Metro Vancouver events on May 11, 2019

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

Steveston - Move for Health Week - Activities

As part of Move for Health Week from May 11-17, 2019, we will be offering a variety of free fitness classes throughout the week

Richmond | Steveston Community Centre | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

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

City of Vancouver's Family Fun Fair

Enjoy free family fun and meet the people and equipment who make your city work!

Vancouver | Manitoba Works Yard | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

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

Mother's Day Weekend Tea

On Mother's Day weekend, treat Mom to a special tea experience at Fairmont Vancouver Airport

Richmond | Fairmont Vancouver Airport | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine

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 | 12:00 am to 10:00 pm | Show

Sounds Unheard

Continuing Turning Point’s partnership with Canadian/Tajik composer Farangis Nurulla-Khoja Project, Vancouver audiences will have the opportunity experience her music in-depth through a portrait concert

Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Music

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 | 12:30 am to 3:00 pm | Show

Kimono and Chado (Tea ceremony) Experience

In this comprehensive 4-session class, learn the ins and outs of dressing yourself in kimono, AND the basics of participating in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony

Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Workshop

Kevin Mooney Fire Hall Concert Series: Petunia & the Vipers

Roots-based modern rocking and balladeering musicians, Petunia & the Vipers mix rockabilly, country swing and sweet melodic ballads with yodeling and grit

Vancouver | Fire Hall #1 | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Music | Free

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

Vancouver Bach Choir: SummerSing - Operamania!

The Vancouver Bach Choir season finale returns to the Chan with all eight choirs joining in song. This year we celebrate the operatic tradition in an Operamania themed program

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music

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

East Van Showcase: Underground

We delve deep into the Rickshaw to witness hidden gems and cult favourites. Short films, good drinks, and our ne'er do well host taking you through the evening

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Film

Exhibition: Processus

This spring, CAG and artist Diyan Achjadi have partnered with Point Grey Secondary School Senior Art Students and teachers on a collaborative project exploring contemporary art and curatorial practices

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

Joseph

Joseph is an American folk band from Portland, Oregon. The band is made up of three sisters, Natalie Closner Schepman and Allison and Meegan Closner

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

A Night of World Class Professional Boxing: Reloaded

Big time boxing will finally hit one of Canada’s big time markets on May 11, as Lee Baxter Promotions presents a night of world class professional boxing at the Vogue Theatre in downtown Vancouver

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

Omar Apollo with guest Ambar Lucid

After dropping out of college only 2 weeks in, Omar Apollo, a 20-year old, first generation Mexican-American singer from Indiana, began writing and recording his own mix of jazz, R&B, funk, alternative, soul, and pop music

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

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

Surrey City Orchestra - Jazz and Strings

Surrey City Orchestra presents Jazz and Strings, featuring the Miles Black Trio

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

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

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

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 | 8:00 pm to 10:30 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

ABRA Cadabra - A Tribute To The Music Of ABBA

ABRA Cadabra has graced many stages around the world and will return to their hometown to take the stage at River Rock Show Theatre

Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Show

VSO Musically Speaking. Tragic Love: Wagner & Prokofiev

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Musically Speaking series presents Maestro Otto Tausk

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Maya Rae & Terminal Station

Local favourites join forces for 2 nights at Frankie's

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

Tom Odell with guest Lucie Silvas

Thomas Peter Odell is an English singer-songwriter. He released his debut extended play, Songs from Another Love, in 2012 and won the BRITs Critics' Choice Award in early 2013.

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Rock 'n Roll All Night at The Buck & Ear

Let’s rock ‘n’ roll all night and party at The Buck and Ear with DJ Beatkontrol!

Richmond | Buck & Ear Bar & Grill | 10:00 pm to 2:00 am | Party