Metro Vancouver events on September 9, 2017

Vancouver Whitecaps FC vs. Real Salt Lake

Vancouver Whitecaps FC will commence their seventh season in Major League Soccer when they host Real Salt Lake

Vancouver | BC Place | Sports

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

Coquitlam Crunch Challenge

B3 Team Entered in the Coquitlam Crunch Challenge

Coquitlam | BodyByBrandt | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports

Bicycle Trek for Life & Breath 2017

Gear up for the 33rd Annual Bicycle Trek for Life & Breath in support of the BC Lung Association's fight against lung disease.

Surrey | Hazelmere Campground | 8:30 am to 5:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Farmers' Market

Burnaby's Farmers' Market is the place to find locally grown conventional and organic produce, prepared foods and crafts every Saturday from May 6 until October 28, 2017

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

2017 Bcabba Knight of Champions 3rd Annual

The 3rd annual Knight of Champions, a BCABBA sanctioned event, will take place on Saturday, September 9th, 2017. This is a tier 1 show in the open stream

Surrey | Pacific Academy | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Sports

Trout Lake Farmers Market

This is where you’ll find the vendors who have been doing it since the beginning; what started as 14 farmers ‘squatting’ at the Croatian Cultural Centre back in 1995 has grown into Vancouver’s most well-known and beloved market

Vancouver | John Hendry Park | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market | Free

UBC Farmer's Market

We'll be here with fresh tempeh right on UBC Farm

Vancouver | UBC Farm | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Music | Free

Firefighter's Family Fun Day

The Township of Langley Firefighters' Charitable Society will be at Krause Berry Farms September 9th. They will be serving fresh hot berry waffles and manning fun activities for the whole family

Langley | Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery | 9:30 am to 4:30 pm | Family | 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

Lonsdale Artisan Farmers’ Market

We have been lucky in having some of the best organic and conventional farmers in B.C. attend the market plus great bakers, jam makers, honey gathers, and salsa makers.

North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Kids Gallery at Surrey Museum

The sustainability focused Kids Gallery is all about fun. Check out the latest theme: food!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

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

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

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

River District Farmers Market

This one-of-a-kind market is the only riverfront market in Vancouver. Come shop for fruits and vegetables, prepared foods, and handmade products produced by farmers and artisans

Vancouver | River District Vancouver | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

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

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 | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | History

Fleetwood Festival 2017

Join us for the 19th Annual Fleetwood Festival

Surrey | Fleetwood Community Centre | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

Pie in the Plaza

Celebrate Agriculture Week with BC's largest blueberry pie!

Surrey | Central City Shopping Centre Plaza | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

Surrey Fest Downtown - A Celebration of Community

Be part of the 19th Annual Community Festival. Plan your day to include a visit to Holland Park

Surrey | Holland Park | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free

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

Downtown Eastside Women's Fair and Flea Market

Join us at our second annual Women's Summer Fair, promising a vibrant atmosphere, lively entertainment, and fun for all! Come by and show your support

Vancouver | 200 Block, Columbia St. @ Cordova St. | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Fair | Free

Surrey Fest Downtown

A Celebration of Community (previously Whalley Festival) Annual Festival held in Downtown Surrey.

Surrey | Holland Park | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Festival | 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 | 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

Future Bodies by the James Black Gallery

The James Black Gallery is proud to present studiomate Marissa Diamond's first solo show which investigates new ways of viewing the body by dismantling conventional beauty standards.

Vancouver | The James Black Galler | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Show

Vancouver Labour History Walking Tours

Vancouver has a rich and diverse labour history. This guided tour invites you to visit sites of significance to workers' heritage and working class struggle that commemorate the importance of labour unions, individuals, collective actions and much more

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | History

Public Disco Vol 4 with DJ Heather

The first season of Public Disco comes to a close with one more free open air pop-up party, this time at the vibrant Jim Deva Plaza!

Vancouver | Jim Deva Plaza | 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music | Free

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

North Vancouver LoLo Food Tour

During the 2.5 hour tour, you will be able to learn about the historic ship building industry and early settlers to the area as you savor a delicious culinary experience. The tour includes 10 stops featuring 7 market vendors

North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay Market | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Food / Wine

Open House by Rusart Fine Arts Co.

RUSART school invites everyone to spend a few hours with our team of professional artists, magicians, chess players and actors

New Westminster | Rusart Fine Arts Co. | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Family | Free

Red Light Rendezvous. Sins of the City Walking Tour

Vancouver might have been founded on a barrel of whisky, but it was built on the brothels that lined the muddy streets of Gastown. Explore the history of Vancouver's sex trade with the Vancouver Police Museum's Red Light Rendezvous

Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm | History

The Vancouver Fringe Festival

The Vancouver Fringe Festival is an annual celebration of Theatre for Everyone! Event list for September 9, 2017

Vancouver | Various locations | 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Theatre

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

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

Jen Kirkman - The "All New Material, Girl" Tour 2017

Jen Kirkman is a stand-up comedian and a New York Times Bestselling Author. Her first book, “I Can Barely Take Care of Myself (Tales of a Happy Life Without Kids)” hit shelves in April 2013

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

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

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

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

Luminary Festival

It's a special, sparkling end-of-summer festival - illuminate yourself with costume and lights, and create a lantern to light the way!

Delta | Sunstone Park | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival

Perturbator at Rickshaw Theatre

Electronic music producer. Son of Nick Kent

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

The Quiz Show

One of Canada’s comedic treasures, Graham Clark, and co-producer Chris Bentzen are pleased to announce the return of “The Quiz Show”

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Show

Angels in America: Perestroika

A masterpiece of love and redemption. Witness the soaring conclusion to the acclaimed play that asks us what we do for those we love.

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 11:50 pm | Theatre

Salsa Cruises Fiesta Blanca

Join us as we celebrate our 17th season of the highly anticipated Salsa Cruise Series aboard the largest cruising vessel, MV Britannia commencing Sunday

Vancouver | Summer Salsa Cruise Series | 8:30 pm to 0:30 am | Dance

Lovely Lady Lump at Vancouver Fringe

Aussie Comic Laughs Cancer out of Town with Award-Winning Show. Lana Schwarcz teams up with Dense Breasts Canada to raise the roof and raise awareness at Vancouver Fringe Festival with Lovely Lady Lump.

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

Dariush: Live in Vancouver

Brace yourself Vancouver! Don't miss another spectacular performance by ’The Legend' at the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Dariush Eghbali will perform mega-hits from his highly celebrated career

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 9:00 pm to 11:55 pm | Music

BOT at DeepDownInside

With his unique style of futuristic techno and unorthodox club rythms, Italian DJ/Producer BOT join us at MIA on Saturday, Sept 9th, with Sivz & SARA SUKKHA

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

DJ Heather - 20 Years in Vancouver #909

20 years on from her first appearance in Vancouver, the Chicago legend returns for another go on the decks

Vancouver | Open Studios | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music

Nite*Moves at the Biltmore Cabaret

House party jams for the young, restless, and bored Every Saturday at the Biltmore Cabaret with your resident DJ’s Can I Live Harvey Harvey ++ special guests

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