Metro Vancouver events on January 9, 2020

Lift & Co. Business Conference & Expo Industry Day 2020

The Lift & Co. Cannabis Business Conference (LCBC) brings together leading experts from across the industry to tackle subject matter from a uniquely Canadian perspective

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm | Business / Finance

Window Gallery: Carved Out And Stitched Together

An Indigenous Artist’s Journey of Learning, Creating, and Holding Space for Herself and Others. Artwork by Adele ᒪᐢᑿ ᐃᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau

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

Emily Carr

This installation in the Gallery’s 1st Floor Rotunda reflects Emily Carr’s direct engagement with and great affection for British Columbia’s landscape—for her, a site of artistic and spiritual inquiry

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: Robert Rauschenberg 1965-1980

Drawn primarily from the Gallery’s collection, Robert Rauschenberg 1965–1980 explores the artist’s experimental, radical approach to artmaking

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

Offsite: Erwin Wurm

Offsite: Erwin Wurm is the 19th installation in the Gallery’s ongoing Offsite series. Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street between Thurlow and Bute Streets, west of the Shangri-La Hotel

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:00 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: Transits and Returns

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels

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

Exhibition: Cindy Sherman

This important exhibition explores the development of Cindy Sherman’s work from the beginning of her career in the mid-1970s to the present day

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

Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries

Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection, Rapture, Rhythm and the Tree of Life: Emily Carr and Her Female Contemporaries focuses on artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by women artists based in British Columbia

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

Exhibition: Echoes

Join us for the Exhibition for Echoes at the Burnaby Art Gallery

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 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: 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

Canyon Lights: A Winter Lights Festival

Celebrate Canyon Lights, A Winter Festival November 22, 2019 to January 26, 2020. Re-capture the feeling of wonder and excitement of the holiday season and be amazed by the hundreds of thousands of lights throughout the park

North Vancouver | Capilano Suspension Bridge Park | 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

Harrison Lights by the Lake

Get into the holiday spirit with the second annual Lights by the Lake! This free attraction will give you that warm Christmas feeling as you stroll along a Christmas light display down the waterfront of Harrison Hot Springs.

Harrison Hot Springs | Harrison Lake | 5:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Family | Free

Artist Talk and Publication Launch - Sreshta Rit Premnath

Join us for a conversation between artist Sreshta Rit Premnath and writer Avram Alpert on Premnath’s new monographic publication and artistic practice

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture | Free

International Folk Dancing Drop-in Sessions

Let's Dance! Join us in learning folk dances set to ethnic music from around the world, in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere

Surrey | Walnut Road Elementary School | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Surrey Civic Theatres - One Man Stranger Things: A Parody

Fusing characters, dialogue, special effects, music, & Eggos of Stranger Things into a one man show

Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Show

Thursday Artist Talk: PJ Patten - About the Creation of Graphic Novels

Learn about the artistic process behind creating a graphic novel

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Volcano Theatre (Toronto): Infinity

A surprising, funny, and revelatory new play about love, sex, and math

Vancouver | Historic Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

TheatreSports™

Razor-sharp wit and lightning-fast reflexes, two teams of players are pitted against each other in competitive improv matches

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Comedy

Colors Worldwide presents: R&B ONLY

Join Dauché and Jabari on the 2020 R&B ONLY tour!

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Theatre Series: The Shoplifters

By Morris Panych. Comic mishaps for society’s haves and have-nots

North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver TheatreSports presents OK Tinder - Swipe Right Comedy

Vancouver TheatreSports pokes fun at Vancouver’s notorious dating scene with our latest late-night show, OK Tinder – Swipe Right Comedy

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Comedy