Metro Vancouver events on January 19, 2018
January 19, 2018
Fri
Free Ice Skating at Robson Square
This winter, renew a classic Vancouver tradition and enjoy some old-fashioned fun
Vancouver | Robson Square | 9:00 am to 11:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Know Show Fall/Winter 2018
KnowShow is an engaging B2B marketplace where leading lifestyle fashion brands unveil their seasonal products to Canadian Retailers
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition
Exhibitions at Place des Arts
Drop by for fine art, inspiration and a glass of wine at the opening reception for three new shows: Colour: A Personal Response, acrylics and fibre art by Lesley Turner and Sarah McLaren; Lyrical Expressions, acrylics by Jane Appleby; Balance, fibre arts
Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 9:00 am to 9:00 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
Transference - exhibition
Transference incorporates the works of five artists - Aimée Henny Brown, Saskia Jetten, Ross Kelly, Colin Lyons and Kathleen Ritter
Richmond | Richmond Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Drawing Vegetables
This one-day workshop explores how to draw some seasonal vegetables: squash, root veggies, winter greens, and more!
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Visual Arts
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
Molly Lamb Bobak: Talk of the Town & Julie McIntyre: Travel Stories
Join us for the opening reception of Molly Lamb Bobak: Talk of the Town & Julie McIntyre: Travel Stories at the Burnaby Art Gallery
Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition
Canyon Lights by Capilano Suspension Bridge Park
In response to popular demand, the 12th season of Canyon Lights at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park has been extended. From November 23 to January 28 the park is alive with lights, lights and more lights!
North Vancouver | Capilano Suspension Bridge Park | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Family
Free Cap Classics Concert
Cap Classics Concerts take place throughout the fall and spring terms. Admission is free!
North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 11:45 am to 12:45 am | Music | Free
Some Spontaneous Particulars: Vanessa Brown, Heide Hinrichs, Kathleen Ritter
This exhibition presents never-before exhibited work by three artists whose research-based practices have drawn them to the work of historical women artists Marianne Brandt, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Mina Loy
Vancouver | Access Gallery | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
CAG Exhibition: Brent Wadden: Two Scores
Two Scores is a solo exhibition of ambitious new work by Vancouver-based artist Brent Wadden, his first in a public institution.
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 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
Reassembled, Slightly Askew
An audacious melding of art and science, this multidisciplinary adventure is a head-trip in the literal sense. The survivor of a medically induced coma and acquired brain injury, creator Shannon Yee presents a chance for us to live through her medical jou
Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 12:30 am to 10:30 pm | Performing Arts
2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Critical Ideas: Theatre & Institutional Spaces
Critical Ideas brings together artists, critics, scholars and audiences to discuss formal, social and ideological issues affecting performance practice and reception
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Lecture | Free
Lit circle - book club! Wonder R. J. Palacio
Hey guys, if you like reading and discussing novels with your pals we have a club for you! Come on out and read some cool books with us. General chats about books
Surrey | The Youth Space of South Surrey | 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Books | Free
Chinese Lantern Festival
Experience Vancouver in a whole new light in this 5-week celebration of Chinese culture featuring massive lanterns, amazing performances, and incredible food
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival
Ocean Wise Pop-Up Café at Vancouver Aquarium - Dine Out Pop-up
Back by popular demand, Vancouver Aquarium’s Ocean Wise Pop-Up Café returns for a second year during Dine Out Vancouver
Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine
Musical Kabbalat Shabbat
Join us for a joyous Welcoming of Shabbat, with a potluck meal at 6:00pm followed by a Kabbalat Shabbat service at 7:30, augmented with Or Shalom musicians
Vancouver | Or Shalom Synagogue | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Smooky Margielaa
Stay 100 with ASAP Rocky protege Smooky MarGielaa as he takes over Venue for an all ages show with Illy Miniachi & ACdatyoungnigga
Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
New Orleans' Dinner
What better way to ring in the New Year than with a lavish 4 course New Orleans' Dinner with Chef Kristoff Gillese?!
Maple Ridge | Golden Ears Cheesecrafters | Cooking
UBC Thunderbirds v Lethbridge Pronghorns
UBC Thunderbirds v Lethbridge Pronghorns
Vancouver | Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports
Goldstepz at The Biltmore Cabaret
with special guests: Reggie James, Casta Troy
Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Music
Kay Meek Play Reading Series. Sad Clown by David King
Forty-eight hours after his wife went missing, the husband is visited by an eccentric fellow who claims to have been sent by the missing wife to console him
West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts
Dine Out Vancouver Festival: Grand Tasting
It's showtime! We kick off Dine Out Vancouver Festival's 16th season in style with a Grand Tasting Event in Vancouver’s historic Orpheum
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine
2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: Inside/Out - Neworld Theatre
This is a show in the finest tradition of the prison memoir—as riveting as fiction, but with the authenticity of documentary.
Vancouver | Performance Works | 7:00 pm to 8:20 pm | Performing Arts
2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: MDLSX - Motus (Italy)
Gender-fluid rebel Silvia Calderoni does a powerhouse star turn in this show by Italian theatre company Motus. The performer’s own life story is crossbred with fiction, producing a work of genre blending and gender bending
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:20 pm | Performing Arts
Above the Hospital
Newly formed Vancouver theatre company Midtwenties Theatre Society, along with Red Gate Arts Society, is thrilled to present the world premiere of their first original theatre production, Above the Hospital
Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
The Lonely - Celebrating The Music of Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison with hits of The Traveling Wilburys and Everly Brother
White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen
In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and 90’s pop culture, acclaimed young playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek within us all
Vancouver | Frederic Wood Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
New Music Festival - New Music for Old Instruments: After Bach
New meets old as the Pacific Baroque Orchestra performs Bach's timeless classic Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and the world première of Maestro Bramwell Tovey's newest work, based on that famous concerto
Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral Vancouver | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
Humans - The Feels Tour
Humans bring The Feels Tour to the Imperial Vancouver on Friday, January 19th in celebration of their newest EP The Feels out on Jan 26th
Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Radio Rewrite: The Music of Jonny Greenwood, Steve Reich, Olivier Messiaen & Christopher Butterfield
Turning Point Ensemble invites you to join us for an evening concert as part of the 2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
Vancouver | Norman Rothstein Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Theatre series. Misery
Stephen King’s chilling thriller By William Goldman. Based on the novel by Stephen King
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Theatre
The Dance Centre presents Nicola Gunn
The Dance Centre presents the Global Dance Connections series: Nicola Gunn - Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster
Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Performing Arts
Converge with Sumac & Cult Leader
American metal band, on tour to support their latest release "The Dusk In Us"
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: The Events - Pi Theatre
From Pi Theatre comes this incendiary exploration of a tragic contemporary phenomenon. Written by David Greig, The Events features Claire, a priest and choir leader who has survived a mass shooting
Vancouver | Russian Hall | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts
Stage43 Presents: The Fantasticks
A funny, romantic musical about a boy, a girl and their parents who try to keep them apart - the longest running musical in the world!
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
Topdog/Underdog
A modern fable of battling brothers. African-American brothers Lincoln and Booth - birth names given as a joke that sets up an intense rivalry - share a seedy, one-room apartment and are looking for easy money in cards...
Vancouver | Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
Revelry and Resistance: A Drag Extravaganza
The Pride Collective at UBC presents: Revelry and Resistance: A Drag Extravaganza!!! UBC Pit Pub
Vancouver | The Pit Pub UBC | 8:00 pm to 2:00 am | Dance
Steven Wright
Academy Award-winning comedian, Steven Wright, performs at Hard Rock Casino Vancouver
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy
Hot Brown Honey. Briefs Factory
Hot Brown Honey turns up the heat, delivering lashings of sass and a hot pinch of empowerment in the smash-hit that took the Edinburgh Fringe by storm
Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:20 pm | Performing Arts
Black Boys
A raw, intimate, and timely exploration of queer male Blackness. Three individuals seek a deeper understanding of themselves, of each other, and of how they encounter the world, subverting the ways in which gender, sexuality, and race are performed
Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:20 pm | Performing Arts
Murder by the Book by Duncan Greenwood & Robert King
Crisp, witty, exchanges of dialogue fill this inventive British thriller...
Vancouver | Metro Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
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
The Pipeline Project
A provocative and personal account of the ongoing cultural battles over pipelines in BC. Three actor writers – two Indigenous and one white – come together to create a play about the political conflicts surrounding Canada’s oil industry
Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts
Pale Red / BB / Bored Decor
$5 - PWYC - no one turned away for lack of funds
Vancouver | Stylus Records | Music
It's Just Drag!: Starring Shea Coulee & Chi Chi Devayne
TFD and Live Nation Present: It's Just Drag!
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show
2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: Dickie Beau: Unplugged
Versatile, vivacious and flamboyant, Dickie Beau is a drag artist extraordinaire, whose lip-synch playback performances have helped update the drag show tradition
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 9:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Performing Arts | Free
Krane: Fallout Tour with MYRNE
With a dynamic mix of hard beats and melodic trap, Oakland producer Krane returns to Vancouver for the Fall Out Tour at Venue for EMBRVCE Fridays with MYRNE
Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Dyro at Celebrities Nightclub
Dutch electro standout Dyro makes his way back to Vancouver at #StreotypeFridays!
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music