Metro Vancouver events on January 31, 2018
January 31, 2018
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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
The A.S.S Class with Michelle Kuhnreich
The Absolutely Sleek & Solid (A.S.S.). Class is a journey through the elongation and toning of your lower body muscles
West Vancouver | RYU Apparel Inc | 9:30 am to 10:30 am | Active Life / Health
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
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
Gentle Yoga
Start your day with this gentle yoga practice; relieve tension held in hips, spine and shoulders to deeply relax your body
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:15 am to 11:30 am | Active Life / Health
2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Industry Series. Morning Briefing
The essential session to get up to speed with the PuSh Assembly Industry Series. Meet our international delegations and visiting artists gathered for the final week of the Festival
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 10:30 am to 12:00 am | Lecture
Yaohan Centre Chinese New Year Flower Market
A visit to the Yaohan Centre Flower Markets during this time of the year is a great way to get into the spirit of Chinese New Year
Richmond | Yaohan Centre Flower Markets | 11:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family
Better Balance Workout for Seniors
This is a gentle class for all levels, focused on balance and mobility for fitness and for preventing falls
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 12:00 am to 12:45 am | Active Life / Health
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
SHIT by Patricia Cornelius
What about the women with the foul mouths and the weathered faces? What about the women who spit, fight, swear, hurt, and steal? What do they have to say?
Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm | Theatre
2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Industry Series. Keynote: Marcus Youssef
Bombast! Apocalypse! Clickbait! Live Performance in the Endless End Days
Vancouver | CBC Studio 700 | 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm | Performing Arts
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 | 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Theatre
Jitters
Backstage nerves hit a Hilarious high note. Four actors, a director, a playwright, and one grand dream of Broadway-bound success.
Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Theatre
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
2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Industry Series. Pitch Session
Eight selected applicants give a 10-minute pitch of their new and upcoming projects to an audience of producers, artistic directors, festival curators, presenters and programmers
Vancouver | CBC Studio 700 | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Lecture
Afro-Futurism Trading Card Workshop Series for Black Youth
Join multi-disciplinary artist Ruby Smith Díaz in advance of Black Futures month for the creation of Afro-Futurism Trading Cards!
Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Workshop | Free
Games Night
Join your fellow campus gamers on Wednesday January 31 for a night of board games and fun! Select "going" on this event to be entered to win a board game of your choice (up to the value of $50)
Vancouver | UBC Bookstore | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Party | 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
Women's Maker Meet Up
We have noticed in MakerLabs HQ that we have a lack of female members here making and we would love to change that because women are amazing!
Vancouver | MakerLabs | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Workshop | Free
Essentials of Landscape Design
Spring is just around corner, so it’s time to start thinking about garden design
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Workshop
2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Foxconn Frequency (no. 3): For three visible Chinese performers
Wildly eccentric and marked by an infectious sense of play, this is a deconstructive take on piano pedagogy, manufacturing ethics, and the relationship between labour and sound
Vancouver | Performance Works | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Performing Arts
New Year, New Goals - Goal Setting Workshop Thurlow
Have you started your goals for 2018? Do you need to be held accountable for the goals you set? Do you want to accomplish your 2018 goals? if you answered yes to all of those questions then join us in store for a goal setting, keeping, and accountability
Vancouver | 805 Thurlow Street | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Winter 2018 Bellydance classes with Tamara
Start the year off with a technique intensive 6 week session with Tamara. We will be working with taking the basics to the next level, expanding your technical repertoire and focusing on smooth transitions through the evolution of movements
Burnaby | Dancin Stars | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Dance
Gallery Sessions - George T Montebruno
Coming from a family of music lovers and musicians, and being the youngest of 7 siblings, George grew up in Montreal surrounded by music at all times. From Classical to The Beatles
New Westminster | Centennial Lodge The Gallery at Queen's Park | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music
Downtown Public Space & Public Life Study (Winter Edition)
Volunteer for the Places for People Downtown. Public Space & Public Life Study
Vancouver | UBC Robson Square | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: King Arthur's Night
Neworld Theatre brings us theatre at its most transformative. This production is a work of radical upheaval, in which the King Arthur legend is made fresh for our eyes. Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere—they’re all present in this tale of love, honour and war
Vancouver | Frederic Wood Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:50 pm | Theatre
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
Specials - Classical Mystery Tour: The Music of the Beatles
The four musicians in Classical Mystery Tour look and sound just like The Beatles, but Classical Mystery Tour is more than just a rock concert
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
The Critical Hit Show: A #DNDLive Comedy Experience
The live, smash hit epic comedy returns for another round of monthly medieval merriment (and snacks!) - it’s the critical hit show!
Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy
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
Dublin Oldschool. Project Arts Centre (Ireland)
Join Jason, a wannabe DJ on a chemically enhanced trip through the streets of Dublin. Somewhere between the DJs, decks, and drug busts, he stumbles across his brother Daniel, an educated, homeless addict, living on the streets
Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
SHIT
What about the women with the foul mouths and the weathered faces? What about the women who spit, fight, swear, hurt, and steal? What do they have to say?
Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Full Moon Gathering by Adri Creative
Come gather and set intentions with the Full Moon. We'll be exploring how to work with the magic of the Full Moon to let go of what no longer serves us through journaling and simple meditation
North Vancouver | Distrikt Movement | 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Active Life / Health
Ice Skating Night/Soirée Patinoire
Bonsoir à tous ! UBC FRSA présente : Soirée patinoire ! Hello everyone ! UBC FRSA presents : Ice Skating Night !
Vancouver | Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre | 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Sports | Free
RUTS debuts The Devil Room
Reuptrippyshit Debuts The Devil Room At Celebrities Nightclub
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 11:00 pm to 11:50 pm | Dance