Metro Vancouver events on September 16, 2016

TCRG hosts International WFTDA Division 1 Playoffs - Vancouver

Watch some of the most talented skaters in world compete for women’s flat track roller derby’s highest honor in the 2016 International WFTDA D1 Playoffs in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Richmond | Richmond Olympic Oval | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Sports

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

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

Leading From Beside: Community-Engaged Dance Symposium

Join us to explore the many faces of community-engaged dance through panel discussions, workshops, performances, dialogue circles, and more.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Centre | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Performing Arts

The West End Sex Workers Memorial Event

The City of Vancouver is proud to support a public event in honour of a diverse community of sex workers who lived and worked in the West End from the mid-1960s to 1984.

Vancouver | St. Paul's Anglican Church | 11:00 am to 1:30 pm | Workshop

Vancouver's Original Greek Food Festival

As the street festival season begins... here's one of the originals!

Vancouver | The Hellenic Community | 12:00 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

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 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 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 | 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm | Festival

North Vancouver’s Shipyards Night Market

You won't want to miss this years Shipbuilders' Night Market on Friday Nights !!

North Vancouver | Shipyards Night Market | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Market

Back to School Pool Party

Make a splash at Guildford Recreation Centre to celebrate the new school year

Surrey | Guildford Recreation Centre | 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Kids

The Vancouver Police Museum: Vice Dice Opium Pipes

Walk the beat and see what it was like to be a cop over a century ago, when Vancouver was a seething hub of sex, drugs, corruption and organised crime.

Vancouver | The Vancouver Police Museum | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Exhibition

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 | 6:00 pm to 7:10 pm | Festival

Bike The Night

Come join us for Bike the Night! Experience nocturnal Vancouver at its best - by bike.

Vancouver | Kitsilano | 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Show

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Hidden Stories

Theatre Terrific and Aboriginal Front Door collaborate to create the sensory sister to last year’s Being Animal.

Vancouver | Sculpture Grove | 6:00 pm to 6:50 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Hip.Bang! presents The History of Romance

From Hip.Bang!, creators of 2015 hit WHITE PANTS, comes The History of Romance. Touching on everything from Romeo and Juliet to modern dating, this show will make you laugh like a child who has just learned about ice cream.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: V. R. Dunne

In 1934 a small group of workers decided to fight for a better life. Their actions were a pivotal event in 20th century American labour history.

Vancouver | False Creek Gym | 6:15 pm to 7:15 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

Journeys in the Right Direction, Guiding Youth Home

Help raise money for Surrey youth of the All Nations Youth Safe House

Surrey | Riverside Signature Banquet Hall | 6:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Give It Up

Morgan Brayton has it all! Okay, well, she has questions about it all. Where is her husband Scott Baio? When is SNL going to call?

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 6:45 pm to 7:45 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 | 6:45 pm to 7:35 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: My Stroke of Luck

Can the good doctor become a good patient? My Stroke of Luck shares Diane’s journey of medical catastrophe and recovery—not only as the physician she is, but as a single mom to a frightened teenaged son.

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 6:45 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Badmatch

Cocaine, diarrhea, a Canucks’ riot, and the Grouse Grind. What could they possibly have in common?

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Rossi Gang and Los Duendes - 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

Richmond Night Market

Similar to previous years, the annual gathering will feature seemingly endless rows of food vendors (offering hundreds of things to eat and drink), merchandise stalls, gaming stations, and live entertainment.

Richmond | nearby Bridgeport Station | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Market

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

Silk Road Melody

Silk Road Melody is a musical epic performed by the Guangdong National Orchestra of China at the Orpheum

Vancouver | Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: 2 Ruby Knockers, 1 Jaded Dick: A Dirk Darrow Investigation

Australia’s favourite silly psychic detective is back. All new comedy, magic, and crime. Think Boardwalk Empire meets Naked Gun. Based on a Dashiell Hammett story.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 7:05 pm to 8:05 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 | 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm | Festival

Vetta Chamber Music: Beethoven!

This all Beethoven concert features Vancouver’s best chamber musicians performing much loved sonatas and the famous “Ghost” Trio.

Vancouver | West Point Grey United Church | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

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 | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival

Bard on the Beach: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Bard's hit 2012 production is back and it's time again for music, flirting, fun - and fairies!

Vancouver | Vanier Park, Kits Point at the Foot of Whyte Avenue | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

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 | 7:45 pm to 8:45 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

the Comedy MIX presents Headliner: Steph Tolev

Steph Tolev is a stand up and sketch comedian from Toronto, that currently lives in Los Angeles.

Vancouver | the Comedy MIX | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Comedy

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 | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival

Co.ERASGA presents Collected, Traces and Still Here

Co.ERASGA’s 16th season presents the company’s newest ensemble creation choreographed by critically acclaimed Vancouver choreographer, Alvin Erasga Tolentino.

Vancouver | Scotiabank Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

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. 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 | 8:00 pm to 9:00 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 | 8:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival

Reality Curve Theatre: Bug the play

Love, fear, paranoia, conspiracy theories, twisted psychological motives and a slow descent into insanity. Pulitzer prize winning author Tracy Letts crafts a riveting, lurid thriller about two damaged people trying to make a connection.

Vancouver | The Annex | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Theatre

至尊四大天王 模仿秀 Top Four Heavenly Kings - Tribute Show

亞太區最強 "至尊四大天王" 模仿秀 世界巡迴慈善演唱會2016 "Top Four Heavenly King" World Tour Charity Concert 2016

Coquitlam | The Molson Canadian Theatre at Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Show

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival

The Vancouver International Flamenco Festival presents: Mercedes Amaya "La Winy" (Mexico); With ¡ARTE! Flamenco (Saskatoon) at the Playhouse.

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: William vs The World

The epic adventure of a geek and his cactus who just want to be left alone.

Vancouver | Arts Umbrella | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival

Digital & Interactive Art Preview Night

Come and view youth digital art projects and new interactive artwork at UrbanScreen

Surrey | Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

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 | 8:20 pm to 9:20 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 | 8:30 pm to 9:45 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 | 8:30 pm to 9:25 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. Generation Hot: Program A

Generation Hot is a group of fiercely courageous young artists responding to the climate crisis through new performances.

Vancouver | Anderson Street Parking Lot | 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival

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 | 8:45 pm to 9:40 pm | Festival

Vancouver Fringe Festival. I Had Sex Until My Heart Stopped

Cheating death and finding love in the modern age. Cameron MacLeod’s true stories of flat lining, deadly food allergies, and awkward sexual escapades will have you on the edge of your seat.

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 8:45 pm to 11:45 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 | 8:50 pm to 9:50 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 | 9:00 pm to 10:00 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 | 9:15 pm to 10:30 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

Mat Zo

London bred Mat Zo makes his highly anticipated Vancouver return Friday, September 16th for the 'MAD Tour' at Celebrities Nightclub!

Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival. The Orbweaver

She loves bright, lively things like candles and starlight. He is Death’s very own personal assistant. Not your usual boy meets girl story.

Vancouver | Revue Stage | 10:05 pm to 11:20 pm | Festival

the Comedy MIX presents Headliner: Steph Tolev

Steph Tolev is a stand up and sketch comedian from Toronto, that currently lives in Los Angeles.

Vancouver | the Comedy MIX | 10:30 pm to 11:45 pm | Comedy

Vancouver Fringe Festival. The Girl Who was Raised by Wolverine

A dystopic future; resources are depleted, overpopulation is destroying the earth. The culling approaches—one person in three will be killed, for “the greater good.”

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 10:35 pm to 11:25 pm | Festival