Metro Vancouver events on January 21, 2020

AME BC Mineral Exploration Roundup Conference 2020

AME is the lead association for the mineral exploration and development industry based in British Columbia

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 5:00 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

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

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Sustainable Seafood Walking Tour

Join the Ocean Wise Seafood team on a tour of some of the most delicious and sustainable seafood restaurants in downtown Vancouver!

Vancouver | Outside Colette Grand Café in Holt Renfrew | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Food / Wine

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival: By Back to Back Theatre - The Democratic Set

The Democratic Set is an experimental residency model for working with communities. Created using an assembly of short performances for film, The Democratic Set is an unrestricted and uncensored exploration of ideals of equality and freedom

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Performing Arts

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

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: Get Crafty - Kits

Seatings 5:30pm - 9:00pm Roll up your sleeves with Rocky Mountain Flatbread Co. and prepare to get “floured up” as your pizza making host guides you through reating the perfect artisan pizza!

Vancouver | Rocky Mountain Flatbread | 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Food / Wine

Jazz Jam

Join us at the Shadbolt for a jazz jam session! Hosted by Cory Weeds, the Jazz Jam features a stellar lineup of local jazz musicians in an improvised evening of music

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music | Free

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

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: World Chef Exchange: Toronto at Chicha

Join Chicha's Chef Shelome Bouvette in welcoming Toronto's, Chef Charlotte Langley.

Vancouver | Chicha Restaurant | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine

Midge Ure - Songs, Questions, and Answers Tour

Midge Ure returns for an up close and intimate show! Performing alongside multi-instrumental musician Tony Solis

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:30 pm to 11:59 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

Music on Main: Little Volcano - Veda Hille with Theatre Replacement

Veda Hille combines music and storytelling in this intensely personal performance

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music