Metro Vancouver calendar for February 2020. Best festivals, concerts, fun things to do, BC Family Day, Valentine's Day, Chinese New Year Celebrations, shows & events, weekend fairs, free kids' activities in Vancouver, BC

February 1, 2020

Sat

WickFest 2020

WickFest Returns! Hayley Wickenheiser brings renowned female hockey and development event to Surrey

Surrey | North Surrey Sport & Ice Complex | 8:00 am to 9:00 pm | Sports

Snowshoeing on Cypress Mountain

For this weekend we've got a pretty amazing hike planned.

West Vancouver | Cypress Mountain | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports

Missions Fest 2020

Join us at Missions Fest Vancouver 2020 to explore the topic of surrender and its connection to mission

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Coastal Lunar Lanterns at Jack Poole Plaza

Come and celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Jack Poole Plaza

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

January/February Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Three new exhibitions: An Interactive Exhibition of Plant-Based Visual Art, photography and sculpture by Collaborative Alchemy; Happiness is a thing called, watercolours and water media by Tammy Pilon; The Influencer, oil painting by Alex Sandvoss

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Canadian Craft Tours - Coffee Roast & Delightful Bites Tour

Join Canadian Craft Tours to explore why Vancouver's Coffee Scene is seen as top tier on the world stage

Vancouver | 901 West Cordova Street | 9:00 am to 12:15 am | Food / Wine

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

The 28th Annual Wellness Show

For more than 25 years the Wellness Show has been bringing new approaches to nutrition, fitness, physical and emotional well-being to help Vancouverites achieve their most holistic, healthiest selves.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Information Session - Hastings Park-PNE Master Plan

Neighbourhood & Public Information Session

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:30 pm | Lecture

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Vancouver Brewery Tours - Coffee, Brunch, Donuts & Beer Tour

Rise and Shine! Roll out of bed and onto the Vancouver Brewery Tours bus for an epic morning of coffee, brunch, donuts and beer!

Vancouver | inside Waterfront Station | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Food / Wine

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Succulent Propagation 101

Learn the basics of plant care, soil selection, root structure, and plant options for your home or garden in this hands-on introduction to succulent propagation

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Nature / Animals

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Introduction to Dim Sum

Whether this is your first time of you have been enjoying Dim Sum for years, this entertaining activity will answer questions and take your enjoyment of Dim Sum to a deeper level

Vancouver | Jade Dynasty Restaurant | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Food / Wine

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Street Food City 9

Celebrating its ninth anniversary, Street Food City is your opportunity to sample from a collection of Vancouver's Street Food carts all in one convenient location

Vancouver | šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énk Square, Vancouver Art Gallery | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Fraser Valley Wine Tour

This all-inclusive 6-hour day out will give you a snapshot of British Columbia’s thriving wine industry. We will take you through the winemaking process, as you enjoy a variety of tastings from the beautiful vineyards of the Fraser Valley

Vancouver | 2426 West 5th Avenue | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Food / Wine

Macromatter Presented with Vancouver International Children’s Festival High Water

One performer, one fish tank, one horizon of water rising towards the inevitable

Vancouver | The Nest on Granville Island | 11:00 am to 4:50 pm | Performing Arts

Conversations with Magic Forms

On select Saturday afternoons throughout the exhibition season, participants are invited to drop in to activate artist duo Leisure’s installation, Conversations with Magic Forms

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

Shrine Building Project

Electric Company Theatre, Playwrights Theatre Centre and Vancouver Civic Theatres are hosting a community-based shrine-building project to honour the undocumented migrants of the Americas and beyond, and to remember those lost on their journey

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 12:00 am to 1:30 pm | Workshop | Free

PuSh Festival 2020: Tania El Khoury (Lebanon / UK) - Tell Me What I Can Do

Gardens Speak has had 30 showings across 5 continents, and many of them have included a special request, with El Khoury asking her audiences to write letters

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 12:00 am to 9:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Lunar New Year

Cheer on the Dragon and Lion dances and sample festive New Year cuisine.

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 12:30 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free

PuSh Festival 2020: Tania El Khoury (Lebanon / UK) - Gardens Speak

In today’s Syria, oppression and violence are so far-reaching that even burial and mourning have become subversive acts

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 12:30 am to 10:30 pm | Performing Arts

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival 2020: Gardens Speak by Tania El Khoury

Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 12:30 am to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

World Wetlands Day Celebration

Celebrate our wetlands by learning from local experts and take a guided walk to Green Timbers Lake.

Surrey | Surrey Nature Centre at Green Timbers Park | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Canadian Craft Tours - Dim Sum Chinatown Tour

Dim Sum, which means "Point of the Heart", lives up to its name in Vancouver, BC's historic Chinatown

Vancouver | 50 East Pender Street | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine

Taste Vancouver North Van Shipyards Tour

While enjoying some great food and magnificent scenery learn all about Vancouver’s historic shipyard district that began with its discovery in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver

North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay | 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine

Lunar New Year at theLonsdale Quay Market

Happy Lunar New Year! Gong hei fat choy (in Cantonese), xin nian kuai le (in Mandarin), chúc mừng năm mới (in Vietnamese), and 새해 복 많이 받으세요 (in Korean)!

North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay Market | 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Family | Free

Harlem Globetrotters

The world-famous Harlem Globetrotters, featuring larger than life entertainers, will bring their ALL-NEW show, “Pushing the Limits” to a city near you

Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: BBQ, Fried Chicken & Brewery Tour

Hop on tour with Vancouver Brewery Tours to enjoy Vancouver’s best barbecue, fried chicken and craft beers!

Vancouver | inside Waterfront Station | 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Food / Wine

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Canadian Craft Tours - Flights & Bites Tour

Beer and good food go hand and hand. Join the team at Canadian Craft as we venture to three of our favorite Vancouver Breweries and pair beers with a few hidden gem snacks along the way

Vancouver | 901 West Cordova Street | 4:30 pm to 7:45 pm | Food / Wine

BISON with guests Bob Sumner, War Baby, Hashteroid, Killer Deal

We hate it. You hate it. Let’s hate it together. BC’s biggest rippers BISON return to the Rickshaw for Fuck February Fest. Joined by a legion of kindred spirits and old friends, prepare for an evening of pure rippage.

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Secret Supper Soiree

A sold out Dine Out Festival event every year, Secret Supper Soiree is Vancouver's culinary road trip!

Vancouver | 1485 Frances Street | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine

PuSh Festival 2020: 600 Highwaymen (USA) - The Fever

“A lovely, haunting meditation on human connection, and disconnection … A poetic evocation of our mostly unspoken––and un-called upon––dependence on one another.” - The New York Times

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 6:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Festival

Dine Out Vancouver Festival: Hawksworth Long Table Dinner Series

As part of Dine Out, Hawksworth Restaurant is pleased to present Hawksworth Long Table Dinner Series in our private dining space, The York Room

Vancouver | Hawksworth Restaurant | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Food / Wine

Begonia: The Fear Tour

Noisey wrote that, “Begonia has one of Canada’s most extraordinary voices, and thankfully she uses it to obliterate the misery from this world one live performance at a time.”

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Sinead O’Connor

Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

UBC Department of Theatre and Film: The Changeling

A tale of hidden sexual desires, bloody deeds, and characters who realize their intentions are less than pure, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling is one of the darkest and most sensual of the 17th century English tragedies

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

UBC Opera: Pasazerka (The Passenger)

In honour and remembrance of those who lost their lives at Auschwitz and in other oppressive regimes, UBC Opera presents Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera The Passenger.

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Opera

PuSh Festival 2020: Flying White 飞白

Flying white is a rare and extraordinary form of Chinese calligraphy that jumps and leaps on the paper surface in graceful beautiful strokes, the black ink revealing a white background

Vancouver | SFU Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

PuSh Festival 2020: Skyborn: A Land Reclamation Odyssey

A black hole, hungry ghosts, a Grandmother wolf - Quelemia Sparrow’s Skyborn is an epic odyssey grounded in Indigenous ancestral knowledge

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Rocket Man & The Piano Man

Moon Coin Productions presents ‘The Rocket Man’ A Tribute to Elton John, Starring Ryan Langevin

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Show

Pleasant Comedy at Our Town

On the first Saturday of every month, nice boy Colin Sharp brings top touring comedians from Vancouver and across the country right into the heart of Mount Pleasant

Vancouver | Our Town | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

Of The Fields, Lately by David French

This play follows the fortunes of the Mercer family, ex-pat Newfoundlanders living in Toronto. Son Ben returns after a long absence to attend his aunt’s funeral, only to discover that his father has recently suffered a heart attack

Langley | Langley Players Drama Club | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

The VSO Masterworks Gold series: Romantic Bruckner Plus Gidon Kremer Plays Schumann

Featuring Violinist Gidon Kremer

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo

Go totally TUTU for the world famous all-male ballet company, New York’s Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Show

Studio 58 Presents Urinetown: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

The Believers Are But Brothers

This Fringe First award winning and Total Theatre Nominated (Experimentation & Innovation) multi-media show weaves together the story of masculinity, fantasy, violence and reality

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Arts Club Theatre Company production: The Shoplifters

Comic mishaps for society’s haves and have-nots By Morris Panych

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:40 pm | Theatre

Salsa & Latin Dance Night with Alberto Gonzalez & Teresa Szefler

Salsa, Bachata & Merengue lesson & Latin Music

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 0:00 am | Dance

PuSh Festival 2020: Club PuSh: Agit-Pop!

Drag innovator Pearle Harbour (Canada) comes for the kill with this tragicomic cabaret concert

Vancouver | Central Studios | 8:00 pm to 9:20 pm | Performing Arts

An Orchestral Rendition of Dr Dre: 2001: Vancouver

For the first time we’re bringing you an opportunity to immerse yourself in an evening of expert musicians making this performance come alive!

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

PuSh Festival 2020: Ursula Martinez (UK) - Free Admission

Uncouth, uncensored and… undressed? Ursula Martinez (UK) gets personal, political and philosophical in this soul-baring solo performance

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Theory of a Deadman - Say Nothing World Tour 2020

Theory of a Deadman is a Canadian rock band from Delta, British Columbia. The band also includes traits of other music styles, such as country and acoustic, as well as their post-grunge and alternative rock base

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:30 pm to 3:59 am | Music

ALY & FILA - All About The Melody Tour

TranceFamily get ready for the return of legendary duo Aly & Fila on their “All About The Melody Tour” w. support by Paul Thomas Saturday Feb 1st.2020 at Harbour Event Centre

Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

February 2, 2020

Sun

Langley Rivermen vs. Chilliwack Chiefs

Come cheer on the Langley Rivermen as they take on the Chilliwack Chiefs!

Langley | George Preston Recreation Centre | 2:30 am to 5:30 pm | Sports

WickFest 2020

WickFest Returns! Hayley Wickenheiser brings renowned female hockey and development event to Surrey

Surrey | North Surrey Sport & Ice Complex | 8:00 am to 9:00 pm | Sports

Coastal Lunar Lanterns at Jack Poole Plaza

Come and celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Jack Poole Plaza

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

January/February Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Three new exhibitions: An Interactive Exhibition of Plant-Based Visual Art, photography and sculpture by Collaborative Alchemy; Happiness is a thing called, watercolours and water media by Tammy Pilon; The Influencer, oil painting by Alex Sandvoss

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Canadian Craft Tours - Coffee Roast & Delightful Bites Tour

Join Canadian Craft Tours to explore why Vancouver's Coffee Scene is seen as top tier on the world stage

Vancouver | 901 West Cordova Street | 9:00 am to 12:15 am | Food / Wine

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

The 28th Annual Wellness Show

For more than 25 years the Wellness Show has been bringing new approaches to nutrition, fitness, physical and emotional well-being to help Vancouverites achieve their most holistic, healthiest selves.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market

The Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market runs every Sunday from 10am-2pm on the PNE Fairgrounds

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Vancouver Brewery Tours - Coffee, Brunch, Donuts & Beer Tour

Rise and Shine! Roll out of bed and onto the Vancouver Brewery Tours bus for an epic morning of coffee, brunch, donuts and beer!

Vancouver | inside Waterfront Station | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Food / Wine

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

CAChurch: Town Centre

Weekly church services and Sunday School classes by Coquitlam Alliance Church

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Active Life / Health

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Sensory Friendly Sunday

A sensory focused time for people to enjoy the museum the first Sunday of each month

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Family | Free

Jazz in the Mews

Enjoy Jazz in the Foyer with a full slate of local musicians

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Music | Free

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Street Food City 9

Celebrating its ninth anniversary, Street Food City is your opportunity to sample from a collection of Vancouver's Street Food carts all in one convenient location

Vancouver | šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énk Square, Vancouver Art Gallery | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

Macromatter Presented with Vancouver International Children’s Festival High Water

One performer, one fish tank, one horizon of water rising towards the inevitable

Vancouver | The Nest on Granville Island | 11:00 am to 4:50 pm | Performing Arts

PuSh Festival 2020: Tania El Khoury (Lebanon / UK) - Tell Me What I Can Do

Gardens Speak has had 30 showings across 5 continents, and many of them have included a special request, with El Khoury asking her audiences to write letters

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 12:00 am to 9:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

PuSh Festival 2020: 600 Highwaymen (USA) - The Fever

“A lovely, haunting meditation on human connection, and disconnection … A poetic evocation of our mostly unspoken––and un-called upon––dependence on one another.” - The New York Times

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 12:00 am to 1:15 pm | Festival

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

PuSh Festival 2020: Tania El Khoury (Lebanon / UK) - Gardens Speak

In today’s Syria, oppression and violence are so far-reaching that even burial and mourning have become subversive acts

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 12:30 am to 10:30 pm | Performing Arts

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival 2020: Gardens Speak by Tania El Khoury

Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 12:30 am to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Canadian Craft Tours - Dim Sum Chinatown Tour

Dim Sum, which means "Point of the Heart", lives up to its name in Vancouver, BC's historic Chinatown

Vancouver | 50 East Pender Street | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine

PuSh Festival 2020: Thinking About Love and Justice with Kai Cheng Thom

Writer, performance artist, and community healer Kai Cheng Thom facilitates a workshop focussing on transformative justice within the queer community

Vancouver | Sum Gallery | 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Workshop

Of The Fields, Lately by David French

This play follows the fortunes of the Mercer family, ex-pat Newfoundlanders living in Toronto. Son Ben returns after a long absence to attend his aunt’s funeral, only to discover that his father has recently suffered a heart attack

Langley | Langley Players Drama Club | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

UBC Opera: Pasazerka (The Passenger)

In honour and remembrance of those who lost their lives at Auschwitz and in other oppressive regimes, UBC Opera presents Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera The Passenger.

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Opera

PuSh Festival 2020: Flying White 飞白

Flying white is a rare and extraordinary form of Chinese calligraphy that jumps and leaps on the paper surface in graceful beautiful strokes, the black ink revealing a white background

Vancouver | SFU Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre | 2:00 pm to 3:40 pm | Dance

The Friends of Chamber Music: Han Finckel Setzer Trio

This returning ‘supergroup’ includes both artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and present and past members of the Emerson String Quartet

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

It's Time for the BIG GAME

This day only rolls around only once a year so why not join us in Asylum on February 2 to catch the big game and to experience all of the action for yourself

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 3:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Show

PuSh Festival 2020: Ursula Martinez (UK) - Free Admission

Uncouth, uncensored and… undressed? Ursula Martinez (UK) gets personal, political and philosophical in this soul-baring solo performance

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Performing Arts

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Canadian Craft Tours - Flights & Bites Tour

Beer and good food go hand and hand. Join the team at Canadian Craft as we venture to three of our favorite Vancouver Breweries and pair beers with a few hidden gem snacks along the way

Vancouver | 901 West Cordova Street | 4:30 pm to 7:45 pm | Food / Wine

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: World Chef Exchange: Cross-Pacific Indigenous Nations

Join Salmon N' Bannock's all-Indigenous team in welcoming Maori Chef Rewi Spraggon from Auckland, New Zealand and Edmonton's Chef Shane Chartrand

Vancouver | Salmon n' Bannock Bistro | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Food / Wine

Rookie Night

Rookie Nights feature our Rookie League players, who have all successfully completed improv training via the Improv Comedy Institute

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

Alborosie & The Shengen Clan with Arise Roots & Tank Gyal (Vancouver show)

After ten years in the making, Victoria BC Ska & Reggae Society is proud to announce the confirmation of Alborosie & Shengen Clan to Vancouver for the first time on Sunday, February 2, 2020 at Rickshaw Theatre

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

A Night With Mehran Modiri - 2020 World Tour

Mehran Modiri is a prolific Iranian actor, television and cinema director, comedian and musician

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Performing Arts

February 3, 2020

Mon

Coastal Lunar Lanterns at Jack Poole Plaza

Come and celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Jack Poole Plaza

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

January/February Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Three new exhibitions: An Interactive Exhibition of Plant-Based Visual Art, photography and sculpture by Collaborative Alchemy; Happiness is a thing called, watercolours and water media by Tammy Pilon; The Influencer, oil painting by Alex Sandvoss

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Information Session - Hastings Park-PNE Master Plan

Neighbourhood & Public Information Session

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 7:30 pm | Lecture

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Macromatter Presented with Vancouver International Children’s Festival High Water

One performer, one fish tank, one horizon of water rising towards the inevitable

Vancouver | The Nest on Granville Island | 10:00 am to 1:20 pm | Performing Arts

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Flow to Slow Yoga

Join us for an energizing, relaxing yoga practice. The first portion of class moves you through a gentle flow of active, dynamic postures to wake up your muscles and get blood flowing

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:15 am to 11:30 am | Active Life / Health

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Street Food City 9

Celebrating its ninth anniversary, Street Food City is your opportunity to sample from a collection of Vancouver's Street Food carts all in one convenient location

Vancouver | šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énk Square, Vancouver Art Gallery | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

Introduction to Qigong

Join Anita Wong of the YS Traditional Chinese Medicine & Martial Arts College for an introduction to Qigong. Qigong is a meditation in motion, and is a simple but effective system to enhance overall health and fitness

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Studio 58 Presents - Urinetown: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Musical

Bold Actions for a Climate Emergency

Join The City Of Vancouver For - Bold Actions For A Climate Emergency - A Conversation On What Climate Emergency Means For Vancouver And What We Need To Do To Get Real About It

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Film Series: Late Night

A late-night talk show host’s world is turned upside down when she hires her first and only female staff writer

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Film

PuSh Festival 2020: Jaha Koo (South Korea / Belgium) - Cuckoo

Cuckoo is a dialogue, a confessional, even a documentary of sorts

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

February 4, 2020

Tue

Cargo Logistics Canada Expo & Conference

Join the Future at the 7th Cargo Logistics Canada Expo & Conference

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition

Coastal Lunar Lanterns at Jack Poole Plaza

Come and celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Jack Poole Plaza

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

January/February Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Three new exhibitions: An Interactive Exhibition of Plant-Based Visual Art, photography and sculpture by Collaborative Alchemy; Happiness is a thing called, watercolours and water media by Tammy Pilon; The Influencer, oil painting by Alex Sandvoss

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Toque Tuesday

Come watch Surrey City Council and staff engage in a friendly game of ball hockey for a great cause

Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Seniors Day at Museum of Vancouver

The first Tuesday of every month is $5 admission for seniors (65+)

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

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 | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Active Life / Health

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Macromatter Presented with Vancouver International Children’s Festival High Water

One performer, one fish tank, one horizon of water rising towards the inevitable

Vancouver | The Nest on Granville Island | 10:00 am to 1:20 pm | Performing Arts

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Street Food City 9

Celebrating its ninth anniversary, Street Food City is your opportunity to sample from a collection of Vancouver's Street Food carts all in one convenient location

Vancouver | šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énk Square, Vancouver Art Gallery | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

Multisensory Movement Series

This 6-week exercise class series will improve participants’ balance, strength, mobility and sensory integration through brain-based physical fitness exercises and sensory mindfulness techniques

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 11:15 am to 12:15 am | Active Life / Health

Chinese New Year Lunch And Dance

Join a fun afternoon of dancing and socializing with a lively group of folks honouring Chinese New Year, the year of the rat. The afternoon includes a light lunch, refreshments, and our fabulous in-house DJ

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 12:00 am to 2:30 pm | Party

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Burnaby International Folk Dancers Weekly Meetings

We enjoy the fun, the exercise and the challenge, to our heads as well as our feet, of learning traditional dances from cultures throughout the world

Burnaby | Charles Rummel Community Centre | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

Temples

Timbre Concerts presents rock band from England Temples, on tour to support their latest release “Hot Motion”, with guests Art d’Ecco

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

National Geographic: Birds of Paradise

With Tim Laman & Ed Scholes

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

Roundhouse Youth Theatre Action Group Design Workshop

Some Assembly Theatre Company is looking for youth age 13-18 to work with professional artists on the creation of the set and props for a multi-media professional quality production

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Workshop

Vancouver Giants vs. Tri-City Americans

The Vancouver Giants host the Tri-City Americans in regular season action on Tuesday, February 4th

Langley | Langley Events Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

Langley Rivermen vs. Salmon Arm Silverbacks

Come cheer on the Langley Rivermen as they take on the Salmon Arm Silverbacks!

Langley | George Preston Recreation Centre | 7:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Sports

SongBird North

This bi-monthly showcase features four exceptional singer/songwriters ranging from renowned veterans to up-and-coming writers, taking turns playing original work and sharing stories

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

PuSh Festival 2020: Anywhere But Here by Carmen Aguirre with Shad

Anywhere But Here is a psycho-social-spiritual-physical journey based on the relationship to land

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Performing Arts

The Chop (Canada) Presented with The Cultch - KISMET, things have changed

Created and performed by: Emelia Symington Fedy, Anita Rochon, Hazel Venzon, Daryl King. A show about fate and destiny, a decade in the making

Vancouver | Historic Theatre, The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

SongBird North - Where Writers Sing and Tell

This bi-monthly showcase features four exceptional singer/songwriters ranging from renowned veterans to up-and-coming writers, taking turns playing original work and sharing stories

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:30 pm to 0:00 am | Performing Arts

Studio 58 Presents Urinetown: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

Theatre Series: 7 Stories

This quick-witted, dark comedy will have you philosophizing about life and death, right up to its existential conclusion

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

PuSh Festival 2020: Jaha Koo (South Korea / Belgium) - Cuckoo

Cuckoo is a dialogue, a confessional, even a documentary of sorts

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

PuSh Festival 2020: Why Not Theatre (Canada) - What You Won’t Do For Love

The bonds of family, the excitement and frustrations of advocacy, the motivating force of love itself

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival

February 5, 2020

Wed

Cargo Logistics Canada Expo & Conference

Join the Future at the 7th Cargo Logistics Canada Expo & Conference

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition

2020 Vancouver International Boat Show

Western Canada's largest boat show, the Vancouver International Boat Show, returns to BC Place from Wednesday, February 5th to Sunday, February 9th, 2020

Vancouver | BC Place | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Coastal Lunar Lanterns at Jack Poole Plaza

Come and celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Jack Poole Plaza

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

January/February Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Three new exhibitions: An Interactive Exhibition of Plant-Based Visual Art, photography and sculpture by Collaborative Alchemy; Happiness is a thing called, watercolours and water media by Tammy Pilon; The Influencer, oil painting by Alex Sandvoss

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Botanical Illustration Level 2

Build on basic drawing techniques to develop accuracy in illustrating plants. Develop line and form, while expanding on shading techniques, and being attentive to precision and detail

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Visual Arts

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Musical Mornings: The Red Violin with Jasper Wood, violin

Musical Mornings is a series of salon-style concerts hosted by internationally acclaimed and celebrated pianists Elizabeth and Marcel Bergmann

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 10:30 am to 12:00 am | Music

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Street Food City 9

Celebrating its ninth anniversary, Street Food City is your opportunity to sample from a collection of Vancouver's Street Food carts all in one convenient location

Vancouver | šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énk Square, Vancouver Art Gallery | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

What Are You Waiting For?

What do you wait for, hope for and long for? Join Aaniya Asrani for an intimate exchange of stories, recipes, songs and food

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | Workshop

Play, Pie & Pint featuring Andrea Superstein

Join us for a mid-week matinee performance followed by a hot savoury pie and beverage of choice in the theatre lobby. A Fun Lunchtime Theatre Experience!

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 12:00 am to 2:00 pm | Music

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

VSO School of Music: Oliver Gannon, Jazz Guitar Masterclass

Jazz guitarist Oliver Gannon has been an active presence in the Vancouver and Canadian jazz scenes since the early 1970’s

Vancouver | Pyatt Hall | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Workshop

Essentials of Landscape Design Class

This 3-part workshop covers the importance of your site’s environmental details as well as basic parameters of design (such as focal points, scale, colour, balance and more)

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Nature / Animals

Macromatter Presented with Vancouver International Children’s Festival High Water

One performer, one fish tank, one horizon of water rising towards the inevitable

Vancouver | The Nest on Granville Island | 6:00 pm to 6:50 pm | Performing Arts

Rivalry Series

Five-game series includes games in Moncton, Victoria, and Vancouver

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports

Stone Temple Pilots - The Perdida Tour

Stone Temple Pilots are an American rock band from San Diego, California, that originally consisted of Scott Weiland, brothers Dean DeLeo and Robert DeLeo, and Eric Kretz

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

PuSh Festival 2020: Anywhere But Here by Carmen Aguirre with Shad

Anywhere But Here is a psycho-social-spiritual-physical journey based on the relationship to land

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Performing Arts

The Chop (Canada) Presented with The Cultch - KISMET, things have changed

Created and performed by: Emelia Symington Fedy, Anita Rochon, Hazel Venzon, Daryl King. A show about fate and destiny, a decade in the making

Vancouver | Historic Theatre, The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Continuing Story of Jimmy Jones and his Heavenly Truck

In a mythical America, Jimmy Jones reveals the stories and disappointments of his father in the middle of cornfields and legends. It is the story of an unusual father

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Castlereigh Theatre Project: God's Lake

A rare glimpse into the lived reality of God's Lake Narrows, Manitoba community as told verbatim from interviews with its members over six months in 2017

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Of The Fields, Lately by David French

This play follows the fortunes of the Mercer family, ex-pat Newfoundlanders living in Toronto. Son Ben returns after a long absence to attend his aunt’s funeral, only to discover that his father has recently suffered a heart attack

Langley | Langley Players Drama Club | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Untold Want: Gruesome Playground Injuries

Childhood friends, Doug and Kayleen are kindred spirits who meet over the course of thirty years

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Studio 58 Presents Urinetown: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

Theatre Series: 7 Stories

This quick-witted, dark comedy will have you philosophizing about life and death, right up to its existential conclusion

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

PuSh Festival 2020: Jaha Koo (South Korea / Belgium) - Cuckoo

Cuckoo is a dialogue, a confessional, even a documentary of sorts

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

PuSh Festival 2020: PME-ART - A User’s Guide to Authenticity Is a Feeling

User’s Guide - an artist’s talk of sorts, but one that tilts toward the unconventional end of the spectrum

Vancouver | Western Front | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

February 6, 2020

Thu

Cargo Logistics Canada Expo & Conference

Join the Future at the 7th Cargo Logistics Canada Expo & Conference

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition

2020 Vancouver International Boat Show

Western Canada's largest boat show, the Vancouver International Boat Show, returns to BC Place from Wednesday, February 5th to Sunday, February 9th, 2020

Vancouver | BC Place | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Coastal Lunar Lanterns at Jack Poole Plaza

Come and celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Jack Poole Plaza

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

January/February Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Three new exhibitions: An Interactive Exhibition of Plant-Based Visual Art, photography and sculpture by Collaborative Alchemy; Happiness is a thing called, watercolours and water media by Tammy Pilon; The Influencer, oil painting by Alex Sandvoss

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Watercolour Meetups at VanDusen Garden

Bring your paint, questions, and ongoing projects to our weekly series of meetups hosted by instructor Susan Pearson

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 11:30 am | Visual Arts

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

PuSh Festival 2020: Pitch Session - Industry Series

Pre-selected applicants give an 8-minute pitch of their new and upcoming projects to an audience of producers, artistic directors, festival curators, presenters and programmers

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Lecture

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Street Food City 9

Celebrating its ninth anniversary, Street Food City is your opportunity to sample from a collection of Vancouver's Street Food carts all in one convenient location

Vancouver | šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énk Square, Vancouver Art Gallery | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Yarn and Yak

A monthly time for making and spending time with other seniors

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Workshop | Free

PuSh Festival 2020: PuShOFF Mixer - Industry Series

PushOFF, produced by Theatre Replacement in partnership with Company 605, is an independent, curated platform of tour-ready projects and works in development by Canadian artists, taking place Feb 6 and 7

Vancouver | Russian Hall | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Decolonizing Voices: A Celebration of Canadian Black HERstory

Join MOA for a celebration of Black Canadian Womxn as part of Black History Month events across the UBC campus

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music

PuSh Festival 2020: PME-ART - A User’s Guide to Authenticity Is a Feeling

User’s Guide - an artist’s talk of sorts, but one that tilts toward the unconventional end of the spectrum

Vancouver | Western Front | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Performing Arts

International Folk Dancing Drop-in Sessions

Let's Dance! Join us in learning folk dances set to ethnic music from around the world, in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere

Surrey | Walnut Road Elementary School | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

SuperM: We Are The Future Live

SuperM is a Korean pop supergroup formed in 2019 by SM Entertainment and Capitol Music Group

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Axis Theatre: Th'owxiya: The Hungry Feast Dish

Indigenous storytellers spin a tale from the Kwantlen First Nations Village of Squa’lets, about Th’owxiya, an old and powerful spirit that inhabits a feast dish

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm | Performing Arts

Weaving Our Humanity 2020

Join us for an evening of stories and music from our North Shore neighbours. Hear about belonging and connection, vulnerability and courage. Explore friendship and humanity across diversity and differences. Nourish understanding through sharing

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

SuperM

SuperM is a Korean pop supergroup formed in 2019 by SM Entertainment and Capitol Music Group

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Thursday Artist Talk: Victoria Mitchell - Returning to Your Creative Passion

Learn about how one artist rediscovered her creative passion after more than two decades

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture | Free

PuSh Festival 2020: Anywhere But Here by Carmen Aguirre with Shad

Anywhere But Here is a psycho-social-spiritual-physical journey based on the relationship to land

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Performing Arts

The Chop (Canada) Presented with The Cultch - KISMET, things have changed

Created and performed by: Emelia Symington Fedy, Anita Rochon, Hazel Venzon, Daryl King. A show about fate and destiny, a decade in the making

Vancouver | Historic Theatre, The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Castlereigh Theatre Project: God's Lake

A rare glimpse into the lived reality of God's Lake Narrows, Manitoba community as told verbatim from interviews with its members over six months in 2017

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Of The Fields, Lately by David French

This play follows the fortunes of the Mercer family, ex-pat Newfoundlanders living in Toronto. Son Ben returns after a long absence to attend his aunt’s funeral, only to discover that his father has recently suffered a heart attack

Langley | Langley Players Drama Club | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Science of Cocktails

Science of Cocktails will celebrate its 5th annual event, under the glittering iconic dome at TELUS World of Science

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Food / Wine

Untold Want: Gruesome Playground Injuries

Childhood friends, Doug and Kayleen are kindred spirits who meet over the course of thirty years

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Arts Club Presents: The Shoplifters By Morris Panych

Comic mishaps for society’s haves and have-nots

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Studio 58 Presents Urinetown: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

The World/Inferno Friendship Society with Bridge City Sinners, Vic Ruggiero

Punk/soul/klezmer/jazz band from Brooklyn, the World/Inferno Friendship Society, take the Rickshaw! With guests, Portland folk-punks the Bridge City Sinners, plus Vic Ruggiero of The Slackers

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Theatre Series: 7 Stories

This quick-witted, dark comedy will have you philosophizing about life and death, right up to its existential conclusion

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Tonye Aganaba: A Celebration of Canadian Black HERstory

Multidisciplinary artist, musician and arts facilitator Tonye Aganaba offers a powerful performance that explores the shared experience and expression of Afro and Indigenous peoples

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Push International Performing Arts Festival 2020: Monday Nights

Who you are on the court reveals who you are off the court. Monday nights is an interactive basketball/theatre performance that invites you to lace up your sneakers and get in the game

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:20 pm | Performing Arts

Push Festival 2020: Dana Michel (canada) - Cutlass Spring

The audacious and original works of Montreal-based dance artist Dana Michel have earned international attention and prestigious awards including the Jardin d’Europe Award at ImPulsTanz, and the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Straight White Men By Young Jean Lee

Contemporary Comedy. An explosive evening of male bonding

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

PuSh Festival 2020: Spreafico Eckly and Theatre Replacement (Norway / Canada) - Footnote Number 12

A deep dive into the politics of language and the dynamics of privilege, Footnote Number 12 turns the act of reading into riveting theatre

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Performing Arts

The Dance Centre presents Dana Michel

The audacious and original works of Montreal-based dance artist Dana Michel have earned international attention and prestigious awards including the Jardin d’Europe Award at ImPulsTanz and the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale

Vancouver | Scotiabank Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance

February 7, 2020

Fri

2020 Vancouver International Boat Show

Western Canada's largest boat show, the Vancouver International Boat Show, returns to BC Place from Wednesday, February 5th to Sunday, February 9th, 2020

Vancouver | BC Place | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Coastal Lunar Lanterns at Jack Poole Plaza

Come and celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Jack Poole Plaza

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

PuSh Festival 2020: Critical Ideas: On Commitment

On Commitment will provide space for a range of artists involved in PuSh 2020 to reflect on the implications of aesthetic, bodily, and durational commitment across different productions

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 10:30 am to 12:00 am | Lecture | Free

Contemporary Canadian Landscape

Exploring local Canadian landscape through mixed-media projects.

