Metro Vancouver events on February 23, 2020

Tri Surrey: Indoor Sprint Triathlon

Join us for Surrey's annual indoor sprint triathlon! Accomplish your fitness goals, compete with friends or family and try something new

Surrey | Guildford Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 12:00 am | Sports

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

Esthétique Spa International 2020

Esthétique Spa International helps you imagine your future with the guidance of our guest speakers, trainers and exhibitors.

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

What to Grow and When to Sow

For new (or always improving) vegetable gardeners, this class will cover the basics on the best veggies to grow in our climate, and how to successfully get started

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Nature / Animals

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winter Jazz: Bonnie Northgraves Quartet

Vancouver-based smoky-smooth trumpeter/vocalist/pianist Bonnie Northgraves style calls to the early jazz styles of New Orleans

Vancouver | Performance Works | 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Music | Free

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 | 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre

West Coast Symphony: Gershwin & Orff

with the Bach Choir and Leslie Dala, piano

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music

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 | 2:00 pm to 5:10 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 | 2:00 pm to 3:00 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

Global Tea Room with Cassius Khan: Bosnian Music and Tea with Zelko Krakan

On February 23rd, join Cassius and renowned Bosnian musician Zelko Krakan for an illuminating afternoon of music and refreshments. This event is free and welcome to all

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music | Free

The Vancouver Recital Society: Steven Osborne and Pauls Lewis, piano four hands

"What can we say? These brilliant Brits have become two of our very favourite people! They entered the VRS’s orbit in the years 2000 and 2001; since then, they have returned to our stage many times for both solo and chamber music recitals

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

Sunday Afternoon Tour with Kimberly Phillips

Join Contemporary Art Gallery Curator Kimberly Phillips for a walk-through and discussion of the current exhibitions

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Exhibition | Free

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

February Student Concert at the Place des Arts

Place des Arts’ music students are provided performance opportunities through our student concerts, held throughout the season

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music | Free

Winter Jazz: Itamar Erez Quartet

Winter Jazz on Granville Island: three days of free concerts to warm you

Vancouver | Performance Works | 3:45 pm to 5:45 pm | Music | Free

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

The corner store comedy that inspired the hit CBC series

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm | Theatre

Tove Lo – Sunshine Kitty Tour

Swedish singer, songwriter and musician from Stockholm, Sweden

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 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

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

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

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

Jayme Stone Folklife by Evergreen Cultural Centre

Jayme Stone is a composer, banjoist, instigator, producer, and educator

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Atmosphere: The Whenever Tour - North America with The Lioness, Nikki Jean and DJ Keezy

Atmosphere is an American hip hop duo from Minneapolis, Minnesota, consisting of rapper Slug and DJ/producer Ant. Since its formation in 1996, the group has released nine studio albums and ten extended plays

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