Metro Vancouver events on March 25, 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

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

Spring Break at the Nature House

​Wednesdays are wild at the Burnaby Lake Nature House with activities and crafts to help you and your kids get outside and experience nature this spring break

Burnaby | Burnaby Lake Regional Park | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

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

Vancouver International Auto Show 2020

Western Canada’s best attended consumer show, and one of Western North America’s premier automotive exhibition events

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 10:00 am to 9:30 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

Wednesday Pre-School Storytime!

Join us for Pre-School Storytime on Wednesday mornings!

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 11:00 am | Kids

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

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

San Jose Sharks @ Vancouver Canucks

The regular season game

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

Kimono Dressing Class

Learn how to put on a kimono and obi by yourself in this 4-session class! Please bring your own set - you’ll learn how to make your own obiita, koshihimo and datejime in the first class

Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Workshop

CAG Young Patrons - Studio Tour with Steven Brekelmans

CAG Young Patrons are invited to join us for an exclusive, private visit with Vancouver-based artist Steven Brekelmans in his Mount Pleasant studio

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Olivia O'Brien

American singer-songwriter, born November 26, 1999 in Thousand Oaks, CA

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 10:30 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

Studio 58 presents FourPlay 2020

FourPlay: New Work by Excited Writers continues a Studio 58 tradition

Vancouver | Studio 58 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Musical

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

Between Breaths

Well known in Newfoundland as the Whale Man, Dr. Jon Lien pioneered techniques for rescuing whales entrapped in fishing nets, this is the story of the man and his amazing life story

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Skyborn By Quelemia Sparrow

Multimedia Drama. One woman's journey towards spiritual reclamation

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: FakeKnot - HINKYPUNK

HINKYPUNK is a 50 minute solo dance work that is based on the notion of how identity is conflated with iconography and pop culture

Vancouver | KW Production Studio | 9:15 pm to 10:15 pm | Performing Arts