Metro Vancouver events on March 21, 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

Spring Break Mystery in the Museum

Explore the historic cannery and find clues to solve the mystery of the missing fortune, ‘stolen’ from inside the safe of the Plant Manager’s Office, and set during the Great Depression in 1930

Richmond | Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

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

Spring Break Days

Join us for 11 days of Spring Break fun! We're throwing open the gates for 12 fun days

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Kids | 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

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

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

BFA Project 2019: No-Place, No-Time

No-Place, No-Time is an exhibition of SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts' third-year Visual Art students presented in collaboration with Sarah Pierce, the Spring 2019 Audain Visual Artist in Residence

Vancouver | SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 12:00 am to 8:00 pm | Exhibition

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

BECOMING: An Intimate Conversation with Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama's live U.S. book tour events in support of her highly anticipated memoir, BECOMING

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Chan Centre Connects - The Music of Strangers: Y0-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble

Legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma leads viewers on a musical journey with The Silkroad Ensemble—an extraordinarily diverse collective of musicians from around the world who exemplify music’s ability to blur international boundaries and inspire hope

Vancouver | The Cinematheque | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Film

A Vista

Fight With a Stick presents A Vista, the ultimate theatre experience of making the background the main performer

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Arts Club Theatre Company: The Orchard (After Chekhov)

Timeless family drama set in the Okanagan Valley. Inspired by the playwright’s own childhood, this fresh adaptation confronts life, loss, and the Canadian immigrant experience with humour and beauty

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Colin James - Miles to Go Tour

Colin James is a Canadian rock and blues singer and songwriter

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

2019 Sonic Boom Festival: Concert No. 1: Mixed Ensemble concerts

Sonic Boom is a four day festival of exciting new music created by BC’s finest composers, performed by eclectic combinations of some of BC’s finest musicians!

Vancouver | Pyatt Hall | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

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

Kellylee Evans

Experience Juno Award winner, Kellylee Evans, live at the Shadbolt!

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

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

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

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

BC Choral Federation: The Swingles

For more than half a century, The Swingles have pushed the boundaries of vocal music

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Studio 58 presents: Hot House

Fresh takes on the theme of betrayal featuring Studio 58 students as writers, directors, designers, songwriters and performers

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

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

2019 VIDF: Vision Impure

Choreographed by Noam Gagnon, Vision Impure presents the world premiere of their latest work, Pathways – an illumination of the stories we share in relationship to one another, complicated and intensified by urban living

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

12th Planet: 2019 Swamplex Tour

John Dadzie, better known by his musical aliases 12th Planet and Infiltrata is a Los Angeles based dubstep and drum and bass producer and DJ

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music