Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Planning New West: A History and Future of Urban Development in New Westminster
The museum’s latest exhibition explores why the city is shaped the way it is; the grand visionary plans and the reality of what happened
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Tania Willard: dissimulation
This exhibition presents multidisciplinary work by artist/curator Tania Willard (Secwépemc Nation), alongside her collaborators Gabrielle Hill, Peter Morin, her family, home community and Secwépemc lands and territories
Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Works by Vicky Earle
Inspired by plant species found at the Bloedel Conservatory, “Duets” is a visual exploration of unique symbiotic relationships unfolding every day in rainforests around the world
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition
Demystifying Colour - A Watercolour Workshop
This class is all about colour mixing, using watercolour. Seeing colour is something you do every day – but how do you transfer this onto paper?
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Workshop
Classical Coffee Concert: PianOpera
Elizabeth and Marcel Bergmann - known worldwide as the Bergmann Piano Duo - perform duet arrangements of favourite operatic repertoire ranging from Mozart’s Magic Flute and Rossini’s Barber of Seville to Liszt’s virtuosic fantasy of Bellini’s Sonnambula
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Music
Rebecca Chaperon - Cave Paintings. Exhibition
Rebecca Chaperon’s paintings act as a means of storytelling, where surreal landscapes populated by mysterious figures meet flat geometry, with emotive undercurrents.
North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Downtown Farmers Market
The Downtown Farmers Market runs every Thursday, June 1 to October 5 on the Queen Elizabeth Plaza. Fresh produce and great food trucks!
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
Native Education College's 50th Anniversary
Join us to celebrate our 50th Anniversary! Connect with alumni, Elders, students, faculty, and community members to share stories and reminisce about your experience attending NEC
Vancouver | Native Education College | 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival | Free
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. The Desert Bride
A delicate late-life love story that is also a tale about the empowerment of a woman who has lived her whole life in the shadow of others
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Film
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
The underexposed, amazing story of a Hollywood glamour queen who could have been a scientist
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 6:45 pm to 8:15 pm | Film
Lil Yatchy
Miles Parks McCollum, better known by his stage name Lil Yachty, is an American rapper and singer
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Solutions to Affordable Family Friendly Housing in Metro Vancouver
MOV’s Built City Speaker Series returns for an exhilarating round table discussion. This event, in partnership with Architecture Canada - Metro Vancouver Chapter, will focus on one of Vancouver’s hottest topics: built local affordable housing models for f
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Meditation Park
Mina Shum makes an inspired return to narrative filmmaking with this richly detailed, unmistakably Vancouver story that recalls her breakout Double Happiness.
Vancouver | The Centre for Performing Arts | 7:00 pm to 8:40 pm | Film
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Theatre
Niall and Marcus Talk about S#*! Niall Likes
Join Niall McNeil, Marcus Youssef, and friends for an evening of good times talking about s#*! Niall likes
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Theatre
Folk Fabulous II
Singer songwriters and multi-instrumentalists share the stage and combine forces to deliver a once-in-a-lifetime musical experience
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 0:00 am | Music
Elliott Brood
Elliott Brood is a Canadian three-piece, alternative country band formed in 2002 in Toronto, consisting of Mark Sasso, Casey Laforet and Stephen Pitkin
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
New Forms Festival 17
New Forms Media Society is pleased to announce the dates and location for our 2017 edition.
Vancouver | 577 Great Northern Way | 8:00 pm to 4:00 am | Festival
Feasting on Famine
The Firehall Arts Centre is thrilled to kick off its 35th anniversary season with the world premiere of Shay Kuebler’s Feasting on Famine
Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
Bring On Tomorrow Co presents 13 the Musical!
