Metro Vancouver events on May 18, 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

5-Workshop Series on Helping Children Manage Anxiety

Family & Child Counselling Program @ Richmond Public Health 烈治文衛生署 - 家庭及兒童心理輔導部

Richmond | Richmond Public Health | 9:45 am to 12:00 am | Workshop | Free

Douglas Coupland’s Vortex at the Vancouver Aquarium

Douglas Coupland’s Vortex at the Vancouver Aquarium Event description: Experience acclaimed artist Douglas Coupland’s new radical art installation – Vortex – at the Vancouver Aquarium, an Ocean Wise initiative

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 10:00 am to 5:00 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

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

Yamantaka // Sonic Titan

"There’s a whole world contained within Yamantaka // Sonic Titan. They’re a Noh-Wave prog collective, a black-and-white (and sometimes red) theatre company, an operatic psych cult, and the speculative prophets of humanity’s impending doom

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Lindbjerg Academy Presents Willy Wonka Kids and Aladdin Jr.

Join our MiniStars and All Stars in this Double Feature of Willy Wonka Kids and Aladdin Jr.

Port Moody | Inlet Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

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

Xtreme Theatre Presents: Thoroughly Modern Millie

Forget about the boy when a small town girl searches for a new life in the bright lights of 1920s New York City.

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

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! Youth-Driven Arts Festival

Every year, for one week in May, The Cultch is taken over and transformed by young people. Hundreds of youth are involved in what has grown to be Vancouver’s largest youth-driven arts festival

Vancouver | Historic Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Festival

Les Filles du Roi

Les Filles du Roi is a gorgeous new trilingual musical from the creators of last season’s groundbreaking Children of God. The powerful story of Kateri, a young Mohawk girl, and her brother Jean-Baptiste whose lives are disrupted upon the arrival of les fi

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

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

Indie series: Suitcase Stories

A cross-crountry tale of survival and self-discovery that began as a series of pre-show monologues in the Pacific Theatre lobby, this wonderful one-woman show is filled with all the winsome vulnerability and plucky humour of the originals

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

Iolanthe

Join us for our Gilbert & Sullivan comedic operetta this spring!

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Making Movies and Alex Cuba

This one-of-a-kind concert experience is an extension of the Making Movies Carnaval, a music and arts festival founded by American rock’n’roll band Making Movies

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

True West by Sam Shepard

Directed by UBC graduate Kenton Klassen and featuring an excellent cast of local actors, True West will run at the Vancity Culture Lab

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

Long Weekend Series: Victoria Day & Patio Launch Party Edition

JRG Public Houses take the long weekend seriously!

Richmond | The Buck & Ear Bar and Grill | 8:00 pm to 2:00 am | Party

Edam Dance: Convergence

EDAM presents Convergence, a choreographic series featuring new work by Peter Bingham and guest artists Shauna Elton and Natalie Tin Yin Gan

Vancouver | Edam Dance | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

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

VSO Pops - The U.K. Rocks!

The British Invasion of the 1960s brought something special to North America, and transformed Rock ‘n Roll and popular music forever with legendary bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and Queen, and artists like Elton John

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 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

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