Metro Vancouver events on April 26, 2020

VBGA Plant Sale Potluck 2020

We are now accepting donations for the 42nd Annual Plant sale!

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 8:30 am to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals

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

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

42nd Annual Plant Sale!

The 42nd annual VBGA Plant Sale returns!

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free

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

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

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

CoERASGA: Passages of Rhythms

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

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm | Dance

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

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

The Arsonists by Max Frisch

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

Langley | Langley Players Drama Club | 2:00 pm to 4:00 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 | 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre

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

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

Exhibition - Brad McMurray: Pedestrian: A Photographer's Walking Tour

Join Burnaby-based artist Brad McMurray and curator Jennifer Cane on a one-hour walking tour exploring the Metrotown area and its industrial surroundings, discussing urban landscapes and the New Topographics tradition

Burnaby | Burnaby Art Gallery | 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Exhibition

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

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

Vancouver Pops Performing Arts Society: Walkin’ on Broadway

Curtain Up! There is nothing quite like the excitement of a Broadway show. From the timeless melodies of The Sound of Music to the catchy rhythms of Guys and Dolls, musical theatre has entertained and moved us for generations

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Performing Arts

The Friends of Chamber Music: Takács Quartet - complete Bartók string quartets - concert 1

The Takács Quartet is a perennial favourite, offering a window into the Hungarian quartet tradition through its irresistible blend of virtuosic technique and engaging personality

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

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

Misery Signals & Darkest Hour with SECT, Neck of the Woods

Iconic metallers Misery Signals and Darkest Hour are coming to rip up the Rickshaw! Joined by hardcore heavyweights SECT, and local rippers Neck of the Woods

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music

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

Australia's Thunder From Down Under April 2020

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

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

The Coronas

The Coronas are an Irish rock band that originated in Dublin. They release their music through their own independent record label, 3ú Records, and are based between Dublin and London

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music