Metro Vancouver events on February 1, 2019

Contemporary Art Gallery presents Kameelah Janan Rasheed

Kameelah Janan Rasheed: An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations. Window spaces

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

B.C. Binning Gallery: Anne Low - Chair for a woman

The Contemporary Art Gallery announces Chair for a woman is Anne Low’s first solo exhibition in a Canadian public gallery

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

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

Alvin Balkind Gallery: Aslan Gaisumov - If No One Asks

The Contemporary Art Gallery announces the first solo presentation of Aslan Gaisumov’s work in North America

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

PuSh Festival presents BERLIN - Zvizdal (Chernobyl – so far so close)

Members of the Antwerp-based art collective BERLIN spent five years filming Nadia and Pétro Opanassovitch Lubenoc, an elderly couple living deep within the irradiated Chernobyl exclusion zone in a place called Zvizdal

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 4:00 pm to 5:20 pm | Performing Arts

Tracyanne & Danny

Tracyanne & Danny is a new collaborative project between singer-songwriters Tracyanne Campbell (Camera Obscura) and Danny Coughlan (Crybaby)

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

pARTy@PdA: Books with Burgundy

Learn to make your own book with artist Dawn Livera. Using traditional and some unconventional techniques, Dawn will inspire you to explore your creativity and make each book a personal artistic statement

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Workshop

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

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by UBC Opera

Die Zauberflöte, better known by its English title The Magic Flute, is one of Mozart’s most beloved works

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

Muzewest Concerts presents Han Chen, piano by Müzewest Concerts

Hailed by the New York Times as a pianist with “a graceful touch … rhythmic precision … hypnotic charm,” (2012) and “sure, subtle touch,” (2014) Han Chen is a prize winner at many major competitions for both traditional and avant-garde music

Vancouver | Spirit Of Life Lutheran Church | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Matthew Good - Solo Acoustic Tour

Canadian rock musician Matthew Good was the lead singer and songwriter one of the most successful alternative rock bands in Canada prior to establishing his multiple award winning solo career

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Indian Ink Theatre Company: Mrs. Krishnan’s Party

Canadian premiere. Indians throw crazy parties. Heard of Diwali? A million lamps floating on a river and fireworks to wake the dead. Heard of Holi? An explosion of colour and joy and massive dry cleaning bills

Vancouver | BC Place | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Firehall Arts Centre presents: Circle Game - Reimagining The Music Of Joni Mitchell

This powerful interpretation of Joni Mitchell music returns to the Firehall stage

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Sølvi Edvardsen: MAN - New Works at Night Series

MAN explores the possibilities of scenic expression based on one dancer’s potential – the maximal in the minimal

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Surrey Little Theatre: Night Watch

A woman sees a dead body in the window of the abandoned building across the way from her home. Her husband tries to comfort her but believes she is still affected by an earlier tragedy

Surrey | Surrey Little Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Studio 58 presents Cabaret

Welcome to the infamous Kit Kat Klub, where the Emcee, Sally Bowles and a raucous ensemble take the stage nightly to tantalize the crowd – and to leave their troubles outside

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

PuSh Festival presents Camille Boitel in l'Homme de Hus

An adventure for performer and audience alike, Camille Boitel’s raucous embodiment of the title character in this amazingly physical performance piece will have you laughing out loud one minute and staring in wonder the next

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

VSO Masterworks Gold

Maestro Bramwell Tovey makes his return as VSO Music Director Emeritus after eighteen extraordinary years as the longest-serving Music Director in the VSO’s century-long history

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

An Align Entertainment Inc. Production: Annie

Align Entertainment presents the family favourite Annie: The Musical. Annie is based on the popular comic strip by Harold Gray, and it has become a worldwide phenomenon

Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

North Vancouver Community Players: Drinking Alone By Norm Foster

In this romantic comedy set in the midst of a dysfunctional family reunion, Joe Todd hires Rene Duchene to pose as his fiancée for an evening so that he can impress his father, Ivan

North Vancouver | Hendry Hall | 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!

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Brain & Other Stories

Come for a two-part performance by former Canadian poetry SLAM champ Brendan McLeod

Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Jim Byrnes with Mainstreet Muze

James Thomas Kevin Byrnes is an American blues musician, guitarist, and actor

North Vancouver | Deep Cove Stage Society | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

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

PuSh Festival presents BERLIN (Belgium) - Zvizdal (Chernobyl – so far so close)

Members of the Antwerp-based art collective BERLIN spent five years filming Nadia and Pétro Opanassovitch Lubenoc, an elderly couple living deep within the irradiated Chernobyl exclusion zone in a place called Zvizdal

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:20 pm | Performing Arts

Arts Club Theatre Company: The Matchmaker

Mix-ups and matchups in a classic farce. Experience the pandemonium of this classic—and the inspiration for Hello, Dolly!—that embraces the unexpected in a truly modern way

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Arts Club Theatre Company: True Crime

Created by Torquil Campbell and Chris Abraham, in collaboration with Julian Brown

Vancouver | Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 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

Global Dance Connections: The Dance Centre presents Victoria Hunt. Copper Promises: Hinemihi Haka

Australian dance artist Victoria Hunt’s spellbinding solo Copper Promises embodies the cultural and physical journey of Hinemihi – a female ancestor

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance