Metro Vancouver events on June 28, 2018

World Cup 2018 At Second Floor Eatery + Bar

It's Almost Here!! The 2018 Fifa World Cup will be featured at Second Floor Eatery + Bar

Vancouver | Second Floor Eatery + Bar | 5:00 am to 3:00 pm | Sports

David Milne: Modern Painting - exhibition

Organized by the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in collaboration with the Vancouver Art Gallery, with exceptional support of the National Gallery of Canada. The exhibition is curated by Ian A C Dejardin and Sarah Milroy

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

Dorothea Lange - exhibition

The exhibition title is borrowed from the idiomatic expression for an anxious state of mind resulting from a prolonged stay in a remote or confined place

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Site Unseen - exhibition

Site Unseen places lens-based works from the Gallery’s permanent collection in dialogue with select loans to explore the way contemporary photographic artists--who start with a documentary impulse to record the landscape - use diverse strategies to create

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Promethean Theatre presents Saint Joan

Saint Joan, written by George Bernard Shaw, is the miraculous story of “The Maid”, Joan of Arc - a small-town farm girl who defied society and religion to become a military leader and changed the history of her nation

Burnaby | Ecole Cariboo Hill Secondary School | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Glitter is Forever: QAF 2018 Queeraoke Closing Party

QAF’s final blowout - revel in community, effervescent refreshments, and karaoke with glitter

Vancouver | The Junction | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Party

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

Coastal Jazz: Emmet Cohen Trio featuring Houston Person

Dynamic and multifaceted American pianist/composer Emmet Cohen’s elegant introspection, neo-classical flourishes, and bravura bebop chops are “guaranteed to make the walls sweat” (WGBO)

Vancouver | Pyatt Hall | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Once by Edna Walsh

An enchanting guy-meets-girl musical. A Dublin street musician is struggling through heartbreak and frustrated with his songs when he chances upon a girl who challenges him to go for his dream.

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Musical

CAMELOT, the Musical by Lerner and Loewe

Will Princess Guenevere be the best thing that ever happened to Arthur or the downfall of an empire?

North Vancouver | Deep Cove Stage Society | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Acceleration by Stone's Throw Productions and Pacific Theatre

It’s 2011. The world’s top physicists are searching for the Higgs boson, the famous “missing piece” in our model of the universe. Graduate student Elise, who is struggling to piece back her own world in the midst of unsolved questions, joins the search

Vancouver | Pacific Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

My Funny Valentine

In 2008, 15-year-old Lawrence King asked a boy in his class to be his valentine. The next day that boy shot him, and King died two days later...

Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Pearle Harbour’s Chautauqua

Chautauqua is an immersive extravaganza: Part Tragicomedy. Part Tent Revival. Part Drag.

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

David Hidalgo & Marc Ribot Duo

Separately, Los Lobos frontman David Hildago and guitarist Marc Ribot (of Ceramic Dog and frequent collaborations - Tom Waits, Lounge Lizards, Elvis Costello) mesmerize with diverse string-based stylings

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Pugs & Crows with Sam Tudor

Celebrating the release of their phenomenal new album Uncle!, Pugs & Crows incorporate influences from tango and chamber music to avant rock and John Zorn

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | 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

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 | Performing Arts | Free