Metro Vancouver events calendar - May 2020. Best festivals, concerts, fun things to do, Victoria Day shows & events, discount tickets in Vancouver, BC.

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Oh Snap! Photography Exhibition

living in the Champlain Heights neighbourhood. Youth learn a different photography skill each week and apply this skill outside while taking pictures

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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. 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: Speaking From Our Art

Speaking From Our Art is a spectacular celebration of the artistic achievement of the students of Vancouver’s Alternative schools

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Health, Sports & Lifestyle Expo 2020 - BMO Vancouver Marathon

The Health, Sports & Lifestyle Expo is a two-day extravaganza of excitement and celebration that kicks off Marathon weekend in Canada’s most active city.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health | 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

Youth Week in the Roundhouse

Youth Week is an internationally celebrated event that promotes youth awareness, positive youth public profile, and stronger connections between youth and the community

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Kids

lace|heart|art exhibition

Discover colourful hearts, all made by hand in traditional lacemaking techniques

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Exhibition - Brad McMurray: Pedestrian

Brad McMurray: Pedestrian presents works focusing on the idiosyncratic structures and designs of the urban and peri-urban environment

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

Exhibition: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Lansdowne Centre - Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival

The Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival is coming to Lansdowne Centre on May 1st & 2nd!

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

Burnaby Festival of Learning

The Burnaby Festival of Learning celebrates lifelong learning in creative, unconventional ways, featuring a week-long series of free events for everyone that will inspire, engage and spark creativity

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Festival | Free

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Youth Week

Join the party with fun free activities all week long!

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Kids

VOX: An exhilarating singing competition and gala

Join us for an elegant evening in support of young artists and arts education at Vancouver Opera

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 5:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Music

Ongoing Call

Square One Album Release

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Music

May Exhibitions Opening Reception

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Coquitlam Teacher Exhibition, various mediums by School District 43 Teachers; Becoming/Unbecoming, oil paintings by Marion-Lea Jamieson; Garden Buzz, acrylic paintings by Deanna Fligg

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Astrid S: World Tour Part 1

Astrid S is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. She came fifth in the Norwegian version of the reality television show Pop Idol, aired on TV 2 in 2013

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

Presented By Blackout Theatre In Association With Presentation House Theatre: Zoning Out

A single mother from Iran immigrates to Canada with her child. She faces the challenges met by many newcomers in a new country. But her story goes in an unexpected direction when she learns that her child is on the Autism spectrum

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Ron James - Full Throttle

Award-winning Comedian Ron James Has Been Selling Out Theatres For 15 Years With His Marathon, Side-splitting, Kinetically Charged Performances

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

Briefs Factory (Australia) Presented with Zee Zee Theatre: Briefs

A glittery bomb of circus, cabaret, and boylesque!

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

Rage Against the Machine

“Public Service Announcement” Tour w/ Run The Jewels

Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Urban Ink: Sedna

Imaginative and creative, Sedna is an Indigenous tale told through magnificent large-scale lantern puppets, and a sweeping musical score transporting the audience through a beautiful telling in a magical outdoor setting

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Boca del Lupo: Inner Elder

Inner Elder takes the audience on a journey through laughter and real-life memories of Gemini Award-winning Cree artist Michelle Thrush as she explores her own inner elder

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

The Lawyer Show 2020 - Mamma Mia!

The Lawyer Show is a fundraiser for two of Vancouver’s most cherished theatre institutions: Carousel Theatre for Young People and Touchstone Theatre, both registered charities

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Performing Arts

The Arsonists by Max Frisch

This dark comedy is set in a town that is beset upon by arsonists

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

dream of passion productions presents: A Kid Like Jake

On the eve of the admissions cycle for Manhattan’s most exclusive private schools, Alex and Greg have high hopes for their son Jake, a precocious four-year-old who happens to prefer Cinderella to G.I. Joe

Vancouver | PAL Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

The VSO Masterworks Diamond series: Musical America: Bernstein, Gershwin and Previn

Featuring Wayne Marshall conductor, piano

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

Stage 43 presents The Elephant Man

John Merrick is a horribly deformed young man – a victim of rare skin and bone diseases. Seen as a freak by society, his life changes when young physician, Frederick Treves, agrees to care for him

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

Hot Brown Honey

Hot Brown Honey turns up the heat, delivering lashings of sass and a hot pinch of empowerment in the smash-hit that has taken the world by storm

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

White Noise

A comedy about two families who have dinner together for the first time during Truth and Reconciliation week, White Noise explores what it means to live in Canada from two different paradigms

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

Corb Lund: Agricultural Tragic Tour 2020

Corb Lund is a Western and Country singer-songwriter from Taber, Alberta, Canada. He has released nine albums, three of which are certified gold

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Oh Snap! Photography Exhibition

living in the Champlain Heights neighbourhood. Youth learn a different photography skill each week and apply this skill outside while taking pictures

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

Burnaby Artisan Farmers’ Market

Burnaby Farmers' Market is located on the North Parking Lot at Burnaby City Hall at Canada Way and Deer Lake Parkway

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Perennial Stroll with a VanDusen Gardener

Enjoy the magic of VanDusen with long-time staff gardener, Casey Werfl. The walk will have an emphasis on perennials and all you need to know about them

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Nature / Animals

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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. 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

Fort Langley Village Farmers' Market

Welcome to our Farmers Market. All our produce, foods, and artisan products are made locally here

Langley | Fort Langley Village Farmers Market | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Bonsai & Bloom Show

Presented by the Metro Vancouver Gardening Society

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Health, Sports & Lifestyle Expo 2020 - BMO Vancouver Marathon

The Health, Sports & Lifestyle Expo is a two-day extravaganza of excitement and celebration that kicks off Marathon weekend in Canada’s most active city.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health | 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

Youth Week in the Roundhouse

Youth Week is an internationally celebrated event that promotes youth awareness, positive youth public profile, and stronger connections between youth and the community

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Kids

Arbor Day Celebration in Surrey Centre Cemetery

Celebrate trees and help grow Surrey’s urban forest!

Surrey | Surrey Centre Cemetery | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Family

Burnaby Blooms

An exciting blend of art, horticulture and music, this Festival kicks off our season of special events!

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Show | Free

33rd Canadian Festival Of Chili And Bbq

Langley City will be smokin’ hot again this year when the 33nd annual Canadian Festival of Chili and Barbecue comes back to beautiful downtown Langley, British Columbia on the grounds of Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Langley | Kwantlen Polytechnic University Langley | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine

Exhibition - Brad McMurray: Pedestrian

Brad McMurray: Pedestrian presents works focusing on the idiosyncratic structures and designs of the urban and peri-urban environment

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 Bazaar & Plant Sale | スプリングバザー

Sale features good quality Japanese items, Spring plants, and delicious Japanese foods. Donations of Japanese style items in good condition will be gratefully accepted

Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market | Free

Fingerling Festival by Noons Creek Hatchery

Help us release 40,000 fingerling (juvenile) salmon into Noons Creek at our annual enviro-fest

Port Moody | Port Moody Recreation Complex | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Burnaby Village Museum Opens for the Summer Season

Free admission

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

Exhibition: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Lansdowne Centre - Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival

The Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival is coming to Lansdowne Centre on May 1st & 2nd!

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

Burnaby Festival of Learning

The Burnaby Festival of Learning celebrates lifelong learning in creative, unconventional ways, featuring a week-long series of free events for everyone that will inspire, engage and spark creativity

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Festival | Free

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Youth Week

Join the party with fun free activities all week long!

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Kids

Youth Week Block Party

Come celebrate Youth Week with sports, activities, fun and games!

