Metro Vancouver events on January 28, 2020

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

TOPS 2020

Join us at the Vancouver Convention Centre at what will be the premier promotional products show on the West Coast for 2020!

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm | Exhibition

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

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

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

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

PuSh Festival 2020: Tania El Khoury (Lebanon / UK) - Tell Me What I Can Do

Gardens Speak has had 30 showings across 5 continents, and many of them have included a special request, with El Khoury asking her audiences to write letters

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 12:00 am to 9:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

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

PuSh Festival 2020: Tania El Khoury (Lebanon / UK) - Gardens Speak

In today’s Syria, oppression and violence are so far-reaching that even burial and mourning have become subversive acts

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 12:30 am to 10:30 pm | Performing Arts

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival 2020: Gardens Speak by Tania El Khoury

Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 12:30 am to 10:30 pm | Performing Arts

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

Vancouver Civic Theatres Art Gallery Open House

Vancouver Civic Theatres is proud to present a visual arts gallery open house with artwork by Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki and Pierre Vassura

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Lecture | Free

Teachers' Night Out

Enjoy free access to explore our engaging exhibit galleries during Teachers' Night Out! Access quality resources and network with colleagues at this evening just for you.

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Workshop | Free

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Get Crafty - Main Street

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!

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

Shrine Building Project

Electric Company Theatre, Playwrights Theatre Centre and Vancouver Civic Theatres are hosting a community-based shrine-building project to honour the undocumented migrants of the Americas and beyond, and to remember those lost on their journey

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Workshop | 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

Michael Kiwanuka

Michael Samuel Kiwanuka is a British indie and folk rock singer-songwriter and record producer who is signed with Polydor Records

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

Lobby Night - Celtic Jam with Nigel Tucker by The ACT Arts Centre

You’re invited to an evening of Celtic influenced musical fun with Nigel and his band of merry musicians. Bring your instruments, voice or even just your ears! No experience is necessary and only the love of music required

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music | Free

Herbs for Women's Health

This introduction to some unique herbs used specifically for women’s health will cover common herbs for reproductive wellness through all phases of a woman’s life

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health

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

PuSh Festival 2020: The Frank Theatre - She, Mami Wata & The Pussy WitchHunt

d’bi young anitafrika takes on gender, sexuality, divinity and more in this erotic solo piece

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Arts Club Theatre Company production: The Shoplifters

Comic mishaps for society’s haves and have-nots By Morris Panych

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:40 pm | Theatre