Metro Vancouver events on February 9, 2018 - Chinese New Year Festival & Celebrations
February 9, 2018
Fri
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
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
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
Fraser Valley Home & Garden Expo
The Fraser Valley Home & Garden Show is back at Tradex from February 9-11, 2018! Over 300 exhibits to see, with the area's home and garden experts on hand all weekend to help with your projects!
Abbotsford | Trade & Exhibition Centre | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition
Exhibition: Displaced
Displaced considers the transforming relationships to space and identity at the hand of forced loss of land, culture and community
Vancouver | Gallery 1515 | 10:00 am to 5:00 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
Movement Medicine workshop with Ya'Acov Darling Khan
Return of the Light A Movement Medicine Dance Workshop with Ya'Acov Darling Khan
Vancouver | Russian Hall | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Workshop
2018 Chinese New Year Flower & Gift Fair
Celebrating Chinese New Year in a fun, cultural extravaganza of activities is a famous Aberdeen Centre tradition since 1989.
Richmond | Aberdeen Centre | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Festival | 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
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
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
VAM Composition Department: Standing Wave Composition Workshop
One of Vancouver’s most cutting edge chamber ensembles and advocates of Canadian music, Standing Wave workshops music by VAM composition students in the first of three collaborative events
Vancouver | Vancouver Academy of Music | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Music | Free
The Main Affair
Join The Collective, our Chef Karen McAthy-Blue Heron, and several incredible local plant-based, vegan producers in an evening of canapes and cocktails!
Vancouver | Heritage Hall Vancouver | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Food / Wine
Jackson Hollow Live at the Shed
We have the privilage of having BC's award winning bluesgrass band, Jackson Hollow
Langley | The Water Shed Arts Cafe | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
2018 BC Provincial Championships Boxing Tournament
The 2018 BC Provincial Championships will be held on February 9th and 10th and possibly 11th, 2018 in Abbotsford, BC at the Quality Inn
Abbotsford | Quality Hotel & Conference Centre | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports
Whammys 2017 Awards Presentation
The presentation of whammys awards for our 2017 lineup! This is a free event. So come down and show support for local music!
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music | Free
Winter Olympics Viewing
Second Floor Eatery + Bar will have extensive Winter Olympics coverage with multiple station feeds everyday. Food and Drink Specials Daily
Vancouver | Second Floor Eatery + Bar | 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Food / Wine
St. Patrick's Day Costume Party
Come Celebrate St.Patty's Day 2018 at Vancouver's Robson Street Pub!
Vancouver | Second Floor Eatery + Bar | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine
Shari Ulrich
We are overjoyed to have Canadian icon, master songwriter and the most delightful person, Shari Ulrich coming to Bez. Shari brings her songs and stories and her seasoned perspective on life. you won't want to miss an evening with her
Langley | Bez Arts Hub | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Sleeping Beauty Dreams
Sleeping Beauty Dreams begins with a childless queen who wishes to have a baby more than anything else in the world. After all, her maid is lucky enough to have a beautiful baby boy, why can’t she have a baby too?
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Performing Arts
Ballet Jörgen: Anastasia
Canada’s Ballet Jörgen brings back the magical tale of the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia for the 100th anniversary of the story and the 10th anniversary of the production
West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
Fun Home
The coming-of-age musical. Based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:00 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
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
VSO Pops - A Romantic Pops Valentine
Love and Romance are front and centre in the beautiful Orpheum theatre, as conductor William Rowson and the VSO perform music that will get you in the mood for Valentine’s
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
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
Kimbra - Primal Heart Tour 2018 with guest Arc Iris
Pop singer-songwriter from New Zealand, on tour to support her upcoming 2018 release “Primal Heart”
Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
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
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
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
Neil Gray Quartet Plays
The Neil Gray Quartet makes it's first appearance of 2018!
Vancouver | Benchmark Bar & Grill | 8:00 pm to 11:00 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
Wagner Festival: UBC Symphony Orchestra, UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Works include: Die Walküre: Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music, John Hines, bass; Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Funeral Music
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Ndidi Onukwulu
Ndidi Onukwulu is a Canadian singer-songwriter born in British Columbia. There are voices that demand we listen to them. Not only to their words, but to their tone, to the emotional undercurrent that carries with it the soul of the speaker. Ndidi Onukwulu
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
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
East Van Mardi Gras At The Wise
Time For The Annual - East Van Mardi Gras: Jazz, Horns, Funk, Costumes, Stilts, Parades, Krewes, Theatre, Food And Drink ....
Vancouver | The Wise Hall & Lounge | 8:30 pm to 1:30 am | Music
Simple City, Elisa Thorn's Hue & Laura Swankey
Simple City (Kevin Romain, Jeff Gammon, & Arthur Smith) will be celebrating their return from a magical few weeks at the Banff Centre with a bunch of fresh hits to share!
Vancouver | The Toast Collective | 8:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Destroyer with guest Mega Bog
Destroyer is a Canadian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia fronted by singer-songwriter Dan Bejar and formed in 1995
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Trippy Turtle at Happy Ending Fridays
Norwegian bass-heavy producer, Trippy Turtle, brings his final tour to Happy Ending Fridays February 9th with Drippy Dolphin & Baile Bear
Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 10:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music
Digitalistic: A Daft Punk Dance Party
Join us at a dance party dedicated to Daft Punk and the dynamic electronic dance scene of the early-to-mid 2000s with DJs Trevor Risk + Phil David
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 10:03 pm to 2:00 am | Party
HYPE! An Improvised Hip Hopera
Broadway meets Hip-Hop in this high-energy celebration of epic musicals and ingenious improvised rhymes. Hype! will leave you pumped up, delivering hilarious hooks, breathtaking verbal dexterity and slick storytelling every single night
Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 10:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Comedy