Metro Vancouver events on March 15, 2019

March 15, 2019

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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

Lynne Cohen: These Walls

Lynne Cohen is best known for her photographs of institutional interior spaces. Generally inaccessible to the public, these spaces include medical laboratories, private offices, factories, shooting ranges and military installations

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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

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

VIDF 2019: Life Drawing Sessions

Join us in the Roundhouse Exhibition Hall for FREE noon hour life drawing sessions every weekday beginning Thursday, March 14th through Friday, March 29th

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 12:00 am to 1:00 pm | Visual Arts | 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

Brahms & Franck with Bo Peng, Gene Ramsbottom and Libby Yu

Out For Lunch–A Friday Afternoon Concert Series

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 12:10 am to 1:30 pm | Music

G.E.M. World Tour

G.E.M. Deng Ziqi's new world tour Queen of Hearts is based on the theme of playing cards

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

84,000 Ways to Raise a Child - Queerest and Dearest Fundraising Concert

Come hear the wonderful Vancouver Children's Choir, Argyle Embargo, and Clarity Harp and support a worthy cause

Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Canucks vs. Devils

The regular season game

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

Insomnia Festival presents Insomnia 2019

#INSOMNIA2019: ft. Alesso, Vini Vici, Coone, Ben Nicky & DAIJO

Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

The Royal Canadian Theatre Company : A Bedfull of Foreigners

Fawlty Towers meets Benny Hill in this hilarious, face-paced farce with a succession of enough disasters and misunderstandings, twists and turns to create the perfect comedy of chaos… and just the thing for an end-of-winter celebration

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

Growing Room 2019: Writing Across Intersection: Asian Diaspora

Asian Canadian and diasporic literature is much more than a singular narrative of immigration stories

Vancouver | Native Education College | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Books

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

UBC School of Music: UBC Symphony Orchestra

Carlos Savall Guardiola clarinet (2nd place winner of the 2018 UBC Concerto Competition)

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

Compagnie Marie Chouinard (Montreal). Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights

In honour of the 500th anniversary of the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, choreographer Marie Chouinard creates a living canvas, embodying the seething, heaving fecundity of Bosch’s most infamous masterpiece

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

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

CapU Theatre Series: 9 to 5 the Musical

Based on the 1980 hit movie. Three female coworkers concoct a plan to get even with their sexist, egotistical, lying, and hypocritical boss

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical

Masterworks Gold & Symphony Sundays Series: Kadouch Plays Beethoven

Highly-decorated French pianist David Kadouch makes his VSO debut performing Beethoven’s dramatic, ferocious Piano Concerto No. 3, a work by a composer whose great creative genius is on full display

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

Hot Brown Honey

Packing a punch of hip hop politics, the Honeys will make you laugh, cry, clap and shake what your mama gave you. This stellar posse of phenomenal women make noise as they defiantly smash stereotypes and remix the system

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:20 pm | Performing Arts

2019 VIDF: Manuel Roque

bang bang is a personal—and therefore universal—contemporary ritual that allows the body to express itself at its most combative and desperate, at its most free

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Jesus Freak by Peter Boychuk

The Campbell family prides themselves on their West Coast open-mindedness — until their daughter puts it to the test

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

Cheech and Chong

Iconic comedy legends Cheech and Chong defined an era with their stand-up routines and hilarious films in the 1970s and 1980s

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Show

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 | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

Music Sea to Sea: The Farewell Tour

The Farewell Tour, which will be toured across Canada, will feature our all-time Top Ten List including Bach’s Lobet den Herrn, Debussy’s Trois chansons, Britten’s Hymn to St Cecilia and more

Vancouver | Shaughnessy Heights United Church | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Firehall Arts Centre presents: Marine Life

Ruby Slippers Theatre in association with The Firehall Arts Centre is proud to produce the Western Canadian premiere production of Marine Life by Rosa Laborde

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

Global Fridays St. Paddy's Party

Green beer for the first 200 people

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Party

Antonio Larosa

Antonio Larosa is a singer-songwriter and guitar player hailing from Burnaby

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Double Overtime

Double Overtime has been playing funk, soul, R&B, rock, and pop tunes for decades, setting us apart from the rest with our versatility, energy and showmanship

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music | Free

Matoma

Tom Stræte Lagergren, professionally known as Matoma, is a Norwegian DJ and record producer

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Insomnia 2019 After-Party [Open til 4AM]

#INSOMNIA2019 Official After-Party w. Special guests

Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 4:00 am | Party