Metro Vancouver events on February 7, 2020
February 7, 2020
Fri
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
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
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: Critical Ideas: On Commitment
On Commitment will provide space for a range of artists involved in PuSh 2020 to reflect on the implications of aesthetic, bodily, and durational commitment across different productions
Vancouver | Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | 10:30 am to 12:00 am | Lecture | Free
Contemporary Canadian Landscape
Exploring local Canadian landscape through mixed-media projects.
Surrey | Beecher Place | 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
Sonata Giants
At the BlueShore at CapU this Feb. 7, you can hear sonatas by Beethoven and Copland performed by the Sonata Giants
North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 11:45 am to 1:00 pm | Music | Free
Winter Festival: Skate for a Cause
Enjoy outdoor ice skating and more at the Winter Festival at Guildford Town Centre
Surrey | Guildford Town Centre | 12:00 am to 8:00 pm | Family
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
Cards and Crokinole (Seniors playing cards)
Enjoy card games with other 55+ visitors
Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
UBC School of Music: Oklahoma State University Symphony Orchestra
Visiting Orchestra: Oklahoma State University Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Thomas Taylor Dickey conductor
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm | Music | Free
Taboo Naughty But Nice Show 2020
The Taboo Naughty but Nice Sex Show provides an upscale adult playground dedicated to enhancing lifestyles
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 5:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Exhibition
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
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 | 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm | Performing Arts
Laila Biali
Multi award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist Laila Biali has toured with Chris Botti, Paula Cole, Suzanne Vega and Sting
Langley | Bez Arts Hub | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Vancouver Warriors vs Buffalo Bandits
The Vancouver Warriors are a professional box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Sports
PuSh Festival 2020: PME-ART (Canada) - The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information
One turntable and dozens of records, each one with a story behind it. That’s the simple premise of PME-ART’s party performance; it’s all about the ways in which music helps to organize our memories, beliefs and perceptions
Vancouver | Western Front | 7:00 pm to 9:00 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
UBC Symphony Orchestra
Presented by the UBC School of Music. Jose Franch Ballester, clarinet
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
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
The Black Halos with The Spitfires, Sore Points
The Black Halos are a Vancouver, British Columbia-based punk rock band. Their music also included some glam rock
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music
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
VSO - Surrey Nights: Carmen, Sounds of Spain
Maestro Tausk takes us on a musical tour of Spain with two works from Manuel de Falla and Bizet’s beloved Carmen Suite No. 1
Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
Surrey Nights: Carmen - Sounds of Spain
Featuring Rihab Chaieb Mezzo-soprano
Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
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
The Comic Strippers: A Male Stripper Parody and Improv Comedy Show
A male stripper parody and improv comedy show. The award-winning improv comedians are back with a new show, more moves and even quicker wits
Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
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 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
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
Itamar Erez Trio
Itamar Erez- piano/guitars, James Meger- bass, Kevin Romain- drums
Vancouver | Pyatt Hall | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
Exultation: Sarah Hagen & Brendan McLeod
Exultation is an intoxicating music and storytelling collaboration from classical pianist Sarah Hagen and spoken word artist Brendan McLeod
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
The Beaches - The Professional Tour
JUNO Award-winning rock band The Beaches will embark on ‘The Professional Tour’, a 16-date cross-Canada headline tour in support of their most recent EP, The Professional, on Feb. 6 in Victoria, BC
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | 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