Metro Vancouver events on February 18, 2020

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

historic murrayville bus tour

Join heritage expert Fred Pepin and celebrate Heritage Week by visiting historic landmarks found in Langley's heritage community of Murrayville

Langley | Langley Centennial Museum | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | History

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

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: 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

Music on Main: Terry Riley and Gyan Riley

Experience a legend in action as Terry Riley joins Music on Main with his son, guitarist Gyan Riley

Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music

Studio Showing: 12 Minutes Max Studio Showing

The Winter session features three works in development by All Bodies Dance Project, Oksana Augustine, and Brenna Metzmeier, Eowynn Enquist, Isak Enquist, Sarah Formosa, and Ted Littlemore

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Dance | Free

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

Yola - Walk Through Fire World Tour With Guests Amythyst Kiah

Musician, singer and songwriter from England, on tour to support her debut release “Walk Through Fire”

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 11:00 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

On The Bench

Join Canadas most misleading unreliable hockey hosts as they brake down the fundamentals of hockey and life. Olly postanin former Bangladesh pro alongside former virgin island elite league star Jacob Ardown.

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Show

Arts Club Theatre Company production: Kim’s Convenience By Ins Choi

A corner store comedy by Ins Choi. This hilarious and touching debut play inspired the hit TV show of the same name

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:50 pm | Theatre

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

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 | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

God’s Lake

God's Lake chronicles the strength and resilience of people in the remote fly-in reserve of God's Lake Narrows, Manitoba following traumatic events of unresolved justice and a complex and challenging past

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Metronomy Forever – North American Tour 2020

Metronomy are an English electronic music group formed in 1999. The current band consists of Joseph Mount, Oscar Cash, Anna Prior, Olugbenga Adelekan and Michael Lovett

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Grandson - The End of the Beginning Tourn with guests: cleopatrick

grandson is an alternative artist hailing from Toronto, Canada

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