Metro Vancouver events on March 17, 2019
March 17, 2019
Sun
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
Growing Room 2019: Keynote: Canisia Lubrin
Join us at Big Rock Vancouver Brewery for breakfast and a very special end-of-festival keynote and reflection with Canisia Lubrin, editor, critic educator and awards-nominated cross-genre writer of Voodoo Hypothesis
Vancouver | Big Rock Vancouver Brewery & Eatery | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Festival
Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market
Located on the PNE Fairgrounds between the Forum & the Agrodome, the Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market brings fresh local goods every Sunday from November-April
Vancouver | 2901 E Hastings St | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market
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
The Rogue Folk Club presents The Rogue Folkies Jam - Acoustic Old Time, Folk and Bluegrass
Do you play a musical instrument? Are you interested in playing/singing with other musicians in a jam session setting? Come to Aberthau Mansion at the West Point Grey Community Centre on a Sunday morning
Vancouver | West Point Grey Community Centre | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm | Music | Free
Elephant & Piggie's "We Are in a Play!"
Elephant and Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!” is a delightful new musical about two bestest friends and their many adventures
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 11:00 am to 12:00 am | Kids
Spring Lab 2019
Spring Lab is back! Discover interactive drop-in activities, live science shows and our newest feature exhibition, A Mirror Maze: Numbers in Nature.
Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Kids
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
Lights Up Theatre Schools 'From The Page to the Stage'
Lights Up Musical Theatre Schools students come together to perform 'From the Page to the Stage' at Vancouver's Playhouse, featuring musicals inspired by books. Proceeds from this event will benefit the Vancouver children's charity Kidsafe.ca
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 12:30 am to 7:00 pm | Performing Arts
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 | 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Theatre
Girls in Technology - Jr. & Guerilla Girls
New Media Gallery - Innovation Week. We are excited to offer Girls in Technology!
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Kids
Elephant & Piggie's "We Are in a Play!" by Carousel Theatre for Young People
Elephant and Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!” is a delightful new musical about two bestest friends and their many adventures
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Kids
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 | 2:00 pm to 4:30 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music
The 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre
2019 VIDF: V'ni Dansi
Red River Special is inspired from the resilient and spirited ancestral dances and music of the Métis. These dances pay homage to ancestral ties and to the evolution of Métis dance today
Vancouver | Woodward's Atrium | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Dance | Free
CAG Exhibition Tour in Spanish
Join Valentina Acevedo Montilla for a tour of the current exhibitions in Spanish
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
2019 VIDF: Harbour ITP & Platform
Joining ITP is another HDC pre-professional training company, Platform. Creating an environment of freedom for high caliber movement artists to share their inner voices
Vancouver | Woodward's Atrium | 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Workshop | Free
Firehall Arts Centre: 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 | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Theatre
Music on the Point Concerts with Personality Stravinsky L’Histoire du soldat
Robert Taylor, conductor; Faculty and guest performers
Vancouver | UBC Music Building | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
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
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
Siavash Ghomayshi, Kamran & Hooman, Faramarz Aslani
Buzzermedia proudly presents One Night Four Stars - Siavash Ghomayshi, Faramarz Aslani, Kamran & Hooman
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
The Cat Empire
Stolen Diamonds Tour with guests
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:30 pm to 11:55 pm | Music