Metro Vancouver events on January 18, 2019

Veronica Roth: Lost Stories Found

Veronica Roth is best known for her watercolour, ink, and chalk mixed media paintings on vintage and antique paper

North Vancouver | North Vancouver District Hall | 8:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

Kameelah Janan Rasheed

The Contemporary Art Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in Canada by Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator Kameelah Janan Rasheed

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Lights at Lafarge 2018

It's back! Metro Vancouver’s largest, free outdoor lights display at Coquitlam’s Town Centre Park kicks off

Coquitlam | Lafarge Lake | 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Family | Free

The Illusionists by Broadway Across Canada

This mind-blowing spectacular showcases the jaw-dropping talents of the most incredible Illusionists on earth

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Show

New Music Festival. VSO Plays Nicole Lizée & Vivier: Lonely Child

Claude Viver’s beautiful, ethereal Lonely Child – a piece drawing from the Balinese gamelan tradition that was, according to the composer, “a long song of solitude”

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

UBC Theatre - Lion in the Streets

Award-winning Canadian playwright Judith Thompson’s seminal play Lion in the Streets centres around Isobel, the ghost of a murdered nine-year-old Portuguese girl

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Corey Hamm, piano. Music on the Point, Concerts with Personality

A hyper-virtuosic journey through four of the greatest piano sonatas of the last century

Vancouver | UBC Music Building | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Cory Weeds Quintet featuring Roy McCurdy

CD Release: Cannonball Adderley: Swingin' In Seattle, Live At The Penthouse

Vancouver | Frankie's Jazz Club | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

The Odd Couple (Female Version)

Easy-going and neurotic personalities clash when two women become roommates.

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

The Comic Strippers

Back by popular demand! A male stripper parody and improv comedy show

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

PuSh Festival presents DanceNorth Australia in Attractor

This supremely rousing show begins with two musicians and eight dancers onstage. Indonesian duo Senyawa plays operatic, heavy metal-inflected music spiced with ritual and folk idioms from their native country

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

PuSh Festival presents Adrienne Truscott in Asking for It

Feisty, funny and very nearly naked, Adrienne Truscott stirs it up in this inventive, outrageous show about… rape

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Performing Arts

A Prayer for Owen Meany by Simon Bent

An epic tale of faith, absurdity, and the power of a single voice

Vancouver | Pacific Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Arts Club Theatre Company: Blind Date

Experience all the exhilaration and excitement of new love as Mimi goes on a blind date with a different man every night—plucked right out of the audience!

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Murder on Reserve by Thomas Hischak

In small town Illinois things are a little too quiet, even for the Reference Section of the public library. A body is discovered and big city cops are called in

Vancouver | Metro Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Dakh Daughters

Seven actresses take musical instruments into their hands in order to create a life-affirming performance about love, freedom, and beauty which at the end of the day—will save the world

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts