Metro Vancouver events on March 22, 2020
March 22, 2020
Sun
Vancouver Orchid Society Show & Sale
Join the Vancouver Orchid Society for their Spring Sale
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Nature / Animals
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
Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra
NEXT: Matilda Aslizadeh is part of Capture Photography Festival’s 2020 Selected Exhibition Program
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
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
Exhibition - Next: Matilda Aslizadeh - Moly And Kassandra
Vancouver-based artist Matilda Aslizadeh’s engaging video and photographic installation Moly and Kassandra (2018) addresses the relationship between culture and resource
Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition
Veggies on Your Patio
This seasonal favourite is perfect for urban gardeners who want to get started with growing veggies in containers, but need tips on where to begin
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Nature / Animals
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
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
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
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
The Tin Man Was A Dreamer: Allegories, Poetics And Performances Of Power
The exhibition title refers to the Tin Man, a character from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz who earnestly sets out in search of a heart, only to discover that he has had compassion all along
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
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
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
Medicine Wheel Ceremony
The Medicine Wheel is a symbol of holistic teachings based on the cycles of nature
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 12:00 am to 3:00 pm | Active Life / Health
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
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
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
Conversational Tour of Don Hutchinson and Ying-Yueh Chuang: Passages
Artist Ying-Yueh Chuang and SAG curators host a conversational tour of Passages ceramics exhibition
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Visual 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 | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Performing Arts
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 | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Music
VSO at the ANNEX presents Carte Blanche: Samy Moussa
Samy Moussa is a Canadian conductor and composer of classical music, living in Paris and Rome. His works have been performed internationally
Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 2:00 pm to 3:40 pm | Music
Karen Flamenco Dance Company - Teatro Intimo Del Flamenco
The one-hour production welcomes audiences of all ages with live traditional flamenco music, dance, storylines, puppetry and magic
Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Dance
The Friends of Chamber Music present: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - Young Masters
Masterpieces by Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Strauss will be played brilliantly by CMS master musicians Gilles Vonsattel, Arnaud Sussmann, Alexi Kenney, Yura Lee, Richard O’Neill and David Requiro
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music
Vancouver Recital Society: Sir András Schiff, piano
Experience Sir Andráa Schiff’s monumental and mesmerizing interpretation of J.S. Bach’s iconic Goldberg Variations.
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music
Royal Canadian Theatre Company: Screwball Comedy By Norm Foster
It’s 1938 and ambitious young journalist Mary must accompany distracted reporter Jeff on a society story that quickly turns into a mystery while their growing attraction for each other gets in the way
Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Comedy
G. Love & Special SAUCE With Guest Jontavious Willis
American hip-hop/blues band, on tour to support their upcoming new release “The Juice”
Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Blackberry Smoke - Till The Wheels Fall Off Tour
Blackberry Smoke is an American rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The lineup consists of Charlie Starr, Richard Turner, Brit Turner, Paul Jackson, Brandon Still
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
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
Vancouver Giants vs. Kelowna Rockets
The final Vancouver Giants regular season home game for the 2019-20 season also takes place against the 2020 Memorial Cup hosts from Kelowna
Langley | Langley Events Centre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Sports
Early Music Vancouver: New Music for Old Instruments
The Pacific Baroque Orchestra continues its exploration of contemporary music written for period instruments. Programme to include music by all BC-based composers. Stay tuned for programme details!
Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
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