Metro Vancouver events on October 19, 2016
October 19, 2016
Wed
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
The Vancouver Writers Fest: Word!
Prepare for the best kind of Festival experience: a room buzzing with artist-generated energy and inspired young minds.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 10:00 am to 11:30 am | Festival
The Vancouver Writers Fest: Dispatches from the Danger Zone
Despite the daily headlines, wars raging around the world can seem unreal and irrelevant to our lives. Two authors who’ve seen the fighting and its aftermath up close help us understand how those conflicts matter to us all.
Vancouver | The Waterfront Theatre | 10:00 am to 11:30 am | Festival
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
Mamahood: Turn & Face the Strange
The Firehall Arts Centre is pleased to present Nicolle Nattrass’ brilliant one-woman show Mamahood: turn and face the strange
Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre
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
The Flick
A Close-Up On Three Cinema Misfits
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 4:45 pm | Theatre
Farm Gate Sale
In need of mid-week fresh veggies?
North Vancouver | Loutet Farm | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market
The Vancouver Writers Fest: Wit Craft
Four funny women highlight how some of life’s challenging moments are better with laughter.
Vancouver | Performance Works | 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm | Festival
The Vancouver Writers Fest: An Intimate Evening with Guy Gavriel Kay
For lovers of fantasy fiction, the name Guy Gavriel Kay is synonymous with excellence. Kay’s writing is celebrated internationally and translated into more than 25 languages.
Vancouver | The Revue Stage, Granville Island | 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm | Festival
PNE: Fright Nights
Western Canada’s Scariest Haunt. It’s our favourite time of fear. Experience the freaky, terrifying and much less cheerful doppelganger of Playland, Fright Nights, select nights through October 31.
Vancouver | The Playland | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show
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
Chilliwack | Chilliwack Cultural Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Vancouver Recital Society: Danish String Quartet
The much anticipated return of the Danish String Quartet to Vancouver after a sold-out performance in 2014
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
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
The Vancouver Writers Fest: Modern Day Bards
Who says Shakespeare’s dead? It may the 400th anniversary of his physical death, but his staggering body of work still inspires young artists today.
Vancouver | Café Deux Soleils | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival
Mamahood: Turn & Face the Strange
The Firehall Arts Centre is pleased to present Nicolle Nattrass’ brilliant one-woman show Mamahood: turn and face the strange
Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 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
I Care What You Think
A performance that invites the audience to be part of an experience, exploring how the perfect dance has nothing to do with an unattainable ideal but exists in the spaces between, around and within us all.
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance
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
Fight Night
Looking south and feeling frustrated? Fight Night’s your chance to blow off some steam just days before the US election… Five contenders. Five rounds. Your vote. Only one will survive.
Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:25 pm | Theatre
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper pioneered a grandly theatrical brand of hard rock that was designed to shock.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Music
Take 5
Over 80 minute it’s an emotional classic carney ride through and around 5 eclectic, emphatic, funny plays.
Vancouver | The Vancity Culture Lab | 8:00 pm to 9:25 pm | Theatre
Margo Price
East Nashville breakout Margo Price has confirmed a Fall headline tour in support of her debut LP ‘Midwest Farmer’s Daughter,’ out now on Third Man Records.
Vancouver | Imperial | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
The Vancouver Writers Fest: The State of the Union
Voters in the USA are on the cusp of a momentous election that has the world watching.
Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival
The Vancouver Writers Fest: Tomboy Survival Guide
Tomboy Survival Guide is a collaboration between Ivan Coyote and three fast friends who, through story, music, lyrics, memories and photographs, have created a show that’s part anthem and part instructions for dismantling the gender stories we tell.
Vancouver | The Waterfront Theatre | 8:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Festival
The Vancouver Writers Fest. The Natural Way of Things: Charlotte Wood in conversation with Aislinn Hunter
They don't have a “hottest book of the year” award in Australia (yet) but if they did this year it would go to Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things.
Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 8:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Festival
The Vancouver Writers Fest: This Really Happened: Coming of Age
The live storytelling series, This Really Happened, is back in Vancouver to present stories on that uncomfortable, fraught and oh-so-universal theme: coming of age.
Vancouver | Revue Stage | 8:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Festival
Bingo For Life by Celebrities
Presented by Celebrities & Vancouver Friends For Life Society
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Ok Tinder - Swipe Right Comedy
The good, bad and the laughable of Vancouver’s dating scene. Enjoy this show at half-price with Half Price Hilarity.
Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Comedy
Aidan Miller
Aidan Miller is a graduate of the Fine Arts program at York University in Toronto, majoring in jazz piano and free improvisation.
Richmond | River Rock Casino Resort | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music