Metro Vancouver events on October 20, 2017

Connecting the Pieces Conference - Langley BC

Exhibit / Trade Show - Charlotte Diamond's products will be available for purchase. Hug Bug Music will exhibit in the Marketplace at "Connecting the Pieces," the Langley School District's annual early childhood educator and kindergarten teachers' conferen

Langley | Brookswood Secondary School | 8:00 am to 4:00 pm | Books

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

Pushing Boundaries

This biennial exhibition showcases and celebrates contemporary local, national and international First Nations artists

North Vancouver | CityScape Community Art Space | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Pro-D Day Camp: Fun in the Fall

Come and explore the magic of the fall at VanDusen Botanical Garden! For children in Grades 1 – 4

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

Once Upon a Pumpkin

Come explore the Nature House and learn about Halloween’s origins in nature

Richmond | Richmond Nature Park | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Canada 150: Mosaic Community Art Project

You, your family and friends are invited to participate by painting a 4” x 4” tile that will become part of an 12’ x 8’ mosaic celebrating Coquitlam’s history

Coquitlam | Coquitlam Public Library | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Visual Arts | 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

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

Vancouver International Writers Festival

At the Vancouver Writers Fest we encourage readers of all ages to explore the power of storytelling, and books, through our dozens of events with local and international writers

Vancouver | Various locations | 10:00 am to 11:00 pm | Festival

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

Tiny Tots: Gallop & Go! at Playhouse

Get ready to move to that barnyard beat with "Clip Clop" the horse! Featuring a bouncy bunch of original and symphonic sing-a-long tunes. Accompanied by an orchestral trio and folk instruments

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Music

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

Halloween: Pumpkin Express

Delight in the crafts and activities under the tent on the platform, See your child's face light up with pleasure as they design the perfect pumpkin mask and play the Halloween games

Surrey | Bear Creek Park | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Kids

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

Inspire Environmental Awareness in Your Students

In this interactive, fun and empowering workshop K-7 teachers will explore the common thread that connects sustainability leaders

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Workshop

Stanley Park Halloween Ghost Train. Matinee train

Witness the alien invasion! Each year the Stanley Park Ghost Train takes our riders on a journey through a mystical and magical world, inspired by Hallowe'en and other spooky tales.

Vancouver | Stanley Park | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

Tiny Tots: Gallop & Go! @ Playhouse

Get ready to move to that barnyard beat with "Clip Clop" the horse! Featuring a bouncy bunch of original and symphonic sing-a-long tunes. Accompanied by an orchestral trio and folk instruments

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 11:30 am to 12:30 am | Music

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

Exhibition: Andrew Dadson

The Contemporary Art Gallery will present the most comprehensive exhibition to date of work by Vancouver-based artist Andrew Dadson. Although receiving great commercial attention and critical acclaim, Dadson has rarely shown in public institutions

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Where The Wild Things Are

Let the wild rumpus begin!! Back by popular demand, this highly interactive production is a guided play experience, adapted from the timeless classic by Maurice Sendak

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 1:00 pm to 2:45 pm | Theatre

Halloween: L’il Haunters at Potter’s House of Horrors

Thrills n chills.. scares, bewares n evil glares.. and fun for the whole family!

Surrey | Potter’s House | 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Family

Bog Escape Howloween Ball

The guest list has been made and you’re on it! Join the Burns Bog Conservation Society at their Bog Escape Howloween Ball for a hair-raising adventure. A full-moon party sounds like fun, but are you prepared for what’s actually in store?

Surrey | Delta Nature Reserve | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Family

Stanley Park Halloween Ghost Train

Witness the alien invasion! Each year the Stanley Park Ghost Train takes our riders on a journey through a mystical and magical world, inspired by Hallowe'en and other spooky tales.

Vancouver | Stanley Park | 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Family

Halloween Activities. Halloween Family Dance

Harvest some fun with Halloween themed events happening at recreation facilities in Surrey! Join us for an evening of Halloween entertainment.

Surrey | Don Christian Recreation Centre | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

Halloween: Grave Tales

Join our experienced storytellers for a two- or three-hour program of spine-chilling stories, as you walk through the Fort Langley village at night

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Halloween: Scream Train at Bear Creek Park

We recommend the Scream Train for the older children who can handle being scared. Our forest becomes alive with ghosts and ghouls intent on scaring you amidst creepy sounds and special effects

Surrey | Bear Creek Park | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Family

Halloween Mystery Nights - Downtown Murder Mystery

Vancouver Mysteries’ Halloween Mystery Nights return this year with murder mystery game Crime in Downtown

Vancouver | streets of downtown Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

NewWest FilmFest 2017!

The New West Film Society is gearing up for our seventh annual film festival in New Westminster.

New Westminster | Landmark Cinemas 10 | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Film

Fright Nights

Don’t come alone! It’s our favourite time of fear. Experience the freaky, terrifying and much less cheerful doppelganger of Playland, Fright Nights, select nights October 6 through 31

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | Festival

The Valley Haunt

For the 2017 Halloween season, The Valley Haunt: Contained will be returning with new themes and spine-tingling scares. Get ready for an even more blood-curdling, hair-raising, and bone-chilling experience.

North Vancouver | 1311 Appin Road | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Family

Griz

Grant Kwiecinski, also known by his stage name GRiZ, is an American DJ and electronic producer from Michigan. He is known for playing the saxophone along with producing funk, electro-soul, and self-described future-funk

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

SHE - Power, Beauty & the Beast: 5Rhythms® Embodiment Workshop

We invite you to join in the creation of sacred space that honours the Feminine. As women we will come together to honour our body temples and the wisdom they hold, finding within our true power and beauty.

Vancouver | Russian Hall | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Workshop

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

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

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

The Paperboys 25th Anniversary Show

The Paperboys 25th Anniversary show! Join us for a night celebrating 25 years of Celtic, Bluegrass, Latin, Roots, Folk with Vancouver’s Paperboys

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Diwali Dhamaka 2017

Rich Culture Productions Proudly presents "DIWALI DHAMAKA 2017," We are back with a bang for the 4th Annual Diwali formal this year featuring some of B.C's best talents!

Surrey | Royal King Palace | 7:30 pm to 2:00 am | Dance

Muzewest Concerts presents Wayne Weng - Piano Mastery

Our 5th annual concert kicks off in a big way with pianist Wayne Weng! He has performed internationally and is growing in acclaim as a teacher as well

Vancouver | 4405 W. 8 Avenue | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

The Boom Booms

The Boom Booms are an Indie Soul band from Vancouver, BC. The group consists of brothers Aaron Ross (lead vocals) and Sean Ross (keys), Tom Van Deursen (guitar), Geordie Hart (bass), and Theo Vincent (drums)

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Viva - Bright Young Theatre and Aenigma Theatre

A contemporary ode to unconditional love. Viva follows two strangers, Alice and Graeme, whose lives become intertwined over the course of one night in Las Vegas

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Encounter. Sindhoor/Natyaveda - Navarasa Dance Theater (India/USA)

The best physical theatre out of India, Encounter delves into the struggles and challenges of the indigenous communities of India through an explosive fusion of dance and theatre

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:20 pm | Dance

Happy Place

Happy Place explores and celebrates the courage, compassion and humour of seven women living amidst each other in the most extraordinary of circumstances

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Honour: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan. Dipti Mehta (New York)

Honour’: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan is a testament to the humanity and lives of sex workers; a mother’s plea for her daughter’s life and her honour; a story of the struggles of an unlikely family.

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Performing Arts

Friday Night Live

Stories. Music. Life. Every Friday night is something different- a chance to gather the community, share something amazing and go out into the night having witnessed creativity in action

North Vancouver | Lynn Valley United Church | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder Tour

Broken Social Scene with special guests The Belle Game

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

Classical Traditions at the Chan Centre: Angela Cheng Plays Ravel

Celebrated Canadian pianist Angela Cheng makes her welcome return to the VSO, performing Ravel’s G Major Piano Concerto, a work heavily influenced by the driving rhythms of the Paris jazz scene of the 1920s.

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:10 pm | Music

A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim

Set at the turn of the last century in Sweden, A Little Night Music interweaves a tangled web of former and current lovers. A Little Night Music is full of hilariously witty and heartbreakingly moving moments of adoration, regret and desire.

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Roadside Vigil

It’s been 15 years since the tragic and untimely death of Vivian’s sister Kate at the age of 17. Both Vivian and their mother, Reagan, are deeply haunted by these memories.

North Vancouver | The Theatre at Hendry Hall | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

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

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Set in Victorian England, Bram Stoker’s immortal tale is re-told with sisters Mina and Lucy awaiting their heart’s desires, while Mina’s fiancé visits the mysterious Dracula’s castle, and Renfield howls for her master from Bedlam asylum...

North Vancouver | Deep Cove Stage Society | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Thanks for Giving By Kevin Loring

Premiere Granville Island Stage. Comedy with lots to chew on

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy

Mom's the Word 3: Nest 1/2 Empty

A new generation of laughs! From the world-renowned creative team behind the Mom’s the Word series comes a new chapter in their stories of family and fracas.

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

Thunder from Down Under

Australia’s Thunder From Down Under will be bringing back their internationally acclaimed all-male dance revue to the Molson Canadian Theatre at Hard Rock Casino Vancouver on Friday, October 20, 2017

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Show

King Charles III By Mike Bartlett

The Jovial Political Satire - Long Live The King?

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:30 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

TheatreSports™ - Laugh Til Your Face Hurts

Razor-sharp wit and lightning-fast reflexes, two teams of players are pitted against each other in competitive improv matches

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

Charlie Pears-Smith

Charlie Pears-Smith considers herself to be a ‘Heinz 57’. Although she grew up surrounded by the 90’s British pop culture, her inspirations come from the R&B divas of the 70’s and 80’s and the rock and blues legends of the 20th century

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

Line 49

Line49 is a guitar-driven, dance oriented, rock cover band playing the new wave sounds of the 80’s, the alternative sounds of the 90’s and the cutting edge of modern rock

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 0:00 am | Music | Free

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

Thunder from Down Under

Australia’s Thunder From Down Under will be bringing back their internationally acclaimed all-male dance revue to the Molson Canadian Theatre at Hard Rock Casino Vancouver on Friday, October 20, 2017

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 10:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Show

Ok Tinder – Swipe Right Comedy

Our 17+ show is 60 minutes of fast-paced, no-holds-barred comedy looking at the good, bad and the laughable of Vancouver’s dating scene

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 11:15 pm to 0:15 am | Show