Metro Vancouver events on March 22, 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

Window Gallery: Qaqtis, Graffiti Therapy, First Nations and graffiti on street wear

My art is a combination of my two favourite art forms – First Nations art and graffiti. By painting clothing such as hoodies and shoes, I bring together the worlds of the retail industry and the immense graffiti scene in this city

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Exhibition: Breaking Down the Fourth Wall

Diego Bastianutti and Jon Guido Bertelli explore life in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside through word and image. Their art focuses on the homeless and the addicts, underscoring their resilience, their undeniable humanity and dignity

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Kids in the Arts Studio, Spring Break Camp 2017

After a long cold, wet winter up jumps Spring with these week-long programs that will fire your imagination as you explore new creative worlds

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

Rise and Shine - The Lost Aloha Spring Break Camp

After a long cold, wet winter up jumps Spring with these week-long programs that will fire your imagination as you explore new creative worlds

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

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

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 9:30 am to 5:30 pm | Exhibition | 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

Special Invasive Removal Team (SIRT)

Natural habitats in Stanley Park are being overtaken by invasive species. Come learn about the ecology of the park while working with other volunteers to help conserve its biodiversity

Vancouver | Stanley Park Dining Pavilion | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

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

Spring Break at the Space Centre

Celebrate STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) in space

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

Preschool Storytime: Nature’s Stories for Young Children

Younger children welcome if quiet and engaged. Every 4th Wednesday of the month in the Library New at the Yosef Wosk Library & Resource Centre!

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 10:30 am | Kids | 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

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

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

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

Spring Break Festival. Dufflebag Theatre: Rumpelstiltskin

Evergreen welcomes DuffleBag Theatre for a spectacular fun-filled and hilarious festival of interactive storytelling theatre!

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 11:05 am | Theatre

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

Guided Nature Walks. Bear Creek Park

This winter, join us for free guided walks in Surrey's nature parks and learn a little more about the urban forest that we are lucky to call home

Surrey | Bear Creek Park | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Nature / Animals | Free

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

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

Xi xanya dzam - Celebrating our Amazing Artists

Xi xanya dzam is the Kwak'wala word which describes the gifted people who create works of art, and is the title of our upcoming exhibition

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

Spring Break Days

Looking for something fun to do on spring break join us at the Burnaby Village Museum

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum & Carousel | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Kids | Free

Train Dreams

The train looms large in the history of Canada, British Columbia and the Tri-Cities. It is just over 130 years since the first transcontinental train pulled into Port Moody from Montreal and, the Art Gallery at Evergreen presents the exhibition

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 12:00 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

Creative Writers Group

Writers Wanted! Join the Century House Creative Writing Group. Begin your journey to better writing today.

New Westminster | Century House | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Lecture | Free

A Firehall Arts Centre Production: Refuge

What happens when you come to Canada from a war-torn country expecting to be welcomed and discover that things are very different from what was imagined?

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre

Spring Break Festival. Dufflebag Theatre: Peter Pan

DuffleBag Theatre has become one of the most celebrated companies at festivals and schools across the country. The DuffleBag actors begin the retelling of original adaptations of select fairy tales full of wit and humour

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 1:00 pm to 2:05 pm | Theatre

Reproducible Research Workshop Series

In this workshop series, we introduce computational reproducibility and its importance to modern research. We will teach the general principles for reproducible computer-based analyses, along with specific methods and tools for reproducibility with R

Vancouver | Life Sciences Institute | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Workshop

Drawing From Life in the Art Gallery

Once a month, the Art Gallery at Evergreen is transformed into a drawing studio, complete with drawing boards and an undraped model

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

You Otter See Beavers!

Celebrate World Water Day in the domain of the otters and beavers of Stanley Park.

Vancouver | Stanley Park Dining Pavilion | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Nature / Animals

Love Letters + Heart Wills: 6 wk drop-in series in Vancouver

Facilitated by Reena Lazar and Michelle Pante, Love Letters + Heart Wills is a six-week drop-in series that supports you to wake-up, before your time's up!

Vancouver | Mountain View Cemetery | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Workshop

Thoroughly Modern Millie!

Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the delightful story of a small-town girl who travels to New York City in 1922

North Vancouver | Capilano University | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

UBC Theatre: Les Belles Soeurs by Michel Tremblay

Germaine is the lucky winner of one million green stamps. When fourteen of her friends, neighbours, and family members join her in working-class Montreal to celebrate, her windfall ends up igniting lurking resentments

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

Allan Rayman with guests

Allan Rayman had to get away. While some artists are blessed with the ability to balance their passions and responsibilities, Rayman found himself singularly consumed by his music, and retreat was the only option

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Music

Zucchero - Black Cat Live Tour

Adelmo Fornaciari Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI, more commonly known by his stage name Zucchero Fornaciari or simply Zucchero, is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician, with an Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

A Firehall Arts Centre Production: Refuge

What happens when you come to Canada from a war-torn country expecting to be welcomed and discover that things are very different from what was imagined?

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

STRFKR With Guests Psychic Twin

American indie dance-pop band, on tour to support their latest release “Being No One, Going Nowhere” (out November 4th)

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:35 pm | Music

The Daisy Theatre

Returning after three sold out runs, don’t miss your chance to see the production The Georgia Straight called “one of the best shows you’ll ever see.”

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Way Up! Wednesdays

Every Wednesday with DJs Arems, Hoppa + special guests

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