Metro Vancouver events on March 20, 2020
March 20, 2020
Fri
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
Playdome 2020
Western Canada’s largest indoor carnival is back for spring break 2020 with 9 fun-filled days of carnival rides, games and sweet treats
Vancouver | BC Place | 10:00 am to 9:00 pm | Family
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
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
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
Music Department Student Showcase
Join us at the BlueShore at CapU for the music department's student showcase
North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 11:45 am to 1:00 pm | Music | Free
Spring Break Public Skate (Not Cosmic)
Keep active during the school break at public skating sessions. Note: This is not Cosmic Skating.
Richmond | Minoru Arenas | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Sports
Exhibition: Show and Tell
Professional Federation of Canadian Artists will be showing and demonstrating their work
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
Otakufest: A teen anime and manga celebration
Have a teen that loves all things anime, or is manga-curious? Send them to hang out with other teens at our half-day festival, including cosplay, trivia, manga-inspired crafts (with tips and tricks from professionals), and a film screening
Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | 12:30 am to 5:30 pm | Books | Free
2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Farouche
The three of us are here to coexist. Today we are different than we were yesterday. Tonight will be different from last night. Tomorrow will be different from tonight. We shift, listen, and let you in. Here we are again
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free
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
Night Quest
Nature at night is a magical experience. Wander 2 km of lantern-lit trails and meet squirrels, skunks and salamanders who will delight you with stories of nature at night
Vancouver | Pacific Spirit Regional Park | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Active Life / Health | Free
Li Dan and His Friends
Awarded Annual Innovative Artist Award in 2017 at the Chinese Variety Summit Ingenuity Ceremony, Li Dan is recognized to be a person with a great spirit of fun. As a poet, he is sensitive, stubborn and desolate
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
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
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
ChamberFest!
A free festival of chamber music in the Chan Centre’s Telus Studio Theatre featuring UBC student chamber ensembles
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival | Free
The Teskey Brothers
The Teskey Brothers are a blues rock band from Melbourne, Australia, named after the two brothers who formed the group in 2008: Josh Teskey and Sam Teskey
Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Rodney Carrington
Rodney Carrington is a multitalented comedian, actor, and writer who has recorded eight major record label comedy albums selling over 3 million copies
Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Show
Listening Lounge Series - Sweet Alibi
Known for their soulful three-part harmonies, Western Canadian Music Award Winners Sweet Alibi, have shared their folk roots-pop infused music with listeners across North America and Europe since 2009
Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | Music
Ain't True & Uncle False
Step into the Big Fib Trailer Park and meet its colourful inhabitants. You'll never want to leave.
Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 8:00 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
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Eroica
Presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as part of the Classical Traditions series at the Chan Centre
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
Theatre Series: A Chorus Line
A beautiful snapshot of the inner life of performers - their authenticity, vulnerability and desperate need to be loved
North Vancouver | BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 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 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts
The Commodore Ballroom: La Roux
La Roux is Elly Jackson, a Grammy-winning and BRIT and Mercury-Prize-nominated artist and producer who shot to worldwide fame with her debut self-titled album
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music
Skyborn By Quelemia Sparrow
Multimedia Drama. One woman's journey towards spiritual reclamation
Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
RUBBERBANDance Group (Montreal) - Ever So Slightly
In their inaugural presentation with DanceHouse, powerhouse Canadian company RUBBERBANDance kicks off with a roar
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance
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