Metro Vancouver events on November 16, 2017

National Philanthropy Day Luncheon & Summit 2017

The National Philanthropy Day Summit is designed to appeal to all members of your fundraising team and provides a great day for individual learning and team building as you will all come together for the celebratory luncheon

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 4:30 pm | Lecture

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

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

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

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 Coffee Concert: Classical, Cuban, Creative

Bergmann Piano Duo - are joined by clarinet wizard and versatile improviser, François Houle for an enticing exploration of the sonic world of the clarinet, with works by Saint Saens, Bernstein, and Cuban composer and jazz-great, Paquito d’Rivera

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 10:00 am to 12:30 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

SFU Puppy Therapy - Surrey Campus

Add some self-care into your study routine and make time for an afternoon of canine cuddles

Surrey | SFU Surrey | 12:00 am to 2:00 pm | Nature / Animals

Open Learning Week

Explore how SFU Vancouver is transforming the landscape of urban education through cutting-edge research, social innovation and contemporary arts

Vancouver | SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre | 12:00 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition

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

Eastside Culture Crawl: Loop

Spatial installation/performance by Valentina Stepan

Vancouver | MakerLabs | 12:00 am to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts

Eastside Culture Crawl: Moving Art 2017

This year’s Moving Art selections investigate concepts of action and reaction

Vancouver | Strange Fellows Brewing | 12:00 am to 11:00 pm | Visual Arts

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

Chigiri-e Paper Art: Die Winterreise

Chigiri-e is a Japanese art form using pieces of hand-dyed washi paper to create beautiful and detailed images

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Nature / Animals

Langara College - Animation Open House & Industry Night

by Langara College & Centre for Arts and Technology

Vancouver | Langara College | 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Vancouver International Film Festival: Free Film Screening - Window Horses

This is a free Film screening part of "North of 49 Movies on Campus" First come, first-seated. Tell your friends! Window Horses is an animated feature. It's about love (it's always about love…) - love of family, poetry, history, culture

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Film | Free

The Rio Grind Film Festival: Blade of the Immortal

Legendary (not to mention prolific) Japanese writer-director Takashi Miike has marked his 100th feature (!) as one of his hands-down best - a feast for the eyes, Blade of the Immortal is an utterly sweeping, fantasy-fueled samurai action-adventure epic.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 6:30 pm to 8:50 pm | Film

Ilana Glazer & Phoebe Robinson: YQY Comedy Tour

Surprise! Besties from another pair of testes Ilana Glazer (Comedy Central’s Broad City) and Phoebe Robinson (WNYC’s 2 Dope Queens) are teaming up for their 11-city stand-up tour called YQY (aka Yaaas Queen Yaaas)

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

Salish Singing & Drumming Fall 2017 Workshops

Learn traditional Salish social songs, drumming and dance with instructor Russell Wallace. Workshops are free and open to everyone!

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Workshop | Free

Fighting for Space: The Fentanyl Crisis & Where We Go From Here

In conjunction with the release of Travis Lupick's Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction, this event will bring together a politician, a mother and advocate and ...

Vancouver | The Beaumont Studios | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Art After Dark Remix with Alanna Ho & Elisa Medina

The Richmond Art Gallery and the Richmond Media Lab host a monthly evening of hands-on art, performance and electronic music making

Richmond | Richmond Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Shyama

A Bharata-Natyam interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore’s epic dance drama Shyama

Vancouver | York Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

A Cappella Masterclass with Deke Sharon

Burstin’ with Broadway, in partnership with Centennial Theatre presents an A Cappella Masterclass with “the father of modern A Cappella music” and producer of “The Sing-Off” - Deke Sharon

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Workshop

Canucks vs. Golden Knights at Rogers Arena

Vancouver Canucks vs. Vegas Golden Knights

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

Bitters: From Snake Oil to Artisanal Cocktails

Sip on cocktails made with local spirits while we explore some of the botanicals commonly used as bittering agents and discuss current uses in drinks to try at home

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Food / Wine

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

Coming Up for Air at the Kay Meek Centre

Written by Orwell in 1938 and published in 1939, Coming Up for Air captures pre-war anxiety, tension between nostalgia and progress and deals with similar political and societal themes of Orwell’s masterwork 1984

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

The Ridiculous Darkness

Alley Theatre, in partnership with Neworld Theatre, is thrilled to present the large-scale stage adaptation and North American premiere of The Ridiculous Darkness

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

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

Vancouver Writers Fest: Waiting for First Light. Roméo Dallaire in Conversation with Kathryn Gretsinger

In this candid, electric evening, Roméo Dallaire – bestselling author, retired general and senator, leading humanitarian – discusses his struggle with PTSD following his missions around the world including assisting the UN during the Rwandan Genocide

Vancouver | St. Andrew’s Wesley United Church | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

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

Seven at Seven Improv Comedy Showcase

Grab some dinner and drinks and enjoy an evening of laughs as two hilarious Vancouver improv troupes deliver a dynamite double bill all inspired by your suggestions!

Vancouver | Seven Dining Lounge | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy

Indie series: Campground

Lucas Myers brings his trademark brand of observational humor and brilliant character work to this examination of the world within a world that can only be found in The Campground.

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Corb Lund - Solo Acoustic

Corb Lund need no introduction to Country Music fans, rednecks or prairie folk.

Langley | Summit Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Satellites

This play is a dark comedy about betrayal and loneliness in a city that has started to lose its identity, where characters orbit each other looking for connection and ultimately, love

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Sink Or Swim By Beverley Elliott

An evening of song and story with Beverley Elliott from ABC Television’s hit series Once Upon a Time. Beverley Elliott last graced the Gateway Studio in 2015 with her smash hit cabaret show …didn’t see that coming.

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

Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth

First produced by the Firehall in the ‘90’s, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth, will make you laugh and cry as Taylor creates the story of the impact of the 60’s scoop-up of native children on one family.

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

Jersey Boys - National Tour

Winner of the 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical, Jersey Boys tells the story of how Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons went from being unknown New Jersey kids to international pop superstars.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical

Spin

Spin is polished folk performance art...the lyrics are potently lean and the arrangements, including Parry and Hart’s harmonies, are sensuously textured

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

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

Studio 58 presents: Wilderness

Wilderness is an innovative new multimedia theatre piece that explores our collective search for connection and hope, as families grapple with the extraordinary pressures and complexities that accompany ‘coming of age’ in the 21st Century

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 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

Kurios - Cabinet of Curiosities by Cirque du Soleil

Step into the curio cabinet of an ambitious inventor who defies the laws of time, space and dimension in order to reinvent everything around him. Suddenly, the visible becomes invisible, perspectives are transformed, and the world is literally turned upsi

Vancouver | Concord Pacific Place | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Show

The Rio Grind Film Festival: Top Knot Detective

Top Knot Detective (Aaron McCann, Dominic Pearce / 2017 / 86 mins / In English and Japanese w/ English subs) In the early 90s, a little-known Japanese Samurai/Detective series hit Australia where it quickly became a cult hit

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 9:20 pm to 11:00 pm | Film