Metro Vancouver events on July 30, 2017

Vancouver celebrates Canada's 150th anniversary. Here are some special events and activities.

July 30, 2017

Sun

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

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

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

Maple ridge - Pitt Meadows Country Festival

We're invited to join the golks in Maple Ridge to celebrate their annual free country festival. Parade around the grounds in the sun and bring some Carnie love to the country.

Maple Ridge | Albion Fairgrounds | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Festival | Free

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

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

Anime Evolution 2017

This is our annual convention called Anime Evolution, run by our non-profit organization the Vancouver Anime Convention Society

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 10:00 am to 6:30 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

Regeneratus. Works by Michelle Sirois-Silver and Katherine Soucie

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

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

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

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

AOS FEST Vancouver

A Workshop like No other!

Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 11:30 am to 4:00 pm | Dance

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

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

ShootingStars at Mirai Maid Cafe

We will be performing during Mirai Maid Cafe, at Anime Evolution!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 12:30 am to 4:45 pm | Dance

Meditation classes last Sunday of each month

I will be offering mediation classes the last Sunday of each month. Sessions are 90 minutes long. Students will learn the basics of meditation and its purpose(s)

Langley | 200th st and Hwy#1 | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Canada 150+. The Drum is Calling Festival

Immerse yourself in this nine-day festival of Indigenous and diverse arts and culture

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival

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

Regeneratus Exhibition Reception

Innovation and the transformation of waste materials are at the core of this exhibition, which includes five hand-hooked art pieces and two installations...

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

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

Sunday afternoon tours

Last Sunday of every month with Jocelyn Statia. Join CAG Visitor Coordinator, Jocelyn Statia for a tour of the current exhibitions.

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Queers & Beers: PRIDE Edition!

Your offically-unofficial kick off to PRIDE week begins here! Come get it started with rad beers and fellow queers at everyone’s favourite hangout party.

Vancouver | The Cobalt | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Current: A Pacific Northwest Feminist Electronic Art Symposium

Current is a multidisciplinary, intersectional, music and electronic art symposium working with women and non-binary artists in Vancouver and the Pacific Northwest

Vancouver | VAL Villa | 6:00 pm to 9:00 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

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

Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000 live on stage at the Orpheum, a Netflix revival of the cult comedy

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 9:15 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

Anime Evolution. A New World: intimate music from Final Fantasy Concert

​Anime Evolution 2017 presents “A New World, intimate music from Final Fantasy” a 30th anniversary celebration of Final Fantasy

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

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

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

Why Don’t We with Special Guests

A band like no other on the pop landscape, Why Don’t We brings together five supremely talented singer/songwriters who have each built up a passionate following all on their own

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 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

Guilt & Co. Live feat. Mazacote

Mazacote is a west coast latin dance band, playing horn-driven New York salsa dura and beats from Colombia, Puerto Rico and Cuba

Vancouver | Guilt & Company | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music