Metro Vancouver events on April 17, 2020

BC Legal Management Association Conference

The BCLMA is focused on providing you with the professional development, support and networking opportunities you need to enjoy and advance your career in legal management

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Business / Finance

Surrey District Heritage Fair - Student Fair Day

A full-day program of field trips, workshops and other activities for students. Students will be interviewed about their research by a pair of judges

Surrey | Surrey Museum | 8:30 am to 3:00 pm | Fair | 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

Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:45 am to 8:30 pm | Festival

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

Make It! - Vancouver's Handmade Market

Over 220 of your favourite Makies (and some brand new ones, too!) are bringing their beautiful handmade goodies back to the PNE Forum for our fabulous spring show!

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Market

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

Art Vancouver 2020

Art Vancouver brings together both rapidly growing creative talent and renowned international artists under one roof. Western Canada's largest contemporary art fair attracts over 10,000 art lovers annually to the Vancouver Convention Centre

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 11:00 am to 10:00 pm | Exhibition

Althea Thauberger: Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya

This spring the Contemporary Art Gallery will present Pagal Pagal Pagal Pagal Filmy Dunya, a major new experimental film by Althea Thauberger

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition

Exhibitions: Madiha Aijaz

Alvin Balkind Gallery and off-site at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 12:00 am to 6:00 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

Luminous Garden Opening Reception

Luminous Garden, the third art exhibition organized and presented by Lam Wong during his year-long artist residency at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Vancouver | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Exhibition

Hyperspace Music Festival Night 1: Iron Kingdom with Helion Prime, Dire Peril, & more

Canada's premier melodic/power metal festival returns to The Rickshaw!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Friday Night Dance

Drop-in Lessons and Practice Dances

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Poliça with guests Wilsen

Affiliated with Minneapolis, Minnesota’s prolific Gayngs collective, dark electropop outfit Polica take on VENUE for an Early 19+ Show with support from WILSEN

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 in Concert

Get ready to embark on the penultimate leg of Harry’s journey as Warner Bros. and CineConcerts bring to the screen Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows™, Part 1

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

Tigran Hamasyan Featuring Arthur Hnatek & Evan Marien

Pianist/composer Tigran Hamasyan, along with bandmates Evan Marien on bass and Arthur Hnatek on drums, form the ultimate Power Trio as they fuse potent jazz improvisation with the rich folkloric music of Tigran’s native Armenia

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

Early Music Vancouver: Schubert Romantic Lied feat. Amarcord Ensemble

Amarcord is a German male classical vocal ensemble based in Leipzig, founded in 1992 by five former members of the Thomanerchor

Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Briefs Factory Presented with Zee Zee Theatre: Briefs

A glittery bomb of circus, cabaret, and boylesque!

Vancouver | York Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Performing Arts

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

Royal Canadian Theatre Company: Screwball Comedy By Norm Foster

We are proud to bring you the Western Canadian Premiere of this affectionate and hilarious spoof featuring outrageous characters with the added spice of a mystery!

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

George Thorogood & The Destroyers Good To Be Bad Tour - 45 Years Of Rock

George Thorogood & The Destroyers are bringing their Good To Be Bad Tour – 45 Years Of Rock to the Hard Rock Casino Vancouver for two shows

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Celine Dion: Courage World Tour

Vocal powerhouse Celine Dion is one of the most immediately recognized, widely respected and successful performers in pop music history

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

From Alaska By Sébastien Harrisson

Canadian Drama. Two heartbroken souls healed by an unlikely connection

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Karen Flamenco Dance Company - The Kino Cafe

Karen Flamenco is a progressive learning dance academy which emphasizes performance, stressing technique, strength, individual and artistic expression. The program has a strong foundation in traditional, clasico & modern flamenco dance forms.

Vancouver | Kino Cafe | 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Dance

Matt Corby

Description Matthew John Corby is an Australian singer-songwriter. He achieved his commercial breakthrough with his fourth EP, Into the Flame, which peaked at No. 3 on the ARIA Singles Chart, and by April 2012, was certified 6× Platinum by ARIA

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music