Metro Vancouver events on June 23, 2019

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

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

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

Greek Day on Broadway 2019

Greek Day on Broadway is the largest one day Greek festival in Vancouver and the grand finale event in a month long Greek Heritage Festival

Vancouver | Kitsilano | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Festival

David Blake Trio

Guitarist David Blake has established himself as a leading voice in the Vancouver jazz community. His rich tone and inventive improvising is at once steeped in the tradition of jazz guitar and ceaselessly looking to the future

Vancouver | Water Street Café | 11:00 am to 1:00 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

Granville Island Jazz: Omianan

Omianan’s omnivorous alt-jazz appetite feeds on indie rock, pop, prog rock, free improv, and blues

Vancouver | Granville Island Public Market | 12:00 am to 1:15 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 | Sounds of Youth Stage | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Music | Free

Downtown Jazz: Christopher Fraser Vital Organ Trio

Christopher Fraser is one of the Vancouver jazz scene’s most exciting new guitarists. A sharp improviser, Fraser takes a soulful and playful approach to traditional jazz

Vancouver | Robson Street Stage | 12:00 am to 1:15 pm | Music | Free

Medicine Wheel Ceremony

People from varying backgrounds and spiritual traditions are invited to gather to celebrate the beginning of a new season in a beautiful outdoors setting at VanDusen Garden

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Nature / Animals

Downtown Jazz – Sunday 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 9:00 pm | Music | Free

Downtown Jazz: Bernice

Bernice, the project of Toronto-based vocalist/songwriter Robin Dann, blends "melodies reminiscent of artists like Sade with the playful sounds of artists like Deerhoof and Dirty Projectors” (Pigeons & Planes).

Vancouver | Georgia Street Stage | 12:30 am to 2:00 pm | Music | Free

North Shore Jazz: Cousin Harley

Canada’s premier rockabilly band, Cousin Harley delivers blistering roots, foot stomping vintage country and western swing with intense fluidity, mindboggling precision, and barn burning, infectious fun

North Vancouver | Lynn Valley Village | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Music | Free

Granville Island Jazz: Paul Plimley Trio

Pianist Paul Plimley (Lisle Ellis, Scott Amendola) is a joyful tornado of avant-improvisation, modal melodic manipulations, and sharp neo-classicism

Vancouver | Performance Works | 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm | Music | Free

Downtown Jazz: San Pedro Cinco

Drawing on cumbia, calypso and other latin rhythms, this groovy quintet brings the 'pure vida' vibe to Vancouver

Vancouver | Robson Street Stage | 1:30 pm to 3:00 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 | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Opera

Vagabond Players: The Melville Boys By Norm Foster

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

Downtown Jazz: Quatuor André Lachance

Drawing on jazz, rock, and electric improvisation, one of Canada’s top bassists André Lachance switches to guitar for this dazzling mix of cool tunes, pulsing grooves, and cosmically compelling sonic excursions

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

Downtown Jazz: Dominique Fils-Aimé

Montreal singer-songwriter Dominique Fils-Aimé draws inspiration from soul icons like Billie Holiday, Etta James, and Nina Simone

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

Downtown Jazz: King Ayisoba

King Ayisoba born Albert Apoozore is a Ghanaian traditional musician known for his unique style of music alongside the kologo

Vancouver | Georgia Street Stage | 3:45 pm to 5:10 pm | Music | Free

Narnia the Children's Musical

Presented by Childlike Faith Academy

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm | Performing Arts

Downtown Jazz: Lydia Hol

Leading an “unbelievably tight” (Discorder) seven-piece band of some of Vancouver’s best young jazz, funk, and indie rock players, vocalist/guitarist Lydia Hol deftly combines early ‘60s soul and lush psychedelic rock

Vancouver | Robson Street Stage | 5:00 pm to 6:15 pm | Music | Free

Terri Clark

A Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee and three-time JUNO Award winner, Terri also holds the honor of being the only Canadian female member of the legendary Grand Ole Opry

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Show

Downtown Jazz: Naughty Professor

Weaving together complex, inventive compositions and organic improv, this iconoclastic New Orleans sextet honours its hometown’s jazz, R&B, and brass-band traditions while pushing into the future

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

Downtown Jazz: Cousin Harley

Canada’s premier rockabilly band, Cousin Harley delivers blistering roots, foot stomping vintage country and western swing with intense fluidity, mindboggling precision, and barn burning, infectious fun

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

The Cascade Room: Noriega & SUNs

Join us for six night of music at The Cascade Room.

Vancouver | The Cascade Room | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music | Free

Dave Hartney

Dave Hartney is a rising star in the Canadian Country music scene from North Vancouver, BC

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music | Free

Queer Arts Festival: Technical Knockouts

Performances by young artists from QAF’s Technical Knockouts music lab, mentored by Kinnie Starr, DJ O Show and Tiffany Moses

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

Railway Stage and Beer Café - Major Fantacy

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

Blue Strange

Blue Strange at its core delivers an ideal mix of roots and modern rock. On the outside they are constantly evolving their set with new tunes, nodding to any genre deemed necessary, piecing it all together with indie rock nuance

Vancouver | Water Street Café | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Hugh Fraser's VEJI

Led by trombonist/pianist/composer Hugh Fraser, the mighty 14-piece Vancouver Ensemble of Jazz “doesn’t fit any convenient mould

Vancouver | Pyatt Hall | 7:30 pm to 11:00 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

Downtown Jazz: DJ Shub

Considered the Godfather of PowWowStep, DJ Shub broke new ground on a growing genre of electronic music

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

Revel Room: The Do Rites featuring Kelly Haigh

Join us for ten nights of music at Revel Room

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

Blue October

The King Tour

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

The Sunday Service

With over 20 Canadian Comedy Award Nominations, a CCA Best Improv Troupe Award in 2012, and international recognition, The Sunday Service present to audiences across North America a fast paced and singular take on traditional long form

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Show

Jacqui Naylor

Jacqui has made the mixing and “smashing” of genres and eras her stock-in-trade, singing the lyrics and melody of jazz standards over the grooves of well-known rock songs and vice versa

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

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Elisapie

Montreal-based Inuk singer, film director, and activist Elisapie Isaac “synthesizes stories from her eventful life with hypnotic arrangements..

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

Haybaby w/ Land Line & Seablush

Haybaby is a band of total babes that play honey-ass heartbreak crooning sometimes screamy sludgy pop & slop rock that will make you have some feelings

Vancouver | Static Jupiter | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Wu-Tang Clan

Ground-breaking hip-hop group

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Music

Ouisi Bistro: Cannery Row

Join us for eleven nights of music at Ouisi Bistro

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

Tangent Cafe: Tom Wakeling Quartet

Join us for eight nights of music at the Tangent Cafe

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

Hint of Lime

Hint of Lime is a Vancouver jazz quintet featuring Gary Sures on mandolin, Tanya Kleifoth on flute, Scott Polzen on guitar, Libor Michalak on bass, and Ken Leedham on percussion

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

The Fringe Café: Dr.B & The Biscuit

Join us for six nights of music at The Fringe Café

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

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Cactus Truck

Based in Amsterdam, this fire-breathing improvisational trio of bassist/guitarist Jasper Stadhouders, drummer Onno Govaert, and American-born saxophonist John Dikeman plays a high-energy brand of free jazz

Vancouver | The Ironworks | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Club Series: Guilt & Co. - subCurrent

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

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

FREEDOM MUZIK: Amsterdam Meets Vancouver

An evening@ China Cloud Studios with Improvized Muzik and Freedom-based liberties ...

Vancouver | The China Cloud | 11:00 pm to 2:00 am | Music