Metro Vancouver events on January 19, 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

Know Show

The KnowShow provides a perfect platform for industry leading brands and Canadian retailers to connect and do this business.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Business / Finance

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

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2017: Granville Island Market Tour - Unlocked for Locals

You know that world-famous Public Market in your backyard? It's time for you to enjoy the spoils! Take charge of your local status with this special edition of the Granville Island Market Tour - Unlocked for Locals

Vancouver | Edible Canada | 9:30 am to 11:30 am | Food / Wine

Lunar New Year at Oakridge Centre

Come celebrate Lunar New Year at Oakridge Centre with LunarFest craft workshops, live performances, and loads of fun activities for the whole family!

Vancouver | Oakridge Centre | 9:30 am to 6:00 pm | Family | Free

Hong Kong: Heroes of the Dark Years

Discover the relatively unknown but inspiring stories of Chinese Canadians who were heroes during the battle, the occupation and the liberation of Hong Kong during WWII

Vancouver | Chinese Canadian Military Museum | 10:00 am to 5:00 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

In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man: Contemporary Art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea

The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC offers a rich and rare window into the visual culture of Papua New Guinea’s Sepik region with In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man: Contemporary Art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea

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

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

Layers of Influence: Unfolding Cloth Across Cultures

We wear clothing not only to keep us warm, but to express our beliefs, social status and political identity. This stunning exhibition showcases more than 130 handmade textiles from around the globe, drawn from the largest collection in Western Canada

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

2017 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: Mess

Caroline-Horton-Mess-1Josephine is putting on a play – Boris and Sistahl help. It’s about anorexia. But don’t let that put you off. Unflinchingly they confront big issues (and extremely tiny ones).

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 10:00 am to 11:15 am | Theatre

2017 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Ode to the Attempt: A Choreographic Lab with Jan Martens. Workshop

Divided into three parts, dancer/choreographer Jan Martens (Sweat Baby Sweat) offers this choreographic lab that takes participants through the history of minimalism, to practicing methodologies in choreography, to creating new material.

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Workshop

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

Coming Home: Traditions of Chinese New Year. Exhibition 万家团圓: 春节传统展

Family is at the core of Chinese New Year, and the rituals and customs of this traditional celebration are expressed through colourful symbols and lively stories that awaken the senses

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 10:00 am to 4:00 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

Vuja De. New paintings by Claire Sarfeld

I enjoy creating work in which I’m not limiting myself in my creative endeavors. I push the picture plane to create layers and shapes, unconventional horizon lines, and find moments of clarity, to achieve an overall sense of discovery. -Claire Sarfeld

New Westminster | Douglas College | 10:00 am to 7:30 pm | Exhibition

Judy Chartrand: What a Wonderful World

Judy Chartrand: What A Wonderful World features the remarkable ceramics of Judy Chartrand

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Bill Reid Creative Journeys

An exhibition presented in partnership with the Vancouver International Airport to mark the 20th anniversary of Bill Reid's iconic sculpture, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Three Cities: Prayer and Protest. Opening Exhibition

Artist: Mere Phantoms: Maya Ersan & Jaimie Robson. Three Cities: Prayer and Protest is a shadow-based installation that investigates sites of tension, controversy, and contact within three cosmopolitan environments.

Vancouver | Grunt Gallery | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amie Siegel: Quarry

Amie Siegel's moving image work Quarry (2015) proceeds from the vast underground caverns of a Vermont marble quarry to the material’s high-end destination: the opulent sales galleries for Manhattan's newest residential skyscrapers.

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Strong Female Character

Group exhibition featuring Mandy Tsung, Bronwyn Schuster and Sherri Rogers. Strong Female Character looks at feminine identity, both past and present, as defined within Western culture.

Vancouver | Hot Art Wet City | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

2017 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: Mess

Caroline-Horton-Mess-1Josephine is putting on a play – Boris and Sistahl help. It’s about anorexia. But don’t let that put you off. Unflinchingly they confront big issues (and extremely tiny ones).

