Metro Vancouver events on March 12, 2020

Society for Reproductive Investigation Annual Meeting 2020

Translating Reproductive Science to the Bedside

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Business / Finance

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

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

Close Your Eyes, Listen to the Music, Tell a Story

Part of an ongoing residency exploring story telling from different perspectives, Close Your Eyes, Listen to the Music, Tell a Story invites the public to share their most profound musical memories

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 9:45 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

Remembering Vancouver 2010

Winter Olympics 10 year anniversary celebration at MOV!

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 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

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

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 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

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

Loads of Music: Seniors Music Show

Enjoy favourite melodies from this local South Delta senior's band

Richmond | Thompson Community Centre | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Music | Free

Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games 10th Anniversary Celebration

Join us for the Cauldron lighting ceremony as former Canadian Olympic athletes and other special guests share their #2010memories and celebrate the legacies from the Games

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 2:30 pm to 3:15 pm | Exhibition

International Folk Dancing Drop-in Sessions

Let's Dance! Join us in learning folk dances set to ethnic music from around the world, in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere

Surrey | Walnut Road Elementary School | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Grace Potter

Grace Evelyn Potter is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actress who formed Grace Potter and the Nocturnals in 2002

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:55 pm | Music

My Dad Wrote A Porno at Queen Elizabeth Theatre

Hilarious, salacious and unbelievably awkward (in the best kind of way), the smash hit comedy podcast series My Dad Wrote A Porno is on a live world tour

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Alley Theatre presents Inheritance: a choose-your-adventure experience

Set on a vast, rural estate, urban couple Abbey and Noah are on a week-long getaway to visit her father. When they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man, Frank, staying there instead

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Trans Scripts, Part 1: The Women

Trans Scripts centres on the lives of seven transgender women. These true stories, compiled from over 70 interviews from around the world, are honest, funny, moving, insightful and inspiring

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Boca del Lupo: Broken Tailbone by Carmen Aguirre

In Broken Tailbone, celebrated writer and performer Carmen Aguirre leads a public Latin American dance lesson, woven with hilarious stories of her experiences in the hidden world of dance halls in Canada

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Steel Panther - Heavy Metal Rules Tour

California’s greatest export and medical marvels, Steel Panther, will take the stage at Hard Rock Casino Vancouver for three shows

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

VSO: The Beethoven Experience: Nine Symphonies that Changed the World

Film Documentary: In the summer of 2011 Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performed all nine Beethoven symphonies in China and South Korea for the first time

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Film

Music on Main. Double Happiness: Detour This Way

Sounding two parallel histories, this multimedia performance winds through complexities of the Chinese diaspora

Vancouver | Left of Main | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Marc Atkinson Trio with Cameron Wilson by Evergreen Cultural Centre

Marc Atkinson is one of Canada’s finest JUNO-nominated, Western Canadian award-winning musicians

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 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

The Dance Centre and Vancouver New Music present Bill Coleman

In Dollhouse, Canadian contemporary dance master and choreographer Bill Coleman portrays a figure whose whole world is literally falling in around him. Inhabiting a cluttered room which collapses and breaks at his every touch

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance

Arts Club Presents: Kim's Convenience By Ins Choi

A corner store comedy by Ins Choi. This hilarious and touching debut play inspired the hit TV show of the same name

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Ferenc Fehér

This story is not about a nice family who is waiting at a station....

Vancouver | KW Production Studio | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Performing Arts