Metro Vancouver events on March 22, 2019
March 22, 2019
Fri
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
Adad Hannah - The Decameron Retold
HaAdad nnah’s, The Decameron Retold, is a newly commissioned artwork by the Richmond Art Gallery based on the 14th-century literary work, The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio
Richmond | Richmond Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
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
Astra Taylor: What is Democracy?
Join us for a free screening of What is Democracy?, followed by a conversation with director Astra Taylor
Vancouver | SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Film | Free
Teen Angst Night
Teen Angst Night is a comedic reading series. Readers can share anything (poetry, songs, letters, journals, diaries, essays, stories, plays, lists, etc)
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy
Vancouver Warriors vs. Colorado Mammoth
The Vancouver Warriors are a professional box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports
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
Mystery at Greenfingers (by J. B. Priestley)
In the closed Greenfingers Palace Hotel part of the staff, preparing for the new season, is enduring an unanticipated violent snowstorm. Into this group comes Robert Crowther, the rather stupid house detective sent to investigate something secret
Vancouver | PAL Studio Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Theatre
2019 Sonic Boom Festival Concert No.2: 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
Shen Yun 2019
Shen Yun invites you to travel back to the magical world of ancient China. Experience a lost culture through the incredible art of classical Chinese dance, and see legends come to life.
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
String Fest: UBC Chamber Strings
Presented by the UBC School of Music
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
Country Gold at Genesis Theatre in Ladner
Marty Edwards performs as Kenny Rogers and entertains with almost as much charm and charisma as the master…supported by superb impressions of Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash and Linda Ronstadt with the legendary Gamblers All-Star Country Band
Delta | Genesis Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show
Children of God
Sometimes theatre can be a way to create a safe space for important conversations about complicated subjects. Children of God is an example of a provocative, issue-based story that is also a compelling and engaging piece of theatre
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 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
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 | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre
WCSO: Sibelius, Mozart, & David Gillham Plays Beethoven
Join us for our upcoming concerts featuring violinist David Gillham!
Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral | 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
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
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
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra with Otto Tausk: Tausk conducts Mozart
VSO Music Director Otto Tausk presents a unique and fascinating concert perfectly suited to the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:15 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
Guldasta-e-Ghazal with Anup Jalota & Jazim Sharma Live in Concert
Anup Jalota, is an Indian singer and musician. 'Jazim' Sharma is an Indian ghazal singer
Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
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
Vince Staples: Smile, You're On Camera
Vincent Jamal Staples is an American rapper and actor. He is a member of the hip hop trio Cutthroat Boyz alongside fellow Californian rappers Aston Matthews and Joey Fatts
Vancouver | Harbour Convention Centre | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music
BANG!
A fun to listen to, high energy dance band, BANG! is perfectly designed to make your night great! Since forming in 2007 to play in Europe, BANG ! has played Vancouver’s top rooms, and loads of private functions
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music