Metro Vancouver events calendar for March 2020. Best festivals, concerts, fun things to do, St. Patrick's Day parade, Easter egg hunts, wine tasting, free activities in Vancouver, BC.

March 1, 2020

Sun

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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 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

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 - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

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

Winter Watershed Snowshoe Tours

​Explore the connection between snow and your drinking water. Learn about your water supply in a fun and active way while discovering alpine plants and animals. After a moderately strenuous snowshoe, warm up with a cup of hot chocolate

North Vancouver | Mount Seymour Resort | 10:00 am to 1:30 pm | Active Life / Health

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

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 3:00 pm | Kids

Vancouver Comic & Toy Show

Featuring over 200 large 8ft Tables all action packed with Vintage to Current Comics, Action Figures, Video Games & all things Pop Culture related!

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Show

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

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

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 | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra presents Resounding Joy: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

Experience the genius of Beethoven through this concert dedicated to his great works. The Overture to Fidelio reflects on heroism and triumph, and Piano Concerto No. 4 portrays dramatic dialogues between the soloist and orchestra

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music

The Vancouver Recital Society: Schumann Quartet

This quartet is very much a family affair, with three German brothers, Mark, Eric, and Ken Schumann, playing alongside Estonian-born violist Liisa Randalu

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 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 | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Performing Arts

Hanky Panky Party

Join us as we host our own Hanky Panky party to raise funds for the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre and Firehall Arts Centre!

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Party

Order of Omega UBC presents SONGFEST 2020

The largest annual Greek event at UBC, Songfest, is a performance displaying the talents of the UBC Greek system

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 6:00 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 | Exhibition

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 | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

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

North Shore Classics: 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

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Davido

A Good Time Tour with guests

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

March 2, 2020

Mon

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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

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

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

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

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

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

Marine Life Identification for Divers. Week 9 – Fishes part 1

Learn to identify marine life like a pro. Most of know what salmon and sharks look like but what’s a quillfish and why does it matter on our coast?

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Nature / Animals

March 3, 2020

Tue

Seniors Day at Museum of Vancouver

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

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Healthy Kids Fair (newborn to 5 years)

Free activities for parents and preschoolers up to 5 years! Come and meet community health professionals specializing in preschool services who are on hand to answer your questions

Burnaby | Cameron Recreation Complex | 9:30 am to 11:30 am | Kids | Free

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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

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 - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Study and Go Abroad Fair Fall 2020

Meet with top colleges, universities and professional schools from Canada and around the world to find out about undergraduate and postgraduate degrees abroad, as well as certificate and diploma programs

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Fair

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

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

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

Alley Theatre presents Inheritance: a choose-your-adventure experience

Set on a vast, rural estate, urban couple Abbey and Noah are on a week-long getaway to visit her father. When they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man, Frank, staying there instead

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Emerge on Main: Spotlight on Rising Musicians

Find out what drives the new generation of artists

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

The Simon & Garfunkel Story

The immersive concert-style theatre show chronicles the amazing journey shared by the folk-rock duo, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel

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

ArtBA: RInspired by Landscape Art with Lisa Lake

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 | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Visual Arts

Celtic Illusion - The Irish Dance and Grand Illusion Sensation

Coming to Canada for the very first time after an Australian sell-out in 2017, the much-anticipated family event of 2020, Celtic Illusion is the biggest dance and magical illusion sensation that has been taking audiences by storm

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Vera Brezhneva in Vancouver

Vera Brezhneva - singer, actress, TV presenter and UN Goodwill Ambassador will present a new program as part of her tour - "10"

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Arts Club Theatre Company: 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

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

March 4, 2020

Wed

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Contemporary Art Bus Tour

Join us for a bus tour to see art in Abbotsford, Maple Ridge and Coquitlam.

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 3:00 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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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

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 - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

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

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: 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

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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

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

Collage Nights at Alex House

Create a collage with friends. All materials are provided.

Surrey | Alexandra House | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Workshop | Free

Asgeir

Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson is an Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician. In his Icelandic releases, he was credited as Ásgeir Trausti

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

Arizona Coyotes @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

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

Refused With guests: Metz and Youth Code

Refused is a Swedish punk rock band originating from Umeå and formed in 1991. Refused is composed of vocalist Dennis Lyxzén, guitarist Kristofer Steen, drummer David Sandström, and bassist Magnus Flagge

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

Alley Theatre presents Inheritance: a choose-your-adventure experience

Set on a vast, rural estate, urban couple Abbey and Noah are on a week-long getaway to visit her father. When they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man, Frank, staying there instead

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Early Music Vancouver. Telemann & C.P.E. Bach Chamber Works feat. Destrubé, Ter Linden, Ogg, Hazelzet

Marc Destrubé, baroque violin; Jacques Ogg, harpsichord; Jaap ter Linden, gamba; Wilbert Hazelzet, baroque flute

Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral | 7:30 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 | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Ballet BC Program 2

Ballet BC presents Romeo + Juliet - Choreography by Medhi Walerski

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

Speaker Series: Gwynne Dyer

An internationally sought out independent columnist and journalist whose upcoming talk concerns how geo-engineering can turn the tide in the battle against climate change

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Lecture

Arts Club Theatre Company: 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

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

March 5, 2020

Thu

Herbs for Digestion

This informative talk will cover how certain herbal medicines can assist digestive health through various actions

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 1:08 am to 8:30 pm | Lecture

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Pacific Dental Conference 2020

The Pacific Dental Conference is one of the largest dental conferences in North America offering a varied and contemporary selection of continuing education programs

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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

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 - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

Coffee with a Cop

Come to Minoru Centre for Active Living and discuss with a Cop (one on one) on any policing issues that you might have. Refreshment provided. Drop-in, no registration needed

Richmond | Minoru Centre for Active Living | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Lecture | 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

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: 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

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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

The Dance Centre presents Discover Dance! Immigrant Lessons

This vibrant young collective promotes cultural pluralism through dance, music, fashion and visual design

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 12:00 am to 7:30 pm | Dance

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

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

Reuben and the Dark

Reuben and the Dark is the spirited folk-rock outfit led by songwriter/vocalist Reuben Bullock. Contemplative, passionate, and expansive, Bullock’s songwriting has earned comparisons to contemporaries like Vance Joy and Matt Corby

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

In-Laws, Outlaws & Other People

Playwright Steve Franco’s feel-good comedy features wacky in-laws, a pair of robbers, and a delectable holiday ham. You won’t want to miss this chance to celebrate Christmas in March!

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Acts of resistance: artist talk

Coast Salish artists discuss their individual art practices and approach to designing work for the 2018 Project Sparrow action

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

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

Alley Theatre presents Inheritance: a choose-your-adventure experience

Set on a vast, rural estate, urban couple Abbey and Noah are on a week-long getaway to visit her father. When they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man, Frank, staying there instead

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

The Strokes With Guest Alvvays

The Strokes are an American rock band from New York City. Formed in 1998, the band is composed of singer Julian Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr., bassist Nikolai Fraiture, and drummer Fabrizio Moretti.

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

Ron Long - The Art, Technique, and Challenge of Nature Photography. Part 2

Learn how Ron Long navigates the challenges of photographing nature

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

The Glorious Sons – A War On Everything Tour

The Glorious Sons are a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario

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

Ballet BC Program 2

Ballet BC presents Romeo + Juliet - Choreography by Medhi Walerski

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

Sol Collective: Anna Bella Eema

Lois Anderson, Lucy McNulty, and Gina Leon under the direction of Charles Siegel, are bringing to life a story of a reclusive mother and her ten year old daughter – living in a run-down trailer on land condemned for highway expansion

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Keane - Cause and Effect Tour

Keane are an English rock band from Battle, East Sussex, formed in 1995. The band currently comprises Tom Chaplin, Tim Rice-Oxley, Richard Hughes, and Jesse Quin

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Arts Club Theatre Company: 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

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

March 6, 2020

Fri

Norm Foster's Screwball Comedy

Norm Foster's Screwball Comedy Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell – all stars of the Screwball Comedy genre of movies hugely popular in the Hollywood of the 1930s and 40s

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 3:30 am to 9:30 pm | Theatre

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Pacific Dental Conference 2020

The Pacific Dental Conference is one of the largest dental conferences in North America offering a varied and contemporary selection of continuing education programs

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

Worship Central Conference 2020

The 5th annual Worship Central Conference will take place once again at the Centre for Performing Arts in beautiful Vancouver, Canada, March 6 & 7 in 2020

Vancouver | The Centre For Performing Arts | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Lecture

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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

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 - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

Construction Expo 2020

Network with other members of the construction industry at the 5th annual Construction Expo.

Surrey | Cloverdale Fairgrounds Agriplex Bldg | 10:00 am to 5:00 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

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

West Fine Art Show

The West Fine Art Show will present Twenty Two featured artists in a spectacular array of art, offering breathtaking interpretations of our western Canada lifestyle, and as well, the rare opportunity to meet and speak with each artist

Langley | Peter Ewart Middle School | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Show | Free

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

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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

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

Surrey Steps Up

Celebrate youth who are transforming Surrey schools and communities through good deeds

Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Kids | Free

pARTy@PdA: Pottery, Pizza and Pinot #2

Take part in an exclusive handbuilding pottery workshop with Place des Arts pottery teacher Vin Arora

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Party

Changmo

Changmo Underground Rockstar World Tour 2020: North America With Paul Blanco

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Music

UBC Opera Ball Fundraiser

Enjoy a delicious dinner on the stage of the Chan Centre with serenades from our young stars. Cap off the evening with an incredible night of dancing to the fantastic music of members of the Dal Richards Orchestra

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 6:30 pm to 0:00 am | Charity / Fundraising

Vancouver Canucks vs. Colorado Avalanche

The regular season game

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

In-Laws, Outlaws & Other People

Playwright Steve Franco’s feel-good comedy features wacky in-laws, a pair of robbers, and a delectable holiday ham. You won’t want to miss this chance to celebrate Christmas in March!

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Alley Theatre presents Inheritance: a choose-your-adventure experience

Set on a vast, rural estate, urban couple Abbey and Noah are on a week-long getaway to visit her father. When they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man, Frank, staying there instead

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Arts Club Theatre Company: 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

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

Maurizio Schweizer Celentano Tribute Show

The Celentano Tribute Show is the ultimate tribute to Italy’s most famous singer, Adriano Celentano

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Show

Ballet BC Program 2

Ballet BC presents Romeo + Juliet - Choreography by Medhi Walerski

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

Sol Collective: Anna Bella Eema

Lois Anderson, Lucy McNulty, and Gina Leon under the direction of Charles Siegel, are bringing to life a story of a reclusive mother and her ten year old daughter – living in a run-down trailer on land condemned for highway expansion

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Small Town Artillery with guests Little Destroyer, Phono Pony

Local rock band Small Town Artillery launch their 3-month, cross-Canada tour at the Rickshaw Theatre, supported by Little Destroyer and Phono Pony!

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

Jazz Series: Renee Rosnes

A five-time Juno Award winner and one of the premier jazz pianists and composers of her generation performs with the CapU jazz ensembles

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

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Shay Kuebler / Radical System Art

Epilogos: The point in a speech where the reader attempts to build an emotional response from the audience

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Giuseppe Ottaviani

Italian Trance mastermind Giuseppe Ottaviani returns to #Vancouver Friday March 6th at Harbour Event Centre

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

March 7, 2020

Sat

Zoomer Show 2020

Canada's Largest Consumer Show Dedicated To Helping You Live Your Best Life!

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

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Pacific Dental Conference 2020

The Pacific Dental Conference is one of the largest dental conferences in North America offering a varied and contemporary selection of continuing education programs

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

Worship Central Conference 2020

The 5th annual Worship Central Conference will take place once again at the Centre for Performing Arts in beautiful Vancouver, Canada, March 6 & 7 in 2020

Vancouver | The Centre For Performing Arts | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Lecture

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

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

Newcomers Canada reRoute Talent Expo 2020

reRoute Talent Expo in Vancouver will bring together a broad spectrum of information, products and services relevant to you as a newly arrived or settled migrant in Canada

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 10:00 am to 4:00 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

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 - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

VBGA Soil, Manure and Compost Fundraising Sale

Bi-annual soil sale at VanDusen March 7th!

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Construction Expo 2020

Network with other members of the construction industry at the 5th annual Construction Expo.

Surrey | Cloverdale Fairgrounds Agriplex Bldg | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Burnaby Artisan Farmers' Market

The place to find locally grown conventional and organic produce, prepared foods and crafts every Saturday. The market's winter season runs November through April.

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

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

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

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

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 3:00 pm | Kids

Kids’ Movie at the Roundhouse: Despicable Me 2

Come to the Performance Centre for a fun, free movie with your neighbours

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm | Film | Free

West Fine Art Show

The West Fine Art Show will present Twenty Two featured artists in a spectacular array of art, offering breathtaking interpretations of our western Canada lifestyle, and as well, the rare opportunity to meet and speak with each artist

Langley | Peter Ewart Middle School | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Show | Free

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

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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Artist Performance - Justine A. Chambers

In her new durational work, And then this also (2020), exhibiting artist Justine A. Chambers explores issues of distraction, adrenaline, time and care as a working mother and artist. She will perform in the gallery intermittently until 3pm.

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Exhibition: The Nature of Our Country

Contrasting the natural and artificial in Canadian landscape painting, digital, and charcoal artwork

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Celtic Fest

Be entertained by captivating Celtic music and dancing, and get creative with Celtic crafts.

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Family | 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

Vancouver Performing Stars: Beauty and the Beast Jr

A terrible curse has been placed on a handsome prince and his castle, transforming him into a monstrous Beast

Vancouver | The Cultch | 2:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Panel Discussion for Don Li-Leger: Counting the Steps to the Sun

Join in as artists discuss the videos and paintings of Don Li-Leger.

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Karen Flamenco Dance Company - Teatro Intimo Del Flamenco

The one-hour production welcomes audiences of all ages with live traditional flamenco music, dance, storylines, puppetry and magic

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Dance

2020 HSBC CANADA SEVENS

The 2020 HSBC Canada Sevens tournament returns to BC Place on March 7th and 8th, 2019 for the 6th leg of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series

Vancouver | BC Place | 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Sports

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 Real McKenzies with Real Sickies, ATD

Vancouver’s own pioneers of Celtic punk, The Real McKenzies, storm the Rickshaw on March 7! In support of their upcoming release on Stomp Records. With guests Real Sickies and more

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

Surrey Eagles Playoffs - Round 1

Cheer on the Surrey Eagles during the 1st round of the Fred Page Cup Playoffs.

Surrey | South Surrey Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

In-Laws, Outlaws & Other People

Playwright Steve Franco’s feel-good comedy features wacky in-laws, a pair of robbers, and a delectable holiday ham. You won’t want to miss this chance to celebrate Christmas in March!

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Dragonfly Collector x Dey Rose Live in Vancouver

The Vancouver leg of Dragonfly Collector's 10 city tour of Western Canada featuring the solo project of Clem Castro of Orange & Lemons / The Camerawalls and promoting his new single "Brave The Distance"

Vancouver | Holiday Inn Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Music BC & Cushy Ent. presents: Let’s Hear It! Showcase - Celebrating International Women’s Day

On March 7th we’ve put together an incredible lineup with our Cushy Entertainment including Turunesh, Mamarudegyal MTHC and Missy D. To top off the night we welcome our host Tonye, who will also treat the crowd to a special performance!

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

UBC Medicine 26th Annual Spring Gala

The 26th annual UBC Medicine Spring Gala is a celebration of the Arts in Medicine, showcasing the talents of UBC medical students in the performing and visual arts

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

Alley Theatre presents Inheritance: a choose-your-adventure experience

Set on a vast, rural estate, urban couple Abbey and Noah are on a week-long getaway to visit her father. When they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man, Frank, staying there instead

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Elektra Women's Choir presents Women of the Italian Baroque

With guest conductor, Alexander Wiemann

Vancouver | Pacific Spirit United Church | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Lions Gate Sinfonia - Saxophones Glorious and Pianos Galore For Us

Saxophones Glorious and Pianos For Us - Lions Gate Sinfonia 2019/20 Season with founding Conductor and Music Director, Clyde Mitchell

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:20 pm | Music

Arts Club Theatre Company: 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

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

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

Ballet BC Program 2

Ballet BC presents Romeo + Juliet - Choreography by Medhi Walerski

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

I Am Woman! Hear Me Laff!

Celebrate International Women's Day by laughing along with this all-female lineup of comics

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra: The Beethoven Experience: Beethoven the Modernist

As accolades pile up around the world, Alina Ibragimova continues to humbly and steadfastly go about her craft making music immediate and accessible. Hear her VSO debut in Shostakovich’s riveting first Violin Concerto

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

Sol Collective: Anna Bella Eema

Lois Anderson, Lucy McNulty, and Gina Leon under the direction of Charles Siegel, are bringing to life a story of a reclusive mother and her ten year old daughter – living in a run-down trailer on land condemned for highway expansion

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Canucks Alumni presents: Canuck Country Rocks

With guests: Odds, Aaron Pritchett, The Heels, other Canadian All Stars and featuring Madeline Merlo

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

12e Evenement d-humour francophone de Vancouver

The 12th edition of Vancouver’s annual Francophone Comedy Event is back!

Vancouver | York Theatre | 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

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Shay Kuebler / Radical System Art

Epilogos: The point in a speech where the reader attempts to build an emotional response from the audience

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

March 8, 2020

Sun

Zoomer Show 2020

Canada's Largest Consumer Show Dedicated To Helping You Live Your Best Life!

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

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

Womens Day at Cypress

Come celebrate mountain women with Cypress Mountain on International Women's Day. We are so excited to see you.

West Vancouver | Cypress Mountain | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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

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 - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

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

Winter Watershed Snowshoe Tours

​Explore the connection between snow and your drinking water. Learn about your water supply in a fun and active way while discovering alpine plants and animals. After a moderately strenuous snowshoe, warm up with a cup of hot chocolate

North Vancouver | Mount Seymour Resort | 10:00 am to 1:30 pm | 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

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

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 3:00 pm | Kids

West Fine Art Show

The West Fine Art Show will present Twenty Two featured artists in a spectacular array of art, offering breathtaking interpretations of our western Canada lifestyle, and as well, the rare opportunity to meet and speak with each artist

Langley | Peter Ewart Middle School | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Show | Free

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

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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: The Nature of Our Country

Contrasting the natural and artificial in Canadian landscape painting, digital, and charcoal artwork

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Come Try Ringette!

Brign your kids out to try ringette at this free event!

Surrey | North Surrey Sport and Ice Complex | 12:15 am to 2:00 pm | Sports | Free

Red Barn Fun Day

Join the Terra Nova Rural Park artists for a family-friendly exploration of art and nature in the park. Participants will meet at the Red Bar and then head out on a guided nature walk

Richmond | Terra Nova Rural Park | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Modus Operandi

Made and sustained by Alanna Kraaijeveld in collaboration with Modus Operandi artists and Kate Franklin, Line, Starting line, Practical questions, Disappear, Solos and small groups, Swirling, Space, All together is a scored improvised performance

Vancouver | Woodwards Atrium | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

The Jen Hodge All Stars at North Vancouver City Fire Department

When Jen Hodge is leading the band, she likes it hot – hard swinging grooves, boisterous New Orleans style horns, cheeky lyrics, intriguing arrangements and plenty of spontaneous fun

North Vancouver | North Vancouver City Fire Department | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Performing Stars: Beauty and the Beast Jr

A terrible curse has been placed on a handsome prince and his castle, transforming him into a monstrous Beast

Vancouver | The Cultch | 2:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Women of the Italian Baroque

Elektra Women’s Choir with guest conductor Alexander Weimann

West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

2020 HSBC CANADA SEVENS

The 2020 HSBC Canada Sevens tournament returns to BC Place on March 7th and 8th, 2019 for the 6th leg of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series

Vancouver | BC Place | 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Sports

The Friends of Chamber Music: Pavel Haas Quartet with Boris Giltburg, piano

An exciting group of the newer generation, the Pavel Haas Quartet continues the burnished sound of the Bohemian tradition

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

Kidz Bop World Tour

KIDZ BOP, the #1 music brand for kids, in partnership with Live Nation, announced today that the KIDZ BOP World Tour is coming back to Canada for nine more live concert dates in February and March 2020

Vancouver | Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre | 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm | Music

Chan Centre Connects: Pre-show Talk with Steve Maddock

In relation to Dianne Reeves and her Beleza Brazil project, vocalist, educator, and member of Vancouver’s musica intima Steve Maddock examines the historical progression of Brazilian music, from Chorinho (aka Choro), to Samba

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 6:15 pm to 7:00 pm | Lecture

Columbus Blue Jackets @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

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

Dianne Reeves: Beleza Brazil

Dianne Reeves is jazz royalty. Her commanding performances showcase the magic of her novel phrasing and the magnificence of her timeless voice

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

Best Coast - The Always Tomorrow Tour With Guests Mannequin Pussy

Best Coast is an American rock duo formed in Los Angeles, California in 2009. The band consists of songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Bethany Cosentino and guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

VanTap Choreography Showcase

Featuring work from our Competition Choreography Program and more!

Vancouver | York Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Coco Montoya with guests

With white-hot guitar playing and soulful, emotional vocals, Coco Montoya is coming to bring the Rickshaw an unforgettable night!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Alan Doyle - Rough Side Out Tour

One of Canada’s most treasured musicians, Alan Doyle announces his latest cross-Canada tour, Rough Side Out

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Sol Collective: Anna Bella Eema

Lois Anderson, Lucy McNulty, and Gina Leon under the direction of Charles Siegel, are bringing to life a story of a reclusive mother and her ten year old daughter – living in a run-down trailer on land condemned for highway expansion

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

March 9, 2020

Mon

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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

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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: The Nature of Our Country

Contrasting the natural and artificial in Canadian landscape painting, digital, and charcoal artwork

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | 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

UBC Department of Theatre and Film. Blood Quantum: Screening and Director Q&A

This is event is a part of the Cinema and the End of the World symposium, organized by Professor Mila Zuo

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Film Series: Rocketman

Let's watch a Movie!

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

Marine Life Identification for Divers. Week 10 – Fishes part 2

Learn to identify marine life like a pro. Rockfish, sculpins and flatfishes made easy

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Nature / Animals

Medicine Bear Child Speaks Life Events of an American Indian

Medicine Bear Child, from Peepeekis First Nations in Saskatchewan, travels to Vancouver for a night of storytelling and spiritual learning

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

The Lone Bellow - Half Moon Light Tour

With Special Guest: EARLY JAMES

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

March 10, 2020

Tue

Society for Reproductive Investigation Annual Meeting 2020

Translating Reproductive Science to the Bedside

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Business / Finance

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Piper Spit Bird Count

​Whether you’re just getting to know the birds in your backyard or are on the lookout for rarities, grab your binoculars and join a park interpreter to watch the seasonal changes of birds at Burnaby Lake

Burnaby | Burnaby Lake Regional Park | 9:00 am to 11:00 am | Nature / Animals | Free

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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

Exhibition - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: The Nature of Our Country

Contrasting the natural and artificial in Canadian landscape painting, digital, and charcoal artwork

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

The Dance Centre present Workshop with Bill Coleman

Bill Coleman uses a methodology of movement that he has developed through his life as a dancer

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Workshop

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

New York Islanders @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

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

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Live!

Family Jr. Presents Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood™ LIVE! Neighbor Day

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Show

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

Alley Theatre presents Inheritance: a choose-your-adventure experience

Set on a vast, rural estate, urban couple Abbey and Noah are on a week-long getaway to visit her father. When they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man, Frank, staying there instead

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Music on Main. Annie Yim’s The Poet Speaks: From Debussy to Pärt

Combining pairings of musical composition and poetry in a concert of cross-art collaborations

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

March 11, 2020

Wed

Society for Reproductive Investigation Annual Meeting 2020

Translating Reproductive Science to the Bedside

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Business / Finance

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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

Exhibition - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

Musical Mornings: Ring the Bells with Marcel & Elizabeth Bergmann

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

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: 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

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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: The Nature of Our Country

Contrasting the natural and artificial in Canadian landscape painting, digital, and charcoal artwork

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kimono Dressing Class

Learn how to put on a kimono and obi by yourself in this 4-session class! Please bring your own set - you’ll learn how to make your own obiita, koshihimo and datejime in the first class

Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Workshop

Collage Nights at Alex House

Create a collage with friends. All materials are provided.

Surrey | Alexandra House | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Workshop | Free

Luke Wallace Album Release

Join folk singer Luke Wallace in the celebration of his new studio album, What on Earth. This is the 26 year old's fifth record to date and is being released in collaboration with Come to Life Music

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Alley Theatre presents Inheritance: a choose-your-adventure experience

Set on a vast, rural estate, urban couple Abbey and Noah are on a week-long getaway to visit her father. When they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man, Frank, staying there instead

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents - The Beethoven Experience: In The Heart Of The Symphony

Join Maestro Tausk and the VSO for a special concert experience at The Commodore Ballroom: Beethoven’s 5th in the heart of the Symphony

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:30 pm to 11:55 pm | Music

Boca del Lupo: Broken Tailbone by Carmen Aguirre

In Broken Tailbone, celebrated writer and performer Carmen Aguirre leads a public Latin American dance lesson, woven with hilarious stories of her experiences in the hidden world of dance halls in Canada

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents: The Beethoven Experience: In the Heart of the Symphony

An exploration of the senses with the fantastic Dame Evelyn Glennie, in a special seating arrangement that lets you listen from within the orchestra. Beethoven Symphony No. 5

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Sol Collective: Anna Bella Eema

Lois Anderson, Lucy McNulty, and Gina Leon under the direction of Charles Siegel, are bringing to life a story of a reclusive mother and her ten year old daughter – living in a run-down trailer on land condemned for highway expansion

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Ferenc Fehér

This story is not about a nice family who is waiting at a station....

Vancouver | KW Production Studio | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Performing Arts

March 12, 2020

Thu

Society for Reproductive Investigation Annual Meeting 2020

Translating Reproductive Science to the Bedside

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Business / Finance

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Close Your Eyes, Listen to the Music, Tell a Story

Part of an ongoing residency exploring story telling from different perspectives, Close Your Eyes, Listen to the Music, Tell a Story invites the public to share their most profound musical memories

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 9:45 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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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

Exhibition - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

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: 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

Exhibition: The Nature of Our Country

Contrasting the natural and artificial in Canadian landscape painting, digital, and charcoal artwork

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Loads of Music: Seniors Music Show

Enjoy favourite melodies from this local South Delta senior's band

Richmond | Thompson Community Centre | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Music | Free

Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games 10th Anniversary Celebration

Join us for the Cauldron lighting ceremony as former Canadian Olympic athletes and other special guests share their #2010memories and celebrate the legacies from the Games

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 2:30 pm to 3:15 pm | Exhibition

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

Grace Potter

Grace Evelyn Potter is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actress who formed Grace Potter and the Nocturnals in 2002

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:55 pm | Music

My Dad Wrote A Porno at Queen Elizabeth Theatre

Hilarious, salacious and unbelievably awkward (in the best kind of way), the smash hit comedy podcast series My Dad Wrote A Porno is on a live world tour

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Alley Theatre presents Inheritance: a choose-your-adventure experience

Set on a vast, rural estate, urban couple Abbey and Noah are on a week-long getaway to visit her father. When they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man, Frank, staying there instead

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Trans Scripts, Part 1: The Women

Trans Scripts centres on the lives of seven transgender women. These true stories, compiled from over 70 interviews from around the world, are honest, funny, moving, insightful and inspiring

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Boca del Lupo: Broken Tailbone by Carmen Aguirre

In Broken Tailbone, celebrated writer and performer Carmen Aguirre leads a public Latin American dance lesson, woven with hilarious stories of her experiences in the hidden world of dance halls in Canada

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Steel Panther - Heavy Metal Rules Tour

California’s greatest export and medical marvels, Steel Panther, will take the stage at Hard Rock Casino Vancouver for three shows

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

VSO: The Beethoven Experience: Nine Symphonies that Changed the World

Film Documentary: In the summer of 2011 Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performed all nine Beethoven symphonies in China and South Korea for the first time

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

Music on Main. Double Happiness: Detour This Way

Sounding two parallel histories, this multimedia performance winds through complexities of the Chinese diaspora

Vancouver | Left of Main | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Marc Atkinson Trio with Cameron Wilson by Evergreen Cultural Centre

Marc Atkinson is one of Canada’s finest JUNO-nominated, Western Canadian award-winning musicians

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

Sol Collective: Anna Bella Eema

Lois Anderson, Lucy McNulty, and Gina Leon under the direction of Charles Siegel, are bringing to life a story of a reclusive mother and her ten year old daughter – living in a run-down trailer on land condemned for highway expansion

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Dance Centre and Vancouver New Music present Bill Coleman

In Dollhouse, Canadian contemporary dance master and choreographer Bill Coleman portrays a figure whose whole world is literally falling in around him. Inhabiting a cluttered room which collapses and breaks at his every touch

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

Arts Club Presents: 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

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

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Ferenc Fehér

This story is not about a nice family who is waiting at a station....

