Metro Vancouver events on February 17, 2017

Vancouver Mobile Training & Expo 2017

The 2016 Expo was successful. The 2017 Expo is going to be amazing

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:30 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Diego Samper Dreamscapes

Dreamscapes Scapes - landscapes, seascapes, dreamscapes - images that are born from a deep and intimate experience of the places where Diego has had the fortune to live: the temperate rain forest and seashore of the Pacific Northwest and the Amazon tropic

North Vancouver | City Atrium Gallery | 8:30 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Limited Editions: The Art of Printmaking

Contemporary printmakers Mariko Ando, Elisabeth Sommerville and Richard Tetrault demonstrate the artistry, processes and techniques of printmaking

North Vancouver | CityScape Community Art Space | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Out of Sight: Eadweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton

Discover the work of two photographers who were revolutionary in making time stand still

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | 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

Things with Wings

Freedom to Soar. Fireflies, crows, fairies, dragonflies, owls, angels, butterflies, bats and beyond; all celebrate the miracle of flight.

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Show

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

Sarah Ronald: i spy wild | life

Artist Sarah Ronald shows new drawings, paintings, and installations which spur viewers to tune in and seek out the contradictions present in our daily lives, specifically around our relationships with wild animals in both suburban and natural environment

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 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

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

Hank Bull: Connexion

Take a closer look at renowned Vancouver artist Hank Bull

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

Come Soar Over China at FlyOver Canada!

FlyOver Canada is proud to once again present Flight of the Dragon; a flight ride experience that takes you over the breathtaking countryside and renowned landmarks of China

Vancouver | FlyOver Canada | 10:00 am to 9:00 pm | Family

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

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

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.

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

Vancouver International Wine Festival 2017

The Vancouver International Wine Festival, Canada's premier food & wine event, has three mandates: to provide an informative, educational and entertaining wine experience for public and trade

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:30 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine

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

Toy Babies. New works from Andrea Hooge

Doll-headed portraits will once again be filling the gallery for Andrea’s fifth solo show

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

Live Music Friday

Enjoy live music and beer every Friday from 5pm to 8pm at Green Leaf Brewing Co.

North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay Market | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music | Free

Bittergirl: The Musical

The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.

West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre Grosvenor Theatre | 5:30 pm to 7:45 pm | Musical

JFL NorthWest in Association with SiriusXM Present: Iliza

Iliza Vie Shlesinger is an American comedian. She was the 2008 winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing, went on to host the syndicated dating show Excused and currently hosts the TBS comedy/game show Separation Anxiety

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Comedy

The Staves

Following the widespread global acclaim for the Justin Vernon produced ‘If I Was’ in 2015, The Staves returned in 2016 with the stellar 3-track Sleeping In A Car EP.

Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

The Knocks: Feel Good Feel Great

The Knocks are a New York story through and through

Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Pre-teen Dances at Fleetwood Community Centre

Drop by a recreation centre in Surrey for your next pre-teen dance! We have great concession, awesome light shows, and music that you and your friends will love to dance to. All pre-teen dances take place on Friday nights and are for kids ages 10 to 12 ye

Surrey | Fleetwood Community Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Kids

African Heritage Festival of Music & Dance: AHFOMAD 2016

Be part of an incredibly colourful and international celebration! This festival features outstanding performers including David J David, Desiree Dawson, and Blakk Rasta.

Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival

JFL NorthWest: Fortune Feimster at The Biltmore Cabaret

JFL NorthWest in association with SriusXM presents: Fortune Feimster

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

Friday Night Live. Life. Stories. Music.

What’s FNL all about? It’s a totally unique experience. Every week is different. It is an experience that you help create by sharing your life stories. Then, it’s music and storytelling

North Vancouver | Lynn Valley United Church | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Performing Arts

20th Annual Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. Ski Show

Pow hunters unite! The latest and greatest from the world of back-country, freestyle and ski mountaineering. With guest speaker Greg Hill

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Film

20th Annual Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. Journey Into The Deep Wild

From the wonderful words of Jon Turk - "discover a glorious and sustainable lifestyle that is based on the Deep Wild as a foundation of solace, sanity, compassion, and hope"

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

20th Annual Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. Himalayan Life

A night dedicated to the culture and people of the Himalayas and the highest mountain communities in the world. Guest Speakers: Elizabeth Leboe & Lenard Reid

Vancouver | The Cinematheque | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Film

Magic Series: Shawn Farquhar’s Cabaret of Wonders - VI

Join an extraordinary gathering of magicians!