Surrey | Beecher Place | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Sonata Giants

At the BlueShore at CapU this Feb. 7, you can hear sonatas by Beethoven and Copland performed by the Sonata Giants

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 11:45 am to 1:00 pm | Music | Free

Winter Festival: Skate for a Cause

Enjoy outdoor ice skating and more at the Winter Festival at Guildford Town Centre

Surrey | Guildford Town Centre | 12:00 am to 8:00 pm | Family

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Cards and Crokinole (Seniors playing cards)

Enjoy card games with other 55+ visitors

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

UBC School of Music: Oklahoma State University Symphony Orchestra

Visiting Orchestra: Oklahoma State University Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Thomas Taylor Dickey conductor

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm | Music | Free

Taboo Naughty But Nice Show 2020

The Taboo Naughty but Nice Sex Show provides an upscale adult playground dedicated to enhancing lifestyles

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 5:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Exhibition

PuSh Festival 2020: PuShOFF Mixer - Industry Series

PushOFF, produced by Theatre Replacement in partnership with Company 605, is an independent, curated platform of tour-ready projects and works in development by Canadian artists, taking place Feb 6 and 7

Vancouver | Russian Hall | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

PuSh Festival 2020: Spreafico Eckly and Theatre Replacement (Norway / Canada) - Footnote Number 12

A deep dive into the politics of language and the dynamics of privilege, Footnote Number 12 turns the act of reading into riveting theatre

Vancouver | Performance Works | 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm | Performing Arts

Laila Biali

Multi award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist Laila Biali has toured with Chris Botti, Paula Cole, Suzanne Vega and Sting

Langley | Bez Arts Hub | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Warriors vs Buffalo Bandits

The Vancouver Warriors are a professional box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Sports

PuSh Festival 2020: PME-ART (Canada) - The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information

One turntable and dozens of records, each one with a story behind it. That’s the simple premise of PME-ART’s party performance; it’s all about the ways in which music helps to organize our memories, beliefs and perceptions

Vancouver | Western Front | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

UBC Symphony Orchestra

Presented by the UBC School of Music. Jose Franch Ballester, clarinet

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

PuSh Festival 2020: Anywhere But Here by Carmen Aguirre with Shad

Anywhere But Here is a psycho-social-spiritual-physical journey based on the relationship to land

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Performing Arts

The Chop (Canada) Presented with The Cultch - KISMET, things have changed

Created and performed by: Emelia Symington Fedy, Anita Rochon, Hazel Venzon, Daryl King. A show about fate and destiny, a decade in the making

Vancouver | Historic Theatre, The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Continuing Story of Jimmy Jones and his Heavenly Truck

In a mythical America, Jimmy Jones reveals the stories and disappointments of his father in the middle of cornfields and legends. It is the story of an unusual father

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Castlereigh Theatre Project: God's Lake

A rare glimpse into the lived reality of God's Lake Narrows, Manitoba community as told verbatim from interviews with its members over six months in 2017

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

The Black Halos with The Spitfires, Sore Points

The Black Halos are a Vancouver, British Columbia-based punk rock band. Their music also included some glam rock

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Of The Fields, Lately by David French

This play follows the fortunes of the Mercer family, ex-pat Newfoundlanders living in Toronto. Son Ben returns after a long absence to attend his aunt’s funeral, only to discover that his father has recently suffered a heart attack

Langley | Langley Players Drama Club | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

VSO - Surrey Nights: Carmen, Sounds of Spain

Maestro Tausk takes us on a musical tour of Spain with two works from Manuel de Falla and Bizet’s beloved Carmen Suite No. 1

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Surrey Nights: Carmen - Sounds of Spain

Featuring Rihab Chaieb Mezzo-soprano

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Untold Want: Gruesome Playground Injuries

Childhood friends, Doug and Kayleen are kindred spirits who meet over the course of thirty years

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Arts Club Presents: The Shoplifters By Morris Panych

Comic mishaps for society’s haves and have-nots

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

The Comic Strippers: A Male Stripper Parody and Improv Comedy Show

A male stripper parody and improv comedy show. The award-winning improv comedians are back with a new show, more moves and even quicker wits

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Studio 58 Presents Urinetown: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

Theatre Series: 7 Stories

This quick-witted, dark comedy will have you philosophizing about life and death, right up to its existential conclusion

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Push International Performing Arts Festival 2020: Monday Nights

Who you are on the court reveals who you are off the court. Monday nights is an interactive basketball/theatre performance that invites you to lace up your sneakers and get in the game

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:20 pm | Performing Arts

Push Festival 2020: Dana Michel (canada) - Cutlass Spring

The audacious and original works of Montreal-based dance artist Dana Michel have earned international attention and prestigious awards including the Jardin d’Europe Award at ImPulsTanz, and the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Straight White Men By Young Jean Lee

Contemporary Comedy. An explosive evening of male bonding

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

The Dance Centre presents Dana Michel

The audacious and original works of Montreal-based dance artist Dana Michel have earned international attention and prestigious awards including the Jardin d’Europe Award at ImPulsTanz and the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale

Vancouver | Scotiabank Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance

Itamar Erez Trio

Itamar Erez- piano/guitars, James Meger- bass, Kevin Romain- drums

Vancouver | Pyatt Hall | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Exultation: Sarah Hagen & Brendan McLeod

Exultation is an intoxicating music and storytelling collaboration from classical pianist Sarah Hagen and spoken word artist Brendan McLeod

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

The Beaches - The Professional Tour

JUNO Award-winning rock band The Beaches will embark on ‘The Professional Tour’, a 16-date cross-Canada headline tour in support of their most recent EP, The Professional, on Feb. 6 in Victoria, BC

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Frisky Friday

Bring the sizzle to your Friday night as improvisers explore the funny side of naughty. For adults 19+

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 11:15 pm to 11:59 pm | Show

February 8, 2020

Sat

2020 Vancouver International Boat Show

Western Canada's largest boat show, the Vancouver International Boat Show, returns to BC Place from Wednesday, February 5th to Sunday, February 9th, 2020

Vancouver | BC Place | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Coastal Lunar Lanterns at Jack Poole Plaza

Come and celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Jack Poole Plaza

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Winter Wander 2020

Experience our unique waterfront attractions showcasing art, history, crafts, science...

Vancouver | Vanier Park | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

Vancouver GOLFEXPO

One of the largest consumer golf shows on the West Coast. More than 150 exhibitors, manufacturers and events.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Vancouver International Children's Festival: Storytelling Intensive

This spring, Deb Williams is offering an intensive storytelling workshop for emerging performers. Deb will share her 30 years of storytelling and comedy knowledge, giving you tools to create and share compelling stories

Vancouver | Granville Island, Cafe | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Workshop

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Nature Work Parties

Get your hands dirty removing invasive plants to help enhance your park. Join others in caring for Surrey's unique urban forest by removing invasive plants and litter from our parks

Surrey | Hazelnut Meadows Community Park | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Nature / Animals | Free

Jazz in the Mews

Enjoy Jazz in the Foyer with a full slate of local musicians

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Music | Free

PuSh Festival 2020: Field Notes - Industry Series

Field Notes is an Industry Series platform for sharing current trends, inspirations and notes from the field; a space for lively conversation and collegial debate. Choose from concurrent ‘world café’ style discussions. Snacks and refreshments provided.

Vancouver | Russian Hall | 10:30 am to 1:00 pm | Lecture

KPU Surrey Open House

Explore interactive exhibits, attend workshops, take a guided campus tour, and win exciting prizes!

Surrey | Kwantlen Polytechnic University | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Exhibition

Saturday Pre-School Storytime!

Join us for Saturday Morning Pre-School Storytime!

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 11:00 am to 12:00 am | Kids

Surrey Through the Lens

Explore Surrey's past through three iconic local photographers

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | Visual Arts | Free

Taboo Naughty But Nice Show 2020

The Taboo Naughty but Nice Sex Show provides an upscale adult playground dedicated to enhancing lifestyles

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition

Conversations with Magic Forms

On select Saturday afternoons throughout the exhibition season, participants are invited to drop in to activate artist duo Leisure’s installation, Conversations with Magic Forms

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

Clash of Crews

Show us your dance moves at this free, annual break dance battle!

Surrey | Newton Recreation Centre | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Art on the Loose

Join us for an art scavenger hunt at the Gallery!

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Winter Festival: Skate for a Cause

Enjoy outdoor ice skating and more at the Winter Festival at Guildford Town Centre

Surrey | Guildford Town Centre | 12:00 am to 8:00 pm | Family

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Cupid Toonie Skate

Bring your sweetheart to enjoy ice skating, face painting, Valentines crafts and fun games

Burnaby | Bill Copeland Sports Centre | 12:30 am to 3:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Cemetery Tales: Surrey's Sweethearts - Adult

A local historian uncovers symbols and stories of love

Surrey | City Centre Cemetery | 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm | Lecture

Taste Vancouver North Van Shipyards Tour

While enjoying some great food and magnificent scenery learn all about Vancouver’s historic shipyard district that began with its discovery in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver

North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay | 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine

Studio 58 Presents - Urinetown: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Musical

Steel School Of Irish Dance - Winter Performance 2020

Join us as we celebrate the achievements of our students from beginner to world championship level dancers. The evening will showcase both traditional and modern Irish dance choreography

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Performing Arts

PuSh Festival 2020: Spreafico Eckly and Theatre Replacement (Norway / Canada) - Footnote Number 12

A deep dive into the politics of language and the dynamics of privilege, Footnote Number 12 turns the act of reading into riveting theatre

Vancouver | Performance Works | 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm | Performing Arts

Battlefield Fight League 65

Battlefield Fight League 65: A New Era

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 6:15 pm to 9:00 pm | Sports

Calgary Flames @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

Songstage

SongStage is an event showcasing experienced songwriters in the format best described as the Nashville “in the round” style

Langley | Bez Arts Hub | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Giants vs. Prince George Cougars

The Vancouver Giants host the Prince George Cougars in regular season action

Langley | Langley Events Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

Bedouin Soundclash

Reggae/rock band established in Kingston, Ontario, Canada circa 2001. Drummer Pat Pengelly left the group in early 2009 and was later replaced by Sekou Lumumba

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

PuSh Festival 2020: Bring Your Own Record - Listening Party

Audience members who especially love the song/story format of The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information are invited to the Bring Your Own Record/Listening Party the following day; it’s a chance to get in on the fun

Vancouver | Central Studios | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival | Free

Langley Rivermen vs. Wenatchee Wild

Come cheer on the Langley Rivermen as they take on the Wenatchee Wild!

Langley | George Preston Recreation Centre | 7:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Sports

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

UBC Choirs: Her Sacred Spirit Soars

A concert celebrating feminine strength and devotion, presented by UBC University Singers and Choral Union

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

PuSh Festival 2020: Anywhere But Here by Carmen Aguirre with Shad

Anywhere But Here is a psycho-social-spiritual-physical journey based on the relationship to land

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Performing Arts

The Chop (Canada) Presented with The Cultch - KISMET, things have changed

Created and performed by: Emelia Symington Fedy, Anita Rochon, Hazel Venzon, Daryl King. A show about fate and destiny, a decade in the making

Vancouver | Historic Theatre, The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Castlereigh Theatre Project: God's Lake

A rare glimpse into the lived reality of God's Lake Narrows, Manitoba community as told verbatim from interviews with its members over six months in 2017

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

The Black Halos with The Spitfires, Sore Points

The Black Halos are a Vancouver, British Columbia-based punk rock band. Their music also included some glam rock

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

The Black Halos with Bishops Green, Chain Whip

The Black Halos are a Vancouver, British Columbia-based punk rock band. Their music also included some glam rock

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

The Cheesecake Burlesque Revue

Armed with sassy-silliness and a g-force of glitter, these girls pack a sparkly punch!

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Musically Speaking series: Carmen - Sounds of Spain

Featuring Rihab Chaieb Mezzo-soprano

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Untold Want: Gruesome Playground Injuries

Childhood friends, Doug and Kayleen are kindred spirits who meet over the course of thirty years

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Studio 58 Presents Urinetown: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

ViVA Trio by Evergreen Cultural Centre

With multiple standing ovations every show, the award-winning group ViVA Trio is gracing the stages of venues all over Canada, the United States and Europe!

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

The Shoplifters By Morris Panych

Meet Alma, a career shoplifter who prefers the “five-finger discount” over any senior citizen’s deal

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Theatre Series: 7 Stories

This quick-witted, dark comedy will have you philosophizing about life and death, right up to its existential conclusion

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Salsa & Latin Dance Night with Alberto Gonzalez & Teresa Szefler

Salsa, Bachata & Merengue lesson & Latin Music

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 0:00 am | Dance

Push International Performing Arts Festival 2020: Monday Nights

Who you are on the court reveals who you are off the court. Monday nights is an interactive basketball/theatre performance that invites you to lace up your sneakers and get in the game

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:20 pm | Performing Arts

Push Festival 2020: Dana Michel (canada) - Cutlass Spring

The audacious and original works of Montreal-based dance artist Dana Michel have earned international attention and prestigious awards including the Jardin d’Europe Award at ImPulsTanz, and the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Straight White Men By Young Jean Lee

Contemporary Comedy. An explosive evening of male bonding

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

The Dance Centre presents Dana Michel

The audacious and original works of Montreal-based dance artist Dana Michel have earned international attention and prestigious awards including the Jardin d’Europe Award at ImPulsTanz and the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale

Vancouver | Scotiabank Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance

PuSh Festival 2020: Crystal Precious/ House of La Douche

Vancouver | Central Studios | 8:00 pm to 0:00 am | Festival

Ekali - A World Away Tour

Ekali is a Canadian instrumentalist and producer from Vancouver, BC

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

LNY TNZ

LNY TNZ returns Saturday, February 8th at Harbour Event Centre

Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

February 9, 2020

Sun

2020 Vancouver International Boat Show

Western Canada's largest boat show, the Vancouver International Boat Show, returns to BC Place from Wednesday, February 5th to Sunday, February 9th, 2020

Vancouver | BC Place | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Coastal Lunar Lanterns at Jack Poole Plaza

Come and celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Jack Poole Plaza

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Head Over Heels Wedding Show

The tenth annual Head Over Heels Wedding Show will be held on Sunday February 9, 2020

Langley | Langley Golf & Banquet Centre | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Show

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Vancouver GOLFEXPO

One of the largest consumer golf shows on the West Coast. More than 150 exhibitors, manufacturers and events.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Parent and Tot Yoga

A unique way to bond with your toddler!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Family

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

CAChurch: Town Centre

Weekly church services and Sunday School classes by Coquitlam Alliance Church

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Active Life / Health

Vancouver International Children's Festival: Storytelling Intensive

This spring, Deb Williams is offering an intensive storytelling workshop for emerging performers. Deb will share her 30 years of storytelling and comedy knowledge, giving you tools to create and share compelling stories

Vancouver | Granville Island, Cafe | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Workshop

Garden Pest ID and Management

Learn how to build a resilient garden in this course for more advanced gardeners

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Nature / Animals

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Taboo Naughty But Nice Show 2020

The Taboo Naughty but Nice Sex Show provides an upscale adult playground dedicated to enhancing lifestyles

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Winter Festival: Skate for a Cause

Enjoy outdoor ice skating and more at the Winter Festival at Guildford Town Centre

Surrey | Guildford Town Centre | 12:00 am to 8:00 pm | Family

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Of The Fields, Lately by David French

This play follows the fortunes of the Mercer family, ex-pat Newfoundlanders living in Toronto. Son Ben returns after a long absence to attend his aunt’s funeral, only to discover that his father has recently suffered a heart attack

Langley | Langley Players Drama Club | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Untold Want: Gruesome Playground Injuries

Childhood friends, Doug and Kayleen are kindred spirits who meet over the course of thirty years

Vancouver | The Cultch | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Performing Arts

Push International Performing Arts Festival 2020: Monday Nights

Who you are on the court reveals who you are off the court. Monday nights is an interactive basketball/theatre performance that invites you to lace up your sneakers and get in the game

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 2:00 pm to 4:20 pm | Performing Arts

Straight White Men By Young Jean Lee

Contemporary Comedy. An explosive evening of male bonding

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Comedy

Cedar Weaving Workshop: Woven Flower

Tiger Leonard Williams is an accomplished cedar bark artist and member of the Quatsino First Nation. He joins us to share his knowledge of the tree of life, and its traditional indigenous uses

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Workshop

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Kids Concerts presents Stories In Sand

Kseniya Simonova is a most imaginative artist and animator who tells stories in sand. In 2009, her appearances on Ukraine’s Got Talent moved audiences to tears, and videos of her work have gone viral worldwide

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Music

Langley Rivermen vs. Victoria Grizzlies

Come cheer on the Langley Rivermen as they take on the Victoria Grizzlies!

Langley | George Preston Recreation Centre | 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm | Sports

The Vancouver Recital Society: Faust Queyras Melnikov Trio

If you were lucky enough to have been in the audience when Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov performed the Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Violin in the VRS 2011-12 Season, you’ll be first in line for tickets to this performance!

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

Studio 58 Presents - Urinetown: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Musical

Vancouver Giants vs. Kamloops Blazers

The Vancouver Giants host the Kamloops Blazers in regular season action

Langley | Langley Events Centre | 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Sports

Canada Y.C. Music Academy: Spring

In celebration of Chinese New Year, Canada YC Music, No.3 Road Society and CYCCOA (Canada YC Chinese Orchestra Association) will host a concert showcasing an array of traditional Chinese works

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Music

Rookie Night

Rookie Nights feature our Rookie League players, who have all successfully completed improv training via the Improv Comedy Institute

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

The Shoplifters By Morris Panych

Meet Alma, a career shoplifter who prefers the “five-finger discount” over any senior citizen’s deal

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

The Marcus King Band - El Dorado Tour

The Marcus King Band is a 2013 started southern rock/ blues rock band from South Carolina. The band is led by singer, songwriter, and guitarist Marcus King

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music

February 10, 2020

Mon

Globe 2020

Meet your people. Grow your business. Change the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Flow to Slow Yoga

Join us for an energizing, relaxing yoga practice. The first portion of class moves you through a gentle flow of active, dynamic postures to wake up your muscles and get blood flowing

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:15 am to 11:30 am | Active Life / Health

Introduction to Qigong

Join Anita Wong of the YS Traditional Chinese Medicine & Martial Arts College for an introduction to Qigong. Qigong is a meditation in motion, and is a simple but effective system to enhance overall health and fitness

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Active Life / Health

MYzone Try It Week

Experience the MYzone after school drop-in program for free!

Surrey | Bridgeview Community Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Kids | Free

Community Kitchens for Seniors

Learn to cook delicious, healthy food with new friends in a welcoming community kitchen program.

Surrey | Newton Seniors Centre | 3:30 pm to 7:00 pm | Cooking | Free

Nashville Predators @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

February 11, 2020

Tue

Globe 2020

Meet your people. Grow your business. Change the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

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 | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Active Life / Health

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Multisensory Movement Series

This 6-week exercise class series will improve participants’ balance, strength, mobility and sensory integration through brain-based physical fitness exercises and sensory mindfulness techniques

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 11:15 am to 12:15 am | Active Life / Health

IBPOC Connections Staff & Faculty Lunch: Important Conversations

Looking to join and build a community for IBPOC staff and faculty? Join us for IBPOC Connections* lunch – a social gathering for faculty and staff who self-identify as Indigenous, Black or as a Person of Colour (IBPOC)

Vancouver | St. John's College at UBC | 11:30 am to 1:30 pm | Active Life / Health

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Noises Off By Michael Frayn

Noises Off, hailed as the funniest farce ever written, treats audiences to a hilarious peek at a second-tier acting troupe performing a show

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

MYzone Try It Week

Experience the MYzone after school drop-in program for free!

Surrey | Bridgeview Community Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Kids | Free

MYzone Open Houses

Parents can bring their children to a free MYzone drop-in program, meet the staff and ask questions!

Surrey | Bridgeview Community Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Kids | Free

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Author, MacArthur Genius winner, and distinguished writer-in-residence at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

Burnaby International Folk Dancers Weekly Meetings

We enjoy the fun, the exercise and the challenge, to our heads as well as our feet, of learning traditional dances from cultures throughout the world

Burnaby | Charles Rummel Community Centre | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

Ross The Boss Band with guests

Ross Friedman, aka Ross the Boss, original founding member of Manowar will do a tour in early 2020 and will stop in Vancouver on February 11!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

Stenberg College Presents Be The Love

Stenberg College Presents: Be the Love: 5 Talks on Loving Yourself and Loving Others. A fundraiser for Moving Forward Family Services

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

Lobby Night - Songstage with Ivan Boudreau by The ACT Arts Centre

Canadian songwriter and musician, Ivan Boudreau, hosts this evening series which features a guest songwriter, followed by an open mic showcase for writers of original music

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

ArtBAR

All artBAR evenings are led by professional artists and include supplies, instruction and one complimentary glass of wine! Our bar is open for the duration of these evening events

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts

Read-Through - The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Join us to take part in an open, informal reading of Erica Stocking’s script The Artist’s Studio is Her Bedroom: a choreographed statement on autobiographical art making within the exhibition installation

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Ross The Boss Band with Iron Kingdom, Greyhawk, Damsel

Ross Friedman, aka Ross the Boss, original founding member of Manowar will do a tour in early 2020 and will stop in Vancouver on February 11!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Noah Reid – First Time Out Tour

Noah Nicholas Reid is a Canadian actor and musician. He is known for his performances in several films and television series, including the critically acclaimed CBC comedy Schitt's Creek

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Performing Arts

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

PuSh Festival 2020: Anywhere But Here by Carmen Aguirre with Shad

Anywhere But Here is a psycho-social-spiritual-physical journey based on the relationship to land

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Performing Arts

Studio 58 Presents Urinetown: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

Open Stage Edition #1

From contemporary and flamenco to tap and Irish dance, Open Stage features five dance works spanning a varied range of styles and approaches by Adelynne Addington, Ana Sosa and more

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

Straight White Men By Young Jean Lee

Contemporary Comedy. An explosive evening of male bonding

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

First Impressions Theatre: Forever Plaid

A quartet of male singers takes a detour to heaven on the way to their first big concert. They posthumously take the stage for one final gig in this goofy, nostalgic celebration of the 50s

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

February 12, 2020

Wed

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Vancouver Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games

Join us as we relight the Olympic Cauldron!

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 6:45 am to 0:00 am | Active Life / Health

BUILDEX 2020

BUILDEX is the forum connecting the holistic building industry, uniting tradition and innovation to shape the spaces of our tomorrow

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition

Globe 2020

Meet your people. Grow your business. Change the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

International Association of Professional Congress Organisers General Assembly & Annual Meeting 2020

With high-quality keynote lectures, interactive workshops, social events, and offsite experiences inspired to ignite leaders in Next Generation Leadership.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Botanical Illustration Level 2

Build on basic drawing techniques to develop accuracy in illustrating plants. Develop line and form, while expanding on shading techniques, and being attentive to precision and detail

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Visual Arts

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Out of Concealment

Out of Concealment will be a solo exhibition featuring the work of Haida artist, performer, activist, and lawyer Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What We Bring With Us

The works of seven emerging Indigenous artists will be exploring the questions: What does it mean to be a guest in this territory in relation to Indigeneity?

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Noises Off By Michael Frayn

Noises Off, hailed as the funniest farce ever written, treats audiences to a hilarious peek at a second-tier acting troupe performing a show

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

MYzone Try It Week

Experience the MYzone after school drop-in program for free!

Surrey | Bridgeview Community Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Kids | Free

MYzone Open Houses

Parents can bring their children to a free MYzone drop-in program, meet the staff and ask questions!

Surrey | Bridgeview Community Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Kids | Free

Who Don’t You Have Time For?

Part of the “Your Table is Ready” collaborative series of conversations over food led by artists: Aaniya Asrani, Annie Canto and Reyhaneh Yazdani

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Workshop

Soulfly with Toxic Holocaust, Ingested, Visceral Disgorge & more

Arizona metallers Soulfly come to the Rickshaw on their North America 2020—The Summoning Tour. Be sure to bring your best mosh-pit shoes, because it's about to get brutal

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Herbal Tea-Making Workshop

Join Métis herbalist and educator Lori Snyder for a social evening of herbal tea infusions and education

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Workshop

Resistance: Addressing the threat of drug-resistant infections. Screening plus Q&A

FREE: Join BCCDC Foundation for Public Health, Science World, and Antibiotic Wise for a screening of "Resistance", plus Q&A

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Chicago Blackhawks @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports

Vancouver Giants vs. Red Deer Rebels

The Vancouver Giants host the Red Deer Rebels in regular season action

Langley | Langley Events Centre | 7:00 pm to 0:00 am | Sports

Tones And I

Toni Watson, known professionally as Tones and I, is an Australian singer-songwriter. She released her debut single, "Johnny Run Away", on 1 March 2019

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Every Kind of Love

Every Kind of Love features performances from students and community artists that are dedicated to discussing and representing queer love, trans love, 2-Spirit love, Black love, Indigenous love, and radical-self love

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Tentacle Tribe: GHOST

An exhilarating breath of fresh air. Six of Montréal’s best street dancers immerse themselves in the mysterious mechanics of breathing, and interpret its life-giving rhythm

Vancouver | Historic Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Dance

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Tentacle Tribe & New Works: Ghost

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Performing Arts

PuSh Festival 2020: Anywhere But Here by Carmen Aguirre with Shad

Anywhere But Here is a psycho-social-spiritual-physical journey based on the relationship to land

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Performing Arts

Of The Fields, Lately by David French

This play follows the fortunes of the Mercer family, ex-pat Newfoundlanders living in Toronto. Son Ben returns after a long absence to attend his aunt’s funeral, only to discover that his father has recently suffered a heart attack

Langley | Langley Players Drama Club | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Untold Want: Gruesome Playground Injuries

Childhood friends, Doug and Kayleen are kindred spirits who meet over the course of thirty years

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Michael Bolton: The Symphony Sessions

Michael Bolotin, known professionally as Michael Bolton, is an American singer and songwriter

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Studio 58 Presents Urinetown: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

The Motet: Electric Dream Tour

The Motet is an American funk, soul and jazz influenced group based in Denver, Colorado

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Straight White Men By Young Jean Lee

Contemporary Comedy. An explosive evening of male bonding

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

First Impressions Theatre: Forever Plaid

A quartet of male singers takes a detour to heaven on the way to their first big concert. They posthumously take the stage for one final gig in this goofy, nostalgic celebration of the 50s

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Wolf Parade With guests: Land of Talk

Wolf Parade is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 2003 in Montreal. The band released three full-length albums before taking a five-year hiatus in 2011

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

February 13, 2020

Thu

BUILDEX 2020

BUILDEX is the forum connecting the holistic building industry, uniting tradition and innovation to shape the spaces of our tomorrow

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition

Globe 2020

Meet your people. Grow your business. Change the world.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

International Association of Professional Congress Organisers General Assembly & Annual Meeting 2020

With high-quality keynote lectures, interactive workshops, social events, and offsite experiences inspired to ignite leaders in Next Generation Leadership.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Catholic Educators Conference 2020

This wonderful, long-standing tradition is one of the highlights of the school year and is a visible reminder of our shared participation in the evangelizing mission of the Church.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Watercolour Meetups at VanDusen Garden

Bring your paint, questions, and ongoing projects to our weekly series of meetups hosted by instructor Susan Pearson

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 11:30 am | Visual Arts

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Out of Concealment

Out of Concealment will be a solo exhibition featuring the work of Haida artist, performer, activist, and lawyer Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What We Bring With Us

The works of seven emerging Indigenous artists will be exploring the questions: What does it mean to be a guest in this territory in relation to Indigeneity?

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Tea & Trumpets series presents Iberian Dreams

Warm up with Chabrier, de Falla, Verdi and more southerners in this concert brimming with Spanish heat. ¡Olé!

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Music

Noises Off By Michael Frayn

Noises Off, hailed as the funniest farce ever written, treats audiences to a hilarious peek at a second-tier acting troupe performing a show

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

MYzone Try It Week

Experience the MYzone after school drop-in program for free!

Surrey | Bridgeview Community Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Kids | Free

MYzone Open Houses

Parents can bring their children to a free MYzone drop-in program, meet the staff and ask questions!

Surrey | Bridgeview Community Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Kids | Free

Teen Band Jam

Play in a band? Want to jam with others? If you play guitar, keyboards, drums, other instruments, or sing, THIS is the place to be with your tribe

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 4:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Music

Indigenous Storytelling Illustration

həy̓qʷ (fire) - Indigenous Lead Outreach and Support Program is proud to present: An indigenous perspective on storytelling and illustration. Learn to create an image around your favorite part of a story

Richmond | Connections Community Services Society | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Visual Arts

International Folk Dancing Drop-in Sessions

Let's Dance! Join us in learning folk dances set to ethnic music from around the world, in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere

Surrey | Walnut Road Elementary School | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Film Screening: Journey to Justice

This powerful documentary tells the story of six unsung heroes of the Canadian civil rights movement, among them Viola Desmond and Fred Christie

Vancouver | The Cinematheque | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Film

LUNA performing Penthouse

Indie rock band performing their 1995 album “Penthouse”

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Tentacle Tribe: GHOST

An exhilarating breath of fresh air. Six of Montréal’s best street dancers immerse themselves in the mysterious mechanics of breathing, and interpret its life-giving rhythm

Vancouver | Historic Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Dance

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

The Barber of Seville by Gioacchino Rossini

Chase away the February blues with The Barber of Seville, a feast of frivolous fun. Enjoy Figaro’s mischievous escapades as he assists Count Almaviva in prising the beautiful Rosina away from her lecherous guardian, Dr. Bartolo

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Opera

Tentacle Tribe & New Works: Ghost

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Performing Arts

UBC Bands: Symphonic Wind Ensemble & Concert Winds

Directed by Dr. Robert Taylor, the UBC Bands program includes two ensembles: Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Concert Winds

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

PuSh Festival 2020: Anywhere But Here by Carmen Aguirre with Shad

Anywhere But Here is a psycho-social-spiritual-physical journey based on the relationship to land

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Performing Arts

Of The Fields, Lately by David French

This play follows the fortunes of the Mercer family, ex-pat Newfoundlanders living in Toronto. Son Ben returns after a long absence to attend his aunt’s funeral, only to discover that his father has recently suffered a heart attack

Langley | Langley Players Drama Club | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Untold Want: Gruesome Playground Injuries

Childhood friends, Doug and Kayleen are kindred spirits who meet over the course of thirty years

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Studio 58 Presents Urinetown: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

Straight White Men By Young Jean Lee

Contemporary Comedy. An explosive evening of male bonding

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

First Impressions Theatre: Forever Plaid

A quartet of male singers takes a detour to heaven on the way to their first big concert. They posthumously take the stage for one final gig in this goofy, nostalgic celebration of the 50s

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

February 14, 2020

Fri

Family Day Weekend Festival by Cypress Mountain

Come join us for a weekend of epic family festivities!

West Vancouver | Cypress Mountain | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Family

International Association of Professional Congress Organisers General Assembly & Annual Meeting 2020

With high-quality keynote lectures, interactive workshops, social events, and offsite experiences inspired to ignite leaders in Next Generation Leadership.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Catholic Educators Conference 2020

This wonderful, long-standing tradition is one of the highlights of the school year and is a visible reminder of our shared participation in the evangelizing mission of the Church.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Nature’s Valentines: Pro-d Kids Camp

Let’s show the Earth a little bit of love and kindness this Valentine’s Day!

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Inspire Environmental Awareness in Your Students

Join us at VanDusen Botanical Garden for your next Pro-D Workshop! This course is designed for K-7 teachers and environmental educators

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | Nature / Animals

Science World & Geering Up Pro-D

This coding themed pro-d day will help teachers explore how to incorporate computer science and coding activities into their classrooms

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 9:30 am to 3:30 pm | Workshop

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Out of Concealment

Out of Concealment will be a solo exhibition featuring the work of Haida artist, performer, activist, and lawyer Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What We Bring With Us

The works of seven emerging Indigenous artists will be exploring the questions: What does it mean to be a guest in this territory in relation to Indigeneity?

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Winter Festival: Skate for a Cause

Enjoy outdoor ice skating and more at the Winter Festival at Guildford Town Centre

Surrey | Guildford Town Centre | 12:00 am to 8:00 pm | Family

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Noises Off By Michael Frayn

Noises Off, hailed as the funniest farce ever written, treats audiences to a hilarious peek at a second-tier acting troupe performing a show

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

MYzone Try It Week

Experience the MYzone after school drop-in program for free!

Surrey | Bridgeview Community Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Kids | Free

MYzone Open Houses

Parents can bring their children to a free MYzone drop-in program, meet the staff and ask questions!

Surrey | Bridgeview Community Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Kids | Free

Studio Showing: Anouk Froidevaux

Dance artist Anouk Froidevaux shares choreographic research developed in collaboration with Canadian filmmaker and cinematographer Daniel Froidevaux

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm | Dance | Free

Valentines Dinner At Backyard Vineyards

On Friday, Feb. 14th and Saturday, Feb. 15th, we invite you to join us for a romantic evening filled with local wine, delicious food and soulful music

Langley | Backyard Vineyards | 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Food / Wine

SWEET: Faculty Faceoff

Join us at Science World for FREE on Valentine's Day for our next Science World Extravagant Evening for Teens (SWEET) and experience some loving competition between post-secondary institutions!

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Party

After Hours: February 14

Join us for Valentine's Day at After Hours!

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Exhibition

Gravitational Attraction - Valentine-s Day Event

Spend an enchanted evening with us as we transform the Planetarium Star Theatre into a starry soirée for Valentine’s Day. Enjoy drinks, appetizers, activities, and a live musical performance by Blonde Diamond at this 19+ event

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Party

Not Quite All Night

Drop off the kids so they can enjoy a party while you have a date night

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Family

Boots and Babes Ball With Jojo Mason - featuring: Sons of Daughters and special guests

Seventh Annual Boots & Babes Ball Brings Country To Valentines Day At The Legendary Commodore Ballroom On February 14, 2019

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

The People's Prom 20th Anniversary

An anti-capitalist, queer, cross-dressing, gender-bending, bike-loving, slow-dancing, big-dress wearing, good time! The Prom You Never Had In High School!

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Party

February Exhibitions Opening Reception at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Tentacle Tribe: GHOST

An exhilarating breath of fresh air. Six of Montréal’s best street dancers immerse themselves in the mysterious mechanics of breathing, and interpret its life-giving rhythm

Vancouver | Historic Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Dance

WWE Friday Night Smackdown

Daniel Bryan vs Universal Champion ‘The Fiend’ Bray Wyatt!

