Metro Vancouver events on March 23, 2019
March 23, 2019
Sat
6th Annual Leigh Brandt Muscle Classic Bodybuilding & Fitness Show
Xtreme Promotions presents the Opening Show for the Canadian Physique Alliance
New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Sports
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
Clown Gym - Work it OUT
This Is For Conditioning! Work Your Clown Muscles! Get Your Weekly Work Out Play Out Here With Us
Vancouver | Dusty Flower Shop | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Comedy
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
Spring Hop Toonie Skate
Enjoy ice skating, crafts and games with the Easter Bunny!
Burnaby | Bill Copeland Sports Centre | 12:30 am to 3:30 pm | Family
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
Th 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre
Briefs Factory: 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 | 2:00 pm to 3:20 pm | Performing Arts
Pacific Theatre: 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
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
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
Maple Ridge Festival of BC Film 2019
The ACT Arts Centre and The Ridge Film Studios are pleased to announce that the third Maple Ridge Festival of BC Film will take place
Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 4:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Film
Westerman + Puma Blue
Timbre Concerts presents a co-headlining show featuring UK singer-songwriters Westerman + Puma Blood, on tour to support their latest EP releases
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Canucks vs. Flames
The regular season game
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports
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
WCSO: Sibelius, Mozart, & David Gillham Plays Beethoven
Join us for our upcoming concerts featuring violinist David Gillham!
New Westminster | Queens Avenue United Church | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Loud and Queer: Vancouver Sun Symphony at the Annex
This concert recognizes the fiftieth anniversary of homosexual rights in Canada and celebrates the many, many vibrant voices that make up our queer community
Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
Vancouver Bach Choir: Andrew Downing's Nosferatu
With some of the most iconic imagery in film, the Vancouver Bach Choir brings Nosferatu to the Orpheum stage with a newly imagined score for choir and small ensemble by Andrew Downing
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
2019 Sonic Boom Festival Concert No.3: Featured Artists (Aaron Graham and Julia Chien)
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
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
Matthew Good - Solo Acoustic Tour
Canadian rock musician Matthew Good was the lead singer and songwriter one of the most successful alternative rock bands in Canada prior to establishing his multiple award winning solo career
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Savage Love Live - Vancouver
With special musical guest Rachel Lark and comedian Corina Lucas
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Show
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
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
Wet & Kilo Kish with guests Helena Deland
Wet are going on tour soon. February 24th thru March 30th with Kilo Kish, Helena Deland, and Hana Vu
Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Kat Danser & The Tall Tales with Steve Dawson
Kat Danser’s music is a steel belted radial easily flexing between a dusty gravel road and a fresh coat of asphalt
Vancouver | St. James Hall | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Nick Gilder & Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd was Nick’s first group and earned their rock wings playing in every conceivable venue in the seventies, Nick and Jim were the founding members
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Tech N9ne live in concert - Vancouver
Spotlight Productions x Where It’s At Entertainment present Tech N9ne - live in concert with special guest Krizz Kaliko
Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 9:30 pm to 2:30 am | Music
Alicia Tobin's Come Draw With Me by Hot Art Wet City
Join comedian Alicia Tobin and her special guests at Little Mountain Gallery for another late show edition of Come Draw with Me, an evening of drawings, laughings, sharings huggings, marker sniffing, and friendships
Vancouver | Little Mountain Gallery | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Comedy
Fiesta Africana
L'Afrique, c'est chic ! Our monthly party is back. DJ Marc Fournier & master drummer Yoro Noukoussi are inviting you to this classic Vancouver dance party featuring the best in new and vintage African, Latin, Brazilian and tropical dance music !
Vancouver | The Backstage Lounge | Party