Metro Vancouver events on April 23, 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

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

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

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

The Watercolour Palette: Subtleties of White & Making Colours Sing

Delve deeper into understanding watercolour in this two-part drop-in watercolour series

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Visual Arts

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

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: To Speak with a Golden Voice

Our featured exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice will bring a fresh perspective to the legacy of one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary Indigenous artists

Vancouver | Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art | 11:00 am to 5:00 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

VSO School of Music: Sergei Babayan, Piano Masterclass

Hailed as one of the leading pianists of our time, SERGEI BABAYAN – mentor of Trifonov and Argerich collaborator – visits Pyatt Hall to coach four advanced piano students in front of an audience

Vancouver | Pyatt Hall | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | Workshop

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival. Sakura Night

Our annual cherry blossom festival fundraiser celebrates with top local chefs and is your opportunity to savour, celebrate, and support the Festival

Vancouver | Stanley Park Pavilion | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Family

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

4th annual Vancouver Opera Festival: Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera

Vancouver Opera’s fourth annual Festival opens with the West Coast premiere of Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera, based on the lyrics and music of Roger Waters’ The Wall. Roger Waters is the lyricist and principal composer of the band, Pink Floyd

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

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

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 | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Theatre

Urban Ink: Sedna

Imaginative and creative, Sedna is an Indigenous tale told through magnificent large-scale lantern puppets, and a sweeping musical score transporting the audience through a beautiful telling in a magical outdoor setting

Vancouver | Malkin Bowl | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Zucchero D.O.C. World Tour

Italian superstar Zucchero returns to Vancouver, bringing his current D.O.C. Tour which will see him performing all over North America, Australia and Europe in 2020

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Arsonists by Max Frisch

This dark comedy is set in a town that is beset upon by arsonists

Langley | Langley Players Drama Club | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

dream of passion productions presents: A Kid Like Jake

On the eve of the admissions cycle for Manhattan’s most exclusive private schools, Alex and Greg have high hopes for their son Jake, a precocious four-year-old who happens to prefer Cinderella to G.I. Joe

Vancouver | PAL Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Theatre

Rahim AlHaj Trio

A virtuoso oud player who uses Iraqi melodies and contemporary stylings to share his experience as a political refugee

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Stage 43 presents The Elephant Man

John Merrick is a horribly deformed young man – a victim of rare skin and bone diseases. Seen as a freak by society, his life changes when young physician, Frederick Treves, agrees to care for him

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

Hillel Kogan

We Love Arabs dives headlong into the toughest of questions – how can we co-exist within conflict? Somewhere in Tel Aviv, a Jewish choreographer enlists an Arab dancer to help create a work that will overcome fears and carry a message of peace

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance

Spooky Action By Lesley Telford / Inverso Productions

Spooky Action brings together thought provoking dance, cutting edge scenography, original composition and engaging narrative to probe the mysterious ways we act on each other’s lives

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance

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