Metro Vancouver events on March 12, 2019

Displacement

This exhibition of contemporary works from the Gallery's collection features art that evokes displacement as a tool to elicit viewer reactions ranging from empathy and understanding, to the unexpected and disruptive

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Affinities: Canadian Artists and France

This exhibition of works from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Collection focuses on influences of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Surrealism on Canadian artists during the first half of the twentieth century

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Mowry Baden

This exhibition comprises internationally acclaimed Victoria-based artist Mowry Baden’s work from the late 1960s to the present

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Discovering Exoplanets

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is brand new space-based telescope that is currently discovering exoplanets in our solar neighbourhood.

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 12:00 am to 12:45 am | Lecture

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

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

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

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

Growing Room 2019: An Afternoon of Indigenous Brilliance (UBC Creative Writing)

An Afternoon of Indigenous Brilliance brings three of the authors from Growing Room’s day-long Indigenous Brilliance celebration to UBC’s Vancouver campus

Vancouver | BC Point Grey Campus, Irving K Barber Learning Centre, Room 185 | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Books | Free

America and the Climate Crisis

Join this talk by Winona LaDuke, a rural development economist, Executive Director of Honor the Earth, and acclaimed author, as she explores Indigenous issues as related to climate change

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Lecture

KPU & Science World: Speaker Series. Kids These Days: Media Representation vs Lived Reality

Join us for our third season of talks that work to engage, entertain and educate guests with fascinating insights into the world of science

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Lecture | Free

Movies in the Morgue - Thelma and Louise

Movies in the Morgue has returned! This time around we have got a year’s worth of high speed chases, heists, and grand theft auto waiting for you in the Old City Morgue

Vancouver | Vancouver Police Museum | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Film

National Geographic Live: Ocean Soul

National Geographic Live and the Vancouver Civic Theatres present: Ocean Soul with Brian Skerry

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

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

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Nick Mason: Saucerful of Secrets

Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets is crossing the Atlantic for their first North American tour

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Growing Room 2019: Room Magazine’s Youth Reading

Come hear what the latest up and coming writers are doing with their creative work

Vancouver | Massy Books | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Books | Free

Growing Room 2019: Transcendent: Writing & Surviving in a Cissexist Society

In recent years, readers have been blessed with a profusion of ground-breaking, skilled writing by transgender authors

Vancouver | Red Gate Revue Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Books

Arts Club Theatre Company: Redpatch

The story of an Indigenous soldier. Redpatch tells a part of this story through the eyes of a soldier from the Nuu-chah-nulth nation of Vancouver Island

Vancouver | Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Reverberations by Presentation House Theatre

Memories contain reverberations. In this site-specific performance piece, actor and sound designer, Brian Linds, explores memories through the sounds of a family’s history

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Noname

Fatimah Nyeema Warner, better known by her stage name Noname, is an American rapper and poet. Warner is from the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, where she began rapping and performing slam poetry in 2010

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music