Metro Vancouver events on March 8, 2018

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

International Women's Day at Bandidas!

Join us at the restaurant for an all-day fundraiser and art show in honour of International women's day.

Vancouver | Bandidas Taqueria | 9:00 am to 11:59 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Vancouver Rugby Festival 2018 by BC Rugby

BC Rugby will host the 2018 Vancouver Rugby Festival to compliment the HSBC Canada Sevens Vancouver Tournament. Headlining the Festival, the Elite Sevens divisions have the opportunity to compete against world-class teams

Vancouver | UBC | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports

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

Vancouver International Women Film Festival: Inclusivity in the Workforce with Drawn Together Vancouver

Vancouver enjoys an international reputation as an animation hub with deep talent and widely respected studios. A number of these studios are headed by women or have women in senior creative and business roles

Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 9:30 am to 10:30 am | Lecture | Free

Artistica Art Show - Hycroft Gallery

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 | 9:30 am to 8:00 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

Classical Coffee Concert - At the Movies

Elizabeth and Marcel Bergmann take us on a journey with music from the big screen, performed on two pianos. Ennio Morricone’s music from The Mission and Jerome Morass’s music from the classic western film

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Music

Vancouver International Women Film Festival: Anatomy of Violence

Screening: Anatomy of Violence followed by a panel discussion with special guests Raji Mangat, Director of Litigation at West Coast Leaf, writer/ producer, Petie Chalifoux (River of Silence) and filmmaker V.P of WIFTV's Board of Director, Shannon Kaplun

Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | Film | Free

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

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

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: Indigenous Voices

Screening: Indigenous Voices, Nosisim, Thirza Cuthand is an Indian Within the Meaning of the Indian Act, River of Silence

Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Film | Free

Vancouver International Women Film Festival: Gender Balance in the Film & Television Industry

Recently, Canadian film and television funding and producing agencies have initiated policies to create gender balance in the film and television industry. This panel discussion invites the funders and producers to report on the current success of their i

Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Lecture | Free

My Thai - Take on Thai Cuisine

The mastery of Thai cooking is an irrefutable art, but The Dirty Apron believes even the most novice culinary student can achieve the delicate balance of spicy, sweet, sour, and salty.

Vancouver | The Dirty Apron Cooking School | 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Cooking

International Women’s Day

Celebrate and honour International Women’s Day with The University Women’s Club of Vancouver at Hycroft!

Vancouver | Hycroft Gallery | 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Lecture

Cicely Blain Consulting - Launch Party

Join us for the launch of Vancouver's brand new consulting company! We're really excited to get to know our community and network with like-minded businesses and organizations.

Vancouver | 478a Union Street | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Business / Finance | Free

Vegan Cheesemaking with Karen McAthy

Join Chef Karen McAthy, founder of Blue Heron, and author of The Art of Plant-based Cheesemaking in learning how to make cultured, fresh, vegan cheese!

Vancouver | Il Centro Italian Cultural Centre | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Cooking

Vancouver International Women Film Festival: Strong Women

Screening: Strong Women: Reel Women Seen, Owning the Space, Handmade Film, The Women Who Run Hollywood, I Am Rebecca

Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Lecture | Free

UBC Connects - with Jeremy Rifkin Presented by Professor Santa J. Ono

Join Professor Santa J. Ono for the launch of UBC Connects, a new public lecture series featuring thought leaders of global renown

Vancouver | Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

Shakti Film Festival launch

Shakti Film Festival is Shakti Society's latest undertaking in our mission to increase and acknowledge women’s representation in film

Surrey | Ultimate Banquet Hall | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Film

Demo & Dine - Catch! Seafood Three Ways

Come join us for our Demo & Dine-style cooking class series, where you will join us for an intimate evening of culinary education, delicious food and beautiful wine

Vancouver | The Dirty Apron Cooking School | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Cooking

Giorgia Milne - Stillness Touch

Free in-store presentation with Giorgia G. Milne

Vancouver | Banyen Books & Sound | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

2018 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Dancers Dancing

This new work is inspired by memory including: long term memory; immediate memory; false memory; imagined memory; dream memory; and memoirs including the books Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee and The Old Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 7:50 pm | Dance

Lorde: Melodrama World Tour

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, better known by her stage name Lorde, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and record producer. Born in Takapuna and raised in Devonport, Auckland, she became interested in performing as a child.

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

JFL NorthWest: Bill Burr

Bill Burr is an American comedian or a comedian from the North American Union, depending on when you read this. He grew up outside of Boston, Massachusetts and did fairly poorly in school, despite the fact that he applied himself

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Comedy

Strong Women Strong Music 2018

Tonight’s lineup: Karin Plato, Katherine Penfold and Stephanie Wall on vocals, Diane Lines on piano, Jodi Proznick on bass, and Karen Graves on saxophone

Vancouver | Frankie's Jazz Club | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

JFL NorthWest: Vir Das at The Rio Theatre

Vir Das is the biggest English speaking comedian in India and while he has cemented himself as one of the country’s top stand-ups, actors, writers, musicians, and festival producers

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

artBAR: Sip & Sketch with Lisa Lake

This is a fun evening of drawing and sketching using a variety of subject matter to inspire you

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts

JFL NorthWest: Todd Barry and Friends at Fox Cabaret

Due to the fact that the Feral Audio network has recently shut down, the Todd Barry Podcast will no longer be taking place

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

June Scudeler: Family History as Literature

Indigenous literary nationalism argues for the importance of using Indigenous ways of knowing to analyze Indigenous texts

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture | Free

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

The Magical Land of Oz by Cast and Crew Youth Theatre Society

A Musical Based On The L. Frank Baum Classic Book By Tim Kelly Music And Lyrics By Bill Francoeur

Maple Ridge | North Fraser Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm | Theatre

Šxʷʔam̓ət (home)

We are very excited to be touring šxʷʔam̓ət (home) into 21 communities across BC and Alberta and then returning home for 9 final performances at the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Funny Money

Never has this master of farce been frenetically funnier ! Crooked cops, threatening phone calls, and impatient cab driver and more mistaken identities than you can keep track of this one of the funniest plays ever written.

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

Vancouver Just For Laughs Film Festival Presents: Room for Rent at the Annex

In senior year Mitch Baldwin won the lottery. Three years later he was flat broke and a laughing stock. He’s been holed-up in his family home ever since

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Film

Ryan McNally with The Horse Van

Come on out for some old time blues and jazz with Ryan McNally and his band

Vancouver | The Wise Hall & Lounge | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Nelly live in concert

Spotlight Productions + Where It's At Entertainment proudly presents... Grammy Award Winning artist Nelly live in concert

Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

2018 Vancouver International Dance Festival: EDAM

EDAM is a contemporary dance company under the artistic directorship of Peter Bingham. EDAM's mandate is to provide a stable and fertile environment for the development of contemporary dance

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

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

2018 Chutzpah! Festival: Salomé: Woman of Valor (Canada / USA)

Innovative, transformative and daring, Salomé: Woman of Valor is the culmination of years of work by Grammy Award-winning composer/trumpeter Frank London and celebrated poet/performer Adeena Karasick

Vancouver | The Norman Rothstein Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

JFL NorthWest: Nikki Glaser at Yuk Yuk's Vancouver

Nikki Glaser is one of the most sought after young comedians and actors in the comedy world today

Vancouver | Yuk Yuk's Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

She Stoops to Conquer

By author Oliver Goldsmith this beloved comedy about love and mistaken identity revolves around Charles Marlow, a young bachelor who brims with confidence when dallying with working-class women but becomes a shivering bundle of nerves in the presence of h

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

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

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

Quiet City #41: Mary Ocher/Ross Birdwise

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 Lido | 9:00 pm to 0:00 am | Performing Arts | Free

JFL NorthWest: The Hero Show at The China Cloud

Born in November of 2007 the HERO SHOW has been bringing audiences the best in solo sketch comedy for 10 years

Vancouver | The China Cloud | 9:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy

Vancouver International Women Film Festival: I Know How to Knit + Where Do Cats Go After 9 Lives?

The quietly determined Tanya struggles with the oddities of existence in contemporary St. Petersburg, Russia.

Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Film | Free

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 | Comedy | Free

JFL NorthWest: The Alternative Show hosted by Andy Kindler

The quintessential comic’s comic Andy Kindler brings his beloved Alternative Show for three nights of alternative comedy anarchy. Off-the-wall and totally unpredictable, we’d love to tell you more but we don’t even know what to expect!

Vancouver | Yuk Yuk's Vancouver | 10:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Comedy