Metro Vancouver events on May 7, 2020

The Courage to Come Back Awards Gala 2020

The purpose of the Awards is to pay tribute to those who have overcome overwhelming challenges. These individuals deserve to be recognized and to celebrate their contributions to our communities

Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 8:00 am to 0:00 am | Party

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

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

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

International Folk Dancing Drop-in Sessions

Let's Dance! Join us in learning folk dances set to ethnic music from around the world, in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere

Surrey | Walnut Road Elementary School | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance

Curator Talk: My Favourite Things

What do you collect? And what do you want the City to collect? Let's chat!

Surrey | Historic Stewart Farm | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Lecture | Free

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

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

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 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

Midtwenties Theatre Society presents: Persephone's Cave

Vancouver | CBC Studio 700 | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts

Ballet BC Program 3

A momentous time for Ballet BC, we are thrilled to bring together two of the most influential artists in international dance today

Vancouver | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Dance

North Shore Classics: Beethoven 8 Plus Symphonic Mandolin

A striking duo: young Chilean conductor Paolo Bortolameolli meets Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital in a concert of energetic works inspired by the magic of Italy

North Vancouver | Centennial Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

The Radio Dept. with guests Hater

Pop band from Sweden returns to Vancouver.

Vancouver | Venue Nightclub | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music

Dogfight

It’s November 21, 1963. On the eve of their deployment to Vietnam, three young Marines set out for one final boys’ night of partying and a little trouble

Vancouver | The Cultch | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Elektra Women's Choir presents The Lost Words: A Spell Book

The Lost Words: A Book of Spells is a bestselling book about the natural world. A concert featuring whimsical and evocative new compositions on spells by English author Robert MacFarlane and illustrations by Jackie Morris

Vancouver | Orpheum Annex | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Performing Arts

Watsky - The Commodore Ballroom

Advanced Placement Tour with guests

Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:30 pm to 11:55 pm | Music