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Vancouver Giants vs. Victoria Royals

The Vancouver Giants host the Victoria Royals in regular season action

Langley | Langley Events Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Tentacle Tribe & New Works: Ghost

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Performing Arts

Behind the Keys - Vancouver Bach Choir fundraiser

Last year, this fundraising concert delighted a packed house. Join us this year, for a Valentine’s Day treat with Maestro Leslie Dala at the piano, and special guests, in a Romantic program sure to please everyone

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Under the Rainbow Family Weekend: The Wizard of Oz Film Screening

One of the most popular family films of all time, The Wizard of Oz, is coming back to the Big Screen at Massey Theatre for one day only.

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Film

PuSh Festival 2020: Anywhere But Here by Carmen Aguirre with Shad

Anywhere But Here is a psycho-social-spiritual-physical journey based on the relationship to land

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Performing Arts

Neil Osborne

54-40’s Neil Osborne has a catalogue of late 80s and early 90s hits - “I Go Blind,” “Baby Ran,” “Ocean Pearl” and a whole lot of music since then, we are delighted to present this Canadian legend at Bez

Langley | Bez Arts Hub | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Of The Fields, Lately by David French

This play follows the fortunes of the Mercer family, ex-pat Newfoundlanders living in Toronto. Son Ben returns after a long absence to attend his aunt’s funeral, only to discover that his father has recently suffered a heart attack

Langley | Langley Players Drama Club | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

VSO POPS: Classic Albums Live - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

This is it — every Beatles fan’s dream — Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band live, with full band and orchestra, performed exactly as it was originally recorded

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Untold Want: Gruesome Playground Injuries

Childhood friends, Doug and Kayleen are kindred spirits who meet over the course of thirty years

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Talking Sex on Sundays - A Firehall Arts Centre production

On the first Sunday of every month Margot and her friends always host a theme party. What happens when Margot decides to kick it up a notch by having a Sex Toy Party?

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Studio 58 Presents Urinetown: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

Emilie Claire Barlow

Emilie-Claire is known for her inspired re-imaginings and affectionate treatment of both classic pop and jazz songs, delivered with a relaxed, polished demeanor, charming humour, and a voice of unforgettable beauty

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

The Frogs with guests

American Rock band, The Frogs, have announced their upcoming winter Canada/U.S. tour. Performing their prolific discography, the tour will include sounds spanning decades of iconic songs that have set the tone for rock today

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Straight White Men By Young Jean Lee

Contemporary Comedy. An explosive evening of male bonding

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

First Impressions Theatre: Forever Plaid

A quartet of male singers takes a detour to heaven on the way to their first big concert. They posthumously take the stage for one final gig in this goofy, nostalgic celebration of the 50s

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Teen Swim

We’re keeping the pool open late for a special youth swim! Youth enjoy the use of the pool at Eileen Dailly along with music, treats and special features like the slide, water walkway and rope swing

Burnaby | Eileen Dailly Leisure Pool & Fitness Centre | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Active Life / Health

Vancouver Student Events presents Global Fridays: Valentines Edition

Every Friday join us for your weekly Reggaeton , Latin Music, International Club Night fix with some of Vancouver’s top international DJ’s spinning the best in Brazilian, Latin, Hip-Hop, EDM, Pop, Reggaeton, Dance Hall, Pop, K-Pop, Top 40 and more!

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Party

Valentine’s Day! w/ DJ Ketafere @HEC

Valentine's Day SPECIAL Event @ Harbour Event Center

Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Party

Frisky Friday

Bring the sizzle to your Friday night as improvisers explore the funny side of naughty. For adults 19+

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 11:15 pm to 11:59 pm | Show

February 15, 2020

Sat

Family Day Weekend Festival by Cypress Mountain

Come join us for a weekend of epic family festivities!

West Vancouver | Cypress Mountain | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Family

International Association of Professional Congress Organisers General Assembly & Annual Meeting 2020

With high-quality keynote lectures, interactive workshops, social events, and offsite experiences inspired to ignite leaders in Next Generation Leadership.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Fan Expo Vancouver 2020

We can hardly wait to celebrate three days of science fiction, comic books, film, television, horror, fantasy, animation, pop culture, and so much more.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Birding Walks

Join a local naturalist and see diverse birds of Surrey. You'll see Surrey’s diverse habitats and get to know your local parks

Surrey | Godwin Farm Biodiversity Preserve Park | 9:00 am to 11:00 am | Nature / Animals | Free

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Community Science Celebration: Fort Nelson

Discover the science happening all around you at the Fort Nelson Community Science Celebration

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 10:30 am to 4:00 pm | Show

Family Day Fun by West Richmond Community Centre

Bring your family and enjoy activities such as arts and crafts, giant games, a bouncy castle, and more!

Richmond | West Richmond Community Centre | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Family | Free

A Windmill Theatre Company (Australia) Production: BEEP

A beautiful story about unexpected friendship, finding where you fit, and learning how to mix things up a little. In Mort’s Village everything has its place, every day is the same and everyone likes it that way

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Kids

Family Day Geocache Treasure Hunt

Go on an outdoor treasure hunt to try geocaching!

Surrey | Redwood Park | 11:00 am to 2:30 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Love & Libations at Township 7 Vineyards & Winery

Share the love of sparkling wine with your valentine February 15 & 16!

Langley | Township 7 Vineyards & Winery | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Food / Wine

Under the Rainbow Family Weekend: Flight of the Hummingbird

“Here is the story of the great forest that caught on fire”. The Flight of the Hummingbird is based on an indigenous parable from the Quechuan people of South America

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm | Film

Exhibition: Out of Concealment

Out of Concealment will be a solo exhibition featuring the work of Haida artist, performer, activist, and lawyer Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What We Bring With Us

The works of seven emerging Indigenous artists will be exploring the questions: What does it mean to be a guest in this territory in relation to Indigeneity?

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

BC Family Day with Indigenous Storyteller Joseph A. Dandurand

Join us Saturday, February 15 - The Bill Reid Gallery is celebrating BC Family Day with a day filled with family-friendly activities including a storytelling performance by Joseph A. Dandurand, button making and crafts

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free

Winter Festival: Skate for a Cause

Enjoy outdoor ice skating and more at the Winter Festival at Guildford Town Centre

Surrey | Guildford Town Centre | 12:00 am to 8:00 pm | Family

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Indigenous-Made Monthly Matinee

Celebrate the rich, varied, and unique perspectives of Indigenous-made cinema!

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Film | Free

Taste Vancouver North Van Shipyards Tour

While enjoying some great food and magnificent scenery learn all about Vancouver’s historic shipyard district that began with its discovery in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver

North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay | 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Untold Want: Gruesome Playground Injuries

Childhood friends, Doug and Kayleen are kindred spirits who meet over the course of thirty years

Vancouver | The Cultch | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Performing Arts

Noises Off By Michael Frayn

Noises Off, hailed as the funniest farce ever written, treats audiences to a hilarious peek at a second-tier acting troupe performing a show

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

PuSh Festival 2020: Anywhere But Here by Carmen Aguirre with Shad

Anywhere But Here is a psycho-social-spiritual-physical journey based on the relationship to land

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Performing Arts

Th'owxiya: The Hungry Feast Dish

Enchantment abounds in this deliciously dark Kwantlen First Nations fable suitable for all ages

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Studio 58 Presents - Urinetown: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Musical

Under the Rainbow Family Weekend: Parents are a Drag

Join local drag queens Peach Cobblah & Isolde N. Barron for a drag dress-up spectacular!

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Film

Valentines Dinner At Backyard Vineyards

On Friday, Feb. 14th and Saturday, Feb. 15th, we invite you to join us for a romantic evening filled with local wine, delicious food and soulful music

Langley | Backyard Vineyards | 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Food / Wine

Monstercat Uncaged: Origins

Journey into another world and uncover the breathtaking mystery of Monstercat’s origins.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Geoffroy

Montreal-based singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Geoffroy makes a point, in both life and music, to weave a tale with his words; one that asks audiences to dig deep

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Lucky Chops

High-energy brassy funk band on tour in support of their new, self-titled album

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Friday Night Dance

Drop-in Lessons and Practice Dances

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

A Special Valentine Show in Joey’s Company

A Special Valentine Show - Ms. Joey Albert is an Original Pilipino Music (OPM) Icon who was born in the Philippines

Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Show

Tentacle Tribe: GHOST

An exhilarating breath of fresh air. Six of Montréal’s best street dancers immerse themselves in the mysterious mechanics of breathing, and interpret its life-giving rhythm

Vancouver | Historic Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Dance

Fort Night Improv

A stacked cast of Vancouver Improv Comedians are coming to Langley to perform Saturday Nights!

Langley | Bez Arts Hub | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

The Barber of Seville by Gioacchino Rossini

Chase away the February blues with The Barber of Seville, a feast of frivolous fun. Enjoy Figaro’s mischievous escapades as he assists Count Almaviva in prising the beautiful Rosina away from her lecherous guardian, Dr. Bartolo

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Opera

Tentacle Tribe & New Works: Ghost

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Performing Arts

Of The Fields, Lately by David French

This play follows the fortunes of the Mercer family, ex-pat Newfoundlanders living in Toronto. Son Ben returns after a long absence to attend his aunt’s funeral, only to discover that his father has recently suffered a heart attack

Langley | Langley Players Drama Club | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

VSO POPS: Classic Albums Live - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

This is it — every Beatles fan’s dream — Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band live, with full band and orchestra, performed exactly as it was originally recorded

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Talking Sex on Sundays - A Firehall Arts Centre production

On the first Sunday of every month Margot and her friends always host a theme party. What happens when Margot decides to kick it up a notch by having a Sex Toy Party?

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Studio 58 Presents Urinetown: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

Vancouver New Music presents crys cole & Oren Ambarchi

crys cole and Oren Ambarchi return to Vancouver for this special double bill concert. Each will perform a solo set featuring music and themes from their recent and upcoming album releases

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Theatre Series: Kim's Convenience

A corner store comedy by Ins Choi. This hilarious and touching debut play inspired the hit TV show of the same name

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Theatre

Salsa & Latin Dance Night with Alberto Gonzalez & Teresa Szefler

Salsa, Bachata & Merengue lesson & Latin Music

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 0:00 am | Dance

Straight White Men By Young Jean Lee

Contemporary Comedy. An explosive evening of male bonding

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

First Impressions Theatre: Forever Plaid

A quartet of male singers takes a detour to heaven on the way to their first big concert. They posthumously take the stage for one final gig in this goofy, nostalgic celebration of the 50s

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

JFL NorthWest, Vancouver's Just For Laughs Festival presents Middleditch & Schwartz

Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley, Godzilla: King Of The Monsters) and Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation, House of Lies) perform a completely improvised show!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy

Psyko Punkz

Psyko Punkz makes his return to #Vancouver for our special FREE RSVP Valentines event

Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Monstercat Uncaged Afterparty with mystery guest & Kill The Noise

Journey into another world and uncover the breathtaking mystery of Monstercat's origins. Join us at the largest Monstercat event to date as we present a brand new audiovisual experience exploring our world like never before

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 10:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Party

February 16, 2020

Sun

Steveston's Family Day Activities

Come join us for a variety of activities we are offering over the Family Day Long Weekend!

Richmond | Steveston Community Centre | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Family Day Weekend Festival by Cypress Mountain

Come join us for a weekend of epic family festivities!

West Vancouver | Cypress Mountain | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Family

Fan Expo Vancouver 2020

We can hardly wait to celebrate three days of science fiction, comic books, film, television, horror, fantasy, animation, pop culture, and so much more.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Retro Design & Antiques Fair

This fun Sunday show features 185 tables of fabulous finds for you and your eclectic abode — so many different vendors guarantees a super selection to suit every taste and budget!

Vancouver | Croatian Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Fair

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market

The Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market runs every Sunday from 10am-2pm on the PNE Fairgrounds

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

CAChurch: Town Centre

Weekly church services and Sunday School classes by Coquitlam Alliance Church

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Active Life / Health

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Jazz in the Mews

Enjoy Jazz in the Foyer with a full slate of local musicians

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Music | Free

A Windmill Theatre Company (Australia) Production: BEEP

A beautiful story about unexpected friendship, finding where you fit, and learning how to mix things up a little. In Mort’s Village everything has its place, every day is the same and everyone likes it that way

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

Love & Libations at Township 7 Vineyards & Winery

Share the love of sparkling wine with your valentine February 15 & 16!

Langley | Township 7 Vineyards & Winery | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Food / Wine

Exhibition: Out of Concealment

Out of Concealment will be a solo exhibition featuring the work of Haida artist, performer, activist, and lawyer Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What We Bring With Us

The works of seven emerging Indigenous artists will be exploring the questions: What does it mean to be a guest in this territory in relation to Indigeneity?

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Nebula Jars by Kids Market, Granville Island

Join us to make super cool, out of this world NEBULA JARS!!!

Vancouver | Kids Market, Granville Island | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Workshop

Kids Takeover UBC at Museum of Anthropology

Celebrate the Family Day weekend by bringing your entire family to UBC on Sunday, February 16 for an afternoon that celebrates the creative and intellectual contributions of our local youth

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

Winter Festival: Skate for a Cause

Enjoy outdoor ice skating and more at the Winter Festival at Guildford Town Centre

Surrey | Guildford Town Centre | 12:00 am to 8:00 pm | Family

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Anaheim Ducks @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm | Sports

Family Day Events in Surrey. Family Day Swims

Celebrate Family Day with free, fun activities for the entire family!

Surrey | Newton Recreation Centre | 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Family | Free

Family Day at PdA

Gather up the clan and drop by Family Day at PdA to immerse yourself in art! Tour the galleries and create your own masterpieces in a variety of all-ages, drop-in-style art activities based on the subject matter and/or mediums of the exhibitions

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Family | Free

Noises Off By Michael Frayn

Noises Off, hailed as the funniest farce ever written, treats audiences to a hilarious peek at a second-tier acting troupe performing a show

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

The Vancouver Recital Society: the Doric String Quartet with Marc-André Hamelin piano

Not since the days of the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival the VRS had the privilege of bringing artists together for the first time to make music together

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

Studio 58 Presents - Urinetown: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Musical

Talking Sex on Sundays - A Firehall Arts Centre production

On the first Sunday of every month Margot and her friends always host a theme party. What happens when Margot decides to kick it up a notch by having a Sex Toy Party?

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Vancouver Cantata Singers present Tundra: Music of Northern Lands

The Arctic tundra is a sparse, yet beautiful landscape. These regions of cold barren land above the permafrost have been inhabited or traversed by humans for ages

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Music

Langley Hospice Society Fort Langley Historic 5K, 10K, Half Marathon & Kids Run

Join the 15th year of the Langley Hospice Society Fort Langley Historic Half!

Langley | 23433 Mavis Ave | 4:55 pm to 12:00 am | Active Life / Health

LIL Fest

Hip hop massive in Vancouver, BC that highlights contemporary Hip Hop's critically acclaimed superstars and underground stars in the making.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Show

AT LANALOU'S: Dan Bern with guests

Folk legend Dan Bern makes his return to Vancouver. On tour in support of his new album Regent Street.

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Rookie Night

Rookie Nights feature our Rookie League players, who have all successfully completed improv training via the Improv Comedy Institute

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

Dan Bern with guests

Folk legend Dan Bern returns to Vancouver! On tour in support of his new album Regent Street

Vancouver | LanaLou's | 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

My Jokes Are Up Here

My Jokes Are Up Here with Erica Sigurdson, Jen Grant and Christina Walkinshaw. Funny women with impressive resumes and three of Canada’s top comics.

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

SlowJam Sundays presents: Family DAY Reunion w/ special guest

Vancity's best night, and one sexy dirty dance party with your favorite slow jams spun by The Boyscouts!

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Quickness

Quickness delivers radio rock in all its glory. Soaring melodies and vigorous riffage round out their sound, Quickness is unstoppable in its hard-hitting soundscapes

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Soju Events presents - Soju Sunday: 4 Year Anniversary Party

Soju Sunday 4 Year Anniversary on Sun. February 16th for a Family Day K-Pop Extravaganza at Venue

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Party

February 17, 2020

Mon

Steveston's Family Day Activities

Come join us for a variety of activities we are offering over the Family Day Long Weekend!

Richmond | Steveston Community Centre | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Family Day Weekend Festival by Cypress Mountain

Come join us for a weekend of epic family festivities!

West Vancouver | Cypress Mountain | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Family

Fan Expo Vancouver 2020

We can hardly wait to celebrate three days of science fiction, comic books, film, television, horror, fantasy, animation, pop culture, and so much more.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Family Day Winter Festival. Bill Copeland Sports Centre

Join us at Bill Copeland as the site transforms into a winter festival for Family Day!

Burnaby | Bill Copeland Sports Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

Circus Workshop: Acrobatics with Groupe Acrobatique de Tangier

CircusWest, in a community initiative with The Cultch, is honoured to offer two amazing acrobatic and group pyramid workshops led by the professional performers of Morocco’s Groupe Acrobatique de Tangier

Vancouver | CircusWest Performing Arts Society | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm | Workshop

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Richmond Children's Arts Festival

Celebrate BC Family Day at the 12th annual Children’s Arts Festival in Richmond. Children and their families are encouraged to spark their imagination through music, hands-on activities, literary and performing arts

Richmond | Richmond Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family

Free Family Day at Museum of Vancouver!

