Metro Vancouver events on January 14, 2020

Knowshow Fall/winter 2020

Knowshow is an engaging B2B marketplace where leading lifestyle fashion brands unveil their seasonal products to Canadian retailers.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

January/February Exhibitions at the Place des Arts

Three new exhibitions: An Interactive Exhibition of Plant-Based Visual Art, photography and sculpture by Collaborative Alchemy; Happiness is a thing called, watercolours and water media by Tammy Pilon; The Influencer, oil painting by Alex Sandvoss

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

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

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

Brain and Body Workout for Boomers and Beyond

This class, designed by kinesiologists and occupational therapists, is an evidence-based program to improve both physical and brain conditioning

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Active Life / Health

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

Multisensory Movement Series

This 6-week exercise class series will improve participants’ balance, strength, mobility and sensory integration through brain-based physical fitness exercises and sensory mindfulness techniques

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 11:15 am to 12:15 am | Active Life / Health

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

Burnaby International Folk Dancers Weekly Meetings

We enjoy the fun, the exercise and the challenge, to our heads as well as our feet, of learning traditional dances from cultures throughout the world

Burnaby | Charles Rummel Community Centre | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

Lobby Night - Songstage with Ivan Boudreau by The ACT Arts Centre

Canadian songwriter and musician, Ivan Boudreau, hosts this evening series which features a guest songwriter, followed by an open mic showcase for writers of original music

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

ArtBAR: Ceramic Mugs and Steins with Bill Hartley

All artBAR evenings are led by professional artists and include supplies, instruction and one complimentary glass of wine! Our bar is open for the duration of these evening events

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts

Arts Club Theatre Company production: The Shoplifters By Morris Panych

Comic mishaps for society’s haves and have-nots

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Theatre

House and Home By Jennifer Griffin A Firehall Arts Centre Premier Production

Jennifer Griffin’s biting, comic take on Vancouver’s current real estate crisis

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

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

The Friends of Chamber Music present: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - French Enchantment

Savour the grace, wit, and charm of a late 19th Century Parisian salon with early works by Saint-Saëns and Fauré. In between, we will hear the Ravel sonata, a composition of unique, austere beauty

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music