Metro Vancouver events on March 7, 2018
March 7, 2018
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Shine Dance Festival
Come & see young dancers from across the lower mainland learning & performing together at Shine Dance Festival!
North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Festival
Exhibitions at Place des Arts
Balance: Fibre Art by Mardell Rampton [Mezzanine Gallery]
Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition
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
The Last Hoo-Ray at Vancouver Aquarium
Only until April 2, visitors can enjoy a hands-on experience with cownose and southern stingrays at the Discover Rays touch pool
Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Nature / Animals
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
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
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
Exhibit Beta Vulgaris
Exhibit by Kelty Miyoshi McKinnon with Keri Latimer
Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 11:00 am to 5:00 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
2018 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Life Drawing Sessions
Join us in the Roundhouse Exhibition Hall for noon hour life drawing sessions every weekday beginning Wednesday March 8 through Friday March 24.
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
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
Vancouver International Women Film Festival: Launch of Women in View's MediaPLUS+ Toolkit
Please join us for this launch of Women in View's MediaPLUS+ Toolkit: Rina Fraticelli Executive Director of Women in View
Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm | Festival | Free
Forget About Tomorrow By Jill Daum
A new play about moving forward.. When Jane’s husband Tom is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, they face a difficult journey ahead. Will love and humour be enough to brace their family for the future?
Vancouver | Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre | 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Theatre
Fun Home by Lisa Kron
The coming-of-age musical. Based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Musical
2018 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Kokoro Dance Classes - Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi
Kokoro Dance classes build strength, flexibility, and stamina, as well as developing technical and performance skills. The difference between the two types of classes reflects the different approaches to the same end taken by Barbara and Jay
Vancouver | KW Studios | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free
Vancouver International Women Film Festival: Discussion with filmmaker Mascha Schilinksi
Mascha Schilinski, director and screenwriter of the festival’s opening night film, Dark Blue Girl, will discuss her approach to screenwriting as well as her directing process with an emphasis on performance
Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm | Film | Free
Chef's Favourites - A Celebration of The Dirty Apron’s Most Beloved Dishes
If The Dirty Apron team had a culinary wish list the dishes from this class would most certainly make the cut. Join us and learn to prepare some of our most beloved dishes while we share our passion for food.
Vancouver | The Dirty Apron Cooking School | 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Cooking
Artistica Art Show. Hycroft Gallery Opening
Artistica is an artist group, established in 2017 in New Westminster, BC. As of now, it counts 15 active members and 8 of them will show their artworks in Hycroft Gallery this March
Vancouver | Hycroft Gallery | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Exhibition
Spring Competition Showcase 2018
Boswell's annual Spring Competitive Showcase is taking place Wednesday, March 7th at the Michael J. Fox Theatre! Come see our competitive division as they showcase the hard work and creative choreography that has gone into this year's routines!
Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts
Jim Green Memorial Lecture 2018: Tonya Surman
Social innovation is at a cross-roads. How will it embrace and build on the social justice movements of the past? Will we be able to move to action while holding the space for the real conversations that need to happen?
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture | Free
Strong Women Strong Music 2018
Tonight’s lineup: Jennifer Scott, LJ Mounteney, and Siobhan Walsh vocals, Lisa Miller piano, Wendy Solloway bass, and Mili Hong drums
Vancouver | Frankie's Jazz Club | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
The Flame: Stories from the Pale Blue Dot
The Space Centre and The Flame are joining forces again to bring you a night of hilarious and inspirational storytelling in the Planetarium Star Theatre!
Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
North Shore International Winter Film Series
The North Shore International Film Series is presented by the North Vancouver Community Arts Council in cooperation with the Toronto International Film Festival
North Vancouver | Cineplex Odeon Park & Tilford Cinemas | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Film
JFL NorthWest: Jo Koy at Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Jo Koy has come a long way from his modest beginnings at a Las Vegas coffee house. He sells out clubs across the nation, is a weekly guest on The Adam Carolla Show podcast and recently started his own podcast, The Koy Pond with Jo Koy
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy
Forget About Tomorrow
A new play about moving forward.. When Jane’s husband Tom is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, they face a difficult journey ahead. Will love and humour be enough to brace their family for the future?
Vancouver | Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre 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
Goldberg Variations – Angela Hewitt
One of the world’s leading pianists, Angela Hewitt regularly appears in recital and with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
Vancouver Just For Laughs Film Festival Presents: Selfie at the Annex
When his father (an important Spanish Minister) is arrested accused of political corruption, Bosco’s life as he knew it is completely shattered away
Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Film
Theatre series: Onegin
A new musical from two of the creators of Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata. Life is quiet on the Larin family’s Russian country estate–until the charismatic Evgeni Onegin ignites the romantic longings of its residents
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
The After After Party
Jules and Fiona, best friends and teenage dirtbags, come to their senses in a park after a night for the ages. With little to no memory of how they got there, they discover the antidote to their fireball-induced amnesia: Ritalin...
Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 8:00 pm to 9:20 pm | Performing Arts
Santana - Divination Tour 2018
Santana is an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1966 by Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana
Abbotsford | Abbotsford Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Donny McCaslin Quartet
Donny McCaslin embodies a generational shift in jazz
Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Open Hearts Theatre: Teachers
An original Canadian stage play about the mysteries of high school – from the unique perspective of the staff room
Vancouver | Jericho Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
TANGA//Reencarnación// Album Release Party! with Pacifika Groove Collective at Fox Cabaret
TANGA is a world fusion mob, mixing up Caribbean beats with Colombian electrocumbia, and dancehall with a touch of Guatemalan flavor
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music
JFL NorthWest: Just For Laughs Showcase at Yuk Yuk's Vancouver
The Just For Laughs big wigs are in town and they’re looking for the next big thing. Come check out the best of the best of your local comedians as they try to impress the ones with the wigs
Vancouver | Yuk Yuk's Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy
Busty and the Bass With guests Schwey
Busty and the Bass is a Canadian electro-soul and hip hop band from Montreal, Quebec
Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Vancouver International Women Film Festival: In the Shade of the Apple Tree + Kis
8:30 PM Screening: In the Shade of the Apple Tree Kis followed by a Q&A
Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Film
JFL NorthWest: SiriusXM’s Top Comic Showcase at the Comedy Mix
SiriusXM’s Top Comic scours the country each year, searching for the funniest comedians in Canada so you don’t have to (you should though, it’s actually pretty fun)
Vancouver | the Comedy MIX | 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy
JFL NorthWest: Fox Hole Comedy at Fox Cabaret
Vancouver’s only weekly stand-up show where women, folks of colour, and queers are the majority of performers, every time
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 9:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy
JFL NorthWest: Cords Comedy at Corduroy Restaurant
Cords Comedy happens every Wednesday night at 9pm in Kitsilano
Vancouver | Corduroy | 9:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy
RUTS debuts The Devil Room
Reuptrippyshit Debuts The Devil Room At Celebrities Nightclub
Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 11:00 pm to 3:00 am | Dance