Vancouver | KW Production Studio | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Performing Arts

March 13, 2020

Fri

2020 VGC Surrey Goalball Grand Slam

Come check out this fast-paced Paralympic sport!

Surrey | Guildford Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Society for Reproductive Investigation Annual Meeting 2020

Translating Reproductive Science to the Bedside

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Business / Finance

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Close Your Eyes, Listen to the Music, Tell a Story

Part of an ongoing residency exploring story telling from different perspectives, Close Your Eyes, Listen to the Music, Tell a Story invites the public to share their most profound musical memories

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 9:45 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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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

Exhibition - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

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: 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

Exhibition: The Nature of Our Country

Contrasting the natural and artificial in Canadian landscape painting, digital, and charcoal artwork

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Memory & Aging Workshop

Discover tips for maintaining and improving memory as aging occurs along with information about when to seek professional help. This workshop is presented by Council of Senior Citizens' Organizations of BC (COSCO)

Richmond | Thompson Community Centre | Active Life / Health | Free

Leprechaun Toonie Skate

Join us for ice skating, face painting, and crafts!

Burnaby | Kensington Recreation Complex | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health

VAM Vocal Theatre: Dido and Aeneas

Vancouver Academy of Music Vocal Theatre presents Dido and Aeneas, a baroque English opera by Henry Purcell

Vancouver | Vancouver Academy of Music | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Music | Free

The Wood Brothers

The Wood Brothers are an American folk band consisting of brothers Chris and Oliver Wood, as well as multi-instrumentalist Jano Rix

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Vancouver Warriors vs San Diego Seals

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

Bob Saget

Bob Saget is renowned for his family-friendly work on hit TV shows Full House and America’s Funniest Home Videos, but it’s his unconventional stand-up comedy that he’s bringing to the River Rock Show Theatre

Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

Shen Yun

Shen Yun’s unique artistic vision expands theatrical experience into a multi-dimensional, deeply moving journey through one of humanity’s greatest treasures—the five millennia of traditional Chinese culture

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Alley Theatre presents Inheritance: a choose-your-adventure experience

Set on a vast, rural estate, urban couple Abbey and Noah are on a week-long getaway to visit her father. When they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man, Frank, staying there instead

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Giants vs. Seattle Thunderbirds

The Vancouver Giants host the Seattle Thunderbirds in regular season action on Friday, March 13th

Langley | Langley Events Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports

Royal Canadian Theatre Company: Screwball Comedy By Norm Foster

An affectionate spoof featuring outrageous characters and mystery | Surrey Arts Centre

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

The Vancouver Chopin Society: Dina Yoffe

For her last Vancouver appearance, Dina Yoffe played a programme alternating Chopin’s Preludes with those of Scriabin, an experiment that was enthusiastically received by audience and critics alike

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

UBC Symphony Orchestra

Presented by the UBC School of Music. Featuring the winner of the 2020 UBC Concerto Competition

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

Boca del Lupo: Broken Tailbone by Carmen Aguirre

In Broken Tailbone, celebrated writer and performer Carmen Aguirre leads a public Latin American dance lesson, woven with hilarious stories of her experiences in the hidden world of dance halls in Canada

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Steel Panther - Heavy Metal Rules Tour

California’s greatest export and medical marvels, Steel Panther, will take the stage at Hard Rock Casino Vancouver for three shows

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Cadence: David Lane, Ross Lynde, Lucas Marchand, and Kurt Sampson

Enjoy this 4-man, 4-microphone a capella group that has been wowing audiences around the world

Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

VSO: The Beethoven Experience: A Most Remarkable Night Part 1

This concert is part of 2019-2020 Beethovenfest and 2019-2020 Masterworks Diamond.

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Music on Main. Double Happiness: Detour This Way

Sounding two parallel histories, this multimedia performance winds through complexities of the Chinese diaspora

Vancouver | Left of Main | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Sol Collective: Anna Bella Eema

Lois Anderson, Lucy McNulty, and Gina Leon under the direction of Charles Siegel, are bringing to life a story of a reclusive mother and her ten year old daughter – living in a run-down trailer on land condemned for highway expansion

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Dance Centre and Vancouver New Music present Bill Coleman

In Dollhouse, Canadian contemporary dance master and choreographer Bill Coleman portrays a figure whose whole world is literally falling in around him. Inhabiting a cluttered room which collapses and breaks at his every touch

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

Arts Club Presents: 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

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

Trans Scripts, Part 1: The Women

Trans Scripts centres on the lives of seven transgender women. These true stories, compiled from over 70 interviews from around the world, are honest, funny, moving, insightful and inspiring

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Jerry Cans

The Jerry Cans are a band from Iqaluit, Nunavut who combine traditional Inuit throat singing with folk music and country music

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

Karen Flamenco Dance Company - The Kino Cafe

Karen Flamenco is a progressive learning dance academy which emphasizes performance, stressing technique, strength, individual and artistic expression. The program has a strong foundation in traditional, clasico & modern flamenco dance forms.

Vancouver | Kino Cafe | 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Dance

St. Paddy's at Pat's! with The Peelers, Paddy Waggin', The Corps

Montreal's Celtic punks The Peelers return to Vancouver for a wild St. Patrick's weekend! Joined by local faves Paddy Waggin' and The Corps

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:30 pm to 1:00 am | Music

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Ferenc Fehér

This story is not about a nice family who is waiting at a station....

Vancouver | KW Production Studio | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Performing Arts

A Bowie Celebration: Bowie Alumni Play Diamond Dogs & Ziggy Stardust

Following a major world tour earlier this year, A BOWIE CELEBRATION is back!!

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

March 14, 2020

Sat

Enjoy Super Saturdays at The Aquarium

Come and start the day with us. On the second Saturday of each month, the Vancouver Aquarium holds Super Saturdays for our members

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 8:30 am to 5:00 pm | Nature / Animals

2020 VGC Surrey Goalball Grand Slam

Come check out this fast-paced Paralympic sport!

Surrey | Guildford Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Society for Reproductive Investigation Annual Meeting 2020

Translating Reproductive Science to the Bedside

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Business / Finance

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Close Your Eyes, Listen to the Music, Tell a Story

Part of an ongoing residency exploring story telling from different perspectives, Close Your Eyes, Listen to the Music, Tell a Story invites the public to share their most profound musical memories

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 9:45 pm | Exhibition

TEDxUBC Conference 2020

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture

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

Bird Walks in VanDusen Botanical Garden

Take a guided tour through VanDusen and learn about the native bird species that make their home in the garden

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

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

Pi Day! in H.R. MacMillan Space Centre

Join us for special presentations on Pi’s special day – 3/14. Celebrate everyone’s favourite mathematical constant with pied pipers, pi parades and some fun games and activities

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 10:00 am to 11:03 am | 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

Exhibition - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

Burnaby Artisan Farmers' Market

The place to find locally grown conventional and organic produce, prepared foods and crafts every Saturday. The market's winter season runs November through April.

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

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

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

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

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 3:00 pm | Kids

Saturday Pre-School Storytime!

Join us for Saturday Morning Pre-School Storytime!

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

Get Outside - Redwood Park

Get outside to explore and connect with nature through a variety of hands-on activities this spring

Surrey | Redwood Park | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Pages of the Past

See a rare video from 1983 where newcomers share their stories of Surrey's past

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | History | Free

Exhibition: The Nature of Our Country

Contrasting the natural and artificial in Canadian landscape painting, digital, and charcoal artwork

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 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

Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Hear how we plan to increase the representation of women and non-binary artists

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Victory Gardens for Diversity @ Seedy Saturday

Join the Terra Nova Park Artists-In-Residence for Seedy Saturday, presented by the Richmond Food Security Society. Buy and trade seeds and learn about gardening for bees

Richmond | The Britannia Shipyard | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Spring Hop Toonie Skate

Hop into Spring! Enjoy ice skating, face painting, crafts and games with the Easter Bunny!

Burnaby | Bill Copeland Sports Centre | 12:30 am to 3:30 pm | Family

Universal Gospel Choir Live at the Library!

Join Vancouver’s beloved, longest-lived community gospel choir for an afternoon of energetic and soulful music at the Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch!

Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Music | Free

MONSTER JAM

Monster Jam® is adrenaline-charged family entertainment providing jaw-dropping displays and gravity-defying feats that promises to always leave fans entertained

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Show

Exhibit Spotlight: Arctic Voices

Kick off the new exhibit with a sustainable celebration

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Spring Break Cosmic Public Skate

Skate in the dark under super cool lighting. For extra fun, wear something fluorescent so you’ll glow!

Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Family

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

Performance Workshop with Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ

Learn about the process of performance through this hands-on workshop utilizing the body in relation to space and objects with Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Workshop

Forest Therapy Walk

Experience the health benefits of nature as you learn the basics of forest therapy from Vancouver's first certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Active Life / Health

Karen Flamenco Dance Company - Teatro Intimo Del Flamenco

The one-hour production welcomes audiences of all ages with live traditional flamenco music, dance, storylines, puppetry and magic

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Dance

Artist Performance - Damla Tamer

Exhibiting artist Damla Tamer engages with the marks in her exhibition works while speaking to the audience in a semi-spontaneous monologue to explore questions of ethics of care, relation, production and reproduction within our current temporal framework

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Vancouver Whitecaps Fc Vs Colorado Rapids

The regular season game Major League Soccer

Vancouver | BC Place | 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Sports

Coronation 49 - Night of Immaculate Filth

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 6:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show

Beaver Watch

​Beavers are amazing creatures. Try to spot one as it goes about its nightly work

Burnaby | Burnaby Lake Regional Park | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Nature / Animals

Hapas, Hafus and the future of Japanese Canadian Identity

A Special 10 Year Anniversary Screening Of One Big Hapa Family & Discussion With Director/producer Jeff Chiba Stearns

Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Lecture

VAM Vocal Theatre: Dido and Aeneas

Vancouver Academy of Music Vocal Theatre presents Dido and Aeneas, a baroque English opera by Henry Purcell

Vancouver | Vancouver Academy of Music | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Music | Free

Celtic Jam with Nigel Tucker by The ACT Arts Centre. Special Event: St Patrick’s Day Party

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

Shen Yun

Shen Yun’s unique artistic vision expands theatrical experience into a multi-dimensional, deeply moving journey through one of humanity’s greatest treasures—the five millennia of traditional Chinese culture

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Alley Theatre presents Inheritance: a choose-your-adventure experience

Set on a vast, rural estate, urban couple Abbey and Noah are on a week-long getaway to visit her father. When they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man, Frank, staying there instead

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

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

CelticFest at the Vancouver Christ Church Cathedral

Join the Vancouver Welsh Men's Choir for an evening of wonderful music from Ireland, Scotland and Wales as part of the Vancouver Celtic Fest Event

Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Royal Canadian Theatre Company: Screwball Comedy By Norm Foster

An affectionate spoof featuring outrageous characters and mystery | Surrey Arts Centre

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

Tri-City Guitar Players

Concert featuring Tri-City musicians Michael (Chico) Cham, Tim Porter, Simon Jarrett and Chris Rollin

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Sunday Morning Album Release Party with guests Hunting, Jody Glenham

Local darkwave band Sunday Morning are celebrating the release of their new EP, “Consequence of Love (Side Two)” at the Rickshaw! With Vancouver faves Hunting and Jody Glenham & The Dreamers

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

Boca del Lupo: Broken Tailbone by Carmen Aguirre

In Broken Tailbone, celebrated writer and performer Carmen Aguirre leads a public Latin American dance lesson, woven with hilarious stories of her experiences in the hidden world of dance halls in Canada

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Timeless Treasures

There are some pieces of music that transcend era and genre, their undeniable beauty giving them a universal appeal

Vancouver | VSO School of Music | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Steel Panther - Heavy Metal Rules Tour

California’s greatest export and medical marvels, Steel Panther, will take the stage at Hard Rock Casino Vancouver for three shows

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Unicorn Ball 2020

Unicorns Sparkles and Balls, Oh My! The Unicorn Ball is a club night with loud music and crowds

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Party

VSO Beethovenfest: The Beethoven Experience: A Most Remarkable Night Part 2

This concert is part of 2019-2020 Beethovenfest and the 2019-2020 Symphony Sundays series

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Music on Main. Double Happiness: Detour This Way

Sounding two parallel histories, this multimedia performance winds through complexities of the Chinese diaspora

Vancouver | Left of Main | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Sol Collective: Anna Bella Eema

Lois Anderson, Lucy McNulty, and Gina Leon under the direction of Charles Siegel, are bringing to life a story of a reclusive mother and her ten year old daughter – living in a run-down trailer on land condemned for highway expansion

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Dance Centre and Vancouver New Music present Bill Coleman

In Dollhouse, Canadian contemporary dance master and choreographer Bill Coleman portrays a figure whose whole world is literally falling in around him. Inhabiting a cluttered room which collapses and breaks at his every touch

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

Trans Scripts, Part 1: The Women

Trans Scripts centres on the lives of seven transgender women. These true stories, compiled from over 70 interviews from around the world, are honest, funny, moving, insightful and inspiring

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Kim's Convenience

Mr. Kim, a Korean shopkeeper, grapples with both a changing neighbourhood landscape and the chasm between him and his second - generation offspring

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

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

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Ferenc Fehér

This story is not about a nice family who is waiting at a station....

Vancouver | KW Production Studio | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Performing Arts

Cosmic Gate

German Trance legends Cosmic Gate return to Vancouver

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

March 15, 2020

Sun

Youth Whistler Ski/snowboarding Day Trip

It’s snow day in Whistler! Meet other youth from Park Board Community Centres as we travel together to one of North America’s best snow destinations

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 6:30 am to 6:30 pm | Sports

2020 VGC Surrey Goalball Grand Slam

Come check out this fast-paced Paralympic sport!

Surrey | Guildford Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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

Exhibition - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

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

Winter Watershed Snowshoe Tours

​Explore the connection between snow and your drinking water. Learn about your water supply in a fun and active way while discovering alpine plants and animals. After a moderately strenuous snowshoe, warm up with a cup of hot chocolate

North Vancouver | Mount Seymour Resort | 10:00 am to 1:30 pm | 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

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

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 3:00 pm | Kids

Family Sunday by Surrey Art Gallery

Drop in to create, explore, and enjoy art with friends and family!

