Metro Vancouver events on January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
Sat
Textile art workshop with Ay lelum, coast salish collective
Join Ay Lelum -The Good House of Design - for an afternoon of Coast Salish textile art, music and history
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Workshop
2020 New Holland Canadian Junior Curling Championships
The 2020 New Holland Canadian Junior Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships are coming to Langley January 18-26, 2020!
Hope | George Preston Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Sports
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
Birding Walks
Join a local naturalist and see diverse birds of Surrey. You'll see Surrey’s diverse habitats and get to know your local parks
Surrey | Elgin Heritage Park | 9:00 am to 11:00 am | Nature / Animals | Free
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
The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (IEEE MEMS 2020) is one of the premier annual events reporting research results on every aspect of Microsystems technology.
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Lecture
Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Canadian Craft Tours - Coffee Roast & Delightful Bites Tour
Join Canadian Craft Tours to explore why Vancouver's Coffee Scene is seen as top tier on the world stage
Vancouver | 901 West Cordova Street | 9:00 am to 12:15 am | Food / Wine
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
Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Kona Coffee Hand Brew Workshop
A two hours coffee session to taste different Kona coffees and hands-on experience make your own 100% Kona pour over coffee
Vancouver | Honolulu Coffee Vancouver | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Workshop
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
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
Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Introduction to Dim Sum
Whether this is your first time of you have been enjoying Dim Sum for years, this entertaining activity will answer questions and take your enjoyment of Dim Sum to a deeper level
Vancouver | Jade Dynasty Restaurant | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Food / Wine
Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Street Food City 9
Celebrating its ninth anniversary, Street Food City is your opportunity to sample from a collection of Vancouver's Street Food carts all in one convenient location
Vancouver | šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énk Square, Vancouver Art Gallery | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free
Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Fraser Valley Wine Tour
This all-inclusive 6-hour day out will give you a snapshot of British Columbia’s thriving wine industry. We will take you through the winemaking process, as you enjoy a variety of tastings from the beautiful vineyards of the Fraser Valley
Vancouver | Starbucks on Mainland & Davie Street | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Food / Wine
North Surrey Sport & Ice Complex Grand Opening
Join Mayor & Council to cut the ribbon and celebrate Surrey’s newest recreational facility!
Surrey | North Surrey Sport & Ice Complex | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free
Tree, Earth, Sky - VR Headset Experience
Experience the liveliness of an old growth grove, with its vibrant soil community and powerful ancient trees.
Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 12:00 am to 2:00 pm | Show
Exhibition: Echoes
Join us for the Exhibition for Echoes at the Burnaby Art Gallery
Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Canadian Craft Tours - Dim Sum Chinatown Tour
Dim Sum, which means "Point of the Heart", lives up to its name in Vancouver, BC's historic Chinatown
Vancouver | Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine
Member and Public Open House
January 18th is your chance to shape the future of VanDusen Botanical Garden and Bloedel Conservatory
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Nature / Animals
Taste Vancouver North Van Shipyards Tour
While enjoying some great food and magnificent scenery learn all about Vancouver’s historic shipyard district that began with its discovery in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver
North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay | 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine
Volcano Theatre: Infinity
A surprising, funny, and revelatory new play about love, sex, and math
Vancouver | Historic Theatre | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Theatre
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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
An Arts Club Theatre Company production: The Shoplifters
Comic mishaps for society's haves and have-nots
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Theatre
Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: BBQ, Fried Chicken & Brewery Tour
Hop on tour with Vancouver Brewery Tours to enjoy Vancouver’s best barbecue, fried chicken and craft beers!
Vancouver | inside Waterfront Station | 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Canadian Craft Tours - Flights & Bites Tour
Beer and good food go hand and hand. Join the team at Canadian Craft as we venture to three of our favorite Vancouver Breweries and pair beers with a few hidden gem snacks along the way
Vancouver | 901 West Cordova Street | 4:30 pm to 7:45 pm | Food / Wine
Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Farm in the City : BC Farm to Table
Themed pop up “FARM IN THE CITY: BC FARM TO TABLE” with live music and BC Farm goodness
Vancouver | Sweetery Café and Dessert | 5:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Food / Wine
A Celebration of Robbie Burns Supper and Concert with Blackthorn
Join us for our annual celebration of Scotland’s National Bard, Robbie Burns! Fiddler Rosie Carver with Celtic band Blackthorn and a special guest piper feature the musical traditions of Scotland with a special focus on Burns’ songs and poems
Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Secret Supper Soiree
A sold out Dine Out Festival event every year, Secret Supper Soiree is Vancouver's culinary road trip!
Vancouver | 1485 Frances Street | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine
San Jose Sharks @ Vancouver Canucks
The regular season game
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports
Dine Out Vancouver Festival: Hawksworth Long Table Dinner Series
As part of Dine Out, Hawksworth Restaurant is pleased to present Hawksworth Long Table Dinner Series in our private dining space, The York Room
Vancouver | Hawksworth Restaurant | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Food / Wine
Chadwick Stokes & the Pintos With Guests
American musician, singer and activist (from Dispatch and State Radio)
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
ECCW Ballroom Brawl XIII
2-Day Show Offer ECCW Ballroom Brawl XIII Jan 17 & 18, 2020
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Sports
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
Legends of Motown
Legends of Motown has continued to grow in ambition, spirit as well as in members
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
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 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
The VSO Pops presents: Singin' the Blues from Billie Holiday to Bob Dylan
Featuring Bria Skonberg
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:00 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
Salsa & Latin Dance Night with Alberto Gonzalez & Teresa Szefler
Salsa, Bachata & Merengue lesson & Latin Music
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 0:00 am | Dance
ShoCore with Crystal Pistol
The Vancouver rock 'n' roll legends are back! Don't miss the return of Shocore, at The Rickshaw, with special guests Crystal Pistol
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
The Late Show - Adult Only Improv Comedy
We're taking the furry hand-cuffs off our improvisers to present edgy, uncensored improv comedy for adults 19+
Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 11:15 pm to 11:59 pm | Comedy