Metro Vancouver events on March 7, 2017

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

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

2017 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Master Class - Dairakudakan

Master Class with Takuya Muramatsu and Daiichiro Yuyama

Vancouver | KW Studios | 9:30 am to 11:30 am | Workshop

Healthy Kids Preschool Fair

Parents with preschoolers, come and take part in free activities at Cameron Community Complex!

Burnaby | Cameron Recreation Complex | 9:30 am to 1:00 pm | Kids | Free

Nature Studies - Drawings by Sibéal Foyle

Come discover our community’s creative spirit! With works on display on both the Main Floor and the Lower Level, the Library’s Art Gallery showcases the talents of established and emerging artists.

West Vancouver | West Vancouver Memorial Library | 10:00 am to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ann Kipling Drawing the Line: North Shore Works 1962-1967

Acclaimed artist Ann Kipling states “drawing for me is not a nicety, it is a necessity,” reflecting on her decades-long pursuit of the line in ink and graphite on paper

West Vancouver | West Vancouver Museum | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibtition: Contingent Bodies. Brigitta Kocsis

Brigitta Kocsis' paintings blend realism, illustration and expressive painterly gestures in a chaotic and visually charged landscape. Her current series, Contingent Bodies, focuses on the representation of bodies in transformation

Vancouver | grunt gallery | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

VPL Aboriginal Storyteller in Residence: Storytelling Chats

Jules Koostachin, the 2017 VPL Aboriginal Storyteller in Residence, is available to meet and share experiences with emerging storytellers and community members who have an interest in Aboriginal culture and cross-cultural connections

Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Lecture

Vancouver Canucks vs. Montreal Canadiens

The regular season game

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Sports

VBCC Spring Song Concert: Singin’ in the Rain

As VBCC has often been dubbed “a choir of soloists” the evening will also feature many vocal and instrumental solos from the talented members of the choir. It will be an evening guaranteed to lift your spirits and have you swaying in your seats.

Vancouver | Ryerson United Church | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Music

SFU Public Square: The Middle East and the Refugee Crisis

SFU Public Square: The Middle East and the Refugee Crisis with speakers Robert Fisk, Nelofer Pazira and Her Excellency Catherine Boura

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

Šxʷʔam̓ət (home)

šxʷʔam̓ət means home in Hǝn̓q̓ǝmin̓ǝm̓, a local Indigenous dialect. This word has so many different meanings to all of us who are living on this land.

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

The Men In White

A tale of home, brotherhood and cricket

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

2017 Chutzpah! Festival presents Maya Avraham

MAYA AVRAHAM who is known to all of us from The Idan Raichel Project is coming to Vancouver with her band of extraordinary Israeli and American musicians

Vancouver | The Norman Rothstein Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Gabriel Kahane, voice & piano

A singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with a quirky pop sensibility, who embraces music both old and new.

Vancouver | The Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Elbow Room Café: The Musical

A candid look inside Vancouver’s most iconic eatery: home of raucous service, celebrity sightings, and hearts of gold.

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Musical

Théâtre la Seizième presents: Bonjour, là, bonjour

In the Quebec of the 1970s, Serge returns home avec a three-month trip to Europe. There, he finds, unchanged, his hypochondriac aunts, his deaf father, and his older sister, for whom he remains an object of desire

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Bittergirl: The Musical

The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Musical

2017 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Yayoi Theatre Movement presents “OKUNI” - Mother of Kabuki

Okuni-Kabuki is Yayoi Theatre Movement Society’s new 70 minute production choreographed and performed by artistic director, Yayoi Hirano, that will premiere in March 1 to March 10 2017

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Dance