Metro Vancouver events on January 25, 2018

Krav Maga Force

Krav Maga Force™ Is a modern self-defense system designed to address and defend against present day street assaults and confrontations

Richmond | Premier Martial Arts | 7:00 am to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health

AME BC Mineral Exploration Roundup Conference

We invite you to join us at one of the world’s premier technical mineral exploration conferences, AME’s Mineral Exploration Roundup 2018 will take place January 22-25, in beautiful Vancouver, BC

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

Compassionate Inquiry - Vancouver

Compassionate Inquiry is a psychotherapeutic method developed by Dr. Gabor Maté that reveals what lies beneath the appearance we present to the world

Vancouver | Unity of Vancouver | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Active Life / Health

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 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

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

Young People’s Concerts. Monster Theatre Company: Shakespeare’s Dream

Monster Theatre’s version of Shakespeare’s classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream!

Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 9:30 am to 12:00 am | Theatre

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

Come Soar Over China at FlyOver Canada

Flight of the Dragon is back at FlyOver Canada for a limited time! During this special feature, guests will first follow a mythical dragon as they soar over some of China’s most spectacular landscapes and scenery

Vancouver | FlyOver Canada | 10:00 am to 9:00 pm | Family

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

Serendipity Tea Party New Year 2018

Happy 2018! Time to reconnect and share our intentions for the new year ahead

Vancouver | U & I Thai | 10:30 am to 1:30 pm | Party

For the Birds

With a dash of humour, Sarah Hagen returns with a concert that brings the joy of classical music inspired by birds and birdsong to the Classical Coffee Concert series

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

2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: It’s Dark Outside - The Last Great Hunt (Australia)

This all-family show, from Australia’s The Last Great Hunt, takes the Western genre and turns it on its head, recasting the lone hero as a lonely old man with dementia

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 10:30 am to 11:15 am | Performing Arts

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

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

2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: It’s Dark Outside. The Last Great Hunt

This all-family show, from Australia’s The Last Great Hunt, takes the Western genre and turns it on its head, recasting the lone hero as a lonely old man with dementia

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 12:30 am to 1:15 pm | Performing Arts

St. Francis Xavier Canadian Relic Pilgrimage: VAN (All Saints)

This is a remarkable opportunity to venerate this famous first class relic, which rarely leaves the Church of the Gesu in Rome. Come pray with this great saint and be inspired by his miraculous ministry

Coquitlam | Catholic Christian Outreach | 12:30 am to 11:30 pm | Lecture

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 | 2:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Nathalie Casemajor: Seminar On Cultural Mediation

Cultural mediation is an increasingly common mode of intervention in the socio-cultural field. To make the critical experience of it is to put it to the test, in its theories and practices

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Lecture | Free

75th Annual Golden Globe Awards

Join us at the Rio Theatre for our annual Golden Globe Awards Party - Live and Free! As always, we will roll out the red carpet and encourage everyone to dress up like the #EastVan star that they are. Get ready for trivia, prizes, good times and more

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show | Free

2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: Blind Cinema - Britt Hatzius (England/Germany)

From theatre artist Britt Hatzius, here’s a chance to see the world through someone else’s eyes. Audience members are seated in a theatre, with a row of children behind them, and together they experience a movie

Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 5:00 pm to 5:40 pm | Film

Lind18: Francis Fukuyama on The Unravelling of the Liberal Order

The focus for the Lind Initiative in U.S. Studies series in Winter Term 2, 2018 at UBC Vancouver is "The Unravelling of the Liberal Order." The series will run from January to March, 2018.

Vancouver | UBC Old Auditorium | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Lecture | Free

Cosmic Nights: Beyond our Universe

Is there anything beyond the universe? What came before the Big Bang? These are questions that don’t have answers, but we have theories! This installment of Cosmic Nights we delve into theories of the Multiverse!

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

Crazy 8s DGC-BC 19th Anniversary Screening & Fundraiser

Featuring a selection of classic Crazy8s films along with more recent ones!

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Goblin art show

Forest Goblins first art show! There will be a collection of art, other rad artists, music, performances, drinks and also prints of my art. This show will be run by RAW artists

Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show

2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: Meeting - Antony Hamilton & Alisdair Macindoe (Australia)

In this riveting display, Antony Hamilton and Alisdair Macindoe share the stage with 64 robotic percussion instruments. The gadgets chime, tap, click and shuffle while the humans move and speak in response

Vancouver | Performance Works | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Performing Arts

Canucks vs. Sabres at Rogers Arena

Vancouver Canucks vs. Buffalo Sabres

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

Salish Singing & Drumming Spring 2018 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

Lil Xan: Total Xanarchy Tour

Get betrayed with LIL XAN as he brings his Total Xanarchy Tour to VENUE with Steven Cannon $C for an all ages show

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

The Pipeline Project

The Pipeline Project is a provocative and personal account of the ongoing cultural battles over pipelines in BC

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

L'Elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love)

Donizetti’s stirring love story and hilarious comedy. Featuring Ying Fang, one of the most gifted sopranos of her generation, making her role debut as Adina

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

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

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 | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

VSO Chamber Players - Mozart, Plus

The extraordinary musicians of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra step off the Orpheum stage and into the intimate, state-of-the-art Pyatt Hall in the VSO School of Music to perform some of the greatest chamber music ever written

Vancouver | Vancouver Symphony School of Music | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Reel Causes: Luk’Luk’I

Reel Causes is thrilled to present an encore screening of the VIFF and TIFF festival favourite Luk’Luk’I, directed by Wayne Wapeemukwa

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm | Film

Live with Desiree Dawson

Come see Desiree at an intimate live performance

Vancouver | Buckets Ice Cream | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Theatre series: Misery

The suspenseful thriller based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King

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

Hot Brown Honey

Hot Brown Honey turns tradition on its head, packing a potent punch of Hip Hop politics, dance, poetry, comedy, circus, striptease and song

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Flesh Eaters with guests Petunia & The Vipers

The Rickshaw presents the FleshEaters (featuring John Doe and DJ Bonebrake of X, Dave Alvin and Bill Bateman of The Blasters, Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, and The Legendary Punk Poet Chris D.) with guests Petunia & The Vipers

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

Ruined by Lynn Nottage

Mama Nadi’s bar both protects and profits off the bodies of the women who have become casualties of a long and brutal civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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

尹光開心大時代同你籌款演唱會 Wan Kwong Happy Together Charity Concert

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

I’m Not Here. Theatre Club

Doireann is here and she wants to check if a few things are working. She’s going to be doing a couple of songs, a couple of poems, and maybe a few stories. She’s going to be doing a duet with her brother. He’s not here. She’s here. You’re here

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 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

Shmulik's Kumzits

Join Rabbi Shmulik every last Thursday of the month for a fun social event

Vancouver | Community Kollel | 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Party

Trash Emo Night

Trash Emo Night is back in the Special Projects Space with DJs JP Valdes, Coconut Bun & Friends playing all your favourite emo anthems!

Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music | Free

Tekhnotron / Psychic Pollution / Maskara / V. Vecker

The Cobalt is a dark nostalgic, funky underground venue think brick, dark wood beams, chandeliers, candles-- hosting a wide verity of events from live music and pinball tournaments to art showings and dance parties with drag kings and queens

Vancouver | The Cobalt | 9:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

Sick at Heart Vol 2: A Group Art Show

Join us for Sick at Heart Vol 2, a group art show series taking place at Fortune Sound Club's Special Projects Space

Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 9:00 pm to 1:00 am | Show | Free