Metro Vancouver events on May 8, 2020
May 8, 2020
Fri
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
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
Willowbrook - Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival
The Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival is fun for the whole family and features 20+ hand picked food trucks at 7 different locations in the Greater Vancouver Area
Langley | Willowbrook Shopping Centre | 11:00 am to 10:00 pm | Food / Wine
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
Pacific Salmon Foundation Gala Dinner & Auction 2020
The Vancouver Gala Dinner & Auction is the Pacific Salmon Foundation's largest fundraising event in support of community salmon projects across B.C. and the Yukon
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Charity / Fundraising
pARTy@PdA: Palette . . . eat, paint, create!
Palette . . . eat, paint, create is an evening to inspire the artist in everyone!
Coquitlam | Place des Arts | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Visual Arts
Friday Night Dance
Drop-in Lessons and Practice Dances at The ACT Arts Centre
Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Dance
Vancouver Chamber Choir: This Delicate Universe
Under the direction of its new Artistic Director, Kari Turunen, the Vancouver Chamber Choir will present Seattle-based Eric Banks’ This Delicate Universe, a work akin to a choral symphony in scope
Vancouver | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
KAYZO
VANCOUVER! Kayzo will present to you UNLEASHED. Insane stage and production like you have never seen. Secret Guests, special guest supports, stacked line up filled with surprises. And KAYZO live with brand new music and drum crew!
Vancouver | Harbour Convention Centre | 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm | Music
Mozart, Brahms and Michelle Mares plays Beethoven
Yariv Aloni - conductor, Michelle Mares - piano
Vancouver | Christ Church Cathedral | 8:00 pm to 9:45 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
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
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
Surrey Nights: 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
Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
Surrey Nights: Beethoven's 8th & 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.
Surrey | Bell Performing Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 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
The Dip with guests
The Dip (Seattle Soul) performs their single "Sure Don't Miss You" live in April 2017
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music
Huu Bac Quintet - Mekong Waters
Huu Bac, a Montreal musician who skillfully combines his Vietnamese and Chinese heritages with North American Jazz, delivers a true dialogue of those cultures in a contemporary, original and unique way
New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music
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
Emancipator Ensemble - Mountain Of Memory Tour
Douglas Appling, better known by his stage name Emancipator, is an American producer and DJ based in Portland, Oregon
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:30 pm to 11:59 pm | Music