Metro Vancouver events on February 4, 2020
February 4, 2020
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Cargo Logistics Canada Expo & Conference
Join the Future at the 7th Cargo Logistics Canada Expo & Conference
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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
Toque Tuesday
Come watch Surrey City Council and staff engage in a friendly game of ball hockey for a great cause
Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
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
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
Seniors Day at Museum of Vancouver
The first Tuesday of every month is $5 admission for seniors (65+)
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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
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
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 | 10:00 am to 1:20 pm | Performing Arts
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
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 3:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free
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
Chinese New Year Lunch And Dance
Join a fun afternoon of dancing and socializing with a lively group of folks honouring Chinese New Year, the year of the rat. The afternoon includes a light lunch, refreshments, and our fabulous in-house DJ
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 12:00 am to 2:30 pm | Party
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
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
Temples
Timbre Concerts presents rock band from England Temples, on tour to support their latest release “Hot Motion”, with guests Art d’Ecco
Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
National Geographic: Birds of Paradise
With Tim Laman & Ed Scholes
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture
Roundhouse Youth Theatre Action Group Design Workshop
Some Assembly Theatre Company is looking for youth age 13-18 to work with professional artists on the creation of the set and props for a multi-media professional quality production
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Workshop
Vancouver Giants vs. Tri-City Americans
The Vancouver Giants host the Tri-City Americans in regular season action on Tuesday, February 4th
Langley | Langley Events Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports
Langley Rivermen vs. Salmon Arm Silverbacks
Come cheer on the Langley Rivermen as they take on the Salmon Arm Silverbacks!
Langley | George Preston Recreation Centre | 7:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Sports
SongBird North
This bi-monthly showcase features four exceptional singer/songwriters ranging from renowned veterans to up-and-coming writers, taking turns playing original work and sharing stories
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts
Forget Me Not - Ronnie Burkett
100 people, 100 puppets, a secret location, and the one and only Ronnie Burkett!
Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre
PuSh Festival 2020: Anywhere But Here by Carmen Aguirre with Shad
Anywhere But Here is a psycho-social-spiritual-physical journey based on the relationship to land
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Performing Arts
The Chop (Canada) Presented with The Cultch - KISMET, things have changed
Created and performed by: Emelia Symington Fedy, Anita Rochon, Hazel Venzon, Daryl King. A show about fate and destiny, a decade in the making
Vancouver | Historic Theatre, The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts
SongBird North - Where Writers Sing and Tell
This bi-monthly showcase features four exceptional singer/songwriters ranging from renowned veterans to up-and-coming writers, taking turns playing original work and sharing stories
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:30 pm to 0:00 am | Performing Arts
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 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical
Theatre Series: 7 Stories
This quick-witted, dark comedy will have you philosophizing about life and death, right up to its existential conclusion
North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
PuSh Festival 2020: Jaha Koo (South Korea / Belgium) - Cuckoo
Cuckoo is a dialogue, a confessional, even a documentary of sorts
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts
PuSh Festival 2020: Why Not Theatre (Canada) - What You Won’t Do For Love
The bonds of family, the excitement and frustrations of advocacy, the motivating force of love itself
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Festival