Metro Vancouver events on July 10, 2017
Vancouver celebrates Canada's 150th anniversary. Here are some special events and activities.
July 10, 2017
Mon
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
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
The Warring Homeland
The Warring Homeland features a collection of works by Chinese photographer Yang Jian
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 9:30 am to 7:00 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
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden
The most important exhibition of French painter Claude Monet’s work in Canada in two decades, Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will trace the career of this pivotal figure in Western art history.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Stephen Shore: The Giverny Portfolio
Contemporary American photographer Stephen Shore produced an important body of images during several visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 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
Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry is a Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and films are concerned with the nature of perception and the contemporary conditions for images
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
Persistence
Persistence draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists to explore the surprising and creative ways that technologies, physical objects and natural processes endure and transform.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 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
19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
HCI International 2017, jointly with the affiliated Conferences, held under one management and one registration, will take place at Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, Canada, under the auspices of 15 distinguished international boards.
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture
Beyond the Horizon
Beyond the Horizon will showcase selected landscapes from the Richmond Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection.
Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Yin Yoga in the Garden
Enjoy yoga, under the trees! Yin yoga is a slow-paced style of yoga that focuses on stimulating the connective tissues of the body with the intention of increasing circulation in the joints and improving flexibility
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:15 am to 11:30 am | Active Life / Health
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
Trimble Park Playground
Trimble Park Playground is open 6 days a week including Saturdays all Summer long at 8th and Trimble. The Playground staff will organize games, sports and crafts daily and the wading pool will be open.
Vancouver | Trimble Park | 10:30 am to 3:30 pm | Kids
Mah Jong
Come and play this popular centuries old Chinese game of skill, strategy and calculation
Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Robokids Coquitlam Summer Camp: 3D Modeling+Lego Wedo Robotics
Robokids - Intellectual Enrichment through Robotics. Enrich your child’s life and skills in mathematics, science and technology with active learning through robotics at a Robokids learning centre in 7 locations in BC
Coquitlam | 203-3025 Anson Ave | 12:30 am to 3:00 pm | Kids
Zumba on the Plaza
Free Zumba classes Mondays on the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza at 5:30 pm.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Kitsilano Showboat
Kitsilano Showboat's 82nd season of free music and dance begins on June 19th and continues every Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat until August 19
Vancouver | Kitsilano Showboat stage next to Kits Pool | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free
Indie Monday Film Series: Moonlight
Can’t find the films you’re itching to see in the local movie theatre? Looking for more than the same old Hollywood Blockbusters? Tired of overpriced popcorn?
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Film
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
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Presents: Classical Masters
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and conductor William Rowson perform some of the most beautiful Classical music ever written
Vancouver | Vanier Park - BMO Mainstage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
Bittergirl: The Musical
The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Musical
Beach Fossils With Guests She-Devils and Ablebody
Beach Fossils are an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2009. The group currently includes Dustin Payseur, Jack Doyle Smith and Tommy Davidson
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Theatre Under the Stars presents: The Drowsy Chaperone
Glitz & Gusto. Mischief & Mayhem. A nostalgic love letter to golden age glam.
Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre