Metro Vancouver events on November 7, 2017

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

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 | North Vancouver District Hall | 8:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Temporary Exhibit: Turf Wars

Turf Wars: 30 years of Vancouver’s Gang Crime Unit and its in-depth crime syndicate investigations

Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

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

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

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

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

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

Brain and Body Workout for Boomers and Beyond

This class, designed by Kinesiologists and Occupational Therapists, is an evidence-based program to improve both physical and brain conditioning

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:30 am to 11:30 am | Active Life / Health

Ethnobotany Walk in the Tropics

Come up to Bloedel Conservatory for a walk through a warm mini rainforest, led by Education Director, Gillian Drake

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:30 am to 11:45 am | Nature / Animals

Parkgate Men's Chorus

Join us for an hour of singing at Parkgate library First Tuesday of every month at 11 am. We are a small group of seniors. We sing songs from the 40s, 50s and 60s as well as barbershop style songs. There are song books and piano accompaniment.

North Vancouver | Parkgate Library | 11:00 am to 12:00 am | Music | Free

Exhibition: Worlds of Wonders

Worlds of Wonder is an exhibition that will be held at the Deer Lake Art Gallery featuring the works of Nancie Green, Lynne Fahnestalk

Burnaby | Deer Lake Gallery | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

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

ISCM World New Music Days 2017. Electroacoustic Music Concert

Vancouver is recognized as the original centre for the study of soundscape and the legacy continues as part of ISCM2017

Vancouver | UBC School of Music | 12:00 am to 2:00 pm | Music | Free

ISCM World New Music Days 2017. Powell Street Festival

Witness the reincarnation of half broken iPods in surround sound. This is a concert that needs to be seen to be believed

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm | Music

The Talking, Thinking, Dancing Body

The Talking, Thinking, Dancing Body (TTDB) is a facilitated conversation about aesthetics, context and artistic process. Initiated in 2012 by Lee Su-Feh, it encourages speaking about performance from an awareness of our bodies as well as the world it live

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Wall Exchange With Andrew Feinstein: The Shadow World of the Global Arms Trade

In this Wall Exchange lecture Andrew Feinstein draws back the curtain on the shadow world of the global trade in weapons—its systemic corruption, highly technical nature, and the pervasive secrecy in which deals are concluded

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Lecture | Free

07 Burst: A Short Form Improv Intensive

Burst is a 4 week, 4 hour (16 hour total) performance focused improv intensive that includes three performances at the Havana theatre on Commercial Drive

Vancouver | Instant Studio | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Workshop

Classics @ the Smith

"Baroque to tangos, Mozart to Piazzolla" featuring the Vancouver Cello Quartet: Luke Kim, Cristian Markos, Kevin Park, Lee Duckles Join us for an exciting evening of Classical music in the Gordon Smith Gallery.

North Vancouver | Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Music

Lobby Nights. Holy Wow Poets

Share your poetic flair or simply sit back and relax while listening to exciting and invigorating poems and songs.

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Barkley Night in Canada, An Evening with Gary Robbins and Ethan Newberry [Gary Robbins and the Barkley Marathons]

World Premiere of Ethan Newberry’s Barkley film, followed by Q&A.

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Film

Acting for Improvisors, with Nikolai Witschl

Looking to improve your acting on stage? Do you want to make the transition from stage to screen? Or maybe you'd just like to work with one of the most on-demand actor's in Vancouver

Vancouver | Instant Studio A | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Workshop

2018 Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival: Reel Rock 12

The Rio Theatre is happy be one of the hosting venues for The Vancouver International Mountain Festival again this year.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Film

ISCM World New Music Days 2017. PEP (Piano and Erhu Project) & Standing Wave Ensemble

A jam-packed evening full of amazing music. PEP is an exciting cross-cultural project between virtuosi Corey Hamm (piano) and Nicole Ge Li (erhu)

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:30 pm to 6:30 pm | Music

King Charles III By Mike Bartlett

The Jovial Political Satire - Long Live The King?

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Theatre

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 | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Opera

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

Theater Crossing Presents: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Watch as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a brilliant scientist frustrated by dull “respectable” life in 1888 Victorian London, creates a formula to unleash his inner bestial nature, transforming him into the brutish but oddly compassionate Edward Hyde

Vancouver | Kitsilano Neighbourhood House | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

ISCM World New Music Days 2017. Vertical Orchestra 2017: 21st Century Guitars

Performing in the atrium of the downtown branch of the Vancouver Public Library, Redshift Music presents this dynamic spatial event featuring an army of electric guitarists and bass guitarists

Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 10:15 pm to 2:00 pm | Music | Free