Metro Vancouver events on January 20, 2018
January 20, 2018
Sat
TEDxLangleyED 2018: The Future of Learning
We are pleased to announce our fourth annual TEDxLangleyED conference! This conference brings together a collection of inspiring and innovative speakers sharing their ideas on the future of education
Langley | Chief Sepass Theatre | 8:30 am to 3:00 pm | Lecture
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
A New Year Winter Market
Beat those after the holiday blah's with our cute little Market! Meet vendors that will provide you with a cute pick me up, or help you with your New Year's Resolution!
Surrey | Sullivan Hall Surrey | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
Exhibitions at Place des Arts
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 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Museum Book Club: January Meeting
This month’s book will be From Bombs to Books: The Remarkable Stories of Refugee Children and their Families at an Exceptional Canadian School by David Starr, in preparation for our Canada 150 exhibition, opening in February
New Westminster | New Westminster Museum & Archives | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Books | 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
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
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
Paint Anything - Drop in Painting
Visit our studio in downtown Langley for a relaxed painting experience
Langley | Zealous Art | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Vive les voyageurs French-Canadian Festival
Enliven a grey January weekend with the unique folklore and culture of the voyageurs and fur traders who lived at 19th-century Fort Langley
Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Festival
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
Rustic Sign DIY Workshop
Gunner & Cash will be hosting a Rustic Sign DIY Workshop at Please at Loving Locals Make + Mingle Market
Abbotsford | Highstreet | 10:30 am to 12:00 am | Workshop
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
Cineplex Family Favourites - Saturdays
Join us on Saturday mornings at 11am for Cineplex Family Favourites. Watch a family favourite film each week for only $2.99
Vancouver | Cineplex Theatres | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Family
2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: Lookout - Andy Field (England)
Here is a work by UK artist Andy Field that bridges generations and offers a look into our city’s future through the people who will inherit it. Participants arrive at a location with a wide city vista
Vancouver | Harbour Centre | 11:30 am to 4:30 pm | Performing Arts | 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
Coast Salish Stories & Beading Demo featuring Helen Carr
We are honored to have First Nation educator Kwantlen Elder Helen Carr at the Deer Lake Gallery. Allowing public the opportunity to experience and learn about the local Coast Salish culture and history through activities and presentation
Burnaby | Deer Lake Gallery | 12:00 am to 2:00 pm | Visual Arts | 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
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: Ideas Series -Youth Assembly
The Youth Assembly is a one-day performing arts conference by and for young people. Whether you’re curious or passionate about pursuing careers in the performing arts, you can explore various areas of interest through workshops, presentations and conversa
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 12:30 am to 5:30 pm | Lecture | Free
DTES Artist Resource Fair
Carnegie Centre and Vancouver Foundation are thrilled to host an informal, friendly, social event for artists to connect with community resource providers. You do not need to prepare or provide anything special to be a part of the event
Vancouver | Carnegie Community Centre | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Fair
UBC Thunderbirds Men's Hockey v Lethbridge Pronghorns
UBC Thunderbirds Men's Hockey v Lethbridge Pronghorns
Vancouver | Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Sports
Kay Meek Play Reading Series. Modern Gothic by Charles Whelton
Jamie has contracted with an agency to provide him with medical assistance in dying. When they send over an inept assistant, but no doctor, he is understandably upset
West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Performing Arts
Yoga for Anxiety Workshop
In this workshop you will learn very effective self-regulation techniques and mindfulness practices that are guaranteed to bring ease. These practices are extremely valuable in our often over scheduled, competitive, plugged in life
Vancouver | Studio 245 | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Active Life / Health
Topdog/Underdog By Suzan-Lori Parks
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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: The Events
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 | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Performing Arts
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 | 2:00 pm to 3:20 pm | Performing Arts
CAG Talk. T'ai Smith: Dissecting Textiles
Join us for an informal seminar on the gallery floor by T’ai Smith, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at UBC, where she will address a history of textiles as objects of material and metaphorical dissection
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Workshop | Free
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 | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Performing Arts
Theatre series. Misery
Stephen King’s chilling thriller By William Goldman. Based on the novel by Stephen King
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 4:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Theatre
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
Connecting Curlfriends Pizza & Pajama Party
Hey Curlfriends! Are you ready for the Pizza & Pajama Party? Join us for Party! We will enjoy photography, gift bags, food, snacks and great company in Surrey
Surrey | Connecting Curlfriends | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Party
Ghost Spring opening reception & performances
A two-person show by Dilara Akay and Derya Akay looking at funeral practices within their own family in Turkey, passing down information...
