Metro Vancouver events on November 5, 2017

83rd CIPHI Annual Education Conference

The Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors (CIPHI) - BC Branch and Vancouver Coastal Health Authority will jointly host the 83rd CIPHI Annual Education Conference

Richmond | Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel | 7:30 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture

American College of Veterinary Pathologists 2017 Annual Meeting

The American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP) and American Society for Veterinary Clinical Pathology (ASVCP) invite you to attend the 2017 Concurrent Annual Meeting! This meeting will be held November 4-8 at the Vancouver Convention Centre

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Business / Finance

Canadian Cancer Research Conference 2017

The Canadian Cancer Research Conference brings together the Canadian cancer research community for an agenda spanning the research spectrum

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Mums, Tums, Babies & Toddlers Show - Cloverdale

Cloverdale's premier parenting event provides essential products, services, & expert advice for moms, dads, babies, & toddlers all under a single roof. New and expecting parents won't want to miss this!

Surrey | Cloverdale Rodeo | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family

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

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

Hastings Park Farmers Market

Located within a thriving community close to the highway and the Second Narrows Bridge, the Hastings Park Farmers Market is a perfect place to stop and shop

Vancouver | Hastings Park | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

Bottoms Up: The Cultures of Drink in the Royal City

A look at New Westminster’s saloons, breweries, distilleries, afternoon teas, soda fountains and other drinking habits, places and stories

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Holiday Vendor and Craft Fair

Enjoy music, food and drink samples and free crafting workshops while shopping for homemade and retail gifts and crafts

Richmond | Thompson Community Centre | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Fair | Free

Vancouver Tea Festival 2017

Vancouver Tea Society is elated to announce the fourth annual Vancouver Tea Festival returns to the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver

Vancouver | Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver CCC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Food / Wine

Vancouver Health Show

Our 27th annual Vancouver Health Show is going to be off the charts this year! We provide today's intelligent consumers with the platform to investigate and inform themselves on today's healthy choices for their family, pets, self and home

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Active Life / Health

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

Sunshine Frère: cache cache Exhibition

Vancouver-based artist Sunshine Frère’s captivating solo exhibition cache cache invites visitors embrace the fading present and explore the dark uncertainty of the future

North Vancouver | Seymour Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Remembrance Sunday Service

Every year the faith community at St. Andrew’s commemorates Remembrance Day with a Remembrance Ceremony at morning worship on the Sunday before November 11

North Vancouver | St. Andrew's United Church | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Free

Alcuin Wayzgoose

The Alcuin Society and VPL will be co-sponsoring the Alcuin Wayzgoose!

Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 10:30 am to 4:30 pm | Books | Free

The FranchiseCanada Show

The Franchise Canada Show (formerly The Franchise Show) is Canada's ultimate franchise exhibition and the official show of the Canadian Franchise Association.This two-day event is where dreams of business ownership become reality through franchising!

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Business / Finance

Build a Real Killer Whale Skeleton

Experience this once in a lifetime opportunity to construct a killer whale skeleton! Learn about marine environment, anatomy and conversation through hands on education

Richmond | The Britannia Shipyard | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Mushroom Show

Discover the fungus among us as the Vancouver Mycological Society presents a show of local autumn fungi.

Richmond | Richmond Nature Park | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals

ISCM World New Music Days 2017. Instruments of Change

Join us for the world premiere of James Maxwell’s Eight or nine, six or seven, inspired in part by the city’s foremost recyclers, the binners’ community. Listen to the sounds of Vancouver as you’ve never experienced before.

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 11:00 am to 11:50 am | Music | Free

ISCM World New Music Days 2017. Red Chamber

Red Chamber has taken the international music scene by storm. Led by Mei Han, this dazzling quartet has redefined Chinese music in the 21st Century

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Music

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

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

Richmond Resilient Communities Workshop - Sea Island

Richmond Resilient Communities (RRC) is a program designed to provide residents with the tools and knowledge to prepare themselves, their families and their communities to be resilient to emergencies of all sizes

Richmond | Sea Island Community Centre | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Workshop | Free

Raffi 40 Years of Singable Songs

Raffi is celebrating the 40th anniversary of his first and still best-selling album, Singable Songs for the Very Young

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Music

Canzine Vancouver 2017

Canzine - Broken Pencil Magazine's festival of zines and underground culture is back in Vancouver!