Join us this Family Day and receive complimentary admission to Museum of Vancouver!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Family Day

Spend Family Day time-travelling together to Fort Langley. If the year was 1840, explore where you would live and find out what part your family would play here

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Family Day. Burnaby Village Museum Carousel

Join us for these family friendly activities and events. A Children's entertainer, art activities, heritage games and carousel rides are all included

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Family Day Events in Surrey. Family Fun Day

Celebrate Family Day with free, fun activities for the entire family! Join us on Monday February 17 for free Family Day events!

Surrey | Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Family | Free

Family Day at The Nature Centre in Surrey

Join us for nature walks, story times and nature-themed family challenges and games

Surrey | Surrey Nature Centre | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Family | Free

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Family Day at the Lonsdale Quay Market

Join us Monday, February 17th for Family Day at the Market! This year we will be celebrating our 8th annual BC Family Day with interactive activities

North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay Market | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Family | Free

Family Day at the Roundhouse

Spend Family Day at the Roundhouse with parent and tot gym, live musical performances, healthy snacks, arts and crafts, and more!

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Family

Family Day. Cameron Recreation Complex

Join us on Family Day to play, laugh and be creative. Activities include Imagination Playground, board games, crafts and more

Burnaby | Cameron Recreation Complex | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm | Family | Free

Family Day Community Skate

Skate with Captain America and Supergirl!

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Family

Family Day Stay and Play

Celebrate Family Day with free, fun activities for the entire family! Bring your kids, neighbours, and friends for a fun Stay & Play session in the gym

Surrey | Kensington Prairie Community Centre | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm | Family | Free

Who Don’t You Have Time For?

Part of the “Your Table is Ready” collaborative series of conversations over food led by artists: Aaniya Asrani, Annie Canto and Reyhaneh Yazdani

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 11:30 am to 1:00 pm | Workshop

Family Fun Day at The Historic Stewart Farm in Surrey

Spend family time down at the farm, the old-fashioned way! Enjoy crafts and sampling farm-fresh baking from the woodstove oven

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

Winter Festival: Skate for a Cause

Enjoy outdoor ice skating and more at the Winter Festival at Guildford Town Centre

Surrey | Guildford Town Centre | 12:00 am to 8:00 pm | Family

Family Day Scavenger Hunt

Enjoy a free, fun family scavenger hunt at the museum. Look through the permanent History Gallery to find clues and learn about Langley’s past

Langley | Langley Centennial Museum | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Family | Free

Family Day Events in Surrey. Family Day at The Museum

Celebrate Family Day with free, fun activities for the entire family! Join us on Monday February 17 for free Family Day events!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Family | Free

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Family Day Events in Surrey. Family Day Swims

Celebrate Family Day with free, fun activities for the entire family! Join us on Monday February 17 for free Family Day events!

Surrey | Surrey Sport & Leisure Complex | 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Family | Free

RupLoops’ Magnetic North

A Family Hip Hop Concert! Fun for all ages

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 2:00 pm to 2:50 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Giants vs. Seattle Thunderbirds

Celebrate Family Day with the Vancouver Giants when they host their 2019 first-round playoff rivals the Seattle Thunderbirds for the first time. Interactive family activities will be set up on the concourse..

Langley | Langley Events Centre | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Sports

Noises Off By Michael Frayn

Noises Off, hailed as the funniest farce ever written, treats audiences to a hilarious peek at a second-tier acting troupe performing a show

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

February 18, 2020

Tue

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

historic murrayville bus tour

Join heritage expert Fred Pepin and celebrate Heritage Week by visiting historic landmarks found in Langley's heritage community of Murrayville

Langley | Langley Centennial Museum | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | History

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

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 | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Active Life / Health

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Music on Main: Terry Riley and Gyan Riley

Experience a legend in action as Terry Riley joins Music on Main with his son, guitarist Gyan Riley

Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music

Studio Showing: 12 Minutes Max Studio Showing

The Winter session features three works in development by All Bodies Dance Project, Oksana Augustine, and Brenna Metzmeier, Eowynn Enquist, Isak Enquist, Sarah Formosa, and Ted Littlemore

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Dance | Free

Burnaby International Folk Dancers Weekly Meetings

We enjoy the fun, the exercise and the challenge, to our heads as well as our feet, of learning traditional dances from cultures throughout the world

Burnaby | Charles Rummel Community Centre | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

Yola - Walk Through Fire World Tour With Guests Amythyst Kiah

Musician, singer and songwriter from England, on tour to support her debut release “Walk Through Fire”

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

On The Bench

Join Canadas most misleading unreliable hockey hosts as they brake down the fundamentals of hockey and life. Olly postanin former Bangladesh pro alongside former virgin island elite league star Jacob Ardown.

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Show

Arts Club Theatre Company production: Kim’s Convenience By Ins Choi

A corner store comedy by Ins Choi. This hilarious and touching debut play inspired the hit TV show of the same name

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:50 pm | Theatre

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Talking Sex on Sundays - A Firehall Arts Centre production

On the first Sunday of every month Margot and her friends always host a theme party. What happens when Margot decides to kick it up a notch by having a Sex Toy Party?

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

God’s Lake

God's Lake chronicles the strength and resilience of people in the remote fly-in reserve of God's Lake Narrows, Manitoba following traumatic events of unresolved justice and a complex and challenging past

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Metronomy Forever – North American Tour 2020

Metronomy are an English electronic music group formed in 1999. The current band consists of Joseph Mount, Oscar Cash, Anna Prior, Olugbenga Adelekan and Michael Lovett

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Grandson - The End of the Beginning Tourn with guests: cleopatrick

grandson is an alternative artist hailing from Toronto, Canada

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

February 19, 2020

Wed

2020 BC Home and Garden Show

The BC Home and Garden Show returns to BC Place from Wednesday, February 19th to Sunday, February 23rd, 2020! Celebrating its 49th anniversary, the show offers real advice, real inspiration and real experts to British Columbians

Vancouver | BC Place | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Talking Stick Festival

As Western Canada’s premier Aboriginal performing arts festival, Talking Stick Festival features extraordinary Indigenous performance and some of the best emerging and established Indigenous artists from Turtle Island

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Festival

Botanical Illustration Level 2

Build on basic drawing techniques to develop accuracy in illustrating plants. Develop line and form, while expanding on shading techniques, and being attentive to precision and detail

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Visual Arts

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Out of Concealment

Out of Concealment will be a solo exhibition featuring the work of Haida artist, performer, activist, and lawyer Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What We Bring With Us

The works of seven emerging Indigenous artists will be exploring the questions: What does it mean to be a guest in this territory in relation to Indigeneity?

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Noises Off By Michael Frayn

Noises Off, hailed as the funniest farce ever written, treats audiences to a hilarious peek at a second-tier acting troupe performing a show

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

Who Don’t You Have Time For?

Part of the “Your Table is Ready” collaborative series of conversations over food led by artists: Aaniya Asrani, Annie Canto and Reyhaneh Yazdani

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Workshop

Evening Teacher's Series: Micro:bits as Scientific Tools

Science World is pleased to introduce a new way for K to 9 teachers and teacher candidates to learn and connect with others in the teaching community around a topic in Computational Thinking

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Workshop

Artist Talk with Susan Point

Hear Susan Point share the creative process and inspiration behind the work in her touring exhibit

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Minnesota Wild @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Pechakucha Night

Back by popular demand, we are thrilled to announce Burnaby's sixth PechaKucha night

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

An Arts Club Theatre Company production: Kim's Convenience By Ins Choi

The corner store comedy that inspired the hit CBC series | Surrey Arts Centre

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm | Theatre

Yundi · Sonata 2020 Piano Recital World Tour

Li Yundi is a Chinese classical pianist. He is also popularly known as Yundi and formerly Yundi Li

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Rapid Pitch Productions: BIG Sister

A true story—depending on who you ask. A one-woman comedy about the relationship between two sisters and what happens when one of them changes

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Talking Sex on Sundays - A Firehall Arts Centre production

On the first Sunday of every month Margot and her friends always host a theme party. What happens when Margot decides to kick it up a notch by having a Sex Toy Party?

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

God’s Lake

God's Lake chronicles the strength and resilience of people in the remote fly-in reserve of God's Lake Narrows, Manitoba following traumatic events of unresolved justice and a complex and challenging past

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

February 20, 2020

Thu

Canadian Health Food Association West 2020

If your store sells natural health products, organics, specialty foods, health & beauty, sports nutrition and/or nutraceuticals this is your one stop shopping experience.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

2020 BC Home and Garden Show

The BC Home and Garden Show returns to BC Place from Wednesday, February 19th to Sunday, February 23rd, 2020! Celebrating its 49th anniversary, the show offers real advice, real inspiration and real experts to British Columbians

Vancouver | BC Place | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Talking Stick Festival

As Western Canada’s premier Aboriginal performing arts festival, Talking Stick Festival features extraordinary Indigenous performance and some of the best emerging and established Indigenous artists from Turtle Island

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Festival

Watercolour Meetups at VanDusen Garden

Bring your paint, questions, and ongoing projects to our weekly series of meetups hosted by instructor Susan Pearson

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 11:30 am | Visual Arts

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Out of Concealment

Out of Concealment will be a solo exhibition featuring the work of Haida artist, performer, activist, and lawyer Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What We Bring With Us

The works of seven emerging Indigenous artists will be exploring the questions: What does it mean to be a guest in this territory in relation to Indigeneity?

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Chigiri-e Paper Art: Crocus

These popular workshops guide you in a step-by-step creation of your own beautiful chigiri-e paper art piece

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Workshop

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Noises Off By Michael Frayn

Noises Off, hailed as the funniest farce ever written, treats audiences to a hilarious peek at a second-tier acting troupe performing a show

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

Sketching Series

Visit the museum after hours to sketch your favorite display!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Red Carpet Poetry Slam

Canada SCORES hosts our second Annual Red Carpet Poetry Slam. This premier event will include more than 150 guests, poetry enthusiasts, community leaders, and even a few local celebrities

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Party | Free

International Folk Dancing Drop-in Sessions

Let's Dance! Join us in learning folk dances set to ethnic music from around the world, in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere

Surrey | Walnut Road Elementary School | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Chowder Chowdown Vancouver

Who will be the Vancouver Chowder Chowdown champion? Join the movement for sustainable seafood at Ocean Wise Chowder Chowdown

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine

JFL NorthWest, Vancouver's Just For Laughs Festival presents Bill Burr

Bill Burr is an American comedian or a comedian from the North American Union, depending on when you read this. He grew up outside of Boston, Massachusetts and did fairly poorly in school, despite the fact that he applied himself

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

An Arts Club Theatre Company production: Kim's Convenience By Ins Choi

The corner store comedy that inspired the hit CBC series | Surrey Arts Centre

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm | Theatre

The Barber of Seville by Gioacchino Rossini

Chase away the February blues with The Barber of Seville, a feast of frivolous fun. Enjoy Figaro’s mischievous escapades as he assists Count Almaviva in prising the beautiful Rosina away from her lecherous guardian, Dr. Bartolo

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Opera

Rapid Pitch Productions: BIG Sister

A true story—depending on who you ask. A one-woman comedy about the relationship between two sisters and what happens when one of them changes

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Talking Sex on Sundays - A Firehall Arts Centre production

On the first Sunday of every month Margot and her friends always host a theme party. What happens when Margot decides to kick it up a notch by having a Sex Toy Party?

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

God’s Lake

God's Lake chronicles the strength and resilience of people in the remote fly-in reserve of God's Lake Narrows, Manitoba following traumatic events of unresolved justice and a complex and challenging past

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Whose Live Anyway?

The critically-acclaimed improv comedy show “Whose Live Anyway?” makes its way back to Hard Rock Casino Vancouver

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Show

Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar

Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar are an 11-piece blues/soul band from Toronto. Martin is the lead singer, songwriter and focal point of the group

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Dave Hause & The Mermaid with guests

Punk rock singer-songwriter Dave Hause returns to Vancouver, backed by his band The Mermaid. In support of their new album, Saboteur

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

February 21, 2020

Fri

Surrey School International Jazz Festival

The Surrey School District proudly presents the Surrey Schools Jazz Festival, now in its 38th year, as one of Canada’s largest and most unique jazz festivals

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 am to 8:00 pm | Dance | Free

Canadian Health Food Association West 2020

If your store sells natural health products, organics, specialty foods, health & beauty, sports nutrition and/or nutraceuticals this is your one stop shopping experience.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

2020 BC Home and Garden Show

The BC Home and Garden Show returns to BC Place from Wednesday, February 19th to Sunday, February 23rd, 2020! Celebrating its 49th anniversary, the show offers real advice, real inspiration and real experts to British Columbians

Vancouver | BC Place | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Talking Stick Festival

As Western Canada’s premier Aboriginal performing arts festival, Talking Stick Festival features extraordinary Indigenous performance and some of the best emerging and established Indigenous artists from Turtle Island

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Festival

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Discretion of Internal Turmoil

Reflect within through an exhibition of painting and sculpture

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Pro-D Day - LEGO

Your day off to build! Get creative this pro-d day with LEGO at the museum

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Kids | Free

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Out of Concealment

Out of Concealment will be a solo exhibition featuring the work of Haida artist, performer, activist, and lawyer Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What We Bring With Us

The works of seven emerging Indigenous artists will be exploring the questions: What does it mean to be a guest in this territory in relation to Indigeneity?

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Drumeo Drum Festival

Ten world-class drum performances in two days. The inaugural Drumeo Festival will feature live masterclasses, performances, and full-band shows with some of the best drummers in the world

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 11:00 am to 7:00 pm | Festival

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Noises Off By Michael Frayn

Noises Off, hailed as the funniest farce ever written, treats audiences to a hilarious peek at a second-tier acting troupe performing a show

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

What Time Zone Do You Live In?

Map out memories, create tea menus and share stories at Reyhaneh Yazdani’s tea ceremony exploring time in relation to the places we call home

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm | Workshop

February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents Tiny Tots: Let's Have a Playdate!

Let Your Music Shine! with Lisa and Linda. A musical adventure! Let’s go on three playdates; at a friend’s house, at the park, and at a concert!

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Kids

Platinum Blonde

Platinum Blonde is back, but don’t call it a reunion. In reality it’s more like the band has simply taken a finger off of the pause button with the release of its new album, Now & Never

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Adanu Habobo: A Night of African Music and Dance

Adanu Habobo performs the traditional music-dance-song of Ghana (West Africa), known for its rhythmic depth and vibrant movements

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

JFL NorthWest, Vancouver's Just For Laughs Festival presents Bill Burr

Bill Burr is an American comedian who continues to sell out venues worldwide. This past year, Burr toured the U.K. and Europe, where he shot his sixth hour-long special Paper Tiger at London’s Royal Albert Hall

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy

Vancouver Giants vs. Calgary Hitmen

The Vancouver Giants host the Calgary Hitmen in regular season action

Langley | Langley Events Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Rapid Pitch Productions: BIG Sister

A true story—depending on who you ask. A one-woman comedy about the relationship between two sisters and what happens when one of them changes

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Matriarchs Uprising - Program 1: Same But Different

DubaiKungkaMiyalk brings together Mariaa Randall and Henrietta Baird, two contemporary choreographers who tell stories through dance

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Recital Society: Yuja Wang, piano

Prodigiously talented pianist Yuja Wang’s life is a whirlwind of appearances at all the major concert halls of the world with the most prestigious orchestras and conductors

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

God’s Lake

God's Lake chronicles the strength and resilience of people in the remote fly-in reserve of God's Lake Narrows, Manitoba following traumatic events of unresolved justice and a complex and challenging past

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Winter Jazz: Lydia Hol and Dawn Pemberton

Vibrant, honest, and powerful, WCMA-winner Dawn Pemberton’s voice beats a soulful path from gospel and R&B to jazz, funk, and world music

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

The Kwerks

Music by Laura and Ryan Koch - a warm, folksy sound with bright harmonies and a little bit of quirkiness

Langley | Bez Arts Hub | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

An Arts Club Theatre Company production: Kim's Convenience By Ins Choi

The corner store comedy that inspired the hit CBC series | Surrey Arts Centre

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Theatre

Whose Live Anyway?

The critically-acclaimed improv comedy show “Whose Live Anyway?” makes its way back to Hard Rock Casino Vancouver

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Comedy

Talking Sex on Sundays - A Firehall Arts Centre production

On the first Sunday of every month Margot and her friends always host a theme party. What happens when Margot decides to kick it up a notch by having a Sex Toy Party?

