Metro Vancouver events on October 13, 2018

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