Metro Vancouver events on February 9, 2020
February 9, 2020
Sun
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
Head Over Heels Wedding Show
The tenth annual Head Over Heels Wedding Show will be held on Sunday February 9, 2020
Langley | Langley Golf & Banquet Centre | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Show
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
Vancouver GOLFEXPO
One of the largest consumer golf shows on the West Coast. More than 150 exhibitors, manufacturers and events.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Parent and Tot Yoga
A unique way to bond with your toddler!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Family
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
Vancouver International Children's Festival: Storytelling Intensive
This spring, Deb Williams is offering an intensive storytelling workshop for emerging performers. Deb will share her 30 years of storytelling and comedy knowledge, giving you tools to create and share compelling stories
Vancouver | Granville Island, Cafe | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Workshop
Garden Pest ID and Management
Learn how to build a resilient garden in this course for more advanced gardeners
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Nature / Animals
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
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 | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition
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
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
Untold Want: Gruesome Playground Injuries
Childhood friends, Doug and Kayleen are kindred spirits who meet over the course of thirty years
Vancouver | The Cultch | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Performing Arts
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 | 2:00 pm to 4:20 pm | Performing Arts
Straight White Men By Young Jean Lee
Contemporary Comedy. An explosive evening of male bonding
Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Comedy
Cedar Weaving Workshop: Woven Flower
Tiger Leonard Williams is an accomplished cedar bark artist and member of the Quatsino First Nation. He joins us to share his knowledge of the tree of life, and its traditional indigenous uses
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Workshop
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Kids Concerts presents Stories In Sand
Kseniya Simonova is a most imaginative artist and animator who tells stories in sand. In 2009, her appearances on Ukraine’s Got Talent moved audiences to tears, and videos of her work have gone viral worldwide
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Music
Langley Rivermen vs. Victoria Grizzlies
Come cheer on the Langley Rivermen as they take on the Victoria Grizzlies!
Langley | George Preston Recreation Centre | 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm | Sports
The Vancouver Recital Society: Faust Queyras Melnikov Trio
If you were lucky enough to have been in the audience when Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov performed the Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Violin in the VRS 2011-12 Season, you’ll be first in line for tickets to this performance!
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music
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 | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Musical
Vancouver Giants vs. Kamloops Blazers
The Vancouver Giants host the Kamloops Blazers in regular season action
Langley | Langley Events Centre | 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Sports
Canada Y.C. Music Academy: Spring
In celebration of Chinese New Year, Canada YC Music, No.3 Road Society and CYCCOA (Canada YC Chinese Orchestra Association) will host a concert showcasing an array of traditional Chinese works
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Music
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
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
The Shoplifters By Morris Panych
Meet Alma, a career shoplifter who prefers the “five-finger discount” over any senior citizen’s deal
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
The Marcus King Band - El Dorado Tour
The Marcus King Band is a 2013 started southern rock/ blues rock band from South Carolina. The band is led by singer, songwriter, and guitarist Marcus King
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:30 pm to 2:00 am | Music