Metro Vancouver events on October 1, 2017
October 1, 2017
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Surrey CIBC Run for the Cure
We invite you to run or walk with us for the CIBC Run for the Cure in Surrey
Surrey | Bear Creek Park | 8:00 am to 12:00 am | Active Life / Health
9th Annual Friends Forever Team - CIBC Run for the Cure
The Canadian Cancer Society #CIBCRunfortheCure is a 5k or 1k walk or run that raises funds for breast cancer at the Canadian Cancer Society
Surrey | Bear Creek Park | 8:00 am to 1:00 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
Knit City - A Modern Fibre Event
We would love to have you join us at Knit City 2017, Canada’s premiere fibre arts festival!
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Fair
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
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
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. Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Poetry Reading with Jonina Kirton
Join us and celebrate Culture Days in Canada in Burnaby. Poetry Reading with Jonina Kirton
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
Culture Days. Burnaby Art Gallery
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 | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 3:00 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
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
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 5:00 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
Home: Grown
Home: Grown is a retrospective of Hilary Morris 30 years of painting in Vancouver, reflecting on its transformations and how the city has shaped, and been shaped by, its many communities
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition
Permaculture: Food Forests
Take a deeper look into the concepts of permaculture, and learn how to design and create a diverse garden that yields food and provides habitat
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Nature / Animals
Fall Vancouver Wedding and Honeymoon Show 2017
Take the traditional wedding show...add some flair and the result is the Vancouver Wedding & Honeymoon Show
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Show
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
Culture Days: Maillardville Walking Tour
Celebrate Culture Days with a walking tour of historic Maillardville! Learn why the French-Canadian pioneers settled in this area and how this neighbourhood got its name
Coquitlam | Heritage Square | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | History | Free
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Faces Places
If Faces Places is Agnès Varda’s last film, it’s a profoundly moving and absolutely essential farewell…Funny, life-affirming, and altogether wonderful
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | Film
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
Culture Days - Painting with Bach
Join artist and instructor Zohar on an expression filled painting session, accompanied to the music of Sebastian Bach and other classical greats
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
New West Apple Press Fest
Apples. Pick ‘em. Share 'em. Wash ‘em. Chop ‘em. Smash ‘em. Press ‘em. Jar ‘em. Drink ‘em. That's right - we're back!
New Westminster | Lord Kelvin | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free
Riverview Tree Tour
The Riverview Horticultural Centre Society invites you for a tree tour of a significant and beautiful part of the Lower Mainland, the Riverview Lands Arboretum
Coquitlam | Riverview Hospital Site | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free
PADS Graduation 2017
Come help us celebrate the incredible client - dog teams we've matched over the past year and all of the equally amazing people who have helped make it happen!
Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Nature / Animals | 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 | Market | Free
An ear on shifting corridors of movement.
Culture Days Soundwalk
Vancouver | Fraser River Trail | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Kerrisdale CC Opera Zone
Enjoy an afternoon of listening to arias sung by Gerard Satamian and others, accompanied by a piano
Vancouver | Kerrisdale Community Centre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music
Aloha Polynesia 2017
This dynamic performance features colourful costumes, inspiring music and graceful dances from the islands of Hawai'i, Tahiti, New Zealand, Samoa and Fiji
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Performing Arts
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 | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Theatre
Cave Paintings: Artist Talk with Rebecca Chaperon
Artist Rebecca Chaperon will speak about her exhibition ‘Cave Paintings’
North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Lecture | Free
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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Musical
Diwali Downtown Surrey
Diwali Downtown is the festival’s main event and a key attraction for our festival sponsors, drawing thousands of attendees from all demographics for a South Asian cultural extravaganza
Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival
Eugene Skovorodnikov - Chopin at the Piano
Audiences throughout Europe, Canada, U.S., Latin America, Asia and former Soviet Union recognize Eugene Skovorodnikov for his stylistic interpretation and his technical brilliance
Richmond | World of Music and Arts | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music
Yekwon Sunwoo, piano: 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Winner
On June 10, 2017, Yekwon Sunwoo was announced as the Gold Medalist at the 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music
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 | The Rio Theatre | 3:30 pm to 5:10 pm | Film
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Human Flow
This stunningly cinematic documentary, reminiscent of the work of Edward Burtynsky, chronicles the staggering breadth of the global refugee crisis with uncommon insight and empathetic artistry
Vancouver | The Centre for Performing Arts | 5:45 pm to 8:10 pm | Film
Nickelback: Feed The Machine Tour
Written by Nickelback and co-produced with Chris Baseford (Slash, Shinedown), the single, “Feed The Machine” is a defiant rock anthem featuring blistering guitar riffs and face-melting rhythm tracks.
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:15 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
An Evening with Feist
Leslie Feist, known professionally as Feist, is a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Steve Earle & The Dukes at the Commodore Ballroom
Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American rock, country and folk singer-songwriter, record producer, author and actor
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music
Rookie Night
Rookie Nights feature our Rookie League players, who have all successfully completed improv training via the Improv Comedy Institute
Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm | Show
PIGS: Canada's Most Authentic Pink Floyd Tribute Act
PIGS, Canada’s Most Authentic Pink Floyd Tribute will be bringing their critically acclaimed show to West Vancouver in 2017.
West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Loveless
This is a story of modern Russia whose people are at the mercy of implacable forces, a loveless world like a planet without the full means to support human life
Vancouver | The Centre for Performing Arts | 9:00 pm to 11:15 pm | Film
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Chavela
A towering figure in Mexican pop music, Chavela Vargas was both a myth and a cypher.
Vancouver | Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas | 9:30 pm to 11:10 pm | Film