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Antibalas with guests

Brooklyn-based musical collective, on tour to support their latest release "Fu Chronicles" (out Feb 7th)

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Frisky Friday

Bring the sizzle to your Friday night as improvisers explore the funny side of naughty. For adults 19+

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 11:15 pm to 11:59 pm | Show

February 22, 2020

Sat

Surrey School International Jazz Festival

The Surrey School District proudly presents the Surrey Schools Jazz Festival, now in its 38th year, as one of Canada’s largest and most unique jazz festivals

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 am to 8:00 pm | Dance | Free

Canadian Health Food Association West 2020

If your store sells natural health products, organics, specialty foods, health & beauty, sports nutrition and/or nutraceuticals this is your one stop shopping experience.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

2020 BC Home and Garden Show

The BC Home and Garden Show returns to BC Place from Wednesday, February 19th to Sunday, February 23rd, 2020! Celebrating its 49th anniversary, the show offers real advice, real inspiration and real experts to British Columbians

Vancouver | BC Place | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds

This exhibition brings together a selection of drawings created by the Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona over the past two decades

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Historic Fort Langley Walking Tour & Tea

In celebration of Heritage Week, the Langley Centennial Museum is presenting a lively and exciting walking tour and tea

Langley | Langley Centennial Museum | 10:00 am to 11:30 am | History

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Talking Stick Festival

As Western Canada’s premier Aboriginal performing arts festival, Talking Stick Festival features extraordinary Indigenous performance and some of the best emerging and established Indigenous artists from Turtle Island

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Festival

Tiny Tots: Anvil Centre: Let’s Have a Play date with Brahms!

Let Your Music Shine! with Lisa and Linda. A musical adventure! Let’s go on three playdates; at a friend’s house, at the park, and at a concert!

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Kids

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Discretion of Internal Turmoil

Reflect within through an exhibition of painting and sculpture

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Exhibition: lineages and land bases

The artworks in lineages and land bases address differing understandings of the self and personhood in relation to nature as artists seek to represent their relationships to the world around them

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Jazz in the Mews

Enjoy Jazz in the Foyer with a full slate of local musicians

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Music | Free

A Windmill Theatre Company (Australia) Production: BEEP

A beautiful story about unexpected friendship, finding where you fit, and learning how to mix things up a little. In Mort’s Village everything has its place, every day is the same and everyone likes it that way

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

Vancouver 2010 10th Anniversary Celebration Fan Festival

Come out to Jack Poole Plaza on February 22nd for the Vancouver 2010 Celebration Festival, open to all ages from 11AM-6PM. We hope you will join us in celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games!

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Family

Exhibition: Out of Concealment

Out of Concealment will be a solo exhibition featuring the work of Haida artist, performer, activist, and lawyer Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What We Bring With Us

The works of seven emerging Indigenous artists will be exploring the questions: What does it mean to be a guest in this territory in relation to Indigeneity?

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Drumeo Drum Festival

Ten world-class drum performances in two days. The inaugural Drumeo Festival will feature live masterclasses, performances, and full-band shows with some of the best drummers in the world

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 11:00 am to 7:00 pm | Festival

Conversations with Magic Forms

On select Saturday afternoons throughout the exhibition season, participants are invited to drop in to activate artist duo Leisure’s installation, Conversations with Magic Forms

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

Play with Clay: Drop-In Ceramics Workshop with Debra Sloan

Join ceramic artist, and past MOA artist-in-residence, Debra Sloan for an all-ages drop-in workshop that explores the narrative possibilities of clay

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Workshop

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Winter Jazz: David Sikula Quartet

Vancouver-based guitarist David Sikula leads this quartet through a series of his original compositions as well as tunes by some of his favourite composers of the past century

Vancouver | Performance Works | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Music | Free

Photographs And Photographers

Photography is a child of the Industrial Revolution, and revolutionized in the information age

Langley | Langley Centennial Museum | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Workshop

Taste Vancouver North Van Shipyards Tour

While enjoying some great food and magnificent scenery learn all about Vancouver’s historic shipyard district that began with its discovery in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver

North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay | 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Noises Off By Michael Frayn

Noises Off, hailed as the funniest farce ever written, treats audiences to a hilarious peek at a second-tier acting troupe performing a show

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

Artist Talk with Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

Light Appetizers Will Be Served. This Event Is Free And Open To The Public!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Artist Talk with Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Out of Concealment Artist Talk and Tour

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Winter Jazz: The Watermill Project

Traditional Korean music and modern jazz are interwoven in Vancouver vocalist Sara Kim’s “at once virtuosic and eminently comprehensible” (Discorder) Watermill Project

Vancouver | Performance Works | 3:45 pm to 3:45 pm | Music | Free

Boston Bruins @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

JFL NorthWest, Vancouver's Just For Laughs Festival presents Patton Oswalt

Bill Burr is an American comedian who continues to sell out venues worldwide. This past year, Burr toured the U.K. and Europe, where he shot his sixth hour-long special Paper Tiger at London’s Royal Albert Hall

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Comedy

February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Rich Hope, The Vicious Cycles M.C., The Wild North with guests Johnny Wakeham, DJ Penny

The surliest & burliest rockers in town are coming together for one night only, at the Rickshaw! With guests Johnny Wakeham and DJ Penny

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:30 pm to 11:50 pm | Music

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Rapid Pitch Productions: BIG Sister

A true story—depending on who you ask. A one-woman comedy about the relationship between two sisters and what happens when one of them changes

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Matriarchs Uprising - Program 2: Kiri and Link

KIRI is an interdisciplinary performance combining dance, sculpture and video by choreographer and video artist, Louise Potiki Bryant, and clay artist Paerau Corneal with a hypnotic sound score by composer, Paddy Free

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Early Music Vancouver: Sea Songs and Shanties

Join the musicians and vocal soloists of La Nef and Chor Leoni Men’s Choir as they explore music of the sea with capstand shanties, halyard shanties, laments, forecastle songs, and short haul shanties

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

God’s Lake

God's Lake chronicles the strength and resilience of people in the remote fly-in reserve of God's Lake Narrows, Manitoba following traumatic events of unresolved justice and a complex and challenging past

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

An Arts Club Theatre Company production: Kim's Convenience By Ins Choi

The corner store comedy that inspired the hit CBC series | Surrey Arts Centre

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Theatre

Callas in Concert - The Hologram Tour

Forty years ago, Maria Callas shrugged off the earthly bonds of temporal life, leaving a bereft world longing for her presence, her performances, her voice

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Soulsha: Afro-Celtic Funk

Bringing together Scottish, West African, and Funk music to create an unforgettable live experience.

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Talking Sex on Sundays - A Firehall Arts Centre production

On the first Sunday of every month Margot and her friends always host a theme party. What happens when Margot decides to kick it up a notch by having a Sex Toy Party?

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Lane 8 - Brightest Lights Tour

Daniel Goldstein, better known by his stage name Lane 8, is an American musician, electronic music producer, and DJ. Currently residing in Denver, Colorado, he is currently signed to English deep house label Anjunadeep

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble (PSWE): Space

Travel with PSWE as we explore the universes of outer and inner space. Wild, exciting…scary!!

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Farofa & Cara Pierotto

Farofa is a collective of Brazilian musicians living in Los Angeles, California

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly is the tragic story of a beautiful young geisha, Cio-Cio-San, who falls in love and marries B.F. Pinkerton, an American naval lieutenant

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Opera

Salsa & Latin Dance Night with Alberto Gonzalez & Teresa Szefler

Salsa, Bachata & Merengue lesson & Latin Music

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 0:00 am | Dance

The Jungle Giants

The Jungle Giants is an Australian four-piece band, formed in 2011 in Brisbane, Queensland and signed by record label Create/Control

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Whose Live Anyway?

The critically-acclaimed improv comedy show Whose Live Anyway? makes its way back to the River Rock Show Theatre

Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

JFL NorthWest, Vancouver's Just For Laughs Festival presents How Did This Get Made? Live!

Have you ever seen a movie so bad that it’s good? Paul Scheer (Black Monday, The League, Veep), Jason Mantzoukas (The Good Place, The League) and June Diane Raphael (Long Shot, Grace & Frankie) are experts in the best of the worst of cinema

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy

SUPER8 - TAB

#TranceFamily! Rejoice the return Super8 & Tab Saturday, Feb 22nd at the Harbour Event Centre for a special event

Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music | Free

February 23, 2020

Sun

Tri Surrey: Indoor Sprint Triathlon

Join us for Surrey's annual indoor sprint triathlon! Accomplish your fitness goals, compete with friends or family and try something new

Surrey | Guildford Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 12:00 am | Sports

Canadian Health Food Association West 2020

If your store sells natural health products, organics, specialty foods, health & beauty, sports nutrition and/or nutraceuticals this is your one stop shopping experience.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Esthétique Spa International 2020

Esthétique Spa International helps you imagine your future with the guidance of our guest speakers, trainers and exhibitors.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

2020 BC Home and Garden Show

The BC Home and Garden Show returns to BC Place from Wednesday, February 19th to Sunday, February 23rd, 2020! Celebrating its 49th anniversary, the show offers real advice, real inspiration and real experts to British Columbians

Vancouver | BC Place | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds

This exhibition brings together a selection of drawings created by the Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona over the past two decades

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What to Grow and When to Sow

For new (or always improving) vegetable gardeners, this class will cover the basics on the best veggies to grow in our climate, and how to successfully get started

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Nature / Animals

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Talking Stick Festival

As Western Canada’s premier Aboriginal performing arts festival, Talking Stick Festival features extraordinary Indigenous performance and some of the best emerging and established Indigenous artists from Turtle Island

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Festival

Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market

The Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market runs every Sunday from 10am-2pm on the PNE Fairgrounds

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Discretion of Internal Turmoil

Reflect within through an exhibition of painting and sculpture

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

CAChurch: Town Centre

Weekly church services and Sunday School classes by Coquitlam Alliance Church

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Active Life / Health

Exhibition: lineages and land bases

The artworks in lineages and land bases address differing understandings of the self and personhood in relation to nature as artists seek to represent their relationships to the world around them

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

A Windmill Theatre Company (Australia) Production: BEEP

A beautiful story about unexpected friendship, finding where you fit, and learning how to mix things up a little. In Mort’s Village everything has its place, every day is the same and everyone likes it that way

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

Exhibition: Out of Concealment

Out of Concealment will be a solo exhibition featuring the work of Haida artist, performer, activist, and lawyer Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What We Bring With Us

The works of seven emerging Indigenous artists will be exploring the questions: What does it mean to be a guest in this territory in relation to Indigeneity?

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Winter Jazz: Bonnie Northgraves Quartet

Vancouver-based smoky-smooth trumpeter/vocalist/pianist Bonnie Northgraves style calls to the early jazz styles of New Orleans

Vancouver | Performance Works | 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Music | Free

God’s Lake

God's Lake chronicles the strength and resilience of people in the remote fly-in reserve of God's Lake Narrows, Manitoba following traumatic events of unresolved justice and a complex and challenging past

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre

West Coast Symphony: Gershwin & Orff

with the Bach Choir and Leslie Dala, piano

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music

The Barber of Seville by Gioacchino Rossini

Chase away the February blues with The Barber of Seville, a feast of frivolous fun. Enjoy Figaro’s mischievous escapades as he assists Count Almaviva in prising the beautiful Rosina away from her lecherous guardian, Dr. Bartolo

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 5:10 pm | Opera

Rapid Pitch Productions: BIG Sister

A true story—depending on who you ask. A one-woman comedy about the relationship between two sisters and what happens when one of them changes

Vancouver | The Cultch | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre

Noises Off By Michael Frayn

Noises Off, hailed as the funniest farce ever written, treats audiences to a hilarious peek at a second-tier acting troupe performing a show

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

Global Tea Room with Cassius Khan: Bosnian Music and Tea with Zelko Krakan

On February 23rd, join Cassius and renowned Bosnian musician Zelko Krakan for an illuminating afternoon of music and refreshments. This event is free and welcome to all

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music | Free

The Vancouver Recital Society: Steven Osborne and Pauls Lewis, piano four hands

"What can we say? These brilliant Brits have become two of our very favourite people! They entered the VRS’s orbit in the years 2000 and 2001; since then, they have returned to our stage many times for both solo and chamber music recitals

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

Sunday Afternoon Tour with Kimberly Phillips

Join Contemporary Art Gallery Curator Kimberly Phillips for a walk-through and discussion of the current exhibitions

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Talking Sex on Sundays - A Firehall Arts Centre production

On the first Sunday of every month Margot and her friends always host a theme party. What happens when Margot decides to kick it up a notch by having a Sex Toy Party?

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Performing Arts

February Student Concert at the Place des Arts

Place des Arts’ music students are provided performance opportunities through our student concerts, held throughout the season

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music | Free

Winter Jazz: Itamar Erez Quartet

Winter Jazz on Granville Island: three days of free concerts to warm you

Vancouver | Performance Works | 3:45 pm to 5:45 pm | Music | Free

An Arts Club Theatre Company production: Kim's Convenience By Ins Choi

The corner store comedy that inspired the hit CBC series

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm | Theatre

Tove Lo – Sunshine Kitty Tour

Swedish singer, songwriter and musician from Stockholm, Sweden

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Whose Live Anyway?

The critically-acclaimed improv comedy show Whose Live Anyway? makes its way back to the River Rock Show Theatre

Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Comedy

Rookie Night

Rookie Nights feature our Rookie League players, who have all successfully completed improv training via the Improv Comedy Institute

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Jayme Stone Folklife by Evergreen Cultural Centre

Jayme Stone is a composer, banjoist, instigator, producer, and educator

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Atmosphere: The Whenever Tour - North America with The Lioness, Nikki Jean and DJ Keezy

Atmosphere is an American hip hop duo from Minneapolis, Minnesota, consisting of rapper Slug and DJ/producer Ant. Since its formation in 1996, the group has released nine studio albums and ten extended plays

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

February 24, 2020

Mon

Esthétique Spa International 2020

Esthétique Spa International helps you imagine your future with the guidance of our guest speakers, trainers and exhibitors.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds

This exhibition brings together a selection of drawings created by the Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona over the past two decades

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Talking Stick Festival

As Western Canada’s premier Aboriginal performing arts festival, Talking Stick Festival features extraordinary Indigenous performance and some of the best emerging and established Indigenous artists from Turtle Island

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Festival

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: lineages and land bases

The artworks in lineages and land bases address differing understandings of the self and personhood in relation to nature as artists seek to represent their relationships to the world around them

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Flow to Slow Yoga

Join us for an energizing, relaxing yoga practice. The first portion of class moves you through a gentle flow of active, dynamic postures to wake up your muscles and get blood flowing

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:15 am to 11:30 am | Active Life / Health

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly is the tragic story of a beautiful young geisha, Cio-Cio-San, who falls in love and marries B.F. Pinkerton, an American naval lieutenant

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Opera

Community Kitchens for Seniors

Learn to cook delicious, healthy food with new friends in a welcoming community kitchen program.

Surrey | Newton Seniors Centre | 3:30 pm to 7:00 pm | Cooking | Free

Film Series: The Grizzlies

Let's watch a Movie!

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Film

February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Marine Life Identification for Divers. Week 8 – Echinoderms

Learn to identify marine life like a pro. Sea stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, sea cucumbers… as different as they look, they’re all related and they all have a pattern of five

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Nature / Animals

February 25, 2020

Tue

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds

This exhibition brings together a selection of drawings created by the Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona over the past two decades

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Talking Stick Festival

As Western Canada’s premier Aboriginal performing arts festival, Talking Stick Festival features extraordinary Indigenous performance and some of the best emerging and established Indigenous artists from Turtle Island

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Festival

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 | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Active Life / Health

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: lineages and land bases

The artworks in lineages and land bases address differing understandings of the self and personhood in relation to nature as artists seek to represent their relationships to the world around them

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Roxane Gay

Best-selling author, cultural critic, and host of the Hear to Slay podcast.

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

Burnaby International Folk Dancers Weekly Meetings

We enjoy the fun, the exercise and the challenge, to our heads as well as our feet, of learning traditional dances from cultures throughout the world

Burnaby | Charles Rummel Community Centre | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Lobby Night - Celtic Jam with Nigel Tucker by The ACT Arts Centre

You’re invited to an evening of Celtic influenced musical fun with Nigel and his band of merry musicians. Bring your instruments, voice or even just your ears! No experience is necessary and only the love of music required

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music | Free

An Arts Club Theatre Company production: Kim's Convenience By Ins Choi

The corner store comedy that inspired the hit CBC series | Surrey Arts Centre

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm | Theatre

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Just For Laughs Live: Hannah Gadsby: Douglas

Hannah Gadsby is an Australian comedian, writer, actor and television presenter

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

Music on Main: Invoke

Meet Invoke, a quartet whose joyful and adventurous music defies any need for genre classification

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Rapid Pitch Productions: BIG Sister

A true story—depending on who you ask. A one-woman comedy about the relationship between two sisters and what happens when one of them changes

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Talking Sex on Sundays - A Firehall Arts Centre production

On the first Sunday of every month Margot and her friends always host a theme party. What happens when Margot decides to kick it up a notch by having a Sex Toy Party?

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Dear Evan Hansen

Dear Evan Hansen is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical

Talking Stick Festival Presents: Ferron

Poet, feminist trailblazer, lesbian icon, social justice advocate…

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

February 26, 2020

Wed

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

A Theatre Wrede Production: Hands And Feet

A dancer and a musician set off on an adventure. Clapping, slinking, snapping, skipping, tip-tip toeing they play – until feet don’t meet the ground and one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 9:30 am to 4:40 pm | Theatre

Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds

This exhibition brings together a selection of drawings created by the Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona over the past two decades

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Talking Stick Festival

As Western Canada’s premier Aboriginal performing arts festival, Talking Stick Festival features extraordinary Indigenous performance and some of the best emerging and established Indigenous artists from Turtle Island

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Festival

Wednesday Pre-School Storytime!

Join us for Pre-School Storytime on Wednesday mornings!

