Metro Vancouver events on May 2, 2019

ARVO 2019 Annual Meeting. From Bench to Bedside and Back

Today, more and more, the research conducted in labs travels the full journey from bench to bedside

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture

Views of the Collection: The Street

Views of the Collection: The Street is part of a series of presentations on the 4th floor that comprise thematic perspectives on the Gallery’s collection

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Jurassic Quest: Job fair

Would you like to work with Dinosaurs?! This is an amazing event to have the opportunity to work at!

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Fair

SWART

We are a creative bunch!Come by to enjoy an eclectic collection of photography, paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures and more, all created by the staff at Science World!

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Capture Festival

At Science World, the goal is to share these ideas in new and interesting ways and show how art can sometimes be a better way to communicate a science concept than words alone

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Show

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

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

Moving Still: Performative Photography in India

Moving Still: Performative Photography from India explores themes of migration, gender, religion and national identity through the lens of performative photography

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Contemporary Landscapes - KPU Fine Arts Exhibit

We will be hosting a group art show upstairs in the Big House featuring artwork by 3rd year students at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, exploring the relationship between landscapes, art and politics

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Vancouver Opera: La Cenerentola

Vancouver Opera presents: In Rossini’s masterpiece, La Cenerentola (Cinderella), the evil stepmother trades places with a malevolent stepfather, the fairy godmother is a philosopher, and the legendary glass slipper is replaced with a bracelet

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 12:30 am to 3:30 pm | Opera

Thursday Lunch Time Tours

Join CAG Assistant Curator Julia Lamare for a lunch time tour of the current exhibitions

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:30 am to 1:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

The Geometry of Snowflakes

Snowflakes are natural jewels. Scientists have been trying to understand these gems falling from the sky for more than four hundred years

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Show | Free

Pass The Buck - Win a Gift Card!

NOW! With more chances to win :) We will draw a VIP members name up to: TEN draws at 6pm and TEN draws at 7pm every Thursday night

Richmond | Buck & Ear Bar & Grill | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Free

Epik High - night 1

MRG Concerts Presents: Epik High with Yoshi Flower. Epik High is a South Korean alternative hip hop group from Seoul, composed of Tablo, Mithra Jin, and DJ Tukutz

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Alec Benjamin

Alec Benjamin is an American singer-songwriter from Phoenix, Arizona. He is known for his songs "Paper Crown", "I Built A Friend", "End of the Summer", "Let Me Down Slowly" and "Water Fountain"

Vancouver | St. James Hall | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Beltaine Bacchanalia: The Wyrding Way Album Release Party with guests

Join us for a dionysian Beltaine Bacchanalia. It's a psychedelic feast for the ears and eyes with tripped out visuals, guest performers, vendors & a full costume masquerade! A mythic May Day heathen happening for everyone!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:45 pm | Music

Vancouver Opera: Faust

Vancouver Opera presents: Gounod’s Faust is the pinnacle of 119th-century French opera, it’s full of rich characterization, it’s dramatically exciting, and it’s exuberantly evocative

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Opera

An Evening With President Bill Clinton and Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will take part in a series of conversations across 13 cities in North America, kicking off on November 18, 2018 in Las Vegas and visiting additional cities starting in April 2019

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Show

Buckin' Hilarious Open Mic Comedy Night

Open mic all night for local comedians. Sign up at 7pm and show will start at 7:30pm.

Richmond | Buck & Ear Bar & Grill | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy

Arts Club Theatre Company: Bed & Breakfast

A charming comedy about being out and finding home

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Arts Club Theatre Company: The Great Leap

A jump shot across borders. As the story jumps back and forth in time, tensions rise right up to the final buzzer and history collides at the leap for a 3-point shot

Vancouver | Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Zee Zee Theatre presents: Dead People's Things

Phyllis, a Millennial, inherits a house and all of its contents after her estranged hoarder aunt commits suicide

Vancouver | Studio 16 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

First Impressions Theatre: Duets

A gloriously funny examination of the chaotic world of love, relationships and why the grass is never greener. Duets is a hilarious tribute to the strength and madness of the human heart

North Vancouver | Deep Cove Stage Society | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Presented by Stage43: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

After scheming his way into a short mental institution stay over a prison sentence, a charming rogue causes mayhem among his fellow patients and enrages the head nurse

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Surrey Little Theatre: Sealed For Freshness - A Comedy by Doug Stone

Hostess Bonnie invites a group of neighbours over for a Tupperware party. The guest list: perky, rich Jean, her very pregnant sister Sinclair, ditzy-blonde Tracy Ann, and new neighbour Diane, who's made quite a career selling Tupperware

Surrey | Surrey Little Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

After scheming his way into a short mental institution stay over a prison sentence, a charming rogue causes mayhem among his fellow patients and enrages the head nurse

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Firehall Arts Centre: Gold Mountain - Turtle Island

A musical love story set in the early fifties between a young First Nation’s woman and a Chinese café worker set on the North Coast and in Vancouver’s Chinatown

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

Melvins

with guests

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Mike Zachernuk Quartet

With David Sikula guitar, Paul Rushka double bass, and Bernie Arai drums/cymbals

Vancouver | Frankie's Jazz Club | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Lady Lamb with guests Katie Von Schleicher and Alex Schaaf

Aly Spaltro, better known by her stage name Lady Lamb is an American songwriter and musician

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 8:30 pm to 0:30 am | Music