Metro Vancouver events on October 5, 2017

Marisa Mary Myrah - Exhibition

Lost Birds and Small Things focuses on endangered songbirds and their habitat in Canada and abroad. Concerned about today’s social and environmental landscape, this series is a contemporary commentary and concern for the loss of species in a natural world

North Vancouver | District Foyer Gallery | 8:00 am to 4:30 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

Healthy Kids Fair

Parents with their children,come and take part in free activities at Edmonds Community Centre!

Burnaby | Edmonds Community Centre | 9:30 am to 11:30 am | Family | 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

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

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

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

Painting Fall with Watercolour

Take a trip through painting, finding inspiration in the vibrant colours of fall foliage, blooms, and even squash in our fall series

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

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

Memory - History - Story Exhibition

This year’s teaching exhibition is a celebration of the first people of our country. Memory - History - Story is an exploration of our indigenous artists, their perspectives and voices, through the lens of Indigenous principles of learning

North Vancouver | Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Diwali @ the Vancouver Central Library

Celebrate the sights and sounds of Diwali at an exciting music and dance performance. This event will feature colourful, fast-paced Indian dance performances to celebrate the 14th Annual Diwali Fest

Vancouver | Central Library | 12:30 am to 1:30 pm | Festival

Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Vazante

Shot in moody monochrome and steeped in the erotics of oppression, Daniela Thomas’s film joins the small canon of great movies taking slavery as a subject

Vancouver | Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas | 1:15 pm to 3:15 pm | Film

Tea & Trumpets: Ludwig van Beethoven

The opening concert of the Tea & Trumpets series features the music of one of the greatest of the great composers, Ludwig van Beethoven, and stories from the life of this tortured genius

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm | Music

Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. The King's Choice

Chronicling the nerve-racking days before and after the Norwegian monarch King Haakon VII made the decision to resist the invading German army during WWII

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:30 pm to 5:40 pm | Film

Harvest Haus 2017! Grand Opening

Vancouver’s largest Volksfest returns this autumn for its fourth and most largest year yet! Held under the Festzelte next to BC Place, Harvest Haus brings folklore from the 1st century to the Great White North.

Vancouver | Sole Food Street Farms | 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Food / Wine

Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Una mujer fantástica

Ravishing… represents a huge leap in terms of trans narratives onscreen, but by any standard, it’s a powerful drama of a woman whose suffering never dims her determination to keep moving forward

Vancouver | The Centre for Performing Arts | 6:15 pm to 7:55 pm | Film

Sea Level Rise and the International Response - Policy Action

In this lecture hosted by SFU, explore policy options for sea level rise. Featuring Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, for the Kinds of the Netherlands

Vancouver | SFU Harbour Centre | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Lecture | Free

Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. La Tenerezza

This story of love and anger comes from one of Italy’s greatest living directors.

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

The Weeknd: Starboy World Tour Phase Two

The Weeknd With Special Guests French Montana & Nav. Grammy Award®-winning and multi-platinum selling music artist The Weeknd has announced a second leg to his critically acclaimed Starboy: Legend of the Fall 2017 World Tour

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Improv Wars – The Laugh Jedi

Our improvised Star Wars parody highlights the parallels between the skills of an improviser and those of a Jedi

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 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 | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Theatre

Thanks for Giving By Kevin Loring

Premiere Granville Island Stage. Comedy with lots to chew on

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Hound of the Baskervilles is probably Sherlock Holmes’ greatest mystery, but in this version COMEDY rules the day as three amazingly, talented actors – plus one wandering fireplace

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

Max - All Ages at Fortune Sound

Max kicks of his Meteor Tour Thursday October 5th at Fortune Sound Club with special guest Rozes for an all ages early show.

Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | 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

1 Hour Photo

1 Hour Photo is the story of Mas Yamamoto, a man whose life was swept up by the major currents of the 20th century.

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Little Shop of Horrors

A gleefully twisted, out of this world cult classic hit musical!

New Westminster | The Bernie Legge Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Nick Offerman: Full Bush Tour

Humourist Nick Offerman returns with a collection of his sawdusty musings on survival in the wild, living with enthusiasm, and most importantly, the cultivation of fulsome body hair

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy

Vancouver International Film Festival 2017. Chavela

A towering figure in Mexican pop music, Chavela Vargas was both a myth and a cypher.

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 9:00 pm to 10:40 pm | Film

#NoFilter – The LOL of TMI

Our improvisers delve into our over-shared digital world. From Snapchat to Instagram, Weibo to Facebook and everything in between

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Show

Flosstradamus - In Hi-Def Tour: Vancouver bp20yr

Flosstradamus - In Hi-Def Tour at Celebrities Nightclub with Support from Dunham b2b Juan Ton b2b Dr.Seiz b2b Quartez + Tails

Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music