Metro Vancouver events on July 12, 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

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

Know Show Summer 2018

The KnowShow provides a perfect platform for industry leading brands and Canadian retailers to connect and do this business.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Lecture

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self-guided tour of the Orpheum

Take a self-guided tour of Vancouver's historic Orpheum concert hallm and learn the Orpheum's surprising history.

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 11:30 am to 12:30 am | History

Gordon Bennett - 'Be Polite'

The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Levine Flexhaug. A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings

A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

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 | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Kids

The Orpheum -Self-guided tour

Take a self-guided tour of Vancouver's historic Orpheum concert hallm and learn the Orpheum's surprising history.

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 12:45 am to 1:45 pm | History

Bittergirl: The Musical

The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 4:15 pm | Musical

Secrets of Stanley Park - New Walking Tour

These are the secrets that lurk in the shadows, on the hidden trails, and in the swirling waters. The secrets you aren’t supposed to know. The secrets of Stanley Park.

Vancouver | outside the Aquarium entrance | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

Main Street Station Farmers Market

Located just steps from Main St – Science World Skytrain Station at Main & Terminal, this convenient Wednesday farmers market is ideal for local food fans seeking an easy shop on their commute

Vancouver | 1100 Station Street | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Market

Self-guided tour - of the Orpheum

Take a self-guided tour of Vancouver's historic Orpheum concert hallm and learn the Orpheum's surprising history.

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | History

Family Fun Nights at Trimble Park

Join us on Wednesday nights this Summer as we once again host our Family Fun Nights at Trimble Park. These nights mean that the pool reopens, the giant games are brought out and the hot dogs are put on the BBQ for a fun night spent in the park

Vancouver | Trimble Park | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Family

Art At Work Writing Intensive Series : Artists’ Grants with Shaun Dacey

Richmond Art Gallery Director Shaun Dacey leads an overview of grant writing for artists and arts organizations. Session One presents an overview of writing for foundations, Provincial government grants, and Federal government grants in British Columbia.

Richmond | Richmond Cultural Centre | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Workshop | Free

Lansdowne Centre Starlight Cinema Drive-In: Beauty and the Beast

Free Outdoor Movies return to Richmond at Lansdowne Centre at sundown every Wednesday this July and August.

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Film | 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

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

Indian Summer Festival 2017: In Between Worlds with MG Vassanji

MG Vassanji’s work has focused on liminal states, where his characters are players in the ‘battlefield of history’. Vassanji’s many award-winning novels bring alive the angst faced being in a constant state of exile

Burnaby | Ismaili Centre Burnaby | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Lecture

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure

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

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

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

Phantom of The Opera in Vancouver

The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical

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

The Lost Souls of Gastown - Vancouver Walking Tour

The Lost Souls of Gastown is a Gothic Theatre Adventure, based on Vancouver's earliest and darkest history. Please do not expect a conventional walking tour or a ghost tour

Vancouver | Starting in Cathedral Square, Richards at Dunsmuir | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Unwrapping Culture. Edge Off 3

Unwrapping Culture brings together two exceptional male dance artists: Canada’s own Alvin Erasga Tolentino, and Pichet Klunchun, an outstanding exponent of the Thai classical dance style of Khon, who is known internationally for contemporizing this ancien

Vancouver | KW Production Studio | 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Firecracker!

Firecracker! Dynamite ladies. Explosive comedy. Our all-female show featuring some of the best improvisers in Canada. The resulting comedy is inventive, unpredictable, uproarious and sure to spark your funny bone

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