Metro Vancouver events on January 19, 2020

January 19, 2020

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Vancouver Resource and Investment Conference 2020

Investment thought leaders and wealth influencers provide our audiences with valuable insights

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

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

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

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

Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market

The Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market runs every Sunday from 10am-2pm on the PNE Fairgrounds

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

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

CAChurch: Town Centre

Weekly church services and Sunday School classes by Coquitlam Alliance Church

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 12:00 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

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

Swank Wedding Show - 2020

Swank Wedding show is back for the second time this year with a Winter Edition!

Vancouver | Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Hotel | 11:00 am to 6:00 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

Echoes & Reflections

Join us for a conversation between artists Valeen Jules, Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour, Nicole Preissl and Maika‘i Tubbs with intersecting interests in land, language and futurity

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Lecture

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

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 | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Performing Arts

Erato Presents: SILLINESS

A family friendly concert will be sure to delight audiences of all ages

Vancouver | Holy Trinity Anglican Church | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Music

January Student Concert at the Place des Arts

Place des Arts’ music students are provided performance opportunities through our student concerts, held throughout the season

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music | Free

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Chinatown Dumpling Masterclass

Everyone loves dumplings! We will learn how to make authentic Chinese dumplings with creative ingredients

Vancouver | Say Hey! Cafe | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Workshop

Vancouver Giants vs. Kamloops Blazers

The Vancouver Giants host the Kamloops Blazers in regular season action

Langley | Arena Bowl: Langley Events Centre | 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Sports

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

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

Cold War Kids

Cold War Kids are an American indie rock band from Long Beach, California. Band members are Nathan Willett, Matt Maust, David Quon, Matthew Schwartz, and Joe Plummer

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Rookie Night

Rookie Nights feature our Rookie League players, who have all successfully completed improv training via the Improv Comedy Institute

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Show

Tord Gustavsen Trio

Acclaimed Norwegian pianist performs works of delicate beauty, darkly ruminating with revelatory grace

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