Metro Vancouver events on October 6, 2016

Healthy Kids Preschool Fair

Join us for the Healthy Kids Preschool Fair at Edmonds Community Centre.

Burnaby | Edmonds Community Centre | 9:30 am to 11:30 am | Kids | Free

Keith Langergraber: Betrayal at Babylon

Join us at the Burnaby Art Gallery for the new art exhibit from Keith Langergraber.

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

UnBecoming, An Annotated Exhibition

Artist Elizabeth MacKenzie presents a new series of large-scale, drawing-based digital prints investigating the problematics of self-portraiture, along with two additional installations that annotate her creative process within the development of this wor

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

Works from Suzo Hickey: A Small Dominion

A solo exhibition of new paintings by Suzo Hickey.

Vancouver | The Cultch Gallery | 12:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

If not for dreams: The 9th annual Oppenheimer Park community art show

A showcase of artwork from the Oppenheimer Park community that features painting, drawing, print-making, sculpture, carving, textile, mixed media and video works.

Vancouver | Gallery Gachet | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts

The Signature of All Things

Join us in the Garden’s Discovery Room for the opening of a month-long exhibition of original artwork created by the Open Book Art Collective and inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert’s novel, The Signature of All Things.

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Downtown Farmers Market

We’re thrilled to announce that the Downtown Farmers Market at Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Plaza | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market | Free

VSO Tea and Trumpets

VSO's Tea and Trumpets classical matinees, featuring beloved classics and entertaining stories and narration from Vancouver's very own Bard himself - Christopher Gaze.

Vancouver | Orpheum Theatre | 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm | Music

Opening Reception: 19th Birthday Party Exhibit

Join us for an evening to honour the experiences of Surrey youth aging out of care

Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Kids

H’Arts for the Homeless 2016 – Annual Awards and Benefit for the Lookout Society

Through amazing live painting, circus, music, stories and dance, this event helps us understand how a stable and safe home provides those who are homeless with hope and purpose.

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising

2016 EAT! Vancouver. EAT! Harvest

EAT! Vancouver brings Canada’s top culinary talent together for a ONE NIGHT ONLY, unique epicurean feast at the EAT! Harvest event.

Vancouver | Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Food / Wine

Vancouver TheatreSports League presents Trump Card - Winner Takes All

VTSL ups the ante with its own improvised election - who's going to win it... will it be the joker?

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm | Show

Class-of-59

Get redy to rockwith Byddy Holly, Elvis, Bill Haley, Jackie Wilson, Sam Cook, The Everly Brothers, and the Big Bopper!

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

The Flick

A Close-Up On Three Cinema Misfits

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 10:45 pm | Theatre

Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

Five actors play over 40 comical characters, filling the stage with suspects, allies, and heirs in this zany whodunit based on the Arthur Conan Doyle classic.

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Theatre

Ralph Heading: Flying Contraptions

Hear Ralph Heading share about his repurposed junk creations created using found objects

Surrey | Surrey Art Gallery | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Vagabond Players Presents: Body and Soul

Written by Vagabond Players very own Elizabeth Elwood, this world premiere of Body and Soul is set in a heritage home in the Queen’s Park area of New Westminster!

New Westminster | The Bernie Legge Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Helen & Edgar

A story of Savannah told by celebrated raconteur Edgar Oliver

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:35 pm | Theatre

Ten Times Two: The Eternal Courtship

A Dramatic Comedy By David Belke. A time travelling tale of unrequited love ten times, for two people

North Vancouver | Deep Cove Shaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

Studio 58/Langara College presents: Angels In America

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play in 1993, Angels In America has become a seminal work of the North American canon.

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:10 pm | Theatre

Pacific Theatre presents: A Good Way Out

Joey is a hardworking mechanic who operates as the front man for a biker gang. He joined for protection, but a few bad decisions have him looking for an escape that may not exist.

Vancouver | Pacific Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Theatre

Stranger to Hard Work

The Firehall Arts Centre is pleased to open its 34th season with the work of one of Canada’s fiercest and funniest females, Cathy Jones. A Canadian cultural icon, Jones returns to the stage with her third one-woman show, Stranger To Hard Work

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Show

Motherload

Returning after a wildly successful 2015 run, Motherload is an intimate account of parenting in the modern age. Four prominent Canadian theatre artists and mothers bare their personal stories about what it takes to be a member of the world’s biggest club.

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

VTSL Presents Late Night Laughs at VIIF

Vancouver TheatreSports™ League presents two nights of hilarity in conjunction with VIIF Ok Tinder & Firecracker.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:15 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy