Metro Vancouver events on January 16, 2017

Robson Square Ice Rink

This winter, renew a classic Vancouver tradition and enjoy some old-fashioned fun. Robson Square’s outdoor skating rink is open, so celebrate winter in style with skating in the heart of downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | Robson Square Ice Rink | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Family | Free

Canada Responds to the Holocaust, 1944-45

Canada Responds to the Holocaust, 1944-45 explores interactions between Canadians in Europe and survivors of the Holocaust at the close of the Second World War and in the immediate postwar era

Vancouver | Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | History

Meryl McMaster, Confluence

The Richmond Art Gallery is pleased to present Confluence, a touring exhibition organized by the Carleton University Art Gallery in Ottawa and curated by Heather Anderson.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Vancouver in the Seventies

Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Stare at Vancouver Art Gallery

Drawn from the gallery’s permanent collection, the exhibition will feature work by artists such as Roy Arden, Bernd and Hilla Becher, John Coplans, Barbara Probst and Mark Ruwedel among others

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

We Come to Witness: Sonny Assu in Dialogue with Emily Carr

Sonny Assu continues his ongoing body of work Interventions on The Imaginary, creating a new series of digital tags on a body of Emily Carr paintings selected from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection

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

Juxtapoz x Superflat at Vancouver Art Gallery

Juxtapoz x Superflat is a manifesto for new creative practices that can no longer be adequately described by the traditional categories of art and production

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

Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures

The title of the exhibition, Ambivalent Pleasures, refers to the complex nature of pleasure in the early 21st century as we become increasingly aware of the social, economic and environmental costs of our desires, habits and patterns of living

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

Yin Yoga and Meditation

Enjoy a mindful morning of self-study during Cristina Friere's gentle class

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:15 am to 11:30 am | Active Life / Health

Bartender at Large: Screening & Cocktails

Join Lot 40 and the Canadian Professional Bartenders Association as we welcome bartending legend Erick Castro to Vancouver for the Canadian Premier of the smash hit documentary Bartender at Large

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Film | Free

2017 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: Macbeth

Third World Bunfight brings us a free adaptation of Verdi’s opera - and by free, we mean daring, radical and uninhibited in its transformations.

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

Great Good Fine Ok With Flor at Alexander Gastown

New York-based indie pop duo, on tour to support their latest EP release "III" (out January 6th)

Vancouver | Alexander Gastown | 8:00 pm to 0:30 am | Music

Symphonic Dances, with Otto Tausk

Outstanding young conductor Otto Tausk makes a return visit to the Orpheum stage, conducting a program that includes Rachmaninoff’s sumptuous Symphonic Dances and Shostakovich’s stunning Violin Concerto No. 1

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

John Paul White

Beulah, the title of John Paul White’s new album, his first in nearly a decade, a remarkably and assuredly diverse collection spanning plaintive folk balladry, swampy southern rock, lonesome campfire songs, and dark acoustic pop.

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music