Metro Vancouver events on March 23, 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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: Works by Alex Lavrov

Opening reception on March 4

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Exhibition

Community Kitchens for Seniors

Learn to cook delicious, healthy food with new friends in a welcoming community kitchen program.

Surrey | Newton Seniors Centre | 3:30 pm to 7:00 pm | Cooking | Free

An Evening with Dr. Jane Goodall

Dr. Goodall’s talks never fail to inspire people of all ages as she recounts her unique experiences as a young woman working alone in the rainforest and her hope for a future where people live in harmony with nature

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Lecture

Early Music Vancouver. Chopin Solo Works feat. Tomasz Ritter 2018 Chopin Competition Winner

In September 2018, 23-year-old Tomasz Ritter won the 1st Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music