Metro Vancouver events on June 22, 2017

Chali-Rosso Art Gallery: Dance of Time I.

To celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, Chali-Rosso Art Gallery brought a spectacular gift to Vancouver in the form of a magnificent, iconic, bronze, Salvador Dali sculpture

Vancouver | Hornby and West Hastings Street | 1:00 am to 11:59 pm | Exhibition | Free

Canada 150: Our Home & Native Bloom

Throughout June, City Hall Plaza will blossom forth with a tribute to the biodiversity and beauty of Richmond’s native plants.

Richmond | Richmond City Hall | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family | 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

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

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 Emerging Artists Exhibition: West Coast Homeland

This spring, the Beaumont Gallery and emerging, local artists team up to celebrate the beauty of BC in our Spring Emerging Artists Exhibition: West Coast Homeland.

Vancouver | The Beaumont Studios | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Exhibition

Vancouver Art Gallery presents Pictures From Here

The rise of photo-conceptualism in Vancouver has influenced not just contemporary artists across Canada, but contemporary art practices around the world.

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

Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia

Words and their physical manifestations are explored in this insightful exhibition, which will honour the special significance that written forms, especially calligraphy, hold across the many unique cultures of Asia

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

Emily Carr: Into the Forest

The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of Emily Carr works in the world. While we are fortunate to have major works from throughout her career, the Gallery’s collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s

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

The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st-Century City

The Vienna Model exhibition, curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking, explores housing in Vienna, Austria, through its portrait of the city’s pathbreaking approach to architecture, urban life, neighborhood revitalization

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

Vancouver in the Seventies

Vancouver in the Seventies zooms in on key themes and moments from Vancouver’s coming of age: a time of protest, political upheaval, economic prosperity, and cultural blossoming

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

Sweet Side of Swing Northwest

Designed to serve both men and women equally, this unique WCS weekend focuses less on the patterns and more on the conversation and technique of the dance that is so often neglected.

Richmond | Executive Plaza Hotel | 10:00 am to 4:00 am | Dance

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

Eleanor Hannan, Barbara Heller & Bettina Matzkuhn: Connections

Using the ancient language of textiles - three artists Barbara Heller, Eleanor Hannan and Bettina Matzkuhn have produced a body of work created through a collaboration with a member of Nature Vancouver

Vancouver | Crafthouse | 10:30 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Classical Concert Series: Elmira Darvarova, Howard Wall, Wayne Weng

Prepare for a thrilling concert of exquisite chamber music from a trio of outstanding musicians from New York!

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

Downtown Farmers Market

The Downtown Farmers Market runs every Thursday, June 1 to October 5 on the Queen Elizabeth Plaza. Fresh produce and great food trucks!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

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

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

The Buddy Holly SHOW, Starring Zachary Stevenson

Back by popular demand to Blue Frog, Zachary Stevenson celebrates the life and music of legendary rock & roller Buddy Holly, whose career was cut tragically short by a plane crash in 1959.

White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Art After Dark Remix - June Session

A re-mix of music and visual art, this monthly program is for aspiring artists and DJs to meet, socialize, and experiment with your desired art mediums or to try something new

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

Elk's Stag

Come and celebrate Vancouver's most colorful and hardest working stagehand's stag at The Rickshaw Theatre

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 0:30 am | Show

Evergreen Adult Acting Class final show

The final project of Mandy’ Tulloch’s Adult Acting class takes place June 20 – 22 in the studio theatre! Come out and support these students who have been working through this project

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Performing Arts

Film Screening: Seth’s Dominion

Seth’s Dominion is a 2014 National Film Board of Canada animated/live action documentary directed by Luc Chamberland about the Canadian cartoonist Seth.

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Workshop | Free

Prohibition City - walking tour

From back alley blind pigs to Chinatown opium dens! Mobsters! Opium! Booze! Delve into Vancouver's dirtiest secrets on this scandal filled walking tour.

