Metro Vancouver events on August 4, 2017
August 4, 2017
Fri
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
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
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
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
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 7:00 pm | Family
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
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
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
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
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
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
AniRevo '17 All IDOL Gathering (AniRevo '17 全アイドル集結)
Anirevo is a collection of events that allow individuals to explore, celebrate and enjoy a colorful culture not readily available in North America.
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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
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
Into The Woods JR - The Musical
This delightful show features all of your favourite characters – Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack (and his beanstalk), the Wolf, Granny, and the Witch in this lyrically rich retelling of classic Brothers Grimm fables
West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 2:00 pm to 4:10 pm | Musical
Shipyards Night Market
top 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
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
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
Sunshine Pikkapika Ondo at AR 2017
KabuDon Wotagei will be hosting a dance gathering/filming for the Sunshine Pikkapika Ondo done by elementary school students in Numazu for their Summer Festival
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Dance | Free
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
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
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 11:59 pm | Market
Anciients with Dead Quiet, Mendozza, Hashteroid & Seer
Somewhere between sheer, apocalyptic heaviness and precise riffing, lays otherworldly Anciients - a Vancouver-based rock juggernaut forging crushing heavy metal evocative of veterans High on Fire and contemporary sonic craftsmen, Opeth.
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music
REQUIOS, Okinawan Kodama: A Celebration of the Heart, Soul and Spirit
For the first time in Vancouver, a unique and vibrant presentation of Eisa drum-dancing by REQUIOS will be performed at the Vancouver Playhouse
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale
A family’s sixteen-year journey takes them from tragedy to healing, in a magical and moving adventure story.
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
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
Vancouver Pride with Queer As Funk!
Queer As Funk returns to The Fabulous Commodore Ballroom!! It's time for the 4th annual Queer As Funk Vancouver Pride kick-off show
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Tim and Eric - 10th Anniversary Awesome Tour
Comedy duo Tim and Eric bring their 10 Year Anniversary Awesome Tour to Vancouver.
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Comedy
The Goblin Market
The Goblin Market is a contemporary circus re-telling, following two sisters, their temptation, sacrifice and eventual salvation
Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
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
Honey Soundsystem Pride 2017 - Celebrities
Honey Soundsystem (San Francisco) with special guests DJ. D. Dee (Pacific Rhythm) + Jen Pea (Subversive)
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 9:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Man Up Pride: The Gender Adventure!
Gender freedom! Drag for every body! The patriarchy smashed beyond recognition! Glitter and bliss for queers everywhere!
Vancouver | The Cobalt | 9:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music
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
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