Metro Vancouver events on May 31, 2018

2018 FINA Artistic Swimming World Series - Canada

Synchro Canada and Synchro BC are pleased to invite you to FINA Artistic Swimming World Series event #7 – Canada

Surrey | Surrey Sport & Leisure Complex | 6:00 am to 6:00 pm | Sports

TEDxWhite Rock

TED is a global community, welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world. We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world

White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 8:30 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture

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

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

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

Imagine White Rock

TEDxWhite Rock free Live Stream at the Museum and Happy Hour After Party!

White Rock | White Rock Museum and Archives | 10:00 am to 9:00 pm | Party

2018 Vancouver International Children's Festival

Head down to Granville Island for the Vancouver International Children’s Festival May 28 to June 3, 2018!

Vancouver | Granville Island | 10:30 am to 5:00 pm | Kids

The Wizard of Oz - Junior shows

Pulse Dance presents The Wizard of Oz - Junior shows by Pulse Dance Centre

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Show

rEvolver Festival 2018: Macbeth Muet

Upintheair Theatre Presents La Fille du Laitier's West Coast Premiere Macbeth Muet. Two actors perform Shakespeare's Macbeth, without words

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:00 pm to 9:00 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

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

The Wizard of Oz - Senior shows

Pulse Dance presents The Wizard of Oz - Senior shows by Pulse Dance Centre

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

rEvolver Festival 2018: Saddest Girl at the Party

Upintheair Theatre Presents Francesca Frewer and Erika Mitsuhashi's: The Saddest Girl at the Party - An ode to the attempt, the wishing and the not-quite

Vancouver | Jim Green House Studio | 8:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Festival

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

C’Mon, Angie!

The morning after a one-night stand, questions of consent lead to a highly charged confrontation....

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

You Can't Take It With You By George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart

Freedom, love, and fireworks collide in this hilarious and heartwarming comedy!

New Westminster | The Bernie Legge Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Specials - Maestro Bramwell Tovey: A Gala Celebration

Join the VSO, Maestro Bramwell Tovey, and an all-star roster of guests for a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of Maestro Tovey’s unprecedented 18-year tenure as VSO Music Director

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Hot Music with Teddy Mike Live!

Hot Music Debuts Thursday May 31st with non stop 70's & 80's disco street soul & boogie with Deejays Daniel R, Amna, DJ D.DEE, MY!GAY!HUSBAND! + Special Guest via Brazil Teddy Mike Live!

Vancouver | Fortune Sound Club | 9:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

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. Kitt and Jane: An Interactive Survival Guide to the Near-Post-Apocalyptic Future

Two fourteen-year-old unlikely heroes hijack their school assembly to deliver a message: our society is set to collapse into chaos, and they’re here to train you to survive!

Vancouver | Vancity Culture Lab | 9:30 pm to 10:45 pm | Festival

Digital Motion presents CloZee

Digital Motion proudly presents the Red Room debut of electronic music producer: CloZee

Vancouver | The Red Room | 9:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music

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