Metro Vancouver events on October 10, 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

There is Truth Here: Creativity and Resilience in Children’s Art at Museum of Vancouver

The Museum of Vancouver is pleased to announce its newest feature exhibition There is Truth Here: Creativity and Resilience in Children’s Art from Indian Residential and Day Schools

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 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

Surrey Miniature Trains and Mini Golf at Bear Creek Park: Pumpkin Patch and Halloween SCREAM Train!

Crafts and activities under the tent on the platform, See your child's face light up with pleasure as they design the perfect pumpkin mask and play the Halloween games

Surrey | Bear Creek Park Train and Mini Gol | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Family

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

Wild Things: The Power of Nature in our Lives at Museum of Vancouver

The Museum of Vancouver and Nature Vancouver proudly present the illuminating exhibition, Wild Things: The Power of Nature in Our Lives

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

UBC Symphony Orchestra

Presented by the UBC School of Music. The UBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jonathan Girard, performs selected works from their Oct 11 programme

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 12:00 am to 1:30 pm | Music | Free

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

Harvest Haus

Get ready for this Oktober as Harvest Haus returns to celebrate it’s fifth year of bavarian-style merrymaking - bigger than ever before

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Festival

Harvestland

Attend Vancouver’s newest and most enchanting harvest festival.

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Festival

Opera Speaks: La Traviata Then and Now

This extremely relevant panel conversation will explore both the historical context of the opera and the impact of modern-day portrayals of sex work on sex industry workers.

Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Lecture | Free

Museum After Dark

Experience the museum without kids! Museum After Dark is an evening themed to the newest feature exhibit, Being: Punjabi, opening just the week before

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Visual Arts

Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram

Blues prodigy Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram comes through with special guests The Cerny Brothers

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 6:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Ecocity World Summit - Free Community Event

A free public lecture with PechaKucha style presentations from the invited keynote speakers: Richard Register, Paul Downton, Theresa Williamson, Gerban van Straaten and Eric Assadourian

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Lecture | Free

Yoke Lore

Solo project of Adrian Galvin. Formally in Walk The Moon (2) and Yellerkin

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

Maribou State: Kingdoms in Colour - Album Live Tour

Maribou State are an English electronic music duo consisting of Chris Davids and Liam Ivory

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

Dandelion Records Presents

Every Thursday, our friends at Dandelion Records throw together some of the city's TOP selectors to spin afrobeat, synth, funk, jazz funk, disco, post-punk, minimal, dream pop, and more!

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 9:00 pm to 11:55 pm | Music