Metro Vancouver events on March 17, 2020

Art-Ventures in Nature

The world around us has more to offer than meets the eye. Explore the outdoors and practice different art forms such as painting, drawing and journaling

Maple Ridge | Kanaka Creek Regional Park | 8:45 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

Spring AquaCamps

AquaCamps offer your children 4 to 12 years of age a fun and educational experience of a lifetime

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 8:45 am to 3:00 pm | Kids

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

Spring Break Nature Camps: March 16-27

Our carefully crafted Spring Break Nature Camps offer a blend of science, exploration, games and crafts and are suitable for children 5 – 8 years old

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:30 am to 4:00 pm | Kids

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

Vancouver Whitecaps FC Combine

Come and watch the next generation of soccer stars in action!

Surrey | Newton Athletic Park | 10:00 am to 8:00 pm | Sports

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

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

Spring Break at Fort Langley National Historic Site

Travel back to the mid-1800s and explore life at Fort Langley

Langley | Fort Langley National Historic Site | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

Spring Break Festival: Beauty and the Beast

When a handsome but arrogant prince insults a mysterious old woman who appears at his door one rainy night, he finds himself magically transformed into a “horrible, nasty Beast”!

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Theatre

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

Spring Break 2020

There’s more to light than meets your eye! Visit the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre this Spring Break and find out how astronomers use visible light from the Sun, infrared heat waves and x-rays to understand some of the mysteries of our universe.

Vancouver | H.R. MacMillan Space Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Kids

St. Patrick's Day at Cypress

Join us for a wee pint and a ride on St. Patty's Day!

West Vancouver | Cypress Mountain | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Party

Spring Break Days at the Burnaby Village Museum

Join us for 12 days of Spring Break fun at the Burnaby Village Museum!

Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Kids | 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

Sound Bites - Janelle Nadeau

Janelle has earned fans across the country with her magnetic solo harp performances, which draw from a diverse repertoire of classical, Celtic, original, and contemporary tunes

Burnaby | Studio Theatre | 12:00 am to 11:05 am | Music

Spring Break Drop-In: Farm Life

Bring the kids for free activities, a nature walk and endless photo opps.

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

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 | 12:00 am to 8:00 pm | Family

Spring Break Festival: Peter Pan

Wendy Darling is sad to learn that she’s growing too old to stay in the nursery any longer, and must move to the adult wing of the house

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm | Theatre

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

Carnifex & 3TEETH

CARNIFEX is something musically unique. What really makes CARNIFEX stand out from the throngs of other Hard Rock acts currently scouring the planet, are their savage live performances

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 5:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Karaoke for fun

Come out and sing your favorite karaoke songs. Our karaoke collection features a good variety of older classics and some newer songs as well. Open to everyone 55 and older, drop-in. Come join the fun

Richmond | Minoru Centre for Active | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Music | Free

Ibram X. Kendi

The Phil Lind Initiative is pleased to present keynote speaker Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning historian and author of Stamped From The Beginning

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Lecture

Jazz Jam

Join us at the Shadbolt for a jazz jam session! Hosted by Cory Weeds, the Jazz Jam features a stellar lineup of local jazz musicians in an improvised evening of music

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music | Free

Burnaby International Folk Dancers Weekly Meetings

We enjoy the fun, the exercise and the challenge, to our heads as well as our feet, of learning traditional dances from cultures throughout the world

Burnaby | Charles Rummel Community Centre | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

Vancouver Welsh Men's Choir - Celtic Traditions

The Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir presents a wide repertoire of traditional and contemporary choral music with the unique and powerful resonance of a large group of male voices singing in four-part harmony

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 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 | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

КАК Попасть В РАЙ комедия

Комедия с элементами триллера и мистификации

Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

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

Drive By Truckers - The Commodore Ballroom

The Drive-By Truckers are an alternative country/Southern rock band based in Athens, Georgia

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music