Metro Vancouver events on February 22, 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

Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds

This exhibition brings together a selection of drawings created by the Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona over the past two decades

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 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 Fort Langley Walking Tour & Tea

In celebration of Heritage Week, the Langley Centennial Museum is presenting a lively and exciting walking tour and tea

Langley | Langley Centennial Museum | 10:00 am to 11:30 am | 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

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

Tiny Tots: Anvil Centre: Let’s Have a Play date with Brahms!

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!

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Kids

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

Exhibition: lineages and land bases

The artworks in lineages and land bases address differing understandings of the self and personhood in relation to nature as artists seek to represent their relationships to the world around them

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

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

Vancouver 2010 10th Anniversary Celebration Fan Festival

Come out to Jack Poole Plaza on February 22nd for the Vancouver 2010 Celebration Festival, open to all ages from 11AM-6PM. We hope you will join us in celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games!

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Family

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

Conversations with Magic Forms

On select Saturday afternoons throughout the exhibition season, participants are invited to drop in to activate artist duo Leisure’s installation, Conversations with Magic Forms

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

Play with Clay: Drop-In Ceramics Workshop with Debra Sloan

Join ceramic artist, and past MOA artist-in-residence, Debra Sloan for an all-ages drop-in workshop that explores the narrative possibilities of clay

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Workshop

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

Winter Jazz: David Sikula Quartet

Vancouver-based guitarist David Sikula leads this quartet through a series of his original compositions as well as tunes by some of his favourite composers of the past century

Vancouver | Performance Works | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Music | Free

Photographs And Photographers

Photography is a child of the Industrial Revolution, and revolutionized in the information age

Langley | Langley Centennial Museum | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Workshop

Taste Vancouver North Van Shipyards Tour

While enjoying some great food and magnificent scenery learn all about Vancouver’s historic shipyard district that began with its discovery in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver

North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay | 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine

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

Artist Talk with Jupiter Brahms and Deanna Fogstrom

Light Appetizers Will Be Served. This Event Is Free And Open To The Public!

Vancouver | The Cultch | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Artist Talk with Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Out of Concealment Artist Talk and Tour

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Winter Jazz: The Watermill Project

Traditional Korean music and modern jazz are interwoven in Vancouver vocalist Sara Kim’s “at once virtuosic and eminently comprehensible” (Discorder) Watermill Project

Vancouver | Performance Works | 3:45 pm to 3:45 pm | Music | Free

Boston Bruins @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

JFL NorthWest, Vancouver's Just For Laughs Festival presents Patton Oswalt

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 | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Comedy

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

Rich Hope, The Vicious Cycles M.C., The Wild North with guests Johnny Wakeham, DJ Penny

The surliest & burliest rockers in town are coming together for one night only, at the Rickshaw! With guests Johnny Wakeham and DJ Penny

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:30 pm to 11:50 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

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 2: Kiri and Link

KIRI is an interdisciplinary performance combining dance, sculpture and video by choreographer and video artist, Louise Potiki Bryant, and clay artist Paerau Corneal with a hypnotic sound score by composer, Paddy Free

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

Early Music Vancouver: Sea Songs and Shanties

Join the musicians and vocal soloists of La Nef and Chor Leoni Men’s Choir as they explore music of the sea with capstand shanties, halyard shanties, laments, forecastle songs, and short haul shanties

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

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

Callas in Concert - The Hologram Tour

Forty years ago, Maria Callas shrugged off the earthly bonds of temporal life, leaving a bereft world longing for her presence, her performances, her voice

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Soulsha: Afro-Celtic Funk

Bringing together Scottish, West African, and Funk music to create an unforgettable live experience.

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

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

Lane 8 - Brightest Lights Tour

Daniel Goldstein, better known by his stage name Lane 8, is an American musician, electronic music producer, and DJ. Currently residing in Denver, Colorado, he is currently signed to English deep house label Anjunadeep

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

Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble (PSWE): Space

Travel with PSWE as we explore the universes of outer and inner space. Wild, exciting…scary!!

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Farofa & Cara Pierotto

Farofa is a collective of Brazilian musicians living in Los Angeles, California

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly is the tragic story of a beautiful young geisha, Cio-Cio-San, who falls in love and marries B.F. Pinkerton, an American naval lieutenant

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Opera

Salsa & Latin Dance Night with Alberto Gonzalez & Teresa Szefler

Salsa, Bachata & Merengue lesson & Latin Music

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 0:00 am | Dance

The Jungle Giants

The Jungle Giants is an Australian four-piece band, formed in 2011 in Brisbane, Queensland and signed by record label Create/Control

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Whose Live Anyway?

The critically-acclaimed improv comedy show Whose Live Anyway? makes its way back to the River Rock Show Theatre

Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

JFL NorthWest, Vancouver's Just For Laughs Festival presents How Did This Get Made? Live!

Have you ever seen a movie so bad that it’s good? Paul Scheer (Black Monday, The League, Veep), Jason Mantzoukas (The Good Place, The League) and June Diane Raphael (Long Shot, Grace & Frankie) are experts in the best of the worst of cinema

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Comedy

SUPER8 - TAB

#TranceFamily! Rejoice the return Super8 & Tab Saturday, Feb 22nd at the Harbour Event Centre for a special event

Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music | Free