Metro Vancouver events on May 23, 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

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

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

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

Play, Pie & Pint featuring the Brockton World Music Ensemble

Join us for a mid-week matinee performance by audience favourites and Gold Medal winning Brockton World Music Ensemble followed by an Aussie Pie Guy pie and beverage of choice in the theatre lobby. A Lunchtime Theatre Experience!

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 12:00 am to 2:00 pm | Performing Arts

MAMMA MIA!

The Smash-hit Musical Based on the songs of ABBA

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Theatre

rEvolver Festival 2018: bug

Upintheair Theatre Presents manidoons collective's prodcution of: bug. Do you know that when you’re abandoned, no amount of love is enough?

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm | Performing Arts

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

MAMMA MIA! by Catherine Johnson

The Smash-hit Musical Based on the songs of ABBA

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

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

Vancouver Writers Fest. Incite: Celebrating Arsenal Pulp. Amber Dawn, Casey Plett, Joshua Whitehead

For almost four decades, Arsenal Pulp Press has been at the heart of alternative publishing in Vancouver

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

40 Days and 40 Nights

The project was inspired by a challenge to live for 40 days and 40 nights making all choices based in love, and draws on the magical poetry of Hafez, the philosophy of Alain Badiou, Hindu festivals, Biblical tales and countless other ruminations on the wo

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

David Byrne - American Utopia Tour

David Byrne is a Scottish-American musician who was the founding member, principal songwriter, and lead singer and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads, active between 1975 and 1991

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

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

rEvolver Festival 2018: Geologic Formations

Upintheair Theatre Presents Mia Susan Amir's World Premiere: Geologic Formations. How is the individual and collective body haunted by socio-political events? An immersive experience

Vancouver | The Greenhouse | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

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

Contes Cruels (Cruel Tales)

Courage and love are the super power of the hero in Grimm’s Tales and countless texts and poetry letting you know that you could save people, save spirit, save honor and save the human. Through text and movement, Bennathan asks us to consider these powerf

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

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

rEvolver Festival 2018: The Only Good Indian

Part lecture, part meditation, and part threat the only good Indian takes a shockingly raw look at where our similarities begin and where they end

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 8:30 pm to 9:50 pm | Festival

rEvolver Festival 2018: 12 Minute Madness

Upintheair Theatre Presents Raina von Waldenburg's: 12 Minute Madness. ‘Arched backs, open hearts, and raunchy groins - the dark and hilarious inner world of a sexual abuse survivor

Vancouver | The Cultch Historic Theatre | 9:30 pm to 10:15 pm | Festival

RUTS debuts The Devil Room

Reuptrippyshit Debuts The Devil Room At Celebrities Nightclub

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