Metro Vancouver events on April 25, 2020
April 25, 2020
Sat
Member Mornings in VanDusen Botanical Garden
Join us during the month of April for exclusive access to the Garden!
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 8:00 am to 9:00 am | Nature / Animals
BC Fuchsia and Begonia Society: Plant, Bake & Craft Sale
Check out the BC Fuchsia and Begonia Society’s spring sale
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm | 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
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
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
Healthy Soils for Healthy Gardens
Build up your garden while improving your green thumb with longtime VanDusen Gardener Casey Werfl. Participants will learn all about soils, compost, leaves, digging over garden beds, and amending soils
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Nature / Animals
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
Burnaby Mountain Golf Festival
Join the action and fun at the Burnaby Mountain Golf Festival!
Burnaby | Burnaby Mountain Golf Course & Driving Range | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Active Life / Health
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
Vancouver Career Fair: VFX, Animation, Video Games 2020
visual effects and animation fair
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Fair
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
Early Years Festival
Bring the kids to this festival for ages 6 and under focusing on developing a healthy lifestyle.
Surrey | Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Family | Free
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
Earth Day Celebration
Join us for this family-friendly event that includes a neighbourhood cleanup, item swap, upcycle crafts and junk disposal by donation
Richmond | Hamilton Community Centre | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free
Owl Show
Get up close and personal with breathtaking owls at this event presented by the Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society
Richmond | Richmond Nature Park | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Nature / Animals
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
Art on the Spot
Join us at the Shadbolt Centre for this free event celebrating International Dance Day!
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Performing Arts | Free
Get Growing at Darts Hill
Be inspired to Get Growing at Darts Hill Garden!
Surrey | Darts Hill Garden Park | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free
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
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
A Green Thumb Theatre Production: Still/Falling
The award-winning production, Still/Falling, by Vancouver playwright Rachel Aberle and directed by Patrick McDonald, explores the struggle with anxiety and depression, causing us to fall backwards at times
Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Performing Arts
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 | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Opera
Cherry Blossom Festival
The coming of cherry blossoms heralds the beginning of spring in Japan and initiates a season of festivities with family and friends
Maple Ridge | Maple Ridge Library | 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Festival
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
A Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin
Jonathan Crow, violin; Philip Chiu, piano
Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music
Chor Leoni: MYVoice at the Chan
Join MYVoice at the Chan for a family-friendly and social media-friendly FREE concert
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Music | Free
The Cultch’s Fundraising Gala
Join us at The Cultch for an evening of food, wine, and entertainment – including exciting silent and live auctions!
Vancouver | The Cultch | 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Charity / Fundraising
Battlefield Fight League
Battlefield Fight League is British Columbia's Premier Mixed Martial Arts Organization
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Sports
Betamaxx & FM Attack with special guests Mecha Maiko, Vandal Moon
A Synthwave Night this Spring with Pittsburgh based artist, Betamaxx, who focuses on music inspired and created by vintage synthesizers and FM Attack, who is known as a pioneer of the synthwave movement
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:30 pm to 11:30 pm | Music
Miranda Lambert: Wildcard Tour 2020
Miranda Leigh Lambert is an American country music singer and songwriter. In 2003, she finished in third place of the television program Nashville Star, a singing competition which aired on the USA Network
Vancouver | Rogers Arena | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
Chor Leoni: VanMan Choral Summit Concert
VanMan’s Summit Concert features the soul-stirring sound of 300+ men’s voices soaring into the rafters of one of Canada’s finest concert halls
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
Fort Night Improv
A stacked cast of Vancouver Improv Comedians are coming to Langley to perform Saturday Nights!
Langley | Bez Arts Hub | 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm | Comedy
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
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
Caribbean Night in Surrey with The Phase III Steel Drum Band
Party at this Caribbean cultural extravaganza! Hear calypso, R&B, reggae, & more played with joy
Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music
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
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
Joel Plaskett
William Joel MacDonald Plaskett is a Canadian rock musician and songwriter based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was a member of Halifax alternative rock band Thrush Hermit in the 1990s
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music