Metro Vancouver events on January 31, 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

WickFest 2020

WickFest Returns! Hayley Wickenheiser brings renowned female hockey and development event to Surrey

Surrey | North Surrey Sport & Ice Complex | 8:00 am to 9:00 pm | Sports

Missions Fest 2020

Join us at Missions Fest Vancouver 2020 to explore the topic of surrender and its connection to mission

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 5:00 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

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

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 | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Show

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Street Food City 9

Celebrating its ninth anniversary, Street Food City is your opportunity to sample from a collection of Vancouver's Street Food carts all in one convenient location

Vancouver | šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énk Square, Vancouver Art Gallery | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

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 | 11:00 am to 10:15 pm | Festival

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

Tax Return Workshop for Small Business Owners & Self-Employed Individuals

Learn about filing your tax return as a small business owner or self-employed person.

Surrey | City Centre Library | 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Workshop | Free

CF Pacific Centre Lunar New Year Celebration

Join our Lunar New Year Celebration on Friday, January 31st as we ring in the year of the rat!

Vancouver | CF Pacific Centre | 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm | Family

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

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

Vancouver Giants vs. Kamloops Blazers

The Vancouver Giants host the Kamloops Blazers in regular season action

Langley | Langley Events Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports

Early Music Vancouver: Film in Concert: The Passion of Joan of Arc feat. The Orlando Consort

Orlando Consort; Angus Smith; Donald Greig; Robert Macdonald; Mark Dobell; Matthew Venner

Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral | 7:30 pm to 9:30 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

UBC Opera: Pasazerka (The Passenger)

In honour and remembrance of those who lost their lives at Auschwitz and in other oppressive regimes, UBC Opera presents Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera The Passenger.

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Opera

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: Flying White 飞白

Flying white is a rare and extraordinary form of Chinese calligraphy that jumps and leaps on the paper surface in graceful beautiful strokes, the black ink revealing a white background

Vancouver | SFU Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

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 VSO Masterworks Gold series: Romantic Bruckner Plus Gidon Kremer Plays Schumann

Featuring Violinist Gidon Kremer

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Surrey Civic Theatres - God is a Scottish Drag Queen 2: The Second Coming

Dressed in your favourite floral power suit, God descends once more to deliver a new testament

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:20 pm | Comedy

Studio 58 presents URINETOWN: The Musical

In a city gripped by a severe drought, a large corporation holds a monopoly on all toilets and citizens must pay to pee!

Vancouver | Studio 58/Langara College | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

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

Begonia

Noisey wrote that, “Begonia has one of Canada’s most extraordinary voices, and thankfully she uses it to obliterate the misery from this world one live performance at a time.”

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

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

The Geekenders Present Beatles Live Band Nerdlesque

Join us for a “Hard Day’s Night” set in the beloved era of the swinging sixties!

Vancouver | The Rio Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Show

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

BattleWorld '88 - A Rickshaw Wrestling Presentation

Wrestling returns to The Rickshaw! Don't miss titans of the wrestling world unleash their full potential when they fight on BATTLEWORLD '88!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Sports

PuSh Festival 2020: Ursula Martinez (UK) - Free Admission

Uncouth, uncensored and… undressed? Ursula Martinez (UK) gets personal, political and philosophical in this soul-baring solo performance

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Sherman Tai Charity Readings 2020

to have your fortune read by internationally renowned fortune teller and feng shui master, Sherman Tai

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Charity / Fundraising

Barracuda

Barracuda performs the music of HEART with style, presence and a true passion for the songs that have become beloved classics to fans worldwide

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Theory of a Deadman - Say Nothing World Tour 2020

Theory of a Deadman is a Canadian rock band from Delta, British Columbia. The band also includes traits of other music styles, such as country and acoustic, as well as their post-grunge and alternative rock base

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:30 pm to 3:59 am | Music

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