Metro Vancouver events on January 22, 2020
January 22, 2020
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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
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
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 | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Show
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
PuSh Festival 2020: Back to Back Theatre (Australia) - The Democratic Set
This is not a performance—it’s a model for the way we could live. In The Democratic Set, members of the local community are invited to help make a movie
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Festival | 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
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 - Surrey
Roll up your sleeves with Rocky Mountain Flatbread Co. and prepare to get “floured up” as your pizza making host guides you through creating the perfect artisan pizza!
Surrey | Rocky Mountain Flatbread Co. Surrey | 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Food / Wine
Essentials of Landscape Design Class
This 3-part workshop covers the importance of your site’s environmental details as well as basic parameters of design (such as focal points, scale, colour, balance and more)
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Nature / Animals
Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: The Flying Pig's Signature Pig Roast
Our Chefs at The Flying Pig Olympic Village have put together a dinner you won't soon forget - our Signature Pig Roast Dinner
Vancouver | The Flying Pig (Olympic Village) | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Food / Wine
The 7 Fingers / Artcirq / Taqqut Productions
The oral history of the Inuit people is the inspiration for Unikkaaqtuat, a multidisciplinary work that combines the traditional practices of throat-singing, hunting and competitive games with circus arts
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance
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
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
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
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