Metro Vancouver events on April 7, 2020

April 7, 2020

Tue

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

Seniors Day at MOV

The first Tuesday of every month is $5 admission for seniors

Vancouver | Museum of Vancouver | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

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

Exhibition. 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: 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

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 - Brad McMurray: Pedestrian

Brad McMurray: Pedestrian presents works focusing on the idiosyncratic structures and designs of the urban and peri-urban environment

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

Exhibition: Works by Jenny Hawkins and Mat Holmstrom

This event is free and open to the public!

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

Origin with guests Beneath The Massacre, Defeated Sanity, Wake

Technical Brutal Death Metal from Topeka, Kansas. For 20 years, Origin has engaged a full-blown sensory assault of tight, taut, and technical death metal amplified by flashes of grindcore and groove

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Studio Showing: 12 Minutes Max Studio Showing

12 Minutes Max aims to foster experimentation and the development of new dance works, along with critical feedback and community dialogue. The artists will share and discuss their work in an informal studio showing

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Dance | Free

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

ArtBAR: Spring Floral Arrangements with Sandra Taylor

All artBAR evenings are led by professional artists and include supplies, instruction and one complimentary glass of wine! Our bar is open for the duration of these evening events

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts

5th Annual All-Star Stand-Up Comedy Night

It's back!!! Don't miss Presentation House Theatre’s 5th Annual All-Star Stand-Up Comedy Night. Featuring a hilarious lineup of comedians from CBC’s hit radio show THE DEBATERS

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy

Neworld Theatre: The Boy in the Moon

Written by Emil Sher, and based on Canadian journalist Ian Brown’s memoir of life with his son, The Boy in the Moon tells a deeply moving story about a family raising a child with a severe disability

Vancouver | The Cultch | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland is Broadway’s biggest new hit and the winner of Broadway.com’s Audience Choice Award for Best Musical!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Musical