Metro Vancouver events on February 26, 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

A Theatre Wrede Production: Hands And Feet

A dancer and a musician set off on an adventure. Clapping, slinking, snapping, skipping, tip-tip toeing they play – until feet don’t meet the ground and one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 9:30 am to 4:40 pm | Theatre

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

Wednesday Pre-School Storytime!

Join us for Pre-School Storytime on Wednesday mornings!

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Kids

Botanical Illustration Level 2

Build on basic drawing techniques to develop accuracy in illustrating plants. Develop line and form, while expanding on shading techniques, and being attentive to precision and detail

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

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

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

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 | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Performing Arts

CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths

Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller

Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

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 | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Opera

Studio Showing: Raven Spirit Dance

Confluence. Sharing of work in progress + conversation

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Dance | Free

NWSS Musical Theatre presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

New Westminster Secondary School’s Musical Theatre Program – School’s Out Productions – proudly presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast from February 26-29 at Massey Theatre

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Vancouver International Wine Festival 2020

Canada’s premier food & wine event, has three mandates: to provide an informative, educational and entertaining wine experience for public and trade

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine

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

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

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

Donavon Frankenreiter: The Record Player Tour

Donavon Frankenreiter is an American musician and surfer. His debut self-titled album was released in 2004 on Brushfire Records through Universal Music

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

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

Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline Tour With guests: Molly Sarle

Andy Shauf is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Regina, Saskatchewan. He plays several instruments, including clarinet

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music