Metro Vancouver events on March 8, 2020

Zoomer Show 2020

Canada's Largest Consumer Show Dedicated To Helping You Live Your Best Life!

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

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

Womens Day at Cypress

Come celebrate mountain women with Cypress Mountain on International Women's Day. We are so excited to see you.

West Vancouver | Cypress Mountain | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health

Window Gallery: Curious?

An exhibition space where artists explore links between community and creativity

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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

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 - Genevieve Robertson: Looking Through a Hole in the Earth

Looking Through a Hole in the Earth presents three series of recent explorations: works on paper composed with bitumen and seawater; forest-derived charcoal and graphite; and blue-green algae and calcium carbonate

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

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

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

Winter Watershed Snowshoe Tours

​Explore the connection between snow and your drinking water. Learn about your water supply in a fun and active way while discovering alpine plants and animals. After a moderately strenuous snowshoe, warm up with a cup of hot chocolate

North Vancouver | Mount Seymour Resort | 10:00 am to 1:30 pm | 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

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

A CTYP Production in association with Presentation House Theatre: The House at Pooh Corner

Take a magical trip into the Hundred Acre Wood and discover the wonderful world of Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

West Fine Art Show

The West Fine Art Show will present Twenty Two featured artists in a spectacular array of art, offering breathtaking interpretations of our western Canada lifestyle, and as well, the rare opportunity to meet and speak with each artist

Langley | Peter Ewart Middle School | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Show | Free

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

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

Exhibition: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibition: The Nature of Our Country

Contrasting the natural and artificial in Canadian landscape painting, digital, and charcoal artwork

Surrey | Beecher Place | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Come Try Ringette!

Brign your kids out to try ringette at this free event!

Surrey | North Surrey Sport and Ice Complex | 12:15 am to 2:00 pm | Sports | Free

Red Barn Fun Day

Join the Terra Nova Rural Park artists for a family-friendly exploration of art and nature in the park. Participants will meet at the Red Bar and then head out on a guided nature walk

Richmond | Terra Nova Rural Park | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Modus Operandi

Made and sustained by Alanna Kraaijeveld in collaboration with Modus Operandi artists and Kate Franklin, Line, Starting line, Practical questions, Disappear, Solos and small groups, Swirling, Space, All together is a scored improvised performance

Vancouver | Woodwards Atrium | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free

The Jen Hodge All Stars at North Vancouver City Fire Department

When Jen Hodge is leading the band, she likes it hot – hard swinging grooves, boisterous New Orleans style horns, cheeky lyrics, intriguing arrangements and plenty of spontaneous fun

North Vancouver | North Vancouver City Fire Department | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Music

Vancouver Performing Stars: Beauty and the Beast Jr

A terrible curse has been placed on a handsome prince and his castle, transforming him into a monstrous Beast

Vancouver | The Cultch | 2:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Theatre

Women of the Italian Baroque

Elektra Women’s Choir with guest conductor Alexander Weimann

West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

2020 HSBC CANADA SEVENS

The 2020 HSBC Canada Sevens tournament returns to BC Place on March 7th and 8th, 2019 for the 6th leg of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series

Vancouver | BC Place | 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Sports

The Friends of Chamber Music: Pavel Haas Quartet with Boris Giltburg, piano

An exciting group of the newer generation, the Pavel Haas Quartet continues the burnished sound of the Bohemian tradition

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

Kidz Bop World Tour

KIDZ BOP, the #1 music brand for kids, in partnership with Live Nation, announced today that the KIDZ BOP World Tour is coming back to Canada for nine more live concert dates in February and March 2020

Vancouver | Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre | 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm | Music

Chan Centre Connects: Pre-show Talk with Steve Maddock

In relation to Dianne Reeves and her Beleza Brazil project, vocalist, educator, and member of Vancouver’s musica intima Steve Maddock examines the historical progression of Brazilian music, from Chorinho (aka Choro), to Samba

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 6:15 pm to 7:00 pm | Lecture

Columbus Blue Jackets @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

Dianne Reeves: Beleza Brazil

Dianne Reeves is jazz royalty. Her commanding performances showcase the magic of her novel phrasing and the magnificence of her timeless voice

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Best Coast - The Always Tomorrow Tour With Guests Mannequin Pussy

Best Coast is an American rock duo formed in Los Angeles, California in 2009. The band consists of songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Bethany Cosentino and guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

VanTap Choreography Showcase

Featuring work from our Competition Choreography Program and more!

Vancouver | York Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Coco Montoya with guests

With white-hot guitar playing and soulful, emotional vocals, Coco Montoya is coming to bring the Rickshaw an unforgettable night!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Alan Doyle - Rough Side Out Tour

One of Canada’s most treasured musicians, Alan Doyle announces his latest cross-Canada tour, Rough Side Out

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Sol Collective: Anna Bella Eema

Lois Anderson, Lucy McNulty, and Gina Leon under the direction of Charles Siegel, are bringing to life a story of a reclusive mother and her ten year old daughter – living in a run-down trailer on land condemned for highway expansion

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts