Metro Vancouver events on May 12, 2020
May 12, 2020
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Canada Gas and LNG Exhibition and Conference 2020
Canada Gas & LNG Exhibition and Conference will provide your company with a unique platform to showcase products and services to 5000 industry representatives from the local and global value chain
Vancouver | Vancouver Convention Centre East | 8:00 am to 6:00 pm | Exhibition
Window Gallery: Portals
Installation by Kirsten Hatfield
Vancouver | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | 9:00 am to 9:45 am | Exhibition | Free
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
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
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
Environmental Film Screening: Toad People
Enjoy a free screening of the documentary Toad People and learn about local conservation efforts
Surrey | Surrey City Hall | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm | Nature / Animals | Free
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
12th Annual Richmond Arts Awards
Award recipients will be announced in a special ceremony hosted by Mayor Malcolm Brodie. In addition, there will be live entertainment, catering and a cash bar
Richmond | City Hall | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Show | Free
Swallow the Sun with Infected Rain, Wheel
Post-doom band from Finland in support of their most recent record "When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light"
Vancouver | Rickshaw Theatre | 7:00 pm to 11:30 pm | Music
Lobby Night - Songstage with Ivan Boudreau by The ACT Arts Centre
Canadian songwriter and musician, Ivan Boudreau, hosts this evening series which features a guest songwriter, followed by an open mic showcase for writers of original music
Maple Ridge | The ACT Arts Centre | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Music
Receive and Process Theatre: Love/Sick
A darker cousin to ALMOST, MAINE, John Cariani’s play, LOVE/SICK is a collection of nine slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays
Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre
LP
Laura Pergolizzi, known professionally as LP, is an American singer and songwriter
Vancouver | The Orpheum | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Music
The Rolling Stones - No Filter Tour 2020
Today The Rolling Stones Announced Their Critically Acclaimed No Filter Tour Will Return To North America For A 15 City Run In 2020 And Will Make A Stop In Vancouver On May 12 At Bc Place
Vancouver | BC Place | 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm | Music
Heaven 17 - The Commodore Ballroom
Heaven 17 are an English new wave and synth-pop band that formed in Sheffield in 1980. The band were a trio for most of their career, composed of Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh, and Glenn Gregory
Vancouver | Commodore Ballroom | 8:30 pm to 11:55 pm | Music