Metro Vancouver events on October 17, 2016

2016 Creative City Summit

Welcome local and national delegates to Surrey for the 2016 Creative City Summit

Surrey | Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel | 8:00 am to 8:00 pm | Lecture

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

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

Opening the Door by Samsara Marriott - Youth Program Specialist

Opening the Door is a unique networking event for students in Grades 10–12 who are interested in pursuing a career in science, technology, engineering or mathematics.

Vancouver | Science World | 12:45 am to 3:00 pm | Lecture | Free

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

Kanye West: Saint Pablo Tour

Kanye West – the 22-time Grammy Award winning, visionary multi-disciplinary artist who has sold over 30 Million albums worldwide and has twice been named to Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 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

A Tribute to Elvis in Concert

Paquette Productions is proud to present the most anticipated Elvis event of the year, “A Tribute to Elvis in Concert" featuring two of the worlds most coveted Elvis Tribute Artists known today sharing the stage together for the first time in BC

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

The Vancouver Writers Fest. Between the Pages: An Evening with the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalists

One of the authors at this anticipated event will win the richest literary prize in Canada on November 7.

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Karen Gomyo plays Berg

Violinist Karen Gomyo returns to Vancouver to perform with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, with Karina Canellakis conducting

Vancouver | Orpheum Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:10 pm | Music