Metro Vancouver events on August 9, 2019

All the Trees

ll the Trees encouraged visitors to take a closer look at the trees around the West Point Grey Community Centre and Jericho Park and to communicate with those trees

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival

This 3-day free festival offers visual and performing artists facing social exclusion and other barriers opportunities for exhibition and sales, performance and participation, and connection and learning

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Festival | Free

ZimCarvings Exhibition

The VanDusen Botanical Garden 2019 exhibition – July 19 to Sept 15 – will be showcasing over 100 hand-carved, original works from 50+ Zimbabwean stone sculptors

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition

Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty

Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty is the first retrospective of this notable Canadian artist whose work interrogates the mechanisms of display that shape meaning, beauty and desire in our culture

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

My River, My Home

As a part of the Global Rivers Observatory, researcher Sarah Rosengard travelled to the Brazilian state of Pará to work with the youth living in Arapixuna near the Amazon river

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 10:00 am to 6:00 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

ZimCarvings Exhibition in VanDusen Botanical Garden

Over 100 original hand-carved stone sculpture, from over 50 Zimbabwean stone sculptors will be showcased at this exhibit. Also featured will be select smaller sculptures, hand-woven baskets and jewelry. All of these pieces will be available for purchase

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 8:00 pm | Exhibition

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

Maryam Jafri - Automatic Negative Thought

The Contemporary Art Gallery is excited to present Automatic Negative Thought, a major solo exhibition of the work of Copenhagen and New York based artist Maryam Jafri

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Exhibition: Maryam Jafri - Automatic Negative Thought

The Contemporary Art Gallery presents the first major solo exhibition in Canada of work by Copenhagen and New York based artist Maryam Jafri

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Sculpture Exhibits - The Pitt Meadows Art Gallery

Over 100 original hand-carved stone sculpture, from over 50 Zimbabwean stone sculptors will be showcased at this exhibit. Also featured will be select smaller sculptures, hand-woven baskets and jewelry

Pitt Meadows | The Pitt Meadows Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Summer Sounds on Jack Poole Plaza

Beginning on Friday, August 2nd the Convention Centre invites you to experience Summer Sounds on Jack Poole Plaza, a free-to-attend community concert series taking place across four weeks in August

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Music | Free

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

Summer Salt

MRG Concerts presents Summer Salt with Dante Elephante and Motel Radio

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Duan Jin a Chinese drama

Duan Jin is a Chinese play. It tells the story of how three brothers with different personalities run a business together in BeiJing on Wangfujing with mixed love and hate, the rise and fall of interests during the republic of China era early last century

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Early Music Vancouver: Purcell Hail Bright Cecilia

The last, and greatest, of Purcell’s four Odes to the Christian saint, Hail! Bright Cecilia was composed to a text by Nicholas Brady in 1692 in honour of the feast day of Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

From Philly: Lucas Brown Quartet

With Cory Weeds saxophone, Bill Coon guitar, and Joe Poole drums

Vancouver | Frankie's Jazz Club | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

TriloJay

Introducing, Jay Leonard Juatco, Jay Esplana, Jason Nickel and Jonny Holisko four of Vancouver’s most talented and energetic performers

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

Giuseppe Ottaviani by Harbour Event Centre

Join us on Friday August 9th as we celebrate the return of Giuseppe Ottaviani

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

Vancouver Student Events presents: Mr & Mrs Global Fridays

Every Friday join us with some of Vancouver’s top international DJ’s spinning the best in Brazilian, Latin, Hip-Hop, EDM, Pop, Reggaeton, Dance Hall, Pop, K-Pop, Top 40 and more!

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 3:00 am | Party

Work It: Best of the 2000s

The Fox Cabaret proudly presents a night dedicated to the best tracks from the 2000s: Pop, Hip Hop, R&B, + more! Get your crew together and come dance your butterfly clips off with us

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