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Kids

Botanical Illustration Level 2

Build on basic drawing techniques to develop accuracy in illustrating plants. Develop line and form, while expanding on shading techniques, and being attentive to precision and detail

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Visual Arts

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Discretion of Internal Turmoil

Reflect within through an exhibition of painting and sculpture

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Exhibition: lineages and land bases

The artworks in lineages and land bases address differing understandings of the self and personhood in relation to nature as artists seek to represent their relationships to the world around them

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Out of Concealment

Out of Concealment will be a solo exhibition featuring the work of Haida artist, performer, activist, and lawyer Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What We Bring With Us

The works of seven emerging Indigenous artists will be exploring the questions: What does it mean to be a guest in this territory in relation to Indigeneity?

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Talking Sex on Sundays - A Firehall Arts Centre production

On the first Sunday of every month Margot and her friends always host a theme party. What happens when Margot decides to kick it up a notch by having a Sex Toy Party?

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Performing Arts

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly is the tragic story of a beautiful young geisha, Cio-Cio-San, who falls in love and marries B.F. Pinkerton, an American naval lieutenant

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Opera

Studio Showing: Raven Spirit Dance

Confluence. Sharing of work in progress + conversation

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Dance | Free

NWSS Musical Theatre presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

New Westminster Secondary School’s Musical Theatre Program – School’s Out Productions – proudly presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast from February 26-29 at Massey Theatre

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver International Wine Festival 2020

Canada’s premier food & wine event, has three mandates: to provide an informative, educational and entertaining wine experience for public and trade

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine

February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

An Arts Club Theatre Company production: Kim's Convenience By Ins Choi

The corner store comedy that inspired the hit CBC series | Surrey Arts Centre

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm | Theatre

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Rapid Pitch Productions: BIG Sister

A true story—depending on who you ask. A one-woman comedy about the relationship between two sisters and what happens when one of them changes

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Donavon Frankenreiter: The Record Player Tour

Donavon Frankenreiter is an American musician and surfer. His debut self-titled album was released in 2004 on Brushfire Records through Universal Music

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Dear Evan Hansen

Dear Evan Hansen is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical

Talking Stick Festival Presents: Ferron

Poet, feminist trailblazer, lesbian icon, social justice advocate…

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline Tour With guests: Molly Sarle

Andy Shauf is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Regina, Saskatchewan. He plays several instruments, including clarinet

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

February 27, 2020

Thu

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

A Theatre Wrede Production: Hands And Feet

A dancer and a musician set off on an adventure. Clapping, slinking, snapping, skipping, tip-tip toeing they play – until feet don’t meet the ground and one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 9:30 am to 4:40 pm | Theatre

Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds

This exhibition brings together a selection of drawings created by the Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona over the past two decades

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Talking Stick Festival

As Western Canada’s premier Aboriginal performing arts festival, Talking Stick Festival features extraordinary Indigenous performance and some of the best emerging and established Indigenous artists from Turtle Island

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Festival

Watercolour Meetups at VanDusen Garden

Bring your paint, questions, and ongoing projects to our weekly series of meetups hosted by instructor Susan Pearson

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 11:30 am | Visual Arts

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Discretion of Internal Turmoil

Reflect within through an exhibition of painting and sculpture

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Exhibition: lineages and land bases

The artworks in lineages and land bases address differing understandings of the self and personhood in relation to nature as artists seek to represent their relationships to the world around them

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What Time Zone Do You Live In?

Map out memories, create tea menus and share stories at Reyhaneh Yazdani’s tea ceremony exploring time in relation to the places we call home

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 11:30 am | Workshop

Exhibition: Out of Concealment

Out of Concealment will be a solo exhibition featuring the work of Haida artist, performer, activist, and lawyer Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What We Bring With Us

The works of seven emerging Indigenous artists will be exploring the questions: What does it mean to be a guest in this territory in relation to Indigeneity?

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Pay what you can night at Museum of Vancouver

The last Thursday evening (5:00pm - 8:00pm) of every month, Museum of Vancouver admission is by donation

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Exhibition

Vancouver International Wine Festival 2020

Canada’s premier food & wine event, has three mandates: to provide an informative, educational and entertaining wine experience for public and trade

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine

Alice in Wonderland

Come down the rabbit hole and follow Alice in her adventures in Wonderland! In this rendition of Lewis Carroll’s classic, you will see Alice meet several characters as she tries to find her way home

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Classic Book Club: Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Discuss classic literature over tea and goodies

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Books

Lawrence

Lawrence the Band is a US-based soul-pop group founded by New York City-raised siblings Clyde Lawrence and Gracie Lawrence who have been singing, performing, and writing songs together since their early childhood

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

An Arts Club Theatre Company production: Kim's Convenience By Ins Choi

The corner store comedy that inspired the hit CBC series | Surrey Arts Centre

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm | Theatre

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Rapid Pitch Productions: BIG Sister

A true story—depending on who you ask. A one-woman comedy about the relationship between two sisters and what happens when one of them changes

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Talking Sex on Sundays - A Firehall Arts Centre production

On the first Sunday of every month Margot and her friends always host a theme party. What happens when Margot decides to kick it up a notch by having a Sex Toy Party?

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Dear Evan Hansen

Dear Evan Hansen is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical

Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly is the tragic story of a beautiful young geisha, Cio-Cio-San, who falls in love and marries B.F. Pinkerton, an American naval lieutenant

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Opera

February 28, 2020

Fri

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

A Theatre Wrede Production: Hands And Feet

A dancer and a musician set off on an adventure. Clapping, slinking, snapping, skipping, tip-tip toeing they play – until feet don’t meet the ground and one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 9:30 am to 4:40 pm | Theatre

Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds

This exhibition brings together a selection of drawings created by the Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona over the past two decades

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Talking Stick Festival

As Western Canada’s premier Aboriginal performing arts festival, Talking Stick Festival features extraordinary Indigenous performance and some of the best emerging and established Indigenous artists from Turtle Island

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Festival

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Discretion of Internal Turmoil

Reflect within through an exhibition of painting and sculpture

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Exhibition: lineages and land bases

The artworks in lineages and land bases address differing understandings of the self and personhood in relation to nature as artists seek to represent their relationships to the world around them

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Out of Concealment

Out of Concealment will be a solo exhibition featuring the work of Haida artist, performer, activist, and lawyer Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What We Bring With Us

The works of seven emerging Indigenous artists will be exploring the questions: What does it mean to be a guest in this territory in relation to Indigeneity?

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

From Russia with Love

Join us on Friday, Feb. 28 for piano trios by Arensky and Shostakovich

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 11:45 am to 1:00 pm | Music | Free

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

What Time Zone Do You Live In?

Map out memories, create tea menus and share stories at Reyhaneh Yazdani’s tea ceremony exploring time in relation to the places we call home

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm | Workshop

Venue Nightclub: Church of Misery

Church of Misery Official FROM JAPAN! with Special Guests

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

NWSS Musical Theatre presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

New Westminster Secondary School’s Musical Theatre Program – School’s Out Productions – proudly presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast from February 26-29 at Massey Theatre

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver International Wine Festival 2020

Canada’s premier food & wine event, has three mandates: to provide an informative, educational and entertaining wine experience for public and trade

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine

Alice in Wonderland

Come down the rabbit hole and follow Alice in her adventures in Wonderland! In this rendition of Lewis Carroll’s classic, you will see Alice meet several characters as she tries to find her way home

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

MISCAST: A Broadway Cabaret

Moving Mirrors Productions presents MISCAST: A Broadway Cabaret

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Whooo's Hoot Owl Prowl

Prowl for owls on a night hike to discover why owls are such great hunters of the night

Langley | Campbell Valley Regional Park | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Nature / Animals

Vancouver Giants vs. Victoria Royals

The Vancouver Giants host the Victoria Royals in regular season action

Langley | Langley Events Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Rapid Pitch Productions: BIG Sister

A true story—depending on who you ask. A one-woman comedy about the relationship between two sisters and what happens when one of them changes

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Dear Evan Hansen

Dear Evan Hansen is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical

VSO - Surrey Nights: Mendelssohn, Britten and a Surprising New Talent

A concert of firsts: thirteen year-old Alma Deutscher, a prodigy in the style of Mozart, wrote her first sonata at age seven and her first concerto at age twelve

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Music

An Arts Club Theatre Company production: Kim's Convenience By Ins Choi

The corner store comedy that inspired the hit CBC series | Surrey Arts Centre

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Theatre

Surrey Nights: Mendelssohn, Britten and a Surprising New Talent

A concert of firsts: thirteen year-old Alma Deutscher, a prodigy in the style of Mozart, wrote her first sonata at age seven and her first concerto at age twelve

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Talking Sex on Sundays - A Firehall Arts Centre production

On the first Sunday of every month Margot and her friends always host a theme party. What happens when Margot decides to kick it up a notch by having a Sex Toy Party?

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Polyrhythmics with guests

The genre-bending, room-shaking, party-bringing Polyrhythmics return to the Rickshaw!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Jazz Series: Gord Grdina's Haram

Juno Award-winning oud player Gord Grdina leads Haram in a formidable pairing with guitar legend Marc Ribot

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Grupo Corpo (Brazil) -Gira & Other Work

In their third presentation with DanceHouse, the Brazilian juggernaut Grupo Corpo channels the metaphysical with their new work Gira

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Frisky Friday

Bring the sizzle to your Friday night as improvisers explore the funny side of naughty. For adults 19+

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 11:15 pm to 11:59 pm | Show

February 29, 2020

Sat

A Shift In Thinking Presented By Tedxbearcreekpark 2020

If you believe in the power of ideas to inspire and change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world, visit TEDxBearCreekPark.ca, and join us at the Bell Performing Arts Centre on February 29th 2020

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:30 am to 4:00 pm | Lecture

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

A Theatre Wrede Production: Hands And Feet

A dancer and a musician set off on an adventure. Clapping, slinking, snapping, skipping, tip-tip toeing they play – until feet don’t meet the ground and one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 9:30 am to 4:40 pm | Theatre

Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds

This exhibition brings together a selection of drawings created by the Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona over the past two decades

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

The Vancouver Outdoor Adventure & Travel Show / The BC Bike Show 2020

Canada's ultimate outdoor adventure event! See it. Do it. Live it.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Talking Stick Festival

As Western Canada’s premier Aboriginal performing arts festival, Talking Stick Festival features extraordinary Indigenous performance and some of the best emerging and established Indigenous artists from Turtle Island

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Scratch Ed Meetup

This is a meetup for educators to talk about Scratch! Join us to network, share ideas, and learn from peers

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Workshop

Seedy Saturday

Join us for Seedy Saturday hosted by the Vancouver Master Gardeners!

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Lecture

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Discretion of Internal Turmoil

Reflect within through an exhibition of painting and sculpture

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Exhibition: lineages and land bases

The artworks in lineages and land bases address differing understandings of the self and personhood in relation to nature as artists seek to represent their relationships to the world around them

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Jazz in the Mews

Enjoy Jazz in the Foyer with a full slate of local musicians

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Music | Free

A CTYP Production in association with Presentation House Theatre: The House at Pooh Corner

Take a magical trip into the Hundred Acre Wood and discover the wonderful world of Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 11:00 am to 12:00 am | Kids

Exhibition: Out of Concealment

Out of Concealment will be a solo exhibition featuring the work of Haida artist, performer, activist, and lawyer Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What We Bring With Us

The works of seven emerging Indigenous artists will be exploring the questions: What does it mean to be a guest in this territory in relation to Indigeneity?

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Sneakercon 2020 Vancouver

In 2020 we are coming back to Vancouver to continue pushing for our fans up in Canada. You can expect a full day of buying and selling your favorite kicks as well as meeting influencers, collectors, and big time buyers

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 12:00 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition

Family Day - Mapping Movement

On the last Saturday of every month, CAG invites all ages to drop-in for short exhibition tours and free art-making activities that respond to our current exhibitions

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

Workshop with Leigh Joseph

Join Indigenous ethnobotanist Leigh Joseph to make whipped body butter using all-natural ingredients from Indigenous plants

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Workshop

Taste Vancouver North Van Shipyards Tour

While enjoying some great food and magnificent scenery learn all about Vancouver’s historic shipyard district that began with its discovery in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver

North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay | 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Talking Sex on Sundays - A Firehall Arts Centre production

On the first Sunday of every month Margot and her friends always host a theme party. What happens when Margot decides to kick it up a notch by having a Sex Toy Party?

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Performing Arts

An Arts Club Theatre Company production: Kim's Convenience By Ins Choi

The corner store comedy that inspired the hit CBC series

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm | Theatre

TIM AND ERIC: 2020 MANDATORY ATTENDANCE WORLD TOUR

Tim and Eric Mandatory Attendance Tour! Tim and Eric return to the road for a WORLD TOUR (Australia, Canada and USA) filled with more spoofs, goofs and insanity, including some very special surprises we can’t talk about right now

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Show

House of Khayam Art & Culture Society: A Draw for Death

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 5:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Show

NWSS Musical Theatre presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

New Westminster Secondary School’s Musical Theatre Program – School’s Out Productions – proudly presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast from February 26-29 at Massey Theatre

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Science of Superheroes: Family Night

This Leap Day we will be celebrating Superheroes, their superhuman powers, and the planets they come from

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Family

MomChoir: It Takes a Village Concert

Laugh, cry and celebrate family life at this community concert where real stores and songs are shared for all those who journey parenthood

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver International Wine Festival 2020

Canada’s premier food & wine event, has three mandates: to provide an informative, educational and entertaining wine experience for public and trade

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine

Alice in Wonderland

Come down the rabbit hole and follow Alice in her adventures in Wonderland! In this rendition of Lewis Carroll’s classic, you will see Alice meet several characters as she tries to find her way home

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

The Music of Cream – 50th Anniversary World Tour

Celebrating 50 years of the legendary band, Kofi BAKER (son of Ginger) and Malcolm BRUCE (son of Jack) unite with Will Johns to unleash the lightning that electrified a generation

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Warriors vs Georgia Swarm

The Vancouver Warriors are a professional box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Sports

Hollow Coves: Moments Tour With special guest Harrison Storm

Hollow Coves are an Indie Folk band formed in Brisbane, Australia. Delivering an earthy folk sound, the band meshes simple acoustic melodies, vocal harmonies, and impactful themes

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Pre-show Talk with Marcus Mosely

Join us for a moderated conversation with acclaimed vocalist Marcus Mosley in advance of the 8pm performance of We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. featuring Damien Sneed

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:15 pm to 8:00 pm | Lecture

Chamber Music Series: Viano String Quartet

Concert #4. A top prize winner of the 2018 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition,the Viano Quartet is certainly the ensemble to watch for as they’re quickly claiming their presence on concert stages internationally

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Vancouver Whitecaps FC vs Sporting Kansas City

Vancouver Whitecaps FC are a Canadian professional soccer team based in Vancouver, British Columbia that competes in Major League Soccer

Vancouver | BC Place | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports

Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett

100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Rapid Pitch Productions: BIG Sister

A true story—depending on who you ask. A one-woman comedy about the relationship between two sisters and what happens when one of them changes

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

The Commodore Ballroom: Doug and the Slugs

Doug and the Slugs are a Canadian pop music group formed in 1977 in Vancouver, British Columbia

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Dear Evan Hansen

Dear Evan Hansen is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical

We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pianist, vocalist, composer, and Sphinx Medal of Excellence recipient Damien Sneed brings his incomparable, multi-genre virtuosity to We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

An Arts Club Theatre Company production: Kim's Convenience By Ins Choi

The corner store comedy that inspired the hit CBC series | Surrey Arts Centre

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Theatre

The VSO Musically Speaking series: Mendelssohn, Britten and a Surprising New Talent

A concert of firsts: thirteen year-old Alma Deutscher, a prodigy in the style of Mozart, wrote her first sonata at age seven and her first concerto at age twelve

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

The 80's Club

For one tubular night, Hard Rock Casino Vancouver will bring the 80’s back with radical performances by A Flock of Seagulls, Men Without Hats and Spoons

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Talking Sex on Sundays - A Firehall Arts Centre production

On the first Sunday of every month Margot and her friends always host a theme party. What happens when Margot decides to kick it up a notch by having a Sex Toy Party?

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

American Nightmare - Anniversary Tour

American Nightmare is a hardcore punk band from Boston, Massachusetts

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly is the tragic story of a beautiful young geisha, Cio-Cio-San, who falls in love and marries B.F. Pinkerton, an American naval lieutenant

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Opera

Salsa & Latin Dance Night with Alberto Gonzalez & Teresa Szefler

Salsa, Bachata & Merengue lesson & Latin Music

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 0:00 am | Dance

Grupo Corpo (Brazil) -Gira & Other Work

In their third presentation with DanceHouse, the Brazilian juggernaut Grupo Corpo channels the metaphysical with their new work Gira

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Basszone 2020

Basszone2020 returns Saturday February 29th at Harbour Convention Centre with Headhunterz, Ran-D & Gunz for Hire

Vancouver | Harbour Convention Centre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Mike Henry and Funkdalicious

Groove, soul, urban beat and of course funk

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Basszone AP

Basszone 2020 Official After-Party is going down at the Harbour Event Centre with special guests

Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music | Free