Metro Vancouver events on September 17, 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

Vancouver Gift Expo

This is your chance to see Canada’s top wholesalers displaying new & unique products for your Fall and Winter selling seasons

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

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

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

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

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

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. Free Flamenco Class

Welcome to the 25th Anniversary edition of the Vancouver International Flamenco Festival!

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 11:00 am to 12:00 am | Festival | Free

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

Medicine Wheel Ceremony

People from varying backgrounds and spiritual traditions are invited to gather to celebrate the beginning of a new season in a beautiful outdoors setting

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Nature / Animals

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 | 1:00 pm to 8:30 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 | 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 Sound of Music - National Tour

The Hills are alive! A brand new production of The Sound Of Music, directed by three-time Tony Award® winner Jack O’Brien, is coming to your town.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Musical

Cave Paintings: Rebecca Chaperon Exhibition Reception

Selected new works from Rebecca Chaperon's new series called Cave Paintings.

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Curatorial tour with Kimberly Phillips

Join CAG Curator, Kimberly Phillips for a guided tour of the current exhibitions: Gordon Bennett 'Be Polite' and Levine Flexhaug 'A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings'

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

The Verona Quartet

The Vancouver Recital Society presents the Verona Quartet in an afternoon concerta at the Vancouver Playhouse

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

The Vancouver Fringe Festival

The Vancouver Fringe Festival is an annual celebration of Theatre for Everyone! Event list for September 17, 2017

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

Shreya Ghoshal

Shreya Ghoshal is acknowledged as India’s finest singer and with four National awards, six Film Fare awards & nine South Film Fare awards, she’s also one the busiest bollywood singers in the world.

Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | 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

Gov’t Mule Revolution Come… Revolution Go Tour

Westward Music Festival 2017 Presents: Gov’t Mule with guests.

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. Open Studio Showing

Welcome to the 25th Anniversary edition of the Vancouver International Flamenco Festival!

Vancouver | Centro Flamenco Studio, Artistic Creative Residency | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival | Free

Marshall Crenshaw y Los Straitjackets

Marshall Crenshaw y Los Straitjackets combines the shared sensibilities of a pop-rock maestro & a band of guitar-wielding masked marauders.

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

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

The Sound of Music - National Tour

The Hills are alive! A brand new production of The Sound Of Music, directed by three-time Tony Award® winner Jack O’Brien, is coming to your town.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical

夢中的額吉 來自草原的呼喚 Mother In My Dream - Call From The Prairie

Mother In My Dream - Call From Prairie features Nair Band (Chinese Mongolian Band) and renowned singer Uudam. On Sep 17, 2017, they will both perform live at the River Rock Show Theatre

Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Corbin & Shlohmo With Guest D33J

Henry Laufer, better known by his stage name Shlohmo, is an American electronic musician from Los Angeles, California. He is a founding member of the Los Angeles electronic music collection WeDidIt. He has collaborated with How to Dress Well

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music