Metro Vancouver events on May 9, 2017
May 9, 2017
Tue
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
3rd Annual Diversity Conference: Creating Strength through Differences
Back in Motion is hosting their 3rd annual Diversity Conference: Creating Strength through Differences. This year there will be 10 new and exciting presentations
Coquitlam | Executive Plaza Hotel | 7:30 am to 4:30 pm | Lecture
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
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
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 | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition
Arts Alive 2017
Join us for the exhibition The Salish Weave Collection: Works on Paper.
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
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
Reflections: IDEA School of Design poster show
The annual “Reflections” poster show and sale helps support the development of emerging local artists.
West Vancouver | Ferry Building Gallery | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
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 | Exhibition
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. Fattitude
Fattitude tackles the subject of body size prejudice from a multiplicity of perspectives including race, class, and gender.
Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 12:30 am to 2:00 pm | Film
The Vancouver Opera Festival: Master Classes for Young Singers
Hear the singers of tomorrow, coached by principal artists from the casts of Otello, Dead Man Walking and The Marriage of Figaro.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Workshop | Free
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. Let There Be Light
Many physicists and scientists believe the only hope for future life on Earth is fusion. This is the story of the most complex machine ever invented, the hydrogen fusion energy facility, currently being built out of a million pieces in southern France
Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 3:00 pm to 4:30 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. City Voices: Shorts Program
A kaleidoscopic portrait of people and their city - from the West End to the Downtown Eastside.
Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 6:30 pm to 7:40 pm | Film
DOXA Documentary Film Festival. You're Already in the Band (You Just Don't Know It Yet)
The Carnival Band describe themselves as a roving band of tricksters, troublemakers, and rabble-rousers, with the occasional real musician thrown in the mix
Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 6:30 pm to 7:40 pm | Film
DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Water on Sand
A grandmother and son retrace their memories of the Lebanese Diaspora in Vancouver with water and sand
Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 6:30 pm to 6:40 pm | Film
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 | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
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 | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera
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
Freud's Last Session
Filled with humanity, humor, and razor-sharp dialogue, Freud’s Last Session imagines the meeting of two of the 20th century’s greatest intellects
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
Theatre BC's North Shore Zone Festival of Plays: 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 | Presentation House Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
Louis Lortie in Recital
Recording exclusively for Chandos, internationally-renowned Canadian pianist Louis Lortie is recognised as one of the finest interpreters of Chopin today
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
La Merda
La MerdaLiterally naked, internationally acclaimed Silvia Gallerano sings and howls this provocative and critically acclaimed text:
Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Brother Ali "Own Light Tour"
Rhymesayers‘ Brother Ali returns to Vancouver, bringing his Own Light Tour to Fortune Sound Club on Tuesday, May 9th with support Sa-Roc, LAST WORD, DJ SOL MESSIAH
Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Vancouver Improv Fight Club ft. Ham & Beans w/ Short Form Mixer
The Fictionals Comedy Co. present award-winning improv comedy every Tuesday night at Cafe Deux Soleils. Next up: Vancouver Improv Fight Club - Ham & Beans versus Alan + Racquel!
Vancouver | Cafe Deux Soleils | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy