Metro Vancouver events on April 29, 2018

DANCEPL3Y Adults & Teens Instructor Training

Be the first to bring a new high-energy dance workout to your community this year! Tthe worlds most innovative and interACTIVE dance program

Vancouver | RYU Apparel Inc | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Dance

Opera Speaks: Creating collaborative work alongside marginalized communities

This workshop, featuring the artistic team behind Requiem For A Lost Girl, explores the challenges and successes of collaborative art making

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Workshop | Free

VanDusen Plant Sale 2018

Free Admission and thousands of plants for sale. All proceeds go to the Garden in support of its Education programs.

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals | 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

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

Hastings Park Farmers Market

Located within a thriving community close to the highway and the Second Narrows Bridge, the Hastings Park Farmers Market is a perfect place to stop and shop.

Vancouver | Hastings Park | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

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

Baithak Series - Kishan Patel

Come explore the diverse expressions of morning ragas in an intimate atmosphere at the first recital of the Baithak Series: Exploring Time, featuring Kishan Patel - a young Portland native who is an active practitioner of Dhrupad/Dhamar, Khayal, Thumri...

Surrey | 9256 126 St | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Music

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

Emily Carr in Dialogue with Mattie Gunterman

Emily Carr in Dialogue with Mattie Gunterman unites the work of two women artists practicing in British Columbia in the early twentieth century, presenting the paintings of Emily Carr with approximately thirty photographs by Mattie Gunterman

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

Fall For Local 2018 Spring Market

Fall For Local returns to North Vancouver for their 2018 Spring Market! FFL is a one-of-kind 'shop local' event, that prides itself on curating high quality modern pop-up ft. independent brands

North Vancouver | The Pipe Shop Building | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Market

The Local Love in Spring Market

A fabulous shopping day with a community focus! Come enjoy a day of shopping with independent local small businesses at an event that gives back!

Pitt Meadows | Pitt Meadows Heritage Hall | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Market

Ocean Fling - The Ultimate Seafood Class

Get ready for your ocean fling. With our Ultimate Seafood session, you’ll experience cuisine that’s big on flavour and easy on the hips

Vancouver | The Dirty Apron Cooking School | 11:00 am to 9:30 pm | Cooking

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

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 | 12:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family

Scarlet Sails Performance

The Russian White Nights Festival celebrates the time of year around the summer solstice in areas of high latitude when darkness is never complete. The festival highlight is the arrival of a Scarlet Sails schooner

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 12:45 am to 1:45 pm | Family | Free

Granville Island Fix It & Clothing Swap

Granville Island Fix-it & Clothing Swap is back for it's second year at the wonderful Granville Island Hotel!

Vancouver | Granville Island Hotel | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Free

Vancouver National College Fair 2018

Admission representatives from schools across the country are all gathered in one place. Their goal: To encourage you to learn more about their institutions, and help you sort through the qualities you’re looking for in a college

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Fair | Free

stage43 Presents: The Ladies Foursome

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

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Talking Stick Festival Community Stage

The Talking Stick Festival has been calling community together for over 17 years

Vancouver | Native Education College Fireside Lounge | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Lecture

Eugene Onegin

Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is Russian Lyric Opera at its finest - based on the plot of Pushkin’s verse novel, Eugene Onegin features an emotional tale packed with breathtaking music, choreography, and a duel that will render the audience speechless

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Opera

Spirit Horse

This powerful production follows the adventures of two First Nations children whose family is caught between traditional ways and urban culture

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Mayday Social Justice Info Festival

All social justice/community organizations are invited to set up a table, distribute literature, and talk to the community on the Sunday afternoon prior to Mayday

Vancouver | Grandview Park | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Books

The Explanation - the frank theatre company

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 but...

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 2:00 pm to 3:10 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Me and You

Sibling rivalry in a double-edged comedy. From childhood until old age, Liz and Lou are sisters who go through life mostly as friends, but sometimes as foes...

Vancouver | Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Cabaret by Kander and Ebb

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

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver Pops Symphony and Choir: Wondrous Worlds

Enjoy an afternoon of spectacular music with a symphonic tribute to the world-renowned film composer John Williams, featuring his best works from Star Wars, Harry Potter and Jurassic Park

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

Métis Mutt. Written and performed by Sheldon Elter

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 | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Performing Arts

HipHop Workshop with Prince & Madelle Paltu-ob

HipHop Workshop

Vancouver | Strive Studio | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Workshop

CBC Studio 700 Composer Series. Chamber music by James Rolfe

James Rolfe, composer of the Overcoat is featured in this opening concert with a selection of diverse chamber music repertoire both vocal and instrumental - including "The Connection" for solo marimba and recitation and "Moths" for baritone and piano

Vancouver | CBC Studio 700 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Music

Lesley Telford/Inverso at International Dance Day 2018

Spooky Action is inspired by Einstein's famous phrase referring to particles that are so closely linked, they share the same existence

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Dance

The Overcoat - a musical tailoring

A much anticipated co-production with Toronto’s Canadian Stage Company and Tapestry Opera, The Overcoat - a musical tailoring is an operatic reinterpretation Morris Panych and Wendy Gorling's 1998 smash-hit play, The Overcoat

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 9:40 pm | Opera

East Vancouver Improv League - High Octane Improv Comedy

Instant Theatre is proud to present the launch of the East Vancouver Improv League!

Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Comedy

Persian Karaoke in Vancouver برای اولین بار

Entertainment will include 1000 Farsi songs, 300 Arabic & 1200 English songs

Port Moody | Zeitoon Restaurant | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Party

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