Metro Vancouver events on May 17, 2019

Theatre BC Fraser Valley Zone Drama Fest

Stage 43 is proud to be hosting a week-long theatre festival in May, bringing together local theatre groups from around the Fraser Valley to entertain audiences and to enhance their own skills through professional adjudication

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 9:00 am to 7:00 pm | Festival

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

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

Jurassic Quest

Jurassic Quest is the largest exhibition of lifesize, moving, museum-Quality Dinosaurs in North America and is now coming to Canada for the FIRST time ever!

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Exhibition

Shipyards Friday Night Market

The best Friday Night Market in the Lower Mainland located in the historic Shipyards District of lower Lonsdale in Beautiful North Vancouver, B.C.

North Vancouver | Shipyards Night Market | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Market

Arnel Pineda & Lani Misalucha

Arnel Pineda & Lani Misalucha Live! In Vancouver

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

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

Disney's the Little Mermaid

Presented by Richmond Christian School

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 7:00 pm to 8:40 pm | Performing Arts

Rodgers & Hammerstein's G2K Cinderella

Join Cinderella on her journey as she discovers that impossible dreams really can come true

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Camp Cope

MRG Concerts Presents: Camp Cope w/ special guests An Horse and Oceanator

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

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

Julia Jacklin With Black Belt Eagle Scout

MRG Concerts presents Julia Lacklin with guests Black Belt Eagle Scout

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Professor Brian Cox

Professor Brian Cox is one of the finest entertainment events to grace theater stages in recent memory.

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Show

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

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

Pacific Theatre: The Cake by Bekah Brunstetter

Della is left working without a recipe as her previously-unquestioned beliefs and emotions come into sharp conflict

Vancouver | Pacific Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Arts Club Theatre Company: Matilda the Musical

The imaginative hit for all generations. From the wonderfully subversive imagination of Roald Dahl, this fun family musical will bring out the child in everyone

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical

Rickshaw Wrestling: Destroy Wrestling!

Spring is coming and love is in the air so Rickshaw Wrestling is going to burn it all down to the ground with Destroy Wrestling!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 1:00 am | Party

Cory Weeds Quintet CD Release

featuring New York City trumpeter Josh Bruneau

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

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra with Kazuyoshi Akiyama and Mayuko Kamio

Beloved VSO Conductor Laureate Kazuyoshi Akiyama—one of the VSO’s most important Music Directors—conducts this historic program, with pieces selected from his very first concerts as Music Director in 1972

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

The Millennials

Mil·len·nial (/miˈlenēəl/) “Also known as Generation Y, a name given to the generation born between 1982 and 2004 following Generation X in order of demographic cohorts, and the generation to come of age in the early 21st century.”

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music