Metro Vancouver events on April 6, 2018

2018 Canadian Women's Wheelchair Basketball Championships

The 2017 CWWBC will be Canada’s Women only wheelchair basketball national championship. Come watch Canada’s best female wheelchair basketball players, including members of the national team, battle for the title of the nation’s best

Vancouver | BC Wheelchair Basketball | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports

Women's Connection Weekend

Do you need time away from the World with an opportunity to focus on what’s important to You? Want to meet and collaborate with wonderful women of all kinds while enjoying activities that lift your spirits, relax your body and are just plain fun?

Vancouver | Hyatt Regency Vancouver | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Active Life / Health

2018 Canadian Masters Curling Championships by Curl BC

This Canadian event features Masters Men & Women curlers competing to earn the prestigious title of Canadian Champions.

Surrey | Cloverdale Curling Club | 9:00 am to 7:30 pm | Sports

2018 Canadian Masters Curling Championships by Curl BC - White Rock

This Canadian event features Masters Men & Women curlers competing to earn the prestigious title of Canadian Champions.

White Rock | Peace Arch Curling Club | 9:00 am to 7:30 pm | Sports

International Cheerleading Championship 2018

The 11th Annual Sea to Sky International Cheerleading & Dance Championship will once again unite thousands of cheerleaders from the USA & Canada

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports

Free Parenting Workshop: Helping Children Manage Anxiety

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 | 9:45 am to 12:00 am | Workshop | Free

Exhibition. Karilynn Ming Ho: For The Left Hand Alone

Vancouver-based artist Karilynn Ming Ho uses the metaphor of phantom limb syndrome to explore themes of fragmented realities in a time when bombardment by digital information leaves many people feeling physically and mentally disconnected and disenchanted

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition. Ho Tam: Cover to Cover

Acclaimed Canadian artist Ho Tam interrogates the mediated construction of public persona, revealing diverse facets of the self through a selection of photo, video, artist books and magazines spanning his career

Richmond | Richmond Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 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

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

Lindy Bout XII

Join us to celebrate our twelfth year of Lindy Hop competition in Western Canada!

Vancouver | Performance Works | 3:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Dance

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 second of three collaborative events

Vancouver | Vancouver Academy of Music | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Workshop | Free

Roma - Italian Small Plates for Two

There is no denying it.... there is something about Italian food that makes us want to enjoy it with others - preferrably a special someone

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

The Power of Radical Self-Love - Book Launch!

Sonya Renee Taylor is coming to Vancouver!... and her new book is incredible!

Vancouver | SFU Harbour Centre Campus | 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Books | Free

Art Opening: The Great Big Vancouver Paradox

HiVE partakes in this year's Capture Photography Festival exhibiting "The Great Big Vancouver Paradox" featuring works by Vitor Leão and Emilia Wilson

Vancouver | HiVE Vancouver | 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Demo & Dine: You, Me & The Sea

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 9:00 pm | Cooking

Sure Sure with guests

Experimental pop band from LA, returns to Vancouver

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

The Gruffalo - Live on Stage

A Musical adaptation of the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Join Mouse on a daring adventure through the deep, dark wood.

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Theatre

April Exhibitions Opening Reception

Drop by the opening reception for three new exhibitions: Colour is Life, ceramics by Shohreh Sachs; Contemplation of Forces, mixed-media works by Moira Calder; Treetopia, mixed-media works by Mark Bowen

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

Run & Gun 3: Vancouver's 48 hour film Competition

This years competition runs April 6th to 8th. The Gala & Awards ceremony at The Rio Theatre

New Westminster | This is a Spoon Studios | 7:00 pm to 7:00 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...

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 7:30 pm to 5:00 pm | Theatre

VSO Pops - The Doo Wop Project

The Doo Wop Project begins at the beginning, tracing the evolution of Doo Wop from the classic sound of five guys singing tight harmonies on a street corner to the biggest hits on the radio today

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Cécile Doo-Kingué

Montreal-based guitarist/singer-songwriter Cécile Doo-Kingué blends blues, Afro-roots and soul to create a unique sound

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

The Humans

Family drama, on more than one level

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble & UBC Concert Winds

Presented by the UBC School of Music: UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble & Concert Winds. MOMENTmusic

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Crimes of the Heart By Beth Henley

Crimes of the Heart - Dark Comedy

North Vancouver | The Theatre at Hendry Hall | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Faith Healer

The masterpiece of one of the greatest playwrights of the last 50 years, Brian Friel’s Faith Healer is an Irish meditation on the role and responsibility of the artist in society

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 8:00 pm to 10:20 pm | Performing Arts

The Dance Centre presents WEE/Francesco Scavetta

The Dance Centre presents the Global Dance Connections series: WEE/Francesco Scavetta - Hardly Ever

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:20 pm | Performing Arts

Misery By William Goldman

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

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen

Not to be missed - the Firehall brings its hit show back to the stage in celebration of our 35th season and to pay homage to the late Mr. Cohen

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play

After the collapse of civilization, a group of survivors share a campfire and begin to piece together the plot of The Simpsons episode “Cape Feare” entirely from memory

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

4000 Miles By Amy Herzog

A humorous and uplifting story of growing up and growing old!

New Westminster | The Bernie Legge Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward

A timeless comedy exploring love and marriage. Charles Condomine’s dinner party turns into mayhem when a seance led by Madame Arcati provokes the ghost of Elvira, his late first wife, and only Charles can hear her

North Vancouver | Deep Cove Stage Society | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Chor Leoni Men's Choir presents TAKE 6 in Concert

The VanMan Male Choral Summit gets a high-octane kick off with an incendiary performance by TAKE 6

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:45 pm | Music

Bar Mitzvah Boy by Mark Leiren-Young

Joey is a successful lawyer who is used to things going his way. When he suddenly decides he needs a bar mitzvah he doesn’t expect to have to wait, or take classes

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

Enron by United Players

Enron, the Texas-based energy company ascended to great heights (and a staggering stock price) before declaring bankruptcy in 2001 amid one of the largest financial scandals in history, having deceived its 20,000 employees, Wall Street, and the general pu

Vancouver | Jericho Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Performing Arts

Fabulist Theatre presents: Once On This Island

Once On This Island is a one-act musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, book and lyrics by Lynne Ahrens

Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Musical

Shut Up and Say Something

Shane Koyczan has become a spoken word superstar by giving a powerful voice to the underdogs: the loners, the losers, the kids who grow up believing they don't measure up somehow

Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 8:30 pm to 9:52 pm | Film

Billy Dixon and his Soul Train Express

Back at Federico's Supper Club by popular demand Billy Dixon and his Soul Train Express

Vancouver | Federico's Supper Club | 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Persian Bash

Another edition of Persian Bash is coming up. Come and dance the night away as Magnetiq Club presents a full night of Persian tunes to dance to! Invite your friends and share this culturally rich night together on the dance floor

New Westminster | Magnetiq Club Lounge | 9:30 pm to 2:00 am | Dance

The Official After Party

Why stop the party once AMS Events Presents: The 11th Annual Block Party ends? Head over to the Pit for your official after party to keep the night going!

Vancouver | The Pit Pub UBC | 9:30 pm to 1:00 am | Party