Metro Vancouver events on March 24, 2020
March 24, 2020
Tue
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
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
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
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: 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
Jesmyn Ward
The Phil Lind Initiative is pleased to present keynote speaker Jesmyn Ward, MacArthur Genius and two-time National Book Award winner
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Lecture
Burnaby International Folk Dancers Weekly Meetings
We enjoy the fun, the exercise and the challenge, to our heads as well as our feet, of learning traditional dances from cultures throughout the world
Burnaby | Charles Rummel Community Centre | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance
Masters of Illusion Live!
These cutting-edge illusionists perform sleight-of-hand, perplexing interactive mind magic, hilarious comedy, dangerous escapes and large scale illusions
Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show
Artist Performance - Erica Stocking
Join exhibiting artist Erica Stocking as she leads a one hour multidisciplinary theatrical performance bringing together sculpture, dance and fashion in an interpretation her exhibition installation
Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Visual Arts | Free
The Vancouver Recital Society: Sir András Schiff Performs Beethoven
For this all-Beethoven performance, we return to the intimate confines of the Vancouver Playhouse. The great pianist Sir András Schiff turns his talents to Beethoven’s sonatas in this, the 250th Anniversary year of the composer’s birth
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
For King & Country burn the ships World Tour 2020 Canada
For King & Country, stylized as for KING & COUNTRY and formerly known as Joel & Luke as well as Austoville, is a Christian pop duo composed of Australian brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:00 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