Vancouver | grunt gallery | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition
ECCW Ballroom Brawl IX
Quickly becoming one of the Commodore Ballroom’s hottest regular events, the Elite Canadian Championship Wrestling returns with Ballroom Brawl IX on Saturday, January 20
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show
Kay Meek Play Reading Series. Bluebell Time by Max Wyman
Bluebell Time is a one-act memory play featuring a mother and son in England during the 30’s, 40’s and further into the 20th Century. It is Max Wyman’s first public venture into playwriting
West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts
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
Fair Warning Tribute to Van Halen with OC/DC Tribute to AC/DC
Fair Warning are Western Canada's premier 80's hard rock nostalgia act
Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Choreography Showcase 21
Vancity Project is a choreography showcase created by Choreographer/Dancer Adam Mckinnon. Vancity Project gives choreographers and dancers a chance to put out there their choreography and perform in front of industry professionals
Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 7:15 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance
Singing Our Stories: Living Tradition
Join Rhythm 'n' Roots and Roots 'n' Wings and our special guests Robin Layne and Liam MacDonald for an evening of beautiful music
Vancouver | Unity of Vancouver | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
International Guitar Night 2018
Simply the best guitar showcase in the world. After the resounding success of last year’s show, the Massey is thrilled to again present the critically acclaimed International Guitar Night
New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 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
The Lonely - Celebrating The Music of Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison with hits of The Traveling Wilburys and Everly Brother
Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
New Music Festival - Cobalt Clouds and Clear Blue Seas
Music that responds to the beauty and power of the sea and the sky, including Anna Clyne's luxuriant Prince of Clouds, Jocelyn Morlock's radioactive Cobalt, and John Estacio's heroic, Triton-inspired Trumpet Concerto
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 10:00 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
Cartoon Cabaret
Your favourite cartoon characters come to life like you’ve never seen before!
Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Show
Salsa & Latin Dance Night
Featuring Salsa, Bachata & Merengue lesson & Latin Music with Alberto Gonzalez and Teresa Szefler
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 0:30 am | Dance
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
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Shawn Kush is not your average Elvis Tribute Artist. He portrays Elvis so well that he was once accused of using an actual photo of the King himself on his posters
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
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
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Performing Arts
BØRNS
LA-based rock musician/singer-songwriter returns to Vancouver
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
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
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
The Rock Band Called Time
with Killer Deal and Strange Curse
Vancouver | SBC Restaurant | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music
2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: Torrey Pines - Clyde Petersen (USA)
Not for the square, the squeamish or the small-minded, this is a hilarious, whip-smart and altogether lovely show for everyone else...
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
CLUTCH with DJ Eddie Martinez - Whistler Pride Kickoff Party
TFD Presents is proud to bring you The Whistler Pride + Ski Festival 2018 KICK OFF PARTY!
Vancouver | XYYVR | 9:00 pm to 3:00 am | Party
Bowie Weekend Edition :Skylar Love Stilla Del Stamp Ilona Berlin
Bowie Kicks Off 2018 With The 1st Weekend Edition Saturday January 20th in Celebrities Underground with DJs Skylar Love Del Stamp Daniel Stilla & Hosted By Ilona Verley Berlin M Stiller
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 2:00 am | Dance
Volvox - Minimal Violence - Nancy Dru
Modern Music for Modern Times. This night will technologically advance you. With a deep knowledge and wisdom from the past. A brilliant and creative future emerges.
Vancouver | Open Studios | 10:00 pm to 4:00 am | Music
Cedric Gervais at Celebrities
Grammy Award-winner and our good friend Cedric Gervais makes his return at #CelebsPlayhouse!
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
SUAVE’ Cunny British Birthday Celebration
Konektion Ent & Cunny British Presents Suave’ Cunny British Birthday Celebration
Surrey | Peacock Bar & Grill | 10:00 pm to 1:00 am | Party
Wasted Penguinz & Friends by Solid
As we hit the blue month of the year, we thought we give back something very special to our #SolidFamily. Saturday, January 20th we've got the mighty duo Wasted Penguinz hit the stage at the Harbour Event Centre
Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music