Metro Vancouver events on February 2, 2020

Langley Rivermen vs. Chilliwack Chiefs

Come cheer on the Langley Rivermen as they take on the Chilliwack Chiefs!

Langley | George Preston Recreation Centre | 2:30 am to 5:30 pm | Sports

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

Coastal Lunar Lanterns at Jack Poole Plaza

Come and celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Jack Poole Plaza

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

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: 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

The 28th Annual Wellness Show

For more than 25 years the Wellness Show has been bringing new approaches to nutrition, fitness, physical and emotional well-being to help Vancouverites achieve their most holistic, healthiest selves.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

New Works from Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

urban life’s energy, colour, patterns and identity

Vancouver | The Cultch | 10:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

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

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: Vancouver Brewery Tours - Coffee, Brunch, Donuts & Beer Tour

Rise and Shine! Roll out of bed and onto the Vancouver Brewery Tours bus for an epic morning of coffee, brunch, donuts and beer!

Vancouver | inside Waterfront Station | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Food / Wine

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

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

Sensory Friendly Sunday

A sensory focused time for people to enjoy the museum the first Sunday of each month

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Family | Free

Jazz in the Mews

Enjoy Jazz in the Foyer with a full slate of local musicians

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Music | Free

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

Macromatter Presented with Vancouver International Children’s Festival High Water

One performer, one fish tank, one horizon of water rising towards the inevitable

Vancouver | The Nest on Granville Island | 11:00 am to 4:50 pm | Performing 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

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 | 12:00 am to 1:15 pm | Festival

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 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

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 | 50 East Pender Street | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine

PuSh Festival 2020: Thinking About Love and Justice with Kai Cheng Thom

Writer, performance artist, and community healer Kai Cheng Thom facilitates a workshop focussing on transformative justice within the queer community

Vancouver | Sum Gallery | 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Workshop

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

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 | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Opera

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 | 2:00 pm to 3:40 pm | Dance

The Friends of Chamber Music: Han Finckel Setzer Trio

This returning ‘supergroup’ includes both artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and present and past members of the Emerson String Quartet

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

It's Time for the BIG GAME

This day only rolls around only once a year so why not join us in Asylum on February 2 to catch the big game and to experience all of the action for yourself

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 3:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Show

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 | 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Performing Arts

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

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2020: World Chef Exchange: Cross-Pacific Indigenous Nations

Join Salmon N' Bannock's all-Indigenous team in welcoming Maori Chef Rewi Spraggon from Auckland, New Zealand and Edmonton's Chef Shane Chartrand

Vancouver | Salmon n' Bannock Bistro | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Food / Wine

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

Alborosie & The Shengen Clan with Arise Roots & Tank Gyal (Vancouver show)

After ten years in the making, Victoria BC Ska & Reggae Society is proud to announce the confirmation of Alborosie & Shengen Clan to Vancouver for the first time on Sunday, February 2, 2020 at Rickshaw Theatre

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

A Night With Mehran Modiri - 2020 World Tour

Mehran Modiri is a prolific Iranian actor, television and cinema director, comedian and musician

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Performing Arts