Burnaby | South Central Youth Centre | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Party | Free

Chado (tea ceremony) class

Learn the basics of Urasenke-style tea ceremony in this beginner-friendly class. Learn the proper ways to walk, bow, interact, and enjoy Japanese matcha tea and sweets

Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Workshop

4th annual Vancouver Opera Festival: COSÌ FAN TUTTE - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Così fan tutte, last produced by VO in 2005, is a sharply satirical take on relationships between men and women. Mozart’s opera about fidelity is an intriguing story set to music of impossible beauty

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Opera

White Noise by Taran Kootenhayoo

A comedy about two families who have dinner together for the first time during Truth and Reconciliation week, White Noise explores what it means to live in Canada from two different paradigms

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

Authentic Polynesian Luau

Join us for a fun night at our authentic Polynesian Luau with a one-hour floorshow, presenting traditional dances from Tahiti, Hawai’i, Fiji & Samoa

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 6:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Presented By Blackout Theatre In Association With Presentation House Theatre: Zoning Out

A single mother from Iran immigrates to Canada with her child. She faces the challenges met by many newcomers in a new country. But her story goes in an unexpected direction when she learns that her child is on the Autism spectrum

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera

Vancouver Opera’s fourth annual Festival opens with the West Coast premiere of Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera, based on the lyrics and music of Roger Waters’ The Wall. Roger Waters is the lyricist and principal composer of the band, Pink Floyd

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

4th annual Vancouver Opera Festival: Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera

Vancouver Opera’s fourth annual Festival opens with the West Coast premiere of Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera, based on the lyrics and music of Roger Waters’ The Wall. Roger Waters is the lyricist and principal composer of the band, Pink Floyd

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

Laila Biali - Out of Dust - Album Release Concert

Canadian jazz icon Laila Biali announces the launch of her new album Out of Dust, on March 27, 2020, and album release concert on May 2, 2020 at Pyatt Hall

Vancouver | VSO School Of Music | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Briefs Factory (Australia) Presented with Zee Zee Theatre: Briefs

A glittery bomb of circus, cabaret, and boylesque!

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

Scholarship Awards Gala at the Place des Arts

Join us to celebrate the accomplishment of our 2020 scholarship award winners. This ceremony includes performances by award winning music and dance students and a showcase of artwork by visual arts award recipients

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Party | Free

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

Motown Meltdown

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

Urban Ink: Sedna

Imaginative and creative, Sedna is an Indigenous tale told through magnificent large-scale lantern puppets, and a sweeping musical score transporting the audience through a beautiful telling in a magical outdoor setting

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Boca del Lupo: Inner Elder

Inner Elder takes the audience on a journey through laughter and real-life memories of Gemini Award-winning Cree artist Michelle Thrush as she explores her own inner elder

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

The Lawyer Show 2020 - Mamma Mia!

The Lawyer Show is a fundraiser for two of Vancouver’s most cherished theatre institutions: Carousel Theatre for Young People and Touchstone Theatre, both registered charities

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Performing Arts

The Arsonists by Max Frisch

This dark comedy is set in a town that is beset upon by arsonists

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

dream of passion productions presents: A Kid Like Jake

On the eve of the admissions cycle for Manhattan’s most exclusive private schools, Alex and Greg have high hopes for their son Jake, a precocious four-year-old who happens to prefer Cinderella to G.I. Joe

Vancouver | PAL Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

The VSO Masterworks Diamond series: Musical America: Bernstein, Gershwin and Previn

Featuring Wayne Marshall conductor, piano

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

DEAFHEAVEN

Deafheaven is an American post-metal/shoegaze band from San Francisco

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Stage 43 presents The Elephant Man

John Merrick is a horribly deformed young man – a victim of rare skin and bone diseases. Seen as a freak by society, his life changes when young physician, Frederick Treves, agrees to care for him

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

Hot Brown Honey

Hot Brown Honey turns up the heat, delivering lashings of sass and a hot pinch of empowerment in the smash-hit that has taken the world by storm

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

White Noise

A comedy about two families who have dinner together for the first time during Truth and Reconciliation week, White Noise explores what it means to live in Canada from two different paradigms

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

Sound Rush

Vancouver! Get ready for the debut of Sound Rush Saturday, May 2nd at Harbour Event Centre

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

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Oh Snap! Photography Exhibition

living in the Champlain Heights neighbourhood. Youth learn a different photography skill each week and apply this skill outside while taking pictures

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Season 2020 by White Rock Farmers' Market

Weekly Farmers' Market runs Sunday 10am - 2pm. May through October

White Rock | White Rock Farmers' Market | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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. 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

Bonsai & Bloom Show

Presented by the Metro Vancouver Gardening Society

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals

Clayton Community Farmer's Market

Shop for crafts, baked goods, fresh produce and more at this annual Farmer's Market.

Surrey | Clayton Heights Secondary | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market | Free

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

CIM Conference & Exhibition 2020

The CIM EXPO, Canada's premier mining trade show, will feature once again hundreds of companies showcasing the latest in mining equipment, tools, technology, services and products

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 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

Youth Week in the Roundhouse

Youth Week is an internationally celebrated event that promotes youth awareness, positive youth public profile, and stronger connections between youth and the community

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Kids

lace|heart|art exhibition

Discover colourful hearts, all made by hand in traditional lacemaking techniques

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Burnaby Blooms

An exciting blend of art, horticulture and music, this Festival kicks off our season of special events!

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Show | Free

33rd Canadian Festival Of Chili And Bbq

Langley City will be smokin’ hot again this year when the 33nd annual Canadian Festival of Chili and Barbecue comes back to beautiful downtown Langley, British Columbia on the grounds of Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Langley | Kwantlen Polytechnic University Langley | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine

Exhibition - Brad McMurray: Pedestrian

Brad McMurray: Pedestrian presents works focusing on the idiosyncratic structures and designs of the urban and peri-urban environment

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

CAChurch: Town Centre

Weekly church services and Sunday School classes by Coquitlam Alliance Church

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

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: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Burnaby Festival of Learning

The Burnaby Festival of Learning celebrates lifelong learning in creative, unconventional ways, featuring a week-long series of free events for everyone that will inspire, engage and spark creativity

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Festival | Free

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Youth Week

Join the party with fun free activities all week long!

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Kids

The Arsonists by Max Frisch

This dark comedy is set in a town that is beset upon by arsonists

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

dream of passion productions presents: A Kid Like Jake

On the eve of the admissions cycle for Manhattan’s most exclusive private schools, Alex and Greg have high hopes for their son Jake, a precocious four-year-old who happens to prefer Cinderella to G.I. Joe

Vancouver | PAL Theatre | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre

Briefs Factory (Australia) Presented with Zee Zee Theatre: Brat Kids Carnival

From mischief makers to brats, witness the boys from Briefs in an all out brat-attack just for kids!

Vancouver | York Theatre | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Performing Arts

White Noise by Taran Kootenhayoo

A comedy about two families who have dinner together for the first time during Truth and Reconciliation week, White Noise explores what it means to live in Canada from two different paradigms

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

Power Classic Sundays: Quartet of Soloists

Yoonah Kim - Clarinet, Henry Kramer - Piano, Stefan Jackiw - Violin, Arnold Choi - Cello

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

Senior-Level Student Concert at the Place des Arts

Place des Arts’ music students are provided performance opportunities through our student concerts, held throughout the season. This concert features performances by our senior-level students

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music | Free

Early Music Vancouver: Renaissance Masters on the Battlefield

The Tallis Scholars were founded in 1973 by their director, Peter Phillips. Through their recordings and concert performances, they have established themselves as the leading exponents of Renaissance sacred vocal music throughout the world

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

Martin Barre Performs Classic Jethro Tull with Original Members Dee Palmer and Clive Bunker

Martin Barre Celebrates 50 Years Of Jethro Tull. Martin Barre performs Classic Jethro Tull with original members Dee Palmer and Clive Bunker!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

4th annual Vancouver Opera Festival: COSÌ FAN TUTTE - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Così fan tutte, last produced by VO in 2005, is a sharply satirical take on relationships between men and women. Mozart’s opera about fidelity is an intriguing story set to music of impossible beauty

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

Two Feet - Pink Tour Part 1

Zachary William "Bill" Dess, known by his stage name Two Feet, is an American singer, songwriter, and producer from New York City

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

Urban Ink: Sedna

Imaginative and creative, Sedna is an Indigenous tale told through magnificent large-scale lantern puppets, and a sweeping musical score transporting the audience through a beautiful telling in a magical outdoor setting

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Architectural Institute of BC Conference 2020

The AIBC invites you to explore the challenges and opportunities facing the profession of architecture, and discover the latest trends, solutions, and ideas at the 2020 AIBC Conference

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Lecture

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Oh Snap! Photography Exhibition

living in the Champlain Heights neighbourhood. Youth learn a different photography skill each week and apply this skill outside while taking pictures

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

Canadian Labour Congress 2020

The 29th Constitutional Convention of the Canadian Labour Congress will be held from Monday, May 4 to Friday, May 8, 2020 at the Vancouver Convention Centre

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 7:00 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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

CIM Conference & Exhibition 2020

The CIM EXPO, Canada's premier mining trade show, will feature once again hundreds of companies showcasing the latest in mining equipment, tools, technology, services and products

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 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

Youth Week in the Roundhouse

Youth Week is an internationally celebrated event that promotes youth awareness, positive youth public profile, and stronger connections between youth and the community

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Kids

lace|heart|art exhibition

Discover colourful hearts, all made by hand in traditional lacemaking techniques

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

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 Festival of Learning

The Burnaby Festival of Learning celebrates lifelong learning in creative, unconventional ways, featuring a week-long series of free events for everyone that will inspire, engage and spark creativity

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Festival | Free

Youth Week

Join the party with fun free activities all week long!

