Metro Vancouver events on May 18, 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

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

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 | 9:00 am to 8:00 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

International Museum Day at MOV!

International Museum Day is Saturday May 18th and we’re celebrating by offering $2 admission all day!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 9:00 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

Wild Things Interactive Station: Bald Eagles and Their Local Habitat

Learn about local Bald Eagles while viewing them in their natural habitat

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Exhibition

Forest Fairy Gathering

Join us for a magical family adventure. Build a fairy home in the woods, enjoy free face painting and more. Fairy attire welcome

Burnaby | Burnaby Lake Regional Park | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

Fort Langley Beer + Food Festival

Don’t miss out on the 3rd Fort Langley Beer + Food Festival! Enjoy local food and craft beer on the Fort grounds outside the palisade

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Food / Wine

Shadows, Strings and Others Things Opening Weekend Curator Tours

Join Dr. Nicola Levell, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UBC and Curator of Shadows, Strings and Other Things, for special curatorial tours of MOA’s enchanting exhibition

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

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

Clown Gym - Work it OUT

This Is For Conditioning! Work Your Clown Muscles! Get Your Weekly Work Out Play Out Here With Us

Vancouver | Dusty Flower Shop | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Comedy

42nd Annual Western Canadian Croatian Folklore Festival

The 42nd Annual Western Canadian Croatian Folklore Festival is being hosted by Vancouver's own TOKS and is bringing groups from all over Western Canada to perform with guests from San Jose and Hamilton as well

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 12:30 am to 4:00 pm | Music

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

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

Pacific Theatre: The Cake

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

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

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

Bea Miller - Nice to Meet U Tour

with guests

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 6:00 pm to 9:30 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

Armin van Buuren

Grammy-nominated DJ & producer. Five-time winner of DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs poll. Let’s unite the world through music!

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

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

Kill Tony

Originally from Youngstown, Ohio, Tony Hinchcliffe is one of the top young rising comedians, touring internationally, as well as a lively career as an actor, podcaster, and writer.

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Comedy

The 4th VCG Night - Vancouver Youth Piano Concert

This concert will present 12 young Vancouver piano virtuosi, including JayJay Zhou, Chloe Sun, Anson Yu, Sophie Zhou, George Wang, Jessica Wang, Leon Xiang, Xinyi Wang, Christina Wei, Ray Zhang, Alice Zhou, and Ranfei Wang

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Comedy of Terrors

Welcome to.... COMEDY OF TERRORS! Experience a show like no other! Macabre magic! Bizarre burlesque! Circus and songs!

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

Gracenote Concert Season Finale

Gracenote is an a cappella treble choir. The season finale concert at The Firehall Arts Centre will be your last chance to see Gracenote this season! We look forward to seeing you there

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Foxing & Now, Now with guests Daddy Issues

Foxing Announce Tour With Now, Now. Both bands are heading across North America this spring

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

Coastal City Ballet presents Swan Lake

Coastal City Ballet closes the 2018-2019 season with its critically acclaimed production of Swan Lake

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Symphony at the Annex: Amoroso

For Jocelyn Morlock’s final Symphony at the Annex concert as VSO Composer-in-Residence, she reveals her musical inspirations through composers and works particularly meaningful to her

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Desi: LIVE feat. Anaamika

A-Town Presents - Desi: LIVE: Live Music Series

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 7:30 pm to 1:00 am | Music | Free

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

The Lemonheads With Guest Tommy Stinson

American indie rock band, on tour to support their latest release "Varshons 2"

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

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

Sin City 18 Year Anniversary Fetish Ball

Established in May 2001, Sin City is Vancouver’s longest-running, ground-breaking, bar-raising, award-winning, and most prolific fetish night!

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Party

Live Music ft. The Rattlers by The Buck & Ear Bar and Grill

Join us and support local live music. Catch The Rattlers live performance on May 18th from 10pm – late!

Richmond | Buck & Ear Bar & Grill | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Non-Stop Disco Party

Join us for an evening of vintage dance music as we put four to the floor in tribute to disco glamour from the 70s until 90s

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 10:30 pm to 2:00 am | Party