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Books | Free

Missing - A World Premiere Chamber Opera

Missing is the latest commission by City Opera Vancouver. Set in Vancouver and along the Highway of Tears, it is a story of two young women, one indigenous and one white

Vancouver | York Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Opera

Jesus Christ Superstar

URP is thrilled to return with an all new production of this Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice classic. The energy and excitement of a rock concert will combine with the drama of Christ’s final days as only URP could do

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:45 pm | Performing Arts

King Charles III By Mike Bartlett

The Jovial Political Satire - Long Live The King?

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre

Opera Zone at Kerrisdale Community Centre

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 | Opera

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Join us for a great time “again” as we remount Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in November! Most of your favourites will be back!

Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Show

The New Westminster Symphony: Pops Concert (at the Movies)

The New Westminster Symphony Orchestra proudly presents its first concert of the 2017-2018 performance year

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Music

CAG Exhibition Tour in Spanish

Join Isabela Oliva for a free tour of the current exhibitions in Spanish

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Alban Gerhardt and Steven Osborne

The Vancouver Recital Society presents Alban Gerhardt (cello) and Steven Osborne (piano) in an afternoon concerta at the Vancouver Playhouse

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

Loft in the In Between by Edam Dance

A workshop for those with a minimum of 2 years of experience with Contact Dance

Vancouver | Edam Dance | 3:00 pm to 6:30 pm | Dance

Alvin Tran (violin) and Anna Vavilova (piano)

The City of White Rock and Music Encore Concert Society have joined forces to create Sunday afternoons of spectacular classical music

White Rock | First United Church | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

Remembrance Sunday Concert - Songs of Love & Longing

Angela Verbrugge performs a curated collection of traditional pop from the WW2 era on Remembrance Sunday in the Sanctuary.

North Vancouver | St. Andrew's United Church | 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

ISCM World New Music Days 2017. Land's End Ensemble

This Calgary based, Juno-nominated contemporary piano trio brings a spectacularly refined energy to the stage with provocative and brilliant finesse

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm | Music

Maja Salvador - One Wild Night Canada Concert Tour

One Wild Night of Dancing, Laughter and Singing featuring Joseph Marco, Wendell Ramos, Pooh and Ms. Maja Salvador

Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Great Movies at Britannia - Fantastic Mr. Fox (2010)

Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash.

Vancouver | Britannia Community Services Centre | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Film

Diwali at Evergreen

In collaboration with the TriCity India Heritage Network As part of the Variety Series at the Evergreen Cultural Centre, Diwali in BC is proud to bring the Diwali celebrations to Coquitlam

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Asian Film Festival 2017

Celebrating Diversity in Film. 21st Annual Vancouver Asian Film Festival

Vancouver | Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas | 6:15 pm to 10:00 pm | Film

Dr. Ambedkar Chetna Awards Night

Fifth annual awards night will be hosted to honor and appreciate four individuals or organizations who are living up to the ideals and in accordance of the vision and philosophy of Baba Saheb Dr. Ambedkar

Surrey | Khanna Banquet Hall & Catering Ltd. | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

VYSO - symphonic greats

Enjoy a fall evening of celebrated symphonic greats with the VYSO Senior & Intermediate Orchestras!

West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

ACT Presents Series: The Great Canadian Songbook

With a mix of Canadian hit songs of the past and present, Ken Lavigne, Tiller’s Folly and Diyet take audiences on a musical journey combining stories, music, and visual projections

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

VSO@ISCM: The Vancouver Symphony Performs at ISCM World New Music Days 2017

This concert epitomizes this celebration, with new music from Canada and around the globe

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 9:40 pm | Music

East Van Improv League

Instant Theatre is proud to present the launch of the East Vancouver Improv League! Come witness a high-octane battle between two Supergroups made up of the finest improvisers Instant Theatre has to offer

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Performing Arts

Orfeo ed Euridice

One of Gluck's most beloved works, this exquisite opera explores the power of music and love in our lives

Vancouver | UBC Old Auditorium | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Opera

King Krule

Singer-songwriter, musician and producer from England

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

Dial M for Murder

This play, which inspired the classic Alfred Hitchcock film starring Grace Kelly, weaves an ever tightening web of danger and deception

West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

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

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

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Cagematch: Ultimate Comedy Showdown

Cagematch pits the fiercest and most hilarious improvisers against each other to determine who has the best improv in the city. For 15 years, Cagematch is an underground hotbed of talent where improvisers pull out all the stops

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

ISCM World New Music Days 2017. Outside of Us. Music for Composer-Performers

Sung celebrity tweets, music for sewing machines, and hypnotized choirs. “Outside of Us” will be a concert experience unlike no other

Vancouver | The Annex | 10:15 pm to 11:30 pm | Music