Metro Vancouver events on April 24, 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

Lyrids Folk Dance Festival

Our seventh Lyrids Folk Dance Festival features Tineke and Maurits van Geel teaching Armenian and Roma dances from different countries (Maurits has done extensive research) mixed with some international top hits

Vancouver | Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture | 9:00 am to 11:00 pm | Dance

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

Offsite: Sanaz Mazinani

Toronto-based artist and educator Sanaz Mazinani works primarily in photography and large-scale, photo-based installations

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

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

Choreography Workshop with Hillel Kogan

Israeli choreographer Hillel Kogan brings together the materials of his creations in a process that begins with improvisation

Vancouver | The Dance Centre | 12:00 am to 2:00 pm | Dance

TEDx Semiahmoo Secondary

Get your tickets to the first fully student-led TEDx Talk event in Surrey.

Surrey | Semiahmoo Secondary | 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm | Lecture

Chor Leoni: M’ANAM & Chor Leoni

Chor Leoni welcomes Ireland’s M’ANAM and internationally acclaimed composer and director Michael McGlynn to VanMan for their Canadian debut

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

pARTy@PdA: Cartoons and Cocktails

Join artist Oliver McTavish-Wisden to stretch your storytelling muscles through the joys of comic jamming: collaborative, improv drawing that produces hilarious results!

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Party

Vancouver Warriors vs Saskatchewan Rush

The Vancouver Warriors are a professional box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League

Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Sports

CoERASGA: Passages of Rhythms

Merging contemporary dance, Flamenco and Bharatanatyam with each symbiotic cultural tie exudes in the expression of rhythm and movement

North Vancouver | Presentation House Theatre | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Dance

4th annual Vancouver Opera Festival: COSÌ FAN TUTTE - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Così fan tutte, last produced by VO in 2005, is a sharply satirical take on relationships between men and women. Mozart’s opera about fidelity is an intriguing story set to music of impossible beauty

Vancouver | Vancouver Playhouse | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

The Zombies

The Zombies are an English rock band formed in 1962 in St Albans and led by keyboardist and vocalist Rod Argent and vocalist Colin Blunstone

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 7:30 pm to 11:55 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

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

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

Australia’s Thunder From Down Under: Neon Nights 2020 World Tour

Direct from Vegas – the PERFECT Girl’s Night Outback! Australia’s HOTTEST Export – Thunder From Down Under – hits the stage at the River Rock Show Theatre

Richmond | The River Rock Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Show

Destroy Wrestling: Aftershock - A Rickshaw Wrestling Presentation

ive Wrestling, Live Music, and Live Action like you’ve never seen before! Destroy Wrestling returns for another evening of mayhem

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Active Life / Health

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Gold series: Mozart and Rimsky-Korsakov

Elim Chan, one of the most vibrant young conductors on the scene today partners with Sergei Babayan, mentor of Trifonov and Argerich collaborator, for an impeccable Mozart

Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Listening Lounge - Marc Atkinson Trio with Cameron Wilson

The Marc Atkinson Trio is made up of some of Canada's finest JUNO nominated musicians

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 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

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

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

Nearly Neil - Neil Diamond Tribute

Nearly Neil and the Solitary Band is an entirely live musical tribute to Neil Diamond. Everyone on stage is performing live and there are no pre-recorded additions

Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Darren Styles

Hard-Dance fans rejoice the debut of Darren Styles performance at Harbour Event Centre

Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

Jason Ross - 1000 Faces Tour

Jason Elliot Ross, known professionally as Jason Ross, is an American DJ and record producer. Currently living in Los Angeles, California, he is signed to UK-based record label, Anjunabeats

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 10:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music