Metro Vancouver events on March 15, 2020
March 15, 2020
Sun
Youth Whistler Ski/snowboarding Day Trip
It’s snow day in Whistler! Meet other youth from Park Board Community Centres as we travel together to one of North America’s best snow destinations
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 6:30 am to 6:30 pm | Sports
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
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
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
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
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
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
Family Sunday by Surrey Art Gallery
Drop in to create, explore, and enjoy art with friends and family!
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free
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
MONSTER JAM
Monster Jam® is adrenaline-charged family entertainment providing jaw-dropping displays and gravity-defying feats that promises to always leave fans entertained
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Show
Cedar Basket Weaving
Many of our sacred teachings come from the cedar tree; there is a lot to learn from her. Particpants will learn traditional knowledge of cedar, and the historical and spiritual importance of cedar and the steps of harvesting cedar bark
Vancouver | Mount Pleasant Community Centre | 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Workshop
Spring Break Cosmic Public Skate
Skate in the dark under super cool lighting. For extra fun, wear something fluorescent so you’ll glow!
Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Family
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
2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Boogaloo Academy & Now or Never Crew
Under the direction of Anita Perel-Panar and Jheric Hizon (B-Boy “Twist”), Boogaloo Academy students energise the Woodward's Atrium together with the amazing Now or Never Crew
Vancouver | Woodwards Atrium | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free
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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Performing Arts
The Vancouver Recital Society: Benjamin Grosvenor
Benjamin first performed for the VRS in 2013 and has returned to our stage twice since. He never fails to impress us with the intelligence of his playing and his incredible technical prowess
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music
Power Classic Sundays: Manhattan Chamber Players
Adam Golka - Piano, Francesca de Pasquale - Violin, Luke Fleming - Viola, Andrea Casarrubios - Cello
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Music
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 | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Performing Arts
Vancouver Giants vs. Prince George Cougars
The Vancouver Giants host the Prince George Cougars in regular season action on Sunday, March 15th.
Langley | Langley Events Centre | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm | Sports
Winnipeg Jets @ Vancouver Canucks
The regular season game
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 4:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Sports
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
Kim's Convenience
Mr. Kim, a Korean shopkeeper, grapples with both a changing neighbourhood landscape and the chasm between him and his second - generation offspring
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Comedy