Metro Vancouver events on May 2, 2020
May 2, 2020
Sat
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
Burnaby Artisan Farmers’ Market
Burnaby Farmers' Market is located on the North Parking Lot at Burnaby City Hall at Canada Way and Deer Lake Parkway
Burnaby | Burnaby City Hall Parking Lot | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market
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
Perennial Stroll with a VanDusen Gardener
Enjoy the magic of VanDusen with long-time staff gardener, Casey Werfl. The walk will have an emphasis on perennials and all you need to know about them
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Nature / Animals
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
Fort Langley Village Farmers' Market
Welcome to our Farmers Market. All our produce, foods, and artisan products are made locally here
Langley | Fort Langley Village Farmers Market | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market
Bonsai & Bloom Show
Presented by the Metro Vancouver Gardening Society
Vancouver | VanDusen Botanical Garden | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Nature / Animals
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
Arbor Day Celebration in Surrey Centre Cemetery
Celebrate trees and help grow Surrey’s urban forest!
Surrey | Surrey Centre Cemetery | 10:00 am to 1:00 pm | Family
Burnaby Blooms
An exciting blend of art, horticulture and music, this Festival kicks off our season of special events!
Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Show | Free
33rd Canadian Festival Of Chili And Bbq
Langley City will be smokin’ hot again this year when the 33nd annual Canadian Festival of Chili and Barbecue comes back to beautiful downtown Langley, British Columbia on the grounds of Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Langley | Kwantlen Polytechnic University Langley | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
Spring Bazaar & Plant Sale | スプリングバザー
Sale features good quality Japanese items, Spring plants, and delicious Japanese foods. Donations of Japanese style items in good condition will be gratefully accepted
Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market | Free
Fingerling Festival by Noons Creek Hatchery
Help us release 40,000 fingerling (juvenile) salmon into Noons Creek at our annual enviro-fest
Port Moody | Port Moody Recreation Complex | 11:00 am to 3:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free
Burnaby Village Museum Opens for the Summer Season
Free admission
Burnaby | Burnaby Village Museum | 11:00 am to 4:30 pm | Family | Free
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
Youth Week Block Party
Come celebrate Youth Week with sports, activities, fun and games!
Burnaby | South Central Youth Centre | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | Party | Free
Chado (tea ceremony) class
Learn the basics of Urasenke-style tea ceremony in this beginner-friendly class. Learn the proper ways to walk, bow, interact, and enjoy Japanese matcha tea and sweets
Burnaby | Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre | 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm | Workshop
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
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 | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Theatre
Authentic Polynesian Luau
Join us for a fun night at our authentic Polynesian Luau with a one-hour floorshow, presenting traditional dances from Tahiti, Hawai’i, Fiji & Samoa
Coquitlam | Hard Rock Casino Vancouver | 6:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Charity / Fundraising
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
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
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
Laila Biali - Out of Dust - Album Release Concert
Canadian jazz icon Laila Biali announces the launch of her new album Out of Dust, on March 27, 2020, and album release concert on May 2, 2020 at Pyatt Hall
Vancouver | VSO School Of Music | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
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
Scholarship Awards Gala at the Place des Arts
Join us to celebrate the accomplishment of our 2020 scholarship award winners. This ceremony includes performances by award winning music and dance students and a showcase of artwork by visual arts award recipients
Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Party | Free
Pleasant Comedy at Our Town
On the first Saturday of every month, nice boy Colin Sharp brings top touring comedians from Vancouver and across the country right into the heart of Mount Pleasant
Vancouver | Our Town | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Comedy
Motown Meltdown
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:00 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
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
DEAFHEAVEN
Deafheaven is an American post-metal/shoegaze band from San Francisco
Vancouver | Imperial Vancouver | 8:00 pm to 10:30 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
Sound Rush
Vancouver! Get ready for the debut of Sound Rush Saturday, May 2nd at Harbour Event Centre
Vancouver | Harbour Event Centre | 10:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music