Metro Vancouver events on April 30, 2017

2017 Daffodil Dash

Lace up your running shoes to support the fight against cancer! Daffodil Dash is an exciting opportunity for running enthusiasts to challenge themselves while raising money to support cancer patients and their families

West Vancouver | Ambleside Park | 8:00 am to 1:00 pm | Active Life / Health

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

2017 Daffodil Dash - Vancouver

This Daffodil Month, add a spring to your step with the Canadian Cancer Society’s Daffodil Dash - a 1k walk and 5k run (and don't forget the mini dash for the kids!) that raises funds for cancer research and prevention and support for people living with t

Vancouver | Concord Parking Lot | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Active Life / Health

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

2nd Annual Furry Tails Foot Race

The LAPS “Furry Tails Foot Race” is a FUNdraiser to help Langley’s stray, lost and unwanted dogs and cats.

Langley | Derby Reach Regional Park | 9:00 am to 11:30 pm | Charity / Fundraising | 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 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

Hastings Park Farmers Market

The Hastings Park Farmers Market features a great selection of local produce; nursery items, fish, meat & dairy; artisan prepared foods, baking and treats; the best in local crafts, and of course, hot food trucks

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

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

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 | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Spring tree sale

Help us reach our goal of planting 150,000 trees by 2020 and pre-purchase a tree for your yard today! We have a wide variety of fruit, flowering, shade and conifer trees available at the low price of $10 per tree

Vancouver | Hillcrest Community Centre | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals

VanDusen Plant Sale 2017

Celebrating Canada’s 150th Birthday! Free Admission and thousands of plants for sale

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals

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

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

Hawk and Owl Show

Live Owls presented by the Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society

Richmond | Richmond Nature Park | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Nature / Animals

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

The Salish Weave Collection: Works on Paper

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

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Arts Alive 2017

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

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

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

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 12:00 am to 5:00 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 | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Live Jazz at Brentwood

Live Jazz at Brentwood is back! Join us every Saturday and Sunday in April for live jazz performances by local artists.

Burnaby | Brentwood Town Centre | 12:00 am to 2:00 pm | Music | Free

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

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

Baking Time

Presentation House Theatre and Oily Cart presents a fresh batch of Baking Time - a fantastic feast for the senses for 3-6 year olds, and their friends and families — before taking the show on tour to the Ottawa Children’s Festival.

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Theatre

Intro to Music Production & Ableton Live with Alex Klinke

Join producer Alexandre Klinke to expand your music performance and composition methods with this in-depth introduction to the multifaceted software, Ableton Live

Vancouver | VIVO Media Arts Centre | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Workshop

Vancouver Opera: Otello

A powerful masterpiece that marries Shakespeare's poetry with Verdi's lyricism and sumptuous orchestrations. Based on Shakespeare's tale of love, jealousy, and betrayal, Otello is considered Italian opera's greatest tragedy

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:50 pm | Opera

Vancouver Opera: The Marriage of Figaro

Combining sublimely beautiful music, social commentary, deviousness and delight, Mozart's matchless The Marriage of Figaro is funny, tender and profoundly human.

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Opera

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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Dance

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 | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Theatre

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 | 2:00 pm to 3:25 pm | Comedy

Pi Theatre: Long Division

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

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Circle Game

Created by Andrew Cohen and Anna Kuman Inspired by the songs of Joni Mitchell A Firehall Arts Centre Production

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

Opera On A Sunday Afternoon

Join us for one of a four-concert series produced by the Burnaby Lyric Opera

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Opera

Nadia Testa & Alessandro Crosta DUO

Flute and piano duo from Italy travelled through the whole world, bringing their mastery to audiences of many countries.

White Rock | First United Church | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

Swedish Valborg Celebration

The Swedish Cultural Society of Vancouver is hosting their annual Valborg Celebration. Valborgsmässoafton, the Walpurgis night, is when Swedes gather around the huge bonfire, and sing special songs to celebrate the arrival of spring.

West Vancouver | Ambleside Park | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Family | Free

The Vancouver Opera Festival: Paul Wong. Five Octave Range

A Vancouver Opera Festival Commissioned Work by The 2016 Audain Prize Winning multimedia

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Visual Arts

Film Fu Fight Fest 2017

As part of Film Fu‘s continuing philanthropic initiative, created by award-winning feature film director, fight choreographer and stunt performer Kirk Caouette, we present to you Vancouver’s inaugural Film Fu Fight Fest!

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Film

VSO Spring Fest: Enigma

Maestro Tovey joins Vancouver Symphony Orchestras Principal musicians to perform the Elgar Piano Quintet and then explores the mysteries and humour of Elgar’s Enigma Variations

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 9:01 pm | Music

Arlo Guthrie - Running Down The Road Tour

On the heels of the sold-out Alice's Restaurant 50th Anniversary Tour, Arlo Guthrie plunges into another musical trip certain to be a flashback inducing, mind-expanding show.

West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre Grosvenor Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Audio/Video: Ridiculous Videos = Hilarious Scenes

Audio/Video is improv inspired by the worlds of film and music. Improvised films? Got it. Extreme close ups? Totally. Sing alongs? Better believe it.

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Show

Coastal Jazz: Jen Hodge All Stars

Busy Vancouver musician Jen Hodge is a versatile bass player and bandleader with an infectious love for making music

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

Squidling Brothers Circus Sideshow - Caravan Of Creeps Tour

When strange and curious meet and make their odd bedfellows on stage, you have the Caravan Of Creeps. Hailing from Vancouver, B.C. this circus-sideshow collective invites you to the extraordinary and bizarre spectacles that they specialize in

New Westminster | The Columbia | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Streetfight Improv! by Instant Theatre

Streetfight - an Improv Comedy Battle Royal!

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre