Metro Vancouver events on May 9, 2018

Emily Carr in Dialogue with Mattie Gunterman - exhibition

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

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

A Cultivating Journey: The Herman Levy Legacy - exhibition

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

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

Living, Building, Thinking: art and expressionism - exhibition

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

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

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

Together Towards Tomorrow - Shaping the Future

The 3E Organization, in partnership with its community collaborators and partners wishes to encourage, engage and involve youth in being pro-active

Surrey | Surrey City Centre Library | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Speaking of Art & History with the Maple Ridge Historical Society

Learn from our shared past! Join us for this Speaker Series featuring local historians, authors and artists

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

North Shore International Spring Film Series

The North Shore International Film Series is presented by the North Vancouver Community Arts Council in cooperation with the Toronto International Film Festival

North Vancouver | Cineplex Odeon Park & Tilford Cinemas | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Film

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

Vancouver Writers Fest. Incite: New Fiction to Fall For. Kerri Sakamoto, Kim Thúy, Leni Zumas

It’s a night of sneak peeks at some of this season’s most buzzed about fiction

Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Books | Free

Massimo Ranieri

Massimo Ranieri, is an Italian pop singer, film and stage actor

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Show

Theatre series: Almost, Maine

One cold, clear Friday night in the middle of winter, while the northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. Love is lost, found, and con

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Presented by Alberta Aboriginal Performing Arts and Punctuate! Theatre: Bears

A multi-disciplinary dark comedy about the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline, Alberta Aboriginal Performing Arts and Punctuate! Theatre from Edmonton present Bears

Vancouver | Historic Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Preoccupations With Guests

Canadian post-punk band, on tour to support their latest release "New Material"

Vancouver | The Cobalt | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Alley Theatre: O’wet/Lost Lagoon

An autobiographical performance that takes us from the international modeling circuit to a spiritual canoe journey

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

ITSAZOO Productions: Wet

Wet is a raw, in-yer-face play set during the height of Canada’s involvement in the Afghanistan War. A soldier returns home from combat after suffering from a head injury

Vancouver | The Russian Hall | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

RUTS debuts The Devil Room

Reuptrippyshit Debuts The Devil Room At Celebrities Nightclub

Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 11:00 pm to 3:00 am | Dance