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Kids

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

Dead Can Dance with very special guest Agnes Obel

Dead Can Dance is an Australian-British musical project formed in 1981 in Melbourne by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. The band relocated from Melbourne to London in May 1982

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

Architectural Institute of BC Conference 2020

The AIBC invites you to explore the challenges and opportunities facing the profession of architecture, and discover the latest trends, solutions, and ideas at the 2020 AIBC Conference

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Lecture

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Oh Snap! Photography Exhibition

living in the Champlain Heights neighbourhood. Youth learn a different photography skill each week and apply this skill outside while taking pictures

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

Canadian Labour Congress 2020

The 29th Constitutional Convention of the Canadian Labour Congress will be held from Monday, May 4 to Friday, May 8, 2020 at the Vancouver Convention Centre

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 7:00 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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

CIM Conference & Exhibition 2020

The CIM EXPO, Canada's premier mining trade show, will feature once again hundreds of companies showcasing the latest in mining equipment, tools, technology, services and products

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 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

Youth Week in the Roundhouse

Youth Week is an internationally celebrated event that promotes youth awareness, positive youth public profile, and stronger connections between youth and the community

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Kids

lace|heart|art exhibition

Discover colourful hearts, all made by hand in traditional lacemaking techniques

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Tunes for Tots with the Accordion Man

Tunes for Tots is a fun and interactive introduction to music and dance for pre-schoolers in the Centennial Theatre Performance Studio on Tuesdays

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Kids

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

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

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

Burnaby Festival of Learning

The Burnaby Festival of Learning celebrates lifelong learning in creative, unconventional ways, featuring a week-long series of free events for everyone that will inspire, engage and spark creativity

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Festival | Free

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Youth Week

Join the party with fun free activities all week long!

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Kids

Dune Rats with guests

Rock band from Australia, on tour to support their latest release "Hurry Up And Wait"

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

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

Design Your Vertical Garden

Urban properties are now smaller, and vertical gardens are popular with city-dwellers looking for gardening opportunities that maximize the use of their space. Join sustainable design expert, Dr. Yael Stav in this 2-part workshop on Vertical Garden Design

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Nature / Animals

ArtBAR: Glass Pendant Making with Jane Mackay

All artBAR evenings are led by professional artists and include supplies, instruction and one complimentary glass of wine! Our bar is open for the duration of these evening events

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts

White Noise

A comedy about two families who have dinner together for the first time during Truth and Reconciliation week, White Noise explores what it means to live in Canada from two different paradigms

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

Urban Ink: Sedna

Imaginative and creative, Sedna is an Indigenous tale told through magnificent large-scale lantern puppets, and a sweeping musical score transporting the audience through a beautiful telling in a magical outdoor setting

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

The Commodore Ballroom: Little Dragon

Little Dragon are a Swedish electronic music band from Gothenburg, formed in 1996. The band consists of Yukimi Nagano, Erik Bodin, Fredrik Wallin and Håkan Wirenstrand

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

Architectural Institute of BC Conference 2020

The AIBC invites you to explore the challenges and opportunities facing the profession of architecture, and discover the latest trends, solutions, and ideas at the 2020 AIBC Conference

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Lecture

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Oh Snap! Photography Exhibition

living in the Champlain Heights neighbourhood. Youth learn a different photography skill each week and apply this skill outside while taking pictures

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

Canadian Labour Congress 2020

The 29th Constitutional Convention of the Canadian Labour Congress will be held from Monday, May 4 to Friday, May 8, 2020 at the Vancouver Convention Centre

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 7:00 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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

CIM Conference & Exhibition 2020

The CIM EXPO, Canada's premier mining trade show, will feature once again hundreds of companies showcasing the latest in mining equipment, tools, technology, services and products

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 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

Youth Week in the Roundhouse

Youth Week is an internationally celebrated event that promotes youth awareness, positive youth public profile, and stronger connections between youth and the community

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Kids

lace|heart|art exhibition

Discover colourful hearts, all made by hand in traditional lacemaking techniques

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

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: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Burnaby Festival of Learning

The Burnaby Festival of Learning celebrates lifelong learning in creative, unconventional ways, featuring a week-long series of free events for everyone that will inspire, engage and spark creativity

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Festival | Free

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Play, Pie & Pint featuring Bad to the Bow

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

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

Youth Week

Join the party with fun free activities all week long!

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Kids

White Noise by Taran Kootenhayoo

A comedy about two families who have dinner together for the first time during Truth and Reconciliation week, White Noise explores what it means to live in Canada from two different paradigms

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre

Circle Jerks - 40th Anniversary Reunion Tour With guests: The Adolescents

Circle Jerks are an American hardcore punk band, formed in 1979 in Los Angeles, California. The group was founded by former Black Flag vocalist Keith Morris and Redd Kross guitarist Greg Hetson

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

White Noise

A comedy about two families who have dinner together for the first time during Truth and Reconciliation week, White Noise explores what it means to live in Canada from two different paradigms

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

4th annual Vancouver Opera Festival: COSÌ FAN TUTTE - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Così fan tutte, last produced by VO in 2005, is a sharply satirical take on relationships between men and women. Mozart’s opera about fidelity is an intriguing story set to music of impossible beauty

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

Urban Ink: Sedna

Imaginative and creative, Sedna is an Indigenous tale told through magnificent large-scale lantern puppets, and a sweeping musical score transporting the audience through a beautiful telling in a magical outdoor setting

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

The Arsonists by Max Frisch

This dark comedy is set in a town that is beset upon by arsonists

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

Midtwenties Theatre Society presents: Persephone's Cave

Vancouver | CBC Studio 700 | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Dogfight

It’s November 21, 1963. On the eve of their deployment to Vietnam, three young Marines set out for one final boys’ night of partying and a little trouble

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Elektra Women's Choir presents The Lost Words: A Spell Book

The Lost Words: A Book of Spells is a bestselling book about the natural world. A concert featuring whimsical and evocative new compositions on spells by English author Robert MacFarlane and illustrations by Jackie Morris

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Courage to Come Back Awards Gala 2020

The purpose of the Awards is to pay tribute to those who have overcome overwhelming challenges. These individuals deserve to be recognized and to celebrate their contributions to our communities

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 0:00 am | Party

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Oh Snap! Photography Exhibition

living in the Champlain Heights neighbourhood. Youth learn a different photography skill each week and apply this skill outside while taking pictures

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

Canadian Labour Congress 2020

The 29th Constitutional Convention of the Canadian Labour Congress will be held from Monday, May 4 to Friday, May 8, 2020 at the Vancouver Convention Centre

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 7:00 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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

Youth Week in the Roundhouse

Youth Week is an internationally celebrated event that promotes youth awareness, positive youth public profile, and stronger connections between youth and the community

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Kids

lace|heart|art exhibition

Discover colourful hearts, all made by hand in traditional lacemaking techniques

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

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: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Burnaby Festival of Learning

The Burnaby Festival of Learning celebrates lifelong learning in creative, unconventional ways, featuring a week-long series of free events for everyone that will inspire, engage and spark creativity

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Festival | Free

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Youth Week

Join the party with fun free activities all week long!

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Kids

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

Curator Talk: My Favourite Things

What do you collect? And what do you want the City to collect? Let's chat!