13 is an original musical with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown and book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Watching the movie is like listening to some ultimate annotated Classic Top 40 playlist
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:45 pm to 10:00 pm | Film
September 29, 2017
Fri
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | Free
Planning New West: A History and Future of Urban Development in New Westminster
The museum’s latest exhibition explores why the city is shaped the way it is; the grand visionary plans and the reality of what happened
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Tania Willard: dissimulation
This exhibition presents multidisciplinary work by artist/curator Tania Willard (Secwépemc Nation), alongside her collaborators Gabrielle Hill, Peter Morin, her family, home community and Secwépemc lands and territories
Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition
Culture Days: Drawing with Water-Soluble Pencils
Celebrate Culture Days by participating in this interactive drawing workshop. Learn about the world of drawing with water-soluble pencils and how to turn your drawing into a beautiful watercolour
Coquitlam | Dogwood Pavilion | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Visual Arts | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Works by Vicky Earle
Inspired by plant species found at the Bloedel Conservatory, “Duets” is a visual exploration of unique symbiotic relationships unfolding every day in rainforests around the world
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition
Drawing Nature
This three-part workshop is for everyone who finds inspiration in nature, and wants to improve their ability to capture the beauty or the detail through drawing
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Visual Arts
Rebecca Chaperon - Cave Paintings. Exhibition
Rebecca Chaperon’s paintings act as a means of storytelling, where surreal landscapes populated by mysterious figures meet flat geometry, with emotive undercurrents.
North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Hotel Salvation
An Indian comedy full of emotional depth and understated paradox
Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 10:45 am to 12:30 am | Film
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
National Seniors Day Celebration
Celebrate National Seniors Day with an event featuring Dr. Art Hister and the Classics Brass Trio
Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 11:00 am to 1:30 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Dried Flower Arrangers’ Sale
Dried Flower Arrangers’ Show and Sale - all items available for purchase! Show and sale of dried flower wreaths, bouquets, topiaries, centerpieces, and arrangements created with materials grown at VanDusen Botanical Garden
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Show | Free
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Thelma
Trier’s movie is a suspenseful mystery, a tender love story, and a terrifying vision of wickedness
Vancouver | Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Film
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. The Desert Bride
A delicate late-life love story that is also a tale about the empowerment of a woman who has lived her whole life in the shadow of others
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 4:15 pm to 6:15 pm | Film
Vancouver International Travel Expo 2017
Vancouver largest Travel Expo is back in its second year even better and bigger
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Exhibition
Shipyards Night Market
top by Shipbuilders’ Square for the Shipyards Night Market, where you will find fresh food, locally made products, musicians, art and entertainment.
North Vancouver | Shipbuilders' Square | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Market | Free
Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour
The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption
Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | History
Special book club! Club de lecture
You like to read and you would like to speak French ? Société francophone de Maillardville is organising a very special book club to celebrate the Culture Days!
Coquitlam | Société francophone de Maillardville | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Lecture | Free
Culture Days - Dance, Dance, Dance
Dance in Transit is back for Culture Days at the beautiful Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Join us for a few hours of mini-lessons in different dance styles, some demonstrations, and the best music for dancing
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Dance | Free
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey
Animations of Fred’s personal journals, guidebooks and photographs combine with breathtaking aerial photography, motion graphics and rare archival footage to weave together the tapestry of this complex man’s life.
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 6:30 pm to 8:10 pm | Film
Scripts and Sips
Drink pairings with play readings where anyone can participate. Why limit your drink pairings to just wine and cheese. Why not a drink and a play? Come listen and/or participate to a live play reading
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Culture Days - Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
Join us and celebrate Culture Days in Canada in Burnaby. Experience fun and free public programming at Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby Village Museum and the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts
Miranda Lambert: Highway Vagabond Tour
Miranda Leigh Lambert is an American country music singer and songwriter. Outside of her solo career, she is a member of the Pistol Annies alongside Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams Tour at BC Place
Coldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist and keyboardist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London.
