Metro Vancouver events on April 29, 2020

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

HR Conference & Expo 2020

The 58th annual HR Conference & Expo is Western Canada’s largest human resources focused event. Come learn more about the UPSIDE of your organization’s greatest resource: PEOPLE.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:30 am to 6:00 pm | Lecture

Oh Snap! Photography Exhibition

living in the Champlain Heights neighbourhood. Youth learn a different photography skill each week and apply this skill outside while taking pictures

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Exhibition

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

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

White Noise by Taran Kootenhayoo

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 | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Theatre

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

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

Rhapsody Of Fire with Celestial Ruin & guests

Italian Symphonic Metal Gods Rhapsody Of Fire Come To Vancouver On Their Dawn Of Victory Canadian Tour!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music

Collage Nights at Alex House

Create a collage with friends. All materials are provided

Surrey | Alexandra House | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Workshop | Free

Designing Gardens For the Senses

Go beyond designing a garden that looks good, and create a garden that feels and smells good too! Join Janis in this experiential and interactive class, equipping participants with the tools and understanding to create a sensory haven on your property

Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Nature / Animals

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80

Seun Kuti is the youngest son of legendary Afrobeat godfather Fela Kuti

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Exhibition: Speaking From Our Art

Speaking From Our Art is a spectacular celebration of the artistic achievement of the students of Vancouver’s Alternative schools

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 0:00 am | Exhibition

Presented By Blackout Theatre In Association With Presentation House Theatre: Zoning Out

A single mother from Iran immigrates to Canada with her child. She faces the challenges met by many newcomers in a new country. But her story goes in an unexpected direction when she learns that her child is on the Autism spectrum

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

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

Boca del Lupo: Inner Elder

Inner Elder takes the audience on a journey through laughter and real-life memories of Gemini Award-winning Cree artist Michelle Thrush as she explores her own inner elder

Vancouver | Performance Works | 8:00 pm to 10:00 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

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

Coig

Còig is a Canadian folk music group from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

Bombay Bicycle Club

Everything Else Has Gone Wrong, their first new album in 6 years

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music