Chilliwack | Chilliwack Cultural Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Show

Odysseo

Odysseo, Cavalia’s new adventure, has been touring under the world’s largest big top since fall 2011. Odysseo is a veritable revolution in live performance

Vancouver | Olympic Village | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Show

Crawlspace

Boca del Lupo's Micro Performance Series presents: CrawlSpace. Created and Performed by Karen Hines

Vancouver | The Fishbowl Venue | Comedy

Graham Clark's Quiz Show 3

JFL NorthWest in association with SriusXM presents: Graham Clark's Quiz Show 3

Vancouver | Hot Art Wet City | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy

Matthew Good with guest Craig Stickland

Matthew Good - I Miss New Wave Tour With guest Craig Stickland. Consistent, candid, honest and forthright about everything from life to music, Matthew Good is one of few Canadian musicians that requires no introduction.

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

The Little Mermaid

Join us for Disney's The Little Mermaid. Bring the kids for an "Under the Sea" adventure with lively music and a great cast of characters!

Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:35 pm | Theatre

Charley's Aunt - English farce

North Vancouver Community Players presents Charley’s Aunt at The Theatre at Hendry Hall North Vancouver

North Vancouver | The Theatre at Hendry Hall | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Call Mr Robeson

Paul Robeson is a great and famous actor, singer and civil rights campaigner. When over the years he gets progressively too radical and outspoken for the establishment’s liking, he is branded a traitor to his country, harassed, and ...

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

White Rock Concerts presents Brahms Requiem with the Vancouver Chamber Choir and the Bergmann Duo

International prize winners, including the Dranoff International Two Piano Competition and Provincia di Caltanisetta International Chamber Music Competition

Surrey | White Rock Baptist Church | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Camaro 67 with special guests BigFate

Camaro 67 brings together classic Afrobeat influences (Fela Kuti, Tony Allen), and modern Afrofunk / Groove sounds (Antibalas, Budos Band, The Herbaliser) to produce a propulsive, high-energy, made-in-Vancouver heavy funk experience

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Pajama Men: Pterodactyl Nights

World-renowned sketch superstars return to Vancouver! Known for their unique style that blends stand-up, sketch, improv, and outlandish characters in strange situations, the Pajama Men are like nothing else.

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

2017 Chutzpah! The Dance Centre presents Tara Cheyenne Performance + Silvia Gribaudi

Vancouver audience favourite Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg and Italy's Silvia Gribaudi collide and embrace in a new collaboration which navigates the role of comedy as a catalyst to understanding and communication

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

The Audience

Broadway’s royally entertaining hit play

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Corleone: The Shakespearean Godfather by David Mann

A classic tale of power, destiny, betrayal and honour: what if Shakespeare had written The Godfather? This brilliant comic premise takes on surprising dramatic power as Coppola’s movie masterpiece shows itself to be true Elizabethan tragedy.

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

The Men In White

A tale of home, brotherhood and cricket

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

NeoIndigenA

A full-length solo performance from award-winning artistic director, choreographer, and performer Santee Smith (TransMigration), exploring our relationship to ancestors, the living universe, and renewal.

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:05 pm | Dance

ELLE Adapted from Douglas Glover’s novel by Severn Thompson

ELLE is the story of Marguerite de La Rocque de Roberval, a French noblewoman who set out in 1542 for Canada with her uncle, Jacques Cartier to colonize the new-found country

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Studio 58 presents: 42nd Street

The quintessential backstage musical comedy classic, 42nd Street is the song and dance fable of Broadway with an American Dream story and includes some of the greatest songs ever written..

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:10 pm | Musical

Towards Zero

Vagabond Players Presents Towards Zero By Agatha Christie. Directed by Miles Lavkulich

New Westminster | The Bernie Legge Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

C/4: Canadian Choral Composition Competition

Chor Leoni proudly presents the winners of our inaugural C/4, the Canadian Choral Composition Competition.

Vancouver | The Annex | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Carl Craig (Planet-E)

Carl Craig is a Detroit-based producer of techno music, and is considered to be one of the most important names in the Detroit second generation of techno producers and DJs

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 10:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music

Magic Series: Shawn Farquhar’s Cabaret of Wonders - VI

Join an extraordinary gathering of magicians!

Chilliwack | Chilliwack Cultural Centre | 10:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Show

Hyphy Fridays at Alexander Gastown

You are invited to join us every Friday. You are invited to join us every Friday. Alexander Friday's powered by Hyphy every Friday with residents DJ Marvel + Jolin Ras.

Vancouver | Alexander Gastown | 10:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music