Vancouver | BC Place | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Celebrating 20 years of Leadership at Hollyhock
Join us for a fun evening of celebration of Dana's leadership and years of service to the Hollyhock community
Vancouver | Vancouver Rowing Club: Main | 7:00 pm to 0:30 am | Charity / Fundraising
Tank and The Bangas
Tank and The Bangas - New Orleans-based funk-soul-R&B band, winners of the NPR 2017 Tiny Desk
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Zedd
See Zedd on the Echo Tour
Vancouver | Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre | 7:15 pm to 0:00 am | Music
Paul Rodgers
British born singer, songwriter and musician Paul Rodgers will be rocking the house when he’ll be performing at the Molson Canadian Theatre
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Music
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
New Forms Festival 17
New Forms Media Society is pleased to announce the dates and location for our 2017 edition.
Vancouver | 577 Great Northern Way | 8:00 pm to 4:00 am | Festival
Feasting on Famine
The Firehall Arts Centre is thrilled to kick off its 35th anniversary season with the world premiere of Shay Kuebler’s Feasting on Famine
Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 11:50 pm | Theatre
The New Pornographers with guests Born Ruffians
The New Pornographers is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 0:30 am | Music
Bring On Tomorrow Co presents 13 the Musical!
13 is an original musical with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown and book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical
Desi Nights at Elements Casino
A-Town Presents: Desi Nights @ The Dragon Lounge inside Elements Casino. Surrey's ONLY monthly South Asian Event
Surrey | Elements Casino | 9:00 pm to 11:50 pm | Music | Free
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. The Square
An excoriating razor-burn of a movie that deploys drollery like an instrument of torture
Vancouver | The Centre for Performing Arts | 9:00 pm to 10:20 pm | Film
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Garden Store: Family Friend
Family Friend achieves an exquisite balance between comedy and drama
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 9:15 pm to 10:30 pm | Film
Dave Martone
To listen to the music of Dave Martone is like experiencing a simultaneous explosion of sound, color and flavour
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music | Free
Etienne Siew
Etienne Siew is a vocalist and songwriter from Coquitlam who has been playing guitar for over 15 years and singing for as long as he can remember
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music | Free
Quinn Dahle
With appearances on The Tonight Show, Showtime, Comedy Central, Lopez Tonight and Carson Daly, Quinn is a smart, clean and witty stand-up comic with impeccable timing
New Westminster | Lafflines Comedy Club | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy
DubVision at Harbour Event Centre
DubVision is a Dutch DJ duo consisting of brothers Victor Leicher and Stephan Leicher signed to the labels Spinnin' Records and Axtone
Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music | Free
Official ROVE after party in The Projection Room
The official ROVE after party starts at 10pm at the Projection Room, bring your ROVE map to get in for free!
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 10:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music
Foolish - Every Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret
Every third Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret Platinum era hip hop and r&b (96-09’)
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music
September 30, 2017
Sat
Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I
To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture
Vancouver | West Hastings and Hornby Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free
Farmers' Market
Burnaby's Farmers' Market is the place to find locally grown conventional and organic produce, prepared foods and crafts every Saturday from May 6 until October 28, 2017
Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market
Knit City - A Modern Fibre Event
We would love to have you join us at Knit City 2017, Canada’s premiere fibre arts festival!
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Fair
Trout Lake Farmers Market
This is where you’ll find the vendors who have been doing it since the beginning; what started as 14 farmers ‘squatting’ at the Croatian Cultural Centre back in 1995 has grown into Vancouver’s most well-known and beloved market
Vancouver | John Hendry Park | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market | Free
UBC Farmer's Market
We'll be here with fresh tempeh right on UBC Farm
Vancouver | UBC Farm | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Music | Free
Planning New West: A History and Future of Urban Development in New Westminster
The museum’s latest exhibition explores why the city is shaped the way it is; the grand visionary plans and the reality of what happened
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Tania Willard: dissimulation
This exhibition presents multidisciplinary work by artist/curator Tania Willard (Secwépemc Nation), alongside her collaborators Gabrielle Hill, Peter Morin, her family, home community and Secwépemc lands and territories
Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition
Lonsdale Artisan Farmers’ Market
We have been lucky in having some of the best organic and conventional farmers in B.C. attend the market plus great bakers, jam makers, honey gathers, and salsa makers.
