Metro Vancouver events on October 20, 2016

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

Once Upon a Pumpkin

Drop in to learn about Halloween's origin in nature.

Richmond | Richmond Nature Park | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

The Vancouver Writers Fest: Live and Learn

Children like stories to be served with a good helping of humour and a dollop of self-recognition. What kid can’t see themselves in Gordon Korman’s latest romp Slacker?

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 10:00 am to 11:30 am | Festival

The Vancouver Writers Fest: Mythical Modern Worlds

“Characters’ lives do not end just because a book does,” says C.C. Humphreys. Today, he and Erin Bow share the sequels to their wildly popular books.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 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

Great British Columbia ShakeOut Earthquake Drill

On the third Thursday of October, thousands of British Columbians will "Drop, Cover, and Hold On" in The Great British Columbia ShakeOut, the largest earthquake drill in BC history!

Vancouver | Metro Vancouver Regional District | 10:20 am to 0:00 am | Active Life / Health

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 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...

Vancouver | Performance Works | 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm | Festival

The Vancouver Writers Fest: Into the Future with Erin Bow

Erin Bow is a physicist turned poet turned children’s novelist, and author of the dystopic The Scorpion Rules, awarded the 2016 CLA Book of the Year for Young Adults.

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm | Festival

The Vancouver Writers Fest: Read It Again, Please!

Kids often get attached to their favourite storybooks, asking for them to be read over and over again. Today, add three new titles to that list, with the unquantifiable benefit of hearing from the authors themselves.

Vancouver | Revue Stage | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Festival

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

Spacekraft 1st Anniversary Celebration

Spacekraft is turning one! Come celebrate a year of successes, learnings and failures.

Burnaby | Spacekraft Coworking | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

The Vancouver Writers Fest: New Face of Fiction

Since its inception 20 years ago, the New Face of Fiction program has brought sensational first-time fiction authors to Canadians.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm | Festival

RMH BC: A Night to Dream Gala

An elegant evening in support of keeping families together when they need it most.

Vancouver | The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising

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

Piano Concert to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Polish-German Neighbourship Treaty

Celebrating the Polish-German Neighbourship Treaty with award winning concert pianist Krystyna Tucka.

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Music | Free

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

Bakersfield Mist

A Comedy About Discovering Art In Unexpected Places

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival: Reel Rock 11

The REEL ROCK Film Tour brings the best climbing and adventure films of the year to audiences around the world.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Film

Fringe Series: Sperm Wars

An Epic Act of Conception set in a Galaxy Far Far Away.

Chilliwack | Chilliwack Cultural Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:55 pm | Show

It Was a Dark & Stormy Night

Silly spoof of the classic Hollywood ‘old, dark, house’ thrillers

Vancouver | Metro Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 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

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

Indie Van City Volume 14 "Empire Records Edition", Static in the Stars, Sam The Astro, Sam Lynch

Indie VanCity Volume Fourteen: Empire Records, Featuring Static in the Stars with guests Sam the Astronaut, Sam Lynch, Plus Special Guests, Thursday October 20th at Studio Records.

Vancouver | Studio Records | 8:00 pm to 12:00 am | Music

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

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

The Vancouver Writers Fest: Chimes of Freedom

The memory of captivity is burned deep into the psyche of America, so it is no surprise that novelists continue to revisit the impact of slavery.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Festival

The Vancouver Writers Fest: Embedded

The effects of the Iraq War on refugees hardly seems like material for a cartoonist, but when Sarah Glidden accompanied a reporter and a former Marine to the Middle East, it was the only way for her to express the complexities she witnessed.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival

The Vancouver Writers Fest: The First Signs

Imagine yourself as a caveperson. It’s 25,000 years ago and your cave walls are filled with illustrations, handprints, dots, triangles and spirals. You know what it all means—but then you and your people vanish.

Vancouver | Revue Stage | 8:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Festival