Metro Vancouver events on February 23, 2019
February 23, 2019
Sat
Panther Cheer – Mardi Parti
7th Annual ‘Mardi Parti’ Cheer Extravaganza
Richmond | Richmond Olympic Oval | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Sports
The BC Home and Garden Show
The BC Home and Garden Show returns to BC Place! Celebrating its 48th anniversary, the show offers real advice, real inspiration and real experts to British Columbians
Vancouver | BC Place | 10:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition
The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Eric Carle Favorites
Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia's magical black light puppetry returns
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 11:00 am to 12:00 am | Kids
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
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
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
Hopwired Festival 2019
Featuring local, national, and international craft beer and third-wave coffee. Hopwired encourages partnership between craft beer and coffee roasters to make beverages that are fruity, flowery, tangy, spicey, nutty, chocolately, sweet, sour, soft, mild, a
Vancouver | Croatian Centre | 1:00 pm to 5:30 pm | Food / Wine
Urban Ink: Children of God
In this powerful musical, the children of an Oji-Cree family are sent to a residential school in Northern Ontario. This is a story of redemption: for a mother who was never let past the school’s gate, and her kids, who never knew she came
Vancouver | York Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:50 pm | Musical
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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
The 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre
The Arts Club Theatre Company: The Shoplifters
Comic mishaps for society’s haves and have-nots
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre
First Impressions Theatre: Church Basement Ladies
Church Basement Ladies is a musical comedy featuring four distinct characters and their relationships
North Vancouver | Deep Cove Stage Society | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
Studio 58: 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 | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Theatre
Carousel Theatre for Young People: The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Eric Carle Favorites
Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia's magical black light puppetry returns
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Kids
Circle Game
Circle Game reinterprets Mitchell’s iconic songs such as “Big Yellow Taxi,” “River,” “California,” and “A Case of You” through the ears and eyes of a new generation, connecting to the politics and world we know today
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Theatre
Common Kings
Get lost in paradise with California-based Polynesian band, Common Kings, bringing their smooth blend of rock, soul, and reggae for an early show w/ special guest Nattali Rize
Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Telling Stories with Shadows: A Workshop with Manual Cinema
Award-winning Chicago performance collective Manual Cinema combines handmade shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, and innovative sound and music to create immersive visual stories for stage and screen.
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free
Canucks vs. Islanders
The regular season game
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports
LOL-apalooza
Join us on Saturday and get a little crazy for a good cause! The evening features stand up sets from comedians Yumi Nagashima and Steev Letts and a live musical set from Light Organ Records artist, Fake Shark
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:03 pm to 10:30 pm | Performing Arts
VIMFF: Mountain Bike Night - Canadian, Mountain Culture, Mountain Sports
Bikepacking through the world’s highest mountain ranges
North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Film
Vancouver Cantata Singers: Musica Universalis: Music of the Spheres
Musica Universalis, or ‘universal music’, refers to an ancient philosophical concept that the movement of celestial bodies create their own music based the mathematical proportions and vibrations of their inter-relational orbits
Vancouver | Blusson Spinal Chord Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
Vancouver Chopin Society: Tobias Koch
This new release featuring the German pianist Tobias Koch offers something uncommonly fresh and entrancing, a journey through the world of Polish character pieces from before, during and even after Chopin’s time
Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra: The Resounding Earth - Featuring music by Jocelyn Morlock
Five hundred years of spatial music. Conductor William Rowson
Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
Musica Universalis: Music of the Spheres
Musica Universalis, or ‘universal music’, refers to an ancient philosophical concept that the movement of celestial bodies create their own music based the mathematical proportions and vibrations of their inter-relational orbits
Vancouver | Blusson Spinal Cord Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
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
Carnaval de Barranquilla en Vancouver 2019
GPA Live Concerts te vuelve a traer a Vancouver el "Carnaval de Barranquilla 2019"
Vancouver | Hungarian Hall | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
Children of God
In this powerful musical, the children of an Oji-Cree family are sent to a residential school in Northern Ontario. This is a story of redemption: for a mother who was never let past the school’s gate, and her kids, who never knew she came
Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:50 pm | Musical
Classical Traditions at the Chan Centre: Goldberg & Holberg
Extraordinary violinist Henning Kraggerud leads from the violin in a program that includes Grieg’s brilliant Holberg Suite, as well as a new arrangement of Bach’s watershed Goldberg Variations
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm | Music
Jeffrey Sutorius [fka Dash Berlin] w. Wildstylez
Vancouver!! He is back!!! Jeffrey Sutorius returns to Vancouver at the Harbour Convention Centre with special guest Wildstylez.
Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 8:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music
JFL NorthWest in association with SiriusXM: We Know Nothing About Art
Do you love art? Does art confuse you? Have you ever though that art historians could just be making everything up on the spot?
Vancouver | Little Mountain Gallery | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy
JFL NorthWest in association with SiriusXM Canada presents: Kurt Metzger
Kurt Metzger is an Emmy and Peabody Award winning writer and producer. He is best known for his work on Inside Amy Schumer where he earned two Emmy nominations and one win
Vancouver | the Comedy MIX | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Comedy
VSO with Henning Kraggerud
Presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as part of the Classical Traditions series at the Chan Centre
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free
Vagabond Players: Rabbit Hole
Becca and Howie Corbett have a picture perfect family life in the suburbs of New York until a random, tragic accident takes the life of their four-year old son
New Westminster | The Bernie Legge Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
Arts Club Theatre Company: The Shoplifters
Comic mishaps for society’s haves and have-nots
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre
Up and Coming
In this zany farce, potential Prime Ministerial candidate, Philip Conway is not having a good night. While at a political conference at a Brighton hotel, he is on the verge of a full-blown sex scandal!
Vancouver | Metro Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
Kidd Pivot: Created by Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young - Revisor | World Premiere
From choreographer Crystal Pite and writer/director Jonathon Young comes Revisor, a new dance/theatre hybrid that mixes classic farce and the forces of radical change into a fizzing concoction that confounds expectations and inverts the official order
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance
The Firehall Arts Centre production of: Circle Game
Circle Game reinterprets Mitchell’s iconic songs such as “Big Yellow Taxi,” “River,” “California,” and “A Case of You” through the ears and eyes of a new generation, connecting to the politics and world we know today
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
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
JFL NorthWest: Hey, it’s me, Reggie Watts
Reggie Watts is an internationally renowned Musician/Comedian/Writer/Actor who currently stars as the bandleader on CBS’s The Late Late Show with James Corden.
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 9:00 pm to 11:15 pm | Comedy
The Philosopher Kings With guests
The Philosopher Kings are a Canadian band who were most commercially successful in the late 1990s
Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 9:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Non-Stop Disco Party
Join us for an evening of vintage dance music as we put four to the floor in tribute to disco glamour from the 70s until 90s
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Party