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

Exhibition: The Nature of Our Country

Contrasting the natural and artificial in Canadian landscape painting, digital, and charcoal artwork

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

MONSTER JAM

Monster Jam® is adrenaline-charged family entertainment providing jaw-dropping displays and gravity-defying feats that promises to always leave fans entertained

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Show

Cedar Basket Weaving

Many of our sacred teachings come from the cedar tree; there is a lot to learn from her. Particpants will learn traditional knowledge of cedar, and the historical and spiritual importance of cedar and the steps of harvesting cedar bark

Vancouver | Mount Pleasant Community Centre | 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Workshop

Spring Break Cosmic Public Skate

Skate in the dark under super cool lighting. For extra fun, wear something fluorescent so you’ll glow!

Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Family

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Modus Operandi

Made and sustained by Alanna Kraaijeveld in collaboration with Modus Operandi artists and Kate Franklin, Line, Starting line, Practical questions, Disappear, Solos and small groups, Swirling, Space, All together is a scored improvised performance

Vancouver | Woodwards Atrium | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Boogaloo Academy & Now or Never Crew

Under the direction of Anita Perel-Panar and Jheric Hizon (B-Boy “Twist”), Boogaloo Academy students energise the Woodward's Atrium together with the amazing Now or Never Crew

Vancouver | Woodwards Atrium | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Shen Yun

Shen Yun’s unique artistic vision expands theatrical experience into a multi-dimensional, deeply moving journey through one of humanity’s greatest treasures—the five millennia of traditional Chinese culture

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Vancouver Recital Society: Benjamin Grosvenor

Benjamin first performed for the VRS in 2013 and has returned to our stage twice since. He never fails to impress us with the intelligence of his playing and his incredible technical prowess

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

Power Classic Sundays: Manhattan Chamber Players

Adam Golka - Piano, Francesca de Pasquale - Violin, Luke Fleming - Viola, Andrea Casarrubios - Cello

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Music

Trans Scripts, Part 1: The Women

Trans Scripts centres on the lives of seven transgender women. These true stories, compiled from over 70 interviews from around the world, are honest, funny, moving, insightful and inspiring

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Giants vs. Prince George Cougars

The Vancouver Giants host the Prince George Cougars in regular season action on Sunday, March 15th.

Langley | Langley Events Centre | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm | Sports

Winnipeg Jets @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 4:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Sports

Music on Main. Double Happiness: Detour This Way

Sounding two parallel histories, this multimedia performance winds through complexities of the Chinese diaspora

Vancouver | Left of Main | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Sol Collective: Anna Bella Eema

Lois Anderson, Lucy McNulty, and Gina Leon under the direction of Charles Siegel, are bringing to life a story of a reclusive mother and her ten year old daughter – living in a run-down trailer on land condemned for highway expansion

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Kim's Convenience

Mr. Kim, a Korean shopkeeper, grapples with both a changing neighbourhood landscape and the chasm between him and his second - generation offspring

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

March 16, 2020

Mon

Art-Ventures in Nature

The world around us has more to offer than meets the eye. Explore the outdoors and practice different art forms such as painting, drawing and journaling

Maple Ridge | Kanaka Creek Regional Park | 8:45 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

Spring AquaCamps

AquaCamps offer your children 4 to 12 years of age a fun and educational experience of a lifetime

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 8:45 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Spring Break Nature Camps: March 16-27

Our carefully crafted Spring Break Nature Camps offer a blend of science, exploration, games and crafts and are suitable for children 5 – 8 years old

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:30 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

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

Vancouver Whitecaps FC Combine

Come and watch the next generation of soccer stars in action!

Surrey | Newton Athletic Park | 10:00 am to 8:00 pm | Sports

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

Spring Break at Fort Langley National Historic Site

Travel back to the mid-1800s and explore life at Fort Langley

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

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

Spring Break 2020

There’s more to light than meets your eye! Visit the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre this Spring Break and find out how astronomers use visible light from the Sun, infrared heat waves and x-rays to understand some of the mysteries of our universe.

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Kids

Spring Break Days at the Burnaby Village Museum

Join us for 12 days of Spring Break fun at the Burnaby Village Museum!

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Kids | Free

Exhibition: The Nature of Our Country

Contrasting the natural and artificial in Canadian landscape painting, digital, and charcoal artwork

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Spring Break Cosmic Public Skate

Skate in the dark under super cool lighting. For extra fun, wear something fluorescent so you’ll glow!

Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 12:00 am to 8:00 pm | Family

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

Blood Orange & Tei Shi at Queen Elizabeth Theatre

British R&B and electronica singer, songwriter and producer Blood Orange comes to Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Monday 16th March 2020!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

March 17, 2020

Tue

Art-Ventures in Nature

The world around us has more to offer than meets the eye. Explore the outdoors and practice different art forms such as painting, drawing and journaling

Maple Ridge | Kanaka Creek Regional Park | 8:45 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

Spring AquaCamps

AquaCamps offer your children 4 to 12 years of age a fun and educational experience of a lifetime

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 8:45 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Spring Break Nature Camps: March 16-27

Our carefully crafted Spring Break Nature Camps offer a blend of science, exploration, games and crafts and are suitable for children 5 – 8 years old

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:30 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

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

Vancouver Whitecaps FC Combine

Come and watch the next generation of soccer stars in action!

Surrey | Newton Athletic Park | 10:00 am to 8:00 pm | Sports

Exhibition - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

Spring Break at Fort Langley National Historic Site

Travel back to the mid-1800s and explore life at Fort Langley

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

Spring Break Festival: Beauty and the Beast

When a handsome but arrogant prince insults a mysterious old woman who appears at his door one rainy night, he finds himself magically transformed into a “horrible, nasty Beast”!

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Theatre

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

Spring Break 2020

There’s more to light than meets your eye! Visit the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre this Spring Break and find out how astronomers use visible light from the Sun, infrared heat waves and x-rays to understand some of the mysteries of our universe.

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Kids

St. Patrick's Day at Cypress

Join us for a wee pint and a ride on St. Patty's Day!

West Vancouver | Cypress Mountain | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Party

Spring Break Days at the Burnaby Village Museum

Join us for 12 days of Spring Break fun at the Burnaby Village Museum!

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Kids | 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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Sound Bites - Janelle Nadeau

Janelle has earned fans across the country with her magnetic solo harp performances, which draw from a diverse repertoire of classical, Celtic, original, and contemporary tunes

Burnaby | Studio Theatre | 12:00 am to 11:05 am | Music

Spring Break Drop-In: Farm Life

Bring the kids for free activities, a nature walk and endless photo opps.

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

Spring Break Cosmic Public Skate

Skate in the dark under super cool lighting. For extra fun, wear something fluorescent so you’ll glow!

Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 12:00 am to 8:00 pm | Family

Spring Break Festival: Peter Pan

Wendy Darling is sad to learn that she’s growing too old to stay in the nursery any longer, and must move to the adult wing of the house

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm | Theatre

Shen Yun

Shen Yun’s unique artistic vision expands theatrical experience into a multi-dimensional, deeply moving journey through one of humanity’s greatest treasures—the five millennia of traditional Chinese culture

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Performing Arts

Carnifex & 3TEETH

CARNIFEX is something musically unique. What really makes CARNIFEX stand out from the throngs of other Hard Rock acts currently scouring the planet, are their savage live performances

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 5:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Karaoke for fun

Come out and sing your favorite karaoke songs. Our karaoke collection features a good variety of older classics and some newer songs as well. Open to everyone 55 and older, drop-in. Come join the fun

Richmond | Minoru Centre for Active | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music | Free

Ibram X. Kendi

The Phil Lind Initiative is pleased to present keynote speaker Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning historian and author of Stamped From The Beginning

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Lecture

Jazz Jam

Join us at the Shadbolt for a jazz jam session! Hosted by Cory Weeds, the Jazz Jam features a stellar lineup of local jazz musicians in an improvised evening of music

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music | 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

Vancouver Welsh Men's Choir - Celtic Traditions

The Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir presents a wide repertoire of traditional and contemporary choral music with the unique and powerful resonance of a large group of male voices singing in four-part harmony

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Trans Scripts, Part 1: The Women

Trans Scripts centres on the lives of seven transgender women. These true stories, compiled from over 70 interviews from around the world, are honest, funny, moving, insightful and inspiring

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

КАК Попасть В РАЙ комедия

Комедия с элементами триллера и мистификации

Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Music on Main. Double Happiness: Detour This Way

Sounding two parallel histories, this multimedia performance winds through complexities of the Chinese diaspora

Vancouver | Left of Main | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Drive By Truckers - The Commodore Ballroom

The Drive-By Truckers are an alternative country/Southern rock band based in Athens, Georgia

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

March 18, 2020

Wed

We LOVE WATER @ School

How do you love water? Join youth leaders from across Metro Vancouver to snowshoe on Mount Seymour and learn about our water supply system in a fun and interactive way

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 8:30 am to 4:30 pm | Kids

Art-Ventures in Nature

The world around us has more to offer than meets the eye. Explore the outdoors and practice different art forms such as painting, drawing and journaling

Maple Ridge | Kanaka Creek Regional Park | 8:45 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

Spring AquaCamps

AquaCamps offer your children 4 to 12 years of age a fun and educational experience of a lifetime

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 8:45 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

Vancouver International Dance Festival: inDANCE (Toronto)- Śiva kissed Viṣṇu

inDANCE’s Śiva kissed Viṣṇu is an original Bharatanatyam-inspired contemporary full-length duet choreographed by Hari Krishnan for dancers Arun Mathai and Sujit Vaidya

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

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Spring Break Nature Camps: March 16-27

Our carefully crafted Spring Break Nature Camps offer a blend of science, exploration, games and crafts and are suitable for children 5 – 8 years old

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:30 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

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

Vancouver Whitecaps FC Combine

Come and watch the next generation of soccer stars in action!

Surrey | Newton Athletic Park | 10:00 am to 8:00 pm | Sports

Exhibition - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

Spring Break at Fort Langley National Historic Site

Travel back to the mid-1800s and explore life at Fort Langley

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

Spring Break Festival: Peter Pan

Wendy Darling is sad to learn that she’s growing too old to stay in the nursery any longer, and must move to the adult wing of the house

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Theatre

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

Spring Break 2020

There’s more to light than meets your eye! Visit the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre this Spring Break and find out how astronomers use visible light from the Sun, infrared heat waves and x-rays to understand some of the mysteries of our universe.

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Kids

Spring Break at the Nature House

​Wednesdays are wild at the Burnaby Lake Nature House with activities and crafts to help you and your kids get outside and experience nature this spring break.

Burnaby | Burnaby Lake Regional Park | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

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

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 3:00 pm | Kids

Spring Break Days at the Burnaby Village Museum

Join us for 12 days of Spring Break fun at the Burnaby Village Museum!

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Kids | 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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Spring Break Drop-In: Farm Life

Bring the kids for free activities, a nature walk and endless photo opps.

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

Spring Break Cosmic Public Skate

Skate in the dark under super cool lighting. For extra fun, wear something fluorescent so you’ll glow!

Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 12:00 am to 8:00 pm | Family

Tampa Bay Lightning @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

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

Kimono Dressing Class

Learn how to put on a kimono and obi by yourself in this 4-session class! Please bring your own set - you’ll learn how to make your own obiita, koshihimo and datejime in the first class

Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Workshop

Vancouver Giants vs. Kamloops Blazers

The Vancouver Giants host the Kamloops Blazers in regular season action on Wednesday, March 18th.

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

Theatre Replacement: MINE

On stage, a group of gamer/performers aged 11 to 46 enact different mother-son narratives—from the Beowulf saga, to Bambi, to The Terminator—using the video game Minecraft

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Performing Arts

2020 The Decibel Magazine Tour feat. Mayhem, Abbath + More

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

Friday Night Dance

Drop-in Lessons and Practice Dances

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Light Rapid Transit

Five hundred thirteen thousand, seven hundred people will take Translink Skytrains today. Nine of those people are inextricably linked by Light Rapid Transit

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 0:00 am | Performing Arts

Trans Scripts, Part 1: The Women

Trans Scripts centres on the lives of seven transgender women. These true stories, compiled from over 70 interviews from around the world, are honest, funny, moving, insightful and inspiring

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Music on Main. Double Happiness: Detour This Way

Sounding two parallel histories, this multimedia performance winds through complexities of the Chinese diaspora

Vancouver | Left of Main | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Directo Productions: Paris! The Show

This spectacular evening is a vibrant tribute to the greatest French songs of the post-war years, and exports the charm and the essence of Paris for the whole world to enjoy

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Show

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

March 19, 2020

Thu

Art-Ventures in Nature

The world around us has more to offer than meets the eye. Explore the outdoors and practice different art forms such as painting, drawing and journaling

Maple Ridge | Kanaka Creek Regional Park | 8:45 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

Spring AquaCamps

AquaCamps offer your children 4 to 12 years of age a fun and educational experience of a lifetime

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 8:45 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

Vancouver International Dance Festival: inDANCE (Toronto)- Śiva kissed Viṣṇu

inDANCE’s Śiva kissed Viṣṇu is an original Bharatanatyam-inspired contemporary full-length duet choreographed by Hari Krishnan for dancers Arun Mathai and Sujit Vaidya

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

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Spring Break Nature Camps: March 16-27

Our carefully crafted Spring Break Nature Camps offer a blend of science, exploration, games and crafts and are suitable for children 5 – 8 years old

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:30 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

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

Vancouver Whitecaps FC Combine

Come and watch the next generation of soccer stars in action!

Surrey | Newton Athletic Park | 10:00 am to 8:00 pm | Sports

Exhibition - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

Spring Break at Fort Langley National Historic Site

Travel back to the mid-1800s and explore life at Fort Langley

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

Spring Break Festival: Beauty and the Beast

When a handsome but arrogant prince insults a mysterious old woman who appears at his door one rainy night, he finds himself magically transformed into a “horrible, nasty Beast”!

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Theatre

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

Spring Break 2020

There’s more to light than meets your eye! Visit the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre this Spring Break and find out how astronomers use visible light from the Sun, infrared heat waves and x-rays to understand some of the mysteries of our universe.

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 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

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 3:00 pm | Kids

Spring Break Days at the Burnaby Village Museum

Join us for 12 days of Spring Break fun at the Burnaby Village Museum!

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Kids | Free

Spring Break Cosmic Public Skate

Skate in the dark under super cool lighting. For extra fun, wear something fluorescent so you’ll glow!

Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 12:00 am to 8:00 pm | Family

Exhibition: Show and Tell

Professional Federation of Canadian Artists will be showing and demonstrating their work

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Spring Break Drop-In: Farm Life

Bring the kids for free activities, a nature walk and endless photo opps.

