Metro Vancouver events on June 22, 2019

International Association for Dental Research

The 97th General Session of the IADR, will be held in conjunction with the 48th Annual Meeting of the AADR and the 43rd Annual Meeting of the CADR, from June 19-22, 2019 in Vancouver

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

Member Mornings 2019

Member Mornings are back! Bring your camera, sketchbook, novel, and enjoy VanDusen Garden before we open to the general public

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 8:00 am to 9:00 am | Exhibition

34th Congress of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry

We proudly recognize that CYTO is the premier meeting for showcasing the state of the art and science of cytometry and look forward to seeing you in Vancouver!

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

Queer Arts Festival: Relational rEvolutions

Visual Art Exhibition. Guest curator Elwood Jimmy

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Dying Every Day - Meditation, Transformation, and the Bardos

How Understanding Death Makes Us Fully Alive

Vancouver | Frederic Wood Theatre | 9:30 am to 5:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Tides by Jan de Beer

Tides is a body of work created entirely from paint sourced through Product Care Recycling's PaintShare program

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 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

6th Annual Strawberry Festival

Shop local brands! Eat local food! Support a local organization!

Langley | Driediger Farms Market | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Festival

National Indigenous Peoples’ Day by Fort Langley National Historic Site

Discover the roles played by Indigenous peoples at Fort Langley both then and now through demonstrations, storytelling, and games

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time

This unique exhibition is focused on the art of Alberto Giacometti, renowned in the twentieth century for his sculpture, painting, drawing and design

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

I Sea Sky by Carousel Theatre for Young People

Take a magical trip over land, sea and sky and learn how to be a good friend to our planet. Musical instruments, puppets and colourful wildlife characters make this the perfect nature adventure for little ones

Vancouver | BEE Stage - Granville Island | 10:00 am to 10:35 am | Kids

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 | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

COLLOQUIUM - Agile Futures: Approaching Improvisation

The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation and Coastal Jazz present the eleventh colloquium on Improvisation and its role in society

Vancouver | Western Front | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Music | Free

Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo 2019

This all-ages licensed event celebrates retro gaming, complete with numerous vendors, tournaments, guests, music, panels, gaming, and more

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm

Jennifer Scott Trio

Whether it’s a bebop standard, a reworked pop tune or an original song, vocalist/pianist Jennifer Scott brings warmth, musicality, improvisation and always a bit of the unknown

Vancouver | Water Street Café | 11:30 am to 2:00 pm | Music

I Sea Sky - Bee Stage

Take a magical trip over land, sea and sky and learn how to be a good friend to our planet. Musical instruments, puppets and colourful wildlife characters make this the perfect nature adventure for little ones

Vancouver | BEE Stage - Granville Island | 11:30 am to 12:05 am | Kids

Downtown Jazz: Bill Runge Quintet

“One of Vancouver’s most tasteful players” saxophonist Bill Runge “balances delicateness and muscularity and builds his solos gracefully, always with the composition in mind” (Vancouver Sun)

Vancouver | Robson Street Stage | 12:00 am to 1:30 pm | Music | Free

Downtown Jazz: Anthem Sounds of Youth Stage

Come hear the Sounds of Youth! This initiative is dedicated to showcasing some of Metro Vancouver’s best high school jazz combos and big bands

Vancouver | Robson Square | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Music | Free

Granville Island Jazz: Jen Hodge All Stars

Vancouver bassist Jen Hodge leads this pack of talented young musicians with a passion for playing raucous, sassy jazz that’s reminiscent of the prohibition era

Vancouver | Granville Island Public Market | 12:00 am to 1:30 pm | Music | Free

Downtown Jazz – Saturday Line Up

Come on baby, let’s go downtown! Celebrate at the 2019 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival with three stages of free music, kids’ activities, food trucks, licensed bars, bike parking, and more

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 9:30 pm | Music | Free

Downtown Jazz: Mike WT Allen’s Space Elevator

There’s everything you think you know about big band, and then there’s Space Elevator

Vancouver | Georgia Street Stage | 12:30 am to 1:30 pm | Music | Free

Briga & Absinthe Trio

JUNO-nominated Montréal-based artist Briga teams up with The Absinthe Ensemble for a blend of Eastern European roots, Balkan-inspired sounds, and traditional chamber music

North Vancouver | Civic Plaza | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Music | Free

Puppet Workshop with Ventriloquist Kellie Haines

Learn how to make your very own sock puppet in this hands-on workshop with local ventriloquist and puppeteer, Kellie Haines

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Workshop

Downtown Jazz: Elisa Thorn’s HUE

Inspired by her father’s abstract paintings, Vancouver-based harpist/composer Elisa Thorn’s (Gentle Party) stunning HUE project “exploits the potential offered by colour, movement, and abstraction in her own works” (Textura)

Vancouver | Robson Street Stage | 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm | Music | Free

