Metro Vancouver events on April 8, 2020

Member Mornings in VanDusen Botanical Garden

Join us during the month of April for exclusive access to the Garden!

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 8:00 am to 9:00 am | Nature / Animals

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

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

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

Musical Mornings: Clarinetastik! with Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet

Musical Mornings is a series of salon-style concerts hosted by internationally acclaimed and celebrated pianists Elizabeth and Marcel Bergmann

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 10:30 am to 12:00 am | Music

Exhibition: When the Smoke Clears

When the Smoke Clears, “Interpretations on Normal” is a visual art exploration of Surrey from 4 unique artistic perspectives

Surrey | Beecher Place | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

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

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

Play, Pie & Pint featuring Professor Banjo

Join us for a mid-week matinee performance followed by a hot savoury pie and beverage of choice in the theatre lobby. A Fun Lunchtime Theatre Experience!

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 12:00 am to 2:00 pm | Music

Collage Nights at Alex House

Create a collage with friends. All materials are provided

Surrey | Alexandra House | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Workshop | Free

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

Cowboy Junkies

The Cowboy Junkies are an alternative country and folk rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1985 by Alan Anton, Michael Timmins, Peter Timmins and Margo Timmins

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

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 | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

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

SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque

The world famous SuicideGirls are bringing Blackheart Burlesque to the Rickshaw for a performance unlike anything you’ve ever seen!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Action Bronson - The Great Bambino Tour With guests Mayhem Lauren

Ariyan Arslani, better known by the stage name Action Bronson, is an American rapper, writer, chef, and television presenter. In August 2012, he signed with Warner Bros

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music