Metro Vancouver events on September 29, 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

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

Culture Days: Drawing with Water-Soluble Pencils

Celebrate Culture Days by participating in this interactive drawing workshop. Learn about the world of drawing with water-soluble pencils and how to turn your drawing into a beautiful watercolour

Coquitlam | Dogwood Pavilion | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Visual Arts | 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

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

Drawing Nature

This three-part workshop is for everyone who finds inspiration in nature, and wants to improve their ability to capture the beauty or the detail through drawing

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Visual Arts

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

Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Hotel Salvation

An Indian comedy full of emotional depth and understated paradox

Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 10:45 am to 12:30 am | Film

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

National Seniors Day Celebration

Celebrate National Seniors Day with an event featuring Dr. Art Hister and the Classics Brass Trio

Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 11:00 am to 1:30 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Dried Flower Arrangers’ Sale

Dried Flower Arrangers’ Show and Sale - all items available for purchase! Show and sale of dried flower wreaths, bouquets, topiaries, centerpieces, and arrangements created with materials grown at VanDusen Botanical Garden

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Show | Free

Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Thelma

Trier’s movie is a suspenseful mystery, a tender love story, and a terrifying vision of wickedness

Vancouver | Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Film

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 | 4:15 pm to 6:15 pm | Film

Vancouver International Travel Expo 2017

Vancouver largest Travel Expo is back in its second year even better and bigger

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Exhibition

Shipyards Night Market

top by Shipbuilders’ Square for the Shipyards Night Market, where you will find fresh food, locally made products, musicians, art and entertainment.

North Vancouver | Shipbuilders' Square | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Market | Free

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 | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | History

Special book club! Club de lecture

You like to read and you would like to speak French ? Société francophone de Maillardville is organising a very special book club to celebrate the Culture Days!

Coquitlam | Société francophone de Maillardville | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Culture Days - Dance, Dance, Dance

Dance in Transit is back for Culture Days at the beautiful Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Join us for a few hours of mini-lessons in different dance styles, some demonstrations, and the best music for dancing

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Dance | Free

Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey

Animations of Fred’s personal journals, guidebooks and photographs combine with breathtaking aerial photography, motion graphics and rare archival footage to weave together the tapestry of this complex man’s life.

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 6:30 pm to 8:10 pm | Film

Scripts and Sips

Drink pairings with play readings where anyone can participate. Why limit your drink pairings to just wine and cheese. Why not a drink and a play? Come listen and/or participate to a live play reading

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Culture Days - Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Join us and celebrate Culture Days in Canada in Burnaby. Experience fun and free public programming at Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby Village Museum and the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Miranda Lambert: Highway Vagabond Tour

Miranda Leigh Lambert is an American country music singer and songwriter. Outside of her solo career, she is a member of the Pistol Annies alongside Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams Tour at BC Place

Coldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist and keyboardist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London.

Vancouver | BC Place | 7:00 pm to 11:00 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

Celebrating 20 years of Leadership at Hollyhock

Join us for a fun evening of celebration of Dana's leadership and years of service to the Hollyhock community

Vancouver | Vancouver Rowing Club: Main | 7:00 pm to 0:30 am | Charity / Fundraising

Tank and The Bangas

Tank and The Bangas - New Orleans-based funk-soul-R&B band, winners of the NPR 2017 Tiny Desk

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Zedd

See Zedd on the Echo Tour

Vancouver | Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre | 7:15 pm to 0:00 am | Music

Paul Rodgers

British born singer, songwriter and musician Paul Rodgers will be rocking the house when he’ll be performing at the Molson Canadian Theatre

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Music

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

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

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

The New Pornographers with guests Born Ruffians

The New Pornographers is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 0:30 am | Music

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

Desi Nights at Elements Casino

A-Town Presents: Desi Nights @ The Dragon Lounge inside Elements Casino. Surrey's ONLY monthly South Asian Event

Surrey | Elements Casino | 9:00 pm to 11:50 pm | Music | Free

Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. The Square

An excoriating razor-burn of a movie that deploys drollery like an instrument of torture

Vancouver | The Centre for Performing Arts | 9:00 pm to 10:20 pm | Film

Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Garden Store: Family Friend

Family Friend achieves an exquisite balance between comedy and drama

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 9:15 pm to 10:30 pm | Film

Dave Martone

To listen to the music of Dave Martone is like experiencing a simultaneous explosion of sound, color and flavour

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music | Free

Etienne Siew

Etienne Siew is a vocalist and songwriter from Coquitlam who has been playing guitar for over 15 years and singing for as long as he can remember

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music | Free

Quinn Dahle

With appearances on The Tonight Show, Showtime, Comedy Central, Lopez Tonight and Carson Daly, Quinn is a smart, clean and witty stand-up comic with impeccable timing

New Westminster | Lafflines Comedy Club | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy

DubVision at Harbour Event Centre

DubVision is a Dutch DJ duo consisting of brothers Victor Leicher and Stephan Leicher signed to the labels Spinnin' Records and Axtone

Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music | Free

Official ROVE after party in The Projection Room

The official ROVE after party starts at 10pm at the Projection Room, bring your ROVE map to get in for free!

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 10:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

Foolish - Every Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret

Every third Friday at The Biltmore Cabaret Platinum era hip hop and r&b (96-09’)

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