Metro Vancouver events on September 17, 2016
September 17, 2016
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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
2016 Vancouver Area Walk for Children with Apraxia of Speech
Walk will be held at The Fridge
Richmond | The Fridge at Fraserview Church | 9:00 am to 12:00 am | Charity / Fundraising
Burnaby Artisan Farmers' Market
We have great farmers, both conventional and Organic with a great selection of prepared food vendors and local crafters.
Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market
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
Farmers’ Market: Trout Lake
Popular among chefs, home cooks, and local gastronomes, farmers’ markets have become an integral part of Vancouver’s food landscape.
Vancouver | Trout Lake | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market
Focus on Seniors Forum - Financial Awareness
Join us for this free information session about financial awareness
Surrey | Fleetwood Community Centre | 9:00 am to 2:30 pm | Business / Finance | Free
Lonsdale Artisan Farmers' Market: North Vancouver
We have been lucky in having some of the best organic and conventional farmers in B.C. attend the market plus great bakers, jam makers, honey gathers, and salsa makers.
North Vancouver | The East Plaza of Lonsdale Quay | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
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
Farm Gate Sale
Join us at Loutet Farm every Saturday to support our social enterprise, pick up your farm-fresh produce from our neighbourhood farmers, and meet your neighbours!
North Vancouver | Loutet Farm | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Market
4th Annual Vancouver Modern Architecture + Design Society Home Tour
Kicking off the Fall 2016 Session, MADS Home Tours visits Vancouver, BC to explore the most unique modern residential spaces in the area.
Vancouver | West 22nd Street | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
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 | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm | Exhibition
Sam Cave - UBC Farmers Market
Free Show And Healthy Food! Sam Cave is a 20 year old soul singer, songwriter and guitarist from the outback of Australia.
Vancouver | Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm | 11:00 am to 7:04 pm | Music | Free
Celebrate Fall
Visit Kensington Prairie Community Centre to ring in the new season with a variety of activities!
Surrey | Kensington Prairie Recreation Centre | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Kids | Free
Pie in the Plaza
Take a bite out of BC's Largest Blueberry Pie and celebrate farming and food in Surrey
Surrey | City Hall Plaza, City Hall | 11:00 am to 3:30 pm | Family | Free
YOGA for Scoliosis - Part II (Vancouver)
West Vancouver | Om Prem Yoga Studio | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health
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
Coquitlam 125: Community Heritage Picnic
Step back in time at Blue Mountain Park for a 1925-themed community picnic
Coquitlam | Blue Mountain Park | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
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 | 12:30 am to 1:45 pm | Festival
GardenSmart Workshop: Food as Medicine
Food As Medicine: Summer Edition. Nourishing the mind, body and spirit with local summer harvests
North Vancouver | Loutet Farm | 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm | Workshop
Surrey Youth Fest 2016
Be part of the City of Surrey's Youth Fest 2016
Surrey | Guildford Recreation Centre | 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Kids | Free
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 | 2:00 pm to 3:30 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 | 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm | Festival
Bard on the Beach: Othello
Othello is man blessed with power, respect and love - until lago's evil manipulation leads him to a fatal act off jealousy.
Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
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 | 2:00 pm to 2:50 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre
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 | 2:15 pm to 3:15 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 | 2:30 pm to 3:25 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 | 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Festival
Vancouver Fringe Festival: Marrow
Two estranged sisters—a witchcraft historian and a bulimia survivor—delve into their conflicted past. Fiercely divided, they attempt to reconcile their differences. But a secret connects them in a way they never imagined.
Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 2:30 pm to 3:20 pm | Festival
AGM 2016 & Green Party Upate
Annual General Meeting and elections - 3:00 pm
West Vancouver | Gleneagles Community Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 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 | 3:00 pm to 4:00 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 | 3:00 pm to 3:55 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 | 3:15 pm to 4:15 pm | Festival
The Vancouver Police Museum: Red Light Rendezvous
Take a walk on the West Coast's wild side with The Vancouver Police Museum's Sins of the City tours.
Vancouver | The Vancouver Police Museum | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Exhibition
14th Annual Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival
Still Moon Arts Society is excited to announce that the 14th annual Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival will take place on September 17th, to celebrate the nature and beauty of Renfrew Ravine and Still Creek!
Vancouver | Renfrew Park, Slocan Park | 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family | Free
Vancouver Fringe Festival: "Ze": Queer as F**k!
