Metro Vancouver events on November 17, 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

Anonymous Art Show 2017 at the CityScape Community Art Space

The North Vancouver Community Arts Council & CityScape Community Art Space are very excited to announce the 13th Annual “Anonymous Art Show”

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

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

Botanical Illustration

Learn how to draw plants from an aesthetic and botanical perspective while improving your observation and artistic skills

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Visual Arts

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

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

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

34th Annual Britannia Christmas Craft Fair

Want an early start on your Christmas shopping? Come check out the 34th annual Britannia Christmas Craft Fair which features a variety of hand made creations from local artists

Vancouver | Britannia Community Services Centre | 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Fair

Kurios 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 | 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm | Show

Light Up The Village 2017 at Park Royal

Join us on Friday in the Village at Park Royal when we will Light Up The Village!

West Vancouver | Park Royal Shopping Centre | 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Family

The Rio Grind Film Festival: Hagazussa - A Heathen’s Curse

Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse (Lukas Feigelfeld, 2017 / 102 mins / German with English subtitles) In the 15th century, a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut feels a dark presence in the woods

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 6:45 pm to 9:45 pm | Film

A Broadway Christmas

Showstoppers Academy Presents A Broadway Christmas

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

Vakhan

Vakhan is a play about the life and times of Moshtagh-Ali-Shah, written and directed by Morteza Moshtaghi, using multimedia techniques

Port Moody | Inlet Theatre | 7:15 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

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

Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera at the Canadian Memorial United Church

The award-winning performers of Opera Mariposa and Heroic Opera are joining forces for the first time to present a grand operatic masterpiece. In Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball), romance, sorcery and conspiracy collide one fateful night at a

Vancouver | Canadian Memorial United Church | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

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

Alex Cuba

Internationally recognized singer-songwriter and Latin music icon Alex Cuba is a musical visionary with six albums under his belt as well as Latin GRAMMY and JUNO Award wins

West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 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

A Ukulele Night to Remember

An evening of Enchanting Ukulele music featuring a double bill: Ruby & Smith and Ruby’s (70 piece) Ukulele Orchestra

Vancouver | York Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Torrens and Taggart by The Fox Cabaret

JEREMY TAGGART was the drummer of the Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace for 21 years. Jonathan Torrens is best known to TV audiences as J-Roc, the would-be rapper on Trailer Park Boys

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

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

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

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

Alex Browne & his Boulevardiers

A long-time champion of the big band style in Vancouver area venues with his Aristocrats of Swing, crooner-bandleader-arranger Alexander Browne has returned to his first musical love – the jazzy, syncopated, devil-may-care dance band sound of the 1920s an

White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

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

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

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

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

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

Aftaab Ensemble featuring Saeed Farajpoori and Mojgan Shajarian

An evening of traditional Persian music.

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

The Rio Grind Film Festival: Let the Corpses Tan

The ultra-violent Italian crime pictures of the 60s and 70s for this sweaty, sun-drenched shootout

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 9:15 pm to 11:45 pm | Film

All About Jack

All About Jack is really all about the party! Be prepared to get a little sweaty, get a little thirsty and most of all have a great time kickin’ it to great tunes all night long

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

Vicky Sjohall

Vicky’s first love in music is performing. She has a captivating stage presence and a powerful voice, with an energy that is pure & infectious

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

Lafflines Comedy Club: Dino Archie

Although he's a California native, Dino Archie has made his home in Vancouver since 2011. During his time here, his carefully crafted comedy routine has landed him a tour with Chris D'Elia, and opening slots with Brett Morin, Reggie Watts, and Hannibal Bu

New Westminster | Lafflines Comedy Club | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy

The LAB Presents: The Cult!

The Cult! Welcome to the Family! The Cult is an improvised mockumentary featuring live interviews with ex-members and never-before-seen “footage” of life in a cult that we invent on the spot based on your suggestion!

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 10:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Performing Arts

The Rio Grind Film Festival: Tragedy Girls

Tragedy Girls (Director Tyler MacIntyre, 2017 / 96 mins / 18A) Following two death-obsessed teenage girls who use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small Midwestern town into a frenzy and cement their legacy as modern horror legend

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 10:45 pm to 0:30 am | Film