Metro Vancouver events on October 16, 2019

2019 Textile Sustainability Conference

Textile Exchange’s annual Textile Sustainability Conference brings together a powerful and inspiring global community across the fashion and apparel industry

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 8:00 am to 6:00 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

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

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

Exhibition: Olivia Whetung - Sugarbush Shrapnel

The Contemporary Art Gallery will present the first solo exhibition in a major public institution of Chemong Lake based Anishinaabe artist Olivia Whetung

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

Harvestland

Attend Vancouver’s newest and most enchanting harvest festival

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Family

Grave Tales

Join our expert storytellers for a two- or three-hour program of spine-chilling stories, as you walk through the Fort Langley village at night

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Family

Haunted Vancouver Trolley Tour

On the dark and dreary nights of autumn, the Haunted Vancouver Trolley Tour travel Vancouver’s streets exposing the mysteries and forgotten lore that haunt our alleyways, homes, parks and hotels

Vancouver | Canada Place | 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Show

Black Pumas with Neal Francis

Psychedelic soul band from Austin, on tour to support their debut self-titled release

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Nerd Nite v47: Neuroscience, Queer Storytelling, + the Crystal Meth Crisis

Fall is upon us. It’s time to bust out your hipster beanie, wait extra-long in a coffee line while everyone orders a pumpkin spiced latte, and crunch through the fallen leaves while wondering: what’s up with these leaves changing colour?

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Lecture

Sabaton

Swedish power metal band formed in 1999

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Vancouver’s PNE Fright Nights at Halloween

Taking place at Playland in October, Fright Nights at the PNE is a Vancouver Halloween tradition featuring multiple haunted houses and 20 amusement rides

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 7:00 pm to 11:55 pm | Party

Spooky Action

Inverso Productions’ Lesley Telford creates this interdisciplinary dance project inspired by particle entanglement

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Performing Arts

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

Margie Gillis - Legacy Project: Evolutions

A modern dance artist and choreographer, a must see

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance

The Dance Centre presents Lucy Guerin Inc: Split

Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin’s sharp, elegant Split reflects the dilemmas of negotiating with oneself and others in a world of increased pressure and reduced resources

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

The Interrupters - Fight the Good Fight: Canada Tour

with special guests: Skinny Lister and Sharp/Shock

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