Catapulted by a series of unlikely experiences, Michelle/Ryan stumbles through an expanding parade of LGBTQI, etc. identities in search of a definitive sense of zir own queer pride.
Vancouver | Performance Works | 4:10 pm to 5:15 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 | 4:45 pm to 5:45 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 | 5:00 pm to 6:10 pm | Family
Vancouver Fringe Festival: One Good Marriage
Steph and Stewart are celebrating their first anniversary. She’s an English teacher; he’s a high-school librarian.
Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 5:00 pm to 6:10 pm | Festival
Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. Free Flamenco Class
Join us for a free introductory flamenco class at the Marcuse Studio in the Scotiabank Dance Centre! Please register to guarantee your spot!
Vancouver | Scotiabank Dance Centre, Marcuse Studio | 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm | Workshop | Free
Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Ballad Of Frank Allen
From Australian fringe-favourite Shane Adamczak comes a bizarre new buddy-comedy about a man who lives in another man’s beard.
Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 5:45 pm to 6:40 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 | 5:45 pm to 6:30 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 | 5:45 pm to 6:40 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 | 6:00 pm to 7:30 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
Marduk with support Rotting Christ, Carach Angren, Necronomicon, Kafirun, Hissin
Marduk was formed by Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson in order to form the “most blasphemous band in the world”.
Vancouver | Imperial | 6:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music
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 | 6:15 pm to 7:15 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: 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 | 6:25 pm to 7:25 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
Drake: Summer Sixteen Tour
Grammy® Award-winning and multi-platinum selling artist Drake will launch the Drake Summer Sixteen Tour with Future and special guests in support of his brand new album
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Artists' Talk & Opening Reception
Kick off the fall with an art party celebrating still life!
Surrey | Surrey Art Gallery | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Visual Arts
Vancouver Fringe Festival: Burn Job
Fringe staple TJ Dawe returns with a story about growing up in Burnaby, LSD, and a breathing technique that brings you into a psychedelic state.
Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 6:45 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival
Vancouver Fringe Festival: Charlatan!
Travis Bernhardt, creator of the award winning magic shows Unpossible! and Lies!, returns to tell fortunes, lift curses, and speak to the dead.
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 6:50 pm to 7:50 pm | Festival
ReSounding Ryerson Fundraising Concert 2016
Four of Vancouver’s foremost choirs - are performing at Ryerson United Church, a beloved Kerrisdale venue, on September 17th
Vancouver | Ryerson United Church | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising
Vancouver Fringe Festival: The Nautical Miles and Tonye Aganaba - 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
Airbourne at Commodore Ballroom
Airbourne with guests
Vancouver | The Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
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
Cuban Cruises
This year 2016 we will have 3 Cuban Cruises with Live Cuban Salsa band in one of the floors plus our costumers can buy the traditional cuban dishes on board The Boat will be the M.V. Abitibi.
Vancouver | Plaza of Nations | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Bard on the Beach: Othello
Othello is man blessed with power, respect and love - until lago's evil manipulation leads him to a fatal act off jealousy.
Vancouver | Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre, Vanier Park | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
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. 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: 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 | 8:00 pm to 9:10 pm | Festival
Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires
Charles Bradley’s remarkable, against-all-odds rise has been well documented: how he transcended a bleak life on the streets and struggled through a series of ill-fitting jobs before finally being discovered by Daptone's Gabriel Roth.
Vancouver | Orpheum Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Music
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
2016 Fundraising Event in Scotiabank Dance Centre
Our annual fundraising event will take place September 17th 2016. See our newest full-length show and enjoy a post-performance social with cocktails, food, silent auction, entertainment and some surprises.
Vancouver | Scotiabank Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising
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
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
Richmond | River Rock Show Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. Mercedes Amaya "La Winy" with Flamenco Rosario opener
Flamenco Rosario - Flamenqueando (flamenco-ing) – the word refers to the action of dancing flamenco, but expresses the pure joy of dancing, singing and playing in flamenco culture.
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Dance
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 | 8:15 pm to 9:15 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 | 8:35 pm to 9:35 pm | Festival
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 | 8:45 pm to 9:45 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 | 9:01 pm to 10:28 pm | Festival
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 | 9:15 pm to 10:14 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**k up.
Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 9:15 pm to 10:25 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 | 9:30 pm to 10:40 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 | 9:45 pm to 10:45 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 | 9:45 pm to 10:55 pm | Festival
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 | 9:45 pm to 10:45 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 | 10:00 pm to 10:30 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 | 10:00 pm to 11:00 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