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Lecture | Free

White Noise

A comedy about two families who have dinner together for the first time during Truth and Reconciliation week, White Noise explores what it means to live in Canada from two different paradigms

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

4th annual Vancouver Opera Festival: COSÌ FAN TUTTE - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Così fan tutte, last produced by VO in 2005, is a sharply satirical take on relationships between men and women. Mozart’s opera about fidelity is an intriguing story set to music of impossible beauty

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

Urban Ink: Sedna

Imaginative and creative, Sedna is an Indigenous tale told through magnificent large-scale lantern puppets, and a sweeping musical score transporting the audience through a beautiful telling in a magical outdoor setting

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

The Arsonists by Max Frisch

This dark comedy is set in a town that is beset upon by arsonists

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

Midtwenties Theatre Society presents: Persephone's Cave

Vancouver | CBC Studio 700 | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Ballet BC Program 3

A momentous time for Ballet BC, we are thrilled to bring together two of the most influential artists in international dance today

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

North Shore Classics: Beethoven 8 Plus Symphonic Mandolin

A striking duo: young Chilean conductor Paolo Bortolameolli meets Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital in a concert of energetic works inspired by the magic of Italy

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

The Radio Dept. with guests Hater

Pop band from Sweden returns to Vancouver.

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Dogfight

It’s November 21, 1963. On the eve of their deployment to Vietnam, three young Marines set out for one final boys’ night of partying and a little trouble

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Elektra Women's Choir presents The Lost Words: A Spell Book

The Lost Words: A Book of Spells is a bestselling book about the natural world. A concert featuring whimsical and evocative new compositions on spells by English author Robert MacFarlane and illustrations by Jackie Morris

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Watsky - The Commodore Ballroom

Advanced Placement Tour with guests

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:30 pm to 11:55 pm | Music

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Oh Snap! Photography Exhibition

living in the Champlain Heights neighbourhood. Youth learn a different photography skill each week and apply this skill outside while taking pictures

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

Canadian Labour Congress 2020

The 29th Constitutional Convention of the Canadian Labour Congress will be held from Monday, May 4 to Friday, May 8, 2020 at the Vancouver Convention Centre

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 7:00 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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

lace|heart|art exhibition

Discover colourful hearts, all made by hand in traditional lacemaking techniques

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

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

Willowbrook - Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival

The Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival is fun for the whole family and features 20+ hand picked food trucks at 7 different locations in the Greater Vancouver Area

Langley | Willowbrook Shopping Centre | 11:00 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine

Exhibition: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Burnaby Festival of Learning

The Burnaby Festival of Learning celebrates lifelong learning in creative, unconventional ways, featuring a week-long series of free events for everyone that will inspire, engage and spark creativity

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Festival | Free

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Pacific Salmon Foundation Gala Dinner & Auction 2020

The Vancouver Gala Dinner & Auction is the Pacific Salmon Foundation's largest fundraising event in support of community salmon projects across B.C. and the Yukon

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising

pARTy@PdA: Palette . . . eat, paint, create!

Palette . . . eat, paint, create is an evening to inspire the artist in everyone!

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts

Friday Night Dance

Drop-in Lessons and Practice Dances at The ACT Arts Centre

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

Vancouver Chamber Choir: This Delicate Universe

Under the direction of its new Artistic Director, Kari Turunen, the Vancouver Chamber Choir will present Seattle-based Eric Banks’ This Delicate Universe, a work akin to a choral symphony in scope

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

KAYZO

VANCOUVER! Kayzo will present to you UNLEASHED. Insane stage and production like you have never seen. Secret Guests, special guest supports, stacked line up filled with surprises. And KAYZO live with brand new music and drum crew!

Vancouver | Harbour Convention Centre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Mozart, Brahms and Michelle Mares plays Beethoven

Yariv Aloni - conductor, Michelle Mares - piano

Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Music

Urban Ink: Sedna

Imaginative and creative, Sedna is an Indigenous tale told through magnificent large-scale lantern puppets, and a sweeping musical score transporting the audience through a beautiful telling in a magical outdoor setting

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

The Lawyer Show 2020 - Mamma Mia!

The Lawyer Show is a fundraiser for two of Vancouver’s most cherished theatre institutions: Carousel Theatre for Young People and Touchstone Theatre, both registered charities

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Performing Arts

Midtwenties Theatre Society presents: Persephone's Cave

Vancouver | CBC Studio 700 | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Ballet BC Program 3

A momentous time for Ballet BC, we are thrilled to bring together two of the most influential artists in international dance today

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

Surrey Nights: Beethoven 8 Plus Symphonic Mandolin

A striking duo: young Chilean conductor Paolo Bortolameolli meets Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital in a concert of energetic works inspired by the magic of Italy

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

Surrey Nights: Beethoven's 8th & Symphonic Mandolin

A striking duo: young Chilean conductor Paolo Bortolameolli meets Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital in a concert of energetic works inspired by the magic of Italy.

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

Dogfight

It’s November 21, 1963. On the eve of their deployment to Vietnam, three young Marines set out for one final boys’ night of partying and a little trouble

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

The Dip with guests

The Dip (Seattle Soul) performs their single "Sure Don't Miss You" live in April 2017

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

Huu Bac Quintet - Mekong Waters

Huu Bac, a Montreal musician who skillfully combines his Vietnamese and Chinese heritages with North American Jazz, delivers a true dialogue of those cultures in a contemporary, original and unique way

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

White Noise

A comedy about two families who have dinner together for the first time during Truth and Reconciliation week, White Noise explores what it means to live in Canada from two different paradigms

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

Emancipator Ensemble - Mountain Of Memory Tour

Douglas Appling, better known by his stage name Emancipator, is an American producer and DJ based in Portland, Oregon

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

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

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Oh Snap! Photography Exhibition

living in the Champlain Heights neighbourhood. Youth learn a different photography skill each week and apply this skill outside while taking pictures

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

Burnaby Artisan Farmers’ Market

Burnaby Farmers' Market is located on the North Parking Lot at Burnaby City Hall at Canada Way and Deer Lake Parkway

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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

Fort Langley Village Farmers' Market

Welcome to our Farmers Market. All our produce, foods, and artisan products are made locally here

Langley | Fort Langley Village Farmers Market | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Exhibition. 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

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

Riverway Golf Festival

Join us for fun activities at Riverway Golf Course

Burnaby | Riverway Golf Course | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Sports

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

Youth Week in the Roundhouse

Youth Week is an internationally celebrated event that promotes youth awareness, positive youth public profile, and stronger connections between youth and the community

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Kids

lace|heart|art exhibition

Discover colourful hearts, all made by hand in traditional lacemaking techniques

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

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

Community Science Celebration: Port Alberni

Discover the science happening all around you at the Port Alberni Community Science Celebration

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 10:30 am to 4:00 pm | Show

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

Willowbrook - Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival

The Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival is fun for the whole family and features 20+ hand picked food trucks at 7 different locations in the Greater Vancouver Area

Langley | Willowbrook Shopping Centre | 11:00 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine

Exhibition: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Saturday Pre-School Storytime!

Join us for Saturday Morning Pre-School Storytime!

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

Burnaby Festival of Learning

The Burnaby Festival of Learning celebrates lifelong learning in creative, unconventional ways, featuring a week-long series of free events for everyone that will inspire, engage and spark creativity

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Festival | Free

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Vancouver African Violet & Gesneriad Society Show & Sale

Join the Vancouver African Violet & Gesneriad Society for their annual show and sale

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Chado (tea ceremony) class

Learn the basics of Urasenke-style tea ceremony in this beginner-friendly class. Learn the proper ways to walk, bow, interact, and enjoy Japanese matcha tea and sweets

Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Workshop

White Noise by Taran Kootenhayoo

A comedy about two families who have dinner together for the first time during Truth and Reconciliation week, White Noise explores what it means to live in Canada from two different paradigms

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

Kaytranada - Bubba North America Tour

Louis Kevin Celestin, known by his stage name Kaytranada, is a Haitian-Canadian DJ and record producer

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Classic Concert: Songs of the Far East at the Place des Arts

Three artists with Asian heritage explore the world of Asian poetry and melodies. Soprano Szu Wen Wang and Mezzo Soprano Yenny Yeeun Lee, accompanied by pianist Maria Jung, perform art songs by Asian composers that are not often performed in Canada

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Mozart, Brahms and Michelle Mares plays Beethoven

Yariv Aloni - conductor, Michelle Mares - piano

New Westminster | Queens Avenue United Church | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

4th annual Vancouver Opera Festival: COSÌ FAN TUTTE - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Così fan tutte, last produced by VO in 2005, is a sharply satirical take on relationships between men and women. Mozart’s opera about fidelity is an intriguing story set to music of impossible beauty

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

Vancouver New Music presents Adrian Verdejo

Vancouver-based guitarist Adrian Verdejo delivers a concert of works for solo guitar, including the premieres of new works by Wolf Edwards and Peter Hannan

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

Urban Ink: Sedna

Imaginative and creative, Sedna is an Indigenous tale told through magnificent large-scale lantern puppets, and a sweeping musical score transporting the audience through a beautiful telling in a magical outdoor setting

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

The Lawyer Show 2020 - Mamma Mia!

