Metro Vancouver events on January 29, 2020
January 29, 2020
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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
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
New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom
Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 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
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
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
VSO School of Music: Gidon Kremer, Chamber Ensemble Masterclass
Among the world’s leading violinists, Gidon Kremer has established and sustained a worldwide reputation as one of the most original and compelling artists of his generation
Vancouver | Pyatt Hall | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Workshop
Science Communication Workshop
The goal of the program is to inspire students with exciting, in-school presentations by career mentors
Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Workshop
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
Nobel Prize Lectures
Please join us in celebrating the newly awarded Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, physics and medicine/physiology
Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Lecture
PuSh Festival 2020: 600 Highwaymen (USA) - The Fever
“A lovely, haunting meditation on human connection, and disconnection … A poetic evocation of our mostly unspoken––and un-called upon––dependence on one another.” - The New York Times
Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm | Festival
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
The Believers Are But Brothers
This Fringe First award winning and Total Theatre Nominated (Experimentation & Innovation) multi-media show weaves together the story of masculinity, fantasy, violence and reality
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 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