Metro Vancouver events on October 13, 2016

October 13, 2016

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Taste of Yaletown 2016

We are proud to bring you the 12th year of the tastes, treats, sips and sights of Yaletown with the Taste of Yaletown festival.

Vancouver | Yaletown | 9:00 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine

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

Classical Coffee Concert: Beethoven and The Beatles

Indulge your cravings for coffee, good company, and great music

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 10:00 am to 12:10 am | Music

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

The New Westminster Homelessness Coalition Society Charity Dinner and Auction

Please join us for our annual fundraiser dinner. The theme this year is “The Future of Homelessness.”

New Westminster | The Columbia Theatre | 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising

KPU-Science World Speaker Series: What Can Artists and Filmmakers Teach Us About Scientific Visualization?

Come early for a free drop-in workshop to create your own artistic and scientific visualizations before the talk begins.

Vancouver | Science World | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Workshop | Free

3rd Annual Festival of Fantasy: Vancouver Halloween Parade & Expo (Performing Arts)

Vancouver | Tom Lee Music Hall | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

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

The Flick

A Close-Up On Three Cinema Misfits

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

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

Piya Behrupiya (Twelfth Night)

The Cultch and Diwali Fest have partnered to present the Canadian premiere of Piya Behrupiya (Twelfth Night)

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:20 pm | Theatre

Major Motion Picture

A Firehall Arts Centre Presentation Out Innerspace Dance Theatre

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

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.

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Theatre

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

Des Larson

Des Larson is a Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Comox, British Columbia.

Richmond | Lulu's Lounge, River Rock Casino Resort | 9:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music