Metro Vancouver events on March 13, 2020
March 13, 2020
Fri
2020 VGC Surrey Goalball Grand Slam
Come check out this fast-paced Paralympic sport!
Surrey | Guildford Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health
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
Memory & Aging Workshop
Discover tips for maintaining and improving memory as aging occurs along with information about when to seek professional help. This workshop is presented by Council of Senior Citizens' Organizations of BC (COSCO)
Richmond | Thompson Community Centre | Active Life / Health | Free
Leprechaun Toonie Skate
Join us for ice skating, face painting, and crafts!
Burnaby | Kensington Recreation Complex | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health
VAM Vocal Theatre: Dido and Aeneas
Vancouver Academy of Music Vocal Theatre presents Dido and Aeneas, a baroque English opera by Henry Purcell
Vancouver | Vancouver Academy of Music | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Music | Free
The Wood Brothers
The Wood Brothers are an American folk band consisting of brothers Chris and Oliver Wood, as well as multi-instrumentalist Jano Rix
Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Vancouver Warriors vs San Diego Seals
The Vancouver Warriors are a professional box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Sports
Bob Saget
Bob Saget is renowned for his family-friendly work on hit TV shows Full House and America’s Funniest Home Videos, but it’s his unconventional stand-up comedy that he’s bringing to the River Rock Show Theatre
Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Comedy
Shen Yun
Shen Yun’s unique artistic vision expands theatrical experience into a multi-dimensional, deeply moving journey through one of humanity’s greatest treasures—the five millennia of traditional Chinese culture
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts
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
Vancouver Giants vs. Seattle Thunderbirds
The Vancouver Giants host the Seattle Thunderbirds in regular season action on Friday, March 13th
Langley | Langley Events Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports
Royal Canadian Theatre Company: Screwball Comedy By Norm Foster
An affectionate spoof featuring outrageous characters and mystery | Surrey Arts Centre
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy
The Vancouver Chopin Society: Dina Yoffe
For her last Vancouver appearance, Dina Yoffe played a programme alternating Chopin’s Preludes with those of Scriabin, an experiment that was enthusiastically received by audience and critics alike
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
UBC Symphony Orchestra
Presented by the UBC School of Music. Featuring the winner of the 2020 UBC Concerto Competition
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
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
Cadence: David Lane, Ross Lynde, Lucas Marchand, and Kurt Sampson
Enjoy this 4-man, 4-microphone a capella group that has been wowing audiences around the world
Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
VSO: The Beethoven Experience: A Most Remarkable Night Part 1
This concert is part of 2019-2020 Beethovenfest and 2019-2020 Masterworks Diamond.
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
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
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
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 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
The Jerry Cans
The Jerry Cans are a band from Iqaluit, Nunavut who combine traditional Inuit throat singing with folk music and country music
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Karen Flamenco Dance Company - The Kino Cafe
Karen Flamenco is a progressive learning dance academy which emphasizes performance, stressing technique, strength, individual and artistic expression. The program has a strong foundation in traditional, clasico & modern flamenco dance forms.
Vancouver | Kino Cafe | 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Dance
St. Paddy's at Pat's! with The Peelers, Paddy Waggin', The Corps
Montreal's Celtic punks The Peelers return to Vancouver for a wild St. Patrick's weekend! Joined by local faves Paddy Waggin' and The Corps
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:30 pm to 1:00 am | Music
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
A Bowie Celebration: Bowie Alumni Play Diamond Dogs & Ziggy Stardust
Following a major world tour earlier this year, A BOWIE CELEBRATION is back!!
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music