The Lawyer Show is a fundraiser for two of Vancouver’s most cherished theatre institutions: Carousel Theatre for Young People and Touchstone Theatre, both registered charities

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Performing Arts

The Arsonists by Max Frisch

This dark comedy is set in a town that is beset upon by arsonists

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

Midtwenties Theatre Society presents: Persephone's Cave

Vancouver | CBC Studio 700 | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Ballet BC Program 3

A momentous time for Ballet BC, we are thrilled to bring together two of the most influential artists in international dance today

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

Musically Speaking: Beethoven 8 Plus Symphonic Mandolin

A striking duo: young Chilean conductor Paolo Bortolameolli meets Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital in a concert of energetic works inspired by the magic of Italy

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

It's a Party: Amabilis Singers' 40th Anniversary Celebration

We're 40 years old! Join Amabilis for an exuberant, high-octane evening of music-making with present and former members of the Amabilis family. Come share in our joy, meet up with old friends, and travel down memory lane with us!

Burnaby | New Westminster Christian Reformed Church | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Dogfight

It’s November 21, 1963. On the eve of their deployment to Vietnam, three young Marines set out for one final boys’ night of partying and a little trouble

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Cadence with DeCoro

This is Cadence, Canada’s premiere vocal group. Based in Toronto, this a cappella ensemble has been wowing audiences across the country and around the world for over 20 years

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

White Noise

A comedy about two families who have dinner together for the first time during Truth and Reconciliation week, White Noise explores what it means to live in Canada from two different paradigms

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

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Oh Snap! Photography Exhibition

living in the Champlain Heights neighbourhood. Youth learn a different photography skill each week and apply this skill outside while taking pictures

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Season 2020 by White Rock Farmers' Market

Weekly Farmers' Market runs Sunday 10am - 2pm. May through October

White Rock | White Rock Farmers' Market | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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. 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

Clayton Community Farmer's Market

Shop for crafts, baked goods, fresh produce and more at this annual Farmer's Market.

Surrey | Clayton Heights Secondary | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market | Free

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Mother’s Day Brunch by Westwood Plateau Golf

Treat Mom to our Annual Mother’s Day Brunch. This event sells out quickly so hurry and grab tickets before they are all gone. All reservations are a 2 hour duration

Coquitlam | Westwood Plateau Golf | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Food / Wine

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

Veg Expo 2020

VEG EXPO is a day of celebration where we introduce new, innovative, inspiring products and services that you can implement into your lifestyle and to meet others that share their passion

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

lace|heart|art exhibition

Discover colourful hearts, all made by hand in traditional lacemaking techniques

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

CAChurch: Town Centre

Weekly church services and Sunday School classes by Coquitlam Alliance Church

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

Mother's Day at The Glades

Celebrate mom and your loved ones with a visit to this stunning woodland garden!

Surrey | The Glades | 10:00 am to 4:00 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

Mother's Day at the Village

Celebrate Mom at Burnaby Village Museum! Special activities have been planned with Moms and their families in mind.

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

Exhibition: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

The Arsonists by Max Frisch

This dark comedy is set in a town that is beset upon by arsonists

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

Fearless Adventures: Dvořák’s New World & Bruch with Jonathan Crow

Embark on a grand and valiant journey in VAM Symphony Orchestra’s 2019/20 season finale concert

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

Dogfight

It’s November 21, 1963. On the eve of their deployment to Vietnam, three young Marines set out for one final boys’ night of partying and a little trouble

Vancouver | The Cultch | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

The Vancouver Recital Society presents Ludovica Rana, cello and Beatrice Rana, piano

Italian pianist Beatrice Rana made a memorable debut on our series in 2013, just two years after taking home First Prize at the Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM) at the tender age of 18

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Music

Vancouver Bach Choir: SummerSing!

Come join the whole Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs for this dazzling season closer! Their annual season finale returns to the Chan Centre with a celebration of Disney, fairy tale and myth in music

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Music

Urban Ink: Sedna

Imaginative and creative, Sedna is an Indigenous tale told through magnificent large-scale lantern puppets, and a sweeping musical score transporting the audience through a beautiful telling in a magical outdoor setting

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Midtwenties Theatre Society presents: Persephone's Cave

Vancouver | CBC Studio 700 | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

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

In This Moment & Black Veil Brides at Queen Elizabeth Theatre

In This Moment & Black Veil Brides - The In Between Tour with special guests Ded and Raven Black. Throughout history, art rejoices and revels in the wisdom of women

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

Basia Bulat With guests: Legal Vertigo

Basia Bulat is a singer-songwriter who lives in Montreal, Canada. Over the course of five albums, she has brought together an intrinsic contemporary sound with a love of classic folk, country and R&B songwriting

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

Canada Gas and LNG Exhibition and Conference 2020

Canada Gas & LNG Exhibition and Conference will provide your company with a unique platform to showcase products and services to 5000 industry representatives from the local and global value chain

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

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

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Environmental Film Screening: Toad People

Enjoy a free screening of the documentary Toad People and learn about local conservation efforts

Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Nature / Animals | 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

12th Annual Richmond Arts Awards

Award recipients will be announced in a special ceremony hosted by Mayor Malcolm Brodie. In addition, there will be live entertainment, catering and a cash bar

Richmond | City Hall | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Show | Free

Swallow the Sun with Infected Rain, Wheel

Post-doom band from Finland in support of their most recent record "When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light"

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

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

Receive and Process Theatre: Love/Sick

A darker cousin to ALMOST, MAINE, John Cariani’s play, LOVE/SICK is a collection of nine slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays

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

LP

Laura Pergolizzi, known professionally as LP, is an American singer and songwriter

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

The Rolling Stones - No Filter Tour 2020

Today The Rolling Stones Announced Their Critically Acclaimed No Filter Tour Will Return To North America For A 15 City Run In 2020 And Will Make A Stop In Vancouver On May 12 At Bc Place

Vancouver | BC Place | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Heaven 17 - The Commodore Ballroom

Heaven 17 are an English new wave and synth-pop band that formed in Sheffield in 1980. The band were a trio for most of their career, composed of Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh, and Glenn Gregory

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:30 pm to 11:55 pm | Music

Canada Gas and LNG Exhibition and Conference 2020

Canada Gas & LNG Exhibition and Conference will provide your company with a unique platform to showcase products and services to 5000 industry representatives from the local and global value chain

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

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: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Russell Howard: RESPITE

Russell Joseph Howard is an English comedian, television presenter, radio presenter and actor, best known for his TV shows Russell Howard's Good News and The Russell Howard Hour and his appearances on the topical panel TV show Mock the Week

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

Eunoia - A Firehall Arts Centre presentation of Fujiwara Dance Inventions

Denise Fujiwara’s adaptation of Christian Bok’s award-winning book Eunoia is a multi-media experience of dance, video, music and costume that employs similar constraints as to those in the book through inventive movement and ground-breaking performances

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

Receive and Process Theatre: Love/Sick

A darker cousin to ALMOST, MAINE, John Cariani’s play, LOVE/SICK is a collection of nine slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays

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

Girl Talk Tour 2020

Gregg Michael Gillis, known by the stage name Girl Talk, is an American disc jockey who specializes in mashups and digital sampling

