Metro Vancouver events on July 21, 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

2017 Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Don’t Give Up!

We warmly invite you to attend this year’s three-day convention presented by Jehovah’s Witnesses

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture | 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

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

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

26th Annual Sandcastle Competition

Get out your buckets, shovels and sunscreen ready for our 26th Annual Sandcastle Competition. A day of sand, sun, fun, adventure and prizes awaits you as you build sandcastle, sea serpents, mermaids and more. Let your creativity run wild!

Vancouver | Spanish Banks West | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Visual Arts

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

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

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

HUB Cycling Bike to Shop Days

An entire weekend of bikes, shopping, prizes, and discounts. Support local vendors while contributing to Metro Vancouver's bike community

Vancouver | Metro Vancouver | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

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

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

Dreamland Fantasy by the James Black Gallery

Starchild Stela’s Dreamland Fantasy is a multidisciplinary sensorial experience that invite the viewer to make themselves at home and feel nostalgic, in a sweet, ethereal kind of way

Vancouver | The James Black Gallery | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Visual Arts

A free workshop presentation of '1 Hour Photo' Friday July 21

You’re invited to attend a sneak peek of '1 Hour Photo' on Friday July 21

Vancouver | The Cultch | 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Workshop | Free

Walking Tour Vignettes

Travel back in time to the year 1917 with these walking tours. A narrator leads you though the streets of Steveston to see five short historical plays performed.

Richmond | Steveston Museum | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm | History

Fridays on Front

TGIF with us this summer as we launch Fridays on Front, a brand new weekly night market experience in Downtown New West!

New Westminster | Downtown New Westminster | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Market | Free

Shipyards Night Market

Stop by Shipbuilders’ Square for the Shipyards Night Market, where you will find fresh food, locally made products, musicians, art and entertainment.

North Vancouver | Shipbuilders' Square | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Market | Free

Vice, Dice, and Opium Pipes. Sins of the City Walking Tour

The Vancouver Police Museum's tour takes you on a sinful journey into Vancouver's sinful past. Explore the early vices of our city's citizens, from saloon to brothels, racial tensions turned bloody, gambling dens, and city wide corruption

Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | History

Music at the Cannery

Our annual summertime evening concert series returns on July 7th! Join us every Friday night at 6:30pm in July and August for an evening of music

Richmond | Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Music

Music in the Park at Maple Grove Park

Join us for live music at Maple Grove Park. Musician: Alexander Flock

Vancouver | Maple Grove Outdoor Pool | 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Music

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

This Is Our Youth

Newly formed Vancouver theatre company, Midtwenties Theatre Society, is proud to present their first offering to the Vancouver arts community, This Is Our Youth

Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Mad Alchemy Caravan ft. LSD & The Search For God

Psychedelic rock show featuring multiple bands and visuals by The Mad Alchemy Liquid Light Show!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 4:08 pm | Music

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

BC Lions vs Winnipeg Blue Bombers

The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team competing in the West Division of the Canadian Football League

Vancouver | BC Place | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

MR.Boogie Woogies

Hard drivin’, old school Rhythm & Blues, complemented by some killer Boogie Woogies, by the fastest, flashiest, piano-thumping boogie man from the Netherlands. Yes, that’s right

White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Playland Nights

Every Friday in July enjoy evenings dedicated to adults-only, complete with beer, wine, food, midway games and of course, Playland’s exhilarating rides.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show

Les Contes d’Hoffmann

In a crowded tavern, the poet Hoffmann, urged on by his fellow drinkers, recounts the stories of his wildest, most outrageous loves and losses

Vancouver | York Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

The Little Mermaid Jr. -The Musical

Journey "under the sea" with Ariel and her aquatic friends in this enchanting show based on one of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories.

West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:10 pm | Musical

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 11:59 pm | Market

Cor Flammae: Et Amor

Back for a fourth fierce summer, Vancouver’s chorus of queer classically trained singers presents Et Amor

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 7:08 pm | Music

Oh, Canada - The True North Strong and Funny

VTSL improvisers take a loving and comedic look at what makes us uniquely Canadian - poking fun at the stereotypes of Canada and Canadians

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

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

Bittergirl: The Musical

The howlingly funny show about getting over getting dumped.

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Musical

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

Power Bottom

Pwr Bttm is a queer punk band consisting of Ben Hopkins and Liv Bruce. The band was formed at Bard College where Bruce and Hopkins bonded over a mutual interest in bringing elements of performance and drag artistry into DIY culture

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

Sports with guests Yeek

Oklahoma dream pop band Sports began playing together in grade school, cycling through different names until deciding to adopt a cheeky moniker after their self-described lack of athleticism

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

Magic Giant

Magic Giant is an American indie folk band formed in Los Angeles, California in early 2014. The group consists of Austin Bisnow, Zambricki Li and Zang

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

Theatre Under the Stars presents: Mary Poppins

Perfectly Magical. Properly Heartwarming. A supercalifragilistic musical the entire family will love.

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Michael Jackson History Show

Showtime Australia presents this spectacular music tribute and full-scale stage production honouring the one and only King of Pop, Michael Jackson

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

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

North Vancouver: Family Movie Night - The Secret Life of Pets

Bring your family down to North Vancouver Library Civic Plaza for a night packed with family fun. The movies will be shown on a big outdoor screen at sunset

North Vancouver | North Vancouver City Library - Civic Plaza | 9:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Film | Free

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 | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy

Drezo - Celebrities

Representing the darker and more imaginative side of house music, Drezomakes his return to Vancouver

Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music

Darius in the Celebrities Underground

Drawing influence from funk and disco, Roche Musique's own Darius brings the groove to the Celebrities Underground

Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music

Foolish - Every Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret

Every third Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret Platinum era hip hop and r&b (96-09’)

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music

Ok Tinder - Swipe Right Comedy

Our 17+ show is 60 minutes of fast-paced, no-holds-barred comedy looking at the good, bad and the laughable of Vancouver’s dating scene

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 11:15 pm to 0:15 am | Comedy