Metro Vancouver events on January 26, 2020
January 26, 2020
Sun
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
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
PAW Patrol Live! “The Great Pirate Adventure” coming to Vancouver!
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 | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Show
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
20th annual Divers' Weekend
Two full days of expert panel discussions, incredible activities, presentations and displays
Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Lecture
Lunar New Year Events On Granville Island
Granville Island looks forward to celebrating Lunar New Year traditions in January. 2020 marks the Year of the Rat and there are many ways to celebrate with us on the island!
Vancouver | Granville Island | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Family
Chinese New Years Celebrations
May the year of the rat be a good one! The Chinese New Years is a big thing around here and probably something you haven't experienced yet!
Vancouver | Chinatown | 10:30 am to 4:00 pm | Family
Junior Maker Workshop: Claymation
Discover the science of filmmaking and flex your creative muscle with our Claymation workshop
Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm | Workshop
Year of the Rat Temple Fair
Ring in the Lunar New Year at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden! We’re ushering in the Year of the Rat at our annual Temple Fair celebration with joyful noise and family fun
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family
Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Punch Brunch by Vancouver Cocktail Week
Premium spirits. Top bartenders. Gourmet food. Live music. Who knows? There might even be dancing
Vancouver | Botanist Dining | 11:30 am to 2:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
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
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
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 | 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm | Performing Arts
PAW Patrol Live! “The Great Pirate Adventure”. Children's Theatre
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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Show
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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre
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 | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Music
Family Day at PdA
Gather up the clan and drop by Family Day at PdA to immerse yourself in art! Tour the galleries and create your own masterpieces in a variety of all-ages, drop-in-style art activities based on the subject matter and/or mediums of the exhibitions
Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
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 | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Performing Arts
The Vancouver Recital Society: Lucas and Arthur Jussen
Despite their tender ages (26 and 22 respectively), Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen have been part of the international concert world for years, winning praise from critics and audiences alike
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music
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: 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
Starry Night Spring Festival
Starry Night 2020 World Youth Chinese Spring Festival
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Festival
The Howard Jones Trio with guests
An intimate, all-seated evening featuring a stripped-down trip through Howard Jones' 30-year music career!
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music
Trio Voronezh
Trio Voronezh is a musical ensemble that produces incredibly exciting sounds and compelling arrangements of classics across a variety of musical styles, all played upon Russian folk instruments
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
Strunz & Farah
Legendary guitar duo blending Latin, Iranian, classical, jazz and flamenco cultural roots
West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 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
Howard Jones Trio
These shows also provide the opportunity for the audience to hear first-hand about the inspiration behind Howard’s beloved material as well as stories from his touring career
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music