Metro Vancouver events on February 1, 2018 - Chinese New Year Festival & Celebrations

Downtown Public Space & Public Life Study (Winter Edition)

Volunteer for the Places for People Downtown. Public Space & Public Life Study

Vancouver | UBC Robson Square | 8:00 am to 8:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

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

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

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

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

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

Lunar New Year Tea Set

In honour of the year of the dog, celebrate the new year with a special Lunar New Year Tea Set served on a traditional afternoon tea three tier cake stand with delightful sweets and canapés infused with TWG Teas for health & prosperity to be enjoyed with

Vancouver | TWG Tea Salon & Boutique | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Lunarfest at Oakridge Centre

Sky lanterns are used all over the world to carry hopes and wishes, especially for celebrations. Launch your own Blessing in the Sky lantern this year at Oakridge Centre in the West Galleria!

Vancouver | Oakridge Centre | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Festival | Free

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

2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Ideas Series. Artist Talk: Annie Dorsen

Annie Dorsen (Spokaoke) works in a variety of forms: theatre, film, dance. Her art ranges from participatory pop-political to algorithmic performance

Vancouver | The Post at 750 | 10:30 am to 12:00 am | Lecture | Free

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

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

$1,000,000 Year of the Dog Giveaway

Play at Parq Vancouver and earn ballots by playing slots and table games into the $1,000,000 Year of the Dog Giveaway.

Vancouver | Parq Vancouver | 12:00 am to 10:00 pm | Festival

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

CAG Thursday Lunch Time Tours

Join CAG Visitor Coordinator Julia Lamare for a free lunch time tour of the current exhibitions

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:30 am to 1:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Ideas Series. Artist Talk: Antonio Sánchez

Famed percussionist Antonio Sánchez (BiRDMAN: LiVE) discusses his experience drumming and composing for film scores, the current state of jazz drumming, and more

Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Lecture | Free

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. Pushoff Mixer

PushOFF, produced by Theatre Replacement in partnership with Company 605, is an independent, curated platform of tour-ready projects and works in development by Canadian artists, taking place February 1 and 2.

Vancouver | Russian Hall | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Lecture

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

A Deeper Dive Into Family Friendly Affordable Housing

Join us for the 2nd Built City Speaker Series Event, 2017-18: Explore with professionals how affordable housing is being built in Metro Vancouver

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

7 Stories You Need to be Using Now

Story Academy Vancouver MAKE A BIGGER IMPACT! If your messages aren't reaching the right people - floating out there in the vast ocean alone - it means you're missing out on the power of stories

Vancouver | XYYVR | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Chocolate Lover’s Ultimate Class – Desserts for Valentine’s

Chocolate is the ultimate romantic ingredient! This class is a must if you’re looking to cook the most decadent, and easy, chocolate desserts!

Vancouver | Kensington Community Center | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Cooking

The Vancouver Pancakes & Booze Art Show

Vancouver's Premier Underground Art Show

Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

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

Maureen Gruben. Qulliq: In Darkness, Light

The Libby Leshgold Gallery is pleased to present Qulliq: In Darkness, Light, a solo exhibition of new work by Maureen Gruben

Vancouver | Libby Leshgold Gallery | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Radical Readings

Matthew Gindin are starting a five-part course at the Peretz Centre in February called "Radical Readings". The course will look at traditional Jewish texts from the areas of Tanakh, Talmud, Halacha, and Hasidic Thought

Vancouver | Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Books

Chocolatl: The Ancient Drink of Gods

Come experience chocolate like never before! Experience a guided tour of our exhibition Bottoms Up: The Cultures of Drink in the Royal City, then join us as we take you on a journey of authentic chocolate drinks, customs and history

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Workshop

Canucks vs. Blackhawks at Rogers Arena

Vancouver Canucks vs. Chicago Blackhawks

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

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

UBC Opera - La Cenerentola

The impoverished Don Magnifico dreams of rich suitors for his daughters while Prince Ramiro is searching for a bride. Mistaken identities and disguises cause confusion but in the end, Cinderella repays wickedness with kindness

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Opera

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

Jitters By David French

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

ALT Fest. Sarah Hagen: Perk UP, Pianist!

A one-woman sit-down musical comedy show. Pairing anecdotes with music, Perk UP, Pianist! takes you deep inside the world of a classical musician as she shares her earnest efforts to keep her spirits up in the midst of troublesome times!

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Show

Sylvia By A.R. Gurney

When Greg stumbles on a homeless mutt in the park, it’s love at first sight, but when he brings her home, it shakes up his life, his job and his marriage

North Vancouver | North Vancouver Community Players | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Studio 58 presents: The Skin of Our Teeth

Thornton Wilder won three Pulitzers - the only author to win for a novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and two plays, Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, which was written just before America entered WWII. The play is about fortitude and the fate of humani

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

The Dance Centre presents Daina Ashbee

The Dance Centre presents the Global Dance Connections series: Daina Ashbee - Pour

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance

Quiet City #39: Castle Excellent/John Krausbauer/Kaori Suzuki

Quiet City is a series of concerts in Vancouver, focused on live performances of experimental, electronic and improvised music in a comfortable and intimate setting. Established in January 2010, we are now in our ninth year of programming

Vancouver | The Toast Collective | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Screening Movie

Organizer: Vancouver Iranian Film

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 11:15 pm | Film

Drinking Habits By Tom Smith

Wine and secrets are spilled in this laugh-out-loud production!

New Westminster | The Bernie Legge Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

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

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

Birdman Live

Mexican percussionist, composer and five-time Grammy®-winner Antonio Sánchez performs his unique and vibrant percussion-only score live-to-picture with a screening of Birdman, which won the Oscar® for Best Picture in 2015

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

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

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

One Human Race Afrika Collective 2018 Album Preview Party

Come and experience a BHM/African Heritage Month opening event like never before!

Vancouver | Calabash Bistro | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Dance

Bomb Shelter Comedy Open Mic Thursday in the Comedy Basement at Goldies

The Bomb Shelter Comedy Open Mic goes down every Thursday in the Comedy Basement at Goldies, from 10pm until we run out of comics!

Vancouver | The Comedy Basement at Goldies Pizza | 9:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Performing Arts | Free

2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: Daughter - QuipTake & Pandemic Theatre

What are you willing to forgive? You’ll find yourself asking that question as you watch comedian Adam Lazarus’s harrowing yet hilarious show

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 11:40 pm | Performing Arts