Metro Vancouver events on September 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

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

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 | Visual Arts

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 | Visual Arts

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 5:00 pm | Family

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 | Visual Arts

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

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 | Visual Arts

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

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 | Visual Arts | 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 | Visual Arts | Free

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

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: Wine Wednesdays

Wine Wednesdays are an intimate pre-show wine tasting in the Bard Marquee presented by special guests. Enjoy a selection of wines from Sandhill, Red Rooster and more as you learn tasting etiquette from wine makers and industry experts

Vancouver | Vanier Park | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Food / Wine

Skillet with guests Art of Dying and Spoken

Skillet made headlines when their last album, Awake, became one of just three rock albums to be certified platinum in 2012, forming an improbable triumvirate with the Black Keys’ El Camino and Mumford & Sons’ Babel.

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | 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

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: Shylock

Meet Jon Davies, an actor and a Jew, condemned by his own community for his portrayal of the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show