Metro Vancouver events on September 24, 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

Walk for Reconciliation - Latinos in BC

We as a community representing Latinos in Vancouver and British Columbia want to encourage other communities to come forward and join hands spreading out the message that we are one

Vancouver | Cambie St. and Georgia St. | 9:00 am to 3:30 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

World Rivers Day at Still Creek

Still Moon Arts Society and Evergreen are partnering once again for World Rivers Day 2017. World Rivers Day is a global celebration of water and rivers around the world that was started in British Columbia

Vancouver | Renfrew Ravine Park Labyrinth | 9:00 am to 11:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

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

Walk for Reconciliation and Expo

People from all cultures, communities, ages, abilities, and faiths are invited to join the second Walk for Reconciliation and first-ever Reconciliation Expo

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 9:30 am to 3:00 pm | Active Life / Health | 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

Tania Willard: dissimulation

This exhibition presents multidisciplinary work by artist/curator Tania Willard (Secwépemc Nation), alongside her collaborators Gabrielle Hill, Peter Morin, her family, home community and Secwépemc lands and territories

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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 | Visual Arts

Vancouver Greek Food Festival

Please join us at the 40th Annual Vancouver Greek Food Festival!

Vancouver | Hellenic Community of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine | 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

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

Vancity Women's Expo + Pop-Up

Vancity's freshest women's event held at the Cloverdale Agriplex and Showbarn! Including a full women's expo & a pop-up market!

Surrey | Vancity Women's Expo | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Active Life / Health

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

Medicine Wheel Garden Build

This event takes place on unceded and occupied In celebration of Wild Salmon and Indigenous Food Sovereignty come join the Cedar Cottage Food Network in creating a medicine wheel garden in Trout Lake Park

Vancouver | Trout Lake Community Centre | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Free

Introduction to Bird Watching

Join VanDusen’s long-time birding guide, Jeremy Gordon, for the basics on bird watching

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Nature / Animals

Works by Vicky Earle

Inspired by plant species found at the Bloedel Conservatory, “Duets” is a visual exploration of unique symbiotic relationships unfolding every day in rainforests around the world

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Rebecca Chaperon - Cave Paintings. Exhibition

Rebecca Chaperon’s paintings act as a means of storytelling, where surreal landscapes populated by mysterious figures meet flat geometry, with emotive undercurrents.

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

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

Planning New West: A History and Future of Urban Development in New Westminster

The museum’s latest exhibition explores why the city is shaped the way it is; the grand visionary plans and the reality of what happened

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 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

Creative Moves: Yoga & Dance

Join Anvil Centre faculty Carolina Bergonzoni for a FREE creative movement workshop!

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 11:00 am to 12:00 am | Dance | Free

World Rivers Day by Burnaby Village Museum & Carousel

Join us for a free family-friendly celebration of our rivers and waterways.

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Family | Free

RiverFest

Celebrate Rivers Day overlooking the mighty Fraser River with artisans, interactive exhibits & activities, food, music & workboat parade

New Westminster | Westminster Quay Boardwalk | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Festival | Free

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. Flamenco For Children

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

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | Festival | Free

Resisting CanLit: West Coast Indigenous Writers

Panel discussion in Peter Kaye Room at VPL as part of Word Vancouver 2017

Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 11:55 am to 12:45 am | Lecture | 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

Heritage Craft: Architectural Cross Stitch

Join us at Irving House for a day of architecture, heritage and craft!

New Westminster | Irving House | 12:00 am to 1:30 pm | Visual Arts

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

Grand Opening of the Fraser Mills Station & Mackin House's 108th Birthday Party

All Aboard! Coquitlam Heritage will be offering tours of the Fraser Mills Train Station and Mackin House during this family friendly event

Coquitlam | Mackin Park | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

Ageless Dancers

Join Anvil Centre faculty Carolina Bergonzoni for a FREE dance workshop!

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 12:15 am to 1:30 pm | Dance

Burnaby 125 Weekend of Fun

Happy 125th Burnaby! Join Party at the Pool

Burnaby | Eileen Dailly Leisure Pool & Fitness Centre | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Family

Carnival Skate

Join us for fun carnival games both on and off the ice! Grab your skates and drop-in for some fun, family skating this fall for all ages and abilities

Surrey | Surrey Sport & Leisure Arena | 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm | Family

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. La Moneta Flamenco Workshops

Welcome to the 25th Anniversary edition of the Vancouver International Flamenco Festival! The 2017 Flamenco Festival guest artists, Fuensanta “La Moneta” will be holding workshops at the Centro Flamenco studio

Vancouver | Centro Flamenco | 1:00 pm to 4:48 pm | Workshop

Learn Thai Massage in 5 sessions

The ancient practice of Thai Massage is an effective way to deepen your yoga practice, connect with your body and increase your capacity to give and receive

Vancouver | Unity Yoga | 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Active Life / Health

Sunday afternoon tours

Last Sunday of every month with Jocelyn Statia. Join CAG Visitor Coordinator, Jocelyn Statia for a tour of the current exhibitions.

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

Lil Yachty Teenage Tour

Lil Yachty Teenage Tour

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Thee Oh Sees with guests Arrington de Dionyso

Thee Oh Sees is an American garage rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1997. The band currently consists of primary songwriter and core member John Dwyer, alongside Tim Hellman, Dan Rincon and Paul Quattrone

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

Flamenco Festival: La Musica Del Flamenco

La Musica Del Flamenco hosted by Victor Kolstee (Guitar)

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance