Metro Vancouver events on February 6, 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

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

Watercolour Meetups at VanDusen Garden

Bring your paint, questions, and ongoing projects to our weekly series of meetups hosted by instructor Susan Pearson

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 11:30 am | Visual 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

PuSh Festival 2020: Pitch Session - Industry Series

Pre-selected applicants give an 8-minute pitch of their new and upcoming projects to an audience of producers, artistic directors, festival curators, presenters and programmers

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Lecture

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

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

Yarn and Yak

A monthly time for making and spending time with other seniors

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Workshop | Free

PuSh Festival 2020: PuShOFF Mixer - Industry Series

PushOFF, produced by Theatre Replacement in partnership with Company 605, is an independent, curated platform of tour-ready projects and works in development by Canadian artists, taking place Feb 6 and 7

Vancouver | Russian Hall | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Festival

Decolonizing Voices: A Celebration of Canadian Black HERstory

Join MOA for a celebration of Black Canadian Womxn as part of Black History Month events across the UBC campus

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music

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 | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Performing Arts

International Folk Dancing Drop-in Sessions

Let's Dance! Join us in learning folk dances set to ethnic music from around the world, in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere

Surrey | Walnut Road Elementary School | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

SuperM: We Are The Future Live

SuperM is a Korean pop supergroup formed in 2019 by SM Entertainment and Capitol Music Group

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Axis Theatre: Th'owxiya: The Hungry Feast Dish

Indigenous storytellers spin a tale from the Kwantlen First Nations Village of Squa’lets, about Th’owxiya, an old and powerful spirit that inhabits a feast dish

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm | Performing Arts

Weaving Our Humanity 2020

Join us for an evening of stories and music from our North Shore neighbours. Hear about belonging and connection, vulnerability and courage. Explore friendship and humanity across diversity and differences. Nourish understanding through sharing

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

SuperM

SuperM is a Korean pop supergroup formed in 2019 by SM Entertainment and Capitol Music Group

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

Thursday Artist Talk: Victoria Mitchell - Returning to Your Creative Passion

Learn about how one artist rediscovered her creative passion after more than two decades

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture | Free

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

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

Science of Cocktails

Science of Cocktails will celebrate its 5th annual event, under the glittering iconic dome at TELUS World of Science

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Food / Wine

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

Arts Club Presents: The Shoplifters By Morris Panych

Comic mishaps for society’s haves and have-nots

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

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

The World/Inferno Friendship Society with Bridge City Sinners, Vic Ruggiero

Punk/soul/klezmer/jazz band from Brooklyn, the World/Inferno Friendship Society, take the Rickshaw! With guests, Portland folk-punks the Bridge City Sinners, plus Vic Ruggiero of The Slackers

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

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

Tonye Aganaba: A Celebration of Canadian Black HERstory

Multidisciplinary artist, musician and arts facilitator Tonye Aganaba offers a powerful performance that explores the shared experience and expression of Afro and Indigenous peoples

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Push International Performing Arts Festival 2020: Monday Nights

Who you are on the court reveals who you are off the court. Monday nights is an interactive basketball/theatre performance that invites you to lace up your sneakers and get in the game

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:20 pm | Performing Arts

Push Festival 2020: Dana Michel (canada) - Cutlass Spring

The audacious and original works of Montreal-based dance artist Dana Michel have earned international attention and prestigious awards including the Jardin d’Europe Award at ImPulsTanz, and the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Straight White Men By Young Jean Lee

Contemporary Comedy. An explosive evening of male bonding

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

PuSh Festival 2020: Spreafico Eckly and Theatre Replacement (Norway / Canada) - Footnote Number 12

A deep dive into the politics of language and the dynamics of privilege, Footnote Number 12 turns the act of reading into riveting theatre

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Performing Arts

The Dance Centre presents Dana Michel

The audacious and original works of Montreal-based dance artist Dana Michel have earned international attention and prestigious awards including the Jardin d’Europe Award at ImPulsTanz and the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale

Vancouver | Scotiabank Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance