Metro Vancouver events on February 2, 2018 - Chinese New Year Festival & Celebrations

Creative Mornings: Michael Unger

Michael Unger has been an astronomy educator for over 11 years. He is the co-founder of Nerd Nite Vancouver, an informal monthly bar lecture series now going into its 4th year

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 8:30 am to 10:00 am | Lecture | 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 11:00 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

Introduction to Mindful Parenting

Family & Child Counselling Program @ Richmond Public Health 烈治文衛生署 - 家庭及兒童心理輔導部

Richmond | Richmond Public Health | 9:30 am to 12:00 am | Workshop | Free

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

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. Critical Ideas: Contemporary Indigenous Women’s Performance

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 | 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

Hoobiyee 2018 - Ts'amiks Edition

Save the date! Planning is underway! Be good to see it all come together successfully again to celebrate the Nisga'a New Year

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Dance | Free

Free Cap Classics Concert. Tung & Bedzvin Duo

Unique combination of erhu/Chinese violin & cello, Chinese & Ukrainian vocal styles, acoustic & electronic processing, folk songs & original compositions

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 11:45 am to 12:45 am | Music | Free

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

Faculty Cup 2018

Brought to you by the AMS and UBC Recreation, Faculty Cup is a tournament pitting 14 faculties/ schools against each other. It’s a fun, fast, one-day campus-wide tournament that you really don't want to miss out on.

Vancouver | University of British Columbia | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Performing Arts

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

Vancouver Body Soul & Spirit Expo

If you are seeking options to improve your life, physically, emotionally, and spiritually, expand your consciousness, or improve your health, there are a lot of choices to consider

Vancouver | Croatian Cultural Centre | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Winter Acro Festival 2018

Come play in Vancouver’s booming AcroYoga scene at Winter Acro Festival!

Vancouver | St Mary's Ukrainian Cultural Centre | 3:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Active Life / Health

China’s policy towards East Asia after the 19th Party Congress

At the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party, Xi Jinping made it clear that he would lead China into a new era and, by implication, put an end to the Dengist period of ‘opening up and reform’ as well as ‘hiding capabilities and bidding for time’

Vancouver | UBC Centre for Chinese Research | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Lecture | Free

2018 Vancouver Taboo Show

Come see me at the Hanky Panky Taboo Booth from Feb 2nd to the 4th and book your Hanky Panky Party and recieve a Tabbo Trade Show special toy!

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 5:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show

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

plastic orchid factory presents: where this lives now

where this lives now is a continuation of a live archival conversation-work between Angie Cheng, James Gnam and Tedd Robinson that explores the nature of legacy in dance

Vancouver | Left of Main | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Performing Arts

Calabria Italy Dinner Class

Join us for a 4 course culinary tour through Calabria, Italy as Chef Kristoff guides your tastes buds through the refreshing authentic cuisine

Maple Ridge | Golden Ears Cheesecrafters | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Cooking

2018 Competition Showcase

The Arts Connection School of Dance competition team is gearing up for a busy competition season

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 6:45 pm to 8:15 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Academy of Music Choral & Brass Programs: Music of the Sister Queens

Queen Mary II of England and her sister Anne had a tumultuous relationship. Though eventually estranged, their legacies are connected by the lasting masterpieces written for their courts by the most renowned composers of the day

Vancouver | Vancouver Academy of Music | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music | Free

Love Birds Painting Paint & Sip Night – Snacks Included

We’re scheduling one of our all time favorite and most popular paintins – Love Birds. Our teachers will always work with you to create a unique-to-you painting so even if you’ve painted this before it will be different each time based on colour choices an

New Westminster | 100 Braid St Studios | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Visual Arts

Sleeping Beauty Dreams

A contemporary look at this classic tale, Mexico City's Marionetas de la Esquina's humorous storytelling and whimsical puppetry awaken this sleeping princess as never before

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:00 pm to 8:35 pm | Theatre

pARTy at Place des Arts: Night of the Arts

Inspire your heart with art - join us for our third annual Night of the Arts... for adults only! Take part in two innovative visual and/or performing art workshops of your choice led by professional teachers

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts

Return of Neüterhead Rock Charity Show!

Neüterhead Returns with its 4th every animal charity event!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

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

Janusz Olejniczak Plays Chopin

Award-winning Polish pianist, Janusz Olejniczak, will play two recitals with different programmes. In each concert, he will play the first half on a 19th-century fortepiano and the second half on a modern Steinway

Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

ALT Fest. SNAFU Theatre: Little Orange Man

Prepare yourself for Kitt the Kinder-Whisperer! She’s a high-octane Danish girl whose greatest delight comes from re-enacting her grandfather’s grisly folk tales to young neighborhood children

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

Booker T. Jones

Legendary R&B, funk, Memphis soul artist; Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Musicians Hall of Fame inductee, and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient

West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

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

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 Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer

2013 Sirius XM Blues Act of the year and growing Vancouver blues phenom 'The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer’ create a huge sound of primal toe-tapping blues with a harmonica, a guitar and some fine foot percussion. With opening act Terminal Station

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

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

2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: Dickie Beau: Cris Derksen Trio

The music of cellist and composer Cris Derksen bears the mark of a true original

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Align Entertainment: Legally Blonde - The Musical

We can’t wait to have you join us!

Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Musical

歡樂春節 新年戲曲晚會 Peking Opera

Peking Opera will be at the Molson Canadian Theatre at the Hard Rock Casino Vancouver on February 2, 2018. If you're interested in Peking opera which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics, purchase your tickets now

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Opera

Uh Oh! A YTV Burlesque Show Ft. Scott Yaphe (aka Wink Yahoo)

Get slimed with nostalgia and watch an adults-only burlesquified LIVE episode of Uh Oh! hosted by YTV‘s Scott Yaphe… aka the Original Wink Yahoo!!!

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Show

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

Portugal. The Man With guests Hollerado

American indie rock/psychedelic rock band founded in Wasilla, Alaska in 2004 and based in Portland, Oregon

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

UBC Trumpet Studio Fundraising Recital

Come hear the members of the UBC trumpet studio play and support our upcoming trip to the International Trumpet Guild Conference

Vancouver | Roy Barnett Recital Hall | Music

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

Brent Butt

Born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Brent Butt discovered early that being funny was a good way to get attention. Brent honed his comedy in school and began pursuing a career in stand-up at the age of 20

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

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

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

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

Drive-By Truckers With Guest Lilly Hiatt

Southern rock band, on tour to support their latest release “American Band”

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

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

Off Broadway. VCC Faculty Series #2 John Korsrud

Vancouver Community College's (VCC) Music department proudly introduces Off Broadway, a VCC faculty concert series exploring the history, culture, and timeless sounds of jazz and classical music

Vancouver | Vancouver Community College | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: Spokaoke - Annie Dorsen (USA)

For this night of karaoke, Annie Dorsen has put together a selection of numbers like no other. There’s no Gloria Gaynor, no Queen or Taylor Swift. In their place are some other greats—artists who have gone down in history for their passion, their eloquenc

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 9:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Performing Arts

Soohan with Barisone and S2

After a very successful 2015 and 2016, Soohan is ready to take his music to the next level in 2017

Vancouver | Celebrities Underground | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music

Higher Brothers Journey To The West

Higher Brothers bring their Journey To The West North American Tour to Happy Ending Fridays February 2nd

Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music