Metro Vancouver events on May 9, 2019

2019 Enactus Canada National Exposition

Annually, the Enactus Canada National Exposition brings together student, academic and industry leaders from across the country to celebrate the achievements of Canada’s future leaders and entrepreneurs

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 7:30 am to 8:00 pm | Exhibition

XXXII International Symposium on Technical Innovations in Laboratory Hematology

Join Us World Experts Your Peers Us

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition

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

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

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

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

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

Exhibition Opening: Processus

Join us to celebrate the opening of Processus, an exhibition culminating the work of Point Grey Secondary School Senior Art Students and teachers in a collaborative project with CAG and artist Diyan Achjadi

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

DOXA Documentary Film Festival Screening: Toad People

What does it take to save a species? Join us for the Vancouver premiere of Isabelle Groc and Mike McKinlay’s Toad People (Canada, 2017, 76 mins). Produced by local grassroots environmental organization, Wilderness Committee

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

Alyssa Edwards Dancing Queen: The Live Show

Alyssa Edwards in Vancouver! Tongue pop!! Every woman has her secret, hers just happens to be a little bigger

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Show

Royal Canadian family Circus

An all new show, jam packed with explosive live entertainment, featuring high-flying acrobatics, death-defying tricks, clowning and towering feats of strength, teetering towers of balanced bodies, extreme bending and devilishly precarious aerials

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

CircusWest presents James and the Giant Circus Peach

CircusWest presents its newest theatrical circus creation inspired by the famous children’s book by Roald Dahl

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Show

Seasons Exhibit Opening Reception: Instagram Art Exhibition and Gallery Fundraiser. Festival Ha'Rikud 2019

Group show featuring Instagram artists of all levels celebrating Festival Ha’Rikud with the theme of “Seasons.”

Vancouver | Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free

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 | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Opera

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

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

Communication Doors by Alan Ayckbourn

In this thrilling time-travel comedy, three women attempt to save themselves and each other at the hands of the same man but in 3 different time periods

Vancouver | Metro Theatre | 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

FM-84

with special guests

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

The 45th Avenue Jazz Band Presents Carmen in New York- Bizet's Opera for Jazz Orchestra

The worlds of classical music and jazz have never been too far apart, and in the tradition of Ellington, Strayhorn, and other legendary jazz composers comes this completely novel arrangement of Georges Bizet's Carmen Suite for Jazz Orchestra

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

The Tea Party - Black River Tour 2019

The Tea Party is a Canadian rock band with blues, progressive rock, Indian and Middle Eastern influences, dubbed "Moroccan roll" by the media. Active throughout the 1990s and up until 2005, the band re-formed in 2011

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Kelby MacNayr Quintet

Celebrate the Music of Art Blakey

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

Shannon Shaw

Timbre Concerts presents vocalist, bassist, and founder of Shannon & the Clams Shannon Shaw, on tour to support her first solo release "Shannon In Nashville"

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

Ballet BC: Program 3

Revel in spring with an evening of dynamic works. Collaborators Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar return to captivate audiences with the North American premiere of Bedroom Folk, an electric mix of music, dance and light

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance