Metro Vancouver events on April 19, 2020

2020 Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference

The Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference is the largest, most comprehensive event of its kind in the region, featuring the latest scientific research and management issues relevant to the health of the Salish Sea ecosystem

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Lecture

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

Lumionous Garden

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 | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market

The Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market runs every Sunday from 10am-2pm on the PNE Fairgrounds

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

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

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival. Sakura Days Japan Fair

Sakura Days Japan Fair is a family-friendly event showcasing Japanese culture, food, products and businesses to visitors from throughout the Lower Mainland

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

CAChurch: Town Centre

Weekly church services and Sunday School classes by Coquitlam Alliance Church

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 10:00 am to 12:00 am | Active Life / Health

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

Hummingbird Homecoming

Attract birds to your own backyard by understanding what helps them survive

Richmond | Richmond Nature Park | Nature / Animals

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

Historic Theatre: Nicola Campbell and Joseph Dandurand Sharing Children-s Stories

Nicola and Joseph will read from their newly published children’s books A Day With Yayah by Tradewind Books and The sasquatch, the fire, the cedar basket by Nightwood Press

Vancouver | The Cultch | 12:00 am to 2:00 pm | Performing Arts

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

In the BAG Family Sundays. Brad McMurray: Pedestrian

Come and make art! Get your minds humming with a visit to the gallery and then into the studio for family-friendly art projects

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Family

Briefs Factory (Australia) Presented with Zee Zee Theatre: Brat Kids Carnival

From mischief makers to brats, witness the boys from Briefs in an all out brat-attack just for kids!

Vancouver | York Theatre | 2:00 pm to 3:00 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 | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Theatre

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 | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Music

From Alaska By Sébastien Harrisson

Canadian Drama. Two heartbroken souls healed by an unlikely connection

Richmond | Gateway Theatre | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Theatre

Beethoven. Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano. Gary Hoffman & David Selig

Gary Hoffman is one of the most significant artists of our time, and for many he is simply the best living cellist in the world

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Music

Historic Theatre: Jangle - Shout: HullaVerses Remixer

A literary afternoon delight! Music and words from many of the artists performing throughout the festival, including a selection of Hullabaloo performers featured from our youth events

Vancouver | The Cultch | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Vancouver Recital Society: Steven Isserlis, cello and Connie Shih, piano

When Connie met Steven! (And the VRS played matchmaker). These dynamic artists were first introduced at the VRS’s 1993 Chamber Music Festival, and, as they say, “the rest is history!”

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

Opera on a Sunday Afternoon

The Opera for a Sunday Afternoon series features highlights of various operas, performed by singers who have taken to the stage with Burnaby Lyric Opera

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Opera

White Noise

A comedy about two families who have dinner together for the first time during Truth and Reconciliation week, White Noise explores what it means to live in Canada from two different paradigms

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Theatre

Hyperspace Music Festival Day 3: Powerglove with Immortal Guardian, Apprentice & more

Nintendocore pioneers Powerglove return to The Rickshaw for a night of video game heavy metal mastery! With guests, Immortal Guardian, Apprentice, and more TBA

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Simply the Best Talent: Relive the Music 50s & 60s Rock ‘n’ Roll Show

50s & 60s rock opera musical concert with a Broadway feel, with live band, singers, dancers, video and trivia

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Show

Historic Theatre: Sounds Like Fire: Sky Dancer, Janice Jo Lee and M’Girl Music

Heartbreak and the fire of hope & home flame up in these artists’ work. Burning in This Midnight Dream, Sky Dancer’s book (aka Louise Halfe) is described as a “peat fire of poetry.”

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Palaye Royale -The Bastards Tour With guests The Hunna and Arrested Youth

Palaye Royale is a Canadian-American rock band originally formed in Las Vegas, now based in Los Angeles

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music