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

Spring Break Festival: Peter Pan

Wendy Darling is sad to learn that she’s growing too old to stay in the nursery any longer, and must move to the adult wing of the house

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm | Theatre

Shen Yun

Shen Yun’s unique artistic vision expands theatrical experience into a multi-dimensional, deeply moving journey through one of humanity’s greatest treasures—the five millennia of traditional Chinese culture

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 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

Community Movie Night: Aladdin (Live Action)

Enjoy free indoor screenings of popular movies at City Centre Community Centre as part of the Community Movie Series

Richmond | City Centre Community Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Film | Free

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Farouche

The three of us are here to coexist. Today we are different than we were yesterday. Tonight will be different from last night. Tomorrow will be different from tonight. We shift, listen, and let you in. Here we are again

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Jenny Scheinman & Allison Miller's Parlour Game

In their latest endeavor PARLOUR GAME, the dynamic duo of violinist Jenny Scheinman and drummer Allison Miller, along with the formidable pianist Carmen Staaf and bassist Tony Scherr, dig into the rootsier elements of jazz

Vancouver | Western Front | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Theatre Replacement: MINE

On stage, a group of gamer/performers aged 11 to 46 enact different mother-son narratives—from the Beowulf saga, to Bambi, to The Terminator—using the video game Minecraft

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Performing Arts

Qwalena: The Wild Woman Who Steals Children

Indigenous storytellers 3 Crows Productions return to perform their scary multimedia story of “Qwalena: The Wild Woman That Steals Children” in the Planetarium Star Theatre

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Light Rapid Transit

Five hundred thirteen thousand, seven hundred people will take Translink Skytrains today. Nine of those people are inextricably linked by Light Rapid Transit

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 0:00 am | Performing Arts

Trans Scripts, Part 1: The Women

Trans Scripts centres on the lives of seven transgender women. These true stories, compiled from over 70 interviews from around the world, are honest, funny, moving, insightful and inspiring

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

The Tango Studio: La Juan D-Arienzo Orquesta Tipica de Tango

Direct from Buenos Aires the top tango orchestra in the world today plays a mesmerizing and unforgettable performance

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Music on Main. Double Happiness: Detour This Way

Sounding two parallel histories, this multimedia performance winds through complexities of the Chinese diaspora

Vancouver | Left of Main | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Theatre Series: A Chorus Line

A beautiful snapshot of the inner life of performers - their authenticity, vulnerability and desperate need to be loved

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

Marion Cowings

Marion Cowings is a bandleader, singer and educator. He was mentored by the legendary vocalist Jon Hendricks, and while still in high school was chosen as a vocal soloist with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic

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

Skyborn By Quelemia Sparrow

Multimedia Drama. One woman's journey towards spiritual reclamation

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

March 20, 2020

Fri

Art-Ventures in Nature

The world around us has more to offer than meets the eye. Explore the outdoors and practice different art forms such as painting, drawing and journaling

Maple Ridge | Kanaka Creek Regional Park | 8:45 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

Spring AquaCamps

AquaCamps offer your children 4 to 12 years of age a fun and educational experience of a lifetime

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 8:45 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

Vancouver International Dance Festival: inDANCE (Toronto)- Śiva kissed Viṣṇu

inDANCE’s Śiva kissed Viṣṇu is an original Bharatanatyam-inspired contemporary full-length duet choreographed by Hari Krishnan for dancers Arun Mathai and Sujit Vaidya

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

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Spring Break Nature Camps: March 16-27

Our carefully crafted Spring Break Nature Camps offer a blend of science, exploration, games and crafts and are suitable for children 5 – 8 years old

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:30 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

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

Playdome 2020

Western Canada’s largest indoor carnival is back for spring break 2020 with 9 fun-filled days of carnival rides, games and sweet treats

Vancouver | BC Place | 10:00 am to 9:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Whitecaps FC Combine

Come and watch the next generation of soccer stars in action!

Surrey | Newton Athletic Park | 10:00 am to 8:00 pm | Sports

Exhibition - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

Spring Break at Fort Langley National Historic Site

Travel back to the mid-1800s and explore life at Fort Langley

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

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

Spring Break 2020

There’s more to light than meets your eye! Visit the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre this Spring Break and find out how astronomers use visible light from the Sun, infrared heat waves and x-rays to understand some of the mysteries of our universe.

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 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

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 3:00 pm | Kids

Spring Break Days at the Burnaby Village Museum

Join us for 12 days of Spring Break fun at the Burnaby Village Museum!

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Kids | Free

Music Department Student Showcase

Join us at the BlueShore at CapU for the music department's student showcase

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

Spring Break Public Skate (Not Cosmic)

Keep active during the school break at public skating sessions. Note: This is not Cosmic Skating.

Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports

Exhibition: Show and Tell

Professional Federation of Canadian Artists will be showing and demonstrating their work

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Otakufest: A teen anime and manga celebration

Have a teen that loves all things anime, or is manga-curious? Send them to hang out with other teens at our half-day festival, including cosplay, trivia, manga-inspired crafts (with tips and tricks from professionals), and a film screening

Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 12:30 am to 5:30 pm | Books | Free

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Farouche

The three of us are here to coexist. Today we are different than we were yesterday. Tonight will be different from last night. Tomorrow will be different from tonight. We shift, listen, and let you in. Here we are again

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Theatre Replacement: MINE

On stage, a group of gamer/performers aged 11 to 46 enact different mother-son narratives—from the Beowulf saga, to Bambi, to The Terminator—using the video game Minecraft

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Performing Arts

Night Quest

​Nature at night is a magical experience. Wander 2 km of lantern-lit trails and meet squirrels, skunks and salamanders who will delight you with stories of nature at night

Vancouver | Pacific Spirit Regional Park | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Li Dan and His Friends

Awarded Annual Innovative Artist Award in 2017 at the Chinese Variety Summit Ingenuity Ceremony, Li Dan is recognized to be a person with a great spirit of fun. As a poet, he is sensitive, stubborn and desolate

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Shen Yun

Shen Yun’s unique artistic vision expands theatrical experience into a multi-dimensional, deeply moving journey through one of humanity’s greatest treasures—the five millennia of traditional Chinese culture

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Light Rapid Transit

Five hundred thirteen thousand, seven hundred people will take Translink Skytrains today. Nine of those people are inextricably linked by Light Rapid Transit

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 0:00 am | Performing Arts

ChamberFest!

A free festival of chamber music in the Chan Centre’s Telus Studio Theatre featuring UBC student chamber ensembles

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival | Free

The Teskey Brothers

The Teskey Brothers are a blues rock band from Melbourne, Australia, named after the two brothers who formed the group in 2008: Josh Teskey and Sam Teskey

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Rodney Carrington

Rodney Carrington is a multitalented comedian, actor, and writer who has recorded eight major record label comedy albums selling over 3 million copies

Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Show

Listening Lounge Series - Sweet Alibi

Known for their soulful three-part harmonies, Western Canadian Music Award Winners Sweet Alibi, have shared their folk roots-pop infused music with listeners across North America and Europe since 2009

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | Music

Ain't True & Uncle False

Step into the Big Fib Trailer Park and meet its colourful inhabitants. You'll never want to leave.

Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Music on Main. Double Happiness: Detour This Way

Sounding two parallel histories, this multimedia performance winds through complexities of the Chinese diaspora

Vancouver | Left of Main | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Eroica

Presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as part of the Classical Traditions series at the Chan Centre

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Theatre Series: A Chorus Line

A beautiful snapshot of the inner life of performers - their authenticity, vulnerability and desperate need to be loved

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

Trans Scripts, Part 1: The Women

Trans Scripts centres on the lives of seven transgender women. These true stories, compiled from over 70 interviews from around the world, are honest, funny, moving, insightful and inspiring

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Commodore Ballroom: La Roux

La Roux is Elly Jackson, a Grammy-winning and BRIT and Mercury-Prize-nominated artist and producer who shot to worldwide fame with her debut self-titled album

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Skyborn By Quelemia Sparrow

Multimedia Drama. One woman's journey towards spiritual reclamation

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

RUBBERBANDance Group (Montreal) - Ever So Slightly

In their inaugural presentation with DanceHouse, powerhouse Canadian company RUBBERBANDance kicks off with a roar

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Karen Flamenco Dance Company - The Kino Cafe

Karen Flamenco is a progressive learning dance academy which emphasizes performance, stressing technique, strength, individual and artistic expression. The program has a strong foundation in traditional, clasico & modern flamenco dance forms.

Vancouver | Kino Cafe | 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Dance

March 21, 2020

Sat

20/20 Perspectives in Canadian Ceramics

The Canadian Clay Symposium offers a unique glimpse into how ceramic artists handle their mud with a 20/20 focus on Canadian perspectives

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts

Vancouver International Dance Festival: inDANCE (Toronto)- Śiva kissed Viṣṇu

inDANCE’s Śiva kissed Viṣṇu is an original Bharatanatyam-inspired contemporary full-length duet choreographed by Hari Krishnan for dancers Arun Mathai and Sujit Vaidya

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

Vancouver Orchid Society Show & Sale

Join the Vancouver Orchid Society for their Spring Sale

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Nature / Animals

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

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 | Surrey Nature Centre at Green Timbers | 9:00 am to 11:00 am | Nature / Animals | Free

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

NEXT: Matilda Aslizadeh is part of Capture Photography Festival’s 2020 Selected Exhibition Program

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

Anime Evolution presents: Harumatsuri 2020

Our community-favourite spring event, Anime Evolution: Harumatsuri, will be back at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre for 2020!

Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm

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 - Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

Vancouver-based artist Matilda Aslizadeh’s engaging video and photographic installation Moly and Kassandra (2018) addresses the relationship between culture and resource

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

Playdome 2020

Western Canada’s largest indoor carnival is back for spring break 2020 with 9 fun-filled days of carnival rides, games and sweet treats

Vancouver | BC Place | 10:00 am to 9:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Whitecaps FC Combine

Come and watch the next generation of soccer stars in action!

Surrey | Newton Athletic Park | 10:00 am to 8:00 pm | Sports

Exhibition - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

Spring Break at Fort Langley National Historic Site

Travel back to the mid-1800s and explore life at Fort Langley

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

Burnaby Artisan Farmers' Market

The place to find locally grown conventional and organic produce, prepared foods and crafts every Saturday. The market's winter season runs November through April.

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

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

Spring Break 2020

There’s more to light than meets your eye! Visit the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre this Spring Break and find out how astronomers use visible light from the Sun, infrared heat waves and x-rays to understand some of the mysteries of our universe.

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Kids

The Tin Man Was A Dreamer: Allegories, Poetics And Performances Of Power

The exhibition title refers to the Tin Man, a character from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz who earnestly sets out in search of a heart, only to discover that he has had compassion all along

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 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

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

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 3:00 pm | Kids

Spring Break Days at the Burnaby Village Museum

Join us for 12 days of Spring Break fun at the Burnaby Village Museum!

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Kids | Free

Get Outside - Godwin Farm Biodiversity Preserve

Get outside to explore and connect with nature through a variety of hands-on activities this spring

Surrey | Godwin Farm Biodiversity Preserve | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Spring Break Public Skate (Not Cosmic)

Keep active during the school break at public skating sessions. Note: This is not Cosmic Skating.

Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports

Exhibition: Show and Tell

Professional Federation of Canadian Artists will be showing and demonstrating their work

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Conifer ID Walk

Further your plant ID skills using the tree collections at VanDusen

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 12:00 am to 2:00 pm | Nature / Animals

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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 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

Drum Making Workshop returns to Museum of Vancouver

Join Derrick Whiteskycloud of the Metis Nation in a ceremonial and educational drum making workshop

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Workshop

Westminster Savings Family Day - March

Looking for a fun, free, and engaging way to spend time with your family? Join us for a family-friendly tour of our current exhibition and take part in a fun art-making activity!

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Family | Free

Péché Day 2019 by Darby's Pub & Liquor Store

Join us Saturday March 21st for Péché Day 2020! Darby's Pub is proud to take part in this epic tap takeover with Brasserie Dieu-du-Ciel for the 3rd time!

Vancouver | Darby's Pub & Liquor Store | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine

Brewski 2020 at Cypress

Join Us For A Day Of Free Beer Samples And Good Times. Need We Say More? It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year...

West Vancouver | Cypress Mountain | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Sports

Indigenous - Made Monthly Matinee: The Mountain of SGaan

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

Karen Flamenco Dance Company - Teatro Intimo Del Flamenco

The one-hour production welcomes audiences of all ages with live traditional flamenco music, dance, storylines, puppetry and magic

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Dance

Devastation On The Nation 2020

with Rotting Christ, Borknagar, Wolfheart, Abigail Williams, Imperial Triumphant

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

Competitive Paint Off

Participate as an artist or an observer in this action-packed event

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Farouche

The three of us are here to coexist. Today we are different than we were yesterday. Tonight will be different from last night. Tomorrow will be different from tonight. We shift, listen, and let you in. Here we are again

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Criss Angel - RAW The Mindfreak Unplugged Tour

Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos, known by the stage name Criss Angel, is an American magician, illusionist and musician

Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Show

Dan Deacon - Mystic Familiar Tour

American composer and electronic musician returns to Vancouver

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Theatre Replacement: MINE

On stage, a group of gamer/performers aged 11 to 46 enact different mother-son narratives—from the Beowulf saga, to Bambi, to The Terminator—using the video game Minecraft

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Performing Arts

Hard Knocks at The Hard Rock

Alliance Boxing Promotions presents Hard Knocks at The Hard Rock, an action packed professional boxing event featuring local up and coming boxers & international talent

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

Night Quest

​Nature at night is a magical experience. Wander 2 km of lantern-lit trails and meet squirrels, skunks and salamanders who will delight you with stories of nature at night

Vancouver | Pacific Spirit Regional Park | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Shen Yun

Shen Yun’s unique artistic vision expands theatrical experience into a multi-dimensional, deeply moving journey through one of humanity’s greatest treasures—the five millennia of traditional Chinese culture

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Light Rapid Transit

Five hundred thirteen thousand, seven hundred people will take Translink Skytrains today. Nine of those people are inextricably linked by Light Rapid Transit

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 0:00 am | Performing Arts

Wilco Ode to Joy tour

Wilco's music has been inspired by a wide variety of artists and styles, including Bill Fay, The Beatles and Television, and has in turn influenced music by a number of modern alternative rock acts

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

ABRA Cadabra - A Tribute to Abba

Experience the music of ABBA like never before with world renowned ABBA Tribute ‘ABRA Cadabra’ returning to The Massey Theatre!

