Metro Vancouver events on February 16, 2020
February 16, 2020
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Steveston's Family Day Activities
Come join us for a variety of activities we are offering over the Family Day Long Weekend!
Richmond | Steveston Community Centre | 8:00 am to 7:00 pm | Family
Family Day Weekend Festival by Cypress Mountain
Come join us for a weekend of epic family festivities!
West Vancouver | Cypress Mountain | 9:00 am to 10:00 pm | Family
Fan Expo Vancouver 2020
We can hardly wait to celebrate three days of science fiction, comic books, film, television, horror, fantasy, animation, pop culture, and so much more.
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
Retro Design & Antiques Fair
This fun Sunday show features 185 tables of fabulous finds for you and your eclectic abode — so many different vendors guarantees a super selection to suit every taste and budget!
Vancouver | Croatian Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Fair
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
Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market
The Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market runs every Sunday from 10am-2pm on the PNE Fairgrounds
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market
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
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
Jazz in the Mews
Enjoy Jazz in the Foyer with a full slate of local musicians
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Music | Free
A Windmill Theatre Company (Australia) Production: BEEP
A beautiful story about unexpected friendship, finding where you fit, and learning how to mix things up a little. In Mort’s Village everything has its place, every day is the same and everyone likes it that way
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Kids
Love & Libations at Township 7 Vineyards & Winery
Share the love of sparkling wine with your valentine February 15 & 16!
Langley | Township 7 Vineyards & Winery | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
Nebula Jars by Kids Market, Granville Island
Join us to make super cool, out of this world NEBULA JARS!!!
Vancouver | Kids Market, Granville Island | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Workshop
Kids Takeover UBC at Museum of Anthropology
Celebrate the Family Day weekend by bringing your entire family to UBC on Sunday, February 16 for an afternoon that celebrates the creative and intellectual contributions of our local youth
Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Kids
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
Anaheim Ducks @ Vancouver Canucks
The regular season game
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm | Sports
Family Day Events in Surrey. Family Day Swims
Celebrate Family Day with free, fun activities for the entire family!
Surrey | Newton Recreation Centre | 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Family | Free
Family Day at PdA
Gather up the clan and drop by Family Day at PdA to immerse yourself in art! Tour the galleries and create your own masterpieces in a variety of all-ages, drop-in-style art activities based on the subject matter and/or mediums of the exhibitions
Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Family | Free
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
The Vancouver Recital Society: the Doric String Quartet with Marc-André Hamelin piano
Not since the days of the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival the VRS had the privilege of bringing artists together for the first time to make music together
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
Talking Sex on Sundays - A Firehall Arts Centre production
On the first Sunday of every month Margot and her friends always host a theme party. What happens when Margot decides to kick it up a notch by having a Sex Toy Party?
Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Performing Arts
The Vancouver Cantata Singers present Tundra: Music of Northern Lands
The Arctic tundra is a sparse, yet beautiful landscape. These regions of cold barren land above the permafrost have been inhabited or traversed by humans for ages
Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Music
Langley Hospice Society Fort Langley Historic 5K, 10K, Half Marathon & Kids Run
Join the 15th year of the Langley Hospice Society Fort Langley Historic Half!
Langley | 23433 Mavis Ave | 4:55 pm to 12:00 am | Active Life / Health
LIL Fest
Hip hop massive in Vancouver, BC that highlights contemporary Hip Hop's critically acclaimed superstars and underground stars in the making.
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Show
AT LANALOU'S: Dan Bern with guests
Folk legend Dan Bern makes his return to Vancouver. On tour in support of his new album Regent Street.
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
February/March Exhibitions at the Place des Arts
Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Blind Contour Homage Series, oil paintings by Marlene Lowden; The Human Landscape, various mediums by Suite E Life Drawing Society; The Endless Braid…, acrylic paintings by Clarissa Banos
Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free
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
Dan Bern with guests
Folk legend Dan Bern returns to Vancouver! On tour in support of his new album Regent Street
Vancouver | LanaLou's | 7:30 pm to 11:00 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
My Jokes Are Up Here
My Jokes Are Up Here with Erica Sigurdson, Jen Grant and Christina Walkinshaw. Funny women with impressive resumes and three of Canada’s top comics.
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy
SlowJam Sundays presents: Family DAY Reunion w/ special guest
Vancity's best night, and one sexy dirty dance party with your favorite slow jams spun by The Boyscouts!
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Quickness
Quickness delivers radio rock in all its glory. Soaring melodies and vigorous riffage round out their sound, Quickness is unstoppable in its hard-hitting soundscapes
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Music
Soju Events presents - Soju Sunday: 4 Year Anniversary Party
Soju Sunday 4 Year Anniversary on Sun. February 16th for a Family Day K-Pop Extravaganza at Venue
Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Party