Metro Vancouver events on May 25, 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

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

rEvolver Festival 2018: The Somewhere Cedar

Upintheair Theatre Presents Jess Amy Shead's World Premiere: The Somewhere Cedar - A teen revolutionaries’ fight to save the oldest known Western Red Cedar in BC

Vancouver | The Cultch | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Festival | 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

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 | 7:00 pm to 8:20 pm | Festival

Lindbjerg Academy Presents Aladdin Jr. & The Odd Couple (scenes)

Join the Homelearners Group and Acting Class in this Double Feature of Aladdin Jr. and Scenes from The Odd Couple, by Neil Simon

Port Moody | Inlet Theatre | 7:00 pm to 8:30 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

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

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 | 7:30 pm to 8:15 pm | Festival

The Colin Mochrie Experience at Vogue Theatre

Watch improv legend, Colin Mochrie, take the stage of the 1200-seat Vogue Theatre

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 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

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

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

May Mayhem by All Star Wrestling Inc.

All Star Wrestling presents May Mayhem. This show will feature former ECW star and The Innovator of Violence Tommy Dreamer!

Vancouver | The Wise Hall & Lounge | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Sports

Late Night Party at The Buck & Ear

DJ - dance floor - drink specials - open till 2AM!

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

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: Distractingly Sexy

Upintheair Theatre Presents Mily Mumford's: Distractingly Sexy. A brief history of women being f.ked over in science

Vancouver | The Cultch | 9:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Performing Arts

The Playground Party Tour

Seven Playgrounds. Drive, bike, or run in between them. The healthiest Party in Town.

Vancouver | Charles Dickens Elementary School | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

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 | 9:30 pm to 10:50 pm | Festival

Darius at Stereotype Fridays

French house DJ/producer Darius plays Celebrities Nightclub on Friday for #StereotypeFridays with support from Galen Allan – DJ + DeathlyChill!

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

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