Metro Vancouver events on October 3, 2019

Kerrisdale Pumpkin Patch - Southlands

Explore a magical farming oasis in the city. Relax, hang out. Grab a book in the Potting Shed Lounge Library, or play in the Straw Pile; Meet the goats, sheep, chickens, chicks, and horses

Vancouver | Southlands Heritage Farm | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Family

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

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

UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble

Presented by the UBC School of Music

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 12:00 am to 2:00 pm | Music | Free

VSO Tea & Trumpets: Bonjour Paris

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Tea & Trumpets series presents Bonjour Paris. Take a stroll through the streets of gay Paris with music of Offenbach, Bizet and more

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Music

Downtown Farmers Market

Shop fresh every Thursday at šxʷƛ̓exən Xwtl’a7shn (fomerly the QET Plaza) – your weekly source for the finest and freshest quality seasonal fruits and vegetables, ethically raised meat, poultry, eggs and

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza | 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Market

Wild Kratts - Live at Queen Elizabeth Theatre

WILD KRATTS – LIVE! is a theatrical stage show based on the #1 animated television series Wild Kratts. Martin and Chris Kratt, stars of the Emmy-nominated Wild Kratts step out LIVE ON STAGE to engage the audience in a classic Wild Kratts story

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

The Wild Kratts Live!

The Wild Kratts Live! is a theatrical stage show based on the #1 animated television series Wild Kratts

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

The Vancouver Writers: Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation with Lisa Christiansen

International bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Outliers and Blink, and host of the top-ranking podcast Revisionist History, visits Vancouver

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Lecture

The Shipment by Young Jean Lee

SpeakEasy Theatre’s critically acclaimed production is back! Billed as “A provocative comedy to shake the woke”, The Shipment is a subversive modern minstrel show about Black identity meant to wake the world to the ridiculous narratives in dominant media

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Ice Cube

O'Shea Jackson, known professionally as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, actor, producer, director and writer

Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Crooked Colours

Crooked Colours are a fresh electronic trio from Perth, Western Australia, comprising Philip Slabber, Leon Debaughn and Liam Merrett-Park

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

Naked Goddess Productions presents: Dancing Lessons

Heartwarming and humorous, Dancing Lessons centers on a geophysics professor with Asperger’s syndrome who approaches a Broadway dancer to teach him how to dance for an awards dinner.

Vancouver | Jericho Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

NF - The Search Tour

Nathan John Feuerstein, known professionally as NF, is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. He released an EP in 2014 with Capitol CMG, NF, which was his breakthrough release on the Billboard charts

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music