North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
Newcomers Career Fairs
Designed to improve job mobility amongst foreign-born workers in Canada, our Newcomers Career Fairs connect skilled immigrants with employers who are eligible to employ foreign workers either temporarily or permanently
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre (East Building) | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Fair | Free
Culture Days at Mackin House & Fraser Mills Station
On Saturday, join us for the last weekend of tours for our interactive exhibit A Man’s World
Coquitlam | Coquitlam Heritage Society | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Culture Days. Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
Join us and celebrate Culture Days in Canada in Burnaby. Experience fun and free public programming at Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby Village Museum and the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum
The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts
Works by Vicky Earle
Inspired by plant species found at the Bloedel Conservatory, “Duets” is a visual exploration of unique symbiotic relationships unfolding every day in rainforests around the world
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition
Culture Days at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
Celebrate Culture days at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts with Studio process, Dialogue, Classes and Dance Observation
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 10:00 am to 2:30 pm | Active Life / Health
Water's edge day
Join the community celebration at Vanier Park for an all-ages activity fun-day, with land and water activities. All activities are free!
Vancouver | Vanier Park | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free
Soil, Manure & Compost Sale
Come by for our annual fundraiser
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising
Plant Sale Potluck - Donations Needed!
Do you have healthy plants that have expanded beyond your space, or you want to replace? We’ll take care of them!
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals
Dried Flower Arrangers’ Sale
Dried Flower Arrangers’ Show and Sale - all items available for purchase! Show and sale of dried flower wreaths, bouquets, topiaries, centerpieces, and arrangements created with materials grown at VanDusen Botanical Garden
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Market | Free
Rebecca Chaperon - Cave Paintings. Exhibition
Rebecca Chaperon’s paintings act as a means of storytelling, where surreal landscapes populated by mysterious figures meet flat geometry, with emotive undercurrents.
North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Historic Drinking Hole Walking Tour
Join our Museum Curator in a walking tour tracing the locations of saloons, bars and cafes along Columbia and Front Streets
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 11:30 am | Exhibition | Free
Africa with the Masters
A Free African Drum & Dance EVent for you, in celebration of Culture Days!
Vancouver | The Wise Hall & Lounge | 10:00 am to 8:17 pm | Dance | Free
Amazonia: The Rights of Nature
MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Emily Carr: Into the Forest
The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
River District Farmers Market
This one-of-a-kind market is the only riverfront market in Vancouver. Come shop for fruits and vegetables, prepared foods, and handmade products produced by farmers and artisans
Vancouver | River District Vancouver | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs
The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Creative Photography Principles 2
Build upon your understanding of photography principles, such as the effects of speed and lighting
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:30 am to 4:30 pm | Visual Arts
Natural Dyes from Your Garden
Explore the many beautiful colours you can derive from the “weeds” and flowers growing in your own garden, or even from some common kitchen compostables
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Workshop
Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour
The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption
Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | History
Richmond Harvest Fest
A new free festival celebrating the City’s agricultural heritage
Richmond | Garden City Lands | 11:00 am to 7:00 pm | Festival | Free
Celebrating Diversity - Canada's 150
Join us for B.C. Culture Days to honour our diverse community and enjoy art, music and dance, including Chinese, Persian, Indian and Korean performances
Coquitlam | City Centre Branch | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists
Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition
Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Vancouver International Travel Expo 2017
Vancouver largest Travel Expo is back in its second year even better and bigger
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. The King's Choice
Chronicling the nerve-racking days before and after the Norwegian monarch King Haakon VII made the decision to resist the invading German army during WWII
Vancouver | Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas | 11:00 am to 1:10 pm | Film
Downtown Eastside Women's Fair and Flea Market
Join us at our second annual Women's Summer Fair, promising a vibrant atmosphere, lively entertainment, and fun for all! Come by and show your support
Vancouver | 200 Block, Columbia St. @ Cordova St. | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Fair | Free
First Welcome - Hych’ka
Join the amazing community parade in Lower Lonsdale! Vancouver’s Presentation House Theatre and Mortal Coil Performance Society have partnered to create First Welcome – Hych’ka
North Vancouver | Waterfront Park | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
Culture Days - Life Drawing with Dancers
Back by popular demand, Vancouver Civic Theatres in partnership with Arts Umbrella is excited to bring back Life Drawing with Dancers in celebration of Culture Days 2017
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Workshop | Free
Culture Day at the Carousel by Burnaby Village Museum & Carousel
Everyone is invited to make a carousel thaumatrope and a special Culture Day pin, play carnival games and enjoy the creative skills Sylvia the Balloon Lady
Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Meditation Park
Mina Shum makes an inspired return to narrative filmmaking with this richly detailed, unmistakably Vancouver story that recalls her breakout Double Happiness.
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 12:30 am to 2:10 pm | Film
Community Dance Umbrella Project
Celebrate the change of seasons in Deer Lake Park with an outdoor dance performance
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Dance | Free
Culture Days in Surrey
Participate in and enjoy free activities and performances at Central City Shopping Centre
Surrey | Central City Shopping Centre Plaza | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Family | Free
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. The Party
a deliciously heightened, caviar-black comedy… played with relish by a dream ensemble
Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 1:30 pm to 2:45 pm | Film
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Sour Apples
Sour Apples is a story of a downfall, but it’s far from downbeat; the film is laced with humour and directed with wonderful energy
Vancouver | Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas | 1:45 pm to 3:45 pm | Film
North Vancouver LoLo Food Tour
During the 2.5 hour tour, you will be able to learn about the historic ship building industry and early settlers to the area as you savor a delicious culinary experience. The tour includes 10 stops featuring 7 market vendors
North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay Market | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Food / Wine
Culture Days at Glen Pine
Hands-on and interactive activities with the Glen Pine 50 Plus Society groups and clubs. This is a chance to explore different options for fun, entertainment and social interaction in our multicultural community for the 50 Plus
Coquitlam | Glen Pine Pavilion | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Workshop | Free
Vancouver: Cheese and Meat Festival 2017
Cheese and Meat Festival #yvr 2017 Explore the smells, tastes, and textures of cheese, charcuterie, and accompaniments while pairing them with wine, cider, beer, mixed drinks
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 3:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Food / Wine
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
Lump-in-the-throat love story but should also resonate on a political level as a testimony to the power of activism to awaken an indifferent world
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:15 pm to 5:40 pm | Film
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. At the End of the Tunnel
An expertly paced caper film with enough twists and turns to keep audiences in a heightened state of suspense
Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm | Film
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Watching the movie is like listening to some ultimate annotated Classic Top 40 playlist
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 3:45 pm to 5:15 pm | Film
Red Light Rendezvous. Sins of the City Walking Tour
Vancouver might have been founded on a barrel of whisky, but it was built on the brothels that lined the muddy streets of Gastown. Explore the history of Vancouver's sex trade with the Vancouver Police Museum's Red Light Rendezvous
Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm | History
Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival
Save the date! The 15th annual Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival is scheduled for September 30th, 2017! Leading up to the big day, there will be multiple events throughout the month to celebrate the Harvest Moon with music and entertainment
Vancouver | Slocan Park | 4:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Family | Free
15th Annual Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival
Still Moon Arts Society is excited to announce that the 15th annual Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival will take place on September 30th!