Granville Island Jazz: John Stetch Trio

Downbeat praised six-time JUNO nominee John Stetch’s “playful technique and unfettered imagination” likening his music to “hearing a painting by Miro or Matisse come to life”

Vancouver | Performance Works | 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm | Music | Free

Before and Beyond Time

Yarilo Contemporary Music Society Presents, Before and Beyond Time, On the Boundary of Two Millennia!, showcasing the music of contemporary Bulgarian composer Gheorghi Arnaoudov

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music

Provence Marinaside: Harris & Debray

Join us for five nights of music at Provence Marinaside

Vancouver | Provence Marinaside | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music | Free

The Arts Club Theatre Company. Mom's the Word: Nest 1/2 Empty

A new generation of laughs. From a sold-out run and a hit tour, the moms are back again to share this nestful of insights and ribald humour

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre

Downtown Jazz: MACK

Italian group MACK’s breakout 2019 debut is an irresistible mash-up of pulsating keyboard textures, intense jazz and funk-inflected rhythms, and consciousness-expanding freestyle rap

Vancouver | Georgia Street Stage | 2:15 pm to 3:30 pm | Music | Free

Downtown Jazz: Braveheart +1

Rugged but uplifting, this is some seriously potent, next-generation modern jazz

Vancouver | Downtown – Robson Street Stage | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Music | Free

Downtown Jazz: Begonia

Begonia’s audacious, surprising pop is tempered with intimacy and wisdom. Noisey wrote that “Begonia has one of Canada’s most extraordinary voices, and thankfully she uses it to obliterate the misery from this world, one live performance at a time”

Vancouver | Georgia Street Stage | 3:45 pm to 5:00 pm | Music | Free

There Is No Easy Mode: Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo

Vancouver's best video game trivia is making their triumphant return to the Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo!! Join There Is No Easy Mode at 4:45pm at 4th floor of the Expo for more awesome video game trivia! Prizes to be won! Fun to be had!

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 4:45 pm to 5:45 pm

Downtown Jazz: Oliver Gannon Quartet

JUNO Award-winning jazz guitarist Oliver Gannon has been plying his tasteful, expressive trade in Vancouver and around the world for over four decades

Vancouver | Robson Street Stage | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Music | Free

Downtown Jazz: Too Many Zooz

Too Many Zooz is an American music group based in New York City, New York, consisting of Leo Pellegrino, Matt "Doe" Muirhead and David "King of Sludge" Parks

Vancouver | Georgia Street Stage | 5:15 pm to 6:30 pm | Music | Free

Downtown Jazz: Audrey Ochoa

A prolific dynamo on the Edmonton scene, trombonist Audrey Ochoa mixes jazz, Latin, fusion, and propulsive pop with a playful sense of humour

Vancouver | Robson Street Stage | 6:45 pm to 8:00 pm | Music | Free

Queer Arts Festival: The Queen in Me

The Queen in Me explores the constraints of conventional opera roles and their reliance on gender and sex stereotypes, exploding operatic expectations of demure muses and femme fatales by turning the genre on its head

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Hocico with guests God Module

Mexican harsh electro act plays Vancouver for their 'World Wide Extinction Tour'

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Andrew Phelan

MRG Concerts Presents: Andrew Phelan with Sam Lynch & Jasper Sloan Yip

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

Josh Ritter

Josh Ritter is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and author who performs and records with the Royal City Band. Ritter is known for his distinctive Americana style and narrative lyrics

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Railway Stage and Beer Café - Shaun Rawlins

Join us for eight nights of music at Railway Stage and Beer Café

Vancouver | Railway Stage and Beer Cafe | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Noriega & SUNs

Style, sophistication, and a joyful spirit encapsulate Noriega & SUNs

Vancouver | Water Street Café | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Whitecaps FC vs Colorado Rapids

Vancouver Whitecaps FC are a Canadian professional soccer team based in Vancouver, British Columbia that competes in Major League Soccer

Vancouver | BC Place | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Laila Biali

“A voice that makes the listener shudder it’s so rounded and pure”—Montreal Gazette

Vancouver | Pyatt Hall | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Thunderstorm from the China Tianjin Opera House

A tragedy of Shakespearean proportions based on the renowned Chinese play

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

Snotty Nose Rez Kids

Snotty Nose Rez Kids are the combined talents of Yung Trybez and Young D, hailing from the Haisla Nation, ‘The People of the Snow.”

Vancouver | Georgia Street Stage | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Music | Free

UBC Opera presents: Don Giovanni

This operatic classic tells the tale of the legendary Don Juan, opera’s most notorious bad boy

Vancouver | UBC Campus | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Opera

Revel Room: William S. Taylor Blues Trio

Join us for ten nights of music at Revel Room

Vancouver | Revel Room | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Fandom Feud at Retro Gaming Expo

Fandom Feud is a game show event that pits 2 teams drawn from the audience against each other, in a battle of pop-culture popular answers!

