Metro Vancouver events on February 27, 2020
February 27, 2020
Thu
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
Watercolour Meetups at VanDusen Garden
Bring your paint, questions, and ongoing projects to our weekly series of meetups hosted by instructor Susan Pearson
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 11:30 am | 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
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 | 10:00 am to 11:30 am | Workshop
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
CIPHER By Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths
Hipster noir meets conspiracy thriller
Vancouver | Granville Island Stage | 1:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
Pay what you can night at Museum of Vancouver
The last Thursday evening (5:00pm - 8:00pm) of every month, Museum of Vancouver admission is by donation
Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Exhibition
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
Alice in Wonderland
Come down the rabbit hole and follow Alice in her adventures in Wonderland! In this rendition of Lewis Carroll’s classic, you will see Alice meet several characters as she tries to find her way home
Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre
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
Classic Book Club: Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Discuss classic literature over tea and goodies
Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Books
Lawrence
Lawrence the Band is a US-based soul-pop group founded by New York City-raised siblings Clyde Lawrence and Gracie Lawrence who have been singing, performing, and writing songs together since their early childhood
Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
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
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
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