Metro Vancouver events on September 28, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Demystifying Colour - A Watercolour Workshop

This class is all about colour mixing, using watercolour. Seeing colour is something you do every day – but how do you transfer this onto paper?

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Workshop

Classical Coffee Concert: PianOpera

Elizabeth and Marcel Bergmann - known worldwide as the Bergmann Piano Duo - perform duet arrangements of favourite operatic repertoire ranging from Mozart’s Magic Flute and Rossini’s Barber of Seville to Liszt’s virtuosic fantasy of Bellini’s Sonnambula

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Music

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

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

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

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

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 Farmers Market

The Downtown Farmers Market runs every Thursday, June 1 to October 5 on the Queen Elizabeth Plaza. Fresh produce and great food trucks!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market

Native Education College's 50th Anniversary

Join us to celebrate our 50th Anniversary! Connect with alumni, Elders, students, faculty, and community members to share stories and reminisce about your experience attending NEC

Vancouver | Native Education College | 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival | Free

Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. The Desert Bride

A delicate late-life love story that is also a tale about the empowerment of a woman who has lived her whole life in the shadow of others

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Film

Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

The underexposed, amazing story of a Hollywood glamour queen who could have been a scientist

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 6:45 pm to 8:15 pm | Film

Lil Yatchy

Miles Parks McCollum, better known by his stage name Lil Yachty, is an American rapper and singer

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 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

Solutions to Affordable Family Friendly Housing in Metro Vancouver

MOV’s Built City Speaker Series returns for an exhilarating round table discussion. This event, in partnership with Architecture Canada - Metro Vancouver Chapter, will focus on one of Vancouver’s hottest topics: built local affordable housing models for f

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Meditation Park

Mina Shum makes an inspired return to narrative filmmaking with this richly detailed, unmistakably Vancouver story that recalls her breakout Double Happiness.

Vancouver | The Centre for Performing Arts | 7:00 pm to 8:40 pm | Film

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 | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Theatre

Niall and Marcus Talk about S#*! Niall Likes

Join Niall McNeil, Marcus Youssef, and friends for an evening of good times talking about s#*! Niall likes

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Theatre

Folk Fabulous II

Singer songwriters and multi-instrumentalists share the stage and combine forces to deliver a once-in-a-lifetime musical experience

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 0:00 am | Music

Elliott Brood

Elliott Brood is a Canadian three-piece, alternative country band formed in 2002 in Toronto, consisting of Mark Sasso, Casey Laforet and Stephen Pitkin

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

New Forms Festival 17

New Forms Media Society is pleased to announce the dates and location for our 2017 edition.

Vancouver | 577 Great Northern Way | 8:00 pm to 4:00 am | Festival

Feasting on Famine

The Firehall Arts Centre is thrilled to kick off its 35th anniversary season with the world premiere of Shay Kuebler’s Feasting on Famine

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Bring On Tomorrow Co presents 13 the Musical!

13 is an original musical with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown and book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn

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

Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives

Watching the movie is like listening to some ultimate annotated Classic Top 40 playlist

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:45 pm to 10:00 pm | Film