Metro Vancouver events on January 16, 2020
January 16, 2020
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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
More with Fewer
Warm your spirit with the music of Vivaldi and Django Reinhardt. Bergmann Duo & Mark Fewer, violin
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 10:00 am to 12:20 am | Music
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
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
Emmet Kirwan with special guests
Irish actor, playwright, and screenwriter brings an evening of biting and clever spoken word to the Rickshaw
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Arizona Coyotes @ Vancouver Canucks
The regular season game
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports
Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: The Great Big Taste
In Partnership with the Wines of British Columbia, join us as we kick off the 2020 Dine Out Vancouver Festival with a relaxed yet exciting grazing-style tasting event that celebrates our amazing local food and beverage scene
Vancouver | Rocky Mountaineer Station | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Food / Wine
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
Patrick Watson
Singer and leader of the canadian indie-rock band with the same name. If you need to credit the band, please use Patrick Watson
Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music
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
King Princess at Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Mikaela Straus, known by her stage name King Princess, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer from Brooklyn, New York
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Stage 43 presents The Lion in Winter
Sibling rivalry, adultery, and dungeons – The Lion in Winter, is a modern-day classic. Comedic in tone, dramatic in action – the play tells the story of the Plantagenet family, who are locked in a free-for-all of competing ambitions to inherit a kingdom
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
Tebey - The Good Ones Tour
Tebey is a Canadian artist, producer and songwriter currently residing in Nashville, TN
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
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
Feel So Good Thursdays
Introducing Feel So Good - a new Thursday weekly spot to dance, vibe & drink
Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Party