Metro Vancouver events on February 25, 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

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: 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

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

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

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

Roxane Gay

Best-selling author, cultural critic, and host of the Hear to Slay podcast.

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

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

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

Lobby Night - Celtic Jam with Nigel Tucker by The ACT Arts Centre

You’re invited to an evening of Celtic influenced musical fun with Nigel and his band of merry musicians. Bring your instruments, voice or even just your ears! No experience is necessary and only the love of music required

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 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 Arts Centre

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 8:45 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

Just For Laughs Live: Hannah Gadsby: Douglas

Hannah Gadsby is an Australian comedian, writer, actor and television presenter

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy

Music on Main: Invoke

Meet Invoke, a quartet whose joyful and adventurous music defies any need for genre classification

Vancouver | Fox Cabaret | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

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

Dear Evan Hansen

Dear Evan Hansen is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical

Talking Stick Festival Presents: Ferron

Poet, feminist trailblazer, lesbian icon, social justice advocate…

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts