Metro Vancouver events on September 13, 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

Vancouver Fringe Festival. On the Road Touring Workshop

Are you an aspiring or emerging artist interested in touring? Have you ever wanted to learn more about how presenters book their shows?

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | Workshop | Free

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses

Known for his enormous contribution to the canon of great art in the 20th century, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881—1973) is one of the masters of Modernism.

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

Kwantlen St. Farmers Market

The Kwantlen St. Farmers Market offers all the goodness of a farmers market, with live entertainment, kids workshops, artisan foods and crafts, food trucks and chef demos using the freshest local produce.

Richmond | Kwantlen St. Farmers Market, Kwantlen Polytechnic University | 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Market | Free

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Perpetual Wednesday

Walter and Bruce, con artists extraordinaire, while disguised as magicians, killed an audience member during their infamous bullet-catch act! Or did they?

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

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Love, Lust & Lace

Witness the raunchy pursuit of primal desires in this farcical masque commedia dell’arte piece. You will indulge in the dynamic intrigues of the heart as you follow Il Capitano and Columbina’s trials in love.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Advice to Love/Hate You (and everything in between)

It doesn’t matter who you are or how you identify, we all go through relationships. This is a flexible love story where the audience gets to offer their advice to help a relationship flourish.

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

Vancouver Fringe Festival: James Jordan Vaudevillian

This all ages vaudeville variety show with magic, juggling, royalty-free music, and brilliant comedy has been headlining comedy clubs and festivals all over the world!

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

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Wild/Society

Rabbit wants to be the most popular city lady when she moves to the newest development in town. Raccoon couldn’t care less about social politics.

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 5:25 pm to 6:15 pm | Festival

People, Parks, and Dogs: Trout Lake open house

Join us at an open house to discuss, learn more, and provide feedback about People, Parks, and Dogs, a strategy for sharing Vancouver's parks.

Vancouver | Trout Lake Community Centre, Lakewood Room | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Trump: The Musical!

He’s going to build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it!!! It’s going to be HUGE!!!

Vancouver | The Carousel Theatre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Not Enough

In an effort to finally grow the F up, Megan embarks on a last-ditch gambit: a 10-day silent meditation.

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

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Carry On: A Musical

Set in the YVR baggage claim, Carry On: A Musical examines the convergent lives of weary wanderers and the baggage they bring with them.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 6:30 pm to 8:00 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: Weekend Leisure Karaoke - 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: 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

Celebrating Indigenous Writers - Book Launch

Join us to celebrate Indigenous writers including Roy Henry Vickers, Roberta Price, and Kathleen King-Hunt.

Vancouver | Native Education College | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Piaf and Brel:The Impossible Concert

Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel: Two French musical icons. They sang songs of romance, heartbreak, hope, and love. They lived lives of drama and passion.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Bluebird North 100th show

The season begins with our 100th show! Featuring Helen Austin, Stephen Fearing and Shaun Verrault (Wide Mouth Mason).

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre, Performance Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Fat Sex

Comedy, spoken word, and song with a smart satirical twist from an international slam champion with two decades of experience bringing audiences world-over to a glorious climax!

Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 7:45 pm to 8:44 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 | 7:45 pm to 8:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. I Forgot To Fly Today - Trent Baumann

From the creator of The Birdman, award winning, sold out seasons, standing ovations, and following ten international tours! Imaginative comedy finding the weight of the world may just float on a cloud.

Vancouver | Granville Island, Near Railspur Park | 7:45 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Friends of Chamber Music: Escher Quartet

The Friends of Chamber Music are please to welcome back the Escher Quartet to Vancouver for an evening of Schoenberg and Mendelssohn.

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

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

楊臣剛 老鼠愛大米 北美巡迴演唱會 Yang Chen Gang Concert

Yang Chen Gang is a singer and music artist from China, Wu Han city.

Richmond | River Rock Show Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Music

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 | 9:00 pm to 10:00 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 | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Suburban Motel: Featuring Loretta

Loretta is the kind of girl you would do anything for. Dave and Michael are in love with her. Dave wants to take her shopping. Michael wants to make her a star! A porn star. What is a woman to do in a man’s world.

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 9:15 pm to 10:45 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 | 10:30 pm to 11:30 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 | 10:45 pm to 11:50 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 | 10:45 pm to 11:30 pm | Festival