Metro Vancouver events on September 10, 2017

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

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

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

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

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

Richmond Celebrates Canada 150. Eternal Return: Exhibition and Public Programs

The exhibition “Eternal Return”, guest curated by independent curator Sunshine Frère, incorporates the work of five artists – Barb Choit, Kevin Day, Lucien Durey, Alanna Ho, and Anchi Lin

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 6:00 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 | 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

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

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

Scotiabank & BC SPCA Paws for a Cause 2017 at Stanley Park

On September 10th 2017, the Scotiabank & BC SPCA Paws for a Cause Flagship walk is back!

Vancouver | Landmark & Historical Place | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Active Life / Health

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 | 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

23rd Annual Metro Vancouver Feast of Fields

Feast of Fields is a four hour wandering gourmet harvest festival that highlights the connections between farmers and chefs, field and table, and between farm folks and city folks

Langley | Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Food / Wine

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

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure

Vancouver | Douglas Campbell Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

The Vancouver Fringe Festival

The Vancouver Fringe Festival is an annual celebration of Theatre for Everyone! Event list for September 10, 2017

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

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

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 Two Gentlemen of Verona

Two couples, two clowns and one scene-stealing dog – all play their part as love and loyalty collide in a laughter-fuelled romantic adventure

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

Thundercat

Stephen Bruner, better known by his stage name Thundercat, is an American multi-genre bass guitarist, producer and singer from Los Angeles, California

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music