Metro Vancouver events on May 11, 2018

Offsite: Shigeru Ban - exhibition

Shigeru Ban is the 17th installation in the Gallery’s Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

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

Arts BC's 2018 Conference: Engagement in the #NewArtsEra

Join us at the beautiful Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre where you’ll experience three days packed with learning and networking opportunities with arts and culture leaders from all over BC!

Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 8:00 pm | Lecture

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

Arts BC's 2018 Conference: Engagement in a #NewArtsEra

What does engagement look like in a new arts era? In an effort to attract and retain audiences and maintain relevancy to their communities, organizations and artists are experimenting with a wide range of innovative engagement programs...

Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 8:00 pm | Visual Arts

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

Illusive - A Circus of Possibilities

Illusive - A Circus of Possibilities is a show where the world is turned inside out and challenges all inside to create new paths, and solve problems through circus collaboration to escape

Vancouver | PNE Garden Auditorium | 12:30 am to 2:30 pm | Show

16th Annual Shakti Awards Gala

Join us in honouring inspirational and influential women in the community who embody 'Shakti'.

Surrey | Bollywood Banquet Halls & Convention Centre | 6:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Party

3rd Annual Sahaara Wellness Society Mental Health Fundraiser

Mental Health Fundraiser 2018 presented by Sahaara Wellness Society

Surrey | Crown Palace Banquet Hall | 6:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Blues Brothers Tribute

The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revivalist band which was founded in 1978

Maple Ridge | The Haney Public House | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

pARTy@PdA: Blooms & Bubbly

In a social and relaxed environment, create your own beautiful table-top floral art from fresh flowers and learn about floral arranging from award-winning floral designer Louisa Lam.

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

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

Marion Bridge

When three estranged sisters return home to Cape Breton to care for their dying mother, old conflicts and secrets resurface. This humorous and touching story by Daniel MacIvor stars Nicola Cavendish

West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

CSMA: Darkness into Light

features Coastal Sound Youth Choir

Burnaby | New Westminster Christian Reformed Church | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Murder on the Improv Express

A killer comedy and classic improvised murder mystery set in the 1930s. Filled with improbable twists, and oh yes, a corpse0

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

IGNITE! One Act Plays

IGNITE! Youth-Driven Arts Festival presents an evening of one act plays by young playwrights, ages 13-26. These plays won a contest hosted by The Cultch Youth Program

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Festival

Art World Expo 2018

8th Annual Event Featuring Over 100 Artists! Join Us And Celebrate One Of Bc's Top Art Events At The Iconic Science World British Columbia!

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 7:30 pm to 0:30 am | Festival

MGMT

MGMT is an American rock band formed in 2002 at Wesleyan University. It currently consists of Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 0:00 am | Music

George Thorogood & The Destroyers

George Thorogood And The Destroyers are throwing a Rock Party for 2018, and you’re invited

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

WCSO: Smetana's Ma Vlast with Yariv Aloni

Welcome to our May concert! Leading this concert will be our beloved guest conductor Yariv Aloni from Victoria, BC, who will direct Smetana’s Ma Vlast - a set of six symphonic poems composed between 1874 and 1879, depicting parts of his homeland

Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

MAMMA MIA!

The Smash-hit Musical Based on the songs of ABBA

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

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

Ballet BC Presents: Program 3

The season closes with the return of Ballet BC’s Resident Choreographer Cayetano Soto’s hauntingly beautiful BEGINNING AFTER

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Dance

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

Classical Traditions at the Chan Centre - Beethoven and Bruckner, with Bramwell Tovey

Maestro Bramwell Tovey conducts the VSO debut of Bruckner’s final symphonic epic, left unfinished at the time of his death

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

Tolkien by Ron Reed

Legends in wait, the worlds of Narnia and Middle Earth may never have come to be were it not for an unlikely friendship between J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis

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

Spencer Brown at Celebrities

San Francisco-based progressive house DJ/producer Spencer Brown brings his live brilliance to Celebrities Nightclub for a special extended set at #StereotypeFridays

Vancouver | Celebrities Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Dance

Ok Tinder – Swipe Right Comedy

Our 17+ show is 60 minutes of fast-paced, no-holds-barred comedy looking at the good, bad and the laughable of Vancouver’s dating scene

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 11:15 pm to 0:15 am | Comedy