Metro Vancouver events on February 8, 2018 - Chinese New Year Festival & Celebrations

38th Catholic Educators’ Conference

Our two-day conference will once again be held at the Vancouver Convention Centre in downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 7:45 am to 4:00 pm | Lecture

Multiply 2018 in Vancouver BC

Church leaders intuitively know that "business as usual" will not result in the awakening we long for. MULTIPLY will stoke the fires of church renewal and multiplication that many are dreaming of

Vancouver | Westside Church | 8:00 am to 4:00 pm | Lecture

Cargo Logistics Canada Expo & Conference 2018

Cargo Logistics Canada connects freight owners with freight movers - fostering multimodal synergy between diverse stakeholders in import, export and domestic supply chains.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

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

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 | 9:30 am to 9:30 pm | Festival | 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

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

Sleeping Beauty Dreams Student Matinee

Award-winning playwright, Amaranta Leyva, reimagines the famous princess as an overprotected daughter looking for a way to break free of her castle walls in order to search for true love and her true self

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm | Theatre

Tea & Trumpets - Musical Legends and Fairy Tales

Explore popular legends and fairy tales through music, with music from Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel, Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman, Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, and Rossini’s La Cenerentola

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music

7 Days of Mahakala Prayer for Lunar New Year

Every year Thrangu Monastery holds a 1-week of Mahakala Prayer ceremony before the Lunar New Year. The prayer symbolizes be prosperity, good health, and success of the coming year

Richmond | Thrangu Monastery Canada | 2:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Festival | Free

City of Vancouver’s Awards of Excellence Ceremony

Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vancouver City Council are pleased to invite you to attend the City of Vancouver’s Awards of Excellence Ceremony. Join us as we recognize the achievements of outstanding Vancouverites

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Party | Free

EMMA Talks with Vivek Shraya and Anoushka Ratnarajah!

Please join us for the ninth EMMA Talks with writer and facilitator Vivek Shraya and artist and organizer Anoushka Ratnarajah!

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Festival | Free

GSWS Career Night

The Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies student union, the Simon Fraser Student Society, and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies department, present: GSWS Career Night!

Burnaby | Simon Fraser University | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Business / Finance | Free

Visual Art Forum: Imre Szeman

Please join us for an evening presentation and discussion on "Transitions: On Energy, Pipelines, Art and Justice" with guest Imre Szeman from the University of Waterloo

Vancouver | Visual Art Forums | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Visual Arts

Intro to DJing by Michael Kessler

Description:Lean how to DJ at 'Introduction to DJing' Facilitated by Michael and taught be a mysterious masked DJ!

Vancouver | Vancouver Hack Space | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Celebrate Craft Beer!

“Celebrate Craft … Beer!” is a charitable fundraiser celebrating the seasonal craft beer of 10 BC breweries, alongside a curated market of 14 local craft artists

Vancouver | Performance Works | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine

Barrelled Voices

Yactac is pleased to present "Barrelled Voices" by Adam Dodd

Vancouver | Red Gate Arts Society | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Artist Salon with Renee Van Halm, Russna Kaur, and Patrick Wong

The Richmond Art Gallery and Richmond Public Art Program host an evening event for artists to connect, network and learn from each other

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

Opening Reception: Displaced

Please join us for the opening reception of Displaced. Displaced considers the transforming relationships to space and identity at the hand of forced loss of land, culture and community

Vancouver | Gallery 1515 | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

Sam Sullivan's Public Salon 30. Inspiring Ideas

Short presentations by Vancouver's leaders and thinkers that will entertain, educate and provoke. Hosted by former Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

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

Misery By William Goldman

Stephen King’s chilling thriller By William Goldman. Based on the novel by Stephen King

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

Fun Home

The coming-of-age musical. Based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Musical

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

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

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

My Funny Valentine

Based on the tragic murder of gay 15-year-old Lawrence King, the critically acclaimed, Jessie-nominated My Funny Valentine examines the fracturing of opinion in the face of this horrendous act and explores the ripple effects of such hate on a community

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Search for Vancouver's Next Drag Superstar 2018

This competition aims to find some of the strongest Drag Performer from across Greater Vancouver. We invite them to compete in the blockbuster competition

Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Show

Motown The Musical - National Tour

MOTOWN THE MUSICAL is the true American dream story of Motown founder Berry Gordy’s journey from featherweight boxer to the heavyweight music mogul who launched the careers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson and many more

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical

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

Jabberwocky. Old Trout Puppet Workshop

Beware the Jabberwock! Such is the frantic warning inscribed to us in the strange and ancient poem known as Jabberwocky… but what monster does it actually mean?

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

No Foreigners at Vancity Culture Lab

Shopping malls become a portal into surreal worlds that carry the nuanced stories of loss and resilience from the Chinese diaspora

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 9:20 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

Science Of Cocktails 2018

On February 8, 2018, Science World will transform into Vancouver’s largest cocktail laboratory. At Science of Cocktails, the city’s most talented bartenders and chefs will showcase the chemistry, biology and physics behind preparing modern cocktails and

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Food / Wine

///Baby Shower/// a TheatreCorps. fun-draiser cabaret

The gestation period is now over, a theatre baby is ready to pop! Help us breathe and push this company out into the real world with a night of performances of all types, by Vancouver artists of all disciplines

Vancouver | Russian Hall | 8:00 pm to 0:00 am | Show

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Star-crossed lovers, graceful fairies, courtly royals and country bumpkins come together for a night of fantasy and romantic comedy in one of the Bard's most beloved works

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Inside Us Concert by Western Front

Composer Juliet Palmer hones into the rhythms of the body using specialized doppler techniques to make an audio map of body's blood flow

Vancouver | Western Front | 8:00 pm to 11:00 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

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

Gramatik - Re:Coil Tour

Lowtemp Records founder and electro-funk extraordinaire, Gramatik makes his return to Vancouver on Thursday, February 8th when he brings the ‘Re:Coil Tour’ to The Commodore Ballroom!

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show