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Marquis Hill Blacktet

Contemporary and classic jazz, hip-hop, R&B, Chicago house, neo-soul—to Marquis Hill they’re all branches of the same fertile tree of African-American creative expression

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

The Commodore Ballroom: Daniel Wesley

Daniel Wesley’s music has always been a call to live life to the fullest and embrace the past, present and future enthusiastically. And on Beach Music, Wesley’s ninth full-length collection of songs, that call rings out more clearly than ever before

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

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

Hastings Mill Brewing Co. / Pat’s Pub - Dave Esler 5tet (early show) Tom Wakeling 4tet (late show)

Join us for eight nights of music at Hastings Mill Brewing Co.

Vancouver | Hastings Mill Brewing Co. | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music | Free

Ouisi Bistro: The Terminal City Brass Band

Join us for eleven nights of music at Ouisi Bistro

Vancouver | Ouisi Bistro | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Tangent Cafe: Thad Bailey-Mai Quartet

Join us for eight nights of music at the Tangent Cafe

Vancouver | Tangent Cafe | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

TD Vancouver International Jazz Fest Presents: Jonathan Wilson with Ben Rogers

Jonathan Wilson’s had a busy couple of years, producing Father John Misty's Grammy-nominated Pure Comedy, touring the globe as a guitarist and vocalist for Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters, and releasing his sublime new album, Rare Birds

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

The Road Hammers

The highest selling Canadian country band in history, The Road Hammers, will bring their iconic blend of rock meets country to the Hard Rock Casino Vancouver

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Vagabond Players: The Melville Boys

A relaxing weekend trip full of fishing, football, and beer is on the agenda for the Melville brothers. So is confronting eldest brother Lee’s terminal illness

New Westminster | The Bernie Legge Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Emanuele Cisi Quartet

Emanuele Cisi has a big sound that almost knocks you over. One of Italy’s most in-demand tenor saxophonists, he plays with one foot in the present and one in the future, but never plays it safe

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

Arts Club Theatre Company. Mom's the Word: Nest 1/2 Empty

A new generation of laughs. From a sold-out run and a hit tour, the moms are back again to share this nestful of insights and ribald humour

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

Jonathan Wilson with Ben Rogers Presented by Vancouver Intl Jazz Fest

Jonathan Wilson’s had a busy couple of years, producing Father John Misty's Grammy-nominated Pure Comedy, touring the globe as a guitarist and vocalist for Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters, and releasing his sublime new album, Rare Birds

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

The Fringe Café: Johnny Trash

Join us for six nights of music at The Fringe Café

Vancouver | The Fringe Café | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music | Free

Passion Portal #7 : Enchanted Forest Party : Summer Edition

Join us for a multi-room party and total venue takeover of the WALDORF for our summer edition of Passion Portal, which is also our Lucky #7 party!

Vancouver | At The Waldorf | 9:00 pm to 2:00 am | Party

Pernell Reichert

From Vancouver, BC, Pernell Reichert is a singer-song writer, fast finger-picking guitar player, his mellow harmonica rounding out his full sound

Vancouver | The Yard Café | 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Laila Biali - Late Show

Keyboardist/vocalist Laila Biali moves effortlessly between incandescent contemporary jazz and absorbing modern pop

Vancouver | Pyatt Hall | 9:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival : Dálava

Led by vocalist Julia Úlehla and guitarist Aram Bajakian, the “utterly captivating” Dálava takes Czech folk melodies transcribed over 100 years ago by Úlehla’s great-grandfather and places them in a compelling contemporary context

Vancouver | The Ironworks | 9:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Club Series: Guilt & Co. - Big Easy Funk Ensemble

Join us for eleven nights of music at Guilt & Co.

Vancouver | Guilt & Co. | 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Rowdy Spurs

Rowdy Spurs are an authentic, traditionally influenced country music band, officially formed back in October 2014. They placed first runner up for the 2016 Rock The Mic contest performed at the Molson Canadian Theatre in the Hard Rock Casino

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music | Free

Miles Davis: The Birth of the Cool

Presented with DOXA Documentary Film Festival

Vancouver | Sounds of Youth Stage | 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Film | Free

Big Easy Funk Ensemble

Big Easy Funk Ensemble celebrates the amazing variety of music that has grown out of the Jazz, Blues and Snazzy Grooves of New Orleans.

Vancouver | Guilt & Co. | 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

DJ XIN - DJ KOL-NA$H-ANDER CAIUS-ZVERTIKAL by MUSE by Harbour Event Centre

DJ, TV Personality and Model, DJ XIN from Taiwan have graced the decks all over Asia

Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music

90s vs 00s Night

The Fox Cabaret is excited to present our newest throwback battle of the decades!

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

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Kaja Draxler, Torsten Müller, Dylan van der Schyff

Slovenian-born, Amsterdam-based Kaja Draxler is a pianist with improvisational skills that push way beyond the foundation of her classical training

Vancouver | The Ironworks | 11:59 pm to 1:30 am | Music