Metro Vancouver events on April 9, 2020

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

Plenty Warehouse Sale 2020

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | Fair

Tots Easter

Bring your pre-schooler for an Easter party just for the wee ones!

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Kids | Free

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

Watercolour Techniques

In this two-part series aimed at beginners or those looking to refresh their knowledge, Susan will demonstrate watercolour techniques that will make it possible for you to capture an image on paper

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Visual Arts

Clarinetastik!

Enjoy this Spanish clarinet virtuoso, Jose Franch-Ballester in combination with the Bergmann Duo

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Music

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: 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

BC Buds

Join us for new play readings and new choreographies that are in development

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

International Folk Dancing Drop-in Sessions

Let's Dance! Join us in learning folk dances set to ethnic music from around the world, in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere

Surrey | Walnut Road Elementary School | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Face to Face with guests Sharp Shock

The California punks return to the Rickshaw on their Big Choice 25th anniversary tour

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Chef Meets BC Grape 2020

Don’t Miss Out On The Largest Tasting Of Bc Wines In Western Canada

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine

Film Screening: Circus Without Borders

Circus Without Borders is a documentary about Guillaume Saladin and Yamoussa Bangoura, best friends and world-class acrobats from remote corners of the globe who share the same dream: To bring hope and change to their struggling communities through circus

Vancouver | The Cinematheque | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Film

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

Royal City Musical Theatre presents Crazy for You

A zany rich-boy-meets-hometown-girl romantic comedy, Crazy for You® tells the story of young New York banker Bobby Child, who is sent to Deadrock, Nevada, to foreclose on a rundown theatre

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

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

Rick Scott and Nico Rhodes by Evergreen Cultural Centre

What do you get when you combine an infamous dulcimer player with a rising jazz pianist, seasoned expertise with youthful exuberance, old school groove and Broadway chops?

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Live Nation: Herb Alpert & Lani Hall

Herb Alpert and his wife, the Grammy award-winning vocalist Lani Hall, and their gifted band – Michael Shapiro on drums, Hussain Jiffry on bass and Bill Cantos on piano – perform an eclectic set...

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

The Mavericks

The Mavericks are an American country music band that combine Tex-Mex, neotraditional country music, Latin, and rockabilly influences

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