Metro Vancouver events on February 28, 2020
February 28, 2020
Fri
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
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
From Russia with Love
Join us on Friday, Feb. 28 for piano trios by Arensky and Shostakovich
North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 11:45 am to 1:00 pm | Music | Free
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
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 | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm | Workshop
Venue Nightclub: Church of Misery
Church of Misery Official FROM JAPAN! with Special Guests
Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
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
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
MISCAST: A Broadway Cabaret
Moving Mirrors Productions presents MISCAST: A Broadway Cabaret
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts
Whooo's Hoot Owl Prowl
Prowl for owls on a night hike to discover why owls are such great hunters of the night
Langley | Campbell Valley Regional Park | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Nature / Animals
Vancouver Giants vs. Victoria Royals
The Vancouver Giants host the Victoria Royals in regular season action
Langley | Langley Events Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports
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
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
VSO - Surrey Nights: Mendelssohn, Britten and a Surprising New Talent
A concert of firsts: thirteen year-old Alma Deutscher, a prodigy in the style of Mozart, wrote her first sonata at age seven and her first concerto at age twelve
Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:45 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 | 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm | Theatre
Surrey Nights: Mendelssohn, Britten and a Surprising New Talent
A concert of firsts: thirteen year-old Alma Deutscher, a prodigy in the style of Mozart, wrote her first sonata at age seven and her first concerto at age twelve
Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 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
Polyrhythmics with guests
The genre-bending, room-shaking, party-bringing Polyrhythmics return to the Rickshaw!
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music
Jazz Series: Gord Grdina's Haram
Juno Award-winning oud player Gord Grdina leads Haram in a formidable pairing with guitar legend Marc Ribot
North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Grupo Corpo (Brazil) -Gira & Other Work
In their third presentation with DanceHouse, the Brazilian juggernaut Grupo Corpo channels the metaphysical with their new work Gira
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance
Frisky Friday
Bring the sizzle to your Friday night as improvisers explore the funny side of naughty. For adults 19+
Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 11:15 pm to 11:59 pm | Show