Metro Vancouver events on March 20, 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

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