Metro Vancouver events on October 13, 2018
October 13, 2018
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Festivus Games - Partners!
The Partner format for the Festivus Games returns October 13th 2018!
Coquitlam | Rocky Point Fitness and Health | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports
Nightmare Before Christmas Market
Shop and explore the wacky, weird and wonderful at the 2nd Annual Nightmare Before Christmas Market. Two wicked days featuring a curation of local makers and vendors, food, character appearances and family fun to celebrate and bring out the geek/freak in
New Westminster | 318 Keary St | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Market
Kevin Schmidt - exhibition
Kevin Schmidt is a British Columbia–based artist whose multidisciplinary practice embodies the do-it-yourself sensibilities of an amateur inventor
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Ayumi Goto & Peter Morin: how do you carry the land? - exhibition
Ayumi Goto & Peter Morin: how do you carry the land? is an exhibition that presents the performance art and ongoing collaborations of Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
4th Annual Scarecrow Festival
Art's Nursery's 4th Annual Scarecrow Festival is a fun, family-friendly community event in support of three local charities: OWL (Orphaned Wildlife) Rehab Society, Inclusion Langley Society, and The Versatiles
Surrey | Art's Nursery | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
Surrey Rockhound Club's 2018 Gem Show
The much-anticipated, annual, fun-filled family event will again be taking place this year. The theme this year is “Stones of the Fraser”
Surrey | Sullivan Community Hall | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
18th Annual West Coast Women's Show
Western Canada's largest and most popular women's event is back and better than ever!
Abbotsford | Tradex - Trade & Exhibition Centre | 10:00 am to 9:00 pm | Show
Vancity Showdown
The Westcoast Iron Vancity Showdown Fitness + Performance Weekend returns to the Massey Theatre for another exciting year
New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 10:00 am to 8:00 pm | Sports
Diwali in B.C.
An annual multicultural, multi-disciplinary, inclusive festival which aims to showcase artists from diverse backgrounds and different abilities to celebrate the festival of lights during the annual Indian New Year
Vancouver | Various venues across British Columbia | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Festival
Resource - a 5Rhythms Workshop with Marcia & Bella
Come develop new ways to resource your moving body, draw on your somatic “knowing” and become more adaptive, responsive and powerful
Vancouver | Russian Hall | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Workshop
Clown Gym - Work it Out
This Is For Conditioning! Work Your Clown Muscles! Get Your Weekly Work Out Play Out Here With Us
Vancouver | Dusty Flower Shop | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Comedy
EXchanges Series: Voice & Movement Workshop with Gabriel Dharmoo
Learn the art of voice and sound through an immersive workshop with diverse Montreal-based voice artist Gabriel Dharmoo
Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Workshop
The 20th Vancouver International Improv Festival
The 20th Vancouver International Improv Festival (VIIF) runs October 10-13th on Granville Island and beyond!
Vancouver | 610 E. 13th Avenue | 12:00 am to 10:00 pm | Festival
Fleetwood Labyrinth's 10th Anniversary Celebration
Join others in walking the labyrinth in Fleetwood to the sounds of live, meditative music performed by a harpist or violinist
Surrey | Fleetwood Park | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Testosterone
A funny, fearless, and spectacle-filled exploration of identity, masculinity, and digging deep to find the person within
Vancouver | York Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Performing Arts
Arts Club Theatre Company: Mustard By Kat Sandler
Join this angsty but loving family in a darkly comic tale about growing up, moving on, and finding magic where you least expect it that playwright Kat Sandler calls “writing for the Netflix generation”
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage - Arts Club | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre
CORTEO - Cirque du Soleil
The show brings together the passion of the actor with the grace and power of the acrobat to plunge the audience into a theatrical world of fun, comedy and spontaneity situated in a mysterious space between heaven and earth
Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm | Show
The Piano Teacher By Dorothy Dittrich
Erin, a concert pianist, hasn’t touched a piano since her husband died. As Elaine, a piano teacher, gently reacquaints Erin with her instrument, other life changes follow. A simple update to Erin’s home, for instance, brings the unexpected companionship o
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Performing Arts
Luke Bryan - What Makes You Country Tour
Thomas Luther "Luke" Bryan is an American country music vocalist and singer-songwriter who began his career writing songs for high school friends Travis Tritt and Billy Currington
Vancouver | BC Place | 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music
Body Tuning: Axis Syllabus & Movement Research Vancouver
This 9 week series will offer a progressive program, building on principles and material each week. Registration is open to anyone who is curious about bodies and moving
Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Workshop
Queers & Beers: Cider+Beer
It’s that time of year again! Pop on your favourite plaid shirt, kick up your heels and come join us at Eastside Studios for our third annual Cider Edition of Queers & Beers!
Vancouver | Warehouse at Eastside Studios | 5:00 pm to 1:00 am | Food / Wine
Fort Langley's Grave Tales
Join our expert storytellers for a two- or three-hour program of spine-chilling stories, as you walk through the Fort Langley village at night.
Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 6:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Books
EXchanges 2018 Open Showing
Join us in the Kraul Studio for a showing with the participants of EXchanges 2018! After 4 days of creation, play and learning with Canadian sensation Gabriel Dharmoo, participants in the workshop will present the created material in a final performance
Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 6:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Performing Arts
RAMS – Vancouver Premiere
he Vancouver Premiere Screening of “Rams” hosted by director Gary Hustwit. Co-presented with GDC
Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Film
GSBC presents Navratri Celebration 2018
GSBC is pleased to be hosting three days of Navratri on October 12, 13 and 17, 2018. Our Senior Ladies Cooking Team will be preparing a full Gujarati meal and pooja will be performed by our esteemed Shri Pundit Sharadbhai Shastri
Surrey | Riverside Signature | 6:30 pm to 1:00 am | Party
Oddisee x Evidence - Imperial
MRG Concerts Presents: Oddisee x Evidence with Warm Brew
Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music
John Reischman and the Jaybirds
Like the powerful mandolinist and composer at its helm, John Reischman and the Jaybirds fashion a stylish take on bluegrass that seamlessly blends original songs and instrumentals with Appalachian old-time music for a truly unique band sound
White Rock | Blue Frog Studios | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Whethan
Blueprint Presents: Whethan: A Life of a Wallflower Tour with support from Alexander Lewis & Yoshi Flower
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Luke Bryan - What Makes You Country Tour - XL Stadium Sized
Thomas Luther Bryan is an American country singer and songwriter
Vancouver | BC Place | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Halloween Mystery Nights
Solve a murder mystery on the streets of Gastown this Halloween season. Sign up in teams of 2-5 players to play Vancouver Mysteries game Crime in Downtown and compete for prizes
Vancouver | Vancouver Mysteries | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family
Zee Zee's 5th Annual Drag Annual Glamour Meeting
Where else can you see a drag queen do financials?
Vancouver | XYYVR | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy
Mad Dogs & Vancouverites
A re-imagining of the classic Joe Cocker album. Featuring Matt Andersen, CR Avery, Steve Dawson, Roy Forbes, Rich Hope, Khari Wendell McClelland, Ndidi Onukwulu and Dawn Pemberton
West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Visual Arts
Lions Gate Sinfonia - Beethoven's 5th: The Three B's and Beyond
The combined forces of the brilliant Lions Gate Sinfonia plus our fabulous Lions Gate Youth Orchestra equals a triumphant season opener!
North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
The Radical: Saturday Night Improv!
The Radical returns to North Vancouver for more Saturday Night Improv at the historic Anne MacDonald Hall in front of the Presentation House Theatre. Get ready for a fast-paced nigh of big laughs all inspired by your suggestions!
North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy
Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers
with Lucy Dacus
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:30 pm to 10:55 pm | Music
The Piano Teacher
Erin, a concert pianist, hasn’t touched a piano since her husband died. As Elaine, a piano teacher, gently reacquaints Erin with her instrument, other life changes follow. A simple update to Erin’s home, for instance, brings the unexpected companionship o
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
Upintheair Theatre: A Brief History of Human Extinction
There’s something alive outside the facility, and it would very much like to come in..
Vancouver | Historic Theatrehttp: | 8:00 pm to 9:40 pm | Theatre
Erato Ensemble Presents: Past
Opening the 2018-19 Season, Erato Ensemble Presents a concert filled with music from or about the past. The concert includes legends from the classical repertoire, such as Schubert's Shepherd on the Rock, Dvořák's Songs My Mother Taught Me
Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
James Bay: Electric Light Tour
James Bay is a young singer-songwriter from Hitchin, UK
Vancouver | Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Navratri Festival 2018
Are you ready for NAVRATRI 2018? It's that time of the year that we all wait for! Join us at Crystal at York in Surrey, BC for authentic garba and raas, delicious and free Gujarati food and the most fun you will have this year!
Surrey | Crystal At York | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Party
Hotel California - A Salute to the Eagles
Hotel California’s show has evolved into a masterful celebration of The Eagles’ music and is a must see for any fan
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Arts Club Theatre Company: Mustard
Join this angsty but loving family in a darkly comic tale about growing up, moving on, and finding magic where you least expect it that playwright Kat Sandler calls “writing for the Netflix generation”
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage - Arts Club | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre
Testosterone
A funny, fearless, and spectacle-filled exploration of identity, masculinity, and digging deep to find the person within
Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
Diwali in BC: SACHA - A Vancouver Guldusta
A Vancouver Guldasta is an examination of common experience, identifying home, and processing trauma
Vancouver | Culture Lab | 8:00 pm to 9:40 pm | Theatre
Whitish, multi-cultural storytelling
Stories from multi-cultural Canadians. Award winning storyteller Jo Dworschak assembles her favourite bi-racial, multi-cultural storytellers to share insight on the perils, the positivity of being a multi-cultural Canadian with Ava Julien, Armin Mortazavi
Vancouver | Havana Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre
Vagabond Players: The Haunting of Hill House
Cut off from the outside world by its remote location and shunned by all who know its forbidding and sinister reputation, Hill House has remained empty and silent except for the daily visits of its grumbling caretaker, Mrs. Dudley
New Westminster | The Bernie Legge Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
Kill Me Now by Brad Fraser
Jake is a single dad and cares for his teen son Joey, who has as a severe disability. Handling Joey’s puberty is hard enough, but when Jake develops a serious medical condition, he becomes the one to rely on the people around him
Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
Divas: Vegas Meets Vaudeville
What do Marilyn Monroe, Dolly Parton and Cher have in common with Edith Bunker, Mae West, and Lady Gaga? Answer: BONNIE KILROE and her one-woman tour de force Divas: Vegas Meets Vaudeville
Langley | Chief Sepass Theatre | 8:07 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
I Know What I Saw
A party. An argument. A fight. A tragedy. Everybody’s sure of what they saw, but nobody’s really sure of what happened. This fall’s Risky Nights offering looks at the idea of truth, and examines how each person’s biases and assumptions colour their worldv
Vancouver | Studio 58 Langara College | 8:15 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre
Gyptian Live in Vancouver
Konektion Ent Faction Sound Atlantik Star presents Gyptian Live in Vancouver
Vancouver | Korean Cultural Center | 9:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music
Cash Cash
With guests
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:55 pm | Music
WorkLessParty party - Masquerade Ball - Civic Election Edition
Masquerade Ball - WorkLessParty Party is back!!! And this is "The Civic Election Edition" fundraiser event and support for our sole candidate for Parks Board Mathew Kagis
Vancouver | The Waldorf Hotel | 9:00 pm to 2:00 am | Party