Metro Vancouver events on April 27, 2017

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

Brian Grison: Adventures of a Drawing Boy

For this series of mixed-media drawings on heavy watercolour paper, Brian Grison has developed a project that is a commentary on the mental life of the student, with himself as the artist/student model.

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Adventures of a Drawing Boy - Brian Grison

For this series of mixed-media drawings on heavy watercolour paper, Brian Grison has developed a project that is a commentary on the mental life of the student, with himself as the artist/student model.

Burnaby | Bob Prittie Library (Metrotown) | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

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

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

Community Treasures: My Disney World

Join the local Disney fan club for a display of rare Disney items from their collections

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

The Bomb Shelter Comedy Open Mic

The Bomb Shelter Comedy Open Mic goes down every Thursday in The Comedy Basement at Goldies, and hosts a couple dozen comics from pro-level to first-timer!

Vancouver | Goldies Pizza | 9:30 am to 0:30 am | Comedy | Free

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

The Salish Weave Collection: Works on Paper

Join us for the exhibition The Salish Weave Collection: Works on Paper.

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery, Upper Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

Arts Alive 2017

Join us for the exhibition of Arts Alive 2017!

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

Michael Bednar: The Fraser, Living River

Large-format photographs documenting the importance of the Fraser River to Richmond by Michael Bednar an award-winning travel and documentary photographer

Richmond | Richmond Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Omnis Temporalis

Omnis Temporalis is a multiform collaborative project that combines artistic genres by drawing together the cartoon work by renowned Canadian cartoonist Seth with original music and performance by Vancouver-based composer Mark Haney

Richmond | Richmond Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Painting Spring with Watercolour

Express the colours of the season through watercolour. This class runs for 5 sessions, Thursdays from April 27 through May 25.

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Visual Arts

Start with Art

Join us for our 13th annual Start with Art exhibition. This truly unique show focuses on encouraging young people to appreciate, collect, and curate their own art collection – with a special price list just for kids 16 and younger!

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

Classical Concert Series. Caelestra: Tales of Love - A Journey through Time

Join Caelestra for a spring concert that will take you on a musical journey through the ages of love.

West Vancouver | Silk Purse Arts Centre | 10:30 am to 11:30 am | Music

Dawn Michelle Russell: Thirteen to Zero: exploring sustainable design

The Craft Council of BC is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition, 'Thirteen to Zero', by Dawn Michelle Russell.

Vancouver | Crafthouse | 10:30 am to 5:30 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

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

Vancouver Home And Garden Show

Every year hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent on full spectrum, high frequency, media campaigns – gathering tens of thousands of attendees, creating thousands of new customers for hundreds of exhibitors.

Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 12:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

Reshaping the Familiar: Mark Bowen & Bob Leier

Artists Mark Bowen & Bob Leier explore the of reality of what we see through new eyes

West Vancouver | Silk Purse Arts Centre | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

The Dance Centre presents Discover Dance! Goh Ballet

The elegance and precision of ballet comes to life with an exhilarating performance by the award-winning dancers of the Goh Ballet Youth Company and students from the Goh Ballet Academy.

Vancouver | Scotiabank Dance Centre | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Dance

Song of the Open Road

Vikky Alexander, Robert Arndt, Gerard Byrne, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, Kelly Jazvac, Kelly Lycan, Niamh O’Malley, Dawit L. Petros, Greg Staats, Lisa Tan

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts

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

Intermediate R Programming Workshop Series

This workshop series is going to help you use R as a programming environment, allowing you to write more complex, yet clearer data analysis code. We will teach you three fundametal concepts of R programming: functions, classes, and packages

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

Vetta Chamber Music: The Romance of the Guitar

Vancouver guitarist Daniel Bolshoy will combine his six strings with those of the Vetta Chamber Players for an evening of passionate music from the heart.

Vancouver | West Point Grey United Church | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Music

Fentanyl Awareness Presentation

Burnaby RCMP Safer Community Series: Fentanyl Awareness Presentation

Burnaby | City Hall Council Chambers | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Active Life / Health

Lionel Richie & Mariah Carey

Multi-platinum-selling artists, multiple Grammy Award®-winners and music icons, Lionel Richie and very special guest Mariah Carey announced today they will tour together for the first time ever on the ALL THE HITS TOUR.

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Woodward's Community Singers 2017 Workshops

Everyone Deserves Music: Come Raise Your Voice With Us For A Dose Of Collective Joy!

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Workshop | Free

Provincial Election Forum at Hycroft

Meet some of the female candidates running in Vancouver Ridings so you can make an informed choice when voting in the next provincial election

Vancouver | Hycroft | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Shelagh Rogers: Revelation: Bearing Witness to the Transformative Testimonies of Residential School Survivors

Highly acclaimed CBC radio personality and honorary TRC witness Shelagh Rogers will discuss the impact of hearing hundreds of residential school survivors speak at national and regional events of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Vancouver | Segal Graduate School of Business | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | History | Free

Cosmic Nights: Destination Mars

Would you sign up to go to Mars? Cosmic Nights is back at the Space Centre! Discover the wonders of the universe - over drinks! Join us Thursday, April 27th for Cosmic Nights: Destination Mars a party for our favourite red planet!

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

Create Change Annual Fundraiser

Create Change is thrilled to announce its 2017 Annual Fundraiser! This event is both intimate and lively, featuring a standing reception with a live and silent auction component, and an African Design Shop. Find out more about our event features here

Vancouver | Heritage Hall | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Drum Heat

Renowned drummer and percussionist Sal Ferreras will bring together some of BC’s most outstanding world music and jazz artists live at the Vogue Theatre for a night of incredible music for an important cause

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Movies in the Morgue - L.A. Confidential

The Vancouver Police Museum is proud to present Movies in the Morgue, a somewhat random series of film screenings held right here at the old Vancouver city morgue

Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Film

Vertical Influences

Le Patin Libre is creating a new kind of ice dancing, far beyond the confines of traditional figure skating.

Vancouver | Britannia Ice Rink | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance

Autobiographical Comics with Sean Karemaker

Autobiographical comics encompass straightforward memoirs and stories in which the first-person narrator is a secondary participant, even a passive observer

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Acting For Camera with Joel Cottingham

Want to ace that commercial audition? How about snag yourself a killer agent? The film and TV industry in Vancouver is hotter than it’s ever been, so now is the time to polish your skills and get to work

Vancouver | Instant Studios | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Workshop

Bastille: Wild, Wild World Tour

Bastille are a British indie pop band formed in 2010. Bastille will kick off their “Wild, Wild World Tour” on March 24, 2017 at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, ON.

Vancouver | Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre | 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

An Evening with Jackson Browne

Jackson Browne has written and performed some of the most literate and moving songs in popular music and has defined a genre of songwriting charged with honesty, emotion and personal politics.

Vancouver | The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Mom's the Word 3: Nest 1/2 Empty

From the world-renowned creative team behind the Mom’s the Word series comes a new chapter in their stories of family and fracas.

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

The Piano Teacher

Lessons on Life and Love. When Erin, a classical pianist, experiences the loss of the life she knew, she also finds herself dealing with the departure of her own musical expression.

Vancouver | BMO Theatre Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Coastal Jazz: Eric Weiden Quartet Plays Miles Davis' Blue Haze

With Brad Turner on piano, Paul Rushka on bass, and Bernie Arai on drums.

Vancouver | Frankie's Jazz Club | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

The Great Kooshog Lake Hollis McCauley Fishing Derby by Norm Foster

We present Canadian award-winning playwright Norm Foster’s beautifully written story about a small town, five big hearts and a big fish.

North Vancouver | North Vancouver Community Players | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Stage 43 presents Bingo!

Five former classmates come together for their 30th high school reunion. Hilarity ensues when the friends attempt to relive their glory days via their old drinking game

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

A Very Special Evening with Jim Byrnes

Blue Frog Studios is proud to host a special concert with JUNO AWARD winner JIM BYRNES. Jim’s evocative, smoky vocals and gutsy blues guitar weave together to create a unique sound that has all but vanished from today's world

White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Music

PARADE

In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of 13 year old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ.

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

Mump and Smoot in Anything

The famed Canadian clown duo return to The Cultch with a new work that will take Vancouver audiences yet again into the giddy, scary world of pure imagination.

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:25 pm | Comedy

A Tribute to George Zukerman

A Tribute to George Zukerman – Celebrating Classical Music

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Theatre West Van Presents: The 39 Steps

Adapted from the original novel by John Buchan and the film version by Alfred Hitchcock, this zany comedy is performed by a cast of four who portray multiple characters

West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Theatre

Stand Up Level 1 with Adam Pateman

Would you like to learn stand-up comedy from one of the best? Adam Pateman will show you the ropes of this exciting style of comedy.

Vancouver | Instant Studios | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Workshop

April in Paris: 11th Annual Gypsy Jazz Festival. Van Django, Marc Atkinson Trio with Robin Layne

Van Django is an acoustic string ensemble made up of four of Canada's most talented and eclectic musicians; violinist Cameron Wilson, guitarist Budge Schachte, guitarist/cellist Finn Manniche and bassist Brent Gubbels

Vancouver | St. James Community Hall | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Pi Theatre: Long Division

Pi Theatre presents Long Division, a play about the mathematics of human connection

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Timeraiser150 Vancouver by Framework Foundation

Timeraiser150 Vancouver pulls out all the stops to throw a great party - from live performances to delicious local food and drink!

Vancouver | The Permanent | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Betty Who With Guests Véritė

Jessica Anne Newham, better known by her stage name Betty Who, is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician based in New York City

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music