Metro Vancouver events on January 19, 2019

January 19, 2019

Sat

Hands-On Firefighting Workshop for Women

Curious about a firefighting career? Discover first-hand what it takes at a hands-on firefighting workshop for women and persons that identify as female, including transgender individuals

Vancouver | VFRS Training Centre | 7:30 am to 3:30 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

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

The Illusionists - Live From Broadway

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

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Show

Pacific Theatre: A Prayer for Owen Meany by Simon Bent

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

Vancouver | Pacific Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 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 | 4:00 pm to 5:45 pm | Theatre

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

A Celebration of Robbie Burns Buffet and Concert

Join us in our annual celebration of Scotland’s National Bard, Robbie Burns!

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Geeks versus Nerds - Ep 47: Royal Rumble!

Ladies, gentleman, and folks of all ages! We're starting 2019 with a match up of majesty and a cavalcade of killer! It's time...for A Royal Rumble!

Vancouver | XYYVR | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

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 John Luther Adams: Become Ocean

In a program zoomusicologist Emily Doolittle’s Reedbird - a direct transcription of the fast, bubbly song of the bobolink, slowed and expanded so that human listeners can appreciate its complexity and tonal richness

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

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

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

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

Colter Wall

with guests

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:55 pm | Music

The Dirty Betty Show

A comedic variety show perfect for your saucy night out

Vancouver | Little Mountain Comedy Departmen | 10:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Comedy