Metro Vancouver events on March 29, 2020
March 29, 2020
Sun
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
CARHA Hockey World Cup
The CARHA Hockey World Cup is organized every four years in a select Canadian city, and is an event that attracts participants from all across Canada, the United States, Asia and Europe
Richmond | Richmond Olympic Oval | 9:00 am to 8:00 pm | Sports | Free
Healthy Family Expo 2020
Canada's largest food & health event for families is back celebrating its 7th birthday at the Vancouver Convention Centre !
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Active Life / Health
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
Beekeeping for Beginners
Join BC bee expert Brian Campbell for this two-part introduction to honeybees and how to keep a hive of honeybees in an urban environment
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Workshop
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
Spring Affair
Join Vancouver Master Gardeners for a day of learning and laughter! Vancouver Master Gardeners welcome their members & the public to a day of educational, horticulture related lectures
Burnaby | Michael J Fox Theatre | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Lecture
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
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
Spring Break: Dinosaur Days
Make this Spring Break epic with dinosaur themed activities for the kids
Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Kids | Free
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
Vancouver Gem & Mineral Show at PNE Forum
Vancouver Gem & Mineral Show - spring edition at PNE Forum! Western Canada’s largest Gem show is featuring 100+ of the best gem, mineral and jewellery vendors from across Canada
Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 6:00 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 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
Green Expectations
From evergreens that photosynthesize all winter long to Indian plum that heralds spring, learn how to identify coniferous and deciduous plants. Find out about their traditional uses and vital importance to wildlife
Maple Ridge | Kanaka Creek Regional Park | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free
Medicinal Plant Walk
Meander through VanDusen Garden with medical herbalist Katolen Yardley to identify flowers, herbs, shrubs, trees, and weeds while discussing their medicinal properties
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Nature / Animals
Penjing - Bonsai Workshop with Master Gardener Pin Lee
Join us at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden for a mini garden tour with master gardener Pin Lee, as we learn how the garden’s 100-year old penjing collection has changed within the past year
Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Workshop
Cookies 'n Cream Collective presents: Consensual
Written in 2015, Evan Placey’s Consensual revolves around a British secondary school’s teacher and Head of Year 11 Diane, and a mistake she made seven years earlier: she got too close to one of her unhappy 15-year-old pupils
Vancouver | Performance Works | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Performing Arts
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Kids Concerts: Rhythm in Your Rubbish
Magic, music and wonder abound as two friends find themselves in a junkyard one night and explore hidden sounds that live all around them
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Music
The Vancouver Recital Society: Tabea Zimmermann, viola and Javier Perianes, piano
One of the world’s most revered violists, Tabea Zimmermann, , returns with one of our favourite pianists, Javier Perianes, for a wonderful program of Schubert, Brahms, and delightful bonbons from Spain and South America
Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music
Studio 58 presents FourPlay 2020
FourPlay: New Work by Excited Writers continues a Studio 58 tradition
Vancouver | Studio 58 | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Musical
Rainbow Dance Theatre: iLumiDance
Utilizing electro-luminescent (EL) wire, fiber optic fabric, black light and other special effects, Rainbow Dance Theatre’s artistic directors Valerie Bergman and Darryl Thomas create a world of wonder in their newest production iLumiDance
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts
The Official CISSY Book Launch Party
Join Zee Zee Theatre in celebrating the launch of acclaimed Vancouver playwright Dave Deveau’s first published book
Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Party
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
Stuff You Should Know: LIVE
Stuff You Should Know is the award-winning podcast hosted by Chuck Bryant and Josh Clark and produced by the venerable website HowStuffWorks
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Show