Metro Vancouver events on August 6, 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

Free Admission to the Fresh Family Fun Field

Enjoy free entry for the whole family to the Fresh Family Fun Field. Jumping pillows, games, tether ball, peddle cart race track and more

Langley | Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family | Free

Tsawwassen Sun Festival

Enjoy a slo-pitch tournament all weekend long, as well as activities and entertainment in Winskill Park and the parade down 56th Street.

Delta | Winskill Park | 9:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

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

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

Reiki Level 1

Reiki Level 1 is an introduction to what reiki is and all of the useful benefits that it has in your life and all of creation

Langley | Blue Star Light Work | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Active Life / Health

White Rock Sea Festival

The White Rock Sea Festival is a summer tradition, over the August long weekend, that has been celebrating seaside fun for more than 60 years

White Rock | 14970B Marine Drive | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Family | 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

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

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

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

Sunset Beach Festival

Celebrate Pride at the annual Sunset Beach Festival. This event brings together thousands of individuals in the LGBTQ2+ community and their allies for a day of fun-filled festivities.

Vancouver | Sunset Beach | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Music | Free

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

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

41st Annual Powell Street Festival

The Powell Street Festival is the largest Japanese Canadian festival in the country and the longest running community arts celebration in Vancouver

Vancouver | Oppenheimer Park | 11:30 am to 7:00 pm | Festival | Free

ShootingStars at 41st Annual Powell St Festival

We'll be performing on the street stage! See you there

Vancouver | Oppenheimer Park | 12:00 am to 12:30 am | 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

Guided Kayaking Tour from Granville Island

Set off from the dock on Granville Island and paddle away in the protected waters of False Creek

Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Active Life / Health

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

Tsawwassen: Sunfest Drive-In - Rogue One A Star Wars Story

The Rotary Club of Tsawwassen present the 2nd Annual Tsawwassen SunFest Drive-In at Beach Grove Elementary playing field

Delta | Beach Grove Elementary School | 6:30 pm to 9:00 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

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

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

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

El Tri de Mexico en Vancouver

Vancouver, BC - The legendary Mexican rock band El Tri added their first date in Canada on their summer tour, taking place in Vancouver

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music

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

Babes On Babes / Vancouver Queer Pride Jam

Vancouver's Queer Long Weekend Jam is back at Fortune Sound Club for an extra special Pride Sunday!

Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 9:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music

Pride Hershe Bar - Closing Party

Hershe Bar is the big, beautiful, spicy, pumping, powerful, grand finale of Pride. This party’s an indoor festival with two spacious clubs, six of North America’s finest DJs, jets of confetti, laser lights, and sizzling hot dancers

Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 9:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music

Hotline: Pride Sunday Afterhours

Hello Operator? Please connect me to the Hotline... Vancouver Pride Sunday underground House & Techno afterhours featuring female/LGBTQ DJs

Vancouver | Secret Warehouse | 11:59 pm to 6:00 am | Music