Metro Vancouver events on May 8, 2017

Vancouver Bird Week: Free Early Bird Garden Entry

To celebrate Vancouver Bird Week, we're offering free admission to VanDusen Botanical Garden

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 7:00 am to 9:00 am | Nature / Animals | Free

Vancouver Bird Week: Bird Banding Demonstration

WildResearch will be hosting a bird banding demonstration event at the Iona Beach Regional Park

Richmond | Iona Beach Regional Park | 8:00 am to 10:00 am | Nature / Animals | Free

Douglas Rae - Reflecting God’s Creation

Reflecting God’s Creation is a series of oil and acrylic landscape, seascape and floral paintings that evoke a sense of joy and peace.

North Vancouver | North Vancouver District Hall | 8:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

Elizabeth Austin - The Drifters

The Drifters is a series of hand-crafted boats constructed by driftwood found on local beaches. The boats have been at sea for many years and ingrained in the wood are memories of the seas and shorelines

North Vancouver | North Vancouver District Hall | 8:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

Clancy Dennehy - Parade of Boats Exhibition

Clancy is now creating art that reflects the richness of the West Coast finding beauty in both nature and our industrial history of logging and port activity

North Vancouver | North Vancouver City Hall | 8:30 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Vancouver Bird Week 2017

Blackbirds, crows, and chickadees - Get to know your birds during Bird Week

Vancouver | Stanley Park | 9:00 am to 8:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Carolina de la Cajiga - City in Flux

City in Flux (Work in Progress) is a series of photographic art that explores the world of urban design and city planning. Carolina de la Cajiga highlights the carefully choreographed dance between cranes, buildings and construction workers.

North Vancouver | Lynn Valley Library | 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

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

New Forms Matter

The Sculptors’ Society of BC celebrates how traditional and contemporary sculptural practices intersect by exploring bronze, stone, wood, fibre, and mixed media.

North Vancouver | CityScape Community Art Space | 9:00 am to 5:00 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

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

Art Around the Block: Celebrating Canada's 150

"Celebrating Canada's 150" is an art exhibition featuring youth artists ages 12-19, showcasing work that reflects their stories & identities as Canadians.

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

DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Water Warriors

The hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” of natural gas deposits has become one of the most preeminent issues in the argument between natural resource profits versus environmental preservation

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 12:30 am to 1:45 pm | Film

Vancouver Bird Week: Burrard Inlet Harbour Tour

Join us for a waterbird’s eye view of Burrard Inlet and learn about the birds that use the coastal habitats alongside port operations.

Vancouver | The Port Dock | 12:45 am to 3:15 pm | Nature / Animals

Dance Power Competition - Burnaby #2

Who's pumped for DANCE POWER 25? Dance Power Competitions BBY #2 is back on May 8-14th. Watch dancers perform, compete with all they got and make it to the top of the competition

Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Dance

DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Dolores

Dolores Huerta may just be the most vocal activist you’ve never heard of.

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Film

DOXA Documentary Film Festival. The Beekeeper and His Son

Despite the ongoing environmental damage and pollution that have depleted his bee colonies, Lao Yu, a stalwart beekeeper in Northern China, is determined to keep his family tradition alive.

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 4:45 pm to 6:15 pm | Film

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

DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Far Away Lands

Have you ever looked out onto Howe Sound and wondered about the container ships at anchor there? What happens on these floating prisons? How do people make their lives at sea?

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 6:45 pm to 9:00 pm | Film

Brasilia: Life After Design

DOXA Documentary Film Festival and MOV present the Canadian premiere of Bart Simpson's sublime urban documentary film

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Film

Vancouver Bird Week: Crow Curiosity Bike Ride

A short, meandering ride to investigate and learn about crows. We’ll also learn some bird language. Co-presented for Vancouver Bird Week by Still Moon Arts Society and HUB Cycling

Vancouver | Slocan Park Field House | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Transform Life by Breath: Breathing and Meditation Workshop

Why do deep breathing animals live longer? Learn how breathing and meditation can transform your life physically, mentally and spiritually. This ancient practice can lead to health, creativity and peacefulness in your daily life

Richmond | Richmond Public Library – Brighouse Branch | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Workshop | Free

Women Artists of Fin-de-Siècle Paris

This series of three lectures will trace the work of some of the leading women artists of this period, notably Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot and Camille Claudel

North Vancouver | Ferry Building Gallery | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts

Film Night at the Opera: Becoming Traviata

In this exhilarating documentary by Philippe Béziat, French coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay and director Jean- François Sivadier re-imagine Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece, La Traviata

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

VSO Masterworks: French Romantics

Beautiful French romantic classics by Faure, Ravel and Debussy with a new cello concerto by Canada's Jocelyn Morlock, performed by Ariel Barnes

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:10 pm | Music

Nightlands and The Building with guests

A co-headlining show featuring American singer-songwriters and musicians (The War On Drugs), on tour to support their latest releases.

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | Music

Marc Cohn

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Marc Cohn is celebrating his 25th anniversary and he wants all you all to party with him.

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

Theatre BC's North Shore Zone Festival of Plays: Unity (1918) by Kevin Kerr

In the fall of 1918, a world ravaged by four years of war was suddenly hit by a mysterious and deadly plague; the Spanish Flu.

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Thurston Moore Group

American rock musician and singer-songwriter returns to Vancouver. The new song from Thurston Moore, “Cease Fire”, is out now

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Stuff: Shorts Program

Whether it’s basket making in Northern Quebec, or selling plastic toys in urban China, this collection of short films calls attention to our increasingly complex and contradictory relationship with our stuff.

Vancouver | The Cinematheque | 9:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Film