Vancouver | Renfrew Park Community Centre | 4:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Family | Free
Cuban Weekend in Vancouver BC
Hello, Vancouver Cuban Dance Community. La Clave Cubana main Instructors Reinier Valdes and Daniela Gallardo will be in Town the last weekend of September ( Sept 29th - Oct 1st )to Teach and of course dance and Party with you in the Locals Salsa Events
Vancouver | BCDance | 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Dance
Special book club! Club de lecture
Join us for a funny afternoon to discover the secret caches hidden in the Maillardville’ s neighborhood. This year, Société francophone de Maillardville is proposing you a Geocaching tour afternoon as part of the Culture Days
Coquitlam | Société francophone de Maillardville | 6:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
The 6th Annual Mushtari Begum Festival of Indian Classical Music and Dance
New Westminster, BC – On September 30th 2017, the Mushtari Begum Festival of Indian Classical Music and Dance will fill Massey Theatre with incredible sound and energy
New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Indian Horse
In this moving adaptation of Richard Wagamese’s acclaimed novel, director Stephen Campanelli condemns Canada’s most deplorable injustice while celebrating our national game’s transcendent power.
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 6:30 pm to 8:10 pm | Film
Prohibition City - walking tour
From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.
Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition
Ben Folds - Paper Airplane Request Tour
Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation.
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Dina
Alternately comic and tragic and best when it’s both at once, Dina humanizes a world of people who were only dehumanized because we allowed them to be
Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:20 pm | Film
André-Philippe Gagnon
Born in Quebec City, Gagnon began performing his comedic impressions at local talent shows and festivals.
Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy
Billy Bragg
Stephen William Bragg is an English singer, songwriter and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, with lyrics that mostly span political or romantic themes
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour
The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour
Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition
Quinn Dahle
With appearances on The Tonight Show, Showtime, Comedy Central, Lopez Tonight and Carson Daly, Quinn is a smart, clean and witty stand-up comic with impeccable timing
New Westminster | Lafflines Comedy Club | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy
Richard Clayderman
Richard Clayderman has established a truly international career as a best selling recording artist and concert performer
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
New Forms Festival 17
New Forms Media Society is pleased to announce the dates and location for our 2017 edition.
Vancouver | 577 Great Northern Way | 8:00 pm to 4:00 am | Festival
Feasting on Famine
The Firehall Arts Centre is thrilled to kick off its 35th anniversary season with the world premiere of Shay Kuebler’s Feasting on Famine
Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
Angels in America: Perestroika
A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 11:50 pm | Theatre
Bring On Tomorrow Co presents 13 the Musical!
13 is an original musical with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown and book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Disappearance
Winner of the best first film prizes at Berlin and the European Film Awards - with the focus shifted from the fraught relationship between a young boy and his emotionally volatile father to the no-less-fraught
Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 8:45 pm to 10:20 pm | Film
Dave Martone
To listen to the music of Dave Martone is like experiencing a simultaneous explosion of sound, color and flavour
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music | Free
Hart & Soul
Hart & Soul is a top 40/soul band designed to bring soul music back to life with the perfect blend of top 40 favorites and soul classics!
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music | Free
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Tom of Finland
Enjoyable portrait is most effective at showcasing the bountiful beauty of fleshy, filthy sketches, as well as the empowered pursuit of pleasure for which they continue to stand
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 9:45 pm to 11:45 pm | Film
Soul Clap at DeepDownInside
Constantly pushing boundaries of house music and disco, Boston-based duo Soul Clap return to Vancouver at MIA on Saturday, Sept 30th for a special Open to Close set at #DeepDownInside
Vancouver | MIA Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Leave Us Lost presents The Drifter
An Irishman keener on music than in beer, this September The Drifter comes to town. The Drifter has a diverse musical background ranging from being in bands and choirs, to now, being a DJ and producer
Vancouver | Open Studios | 10:00 pm to 4:00 am | Music
Nite*Moves at the Biltmore Cabaret
House party jams for the young, restless, and bored Every Saturday at the Biltmore Cabaret with your resident DJ’s Can I Live Harvey Harvey ++ special guests
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music | Free