Vancouver | Cathedral Square, Dunsmuir & Richards streets | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Exhibition

Bittergirl: The Musical

The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical

TheatreSports™

Relying on razor-sharp wit and lightning-fast reflexes, two teams of performers are pitted against each other in competitive improv matches. Using audience suggestions to fuel scenes, teams must create totally improvised situations on the spot

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy

UBC Opera - Ariadne Auf Naxos

A rich patron has commissioned a new opera from a brilliant young composer based on the Greek myth of Ariadne and has invited his friends to dinner for the premiere

Vancouver | UBC Old Auditorium | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

Dario Fo: A Night of One Acts

Join Il Centro Players for a night of comedy theater featuring three one-act plays from Nobel laureate Dario Fo’s masterpiece Comic Mysteries (Mistero Buffo, 1969), translated in English.

Vancouver | Il Centro Italian Cultural Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Michael Che

Critics and audiences agree, NY-based writer, actor and standup comedian Michael Che is a star on the rise

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale

A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.

Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Jazz Waves: Blackstick

Get ready for a night of good ol' fashioned Dixieland jazz with Blackstick lead by clarinetist Lloyd Arntzen & featuring talented local musicians & members of the musical Arntzen family!

West Vancouver | Silk Purse Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Hand To God

The irreverent comedy with a wicked personality

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

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare’s classic study of power and prejudice, set in today’s world, shows the consequences of how we choose to treat the ‘others’ in our midst

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Million Dollar Quartet

Four Rock Legends, One Unbelievable Jam Session

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm | Music

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' newly announced North American tour

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 0:00 am | Music

The World Goes ‘Round

The sizzle of Chicago. The charisma of Cabaret. The bravado of Kiss of the Spider Woman. See it all in this stylish revue celebrating one of Broadway’s greatest song-writing teams, Kander & Ebb

North Vancouver | Deep Cove Stage Society | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Seu Jorge presents: The Life Aquatic - A Tribute to David Bowie

North American audiences may know Brazilian singer/songwriter/guitarist Seu Jorge best for his film roles.

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Chuck Ragan

Charles Allen "Chuck" Ragan is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the guitarist and vocalist of the band Hot Water Music

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Alma - The Story of the Girl Who Glowed

East Van Opera cordially invites you to join us in our inaugural production; "Alma", by composer Allison Cociani. Experience an evening of opera, ballet, and burlesque!

Vancouver | Metro Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

Coastal Jazz: Seu Jorge Presents: The Life Aquatic - A Tribute To David Bowie

Join us as we proudly launch the 2017 Festival with Seu Jorge in a marvellous tribute to the late, great David Bowie.

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Charley's Aunt By Brandon Thomas

Vagabond Players Presents: Charley's Aunt By Brandon Thomas. Directed by Dale Kelly

New Westminster | The Bernie Legge Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

The Rio Theatre's Vinyl Cafe: A Tribute to Stuart Mclean

A magical night of Story telling & Live Music, The Rio Theatre Vinyl Cafe is a Tribute to Stuart McLean, the host of CBC Radio's The Vinyl Café and an award-winning humorist, who passed away on Feb 15th 2017

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Show

Live at the Bolt: 21

Join us in an interactive evening of performance in the Shadbolt and through the magical grounds of Deer Lake Park

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

No Mothers at The Main on Main

The brothers are fresh off their triumphant east coast tour, their souls are hardened by the road, their set is honed to a sharp and deadly edge, and they can't wait to share a beer with you

Vancouver | The Main | 9:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Spag Heddy at Way Home

Join the movement and find your Way Home with dubstep juggernaut Spag Heddy on The Meatball Mafia Tour Thursday June 22nd with support from Vibe Selektaz and Gmang

Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 9:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

The LOL of TMI

Our improvisers delve into our over-shared digital world. From Snapchat to Instagram, Weibo to Facebook and everything in between.

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Show