Metro Vancouver events on October 14, 2018

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

Yoga at the Museum

Breathe in, breath out in the museum galleries! Enjoy an instructor led Hatha Yoga session before the museum opens to the public. Afterward, enjoy refreshments and a tour of the galleries

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Active Life / Health

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

Family Sunday by Surrey Art Gallery

Drop in to create, explore, and enjoy art with friends and family!

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

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 | 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Show

Diwali in BC: A Vancouver Guldusta

A Vancouver Guldasta is an examination of common experience, identifying home, and processing trauma

Vancouver | Culture Lab | 2:00 pm to 3:40 pm | Theatre

Movie Screening - Nightmare Before Christmas

We are screening Disney's Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

New Westminster | Sapperton Pensioners Hall | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Market

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: | 2:00 pm to 3:40 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Brad Fraser: Kill Me Now

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 | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre

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

Blood N Guts: 48 Hour Horror Film Screening

Blood N Guts is a Vancouver wide indie horror film competition open to EVERYONE where contestants have 48 hours to write, shoot and edit a short horror film under 5 minutes

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 5:45 pm to 8:30 pm | Film

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

Mbombo ~ African Healing Rhythms Journey for Women

Experience African Wisdom Teachings for daily living in the Modern World and the Healing Powers of African Rhythm Therapy

Vancouver | Bridge & Enrich Lives Society | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Active Life / Health

Diwali in BC: SACHA - A Vancouver Guldusta

A Vancouver Guldasta is an examination of common experience, identifying home, and processing trauma

Vancouver | Culture Lab | 7:00 pm to 8:40 pm | Theatre

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

Early Show: Teon Gibbs

Teon Gibbs is a Spotify curated Hip-Hop and RnB act based out of Vancouver, blending soul and vocal samples over dark nocturnal 808 driven production

Vancouver | Guilt & Company | 7:00 pm to 9:00 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

Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids Vancouver

Travel back in time to remember the good, bad, and awkward parts of growing up. Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids is a live, open-mic storytelling event where courageous adults share their childhood and teenage writing on stage

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Comedy

Benham Bani Live in Concert

Behnam Bani - Iranian Singer

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music