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

The Arsonists by Max Frisch

This dark comedy is set in a town that is beset upon by arsonists

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

Canada Gas and LNG Exhibition and Conference 2020

Canada Gas & LNG Exhibition and Conference will provide your company with a unique platform to showcase products and services to 5000 industry representatives from the local and global value chain

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

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: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

The Dance Centre presents Discover Dance! Sujit Vaidya

One of Vancouver’s leading exponents of the exquisitely beautiful classical Indian dance style of bharata natyam, Sujit Vaidya also creates work which reflects a modern sensibility and pushes the boundaries of the form

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Dance

Royal Canadian Circus - Richmond BC

An all new show, jam packed with explosive live entertainment, featuring high-flying acrobatics, death-defying tricks, clowning and towering feats of strength, teetering towers of balanced bodies, extreme bending and devilishly precarious aerials

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

43rd Annual Cloverdale Bed Races

The main event is an elimination-style Bed Race with teams pushing specially designed beds on 176A St. Event includes a demonstration from the World Roundup Skateboard competition and a decorated bike parade for the younger folks

Surrey | Cloverdale BIA | 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm | Family

Walk with the Doc

Join Dr. Davidicus Wong for an inspirational 30-45 minute talk on living a healthy and active lifestyle. Then join local physicians for a community walk at the Confederation Park track

Burnaby | Confederation Community Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

International Folk Dancing Drop-in Sessions

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

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

Stars on Ice Tour

The Stars Align To Bring The World’s Best To Rogers Arena In Vancouver On May 14th For The 2020 Stars On Ice Tour

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 0:00 am | Family

Emergency Preparedness Workshop

Burnaby Public Library and the City of Burnaby Emergency Management Department are pleased to help you stay safe in case of a disaster

Burnaby | McGill Library | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Workshop

The Milk Carton Kids and Haley Heynderickx

The Milk Carton Kids are an American indie folk duo from Eagle Rock, California, United States, consisting of singers and guitarists Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan, who began making music together in early 2011

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Eunoia - A Firehall Arts Centre presentation of Fujiwara Dance Inventions

Denise Fujiwara’s adaptation of Christian Bok’s award-winning book Eunoia is a multi-media experience of dance, video, music and costume that employs similar constraints as to those in the book through inventive movement and ground-breaking performances

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

Receive and Process Theatre: Love/Sick

A darker cousin to ALMOST, MAINE, John Cariani’s play, LOVE/SICK is a collection of nine slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays

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

Jeff Rubin

Canadian economist and bestselling author Jeff Rubin presents a provocative account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalization and how the blowback -– from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe – will change the developed world

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

The Avett Brothers

An American folk rock band from Mt Pleasant, North Carolina. Come and catch The Avett Brothers doing what they do best

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

The Arsonists by Max Frisch

This dark comedy is set in a town that is beset upon by arsonists

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

Creatures

Creatures, a performance by duo RoyaLazyness, is a demonstration of the power of dance to move bodies beyond comfort zones, regardless of disabilities and differences

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

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: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Flow

Exploring movement through body, fibre, nature

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Royal Canadian Circus - Richmond BC

An all new show, jam packed with explosive live entertainment, featuring high-flying acrobatics, death-defying tricks, clowning and towering feats of strength, teetering towers of balanced bodies, extreme bending and devilishly precarious aerials

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

23rd Annual Cloverdale Chili Cook-off

Local businesses and organizations prepare time honoured chili recipes for bragging rights. Food is free along with bounce castles, coloring contests, music and prizes

Surrey | Clover Square Village Mall | 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm | Food / Wine

Monuments with guests Skyharbor, Vespera

Monuments are a British progressive metal band formed by formers Fellsilent guitarist, John Browne, and former The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza guitarist, Josh Travis

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Bard in the Valley Presents: Nun of Your Business Cabaret

A mix of everything! Cabaret will celebrate local talent to create an exciting evening of events

Langley | Bez Arts Hub | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Show

Apocalyptica - Cell-0 Tour

Apocalyptica is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 1993. The band is composed of classically trained cellists Eicca Toppinen, Paavo Lötjönen, and Perttu Kivilaakso, drummer Mikko Sirén, and vocalist Franky Perez

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

Friday Night Dance

Drop-in Lessons and Practice Dances at The ACT Arts Centre

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

Receive and Process Theatre: Love/Sick

A darker cousin to ALMOST, MAINE, John Cariani’s play, LOVE/SICK is a collection of nine slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays

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

The Arsonists by Max Frisch

This dark comedy is set in a town that is beset upon by arsonists

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

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra: Purcell & Handel

Presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as past of the Classical Traditions series at the Chan Centre

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

James Authur - The YOU Tour with guest Delacey

James Andrew Arthur is an English singer and songwriter. He rose to fame after winning the ninth series of The X Factor in 2012

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Symphony Orchestr: Purcell & Handel

Rising Canadian mezzo Emily D’Angelo is the talk of the town. With Purcell and Handel she demonstrates her nimble technique and why the New York Classical Review calls her “the most promising performer of the day.”

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

Creatures

Creatures, a performance by duo RoyaLazyness, is a demonstration of the power of dance to move bodies beyond comfort zones, regardless of disabilities and differences

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Dorrance Dance (US) - ETM: Double Down

In their second outing with DanceHouse, NYC’s Dorrance Dance serves up ETM: Double Down

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Eunoia - A Firehall Arts Centre presentation of Fujiwara Dance Inventions

Denise Fujiwara’s adaptation of Christian Bok’s award-winning book Eunoia is a multi-media experience of dance, video, music and costume that employs similar constraints as to those in the book through inventive movement and ground-breaking performances

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

Radical Redemption

Radical Redemption making his long-awaited #Vancouver return in Victoria Day Long Wknd

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

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

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Burnaby Artisan Farmers’ Market

Burnaby Farmers' Market is located on the North Parking Lot at Burnaby City Hall at Canada Way and Deer Lake Parkway

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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

Fort Langley Village Farmers' Market

Welcome to our Farmers Market. All our produce, foods, and artisan products are made locally here

Langley | Fort Langley Village Farmers Market | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Exhibition. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

74th Annual Cloverdale Rodeo Parade

The main kick off event to get people into the Western Spirit. This morning event on the May long weekend event is an old fashioned parade with horses, marching bands, floats, bands, marching units and loads of vintage and custom vehicles

Surrey | Cloverdale Town Centre | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Family

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

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

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

Exhibition: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Fort Langley Beer & Food Festival

Celebrate & enjoy the best of the Fraser Valley on May 16 with live music, 30+ craft breweries, 10+ local food vendors, cideries, wineries and much more right outside the wooden walls of the Fort Langley National Historic Site!

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Food / Wine

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Flow

Exploring movement through body, fibre, nature

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

RAIN – A Tribute to the Beatles

In celebration of the anniversary of Abbey Road, RAIN will bring the greatest hits of this epic recording to life, in addition to all your early Beatles favorites

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music

Royal Canadian Circus - Richmond BC

An all new show, jam packed with explosive live entertainment, featuring high-flying acrobatics, death-defying tricks, clowning and towering feats of strength, teetering towers of balanced bodies, extreme bending and devilishly precarious aerials

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

Vancouver Titans Deposit

Join us for a full weekend event, featuring multiple OWL matches a day, fan activations, and the chance to cheer on your Vancouver Titans for the first time ever LIVE at Rogers Arena!

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Sports

Vancouver Whitecaps Fc vs Nashville Sc

The regular season game Major League Soccer

Vancouver | BC Place | 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm | Sports

Stacked World

Stacked World Bass Massive

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 6:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

In The Distance: New Music from Croatia

Berislav Šipuš: Conductor and Robyn Driedger-Klassen: soprano with Turning Point Ensemble

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

Receive and Process Theatre: Love/Sick

A darker cousin to ALMOST, MAINE, John Cariani’s play, LOVE/SICK is a collection of nine slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays

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

Bill Maher

Bill Maher is an American comedian, political commentator and television host

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy

The Arsonists by Max Frisch

This dark comedy is set in a town that is beset upon by arsonists

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

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra: Purcell & Handel

Presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as past of the Classical Traditions series at the Chan Centre

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

April Verch

Fiddler, singer-songwriter and step dancer April Verch is a triple threat performer known for bringing audiences to their feet

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

Vancouver Symphony Orchestr: Purcell & Handel

Rising Canadian mezzo Emily D’Angelo is the talk of the town. With Purcell and Handel she demonstrates her nimble technique and why the New York Classical Review calls her “the most promising performer of the day.”

