Metro Vancouver events on February 5, 2020

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

2020 Vancouver International Boat Show

Western Canada's largest boat show, the Vancouver International Boat Show, returns to BC Place from Wednesday, February 5th to Sunday, February 9th, 2020

Vancouver | BC Place | 9:00 am to 6:00 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

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

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

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

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

Musical Mornings: The Red Violin with Jasper Wood, violin

Musical Mornings is a series of salon-style concerts hosted by internationally acclaimed and celebrated pianists Elizabeth and Marcel Bergmann

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 10:30 am to 12:00 am | Music

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

What Are You Waiting For?

What do you wait for, hope for and long for? Join Aaniya Asrani for an intimate exchange of stories, recipes, songs and food

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 11:00 am to 12:30 am | Workshop

Play, Pie & Pint featuring Andrea Superstein

Join us for a mid-week matinee performance followed by a hot savoury pie and beverage of choice in the theatre lobby. A Fun Lunchtime Theatre Experience!

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 12:00 am to 2:00 pm | Music

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

VSO School of Music: Oliver Gannon, Jazz Guitar Masterclass

Jazz guitarist Oliver Gannon has been an active presence in the Vancouver and Canadian jazz scenes since the early 1970’s

Vancouver | Pyatt Hall | 5:00 pm to 7:00 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

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 | 6:00 pm to 6:50 pm | Performing Arts

Rivalry Series

Five-game series includes games in Moncton, Victoria, and Vancouver

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports

Stone Temple Pilots - The Perdida Tour

Stone Temple Pilots are an American rock band from San Diego, California, that originally consisted of Scott Weiland, brothers Dean DeLeo and Robert DeLeo, and Eric Kretz

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

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

The Continuing Story of Jimmy Jones and his Heavenly Truck

In a mythical America, Jimmy Jones reveals the stories and disappointments of his father in the middle of cornfields and legends. It is the story of an unusual father

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Castlereigh Theatre Project: God's Lake

A rare glimpse into the lived reality of God's Lake Narrows, Manitoba community as told verbatim from interviews with its members over six months in 2017

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

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

Untold Want: Gruesome Playground Injuries

Childhood friends, Doug and Kayleen are kindred spirits who meet over the course of thirty years

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | 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: PME-ART - A User’s Guide to Authenticity Is a Feeling

User’s Guide - an artist’s talk of sorts, but one that tilts toward the unconventional end of the spectrum

Vancouver | Western Front | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts