Metro Vancouver events on April 26, 2018

Whisky Ambassador Certification in Vancouver, BC

The Whisky Ambassador program is now available in Canada. It is the UK’s only accredited training course about whisky.

Vancouver | Vancouver Lawn Tennis & Badminton Club | 9:30 am to 4:30 pm | Business / Finance

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

Seniors Multicultural Festival at South Granville Seniors Centre

Join us for our annual celebration of diversity! Enjoy non-stop, lively performances of traditional song, dance, and music by over 25 multicultural seniors’ groups from around the Lower Mainland

Vancouver | South Granville Seniors Centre | 10:30 am to 3:30 pm | Festival

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

Discover Dance! Arts Umbrella Dance Company

Our popular noon series offers informative and inspiring shows by BC-based dance companies which combine performance, question-and-answer sessions with the artists, and sometimes even audience participation

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Performing Arts

Verses Festival of Words 2018. Talk the Talk: Consent Culture

Guided by two qualified facilitators, Kitty Stryker and Rabbit Richards, this talk is likely to engage with a number of topics that challenge, advance and re-form our collective ideas of consent culture within the arts

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 12:30 am to 2:30 pm | Performing Arts | Free

West Van Carnival April 26-29

West Coast Amusements, the largest Canadian midway operation in Western Canada is coming to you!

West Vancouver | Ambleside Park | 3:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Family

Verses Festival of Words 2018. Reframing Relations Workshop

Reframing Relations brings Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists together … to facilitate dialogue about reconciliation in Canada

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm | Workshop

Audrey's Art Bar

Resident Artist Audrey Burm provides step-by-step instruction and demonstrates techniques students can creatively use on future projects. Guests enjoy a glass of our award winning wine and large farm style cheese board

Langley | Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery | 5:45 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts

Verses Festival of Words 2018. Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Day 1: Bouts at Havana Theatre

Canadas best slam poets sling metaphors and match wits in four-minute and one-minute rounds

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Performing Arts

Verses Festival of Words 2018. Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Day 1: Bouts at Cafe Deux Soleil

Canadas best slam poets sling metaphors and match wits in four-minute and one-minute rounds

Vancouver | Cafe Deux Soleils | 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Performing Arts

Granville Island Fashion Show

The Granville Island Business and Community Association presents a Granville Island Fashion Show! To promote and support the businesses in our community who are of the fashion, textile and jewelry genres, please join us to celebrate our fashion hub

Vancouver | Performance Works | 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Show

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella by Magee Mainstage Production

This year’s Magee Mainstage production is the musical, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella

Vancouver | Magee Secondary School | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Musical

Salish Singing & Drumming Spring 2018 Workshops

Learn traditional Salish social songs, drumming and dance with instructor Russell Wallace. Workshops are free and open to everyone!

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

Gamelan Alligator Joy Presents

This is a two-days event featuring Vancouver based gamelan groups

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

The Gardens of Vancouver

Speaker: Christine Allen, Master Gardener. The talk mentions avid gardeners including "sugar king" B.T. Rogers and influential landscapers such as Raoul Robillard.

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

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

Cabaret

Royal City Musical Theatre is presenting the Tony Award winning musical Cabaret by Kander and Ebb

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

Giggles & Gags

Giggles & Gags, Vancouver's hilarious sketch comedy group, is back to tickle your funny bone! Come have a few laughs, a few drinks, and help us raise funds for Vancouver's Mom2Mom Poverty Initiative

Vancouver | PAL Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Comedy

Wild Child live in Vancouver

Timbre Concerts Presents: Wild Child Expectations Tour With Guests Stelth Ulvang

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Vancouver Fringe Festival: Blindside

After her recent American, Canadian, and European tour, one-eyed multiple award winner Stéphanie Morin-Robert returns to Vancouver to recount her life as a feisty 7-year-old who wields her glass-eye as a superpower

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 8:00 pm to 0:00 am | Theatre

Freed Productions: Unearth

Freed Productions presents: Unearth. Our inaugural showcase, which proudly features local artists from both the Mainland and Vancouver Island including Shaylen D. (East Vancouver), Profit (Calgary), and Mauvey (Ghanaian born, UK raised, now in Vancouver

Vancouver | The Basement by Loyal Coalition | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Show

The Explanation

Two heterosexual men - one of whom likes to dress in women’s clothes - just happen to fall in love with one another. An exploration of the constructs we adopt to make our own realities and ways of imagining a life that’s not only endurable...

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 8:00 pm to 9:10 pm | Theatre

World Without Us

Ontroerend Goed, creators of Fight Night, bring us a new piece about the end of humanity and what comes after. We could hardly imagine it: no mortgages, no knitted scarves, no swimming pools, no butterfly strokes, and no honey kept in glass jars

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

The History of the World Based on Banalities

A youngster decides to look after his mother in the last months of her life. Starting from run-of-the-mill situations and objects, he embarks on a quirky voyage through her past and that of the world

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

The Fratellis

The Fratellis are a Scottish rock band from Glasgow, formed in 2005. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Jon Fratelli, bass guitarist Barry Fratelli, and drummer and backing vocalist Mince Fratelli

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Métis Mutt

A comedic, heartbreaking and unpredictable performance piece that recounts the journey of a young Metis man finding his way out of a destructive circle, through music, comedy and inventive story-telling

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Stéphanie Morin-Robert: Blindside

After her recent American, Canadian, and European tour, one-eyed multiple award winner Stéphanie Morin-Robert returns to Vancouver to recount her life as a feisty 7-year-old who wields her glass-eye as a superpower

Vancouver | Studio 1398 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Shakespeare in Hollywood by Ken Ludwig

In 1934 the Warner Bros. movie studio decided to do a “class picture”: an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Max Reinhardt was invited from Germany to direct. ..

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

Verses Festival of Words 2018: The Fugitives presented by the Wise Hall & Verses, introducing the “Little Death Match”

Live at the WISE and Verses Festival of Words is proud to present: The Fugitives album release Show for “The Promise of Strangers”

Vancouver | The Wise Hall & Lounge | 8:00 pm to 11:55 pm | Music

stage43 Presents: The Ladies Foursome

A funny, fast-paced and heartwarming story of friendship... over the course of eighteen holes

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 3:00 am | Theatre

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

Chris Lorenzo x Shift K3Y at MIA - Vancouver

Chris Lorenzo returns to Vancouver with special guest Shift K3Y only at Way Home

Vancouver | Are you MIA | 10:00 pm to 2:00 am | Party