Metro Vancouver events on March 18, 2020
March 18, 2020
Wed
We LOVE WATER @ School
How do you love water? Join youth leaders from across Metro Vancouver to snowshoe on Mount Seymour and learn about our water supply system in a fun and interactive way
Vancouver | Science World at TELUS World of Science | 8:30 am to 4:30 pm | Kids
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
Vancouver International Dance Festival: inDANCE (Toronto)- Śiva kissed Viṣṇu
inDANCE’s Śiva kissed Viṣṇu is an original Bharatanatyam-inspired contemporary full-length duet choreographed by Hari Krishnan for dancers Arun Mathai and Sujit Vaidya
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Dance
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: 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 | 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
Spring Break at the Nature House
Wednesdays are wild at the Burnaby Lake Nature House with activities and crafts to help you and your kids get outside and experience nature this spring break.
Burnaby | Burnaby Lake Regional Park | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Nature / Animals | 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
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
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
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
Tampa Bay Lightning @ Vancouver Canucks
The regular season game
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports
Kimono Dressing Class
Learn how to put on a kimono and obi by yourself in this 4-session class! Please bring your own set - you’ll learn how to make your own obiita, koshihimo and datejime in the first class
Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Workshop
Vancouver Giants vs. Kamloops Blazers
The Vancouver Giants host the Kamloops Blazers in regular season action on Wednesday, March 18th.
Langley | Langley Events Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports
Theatre Replacement: MINE
On stage, a group of gamer/performers aged 11 to 46 enact different mother-son narratives—from the Beowulf saga, to Bambi, to The Terminator—using the video game Minecraft
Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Performing Arts
2020 The Decibel Magazine Tour feat. Mayhem, Abbath + More
Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music
Friday Night Dance
Drop-in Lessons and Practice Dances
Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance
Light Rapid Transit
Five hundred thirteen thousand, seven hundred people will take Translink Skytrains today. Nine of those people are inextricably linked by Light Rapid Transit
Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 0:00 am | 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
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
Directo Productions: Paris! The Show
This spectacular evening is a vibrant tribute to the greatest French songs of the post-war years, and exports the charm and the essence of Paris for the whole world to enjoy
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Show
Grandson - The End of the Beginning Tourn with guests: cleopatrick
grandson is an alternative artist hailing from Toronto, Canada.
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music