Metro Vancouver events on April 23, 2018

Grocery & Specialty Food West

Despite today’s digital age, nothing rivals face-to-face communication to establish, build and maintain business relationships. Grocery & Specialty Food West is the premier and must-attend B2B grocery & specialty food show of the year!

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

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

Bombhead - exhibition

BOMBHEAD is a thematic exhibition organized by guest curator John O’Brian that explores the emergence and impact of the nuclear age as represented by artists and their art

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

Takashi Murakami. The Octopus Eats its Own Leg - exhibition

Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg is the first major retrospective of Takashi Murakami’s paintings to be shown in Canada. Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg is a major retrospective exhibition of the monumental paintings of intern

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

A Cultivating Journey: The Herman Levy Legacy

This exhibition reflects the remarkable acumen of Levy as a collector and explores new scholarship and perspectives on the objects and the collector himself, demonstrating the continuing impact of one man's passion for art

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

Living, Building, Thinking: art and expressionism

Living, Building, Thinking: art and expressionism uses the German Expressionist collection from the McMaster Museum of Art to explore the development of Expressionism in art from the early 19th century to the present day

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

Verses Festival of Words 2018: Moe Clark - Masterclass: “Looping Landscapes”

Spoken word performance and looping pedal workshop exploring body and voice as landscape. Add new dimension to your spoken word poetry and written works

Vancouver | The Wise Hall & Lounge | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Workshop

Verses Festival of Words 2018: Thursdays Writing Collective Discussion and Workshop

The event will be facilitated by Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Jonina Kirton. Collective members will each talk about writing in community, what that experience has been like over the years, and offering advice for others wanting to do the same.

Vancouver | The Wise Hall & Lounge | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Workshop

Spring Social Night with Mojan Nozari

Please join us for spring social night with Vancouver persian Architects and an informative Question & Answers session with Mojan Nozari

Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Lecture

Verses Festival of Words 2018: 2018 Van Slam Team Finals featuring Christopher Michael!

2018 Van SlamTeam Finals is part of Verses Festival of Words again! #VSFestival18. Celebrate the 22nd annual Van Slam Finals Night with visiting feature Christopher Michael

Vancouver | The Wise Hall & Lounge | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Performing Arts

Golden Ears Movie Series: This Changes Everything

An epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change, This Changes Everything is inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller of the same name.

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

Misery By William Goldman

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

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Luke Combs

Luke Combs: Don’t Tempt Me With A Good Time Tour with guest Ashley McBryde

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Laurie Anderson: All the Things I Lost in the Flood

Using spoken word, video, live music, and electronics, multimedia artist Laurie Anderson explores the power and perils of language and storytelling in a stunning presentation that mines her own forty-year archive

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