Metro Vancouver events on February 20, 2020
February 20, 2020
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Canadian Health Food Association West 2020
If your store sells natural health products, organics, specialty foods, health & beauty, sports nutrition and/or nutraceuticals this is your one stop shopping experience.
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
2020 BC Home and Garden Show
The BC Home and Garden Show returns to BC Place from Wednesday, February 19th to Sunday, February 23rd, 2020! Celebrating its 49th anniversary, the show offers real advice, real inspiration and real experts to British Columbians
Vancouver | BC Place | 9:00 am to 6:00 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
Talking Stick Festival
As Western Canada’s premier Aboriginal performing arts festival, Talking Stick Festival features extraordinary Indigenous performance and some of the best emerging and established Indigenous artists from Turtle Island
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Festival
Watercolour Meetups at VanDusen Garden
Bring your paint, questions, and ongoing projects to our weekly series of meetups hosted by instructor Susan Pearson
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 11:30 am | 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
Chigiri-e Paper Art: Crocus
These popular workshops guide you in a step-by-step creation of your own beautiful chigiri-e paper art piece
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Workshop
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
Sketching Series
Visit the museum after hours to sketch your favorite display!
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Visual Arts | Free
Red Carpet Poetry Slam
Canada SCORES hosts our second Annual Red Carpet Poetry Slam. This premier event will include more than 150 guests, poetry enthusiasts, community leaders, and even a few local celebrities
Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Party | Free
International Folk Dancing Drop-in Sessions
Let's Dance! Join us in learning folk dances set to ethnic music from around the world, in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere
Surrey | Walnut Road Elementary School | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance
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
Chowder Chowdown Vancouver
Who will be the Vancouver Chowder Chowdown champion? Join the movement for sustainable seafood at Ocean Wise Chowder Chowdown
Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Food / Wine
JFL NorthWest, Vancouver's Just For Laughs Festival presents Bill Burr
Bill Burr is an American comedian or a comedian from the North American Union, depending on when you read this. He grew up outside of Boston, Massachusetts and did fairly poorly in school, despite the fact that he applied himself
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy
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
An Arts Club Theatre Company production: Kim's Convenience By Ins Choi
The corner store comedy that inspired the hit CBC series | Surrey Arts Centre
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm | Theatre
The Barber of Seville by Gioacchino Rossini
Chase away the February blues with The Barber of Seville, a feast of frivolous fun. Enjoy Figaro’s mischievous escapades as he assists Count Almaviva in prising the beautiful Rosina away from her lecherous guardian, Dr. Bartolo
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Opera
Rapid Pitch Productions: BIG Sister
A true story—depending on who you ask. A one-woman comedy about the relationship between two sisters and what happens when one of them changes
Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 8:30 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
Whose Live Anyway?
The critically-acclaimed improv comedy show “Whose Live Anyway?” makes its way back to Hard Rock Casino Vancouver
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm | Show
Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar
Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar are an 11-piece blues/soul band from Toronto. Martin is the lead singer, songwriter and focal point of the group
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Dave Hause & The Mermaid with guests
Punk rock singer-songwriter Dave Hause returns to Vancouver, backed by his band The Mermaid. In support of their new album, Saboteur
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music