Metro Vancouver events on May 5, 2020

Architectural Institute of BC Conference 2020

The AIBC invites you to explore the challenges and opportunities facing the profession of architecture, and discover the latest trends, solutions, and ideas at the 2020 AIBC Conference

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

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

Canadian Labour Congress 2020

The 29th Constitutional Convention of the Canadian Labour Congress will be held from Monday, May 4 to Friday, May 8, 2020 at the Vancouver Convention Centre

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 9:00 am to 7:00 pm | Lecture

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

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

Tunes for Tots with the Accordion Man

Tunes for Tots is a fun and interactive introduction to music and dance for pre-schoolers in the Centennial Theatre Performance Studio on Tuesdays

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 10:00 am to 12:30 am | Kids

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

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

Dune Rats with guests

Rock band from Australia, on tour to support their latest release "Hurry Up And Wait"

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

Burnaby International Folk Dancers Weekly Meetings

We enjoy the fun, the exercise and the challenge, to our heads as well as our feet, of learning traditional dances from cultures throughout the world

Burnaby | Charles Rummel Community Centre | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Dance

Design Your Vertical Garden

Urban properties are now smaller, and vertical gardens are popular with city-dwellers looking for gardening opportunities that maximize the use of their space. Join sustainable design expert, Dr. Yael Stav in this 2-part workshop on Vertical Garden Design

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

ArtBAR: Glass Pendant Making with Jane Mackay

All artBAR evenings are led by professional artists and include supplies, instruction and one complimentary glass of wine! Our bar is open for the duration of these evening events

Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual 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

The Commodore Ballroom: Little Dragon

Little Dragon are a Swedish electronic music band from Gothenburg, formed in 1996. The band consists of Yukimi Nagano, Erik Bodin, Fredrik Wallin and Håkan Wirenstrand

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