Metro Vancouver events on January 15, 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

Botanical Illustration Level 2

Build on basic drawing techniques to develop accuracy in illustrating plants. Develop line and form, while expanding on shading techniques, and being attentive to precision and detail

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Visual Arts

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

House and Home By Jennifer Griffin

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

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Performing Arts

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

An Arts Club Theatre Company production: The Shoplifters

Comic mishaps for society's haves and have-nots

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 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

UBC Department of Theatre and Film: The Changeling

A tale of hidden sexual desires, bloody deeds, and characters who realize their intentions are less than pure, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling is one of the darkest and most sensual of the 17th century English tragedies

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 10:00 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

Half Moon Run - A Blemish in the Great Light

Half Moon Run is a Canadian indie rock band based in Montreal, Quebec. The group is known for their heavy use of percussion, and for playing multiple instruments during live performances

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Guilty Feminist Podcast With guest: Deborah Francis-White

Join comedian Deborah Frances-White for her comedy podcast, recorded in front of a live audience. Each episode, Deborah and her guests discuss their noble goals as 21st century feminists and the paradoxes and insecurities which undermine them

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