Metro Vancouver events on January 24, 2020
January 24, 2020
Fri
Coastal Lunar Lanterns at Jack Poole Plaza
Come and celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Jack Poole Plaza
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 0:00 am to 0:00 am | 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
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
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: The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom
Steven Brekelmans, Justine A. Chambers, Brady Cranfield, Maura Doyle, Claire Greenshaw, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Annie Macdonell, Erica Stocking, Damla Tamer
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
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
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
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
PAW Patrol Live! “The Great Pirate Adventure”
X Barks the Spot in PAW Patrol Live! “The Great Pirate Adventure” in Vancouver. Join the Heroic Pups on a Pirate-Themed Mission When They Take the Stage at Rogers Arena
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Show
New Year’s Winterfest - Night 1
A two-night showcase of some of the finest metal the western world has to offer
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:00 pm to 3:00 am | Music
Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: The Mashup - Beer, Wine and Distillery Tour
Vine&hops hosts a unique mashup tour, giving you a sneak peek into the tastes and flavours of three Vancouver based establishments
Vancouver | Yaletown Roundhouse Skytrain Station | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
Friday Night Dance
Drop-in Lessons and Practice Dances
Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance
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
Dermot Kennedy: The Without Fear Tour
Dermot Joseph Kennedy is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for his 2019 single "Outnumbered"
Vancouver | Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
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
PuSh Festival 2020: Skyborn: A Land Reclamation Odyssey
A black hole, hungry ghosts, a Grandmother wolf—Quelemia Sparrow’s Skyborn is an epic odyssey grounded in Indigenous ancestral knowledge
Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts
PuSh Festival 2020: Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story is a humorously dark folk tale woven together with a high energy concert
Vancouver | Frederic Wood Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts
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
Of The Fields, Lately by David French
This play follows the fortunes of the Mercer family, ex-pat Newfoundlanders living in Toronto. Son Ben returns after a long absence to attend his aunt’s funeral, only to discover that his father has recently suffered a heart attack
Langley | Langley Players Drama Club | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
An Arts Club Theatre Company production: The Shoplifters
Comic mishaps for society's haves and have-nots
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 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 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
VSO Masterworks Diamond series: Symphonie Fantastique - Märkl Conducts Berlioz, Ravel and Saint-saëns
Audience-favourite Maestro Jun Märkl returns with a program tracing the evolution of the French sound: lush and masterful orchestration, cyclical forms, and great thematic cohesion
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 9:30 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
PuSh Festival 2020: BERLIN: The Last Cabaret
This political cabaret celebrates the subversive power of art and offers a warning to those who would take freedom for granted
Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Performing Arts
Mama's Boy
It is an intimate and beautiful performance, told through the eyes of one of Canada’s most popular comedians
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
The Commodore Ballroom: It's Just Drag! Starring:Brooke Lynn Hytes and Monet X Change
Vancouver-based premier events company, TFD Presents partners with Live Nation, to bring back It’s Just Drag for its 4th year to Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Show
Jazz Series: A Tribute to Bird and Diz
A celebration of the fathers of bebop featuring the CapU jazz ensembles and faculty guests
North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Snowed In Comedy Tour
The Snowed In Comedy Tour has turned in to a Canadian success story, celebrating its twelfth year. The tour has now grown to be the largest in Canada with 70 cities from Coast to Coast
Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy
BANG!
A fun to listen to, high energy dance band, BANG! is perfectly designed to make your night great! Since forming in 2007 to play in Europe, BANG! has played Vancouver’s top rooms, and loads of private functions
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Show
Frisky Friday
Bring the sizzle to your Friday night as improvisers explore the funny side of naughty. For adults 19+
Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 11:15 pm to 11:59 pm | Show