Metro Vancouver events on October 9, 2019

2019 World Indigenous Business Forum

Every year since 2009, the Indigenous Leadership Development Initiative (ILDI) has created and organized the World Indigenous Business Forum.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 8:00 am to 8:00 pm | Business / Finance

Ecocity World Summit 2019

In 2019, Vancouver will proudly host an international audience of urban stakeholders who are eagerly looking to develop cities in balance with the natural world

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

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

The Pumpkin Patch 2019 by Richmond Country Farms

Richmond | Richmond Country Farms | 9:00 am to 5:00 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

Exhibition: Sreshta Rit Premnath

For his first solo exhibition in Canada, Sreshta Rit Premnath will develop new work

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

Play, Pie & Pint featuring The Happiest Big Band on Earth

Join us for a mid-week matinee performance followed by a hot savoury pie and beverage of choice in the theatre lobby. A Fun Lunchtime Theatre Experience!

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 12:00 am to 2:00 pm | Music

Diwali at Fraserview Library

Enjoy the sights and sounds of Diwali at an exciting music and dance performance. This event will feature a colourful, fast-paced Bollywood and Indian classical fusion dance performances

Vancouver | Fraserview Library | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Festival | Free

Canucks vs LA Kings

The regular season game

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Clairo - Immunity Tour: Harbour Event Centre

Claire Cottrill, known professionally as Clairo, is an American recording artist from Carlisle, Massachusetts who wrote "Pretty Girl" (2017), a lo-fi-produced song that attracted over 26 million views on YouTube

Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 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

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears with guests

Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their debut album Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! (Lost Highway Records/Universal Motown)

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Fox Hole Comedy

Fox Hole Comedy is Vancouver’s only weekly comedy room where women, non-binary folks, people of colour, and queers are the majority of performers, every time

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy

St.Paul & The Broken Bones

St. Paul and The Broken Bones is an American eight-piece soul band based in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, that formed in 2012

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

MARINA - Love + Fear Tour

LOVE + FEAR are two eight song collections that are part of an album set – my fourth full-length release of music

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 9:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music