Metro Vancouver events on May 24, 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

Surrey International Children's Festival

The annual Surrey International Children’s Festival inspires young hearts and minds to greater possibilities, and celebrates our rich and diverse cultural heritage through performing and visual arts experiences

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre and Bear Creek Park | 9:00 am to 7:30 pm | Kids

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

Hyland Elementary Fun Fair

Hyland Elementary is having a Family Fun Fair and would like to Welcome families and friends . Come join us. We are going to have lots of fun game , face painting , activities, balloon twisting , food and more . Fun for all ages , even toddlers

Surrey | Hyland Elementary | 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Family

Modified Ghost Festival III

An annual music festival in Vancouver, BC that showcases some of the most exciting metal, rock, punk, hardcore & progressive music this world has to offer

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 5:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

Iranian Movie: Wander About Me

It is the story of a 30 years old girl Sayeh, who in the middle of abig city, pursues her dreams and ideals

Vancouver | The Cinematheque | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Film

Salish Singing & Drumming Spring 2018 Workshops

Learn traditional Salish social songs, drumming and dance with instructor Russell Wallace. Workshops are free and open to everyone!

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Workshop | Free

Broadway Bound: Putnam County Spelling Bee

Join students from Broadway Bound as they present Putnam County Spelling Bee

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

An Evening at the Museum: Remembering May Day

May Day is an important part of many Port Coquitlam residents' lives. We invite you to a reminiscing session and encourage you to bring your own photos, memorabilia, and stories about your experiences!

Port Coquitlam | PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

Story Story Lie X-Rated Edition at The Rio Theatre

A Game Show that's full of it! Can you spot the liar? Five brilliant performers tell tales too strange to be true, as they attempt to trick the audience, and try to discredit each other.

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Show

rEvolver Festival 2018: Probability

Upintheair Theatre Presents Tricia Trinh's World Premiere: Probability - Two women meet "after midnight on a quiet Tuesday night"

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:00 pm to 8:20 pm | Festival

Tash Sultana

Natasha "Tash" Sultana is an Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, described as a "one-woman band"

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

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 | 7:15 pm to 8:35 pm | Festival

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

Colin Up Close and Personal

Canadian comedy icon Colin Mochrie, Vancouver TheatreSports™ alumnus, and star of ‘Whose Line is it Anyway,’ returns this May for three laugh-packed performances to benefit VTS

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

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

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

Kiss The Moon, Kiss The Sun By Norm Foster

A hilarious and touching journey begins when a pregnant, unattached teacher befriends an adult man with the mental capacities of an eight-year-old

North Vancouver | The Theatre at Hendry Hall | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

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

The Dance Centre presents Aeriosa

The Dance Centre presents the Global Dance Connections series: Aeriosa - Second Nature

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

Scratch 'n' Sniff Cabaret

The 60s brought you Smell-O-Vision. The 80s brought you Odorama. Now, Ghost Light Vaudeville Society is proud to present the Scratch 'n' Sniff Cabaret!

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Show

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

Mixed Improv Arts

Two Improv Directors go head-to-head as they put a team of improvisers through a set of grueling & hilarious improv formats

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Show

rEvolver Festival 2018: Fuchsia Future

Upintheair Theatre Presents Elysse Cheadle's World Premiere: Fuchsia Future. An absurd portrait of life after loss told through music, existential angst, populist science, and verbatim text from Wikipedia

Vancouver | The Cultch | 9:15 pm to 10:10 pm | Performing Arts

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 | 9:30 pm to 10:45 pm | Performing Arts

Bomb Shelter Comedy Open Mic Thursday in the Comedy Basement at Goldies

The Bomb Shelter Comedy Open Mic goes down every Thursday in the Comedy Basement at Goldies, from 10pm until we run out of comics!

Vancouver | The Comedy Basement at Goldies Pizza | 9:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Comedy | Free