Metro Vancouver events on February 11, 2020

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Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 5:00 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

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

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

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

IBPOC Connections Staff & Faculty Lunch: Important Conversations

Looking to join and build a community for IBPOC staff and faculty? Join us for IBPOC Connections* lunch – a social gathering for faculty and staff who self-identify as Indigenous, Black or as a Person of Colour (IBPOC)

Vancouver | St. John's College at UBC | 11:30 am to 1:30 pm | Active Life / Health

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

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Noises Off By Michael Frayn

Noises Off, hailed as the funniest farce ever written, treats audiences to a hilarious peek at a second-tier acting troupe performing a show

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Theatre

MYzone Try It Week

Experience the MYzone after school drop-in program for free!

Surrey | Bridgeview Community Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Kids | Free

MYzone Open Houses

Parents can bring their children to a free MYzone drop-in program, meet the staff and ask questions!

Surrey | Bridgeview Community Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Kids | Free

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Author, MacArthur Genius winner, and distinguished writer-in-residence at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

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

Ross The Boss Band with guests

Ross Friedman, aka Ross the Boss, original founding member of Manowar will do a tour in early 2020 and will stop in Vancouver on February 11!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 1:00 am | Music

Stenberg College Presents Be The Love

Stenberg College Presents: Be the Love: 5 Talks on Loving Yourself and Loving Others. A fundraiser for Moving Forward Family Services

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

Lobby Night - Songstage with Ivan Boudreau by The ACT Arts Centre

Canadian songwriter and musician, Ivan Boudreau, hosts this evening series which features a guest songwriter, followed by an open mic showcase for writers of original music

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

ArtBAR

All artBAR evenings are led by professional artists and include supplies, instruction and one complimentary glass of wine! Our bar is open for the duration of these evening events

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts

Read-Through - The Artist's Studio is Her Bedroom

Join us to take part in an open, informal reading of Erica Stocking’s script The Artist’s Studio is Her Bedroom: a choreographed statement on autobiographical art making within the exhibition installation

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

Ross The Boss Band with Iron Kingdom, Greyhawk, Damsel

Ross Friedman, aka Ross the Boss, original founding member of Manowar will do a tour in early 2020 and will stop in Vancouver on February 11!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Noah Reid – First Time Out Tour

Noah Nicholas Reid is a Canadian actor and musician. He is known for his performances in several films and television series, including the critically acclaimed CBC comedy Schitt's Creek

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 11:00 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

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

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

Open Stage Edition #1

From contemporary and flamenco to tap and Irish dance, Open Stage features five dance works spanning a varied range of styles and approaches by Adelynne Addington, Ana Sosa and more

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

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

First Impressions Theatre: Forever Plaid

A quartet of male singers takes a detour to heaven on the way to their first big concert. They posthumously take the stage for one final gig in this goofy, nostalgic celebration of the 50s

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre