Metro Vancouver events on November 9, 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 | North Vancouver District Hall | 8:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Psychonomic Society 58th Annual Meeting

Join more than 2,500 colleagues at the Psychonomic Society's 58th Annual Meeting this November 9-12 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:30 am to 5:00 pm | Business / Finance

iTech IT Infrastructure & Cloud Services Conference 2017

iTech is Vancouver's leading IT technology conference and exhibition focusing on Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, Data Centre and Mobility

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 8:30 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

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

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

Circle Craft Market 2017

Generations of locals and visitors have attended and enjoyed a Market where they come face to face with fine BC and Canadian artisans and their work

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 9:00 pm | Market

Vancouver Career, Education & Settlement Immigrant Fair

Canadian Immigrant magazine is proudly presenting its fifth annual Vancouver Career, Education and Settlement Immigrant Fair on Thursday at the Vancouver Convention Centre West

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Fair | Free

Cornucopia - Whistler’s Celebration of Food + Drink

Cornucopia, presented by BlueShore Financial, the True North of food & drink festivals - a place of culinary reckonings, where the wild meets the refined and the epic and the epicurious come together

Whistler | Whistler Village | 10:00 am to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine

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

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

Classical, Cuban, Creative - Clarinet

Clarinet wizard and versatile improviser François Houle will join the Bergmanns for an enticing exploration of the sonic world of the clarinet.

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 10:30 am to 12:00 am | Music

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

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

November Book Club Meeting

Join us for coffee, snacks, and literary chat as the Coquitlam Heritage Historical Book Cub meets to discuss Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

Coquitlam | Coquitlam Heritage Society | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Surrey Celebrates Canada 150. Garden Light Festival at Bear Creek Park

Come on out for some free family entertainment! The trails and the trees will be illuminated for two nights this year.

Surrey | Bear Creek Park | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Family | Free

Healthy Relationships for Young Adults

A program for young adults 19 yrs+ who are neuro-diverse, on navigating social interactions, self-care & relationships

Vancouver | Kits House | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Lecture

Home is Where the Heart(Beat) Is

Home is Where the Heart(Beat) Is is a art project created by artist Michelle Williams commissioned by the City of New Westminster’s Museum and Arts Services departments

New Westminster | Art Gallery | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Lecture | Free

The Strathcona Herbarium Launch

Come down to teacher Maryann Persoon’s grade 6/7 classroom to join Cease Wyss, the Lord Strathcona Elementary community, and our primary supporter, Telus Community Board, for the public launch and discussion of 'The Strathcona Herbarium'

Vancouver | Strathcona Elementary School | 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm | Visual Arts

FESTERVAL 3-Day Pass Fu Manchu, Dwarves, Truckfighters, Deap Vally, Earthless, Diarrhea Planet, Black Wizard, Dirty Fences, Meat

The first annual FESTERVAL is coming to Vancouver! Loud & Fuzzy - Music for Weirdos

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music

WTPD 2017 – The Infinite Happiness: Film Screening And Panel Discussion Night

In celebration of World Town Planning Day, join the Planning Institute of BC’s South Coast Chapter and Vancouver Public Space Network for a film screening and panel discussion of The Infinite Happiness

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Film

Makeover Your Style

You will learn to identify and effectively assess your body and face shape helping you to choose appropriate styles in fashions that flatter your silhouette and face

Vancouver | Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre | 6:15 pm to 9:15 pm | Active Life / Health

Vancouver International Film Festival: Free Film Screening-Konelīne: our land beautiful

This is a FREE Film screening part of "North of 49 Movies on Campus" First come, first-seated. Tell your friends!

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 6:30 pm to 8:10 pm | Film | Free

Carl Sagan Day

A celebration of astronomer, science populariser, and Planetary Society founder Carl Sagan, who was born on this day

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Party

SFU Philosophers’ Café

Imagine the impossible and discuss the improbable with SFU’s Philosophers’ Café. Guest moderators host informal public discussions on various topics, stimulating dialogue and passionate exchange of ideas

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Lecture | Free

artBAR: Pour & Paint with Lisa Lake

Join Lisa for a fun evening where you will pull out the paint, try some techniques and create a canvas in celebration of fall

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

First Half-Century of Israel’s Permanently Temporary Occupation

A free public lecture by Gershon Shafir (no registration required). This talk raises the two burning questions in this 50th anniversary of the 1967 War.

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Canada's Women's National Team vs. USA

The most fierce rivalry in women's sport returns to Vancouver as Canada Soccer's Women's National Team faces USA

Vancouver | BC Place | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

Ones to Watch Presents – The Lany Tour Part 2

LANY is an American three-piece alternative band from Los Angeles, California, United States.

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Wapikoni Mobile Film Screening

Quebec-based Wapikoni's Indigenous youth film and music production collective is bringing a travelling audio-visual production studio to Vancouver for the first time!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Film

Two Views from the Sylvia

Two Views from the Sylvia is an exciting new musical theatre show comprised of two original one-act plays about The Sylvia Hotel

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 7:15 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

TCB Rock and Roll Legends Presents: The Gospel Side of Elvis

The Blackwood Family is the first family of Gospel Music, winning 8 Grammy Awards, 27 Dove Awards, and have sold over 60 million albums.

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

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

Port Coquitlam | Terry Fox Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

The Vancouver international Mountain Film Festival: Fall Speaker Series

The Vancouver international Mountain Film Festival returns with epic tales of extreme endurance and adventure

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival

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

Wives and Daughters by Jacqueline Firkins

Wives and Daughters, a charming romp of love convoluted by hidden desires and expectations, showcases our uber-talented BFA Actors and their design colleagues from the BFA Theatre Design and Production programs

Vancouver | Frederic Wood Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Gavin Turek - Good Look For You Tour 2017

Pop singer from Los Angeles, on tour to support her latest EP release “Good Look For You"

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

FESTERVAL Night 1 feat. Meatbodies & Dead Ghosts with War Baby, The Jins

The first annual FESTERVAL is coming to Vancouver! Loud & Fuzzy - Music for Weirdos

Vancouver | The Cobalt | 8:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music

Third Eye Blind

Third Eye Blind is an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1993

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

心情金曲2017歌唱大賽 Solid Gold Singing Contest

Since 1999, CHMB AM1320’s “Solid Gold Singing Contest” has become one of CHMB’s signature events. This event is heavily promoted by CHMB as one of our key annual events and the contest has discovered many new local singing talents

Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 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

Alex Clare - Tail of Lions Tour

London-born singer, songwriter and producer Alex Clare is one of those lucky people who will never be short of something startling to tell when the lights dim and true conversation really begins

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

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

Sink or Swim

If you liked the 2014 Pick of Vancouver Fringe …didn’t see that coming, you’ll love the prequel, Sink or Swim. Singer, actress, and singular talent Beverley Elliott (Once Upon A Time) is thrilled to be back with brand new stories and songs

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

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

The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh

Brothers Coleman and Valene can’t seem to co-exist without sudden outbreaks of violence over the pettiest concerns

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

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 | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Show

Honky Tonk Angels

A musical comedy by the creator of Always...Patsy Cline. First Impressions Theatre’s production of Honky Tonk Angels will be a welcome chance to hear this repertory, up close and real personal!

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

#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