Metro Vancouver events on May 3, 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

Season 2020 by White Rock Farmers' Market

Weekly Farmers' Market runs Sunday 10am - 2pm. May through October

White Rock | White Rock Farmers' Market | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm | Market

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

Bonsai & Bloom Show

Presented by the Metro Vancouver Gardening Society

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

Clayton Community Farmer's Market

Shop for crafts, baked goods, fresh produce and more at this annual Farmer's Market.

Surrey | Clayton Heights Secondary | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm | Market | 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 5:00 pm | Exhibition

CIM Conference & Exhibition 2020

The CIM EXPO, Canada's premier mining trade show, will feature once again hundreds of companies showcasing the latest in mining equipment, tools, technology, services and products

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Power Classic Sundays: Quartet of Soloists

Yoonah Kim - Clarinet, Henry Kramer - Piano, Stefan Jackiw - Violin, Arnold Choi - Cello

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Music

Senior-Level Student Concert at the Place des Arts

Place des Arts’ music students are provided performance opportunities through our student concerts, held throughout the season. This concert features performances by our senior-level students

Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music | Free

Early Music Vancouver: Renaissance Masters on the Battlefield

The Tallis Scholars were founded in 1973 by their director, Peter Phillips. Through their recordings and concert performances, they have established themselves as the leading exponents of Renaissance sacred vocal music throughout the world

Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Music

Martin Barre Performs Classic Jethro Tull with Original Members Dee Palmer and Clive Bunker

Martin Barre Celebrates 50 Years Of Jethro Tull. Martin Barre performs Classic Jethro Tull with original members Dee Palmer and Clive Bunker!

Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music

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 | 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm | Opera

Two Feet - Pink Tour Part 1

Zachary William "Bill" Dess, known by his stage name Two Feet, is an American singer, songwriter, and producer from New York City

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