Metro Vancouver events on April 11, 2020

Enjoy Super Saturdays at The Aquarium

Come and start the day with us. On the second Saturday of each month, the Vancouver Aquarium holds Super Saturdays for our members

Vancouver | Vancouver Aquarium | 8:30 am to 5:00 pm | Nature / Animals

Point Grey Chrysanthemum Assosciation: Rooted Cuttings Sale

Presented by the Point Grey Chrysanthemum Association

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:00 am to 12:00 am | Nature / Animals | Free

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

Eggs-tacular Easter Egg Hunt

Hippity hoppity down to the Roundhouse for our annual Eggs-tacular Easter Egg Hunt, including an egg hunt, face painting, arts and crafts, games, cookie decorating, live animals, and a visit from the Easter Bunny!

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:30 am to 2:15 pm | Kids

Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia

Featuring over 300 works, Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia examines the furniture, ceramics, textiles, fashion and jewellery that defined West Coast modern living in the mid-twentieth century

Vancouver | Vancouver Art Gallery | 10:00 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

Easter Eggspedition in VanDusen Botanical Garden

Calling all Guardians of the Garden! The Easter Bunnies need your help!

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Family

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

Vancouver Dahlia Society: Tuber Sale

Join the Vancouver Dahlia Society for their annual tuber sale

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

Adult Ukulele Session

Taught in C Tuning by Peter Luongo and members of the Langley Ukulele Association

Langley | Langley Fundamental Elementary | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | 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

Bounce with Bunny

Come out and meet the Easter Bunny! Easter themed interactive games, arts and crafts and Easter Egg Hunt

Vancouver | Mount Pleasant Community Centre | 10:15 am to 12:15 am | Kids

Jazz in the Mews

Enjoy Jazz in the Foyer with a full slate of local musicians

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:30 am to 12:30 am | Music | Free

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

Port Moody - Greater Vancouver Food Truck Fest

We're Back!!!! Our first event of 2020 is coming to Port Moody on April 11th from 11-6 pm! in our 6th year, this is going to be the best ones yet

Port Moody | Inlet Park | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Food / Wine

Old Fashioned Easter

Make your way to the Farm to meet the Easter Bunny and do Easter activities.

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free

Easter Eggstravaganza by Hamilton Community Centre

Join us for games, crafts, a visit with the Easter bunny and an egg hunt. Parent participation required.

Richmond | Hamilton Community Centre | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm | Kids

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

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival. The Big Picnic

At The Big Picnic, make new friends while enjoying the blossoms in Queen Elizabeth Park at perhaps Western Canada’s largest picnic celebration!

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Park | 12:00 am to 4:00 pm | Family | Free

Ukrainian Easter

Learn about rescue animals and hop around the galleries

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Family | Free

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

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Theatre

Easter Bash Swims - Newton Recreation Centre

Come for a swim and enjoy an egg-hunt at a pool near you!

Surrey | Newton Recreation Centre | 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Family

Taste Vancouver North Van Shipyards Tour

While enjoying some great food and magnificent scenery learn all about Vancouver’s historic shipyard district that began with its discovery in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver

North Vancouver | Lonsdale Quay | 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine

Karen Flamenco Dance Company - Teatro Intimo Del Flamenco

The one-hour production welcomes audiences of all ages with live traditional flamenco music, dance, storylines, puppetry and magic

Vancouver | The Improv Centre | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Dance

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

Vancouver Whitecaps Fc vs Los Angeles Football Club

The regular season game Major League Soccer

Vancouver | BC Place | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Sports

Rave Culture 2020

Rave Culture’s first Canadian edition stops in Vancouver at Pacific Coliseum ft. Steve Aoki, W&W, Timmy Trumpet, Audiotricz & DAIJO

Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Caravan World Rhythms: Mohsen Namjoo & Ensemble: Motantan Release Tour

Iconic maverick Iranian musician and composer Mohsen Namjoo returns to Vancouver touring for his latest new recording Motantan (Grandiloquent), to be fully released in March 2020

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

12th Planet Presents: Swamplex Next Level Tour

Dubstep and Drum n Bass producer and DJ, from Los Angeles, California, USA

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

Billie Eilish - WHERE DO WE GO WORLD TOUR

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell, known professionally as Billie Eilish, is an American singer-songwriter

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

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

White Denim with guests

Rock band from Austin, on tour to support their new live album release "In Person" (out Oct 29th)

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

Jon and Roy With guests: Scenic Route to Alaska & Wild Romantics

Following sold out dates at the Commodore Ballroom in both 2018 and 2019, Jon and Roy return for a highly anticipated show on Saturday, April 11th

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Zdravko Čolić

Zdravko Čolić is a pop singer, widely considered as one of the greatest vocalists and cultural icons of former Yugoslavia

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music