Metro Vancouver events on February 21, 2020

Surrey School International Jazz Festival

The Surrey School District proudly presents the Surrey Schools Jazz Festival, now in its 38th year, as one of Canada’s largest and most unique jazz festivals

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 am to 8:00 pm | Dance | Free

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

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

Exhibition: Discretion of Internal Turmoil

Reflect within through an exhibition of painting and sculpture

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Pro-D Day - LEGO

Your day off to build! Get creative this pro-d day with LEGO at the museum

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Kids | Free

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

Drumeo Drum Festival

Ten world-class drum performances in two days. The inaugural Drumeo Festival will feature live masterclasses, performances, and full-band shows with some of the best drummers in the world

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 11:00 am to 7:00 pm | Festival

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

What Time Zone Do You Live In?

Map out memories, create tea menus and share stories at Reyhaneh Yazdani’s tea ceremony exploring time in relation to the places we call home

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm | Workshop

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

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents Tiny Tots: Let's Have a Playdate!

Let Your Music Shine! with Lisa and Linda. A musical adventure! Let’s go on three playdates; at a friend’s house, at the park, and at a concert!

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Kids

Platinum Blonde

Platinum Blonde is back, but don’t call it a reunion. In reality it’s more like the band has simply taken a finger off of the pause button with the release of its new album, Now & Never

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Adanu Habobo: A Night of African Music and Dance

Adanu Habobo performs the traditional music-dance-song of Ghana (West Africa), known for its rhythmic depth and vibrant movements

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

JFL NorthWest, Vancouver's Just For Laughs Festival presents Bill Burr

Bill Burr is an American comedian who continues to sell out venues worldwide. This past year, Burr toured the U.K. and Europe, where he shot his sixth hour-long special Paper Tiger at London’s Royal Albert Hall

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy

Vancouver Giants vs. Calgary Hitmen

The Vancouver Giants host the Calgary Hitmen in regular season action

Langley | Langley Events Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports

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

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

Matriarchs Uprising - Program 1: Same But Different

DubaiKungkaMiyalk brings together Mariaa Randall and Henrietta Baird, two contemporary choreographers who tell stories through dance

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Vancouver Recital Society: Yuja Wang, piano

Prodigiously talented pianist Yuja Wang’s life is a whirlwind of appearances at all the major concert halls of the world with the most prestigious orchestras and conductors

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

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

Winter Jazz: Lydia Hol and Dawn Pemberton

Vibrant, honest, and powerful, WCMA-winner Dawn Pemberton’s voice beats a soulful path from gospel and R&B to jazz, funk, and world music

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

The Kwerks

Music by Laura and Ryan Koch - a warm, folksy sound with bright harmonies and a little bit of quirkiness

Langley | Bez Arts Hub | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

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 | 8:00 pm to 9:15 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 | Comedy

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 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Antibalas with guests

Brooklyn-based musical collective, on tour to support their latest release "Fu Chronicles" (out Feb 7th)

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Frisky Friday

Bring the sizzle to your Friday night as improvisers explore the funny side of naughty. For adults 19+

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 11:15 pm to 11:59 pm | Show