Metro Vancouver events on September 12, 2016

Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place conference

The premier conference in North America for walking and cycling professionals

Vancouver | The Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre | 8:00 am to 4:54 pm | Lecture

State of the Practice: Leading from Beside

State of the Practice is an annual exhibition highlighting a current theme in community-engaged art and social practice.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre, Exhibition Hall | Performance Centre | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things

Rick Leong: The Transformation of Things with Winifred Lee, Li Desheng, Ping-Kwong Wong

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Certified

Join the irreverent fun in this hilarious and heart aching romp, as comedian and certified insane person Jan Derbyshire turns the audience into a mental health review board to help determine her current state of sanity.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: In The Trenches: A Double Feature

A delightful duet of original comedies! Witness an apocalyptic war zone become a slapstick extravaganza as three clown soldiers take cover in an abandoned trench.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 5:00 pm to 6:10 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Leash Your Potential

Drawing on 15+ years of experience at a Fortune 500 company, Ryan will teach you how to succeed in a modern corporate bureaucracy, where outdated notions like talent, competence, and hard work are irrelevant.

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Dance Teacher

A riveting story about a complex and broken individual who has chosen the dark path of manipulation and power.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 5:00 pm to 6:10 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Space Hippo

Scientists weren’t lying. Earth is really dying. Space Hippo, you’re the only one that can undo what we’ve done. Together we can stop the Sun. Sail across the universe. Help us save the planet Earth.

Vancouver | The Waterfront Theatre | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Nerdfucker

The spectators are early, her lover is late, and the players are due any minute.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 5:15 pm to 6:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Sea Wall

Alex’s life seems perfect. But underneath his love for his wife and child, there is a deep abyss. A moving monologue about fatherhood, family, and things that cannot be undone.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: 2 for Tea

Having SOLD OUT in 2014 (High Tea) and 2015 (In The Dark), 14-time Best of Fest winning British comedy duo James & Jamesy come with the show that propelled them to being “one of the most popular Fringe duos ever” (

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. How to Adult: The Musical

Four 20-somethings trying to get their shit together in present-day Vancouver. It’s time to adult the f*ck up.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 6:15 pm to 7:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Everything is Fine

Take one naive and reckless teenager, add a desolate highway and a cold winter afternoon. The result?

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 6:15 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Peripeteia

Peripeteia: A reversal of circumstances or a turning point.

Vancouver | Granville Island - Ron Basford Park Stage | 6:30 pm to 7:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. One Man Dark Knight: A Batman Parody

The creators of One Man Star Wars and One Man Lord of the Rings, present an irreverent homage to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 6:45 pm to 7:50 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Fourth Annual Fringe Square Dance with Paul Silveria - Free at the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar

Welcome to the Big Rock Brewery Fringe Bar, the Festival’s social hub. Now located at Ocean Art Works, in front of Ocean Concrete and next to the Creekhouse on Granville Island!

Vancouver | Ocean Art Works | 7:00 pm to 1:30 am | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Manipulation

Join prOphecy sun, Cause & Effect Circus, and Moth Orbit Object Theater for a night of physical and digital manipulation.

Vancouver | Emily Carr University's Intersections Digital Studios | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 7:00 pm to 7:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Mrs. Barbour's Daughters

Mary is facing eviction and is beset by memories of life in a family which for 100 years has been influenced, for good and bad, by Mrs. Barbour, leader of a rent strike in 1915.

Vancouver | The Vancity Culture Lab | 7:00 pm to 7:58 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Women of Lockerbie

After a terrorist’s bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a battle begins between the women in the town and US officials over the clothing of the victims.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 7:15 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. The Famous Haydell Sisters Comeback Tour

Since their last record flopped in 1993, fans of the biggest sister act in country music history have been awaiting their return.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 7:45 pm to 8:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Bella Culpa

From nine-time award winning company, A Little Bit Off comes a slapstick comedy that follows two peculiar servants in an Edwardian manor as they bustle around, trying in vain to complete all of their chores.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Secret

Why do we keep secrets? And why would you keep just one? Join comedian Chelsey Stuyt on a quest to unlock the reason why she tells her mother everything—everything except that one little thing.

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 8:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk

Our eccentric guide walks you through several living and one dying mini-exhibition of various multi-disciplinary artistes from Asia, New York, and yes, even our own ‘hoods.

Vancouver | Fringe Info Centre | 8:00 pm to 8:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Falling Awake

Death and other common experiences... coffee, lightning, flash floods, and a pinch of salt.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 8:15 pm to 9:10 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Waiting for Garbo

Fresh from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Garbo meets Brecht meets Beckett in this comic, musical-ish stomp in an about-to-close garbage dump.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 9:15 pm to 10:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Frank: To Be Frank

World-renowned! The Rat Pack’s 17th member! America’s most entertaining entertainer invites you to partake in his interactive live “life retrospective.”

Vancouver | Performance Works | 9:30 pm to 10:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Nether

The Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity, and indulge your every desire.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Jon Bennett: My Dad's Deaths (A Comedy)

Jon Bennett’s dad always wanted his son to be an author… like Banjo Patterson.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 9:45 pm to 10:45 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: NeOn

I know someone who has never been the main character of their life. She believed in other people’s happiness, but not hers. NeOn questions how you commit to the practice of love.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 10:00 pm to 11:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Insults, injury, and Anne Boleyn’s head are tossed around as the the six wives return to battle it out in purgatory once again. And when Henry arrives…well, you just have to see it.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 10:15 pm to 11:25 pm | Family

Vancouver Fringe Festival: In the Blue of Evening

A stunning and fantastical epic journey whisking us from a living room to the high seas!

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 10:15 pm to 11:10 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: My Ocean

Twelve-year-old environmentalist Lenny has his lucky pouch around his neck and the eczema behind his knees is hardly even itchy.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 10:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Festival