Metro Vancouver events on February 12, 2020

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Vancouver Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games

Join us as we relight the Olympic Cauldron!

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 6:45 am to 0:00 am | Active Life / Health

BUILDEX 2020

BUILDEX is the forum connecting the holistic building industry, uniting tradition and innovation to shape the spaces of our tomorrow

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm | Exhibition

Globe 2020

Meet your people. Grow your business. Change the world.

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

International Association of Professional Congress Organisers General Assembly & Annual Meeting 2020

With high-quality keynote lectures, interactive workshops, social events, and offsite experiences inspired to ignite leaders in Next Generation Leadership.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 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

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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

Exhibition: Out of Concealment

Out of Concealment will be a solo exhibition featuring the work of Haida artist, performer, activist, and lawyer Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

What We Bring With Us

The works of seven emerging Indigenous artists will be exploring the questions: What does it mean to be a guest in this territory in relation to Indigeneity?

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

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

Who Don’t You Have Time For?

Part of the “Your Table is Ready” collaborative series of conversations over food led by artists: Aaniya Asrani, Annie Canto and Reyhaneh Yazdani

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Workshop

Soulfly with Toxic Holocaust, Ingested, Visceral Disgorge & more

Arizona metallers Soulfly come to the Rickshaw on their North America 2020—The Summoning Tour. Be sure to bring your best mosh-pit shoes, because it's about to get brutal

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Herbal Tea-Making Workshop

Join Métis herbalist and educator Lori Snyder for a social evening of herbal tea infusions and education

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Workshop

Resistance: Addressing the threat of drug-resistant infections. Screening plus Q&A

FREE: Join BCCDC Foundation for Public Health, Science World, and Antibiotic Wise for a screening of "Resistance", plus Q&A

Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Chicago Blackhawks @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

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

Vancouver Giants vs. Red Deer Rebels

The Vancouver Giants host the Red Deer Rebels in regular season action

Langley | Langley Events Centre | 7:00 pm to 0:00 am | Sports

Tones And I

Toni Watson, known professionally as Tones and I, is an Australian singer-songwriter. She released her debut single, "Johnny Run Away", on 1 March 2019

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Every Kind of Love

Every Kind of Love features performances from students and community artists that are dedicated to discussing and representing queer love, trans love, 2-Spirit love, Black love, Indigenous love, and radical-self love

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

Tentacle Tribe: GHOST

An exhilarating breath of fresh air. Six of Montréal’s best street dancers immerse themselves in the mysterious mechanics of breathing, and interpret its life-giving rhythm

Vancouver | Historic Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Dance

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

Tentacle Tribe & New Works: Ghost

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Performing Arts

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

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

Michael Bolton: The Symphony Sessions

Michael Bolotin, known professionally as Michael Bolton, is an American singer and songwriter

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 9:30 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 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

The Motet: Electric Dream Tour

The Motet is an American funk, soul and jazz influenced group based in Denver, Colorado

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

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

Wolf Parade With guests: Land of Talk

Wolf Parade is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 2003 in Montreal. The band released three full-length albums before taking a five-year hiatus in 2011

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music