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

Creatures

Creatures, a performance by duo RoyaLazyness, is a demonstration of the power of dance to move bodies beyond comfort zones, regardless of disabilities and differences

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Dorrance Dance (US) - ETM: Double Down

In their second outing with DanceHouse, NYC’s Dorrance Dance serves up ETM: Double Down

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Eunoia - A Firehall Arts Centre presentation of Fujiwara Dance Inventions

Denise Fujiwara’s adaptation of Christian Bok’s award-winning book Eunoia is a multi-media experience of dance, video, music and costume that employs similar constraints as to those in the book through inventive movement and ground-breaking performances

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

Citizen Cope

Clarence Greenwood, also known by his stage name, Citizen Cope, is an American songwriter, producer and performer

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

Nicky Romero

Nicky Romero makes his return to #Vancouver Saturday May 16th, Victoria day long wknd, at Harbour Event Centre

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

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

Season 2020 by White Rock Farmers' Market

Weekly Farmers' Market runs Sunday 10am - 2pm. May through October

White Rock | White Rock Farmers' Market | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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. 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

Clayton Community Farmer's Market

Shop for crafts, baked goods, fresh produce and more at this annual Farmer's Market.

Surrey | Clayton Heights Secondary | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market | Free

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

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

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: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Flow

Exploring movement through body, fibre, nature

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Royal Canadian Circus - Richmond BC

An all new show, jam packed with explosive live entertainment, featuring high-flying acrobatics, death-defying tricks, clowning and towering feats of strength, teetering towers of balanced bodies, extreme bending and devilishly precarious aerials

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

Symphony at The Annex: Carte Blanche with Marcus Goddard

Marcus Goddard is an award-winning composer and internationally respected trumpet player whose music has touched the hearts of audiences around the world

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 2:00 pm to 3:45 pm | Music

In The Distance: New Music from Croatia

Berislav Šipuš: Conductor and Robyn Driedger-Klassen: soprano with Turning Point Ensemble

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Titans Deposit

Join us for a full weekend event, featuring multiple OWL matches a day, fan activations, and the chance to cheer on your Vancouver Titans for the first time ever LIVE at Rogers Arena!

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Sports

The Vancouver Chopin Society: Federico Colli

Undisputed winner of the 2012 Leeds Piano Competition, this young artist has already been praised for his brilliant technique, the colours he brings to his piano playing, and his vibrant and original interpretations

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

Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra 90th Anniversary Gala

The Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra (VYSO), British Columbia’s premier youth orchestra training program, is about to celebrate 90 years of extraordinary music education and performance!

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 3:00 pm to 5:20 pm | Music

Creatures

Creatures, a performance by duo RoyaLazyness, is a demonstration of the power of dance to move bodies beyond comfort zones, regardless of disabilities and differences

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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

Fort Langley Village Farmers' Market

Welcome to our Farmers Market. All our produce, foods, and artisan products are made locally here

Langley | Fort Langley Village Farmers Market | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Victoria Day at Fort Langley National Historic Site

Fort Langley National Historic Site has a float in the 98th annual Fort Langley May Day Parade, which starts at 11 a.m. and is followed by a community fair. We hope to see you at the community fair after the parade

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

Exhibition. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

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

Victoria Day in Burnaby Village Museum & Carousel

Join us for pomp, pageantry and family fun!

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

Royal Canadian Circus - Richmond BC

An all new show, jam packed with explosive live entertainment, featuring high-flying acrobatics, death-defying tricks, clowning and towering feats of strength, teetering towers of balanced bodies, extreme bending and devilishly precarious aerials

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

Journey - The Pretenders

Neal Schon, Ross Valory, longtime members Jonathan Cain & Steve Smith, and Arnel Pineda - have set an extensive North American tour in 2020 with the PRETENDERS that will feature all new production and hits from start to finish

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

The Commodore Ballroom: Jimmy Eat World With guests: White Reaper

Jimmy Eat World has released 10 studio albums, five of which have reached Top 10 on Billboard’s 200 Chart. The band’s last 4 albums have reached Top 5 on Billboard’s Rock Albums Chart and Alternative Albums Chart

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

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

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Flow

Exploring movement through body, fibre, nature

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Burnaby International Folk Dancers Weekly Meetings

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

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

Ryan Beatty

Ryan Kevin Beatty is an American singer-songwriter. He was born in Clovis, California and now resides in Los Angeles

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

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: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Flow

Exploring movement through body, fibre, nature

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Vancouver Whitecaps Fc vs Fc Dallas

The regular season game Major League Soccer.

Vancouver | BC Place | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Sports

UBC School of Music: Baccalaureate Concert

This concert is jam packed with brilliant performances and gorgeous melodies, starring the talented students of the UBC School of Music graduating class

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Music | Free

Hedwig & the Angry Inch

This rock musical tells the story of a genderqueer rocker from East Berlin, touring North America with her band while telling her life story and following the former lover/bandmate who stole her songs

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

Surrey International Children's Festival

Enjoy songs and stories at the Surrey International Children's Festival.

Surrey | Bear Creek Park | 9:00 am to 2:30 pm | Festival

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

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: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Flow

Exploring movement through body, fibre, nature

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

VSO Tea & Trumpets: Roman Carnival

The Pines of Rome set the stage for an afternoon of Italian drama with Respighi, Berlioz, and Donizetti

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

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

Coheed and Cambria

Modern progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria will return to the road for the 40-plus date Neverender NWFT Tour in 2020

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

Jurassic World Live!

Your trip to Isla Nublar takes a terrifying turn after the Indominus Rex escapes and causes chaos in the park!

Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

Hedwig & the Angry Inch

This rock musical tells the story of a genderqueer rocker from East Berlin, touring North America with her band while telling her life story and following the former lover/bandmate who stole her songs

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

Surrey International Children's Festival

Enjoy songs and stories at the Surrey International Children's Festival.

Surrey | Bear Creek Park | 9:00 am to 2:30 pm | Festival

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

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: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Flow

Exploring movement through body, fibre, nature

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Royal Canadian Circus - Richmond BC

An all new show, jam packed with explosive live entertainment, featuring high-flying acrobatics, death-defying tricks, clowning and towering feats of strength, teetering towers of balanced bodies, extreme bending and devilishly precarious aerials

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

Cattle Decapitation with Archspire, Soreption & guests

Legends unite for an unbelievable evening of extreme and technical metal

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

The Greatest Showman-Show #1 - Panorama School of Dance

Please join Panorama School of Dance as we celebrate our 40th anniversary with our best show yet… The Greatest Showman!

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

Jurassic World Live!

Your trip to Isla Nublar takes a terrifying turn after the Indominus Rex escapes and causes chaos in the park!

Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

Steven Page and Friends with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Barenaked Ladies co-founder and Canadian Icon Steven Page brings his powerful tenor, quick wit, and an arsenal of songs from his 30 year catalogue for a sweeping set backed by the VSO

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

Tinashe - Tour For You

Tinashe Jorgensen Kachingwe is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, and actress

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

Hedwig & the Angry Inch

This rock musical tells the story of a genderqueer rocker from East Berlin, touring North America with her band while telling her life story and following the former lover/bandmate who stole her songs

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

Surrey International Children's Festival

Enjoy songs and stories at the Surrey International Children's Festival.

Surrey | Bear Creek Park | 9:00 am to 2:30 pm | Festival

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Burnaby Artisan Farmers’ Market

Burnaby Farmers' Market is located on the North Parking Lot at Burnaby City Hall at Canada Way and Deer Lake Parkway

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

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

Gardens of South Surrey Bus Tour

Hop on a bus to explore 3 unique Surrey gardens - Darts Hill, The Glades, and Historic Stewart Farm.

Surrey | Darts Hill Garden Park | 9:45 am to 3:00 pm | Exhibition

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

Fort Langley Village Farmers' Market

Welcome to our Farmers Market. All our produce, foods, and artisan products are made locally here

Langley | Fort Langley Village Farmers Market | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Exhibition. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

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

Write On Vancouver

#WriteOnVancouver, our day-long celebration of writing, authors and publishers returns May 23, 2020

Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 10:30 am to 5:30 pm | Books | Free

Surrey International Children's Festival

Enjoy songs and stories at the Surrey International Children's Festival

Surrey | Bear Creek Park | 10:30 am to 7:30 pm | Festival

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: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Flow

Exploring movement through body, fibre, nature

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Westminster Savings Family Day - May

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

Royal Canadian Circus - Richmond BC

An all new show, jam packed with explosive live entertainment, featuring high-flying acrobatics, death-defying tricks, clowning and towering feats of strength, teetering towers of balanced bodies, extreme bending and devilishly precarious aerials

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

The Greatest Showman-Show #2 - Panorama School of Dance

Please join Panorama School of Dance as we celebrate our 40th anniversary with our best show yet… The Greatest Showman!

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Performing Arts

Chado (tea ceremony) class

Learn the basics of Urasenke-style tea ceremony in this beginner-friendly class. Learn the proper ways to walk, bow, interact, and enjoy Japanese matcha tea and sweets

Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Workshop

The Greatest Showman-Show #1 - Panorama School of Dance

Please join Panorama School of Dance as we celebrate our 40th anniversary with our best show yet… The Greatest Showman!

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

Jurassic World Live!

Your trip to Isla Nublar takes a terrifying turn after the Indominus Rex escapes and causes chaos in the park!

Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

Sacrifice, Razor, Exciter with guests

Canadian thrash metal icons ready to rip the Rickshaw wide open!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 0:30 am | Music

Art After Dark - A Night of the Arts for Teens

Place des Arts’ Youth Arts Council invites teens ages 13 to 17 to a free night of the arts. Come and explore your artistic and creative interests through a variety of casual, humour-themed arts activities

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Kids | Free

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

Steven Page and Friends with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Barenaked Ladies co-founder and Canadian Icon Steven Page brings his powerful tenor, quick wit, and an arsenal of songs from his 30 year catalogue for a sweeping set backed by the VSO

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

Hedwig & the Angry Inch

This rock musical tells the story of a genderqueer rocker from East Berlin, touring North America with her band while telling her life story and following the former lover/bandmate who stole her songs

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

An Orchestral Rendition of Daft Punk: Greatest Hits: Vancouver

Thats right, for one night only we’re bringing Daft Punk's most popular songs to life! Using our host of talented performers and orchestral members we’re coming to Vancouver to re-live some of the best music ever performed!

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

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

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

Season 2020 by White Rock Farmers' Market

Weekly Farmers' Market runs Sunday 10am - 2pm. May through October

White Rock | White Rock Farmers' Market | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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. 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

Clayton Community Farmer's Market

Shop for crafts, baked goods, fresh produce and more at this annual Farmer's Market.

Surrey | Clayton Heights Secondary | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market | Free

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

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: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Flow

Exploring movement through body, fibre, nature

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Royal Canadian Circus - Richmond BC

An all new show, jam packed with explosive live entertainment, featuring high-flying acrobatics, death-defying tricks, clowning and towering feats of strength, teetering towers of balanced bodies, extreme bending and devilishly precarious aerials

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Kids Concerts: The Composer is Dead

By Nathaniel Stookey with text by Lemony Snicket

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

BC Cider Fest 2020

Be part of the 4th annual BC Cider Festival on Sunday, May 24th, 2020! This fantastic tasting event will feature 30+ cideries from BC, the Pacific Northwest, and abroad

Vancouver | The Pipe Shop | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Food / Wine

Global Tea Room with Cassius Khan: Indian Kathak Dance & Tea featuring Amika Kushwaha

On May 24, join Cassius and renowned Indian Kathak dancer Amika Kushwaha for an illuminating afternoon of music and refreshments. This event is free and welcome to all

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music | Free

The Greatest Showman/Show #4 - Panorama School of Dance

Please join Panorama School of Dance as we celebrate our 40th anniversary with our best show yet… The Greatest Showman!

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Performing Arts

Foals & Local Natives

With guests Cherry Glazerr

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

Jurassic World Live!

Your trip to Isla Nublar takes a terrifying turn after the Indominus Rex escapes and causes chaos in the park!

Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

Dashboard Confessional - 20 Year Celebration - Intimate Acoustic Performance

With guests: The Drew Thomson Foundation

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

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

CPABC’s 5th Annual CareerConnect Employer Showcase

CPABC's CareerConnect Employer Showcase is an opportunity to connect with organizations that provide effective working and training environments for CPAs and future CPAs

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

Exhibition. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

2020 Vancouver International Children's Festival

Enjoy spectacular performances from around the globe for kids and families of all ages. Treat the family to acrobatics, puppetry, theatre, dance, music and lots of arts activities

Vancouver | Granville Island | 10:00 am to 11:00 pm | Festival

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

Exhibition. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

2020 Vancouver International Children's Festival

Enjoy spectacular performances from around the globe for kids and families of all ages. Treat the family to acrobatics, puppetry, theatre, dance, music and lots of arts activities

Vancouver | Granville Island | 10:00 am to 11:00 pm | Festival

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Jazz Jam

Join us at the Shadbolt for a jazz jam session!

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

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

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

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

Exhibition. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

2020 Vancouver International Children's Festival

Enjoy spectacular performances from around the globe for kids and families of all ages. Treat the family to acrobatics, puppetry, theatre, dance, music and lots of arts activities

Vancouver | Granville Island | 10:00 am to 11:00 pm | Festival

Wednesday Pre-School Storytime!

Join us for Pre-School Storytime on Wednesday mornings!

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Kids

Exhibition: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

PULSE Productions - Beauty and the Beast

This is a story of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Max - The Colour Vision World Tour

“Young Pop God” (GQ) MAX unveils new single “Where Am I At” today

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

C/4: Canadian Choral Composition Competition

Join Chor Leoni on its Canada-wide quest for new compositions for male choirs. C/4 features Chor Leoni and our three competition finalists in an interactive evening, offering a rare insight into the creative process

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

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

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

Skills Canada National Competition 2020

an Olympic-style competition which showcases Canada’s best in skilled trades and technologies as they compete to become the national champion in their respective sector

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Show

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

Exhibition. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

2020 Vancouver International Children's Festival

Enjoy spectacular performances from around the globe for kids and families of all ages. Treat the family to acrobatics, puppetry, theatre, dance, music and lots of arts activities

Vancouver | Granville Island | 10:00 am to 11:00 pm | Festival

Group of Six

Experience the west coast connection: simplified forms, expressive colour, & spirituality in nature

Surrey | Beecher Place | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Exhibition: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

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

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

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

Royal Canadian Circus - Vancouver BC

An all new show, jam packed with explosive live entertainment, featuring high-flying acrobatics, death-defying tricks, clowning and towering feats of strength, teetering towers of balanced bodies, extreme bending and devilishly precarious aerials

Vancouver | Concord Pacific Place | 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

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

PULSE Productions - Beauty and the Beast

This is a story of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Classic Book Club: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Discuss classic literature over tea and goodies

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Books

Flotsam and Jetsam with guests Rebel Priest, Hexripper

Flotsam and Jetsam return to tour their recent release The End of Chaos! If you saw them live last time they were in town you know they deliver a great concert. This will be a good one guaranteed!

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

Lights by Adam Grant Warren

Roy Surette directs this powerful new play about a disabled son visiting his mother who has Alzheimer’s and lives across the country in St John’s

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

NoMBe: The Chromatopia Tour

Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter known for his atmospheric, chilled-out R&B, NoMBe, takes on VENUE on Thurs. May 28, 2020 with BAD CHILD

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

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

Emily Carr

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

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

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

Skills Canada National Competition 2020

an Olympic-style competition which showcases Canada’s best in skilled trades and technologies as they compete to become the national champion in their respective sector

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Show

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

Exhibition. 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

Lumionous Garden

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 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

2020 Vancouver International Children's Festival

Enjoy spectacular performances from around the globe for kids and families of all ages. Treat the family to acrobatics, puppetry, theatre, dance, music and lots of arts activities

Vancouver | Granville Island | 10:00 am to 11:00 pm | Festival