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 12:30 am to 1:15 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Civic Theatres job fair

Join the Vancouver Civic Theatres team! Join us for an information session and find out more about working for one of Vancouver's largest cultural hubs

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Business / Finance

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2017: Granville Island Market Tour - Unlocked for Locals

You know that world-famous Public Market in your backyard? It's time for you to enjoy the spoils! Take charge of your local status with this special edition of the Granville Island Market Tour - Unlocked for Locals

Vancouver | Edible Canada | 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Food / Wine

Mischief Managed Presents: Harry Potter Burlesque

A silly, sexy evening filled with all your favourite Harry Potter characters in a light you’ve never seen them before. Like Harry Potter… But way hotter!

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

2017 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. By Heart. Tiago Rodrigues/Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Portugal)

Once 10 people know a poem by heart, there’s nothing the KGB, the CIA or the Gestapo can do about it. It will survive.

Vancouver | Performance Works | 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm | Performing Arts

2017 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Mere Phantoms: Garden of Earthly Delights Performance

CSA Space, grunt gallery and PUSH Festival are pleased to co-present a performance by the Montreal-based duo, Mere Phantoms, entitled Garden of Earthly Delights.

Vancouver | CSA Space | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Celebrating Expo 67 with Maurice Guibord and Viviane Gosselin

All Together Now contributor Maurice Guibord and curator Viviane Gosselin acknowledge the 50th anniversary of Expo 67 with insights, memories and collectables from this ground-breaking Canadian event

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

UBC Theatre: Love and Information By Caryl Churchill

A scientist dissects a brain. Someone tells the police. Another puts an elephant on the stairs. Over 100 vibrant characters in a series of vignettes search for meaning in their lives; through sex, death, feeling, thinking, taxidermy, and karaoke

Vancouver | Frederic Wood Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

As I Lay Dying

The evocative and absurd southern gothic masterpiece

Vancouver | BMO Theatre Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

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

The Little Mermaid

Based on the animated 1989 Disney film, The Little Mermaid the musical follows Ariel, an intelligent and strong willed young mermaid who longs to leave her ocean home in search of her destiny in the world above.

Chilliwack | HUB International Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Musical

Special Incite: Sarah Schulman

The Vancouver Writers Fest in partnership with SFU Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies and Arsenal Pulp Press present: Sarah Schulman in conversation with Douglas Todd

Vancouver | CBC Studio 700 | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture | Free

The Fighter and The Kid Live with Brendan Schaub & Bryan Callen

The Fighter & The Kid is a weekly podcast featuring former UFC heavyweight Brendan "Big Brown" Schaub and actor/comedian Bryan Callen.

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy

The Fighting Season

Inspired by his father’s deployment in Afghanistan, Sean Harris Oliver’s searing new play investigates the Afghan war through the eyes of a Canadian field medic, a doctor, and a recovery room nurse.

Vancouver | The Vancity Culture Lab | 8:00 pm to 9:20 pm | Theatre

The (Post) Mistress

Marie-Louise is an effervescent, charismatic postal worker in the fictional town of Lovely who seems to know everything about everyone–and is eager to share all the gossip with you.

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

The Nether by Jennifer Haley

The Nether made its Vancouver premiere at this year’s Fringe Festival and was a favourite amongst critics. A detective story that explores the nature of virtual realms, fantasy and morality.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Theatre

2017 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Oil Pressure Vibrator. Geumhyung Jeong (South Korea)

Part performance piece, part lecture, this is a show that will challenge your notions of sexuality, technology and the body - not to mention theatre itself.

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

2017 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Sweat Baby Sweat. Jan Martens (Belgium/Netherlands)

A man and a woman: that’s what you get in Jan Martens’ brilliant piece of dance. Onstage, dancers Kimmy Ligtvoet and Steven Michel enact a story of love with their bodies, complemented by music and projected text

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:10 pm | Dance

Concord Floral

Steady yourself - this show packs a theatrical and emotional punch

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:20 pm | Theatre

Catch A Vibe: Mamarudegyal's Birthday edition

Music provided by DJ Maiyah

Vancouver | Alexander Gastown | 9:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music