Metro Vancouver events on July 2, 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 | West Hastings and Hornby 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

Canada Day, 150th Birthday

The celebration in 2017Canada Day at Canada Place will be a two-day program

Vancouver | Canada Place | 8:30 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

Arts 2017: Reflections on Canada

The Arts Council of Surrey presents the 33nd juried exhibition showcasing the diverse talents of established and emerging visual artists from across the Lower Mainland

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Poirier Street Farmers Market

The Poirier Street Market hosts a diversity of vendors and products from May through October. Each week a wide variety of vendors gather to showcase their products - made, baked, grown, or raised in BC

Coquitlam | Dogwood Pavilion | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Market

Dinner in the Sky - Vancouver

This will be the first opportunity that Vancouver has had to host Dinner in the Sky. The breath-taking natural beauty of Vancouver, lends itself completely to this unique dining experience.

North Vancouver | The Creek Marina | 9:30 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine

Kitsilano Farmers Market

Every Sunday from May – October, the parking lot of Kitsilano Community Centre bustles with 50+ farms and producers bringing Vancouver's west side the finest and freshest food in the city

Vancouver | Kitsilano Community Centre | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

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

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

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

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

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

Playland at the PNE

Playland opens May 6 with three new family rides! All three rides will accommodate the entire family, so get ready to share even more memories and screams this coming spring and summer.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Family

Barbara Cohen: Seeing Red

Jewelry artists from across Canada whose work push traditional boundaries have been invited to incorporate red in their work and asked to create pieces to showcase imagination and ingenuity

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

Surrey Celebrates Canada 150. Dominion Days

Celebrate Canada's 150th Birthday at the Farm. Canada is turning 150 and we're celebrating like it's 1900 with a new two-day festival

Surrey | Stewart Farm House | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

YVR Food Fest - Street Food Showdown

YYR Food Fest is back for a sixth year and happening over the Canada Day Long Weekend. Featuring new, expansive programming all weekend long at Vancouver’s premiere celebration of food, June 29 - July 3, 2017

Vancouver | Olympic Village | 11:00 am to 7:00 pm | Food / Wine

Ambleside Artisan Farmers' Market

​We are very lucky to have such a great variety of organic and conventional farmers at this location. We also have a good selection of prepared foods including baking, syrups, jams, jellies, honey, salsas, anti pastas and much more.

West Vancouver | Ambleside Park | 11:00 am to 4:00 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

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

North Shore Jazz: Jennifer Scott

JUNO- and Jesse-nominated Scott regularly performs to festival audiences and sold-out stages, earning accolades for her velvety voice and daring song selection.

North Vancouver | Civic Plaza | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Music | Free

Canada 150: Cantonese Opera

Harmony Cultural Arts Society is a non-profit organization set up with the vision to promote and increase the community’s understanding and appreciation of Cantonese Opera

Richmond | Richmond Cultural Centre | 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Opera | Free

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Mendham featuring the music of Josh Zubot

Mendham is a high-energy avant-jazz group led by violinist Joshua Zubot (Sam Shalabi, Lori Freedman). Melding swing, new music, free improv, speed metal, and noise, the Montreal group is known for its propulsive and beautifully ecstatic mayhem

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 1:30 pm to 2:45 pm | Music

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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Dance In Transit. Robson Square

If you think dancing isn't for you, you haven't tried it yet. If you can walk, you can dance. Dance in Transit is a street dancing festival-it's not about wearing special clothes or fancy shoes, it's about moving to music, one foot at a time

Vancouver | Robson Square | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Dance | Free

Million Dollar Quartet

Four Rock Legends, One Unbelievable Jam Session

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 3:45 pm | Music

Join Eid Joy!

Join us in celebrating Eid with your families at King George park. There will be tons of fun activities, outdoor games, arts and crafts, henna, prizes and much more

Richmond | Cambie Community Centre | 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Family | Free

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Plimley/Reed/van der Schyff

Now Orchestra co-founding pianist Paul Plimley (Lisle Ellis, Joe McPhee, Scott Amendola) is a joyful tornado of avant-improvisation, modal melodic manipulations, and sharp neo-classicism

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 3:15 pm to 4:45 pm | Music

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity

One of the most sought-after drummers in Norway’s burgeoning jazz and improvised music scene, Gard Nilssen has worked with Team Hegdal, Cortex, Bushman’s Revenge, and Puma

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 5:00 pm to 6:15 pm | Music

Parade. Canada150 Parade presented by Port of Vancouver

As the grand finale for our two-day celebration, join us for the Canada150 parade

Vancouver | West Georgia and Broughton Streets | 5:00 pm to 0:00 am | Family | Free

Illumination Summer Night Market

Illumination Vancouver International Summer Night Market presents multiple types of attractions suitable for all ages. There are over 300 food and merchandise booths, and more than 20 events or performing shows every week

Richmond | RIchmond Night Market | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Market

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

Rookie Night

Rookie Nights feature our Rookie League players, who have all successfully completed improv training via the Improv Comedy Institute

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm | Comedy

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival Presents: Scott Hamilton featuring Rossano Sportiello & J.J. Shakur

Scott Hamilton is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, associated with swing (music) and mainstream jazz.

Vancouver | VSO School Of Music | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing

The search for perfect love and la dolce vita triggers mischief, misunderstandings and laughter, as Shakespeare’s great romantic comedy lands in 1950s Italy.

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

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

Coastal Jazz: Brad Turner Quartet

Brad Turner is a Canadian jazz trumpeter and pianist who has won two Juno Awards and six Canadian National Jazz Awards for categories including Jazz Trumpeter of the Year, Jazz Composer of the Year, and Musician of the Year

Vancouver | Frankie's Jazz Club | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Queen + Adam Lambert at Rogers Arena

Back by popular demand, Queen + Adam Lambert will rock North America this summer with a highly-anticipated 25-city arena tour

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Salsa Cruises Fiesta Blanca

Join us as we celebrate our 17th season of the highly anticipated Salsa Cruise Series aboard the largest cruising vessel, MV Britannia commencing Sunday

Vancouver | Summer Salsa Cruise Series | 8:30 pm to 0:30 am | Dance

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: BassDrumBone

BassDrumBone is a trio that has wedded the uniquness of it's instrumentation with the singular personality of it's three members. A true collective, their music combines three distinct compositional and improvisational approaches with an exceptional music

Vancouver | The Ironworks | 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival Presents: Scott Hamilton featuring Rossano Sportiello - Late Event

Scott Hamilton is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, associated with swing (music) and mainstream jazz.

Vancouver | VSO School Of Music | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Gerry Hemingway/Tony Wilson/John Gross

A meeting of three of North America's most captivating musicians. A longtime Anthony Braxton collaborator, American drummer Gerry Hemingway has been on the leading edge of creative music since the early '70s, working with John Butcher, Ellery Eskelin

Vancouver | The Ironworks | 11:58 pm to 1:30 am | Music