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

Paul Strickland: Ain't True and Uncle False

Step Right Up! Learn how they make Black-Eyed Peas by punching Green Peas! Meet conjoined twins who are not the same age! Mark Twain meets Tim Burton in this multi-award winning one-man Tall-Tale Comedy!

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

Double Trouble Im Hussein

A scammer promises Im Hussein and her husband Abou Hussein $1.5 million, with strings attached. The two fall for the swindle and deplete their savings account to comply. Confusion reigns when a man arrives with a shocking claim

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

Music on Main. Double Happiness: Detour This Way

Sounding two parallel histories, this multimedia performance winds through complexities of the Chinese diaspora

Vancouver | Left of Main | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Eroica

Presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as part of the Classical Traditions series at the Chan Centre

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Theatre Series: A Chorus Line

A beautiful snapshot of the inner life of performers - their authenticity, vulnerability and desperate need to be loved

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

Trans Scripts, Part 1: The Women

Trans Scripts centres on the lives of seven transgender women. These true stories, compiled from over 70 interviews from around the world, are honest, funny, moving, insightful and inspiring

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Royal Canadian Theatre Company: Screwball Comedy By Norm Foster

It’s 1938 and ambitious young journalist Mary must accompany distracted reporter Jeff on a society story that quickly turns into a mystery while their growing attraction for each other gets in the way

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

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

Skyborn By Quelemia Sparrow

Multimedia Drama. One woman's journey towards spiritual reclamation

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

RUBBERBANDance Group (Montreal) - Ever So Slightly

In their inaugural presentation with DanceHouse, powerhouse Canadian company RUBBERBANDance kicks off with a roar

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

The Rickshaw presents: Little Miss Higgins

Winnipeg folk/roots artist Little Miss Higgins comes to Vancouver! With guests

Vancouver | LanaLou's | 8:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Reckless: Bryan Adams Tribute

Eleven US Top Ten hits…Five Top Ten Albums…Six Multi-Platinum Awards. These are just a few of the achievements Grammy and Juno Award Winning superstar Bryan Adams, has earned in a career spanning over 40 years!

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Brent Faiyaz - Fuck The World Tour With guest: GRIP

GRAMMY® nominated artist Brent Faiyaz has announced his 2020 “Fuck The World” Tour

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

D-Block & S-te-Fan

D-Block & S-te-Fan return to Vancouver

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

March 22, 2020

Sun

Vancouver Orchid Society Show & Sale

Join the Vancouver Orchid Society for their Spring Sale

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Nature / Animals

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

NEXT: Matilda Aslizadeh is part of Capture Photography Festival’s 2020 Selected Exhibition Program

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 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 - Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

Vancouver-based artist Matilda Aslizadeh’s engaging video and photographic installation Moly and Kassandra (2018) addresses the relationship between culture and resource

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

Veggies on Your Patio

This seasonal favourite is perfect for urban gardeners who want to get started with growing veggies in containers, but need tips on where to begin

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

Playdome 2020

Western Canada’s largest indoor carnival is back for spring break 2020 with 9 fun-filled days of carnival rides, games and sweet treats

Vancouver | BC Place | 10:00 am to 9:00 pm | Family

Exhibition - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

Spring Break at Fort Langley National Historic Site

Travel back to the mid-1800s and explore life at Fort Langley

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

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

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

Spring Break 2020

There’s more to light than meets your eye! Visit the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre this Spring Break and find out how astronomers use visible light from the Sun, infrared heat waves and x-rays to understand some of the mysteries of our universe.

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Kids

The Tin Man Was A Dreamer: Allegories, Poetics And Performances Of Power

The exhibition title refers to the Tin Man, a character from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz who earnestly sets out in search of a heart, only to discover that he has had compassion all along

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 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

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 3:00 pm | Kids

Spring Break Days at the Burnaby Village Museum

Join us for 12 days of Spring Break fun at the Burnaby Village Museum!

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Kids | Free

Spring Break Public Skate (Not Cosmic)

Keep active during the school break at public skating sessions. Note: This is not Cosmic Skating.

Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports

Exhibition: Show and Tell

Professional Federation of Canadian Artists will be showing and demonstrating their work

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Medicine Wheel Ceremony

The Medicine Wheel is a symbol of holistic teachings based on the cycles of nature

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 12:00 am to 3:00 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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Cedar Basket Weaving

Many of our sacred teachings come from the cedar tree; there is a lot to learn from her. Particpants will learn traditional knowledge of cedar, and the historical and spiritual importance of cedar and the steps of harvesting cedar bark

Vancouver | Mount Pleasant Community Centre | 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Workshop

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Boogaloo Academy & Now or Never Crew

Under the direction of Anita Perel-Panar and Jheric Hizon (B-Boy “Twist”), Boogaloo Academy students energise the Woodward's Atrium together with the amazing Now or Never Crew

Vancouver | Woodwards Atrium | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Shen Yun

Shen Yun’s unique artistic vision expands theatrical experience into a multi-dimensional, deeply moving journey through one of humanity’s greatest treasures—the five millennia of traditional Chinese culture

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Performing Arts

Conversational Tour of Don Hutchinson and Ying-Yueh Chuang: Passages

Artist Ying-Yueh Chuang and SAG curators host a conversational tour of Passages ceramics exhibition

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Theatre Replacement: MINE

On stage, a group of gamer/performers aged 11 to 46 enact different mother-son narratives—from the Beowulf saga, to Bambi, to The Terminator—using the video game Minecraft

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

Theatre Series: A Chorus Line

A beautiful snapshot of the inner life of performers—their authenticity, vulnerability and desperate need to be loved

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music

VSO at the ANNEX presents Carte Blanche: Samy Moussa

Samy Moussa is a Canadian conductor and composer of classical music, living in Paris and Rome. His works have been performed internationally

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 2:00 pm to 3:40 pm | Music

Karen Flamenco Dance Company - Teatro Intimo Del Flamenco

The one-hour production welcomes audiences of all ages with live traditional flamenco music, dance, storylines, puppetry and magic

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Dance

The Friends of Chamber Music present: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - Young Masters

Masterpieces by Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Strauss will be played brilliantly by CMS master musicians Gilles Vonsattel, Arnaud Sussmann, Alexi Kenney, Yura Lee, Richard O’Neill and David Requiro

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

Vancouver Recital Society: Sir András Schiff, piano

Experience Sir Andráa Schiff’s monumental and mesmerizing interpretation of J.S. Bach’s iconic Goldberg Variations.

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

Royal Canadian Theatre Company: Screwball Comedy By Norm Foster

It’s 1938 and ambitious young journalist Mary must accompany distracted reporter Jeff on a society story that quickly turns into a mystery while their growing attraction for each other gets in the way

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Comedy

G. Love & Special SAUCE With Guest Jontavious Willis

American hip-hop/blues band, on tour to support their upcoming new release “The Juice”

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Blackberry Smoke - Till The Wheels Fall Off Tour

Blackberry Smoke is an American rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The lineup consists of Charlie Starr, Richard Turner, Brit Turner, Paul Jackson, Brandon Still

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

Light Rapid Transit

Five hundred thirteen thousand, seven hundred people will take Translink Skytrains today. Nine of those people are inextricably linked by Light Rapid Transit

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 0:00 am | Performing Arts

Vancouver Giants vs. Kelowna Rockets

The final Vancouver Giants regular season home game for the 2019-20 season also takes place against the 2020 Memorial Cup hosts from Kelowna

Langley | Langley Events Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports

Early Music Vancouver: New Music for Old Instruments

The Pacific Baroque Orchestra continues its exploration of contemporary music written for period instruments. Programme to include music by all BC-based composers. Stay tuned for programme details!

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Music on Main. Double Happiness: Detour This Way

Sounding two parallel histories, this multimedia performance winds through complexities of the Chinese diaspora

Vancouver | Left of Main | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

March 23, 2020

Mon

Spring AquaCamps

AquaCamps offer your children 4 to 12 years of age a fun and educational experience of a lifetime

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 8:45 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Spring Break Nature Camps: March 16-27

Our carefully crafted Spring Break Nature Camps offer a blend of science, exploration, games and crafts and are suitable for children 5 – 8 years old

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:30 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

NEXT: Matilda Aslizadeh is part of Capture Photography Festival’s 2020 Selected Exhibition Program

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 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 - Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

Vancouver-based artist Matilda Aslizadeh’s engaging video and photographic installation Moly and Kassandra (2018) addresses the relationship between culture and resource

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

Playdome 2020

Western Canada’s largest indoor carnival is back for spring break 2020 with 9 fun-filled days of carnival rides, games and sweet treats

Vancouver | BC Place | 10:00 am to 9:00 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

Spring Break at Fort Langley National Historic Site

Travel back to the mid-1800s and explore life at Fort Langley

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

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

Spring Break 2020

There’s more to light than meets your eye! Visit the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre this Spring Break and find out how astronomers use visible light from the Sun, infrared heat waves and x-rays to understand some of the mysteries of our universe.

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Kids

The Tin Man Was A Dreamer: Allegories, Poetics And Performances Of Power

The exhibition title refers to the Tin Man, a character from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz who earnestly sets out in search of a heart, only to discover that he has had compassion all along

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

Spring Break Days at the Burnaby Village Museum

Join us for 12 days of Spring Break fun at the Burnaby Village Museum!

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Kids | Free

Spring Break Public Skate (Not Cosmic)

Keep active during the school break at public skating sessions. Note: This is not Cosmic Skating.

Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

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

An Evening with Dr. Jane Goodall

Dr. Goodall’s talks never fail to inspire people of all ages as she recounts her unique experiences as a young woman working alone in the rainforest and her hope for a future where people live in harmony with nature

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

Early Music Vancouver. Chopin Solo Works feat. Tomasz Ritter 2018 Chopin Competition Winner

In September 2018, 23-year-old Tomasz Ritter won the 1st Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

March 24, 2020

Tue

Spring AquaCamps

AquaCamps offer your children 4 to 12 years of age a fun and educational experience of a lifetime

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 8:45 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Spring Break Nature Camps: March 16-27

Our carefully crafted Spring Break Nature Camps offer a blend of science, exploration, games and crafts and are suitable for children 5 – 8 years old

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:30 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

The Tin Man Was A Dreamer: Allegories, Poetics And Performances Of Power

The exhibition title refers to the Tin Man, a character from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz who earnestly sets out in search of a heart, only to discover that he has had compassion all along

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

Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

NEXT: Matilda Aslizadeh is part of Capture Photography Festival’s 2020 Selected Exhibition Program

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 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 - Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

Vancouver-based artist Matilda Aslizadeh’s engaging video and photographic installation Moly and Kassandra (2018) addresses the relationship between culture and resource

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

Playdome 2020

Western Canada’s largest indoor carnival is back for spring break 2020 with 9 fun-filled days of carnival rides, games and sweet treats

Vancouver | BC Place | 10:00 am to 9:00 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

Spring Break at Fort Langley National Historic Site

Travel back to the mid-1800s and explore life at Fort Langley

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

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

Spring Break 2020

There’s more to light than meets your eye! Visit the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre this Spring Break and find out how astronomers use visible light from the Sun, infrared heat waves and x-rays to understand some of the mysteries of our universe.

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Kids

Spring Break Days at the Burnaby Village Museum

Join us for 12 days of Spring Break fun at the Burnaby Village Museum!

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Kids | Free

Spring Break Public Skate (Not Cosmic)

Keep active during the school break at public skating sessions. Note: This is not Cosmic Skating.

Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports

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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Spring Break Drop-In: Farm Life

Bring the kids for free activities, a nature walk and endless photo opps.

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

Jesmyn Ward

The Phil Lind Initiative is pleased to present keynote speaker Jesmyn Ward, MacArthur Genius and two-time National Book Award winner

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 6:00 pm to 7:30 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

Masters of Illusion Live!

These cutting-edge illusionists perform sleight-of-hand, perplexing interactive mind magic, hilarious comedy, dangerous escapes and large scale illusions

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Artist Performance - Erica Stocking

Join exhibiting artist Erica Stocking as she leads a one hour multidisciplinary theatrical performance bringing together sculpture, dance and fashion in an interpretation her exhibition installation

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Visual Arts | Free

The Vancouver Recital Society: Sir András Schiff Performs Beethoven

For this all-Beethoven performance, we return to the intimate confines of the Vancouver Playhouse. The great pianist Sir András Schiff turns his talents to Beethoven’s sonatas in this, the 250th Anniversary year of the composer’s birth

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

For King & Country burn the ships World Tour 2020 Canada

For King & Country, stylized as for KING & COUNTRY and formerly known as Joel & Luke as well as Austoville, is a Christian pop duo composed of Australian brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone

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

Skyborn By Quelemia Sparrow

Multimedia Drama. One woman's journey towards spiritual reclamation

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

March 25, 2020

Wed

Spring AquaCamps

AquaCamps offer your children 4 to 12 years of age a fun and educational experience of a lifetime

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 8:45 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Spring Break Nature Camps: March 16-27

Our carefully crafted Spring Break Nature Camps offer a blend of science, exploration, games and crafts and are suitable for children 5 – 8 years old

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:30 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

The Tin Man Was A Dreamer: Allegories, Poetics And Performances Of Power

The exhibition title refers to the Tin Man, a character from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz who earnestly sets out in search of a heart, only to discover that he has had compassion all along

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

Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

NEXT: Matilda Aslizadeh is part of Capture Photography Festival’s 2020 Selected Exhibition Program

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

Spring Break at the Nature House

​Wednesdays are wild at the Burnaby Lake Nature House with activities and crafts to help you and your kids get outside and experience nature this spring break

Burnaby | Burnaby Lake Regional Park | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

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 - Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

Vancouver-based artist Matilda Aslizadeh’s engaging video and photographic installation Moly and Kassandra (2018) addresses the relationship between culture and resource

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

Vancouver International Auto Show 2020

Western Canada’s best attended consumer show, and one of Western North America’s premier automotive exhibition events

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 9:30 pm | Exhibition

Playdome 2020

Western Canada’s largest indoor carnival is back for spring break 2020 with 9 fun-filled days of carnival rides, games and sweet treats

Vancouver | BC Place | 10:00 am to 9:00 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

Spring Break at Fort Langley National Historic Site

Travel back to the mid-1800s and explore life at Fort Langley

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

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

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

Spring Break 2020

There’s more to light than meets your eye! Visit the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre this Spring Break and find out how astronomers use visible light from the Sun, infrared heat waves and x-rays to understand some of the mysteries of our universe.

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 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

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 3:00 pm | Kids

Spring Break Days at the Burnaby Village Museum

Join us for 12 days of Spring Break fun at the Burnaby Village Museum!

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Kids | Free

Spring Break Public Skate (Not Cosmic)

Keep active during the school break at public skating sessions. Note: This is not Cosmic Skating.

Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports

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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Spring Break Drop-In: Farm Life

Bring the kids for free activities, a nature walk and endless photo opps.

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

San Jose Sharks @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

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

Kimono Dressing Class

Learn how to put on a kimono and obi by yourself in this 4-session class! Please bring your own set - you’ll learn how to make your own obiita, koshihimo and datejime in the first class

Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Workshop

CAG Young Patrons - Studio Tour with Steven Brekelmans

CAG Young Patrons are invited to join us for an exclusive, private visit with Vancouver-based artist Steven Brekelmans in his Mount Pleasant studio

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Olivia O'Brien

American singer-songwriter, born November 26, 1999 in Thousand Oaks, CA

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Light Rapid Transit

Five hundred thirteen thousand, seven hundred people will take Translink Skytrains today. Nine of those people are inextricably linked by Light Rapid Transit

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 0:00 am | Performing Arts

Studio 58 presents FourPlay 2020

FourPlay: New Work by Excited Writers continues a Studio 58 tradition

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

Theatre Series: A Chorus Line

A beautiful snapshot of the inner life of performers - their authenticity, vulnerability and desperate need to be loved

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

Between Breaths

Well known in Newfoundland as the Whale Man, Dr. Jon Lien pioneered techniques for rescuing whales entrapped in fishing nets, this is the story of the man and his amazing life story

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

Skyborn By Quelemia Sparrow

Multimedia Drama. One woman's journey towards spiritual reclamation

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

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: FakeKnot - HINKYPUNK

HINKYPUNK is a 50 minute solo dance work that is based on the notion of how identity is conflated with iconography and pop culture

Vancouver | KW Production Studio | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Performing Arts

March 26, 2020

Thu

Spring AquaCamps

AquaCamps offer your children 4 to 12 years of age a fun and educational experience of a lifetime

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 8:45 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Spring Break Nature Camps: March 16-27

Our carefully crafted Spring Break Nature Camps offer a blend of science, exploration, games and crafts and are suitable for children 5 – 8 years old

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:30 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

The Tin Man Was A Dreamer: Allegories, Poetics And Performances Of Power

The exhibition title refers to the Tin Man, a character from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz who earnestly sets out in search of a heart, only to discover that he has had compassion all along

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

Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

NEXT: Matilda Aslizadeh is part of Capture Photography Festival’s 2020 Selected Exhibition Program

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 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 - Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

Vancouver-based artist Matilda Aslizadeh’s engaging video and photographic installation Moly and Kassandra (2018) addresses the relationship between culture and resource

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

Vancouver International Auto Show 2020

Western Canada’s best attended consumer show, and one of Western North America’s premier automotive exhibition events

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 9:30 pm | Exhibition

Playdome 2020

Western Canada’s largest indoor carnival is back for spring break 2020 with 9 fun-filled days of carnival rides, games and sweet treats

Vancouver | BC Place | 10:00 am to 9:00 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

Spring Break at Fort Langley National Historic Site

Travel back to the mid-1800s and explore life at Fort Langley

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

Spring Break: Dinosaur Days

Make this Spring Break epic with dinosaur themed activities for the kids

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Kids | 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

Spring Break 2020

There’s more to light than meets your eye! Visit the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre this Spring Break and find out how astronomers use visible light from the Sun, infrared heat waves and x-rays to understand some of the mysteries of our universe.

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 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

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 3:00 pm | Kids

Enchanted Forest

Experience the forest through the eyes of a gnome on a 1-hour nature quest. Come dressed as a magical woodland creature and bring food for the campfire

Langley | Aldergrove Regional Park | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Spring Break Days at the Burnaby Village Museum

Join us for 12 days of Spring Break fun at the Burnaby Village Museum!

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Kids | Free

Spring Break Public Skate (Not Cosmic)

Keep active during the school break at public skating sessions. Note: This is not Cosmic Skating.

Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports

Exhibition: Show and Tell

Professional Federation of Canadian Artists will be showing and demonstrating their work

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Spring Break Drop-In: Farm Life

Bring the kids for free activities, a nature walk and endless photo opps.

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Tea & Trumpets series: New York, New York

The Big Apple, known for it’s teeming streets has been the inspiration for many great artists. We spend time with Bernstein, Gershwin and Copland to get a New York state of mind

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

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

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

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival:Olivia Shaffer

Senescence (/sɪˈnɛsəns/): the process of deterioration that occurs in the aging mind and body

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Hate Speech, Freedom of Expression, and Transgender Human Rights

What is hate speech? What can we do when legal rights to free expression infringe upon the human rights and safety of transgender people?

Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Lecture | Free

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

Salish Singing and Drumming Workshop

Salish Singing & Drumming workshops are FREE workshops that are open to folks of all ages and abilities - no experience required!

Vancouver | Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre at SFU Woodward's | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Workshop | Free

Yesterday Once More

From the creators of “Oh What A Night!” and “Four By Four” direct from Las Vegas comes an electrifying new show – a unique musical revue celebrating the music of ABBA, The Carpenters, The 5th Dimension and The Mamas & Papas

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

Classic Book Club: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Discuss classic literature over tea and goodies

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Books

Light Rapid Transit

Five hundred thirteen thousand, seven hundred people will take Translink Skytrains today. Nine of those people are inextricably linked by Light Rapid Transit

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 0:00 am | Performing Arts

Beyond Words: Ridge

Featuring inventive musical interpretations of WWI soldier songs, Ridge probes difficult yet necessary questions about how and why we grieve

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Ichigo-Ichieh New Theatre

I Named “ichigo-ichieh New Theatre” For This Reason: Ichigo-ichieh Means If You Meet Someone It Is A Unique Occasion – It Happens Only Once In That Moment In Your Entire Life

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Performing Arts

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio

Richly layered, this Seattle trio’s simmering grooves and fresh take on retro soul are a must-see

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

Vancouver Fringe and Paul Strickland Presents present: Ain't True & Uncle False

Step Right Up! Mark Twain meets Tim Burton in this one-man tall-tale comedy (with songs!)

Vancouver | The Nest | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

Cookies 'n Cream Collective presents: Consensual

Written in 2015, Evan Placey’s Consensual revolves around a British secondary school’s teacher and Head of Year 11 Diane, and a mistake she made seven years earlier: she got too close to one of her unhappy 15-year-old pupils

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

The Slocan Ramblers by Evergreen Cultural Centre

The Slocan Ramblers (2019 Juno Award Nominees) are Canada’s bluegrass band to watch. Rooted in tradition, fearlessly creative and possessing a bold, dynamic sound, The Slocans have become a leading light of today’s acoustic music scene

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

Studio 58 presents FourPlay 2020

FourPlay: New Work by Excited Writers continues a Studio 58 tradition

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

Theatre Series: A Chorus Line

A beautiful snapshot of the inner life of performers - their authenticity, vulnerability and desperate need to be loved

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

Between Breaths

Well known in Newfoundland as the Whale Man, Dr. Jon Lien pioneered techniques for rescuing whales entrapped in fishing nets, this is the story of the man and his amazing life story

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

Skyborn By Quelemia Sparrow

Multimedia Drama. One woman's journey towards spiritual reclamation

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

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: FakeKnot - HINKYPUNK

HINKYPUNK is a 50 minute solo dance work that is based on the notion of how identity is conflated with iconography and pop culture

Vancouver | KW Production Studio | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Performing Arts

March 27, 2020

Fri

Spring AquaCamps

AquaCamps offer your children 4 to 12 years of age a fun and educational experience of a lifetime

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 8:45 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Spring Break Nature Camps: March 16-27

Our carefully crafted Spring Break Nature Camps offer a blend of science, exploration, games and crafts and are suitable for children 5 – 8 years old

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:30 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

The Tin Man Was A Dreamer: Allegories, Poetics And Performances Of Power

The exhibition title refers to the Tin Man, a character from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz who earnestly sets out in search of a heart, only to discover that he has had compassion all along

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

Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

NEXT: Matilda Aslizadeh is part of Capture Photography Festival’s 2020 Selected Exhibition Program

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 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 - Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

Vancouver-based artist Matilda Aslizadeh’s engaging video and photographic installation Moly and Kassandra (2018) addresses the relationship between culture and resource

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

Vancouver International Auto Show 2020

Western Canada’s best attended consumer show, and one of Western North America’s premier automotive exhibition events

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 9:30 pm | Exhibition

Playdome 2020

Western Canada’s largest indoor carnival is back for spring break 2020 with 9 fun-filled days of carnival rides, games and sweet treats

Vancouver | BC Place | 10:00 am to 9:00 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

Spring Break at Fort Langley National Historic Site

Travel back to the mid-1800s and explore life at Fort Langley

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

Spring Break: Dinosaur Days

Make this Spring Break epic with dinosaur themed activities for the kids

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Kids | 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

Spring Break 2020

There’s more to light than meets your eye! Visit the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre this Spring Break and find out how astronomers use visible light from the Sun, infrared heat waves and x-rays to understand some of the mysteries of our universe.

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Kids

Vancouver Gem & Mineral Show at PNE Forum

Vancouver Gem & Mineral Show - spring edition at PNE Forum! Western Canada’s largest Gem show is featuring 100+ of the best gem, mineral and jewellery vendors from across Canada

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 6:00 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

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 3:00 pm | Kids

Spring Break Days at the Burnaby Village Museum

Join us for 12 days of Spring Break fun at the Burnaby Village Museum!

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Kids | Free

Spring Break Public Skate (Not Cosmic)

Keep active during the school break at public skating sessions. Note: This is not Cosmic Skating.

Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports

Exhibition: Show and Tell

Professional Federation of Canadian Artists will be showing and demonstrating their work

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Peppa Pig Live! Peppa's Adventure

Peppa Pig Live! is here with the ALL NEW action-packed live stage show, Peppa Pig’s Adventure!, featuring your favourite characters as life-size puppets!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Kids

Calgary Flames @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

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

Canucks Autism Network Adapted Hockey Tournament 2020. Family Fun Night

Cheer on the players at this Adapted Hockey Tournament coming to the Surrey Sport & Leisure Complex

Surrey | Surrey Sport and Leisure Complex Arena | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Sports

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival:Olivia Shaffer

Senescence (/sɪˈnɛsəns/): the process of deterioration that occurs in the aging mind and body

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Allie X - Cape God Tour

Alexandra Ashley Hughes, known by her stage name Allie X, is a Canadian singer, songwriter and visual artist

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

March/April Exhibitions Opening Reception

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Bollywood Talkies with ANNU KAPOOR

Annu Kapoor is an Indian film actor and television presenter best-remembered for hosting the vocal reality show Antakshari from 1993 to 2006

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

Light Rapid Transit

Five hundred thirteen thousand, seven hundred people will take Translink Skytrains today. Nine of those people are inextricably linked by Light Rapid Transit

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 0:00 am | Performing Arts

UBC Concert Winds

Presented by the UBC School of Music. UBC Concert Winds perform outstanding wind repertoire, from traditional masterworks to new music

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

#IMOMSOHARD

Moms, best friends and funny ladies Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley are the creators behind the viral web series #IMOMSOHARD, where they discuss the good, the bad and the funny about motherhood – with the help of a bottle of red wine!

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Show

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Ichigo-Ichieh New Theatre

I Named “ichigo-ichieh New Theatre” For This Reason: Ichigo-ichieh Means If You Meet Someone It Is A Unique Occasion – It Happens Only Once In That Moment In Your Entire Life

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Performing Arts

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Kokoro Dance

Kokoro Dance’s butoh expression gives recurring attention to the seven aesthetic principles of Zen philosophy

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

War Baby LP Release Show with Dead Soft, The Jins, Oswald

Celebrating the release of War Baby's third full-length LP, You Are Not Here, with four local powerhouses. Bring a smock - it's gonna get grungy

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

Vancouver Fringe and Paul Strickland Presents present: Ain't True & Uncle False

Step Right Up! Mark Twain meets Tim Burton in this one-man tall-tale comedy (with songs!)

Vancouver | The Nest | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

Cookies 'n Cream Collective presents: Consensual

Written in 2015, Evan Placey’s Consensual revolves around a British secondary school’s teacher and Head of Year 11 Diane, and a mistake she made seven years earlier: she got too close to one of her unhappy 15-year-old pupils

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Pops: The Celtic Tenors

With a polished international reputation and with over a million CDs sold worldwide, The Celtic Tenors offer something truly unique — the skill, range and ability of world-class tenors, combined with the personality and fun of genuine performers

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

Studio 58 presents FourPlay 2020

FourPlay: New Work by Excited Writers continues a Studio 58 tradition

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

Theatre Series: A Chorus Line

A beautiful snapshot of the inner life of performers - their authenticity, vulnerability and desperate need to be loved

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

Between Breaths

Well known in Newfoundland as the Whale Man, Dr. Jon Lien pioneered techniques for rescuing whales entrapped in fishing nets, this is the story of the man and his amazing life story

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

Skyborn By Quelemia Sparrow

Multimedia Drama. One woman's journey towards spiritual reclamation

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

Karen Flamenco Dance Company - The Kino Cafe

Karen Flamenco is a progressive learning dance academy which emphasizes performance, stressing technique, strength, individual and artistic expression. The program has a strong foundation in traditional, clasico & modern flamenco dance forms.

Vancouver | Kino Cafe | 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Dance

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: FakeKnot - HINKYPUNK

HINKYPUNK is a 50 minute solo dance work that is based on the notion of how identity is conflated with iconography and pop culture

Vancouver | KW Production Studio | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Performing Arts

Allen Stone

Allen Stone is an American soul and R&B singer and musician

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

March 28, 2020

Sat

Canucks Autism Network Adapted Hockey Tournament 2020. Tournament Play

Cheer on the players at this Adapted Hockey Tournament coming to the Surrey Sport & Leisure Complex.

Surrey | Surrey Sport and Leisure Complex Arena | 8:00 am to 4:30 pm | Sports

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

Flea Market

Clean out your cupboards or find yourself a great bargain!

Burnaby | Confederation Community Centre | 9:30 am to 2:00 pm | Market | Free

The Tin Man Was A Dreamer: Allegories, Poetics And Performances Of Power

The exhibition title refers to the Tin Man, a character from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz who earnestly sets out in search of a heart, only to discover that he has had compassion all along

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

Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

NEXT: Matilda Aslizadeh is part of Capture Photography Festival’s 2020 Selected Exhibition Program

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 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 - Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

Vancouver-based artist Matilda Aslizadeh’s engaging video and photographic installation Moly and Kassandra (2018) addresses the relationship between culture and resource

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

Permaculture Garden Design

With Certified Permaculture Designer Justin Schneider, learn the basics of designing a diverse landscape that yields food, provides habitat, and looks beautiful

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 2:30 pm | Nature / Animals

Forest Therapy Walk in VanDusen Botanical Garden

Experience the health benefits of nature as you learn the basics of forest therapy from Vancouver's first certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Active Life / Health

Vancouver International Auto Show 2020

Western Canada’s best attended consumer show, and one of Western North America’s premier automotive exhibition events

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 9:30 pm | Exhibition

Playdome 2020

Western Canada’s largest indoor carnival is back for spring break 2020 with 9 fun-filled days of carnival rides, games and sweet treats

Vancouver | BC Place | 10:00 am to 9:00 pm | Family

Adult Ukulele Session

Taught in C Tuning by Peter Luongo and members of the Langley Ukulele Association

Langley | Langley Fundamental Elementary | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Music

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

Burnaby Artisan Farmers' Market

The place to find locally grown conventional and organic produce, prepared foods and crafts every Saturday. The market's winter season runs November through April.

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

Spring Break: Dinosaur Days

Make this Spring Break epic with dinosaur themed activities for the kids

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Kids | 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

Vancouver Gem & Mineral Show at PNE Forum

Vancouver Gem & Mineral Show - spring edition at PNE Forum! Western Canada’s largest Gem show is featuring 100+ of the best gem, mineral and jewellery vendors from across Canada

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 6:00 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

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

Aizome Indigo Dye Workshop

This workshop is suited for beginners. We will provide guidance and a variety of supplies for tying fabrics. You are also welcome to bring in a piece tied ready for dyeing

Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Workshop

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 3:00 pm | Kids

Get Outside - Blackie Spit Park

Get outside to explore and connect with nature through a variety of hands-on activities this spring

Surrey | Blackie Spit Park | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Spring Break Public Skate (Not Cosmic)

Keep active during the school break at public skating sessions. Note: This is not Cosmic Skating.

Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports

Exhibition: Show and Tell

Professional Federation of Canadian Artists will be showing and demonstrating their work

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

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

Baby Shark Live!

Take an adventure into the sea with Baby Shark as he joins his friend Pinkfong to sing and dance through some of your favourite new and classic songs!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 3:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Kids

Badass 6 at the Cultch 1: Spooky World Shorts - Filmmakers Panel Discussions

Boo, Cat Trap, The Exhibit Man, Nice Shoes, Rethink, Give In, Bargain Bin, Bed, Mask in the Desert, Polar Tour, 60s Shed, For the Goblins + Refuge & Grimm Darke

Vancouver | The Cultch | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Film

Comedy Dynamics: Candy & Smiley

Candy & Smiley is Taiwanese-Canadian Comedian Ed Hill’s first one-hour comedy special. Comedy Dynamics, a Nacelle Company, has picked up worldwide distribution of Candy & Smiley in 2020

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 6:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Comedy

Insomnium with guests Omnium Gatherum, Seven Spires, GROSS MISCONDUCT, Liberatia

Finnish melodic death metal band on tour in support of their upcoming release, Heart Like A Grave

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

What If … Documentary Series™

Join us for the film premiere and screening of the What If … Documentary Series™ at the York Theatre on March 28th.

Vancouver | York Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Film

Limblifter

Limblifter is a Canadian alternative rock band from Vancouver, formed in 1996. The group was originally formed by brothers Ryan Dahle and Kurt Dahle, as a side project from their main band, The Age Of Electric , along with a third member, Ian Somers.

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 0:00 am | Music

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival:Olivia Shaffer

Senescence (/sɪˈnɛsəns/): the process of deterioration that occurs in the aging mind and body

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Vancouver Canucks vs. Anaheim Ducks

The regular season game

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

Badass 6 at the Cultch 2: The Perished

The Perished with hosts/performers Gidget Gravedigger & Aleister Crane. The Perished (2020, Ireland. Director: Paddy Murphy) Canadian premiere preceeded by the short film: From Within

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Film

Seasons Festival

with headliner Above & Beyond

Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Festival

Light Rapid Transit

Five hundred thirteen thousand, seven hundred people will take Translink Skytrains today. Nine of those people are inextricably linked by Light Rapid Transit

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 0:00 am | Performing Arts

UBC Choirs: Light Eternal

A riveting choral concert with a special collaboration with the UBC Symphony Orchestra. Light and eternity are among the highlighte themes

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

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Ichigo-Ichieh New Theatre

I Named “ichigo-ichieh New Theatre” For This Reason: Ichigo-ichieh Means If You Meet Someone It Is A Unique Occasion – It Happens Only Once In That Moment In Your Entire Life

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Performing Arts

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Kokoro Dance

Kokoro Dance’s butoh expression gives recurring attention to the seven aesthetic principles of Zen philosophy

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver New Music presents Silvia Mandolini + magik

Experience the beautiful sounds of this international collaboration between virtuosic Italian violinist Silvia Mandolini, and magik (Kenton Loewen, drums; Marina Hasselberg, cello; Giorgio Magnanensi, diffusion and live electronics)

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

Vancouver Fringe and Paul Strickland Presents present: Ain't True & Uncle False

Step Right Up! Mark Twain meets Tim Burton in this one-man tall-tale comedy (with songs!)

Vancouver | The Nest | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

Cookies 'n Cream Collective presents: Consensual

Written in 2015, Evan Placey’s Consensual revolves around a British secondary school’s teacher and Head of Year 11 Diane, and a mistake she made seven years earlier: she got too close to one of her unhappy 15-year-old pupils

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Pops: The Celtic Tenors

With a polished international reputation and with over a million CDs sold worldwide, The Celtic Tenors offer something truly unique — the skill, range and ability of world-class tenors, combined with the personality and fun of genuine performers

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

Studio 58 presents FourPlay 2020

FourPlay: New Work by Excited Writers continues a Studio 58 tradition

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

Theatre Series: A Chorus Line

A beautiful snapshot of the inner life of performers - their authenticity, vulnerability and desperate need to be loved

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

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

Between Breaths

Well known in Newfoundland as the Whale Man, Dr. Jon Lien pioneered techniques for rescuing whales entrapped in fishing nets, this is the story of the man and his amazing life story

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

Skyborn By Quelemia Sparrow

Multimedia Drama. One woman's journey towards spiritual reclamation

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

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: FakeKnot - HINKYPUNK

HINKYPUNK is a 50 minute solo dance work that is based on the notion of how identity is conflated with iconography and pop culture

Vancouver | KW Production Studio | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Performing Arts

Badass 6 at the Cultch 3: Dead Dicks

Dead Dicks with hosts and performances by Gidget Gravedigger & Aleister Crane. Dead Dicks (2020, Canada) preceeded by the short film: Girl in the Hallway

Vancouver | The Cultch | 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Film

Bassjackers

Legendary dutch duo Bassjackers return to Vancouver

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

March 29, 2020

Sun

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

CARHA Hockey World Cup

The CARHA Hockey World Cup is organized every four years in a select Canadian city, and is an event that attracts participants from all across Canada, the United States, Asia and Europe

Richmond | Richmond Olympic Oval | 9:00 am to 8:00 pm | Sports | Free

Healthy Family Expo 2020

Canada's largest food & health event for families is back celebrating its 7th birthday at the Vancouver Convention Centre !

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Active Life / Health

The Tin Man Was A Dreamer: Allegories, Poetics And Performances Of Power

The exhibition title refers to the Tin Man, a character from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz who earnestly sets out in search of a heart, only to discover that he has had compassion all along

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

Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

NEXT: Matilda Aslizadeh is part of Capture Photography Festival’s 2020 Selected Exhibition Program

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 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 - Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

Vancouver-based artist Matilda Aslizadeh’s engaging video and photographic installation Moly and Kassandra (2018) addresses the relationship between culture and resource

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

Beekeeping for Beginners

Join BC bee expert Brian Campbell for this two-part introduction to honeybees and how to keep a hive of honeybees in an urban environment

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Workshop

Vancouver International Auto Show 2020

Western Canada’s best attended consumer show, and one of Western North America’s premier automotive exhibition events

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 9:30 pm | Exhibition

Spring Affair

Join Vancouver Master Gardeners for a day of learning and laughter! Vancouver Master Gardeners welcome their members & the public to a day of educational, horticulture related lectures

Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

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

Spring Break: Dinosaur Days

Make this Spring Break epic with dinosaur themed activities for the kids

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Kids | 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

Vancouver Gem & Mineral Show at PNE Forum

Vancouver Gem & Mineral Show - spring edition at PNE Forum! Western Canada’s largest Gem show is featuring 100+ of the best gem, mineral and jewellery vendors from across Canada

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 6:00 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

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 3:00 pm | Kids

Spring Break Public Skate (Not Cosmic)

Keep active during the school break at public skating sessions. Note: This is not Cosmic Skating.

Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports

Exhibition: Show and Tell

Professional Federation of Canadian Artists will be showing and demonstrating their work

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 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

Green Expectations

​From evergreens that photosynthesize all winter long to Indian plum that heralds spring, learn how to identify coniferous and deciduous plants. Find out about their traditional uses and vital importance to wildlife

Maple Ridge | Kanaka Creek Regional Park | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Medicinal Plant Walk

Meander through VanDusen Garden with medical herbalist Katolen Yardley to identify flowers, herbs, shrubs, trees, and weeds while discussing their medicinal properties

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Nature / Animals

Penjing - Bonsai Workshop with Master Gardener Pin Lee

Join us at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden for a mini garden tour with master gardener Pin Lee, as we learn how the garden’s 100-year old penjing collection has changed within the past year

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Workshop

Cookies 'n Cream Collective presents: Consensual

Written in 2015, Evan Placey’s Consensual revolves around a British secondary school’s teacher and Head of Year 11 Diane, and a mistake she made seven years earlier: she got too close to one of her unhappy 15-year-old pupils

Vancouver | Performance Works | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Performing Arts

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Kids Concerts: Rhythm in Your Rubbish

Magic, music and wonder abound as two friends find themselves in a junkyard one night and explore hidden sounds that live all around them

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

The Vancouver Recital Society: Tabea Zimmermann, viola and Javier Perianes, piano

One of the world’s most revered violists, Tabea Zimmermann, , returns with one of our favourite pianists, Javier Perianes, for a wonderful program of Schubert, Brahms, and delightful bonbons from Spain and South America

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

Studio 58 presents FourPlay 2020

FourPlay: New Work by Excited Writers continues a Studio 58 tradition

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

Rainbow Dance Theatre: iLumiDance

Utilizing electro-luminescent (EL) wire, fiber optic fabric, black light and other special effects, Rainbow Dance Theatre’s artistic directors Valerie Bergman and Darryl Thomas create a world of wonder in their newest production iLumiDance

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Official CISSY Book Launch Party

Join Zee Zee Theatre in celebrating the launch of acclaimed Vancouver playwright Dave Deveau’s first published book

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

Light Rapid Transit

Five hundred thirteen thousand, seven hundred people will take Translink Skytrains today. Nine of those people are inextricably linked by Light Rapid Transit

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 0:00 am | Performing Arts

Stuff You Should Know: LIVE

Stuff You Should Know is the award-winning podcast hosted by Chuck Bryant and Josh Clark and produced by the venerable website HowStuffWorks

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

March 30, 2020

Mon

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

The Tin Man Was A Dreamer: Allegories, Poetics And Performances Of Power

The exhibition title refers to the Tin Man, a character from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz who earnestly sets out in search of a heart, only to discover that he has had compassion all along

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

Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

NEXT: Matilda Aslizadeh is part of Capture Photography Festival’s 2020 Selected Exhibition Program

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 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 - Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

Vancouver-based artist Matilda Aslizadeh’s engaging video and photographic installation Moly and Kassandra (2018) addresses the relationship between culture and resource

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 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

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

Film Series: Blinded By the Light

Exclusive for Members and Volunteers

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

Tennis With Guest Molly Burch

Pop duo from Denver, on tour to support their latest release “Swimmer”

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Dumbo Gets Mad

Italian psychedelic synth duo on tour to support their upcoming new LP and making their first ever Canadian performance right here in Vancouver

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

March 31, 2020

Tue

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

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

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

The Tin Man Was A Dreamer: Allegories, Poetics And Performances Of Power

The exhibition title refers to the Tin Man, a character from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz who earnestly sets out in search of a heart, only to discover that he has had compassion all along

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

Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

NEXT: Matilda Aslizadeh is part of Capture Photography Festival’s 2020 Selected Exhibition Program

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 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 - Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra

Vancouver-based artist Matilda Aslizadeh’s engaging video and photographic installation Moly and Kassandra (2018) addresses the relationship between culture and resource

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 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

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

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

Works by Jenny Hawkins and Mat Holmstrom

Gallery opening reception with the Artists Wednesday, April 1st from 6-8PM

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Music on Main. Canteen Concert: Diamanda La Berge Dramm

Enjoy a free performance by Diamanda La Berge Dramm, our 2020 Artist in Residence, and learn more about who she is as a violinist, what makes her tick, and the stories behind the music she plays

Vancouver | The Post at 750 | 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Music | 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

National Geographic: Wild Seas, Secret Shores

With Thomas Peschak

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

Fleshgod Apocalypse featuring the Veleno Quartet with guests The Agonist

Italian orchestral-death metal giants Fleshgod Apocalypse will make their triumphant return to North America in 2020 in support of their critically lauded album, Veleno

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Boca del Lupo and Museum of Vancouver: Social Docent

What if we could slow down time, and ask a question that would change how we see each other? What if we could see through many lenses? This exhibit creates a space for clarity, curiosity and mindful engagement

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

An Artistic Fraud production: Between Breaths by Robert Chafe

Well known in Newfoundland as the Whale Man, Dr. Jon Lien during the course of his work pioneered techniques for rescuing whales entrapped in fishing nets saving the lives of over 500 animals

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Neworld Theatre: The Boy in the Moon

Written by Emil Sher, and based on Canadian journalist Ian Brown’s memoir of life with his son, The Boy in the Moon tells a deeply moving story about a family raising a child with a severe disability

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Sebastian Bach - 31st Anniversary Tour

Sebastian Philip Bierk, known professionally as Sebastian Bach, is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved mainstream success as frontman of Skid Row from 1987 to 1996

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Studio 58 presents FourPlay 2020

FourPlay: New Work by Excited Writers continues a Studio 58 tradition

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