Metro Vancouver events on May 1, 2020

Window Gallery: Portals

Installation by Kirsten Hatfield

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 9:45 am | Exhibition | Free

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

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 - NEXT: Matilda Aslizadeh — MOLY AND KASSANDRA

Vancouver-based artist Matilda Aslizadeh’s engaging video and photographic installation Moly and Kassandra (2018) addresses the relationship between culture and resource

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

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

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

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: 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 | 10:00 am to 7:00 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 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Health, Sports & Lifestyle Expo 2020 - BMO Vancouver Marathon

The Health, Sports & Lifestyle Expo is a two-day extravaganza of excitement and celebration that kicks off Marathon weekend in Canada’s most active city.

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

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

Youth Week in the Roundhouse

Youth Week is an internationally celebrated event that promotes youth awareness, positive youth public profile, and stronger connections between youth and the community

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 10:00 am to 7:00 pm | Kids

lace|heart|art exhibition

Discover colourful hearts, all made by hand in traditional lacemaking techniques

Surrey | Beecher Place | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

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

Lansdowne Centre - Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival

The Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival is coming to Lansdowne Centre on May 1st & 2nd!

Richmond | Lansdowne Centre | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Food / Wine | Free

Burnaby Festival of Learning

The Burnaby Festival of Learning celebrates lifelong learning in creative, unconventional ways, featuring a week-long series of free events for everyone that will inspire, engage and spark creativity

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Festival | 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

Youth Week

Join the party with fun free activities all week long!

Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall | 12:00 am to 11:59 pm | Kids

VOX: An exhilarating singing competition and gala

Join us for an elegant evening in support of young artists and arts education at Vancouver Opera

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 5:30 pm to 10:40 pm | Music

Ongoing Call

Square One Album Release

Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Music

May Exhibitions Opening Reception

Drop by the free opening reception for three new shows: Coquitlam Teacher Exhibition, various mediums by School District 43 Teachers; Becoming/Unbecoming, oil paintings by Marion-Lea Jamieson; Garden Buzz, acrylic paintings by Deanna Fligg

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

Astrid S: World Tour Part 1

Astrid S is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. She came fifth in the Norwegian version of the reality television show Pop Idol, aired on TV 2 in 2013

Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Music

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

Ron James - Full Throttle

Award-winning Comedian Ron James Has Been Selling Out Theatres For 15 Years With His Marathon, Side-splitting, Kinetically Charged Performances

Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy

Briefs Factory (Australia) 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

Rage Against the Machine

“Public Service Announcement” Tour w/ Run The Jewels

Vancouver | Pacific Coliseum | 8:00 pm to 10:30 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

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 Lawyer Show 2020 - Mamma Mia!

The Lawyer Show is a fundraiser for two of Vancouver’s most cherished theatre institutions: Carousel Theatre for Young People and Touchstone Theatre, both registered charities

Vancouver | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 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

The VSO Masterworks Diamond series: Musical America: Bernstein, Gershwin and Previn

Featuring Wayne Marshall conductor, piano

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

Hot Brown Honey

Hot Brown Honey turns up the heat, delivering lashings of sass and a hot pinch of empowerment in the smash-hit that has taken the world by storm

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 8:00 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 | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Corb Lund: Agricultural Tragic Tour 2020

Corb Lund is a Western and Country singer-songwriter from Taber, Alberta, Canada. He has released nine albums, three of which are certified gold

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music