Metro Vancouver events on May 5, 2019

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

Veg Expo 2019

VEG EXPO is a day of celebration where we introduce new, innovative, inspiring products and services that you can implement into your lifestyle and to meet others that share their passion

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

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

Cross Cultural Strathcona Walking Tour

The Cross Cultural Strathcona Walking Tour celebrates the rich layered history of Vancouver’s downtown east side neighbourhoods: Hogan’s Alley, Jewish Strathcona, Japantown (Powell Street) and Chinatown

Vancouver | Strathcona Elementary School | 11:00 am to 0:00 am | History

41st Annual Vancouver Greek Food Festival

The Hellenic Community of Vancouver is thrilled to announce our 41st Annual Vancouver Greek Food Festival, from May 3rd - May 5th, 2019!

Vancouver | Hellenic Community of Vancouver | 12:00 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine

Magic show!

Join us for a WACKY and KOOKY magic show with SMARTEE PANTS!!!!

Vancouver | Kids Market | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family

Explaining the Symphony - The Artist's Corner at O’Brian Classroom

The Artist's Corner: Get close to key figures of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and VSO School of Music, as musicians, leaders and educators talk about what goes on behind the music in this series of fascinatingly intimate lunchtime presentations

Vancouver | Pyatt Hall | 12:00 am to 2:30 pm | Music

Vancouver International Universities Fair 2019

Come join thousands of students from the Vancouver, BC, area to meet one-on-one with top universities from across the United States, Canada and the world

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Fair

Sunday Sundaes with Mom at Place Maillardville Community Centre

Join us with mom for an afternoon of Mother’s Day crafts, games, face painting and ice cream sundaes

Coquitlam | Place Maillardville Community Centre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Kids

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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

The 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:30 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

New West Symphony Orchestra Mother’s Day Concert

Beautiful music for everyone on Mother’s Day

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Diamond series: Bramwell Conducts Louis Lortie

Maestro Bramwell Tovey conducts the World Première of his own Concerto for Orchestra, a work commissioned by the VSO to commemorate his appointment as Music Director Emeritus

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 4:00 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 | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Opera

Exhibition Tour in Spanish

Join Valentina Acevedo Montilla for a tour of the current exhibitions in Spanish. Únete a Valentina Acevedo Montilla para la visita guiada gratuita de la exposición en español

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

Global Soundscapes

Global Soundscapes: Mission to Record the Earth is an interactive theatre program blending live presentation with audio and video recordings of biologists, environmental scientists, and indigenous peoples around the world

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 3:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Show

Early Show: Robbie MacIntyre

Robbie MacIntyre is a self produced singer-songwriter from Vancouver Island, BC. Robbie's music draws from many influences from genres across the musical spectrum such as Frank Ocean, Allen Stone, The Beatles and James Taylor

Vancouver | Guilt & Company | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Jon Bryant

Jon Bryant is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Native born to Halifax but now based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Bryant' writes and sings acoustically melodic songs with a maritime influence

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Cinco de Mayo

The Real Deal

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Party

Jeremy Price Quartet

Over the past three decades Vancouver-based musician Jeremy Price has built a reputation as a jazz flute specialist in Canada

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